Please read my post again. If you still find it difficult to understand that what I'm disappointed in is Bungie selling out to Microsoft in the first place, then maybe I am on crack. (Or maybe you are?)
From the Salon article: It's already drawn the interest of PC gamers, who often dismiss console games as brainless kiddy fodder.
Maybe the reason it drew interest from us PC gamers was that Halo was announced ages ago as a PC/Mac game, a situation which changed dramatically when MS bought out Bungie?
I'm not alone in being extremely disappointed in Bungie over this. I remember desperately looking forward to Halo a year ago, but now I probably won't even buy it. (And not out of spite; by the time the PC version is out, I'm sure there'll be much more attractive games available. That's if the PC version ever gets done at all.)
Isn't multithreading still fairly shoddy in Perl 5? They say it'll be great in Perl 6, but at the rate things are going these days, Perl 6 is still a long way off.
I had looked into InnoDB earlier, but the row size restrictions made it problematic. Your comment prompted me to check the documentation again, and what do you know: They fixed that limitation starting with 3.23.41. Thanks for the suggestion:)
I don't want to upgrade to 4.0 (which is still in alpha) just yet, but I believe I'll compile 3.23.44 with InnoDB support and give it a shot. Hopefully, the upgrade is as easy as you say. Any hints/tips/caveats or possible problems you've run into would be helpful.
I run avidgamers.com, a community hosting service currently hosting around 7000 communities. We have 1.2 million records getting an average of 20 queries per second, ranging from sigle-record results to large summarizing queries. (With a fairly large part leaning towards the latter, tallying the number of replies to each thread in message boards.)
Running MySQL 3.23.40 on a 1.4GHz Athlon with 1GB of RAM and an 18GB 15krpm SCSI drive, the system is doing ok, but it's starting to feel the load peaks. I'll be upgrading to RAID fairly soon, which should help things.
All in all, I'm very happy with MySQL, but I'm strongly considering a move to Postgres, because the lack of row-level locking is starting to become a problem. Stability has been no problem... no crashes, no data corruption, nothing.
I'm sure this is in no way one of the largest installations of free software databases, but I thought I'd post my experiences anyway.
Screen size is why I don't own a PDA. It seems to me that's the only thing keeping PDAs from being truly useful these days... you just can't do much on such a small screen. As a student, I carry around a lot of A4-sized stuff anyway, much of which could probably be more or less replaced by the Ideal Handheld. So an A4-sized Ideal Handheld would be just perfect.
But of course, if the big screen is the one thing making the Ideal Handheld huge and unwieldy, it'd be great to lose it, wouldn't it? Seems something like this would be the perfect companion for an Ideal Handheld. Losing the big screen would probably increase the battery life quite a bit as well.
I've been running two 60gig IBM Deskstar 60GXP's (7200rpm) in SilentDrive enclosures for four months now, with no problems whatsoever. I had some thermal sensors in there the first few weeks just to be sure, but the temperature never got within 10 degrees of the specified maximum.
The enclosures are great - I've never heard my drives at all:)
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Are you saying we should drop complexity in all our apps and devices, and avoid errors that way? Of course you could say it's a symptom of complexity, but complexity is not a disease we can or should cure. I'd rather say it's a symptom of poor QA departments.
It's funny you should bring up Nokia, because they're seen by many (around where I live, at least) as the Microsoft of the mobile world. Their products are riddled with bugs and instabilities, but everyone buys them anyway. Their market share on cell phones in my country isn't quite as big as Microsofts global OS market share, but it's close.
Although the movie opens on December 19th, these people are not lining up for a two-month wait. The ticket pre-sale starts next Tuesday, so it's more like 4 or 5 days.
My point was that 200 people cared enough to be there 8 hours before the ticket sale started. Were they lining up in front of the little theatre in Bø as well? If so, I stand corrected.
It's weird though, I think I remember them claiming the Colosseum queue was the exclusively first chance to get an Ep1 ticket. There were even people travelling to Oslo from pretty far away just to be in that line.
Funny coincidence, read my post below... I didn't even realize Gladblad were in Denmark, I assumed they must be crazy Americans:)
Factoid here, the theatre we were queuing up in front of, the Colosseum in Oslo, is (or was about a year ago) the world's largest THX-certified movie theatre. Watching a movie there is quite an experience, but DagSverre is right - there are only about three movie theatres in the whole country which I consider worth going to at all.
Here in Norway, they start selling tickets to these "big" movies a month or two in advance, and they usually play up to the whole queuing deal in various ways. During the last night of the Ep1 queue, they were showing Ep4-6 on a big screen outside the theatre, held a costume competition, etc. The first screening on the opening day is usually scheduled at 00:01. Basically, it's made into a big deal by the theatres.
Although I used the world "usually", so far Ep1 is actually the only movie in which the actual queuing process has been hyped in this way. The next will be LOTR, and I'm sure LOTR2&3 and SW2&3 will be handled similarly. Possibly Matrix2&3 as well, I'm not sure if Matrix has had time to acquire enough of a cult status yet though. The LOTR ticket sale starts on November 5th. It's cold outside already, it'll be freezing by then - at least the Ep1 release was in the summer:)
I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country. Despite that, when I showed up at around midnight on the last night before the ticket sale started, there weren't more than about two hundred people in line before me; I got excellent tickets to the 6am screening on the opening day.
The conclusion would be that out of the almost 5 million people in my country, only about 200 cared enough about Ep1 to queue up more than 8 hours in advance, despite massive hyping by the theatres. Anyone know the statistics for the states? And is there any queue-specific hyping of the sort I described above going on over there?
So stick a GeForce in the PCI slot, and you're good to go. Of course, you won't be able to both the LAN Party thing and this thing at the same time, but you could always keep switching PCI cards according to your needs. I agree it's too bad they didn't make all the integrated components top-notch, but I suspect that would've made the price a bit prohibitive...
I'm no expert on deciphering patent-language, but the free community hosting service I started in April 1998 seems to do more or less exactly what this patent covers.
I would have thought finger was a more appropriate analogy in this case, since you're actually expecting the remote host to return information. Then again, "fingering your representative" could be misconstrued as something inappropriate...
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Please read my post again. If you still find it difficult to understand that what I'm disappointed in is Bungie selling out to Microsoft in the first place, then maybe I am on crack. (Or maybe you are?)
From the Salon article: It's already drawn the interest of PC gamers, who often dismiss console games as brainless kiddy fodder.
Maybe the reason it drew interest from us PC gamers was that Halo was announced ages ago as a PC/Mac game, a situation which changed dramatically when MS bought out Bungie?
I'm not alone in being extremely disappointed in Bungie over this. I remember desperately looking forward to Halo a year ago, but now I probably won't even buy it. (And not out of spite; by the time the PC version is out, I'm sure there'll be much more attractive games available. That's if the PC version ever gets done at all.)
Isn't multithreading still fairly shoddy in Perl 5? They say it'll be great in Perl 6, but at the rate things are going these days, Perl 6 is still a long way off.
"This satellite has already surprised us," Smith said, "and it will probably continue to."
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Is he saying "I wouldn't be surprised if this satellite surprises us again"?
I had looked into InnoDB earlier, but the row size restrictions made it problematic. Your comment prompted me to check the documentation again, and what do you know: They fixed that limitation starting with 3.23.41. Thanks for the suggestion :)
I don't want to upgrade to 4.0 (which is still in alpha) just yet, but I believe I'll compile 3.23.44 with InnoDB support and give it a shot. Hopefully, the upgrade is as easy as you say. Any hints/tips/caveats or possible problems you've run into would be helpful.
I run avidgamers.com, a community hosting service currently hosting around 7000 communities. We have 1.2 million records getting an average of 20 queries per second, ranging from sigle-record results to large summarizing queries. (With a fairly large part leaning towards the latter, tallying the number of replies to each thread in message boards.)
Running MySQL 3.23.40 on a 1.4GHz Athlon with 1GB of RAM and an 18GB 15krpm SCSI drive, the system is doing ok, but it's starting to feel the load peaks. I'll be upgrading to RAID fairly soon, which should help things.
All in all, I'm very happy with MySQL, but I'm strongly considering a move to Postgres, because the lack of row-level locking is starting to become a problem. Stability has been no problem... no crashes, no data corruption, nothing.
I'm sure this is in no way one of the largest installations of free software databases, but I thought I'd post my experiences anyway.
My Mozilla 0.9.5 gets the "update your browser" message, but Konqueror 2.1.1 does not. Weird.
The parent isn't a Troll - if anything, it's Funny. A real troll should at least TRY to appear legitimate...
Screen size is why I don't own a PDA. It seems to me that's the only thing keeping PDAs from being truly useful these days... you just can't do much on such a small screen. As a student, I carry around a lot of A4-sized stuff anyway, much of which could probably be more or less replaced by the Ideal Handheld. So an A4-sized Ideal Handheld would be just perfect.
But of course, if the big screen is the one thing making the Ideal Handheld huge and unwieldy, it'd be great to lose it, wouldn't it? Seems something like this would be the perfect companion for an Ideal Handheld. Losing the big screen would probably increase the battery life quite a bit as well.
Given the male/female ratio of the Slashdot audience, shouldn't that be "lady and gentlemen"?
I've been running two 60gig IBM Deskstar 60GXP's (7200rpm) in SilentDrive enclosures for four months now, with no problems whatsoever. I had some thermal sensors in there the first few weeks just to be sure, but the temperature never got within 10 degrees of the specified maximum.
:)
The enclosures are great - I've never heard my drives at all
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Slashdot: News for Idiots. Stuff that matters.
Are you saying we should drop complexity in all our apps and devices, and avoid errors that way? Of course you could say it's a symptom of complexity, but complexity is not a disease we can or should cure. I'd rather say it's a symptom of poor QA departments.
It's funny you should bring up Nokia, because they're seen by many (around where I live, at least) as the Microsoft of the mobile world. Their products are riddled with bugs and instabilities, but everyone buys them anyway. Their market share on cell phones in my country isn't quite as big as Microsofts global OS market share, but it's close.
What? When was it ever not known as episode one?
Although the movie opens on December 19th, these people are not lining up for a two-month wait. The ticket pre-sale starts next Tuesday, so it's more like 4 or 5 days.
My point was that 200 people cared enough to be there 8 hours before the ticket sale started. Were they lining up in front of the little theatre in Bø as well? If so, I stand corrected.
It's weird though, I think I remember them claiming the Colosseum queue was the exclusively first chance to get an Ep1 ticket. There were even people travelling to Oslo from pretty far away just to be in that line.
Funny coincidence, read my post below... I didn't even realize Gladblad were in Denmark, I assumed they must be crazy Americans :)
Factoid here, the theatre we were queuing up in front of, the Colosseum in Oslo, is (or was about a year ago) the world's largest THX-certified movie theatre. Watching a movie there is quite an experience, but DagSverre is right - there are only about three movie theatres in the whole country which I consider worth going to at all.
Here in Norway, they start selling tickets to these "big" movies a month or two in advance, and they usually play up to the whole queuing deal in various ways. During the last night of the Ep1 queue, they were showing Ep4-6 on a big screen outside the theatre, held a costume competition, etc. The first screening on the opening day is usually scheduled at 00:01. Basically, it's made into a big deal by the theatres.
:)
Although I used the world "usually", so far Ep1 is actually the only movie in which the actual queuing process has been hyped in this way. The next will be LOTR, and I'm sure LOTR2&3 and SW2&3 will be handled similarly. Possibly Matrix2&3 as well, I'm not sure if Matrix has had time to acquire enough of a cult status yet though. The LOTR ticket sale starts on November 5th. It's cold outside already, it'll be freezing by then - at least the Ep1 release was in the summer
I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country. Despite that, when I showed up at around midnight on the last night before the ticket sale started, there weren't more than about two hundred people in line before me; I got excellent tickets to the 6am screening on the opening day.
The conclusion would be that out of the almost 5 million people in my country, only about 200 cared enough about Ep1 to queue up more than 8 hours in advance, despite massive hyping by the theatres. Anyone know the statistics for the states? And is there any queue-specific hyping of the sort I described above going on over there?
So stick a GeForce in the PCI slot, and you're good to go. Of course, you won't be able to both the LAN Party thing and this thing at the same time, but you could always keep switching PCI cards according to your needs. I agree it's too bad they didn't make all the integrated components top-notch, but I suspect that would've made the price a bit prohibitive...
Easy.. just stick a soundblaster in there.
LAN Party?
I'm no expert on deciphering patent-language, but the free community hosting service I started in April 1998 seems to do more or less exactly what this patent covers.
No, I'm afraid yours is post #2420219. Better luck next Slashdot.
I would have thought finger was a more appropriate analogy in this case, since you're actually expecting the remote host to return information. Then again, "fingering your representative" could be misconstrued as something inappropriate...