Remember that the original article was about SAMP stack - and the amount of money you can spend on MS stuff pales into insignificance when you start buying Sun hardware!
LAMP still easily give you the best price/performance.
Its not that you *have* to do that amount of debugging, but that you *can*. I suppose it does matter if you have several teams that write different tiers of a n-tier architecture (we've done that - web monkeys wrote the front end to a specified API, DBdevs write stored procedures. Poor application programmers get the blame when anything goes wrong, and poor system/middleware devs have to then find out who's right (or wrong as is the case). So being able to debug all the way through is rather handy.
This isn't bringing parallelisation to your web app for free, instead you're getting 1 cpu just liek you used to have. The difference is that the server can handle many more users, with new limits of memory and disk i/o, of course.
How hard to find the materials - apparently it uses yeast and other bugs to break down the waste, and they're abundant. Its about the right size to fit in a small van. Other factors.. smell? Waste from the generator itself (about 1/30th the volume of the input garbage comes out as non-nasty ash).
All in all, it does sound like the perfect solution - free energy from something you were going to throw away, so the EROEI may be low, but you aren't actually 'investing' anything. If you still wanted to figure out the EROEI, you should count the energy cost to dispose of the garbage and add that to the total.
or is it like getting 10 lottery tickets vs 1000 scratchcards. Apache could easily have 10 big calls to make into the kernel, the rest statically linked and inlined, whereas IIS is using loads of system dlls. In short, its a nonsense comparison, a nonsense graph (though I like how the Windows one is spread out making it look way more complex, and the Apache calls are laid out at the top making it look a lot tidier).
And its over a year old, isn't there any interesting to talk about?
Go to Nvidia web site, look for the drivers - they're there for graphics cards if not for motherboards - and read the release notes.
These NVIDA Windows Vista drivers are under development. This version is not fully optimized for full 3D performance and may not include all available features available on different operating systems. NVIDIA, along with the industry, is continuing to update its Windows Vista drivers to ensure maximum performance on 3D applications and add support for features. These drivers are provided "AS IS." NVIDIA MAKES NO [BLAH BLAH BLAH] Unfortunately the front page for nvidia.com has a huge advert how Nvidia is 'Essential for the best windows vista experience':)
They have a new set of drivers out as of the 31st jan, but they're still beta.
So Osama, praise be to Allah. Are we all ready for the devastating attacks which will finally bring the western capitalist pig-dogs to their knees?
Well, um, nearly... just let me get to the next chapter, Harry is about to discover the secret of the cauldron! Maybe we'll bring down western capitalism tomorrow.
That's good with me. Can I borrow it after you then?
Mr Cholmondley-Warner: what's this? I hear the BBC have come up with a newfangled light entertainment device. Grayson: Yes, Mr Cholmondley-Warner, thay have. Its called the iPlayer. CW: How remarkable, but I must admit that it sounds rather similar to something those colonial chappies might come up with. G: Indeed so, one almost thinks that the name was specifically chosen to stop Mr Stephen Jobs from using it in one of his modern-day thingummybobs. CW:Well, if we're beating the Yanks at their own game, I think we can live with it. G: Indeed! Ho ho. CW: Yes. Ho ho.
How much longer should I go on? You shouldn't. Now tell us the disadvantages of a web-based app, like what happens if you lose internet connectivity, or your round your mother's house and she doesn't have broadband, or your server host goes down (or bust!). All your arguments against installed software are countered with an equivalent problem for web-based. Neither is better than the other.
So much better than client-side development, where you have to close the app, recompile, and re-run before you can even try again! I don't know why you put this in bold, but I run my C++ apps in the debugger and I can "edit and continue" development. And that's with the worst non-script language there is! Imagine I was developing with VB or C# or python or.. well, any script language. Your big advantage with PHP isn't that big a deal.
The only ultimate 'solution' is for a thick client app that is automatically downloaded and executed on the client, using server-side data when its available. Then you can have the benefits of client apps, and the benefits of 'no install', and the benefits of remote data. But the biggest benefit is that no-one would have to kludge up the browser with a development model that it is not designed for. Now we just need a Standard for a way to specify how any old-style app can be used in this way, preferably with definitions for remote data access and the auto-install plumbing. (and please, not ActiveX, Java or Smart Client that run as browser applets).
Visual Studio would - even if you consider the speed improvement from compiling concurrently (except that it'll still bottleneck on the disk), I'm sure the many stupid threads that update intellisense or the the object tree or whatever it is that makes my box hang for a couple of seconds when I want it to do stuff will benefit.
n DOS if you tried to remove a directory that was not empty, you got an error. This stupid behavior persists eh? in ext3 you get a stupid error if you try to delete a non-empty directory. Unless you use "rm -rf" of course. But then, you could always do "del/s/ f" to do the same.
MS has had reparse points and junctions for ages now, and drive letters are mainly there for backwards-compatibility.
I'm sure you're trolling:) but the real reason for upgrading when something new comes out is security updates. This applies double for servers. Added performance and features are side-shows to the real reason.
apart from the dupe, kdawson is possibly the best editor they have. I for one, blame our new firehose overlords - so its our fault for voting for 2 of the many posts about this news.
Early copies of IE 6 were easily infected with crafted ads on web pages and Firefox has no vulnerabilites at all, right?
The biggest advantage to *nix systems is not so much intrinsic security as it is knowledge and acknowledgment of the hacker mentality out there through a long history of fending off such attack Ah, but one day non-geek users will, you know, use linux on their desktop. Or are you suggesting that they should not be allowed to. Maybe allowing 'lusers' on *nix is just unacceptable to you.
Mac User: well, violence is for the intellectually feeble anyway, so I will stay here and write a damning article about you other OS users, as the pen is mightier than the sword, I feel I will win.
Linux User: yeah right. n00b luuuuuser! My ninja skills will kick your a$$ right to the middle of next week, Take that! ow. ow! Nobody said this violence thing would hurt! Not fair.
Windows User: guys, meet Dave, he's a special forces sergeant and, well, he's been given money to see that I win this argument. Cheers Bill. Go for it Dave.
BBC: That's not quite the arguments we were hoping for, but.. Linux User: not fair, not fair, this is cheating thi sis arggggggg. BBC:.. erm, at least the err.. Mac User: like back off man, this is a violation of my civil libertieeeieieieieeeeeeee BBC:.. erm, ratings will have gone up. And to think the best that Channel 4 could do was put Jade back on Big Brother.
OS/2 User: Sorry, I thought I'd have a bit of a kip. Am I too late to join in?
in reality, not trading for years is the key to making money - forget the dodgy, daytrading, low cap, high risk stocks, and stick to established ones that pay a decent dividend, have decent cover, forecast growth and you can just forget them for years.
I don't see why people can't just do their research on well-established companies on the major exchanges and stick with the fundamentals. You can still make a lot of money that way, and with a lot less risk.,/i>
because people (especially nowadays) have been brought up on the media frenzy of get rich quick. They all think they can make a fortune doing nothing (except answer a few questions on TV, or just be on TV, or win some lottery or even just claim compensation), and so never actually try to make a fortune the old fashioned hard way. Stupid bu**ers.
a $100,000 cash investment will generate $4700 income a year *before* tax. So in a way, the government is already offering you a (reverse) grant to go green, and you havn't accounted for inflation that will eat away at that capital.
That said, cash in the bank is a relatively safe, but not particularly great way of increasing your capital. For that you want the stock market, even if you go for a relatively safe method of investing in stocks you will beat cash.
BUT - here's the big one, the best thing you could do is to invest that money in starting a business that installs everything needed to go green in this way and profit big time!!
However, once the robot is proven, the surgeon who *used* to perform hundreds of these operations, now performs twice as many but uses a fancy remote controller instead of his old wiggly catheter.
Once upon a time, these operations would be performed using a bit of sharp flint after a song and dance round the fire while stoned out of your head on mushroom juice. Things move on, don't worry about them.
bandwidth wasted re-downloading a file that will never change. The RSS 0.91 spec is finished, complete, and yes, for all intents and purposes, written in stone Maybe they're using the pre-release one, waiting for version 1.0 to be released:)
Remember the difference between 300 megaBITS per second over 802.11n, and 480 megaBYTES that your calculations show you need for your display.
I'm not sure you can get 300Mbps over 802.11n, all the web pages I've just googled say 100mbps, possibly up to 200mbps in real world situations, but if we assume your monitor isn't that far away from the transmitter and you can get 200mbps, you're still quite a way under what you need (for 640x480x16@60 Hz = 350 mbps)
While these new wireless standards appear to offer incredible speeds, they're still some way from the 8 Gigabits per second a 16x PCIe bus offers, and DDR3 memory at 18Gbps bandwidth.
There might be more promise in 'intelligent' displays, where the graphics card is built into it, and drawing primitives are transmitted over air, but I doubt we'll ever get the display transmitted directly, not even for normal TV quality pictures (now everything is HD).
you cannot get the bandwidth out of it - if you could, wireless monitors would be all the rage at the moment, but unless you want to run 640x480 it isn't going to happen. Also, interference is a problem, and while errors can be corrected out at low data transmission rates, if you try to pump massively more data through it, you will get problems.
Otherwise, I think its a great idea. I think its perfect for cars, get rid of the wiring loom and replace much of it with cabling only for critical parts, and all the non-critical bits could run off a wireless network which would reduce the weight of the vehicle.
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Remember that the original article was about SAMP stack - and the amount of money you can spend on MS stuff pales into insignificance when you start buying Sun hardware!
LAMP still easily give you the best price/performance.
Its not that you *have* to do that amount of debugging, but that you *can*. I suppose it does matter if you have several teams that write different tiers of a n-tier architecture (we've done that - web monkeys wrote the front end to a specified API, DBdevs write stored procedures. Poor application programmers get the blame when anything goes wrong, and poor system/middleware devs have to then find out who's right (or wrong as is the case). So being able to debug all the way through is rather handy.
Really - don't knock something for being good.
This isn't bringing parallelisation to your web app for free, instead you're getting 1 cpu just liek you used to have. The difference is that the server can handle many more users, with new limits of memory and disk i/o, of course.
How hard to find the materials - apparently it uses yeast and other bugs to break down the waste, and they're abundant. Its about the right size to fit in a small van. Other factors .. smell? Waste from the generator itself (about 1/30th the volume of the input garbage comes out as non-nasty ash).
All in all, it does sound like the perfect solution - free energy from something you were going to throw away, so the EROEI may be low, but you aren't actually 'investing' anything. If you still wanted to figure out the EROEI, you should count the energy cost to dispose of the garbage and add that to the total.
or is it like getting 10 lottery tickets vs 1000 scratchcards. Apache could easily have 10 big calls to make into the kernel, the rest statically linked and inlined, whereas IIS is using loads of system dlls. In short, its a nonsense comparison, a nonsense graph (though I like how the Windows one is spread out making it look way more complex, and the Apache calls are laid out at the top making it look a lot tidier).
And its over a year old, isn't there any interesting to talk about?
They have a new set of drivers out as of the 31st jan, but they're still beta.
If it was released on the 7th.....
So Osama, praise be to Allah. Are we all ready for the devastating attacks which will finally bring the western capitalist pig-dogs to their knees?
Well, um, nearly... just let me get to the next chapter, Harry is about to discover the secret of the cauldron! Maybe we'll bring down western capitalism tomorrow.
That's good with me. Can I borrow it after you then?
We probably will now - after he sues for trademark infringement.
Mr Cholmondley-Warner: what's this? I hear the BBC have come up with a newfangled light entertainment device.
Grayson: Yes, Mr Cholmondley-Warner, thay have. Its called the iPlayer.
CW: How remarkable, but I must admit that it sounds rather similar to something those colonial chappies might come up with.
G: Indeed so, one almost thinks that the name was specifically chosen to stop Mr Stephen Jobs from using it in one of his modern-day thingummybobs.
CW:Well, if we're beating the Yanks at their own game, I think we can live with it.
G: Indeed! Ho ho.
CW: Yes. Ho ho.
So much better than client-side development, where you have to close the app, recompile, and re-run before you can even try again! I don't know why you put this in bold, but I run my C++ apps in the debugger and I can "edit and continue" development. And that's with the worst non-script language there is! Imagine I was developing with VB or C# or python or
The only ultimate 'solution' is for a thick client app that is automatically downloaded and executed on the client, using server-side data when its available. Then you can have the benefits of client apps, and the benefits of 'no install', and the benefits of remote data. But the biggest benefit is that no-one would have to kludge up the browser with a development model that it is not designed for. Now we just need a Standard for a way to specify how any old-style app can be used in this way, preferably with definitions for remote data access and the auto-install plumbing. (and please, not ActiveX, Java or Smart Client that run as browser applets).
Visual Studio would - even if you consider the speed improvement from compiling concurrently (except that it'll still bottleneck on the disk), I'm sure the many stupid threads that update intellisense or the the object tree or whatever it is that makes my box hang for a couple of seconds when I want it to do stuff will benefit.
MS has had reparse points and junctions for ages now, and drive letters are mainly there for backwards-compatibility.
I'm sure you're trolling :) but the real reason for upgrading when something new comes out is security updates. This applies double for servers. Added performance and features are side-shows to the real reason.
apart from the dupe, kdawson is possibly the best editor they have. I for one, blame our new firehose overlords - so its our fault for voting for 2 of the many posts about this news.
Good old tech support guy. You might like this cartoon link.
Mac User: well, violence is for the intellectually feeble anyway, so I will stay here and write a damning article about you other OS users, as the pen is mightier than the sword, I feel I will win.
.. erm, at least the err.. .. erm, ratings will have gone up. And to think the best that Channel 4 could do was put Jade back on Big Brother.
Linux User: yeah right. n00b luuuuuser! My ninja skills will kick your a$$ right to the middle of next week, Take that! ow. ow! Nobody said this violence thing would hurt! Not fair.
Windows User: guys, meet Dave, he's a special forces sergeant and, well, he's been given money to see that I win this argument. Cheers Bill. Go for it Dave.
BBC: That's not quite the arguments we were hoping for, but..
Linux User: not fair, not fair, this is cheating thi sis arggggggg.
BBC:
Mac User: like back off man, this is a violation of my civil libertieeeieieieieeeeeeee
BBC:
OS/2 User: Sorry, I thought I'd have a bit of a kip. Am I too late to join in?
in reality, not trading for years is the key to making money - forget the dodgy, daytrading, low cap, high risk stocks, and stick to established ones that pay a decent dividend, have decent cover, forecast growth and you can just forget them for years.
As a perfect example, read this about a stock tipping newsletter
or, the Story of Doris, for further elucidation.
I don't see why people can't just do their research on well-established companies on the major exchanges and stick with the fundamentals. You can still make a lot of money that way, and with a lot less risk.,/i>
because people (especially nowadays) have been brought up on the media frenzy of get rich quick. They all think they can make a fortune doing nothing (except answer a few questions on TV, or just be on TV, or win some lottery or even just claim compensation), and so never actually try to make a fortune the old fashioned hard way. Stupid bu**ers.
a few dozen small flywheels.. I think you've also discovered a use for those old 20Mb harddrives.. a RAID array of flywheels sir?
a $100,000 cash investment will generate $4700 income a year *before* tax. So in a way, the government is already offering you a (reverse) grant to go green, and you havn't accounted for inflation that will eat away at that capital.
That said, cash in the bank is a relatively safe, but not particularly great way of increasing your capital. For that you want the stock market, even if you go for a relatively safe method of investing in stocks you will beat cash.
BUT - here's the big one, the best thing you could do is to invest that money in starting a business that installs everything needed to go green in this way and profit big time!!
However, once the robot is proven, the surgeon who *used* to perform hundreds of these operations, now performs twice as many but uses a fancy remote controller instead of his old wiggly catheter.
Once upon a time, these operations would be performed using a bit of sharp flint after a song and dance round the fire while stoned out of your head on mushroom juice. Things move on, don't worry about them.
Remember the difference between 300 megaBITS per second over 802.11n, and 480 megaBYTES that your calculations show you need for your display.
I'm not sure you can get 300Mbps over 802.11n, all the web pages I've just googled say 100mbps, possibly up to 200mbps in real world situations, but if we assume your monitor isn't that far away from the transmitter and you can get 200mbps, you're still quite a way under what you need (for 640x480x16@60 Hz = 350 mbps)
While these new wireless standards appear to offer incredible speeds, they're still some way from the 8 Gigabits per second a 16x PCIe bus offers, and DDR3 memory at 18Gbps bandwidth.
There might be more promise in 'intelligent' displays, where the graphics card is built into it, and drawing primitives are transmitted over air, but I doubt we'll ever get the display transmitted directly, not even for normal TV quality pictures (now everything is HD).
you cannot get the bandwidth out of it - if you could, wireless monitors would be all the rage at the moment, but unless you want to run 640x480 it isn't going to happen. Also, interference is a problem, and while errors can be corrected out at low data transmission rates, if you try to pump massively more data through it, you will get problems.
Otherwise, I think its a great idea. I think its perfect for cars, get rid of the wiring loom and replace much of it with cabling only for critical parts, and all the non-critical bits could run off a wireless network which would reduce the weight of the vehicle.