What multiple videos issues and responsiveness issues? I can play ten videos simultaneously just fine, X is not the bottleneck.
Armchair architects always want to multithread X. It is USELESS to do so. X won't draw faster because of threads (since the bottleneck is the graphics card), and X does NOT BLOCK on clients (it's completely asynchronous). So shut the hell up already.
That tdepends on the scheduler. On Linux with the default O(1) scheduler, your assertion is true. On Windows, it isn't. If the scheduler must investigate every task every time it needs to decide whom to yield control to, then 10.000 threads have you screwed.
You are a moron. How can you NOT see the implications of this? Don't you fucking understand that Big Media and Big Telco don't want you using all the killer apps that made the Internet what it is today?
And that is called Communism. The idea that it is abominable for people to derive income only through capital gains is exactly what Communism is about.
Fortunately, commies didn't succeed. I certainly hope that after 10 years, I can stop working forever and live off my capital gains. If you cannot achieve that yourself then I'm very sorry for you, but I couldn't give a flying fuck.
If you want a chat app to work and you want it to scale, you need to look into using comet instead of AJAX. Of course, you can rule Apache out for comet because it requires one permanent connection per client, and the per-process memory usage of Apache makes it prohibitively expensive for large numbers of processes.
I'm old enough to remember the wbs.net chat rooms. They used comet and they worked fine.
...eventually turned it into a business. Since I had to upgrade three blogs simultaneously all the time, while maintaining tons of enhancements, I started using Subversion for it. Not too long after that, I started to sell a bundle of plugins and themes for WordPress which was the same exact copy of what I used for my sites. It turned into a business: http://turbochargedcms.com/ powers several high-profile blogs today.
Used MediaWiki to write the chapters, wrote a small python proggie (available there) to consolidate the wiki into a single HTML file (mostly conforming to the Boom! microformat), then used Prince and Hakom's book CSS to generate the PDF.
Great typesetting, collaborative book editing, screw LaTeX!
Naaaah, what happened is two decades of laissez-faire parenting creating an entire generation of pussified morons incapable of coherently defending what they're entitled to.
Naaah, hardly. The second amendment won't be implanted on American-colonized countries. Why? Because the new moral fashion is "guns are dangerous things that only wackos yearn to carry around, and turn regular law-abiding citizens into raging, irresponsible monster murderers... or even worse, rappers!". And, as you probably already know, when fashion and reasoning are pitted against each other, fashion wins.
...but nowadays all american cars have that restriction. Usually all it takes is a reprogramming of the onboard computer, and presto, it's an increase of 20 MPH or more. And this is not even tuning the engine, it's just removing the throttle/redline limiter.
"Vista HAS to provide a method for protecting audio/video content or we will not see PC DVR's, HD content on PC's etc..."
The only way you're not going to see HD content or PC DVRs is if you poke your eyes out with a fork. Because way before Vista, there were (and still are) MythTV HD DVRs.
"I maintain that as the idea was the creator's in the first place, it is not ethically reasonable to then say that it becomes everyone else's because some people who specifically do not represent the creator said so."
Hahahahaaaaa... that's a convoluted way to say "my ideas are mine and I'm entitled to plunder them forever and ever, mbwahahha".
And you're wrong. Copyright (for creative works) does NOT operate like property laws (for objects) and is not the same. Failure to recognize this elementary fact is what leads you down Absurdity Lane.
Ideas aren't objects. They don't wear out, need spare parts, and there are plenty copies to go around. Ideas are naturally abundant, whereas objects are naturally scarce. That, alone, means ideas deserve a completely different treatment than objects. Namely, that unlike objects, there is no intrinsic moral "right to enjoy exclusively" an idea.
Thus, you're wrong. If you don't want me using your idea, then shut the fuck up and don't ever express it.
Interestingly, I'm not alone in my assessment. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson thought like I do. Actually, the very copyright laws around the world are NOT BASED on your point of view, but on Washington's and Jefferson's ideas. They were damn smart. But they could have never imagined DRM, which a direct assault on their foundational ideas about society.
What you see on the screen of the Zune is powered by the OS it has inside. Its OS contains DRM and injects DRM into every file on the Zune. How much denser can you people get?
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What multiple videos issues and responsiveness issues? I can play ten videos simultaneously just fine, X is not the bottleneck.
Armchair architects always want to multithread X. It is USELESS to do so. X won't draw faster because of threads (since the bottleneck is the graphics card), and X does NOT BLOCK on clients (it's completely asynchronous). So shut the hell up already.
That tdepends on the scheduler. On Linux with the default O(1) scheduler, your assertion is true. On Windows, it isn't. If the scheduler must investigate every task every time it needs to decide whom to yield control to, then 10.000 threads have you screwed.
You are a moron. How can you NOT see the implications of this? Don't you fucking understand that Big Media and Big Telco don't want you using all the killer apps that made the Internet what it is today?
Shaping today, filtering tomorrow. Wait... wait... yes, shaping a week ago, filtering today. Read today's Slashdot.
And that is called Communism. The idea that it is abominable for people to derive income only through capital gains is exactly what Communism is about.
Fortunately, commies didn't succeed. I certainly hope that after 10 years, I can stop working forever and live off my capital gains. If you cannot achieve that yourself then I'm very sorry for you, but I couldn't give a flying fuck.
If you want a chat app to work and you want it to scale, you need to look into using comet instead of AJAX. Of course, you can rule Apache out for comet because it requires one permanent connection per client, and the per-process memory usage of Apache makes it prohibitively expensive for large numbers of processes.
I'm old enough to remember the wbs.net chat rooms. They used comet and they worked fine.
Yes, it queues request, and you can configure the queue depth in the Apache config file. See the apache docs.
Django.
If you're running WordPress, then it's even more critical, and you've got tons of options.
Hahahahaaa. Good one!
(I honestly didn't game the system. I guess people are really pissed off at the MAFIAAs)
...after my story about HD-DVD decryption keys hit the proverbial Digg fan. It got censored on Digg TWICE.
I'm fucking glad. I took the liberty of gloating in his death at my blog.
...eventually turned it into a business. Since I had to upgrade three blogs simultaneously all the time, while maintaining tons of enhancements, I started using Subversion for it. Not too long after that, I started to sell a bundle of plugins and themes for WordPress which was the same exact copy of what I used for my sites. It turned into a business: http://turbochargedcms.com/ powers several high-profile blogs today.
:-)
I guess I have shoulders of giants to thank
And it worked out great.
http://software-libre.rudd-o.com/
Used MediaWiki to write the chapters, wrote a small python proggie (available there) to consolidate the wiki into a single HTML file (mostly conforming to the Boom! microformat), then used Prince and Hakom's book CSS to generate the PDF.
Great typesetting, collaborative book editing, screw LaTeX!
Hakom was right.
Dude, you're implying copyright infringement is theft. IT'S NOT.
You're not forced to. It has five letters. It's called Linux.
You nailed it, pal!
(actually, you cracked me up. but I'm assuming you spiced your comment with a generous amount of sarcasm, just like I did with the sentence above.)
That's because Washington's and Jefferson's time travel machines were out of electricity the day they had to write amendment three.
:-D
They should have had a bit more moonshine when they wrote that document
Naaaah, what happened is two decades of laissez-faire parenting creating an entire generation of pussified morons incapable of coherently defending what they're entitled to.
Once you layy off it... *hiccup* why donncha shpare a bottll fur a poor guy like me?
Naaah, hardly. The second amendment won't be implanted on American-colonized countries. Why? Because the new moral fashion is "guns are dangerous things that only wackos yearn to carry around, and turn regular law-abiding citizens into raging, irresponsible monster murderers... or even worse, rappers!". And, as you probably already know, when fashion and reasoning are pitted against each other, fashion wins.
Ah, the tyranny of the majority.
...but nowadays all american cars have that restriction. Usually all it takes is a reprogramming of the onboard computer, and presto, it's an increase of 20 MPH or more. And this is not even tuning the engine, it's just removing the throttle/redline limiter.
I'm 27. I still love Pixy Stix. Does that solve anything? :-D
"Vista HAS to provide a method for protecting audio/video content or we will not see PC DVR's, HD content on PC's etc..."
The only way you're not going to see HD content or PC DVRs is if you poke your eyes out with a fork. Because way before Vista, there were (and still are) MythTV HD DVRs.
"I maintain that as the idea was the creator's in the first place, it is not ethically reasonable to then say that it becomes everyone else's because some people who specifically do not represent the creator said so."
Hahahahaaaaa... that's a convoluted way to say "my ideas are mine and I'm entitled to plunder them forever and ever, mbwahahha".
And you're wrong. Copyright (for creative works) does NOT operate like property laws (for objects) and is not the same. Failure to recognize this elementary fact is what leads you down Absurdity Lane.
Ideas aren't objects. They don't wear out, need spare parts, and there are plenty copies to go around. Ideas are naturally abundant, whereas objects are naturally scarce. That, alone, means ideas deserve a completely different treatment than objects. Namely, that unlike objects, there is no intrinsic moral "right to enjoy exclusively" an idea.
Thus, you're wrong. If you don't want me using your idea, then shut the fuck up and don't ever express it.
Interestingly, I'm not alone in my assessment. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson thought like I do. Actually, the very copyright laws around the world are NOT BASED on your point of view, but on Washington's and Jefferson's ideas. They were damn smart. But they could have never imagined DRM, which a direct assault on their foundational ideas about society.
Exhibit C) A hardware device WITH AN OS.
What you see on the screen of the Zune is powered by the OS it has inside. Its OS contains DRM and injects DRM into every file on the Zune. How much denser can you people get?