Does anyone have any experience, numbers, or even just rumours pertaining to Ruby performance?
Perl is fast, and PHP has since 4.0 been close enough for the speed difference not to matter. I use them both, but I won't even consider taking a look at Ruby if the performance is significantly lower than Perl.
I would love to do this in my spare time and not earn a dime. Problem is, it's starting to cut way too deeply into my budget. I'm closing in on half a million dynamically generated hits per day, which isn't cheap to serve.
I may try the donation thing (perhaps when PayPal gets around to supporting payments to bank accounts from my country?), but I'm afraid it won't be enough, especially because many of my users are in the "haven't-yet-got-a-credit-card" demography.
I run a free community hosting service. I've developed the system myself, and I pay for the increasingly pricey server myself. The site is and will probably stay free of ad banners, but I would like to keep the service free of charge anyway.
What am I to do? I can't say I feel like I have much in common with large corporations like Yahoo and Bigfoot, but I'm having the same problem as they are. Does anyone have any ideas that might help me avoid taking their path and charge monthly fees for my service?
(This would have been an Ask Slashdot, but that section is in my humble opinion turning into a farce..)
I'm sure this probably isn't material for your paper, but I need to vent.
Being an internet user from a small country whose inhabitants have an abysmally low average level of netiquette, I've often faced prejudice online. One thing is the social level, where the prejudice is easy to negate by behaving politely and intelligently, but the technical level is different: As a user of the one major ISP in my country, an ISP which serves approximately 60% of the country's net users, I find myself banned from a large number of IRC channels. And just a few weeks ago, DALnet klined my ISP... sigh. How do I convince channel operators and IRCnets that my online.no IP doesn't necessarily mean I'm a moron?
From their FAQ, answering a question about Sealand being recognized by other nations:
..and Germany once sent a diplomat to negotiate directly with the Prince of Sealand for the release of a German criminal being held in a Sealand prison.
Compare that to the image of a raft on stilts, and you get a pretty amusing picture.
Not content to tolerate a few tiny banner ads as an exchange for enjoying the content, they pursue various technological means to block them. This practice is damaging to the fundamental model that many free content providers are based on. In effect, people who block banner ads are biting the hand that feeds them in a most immature and selfish manner.
It's obvious you haven't read the article. As Mr. Gray points out, people who block the banner ads are most likely the ones who won't ever click on or even remember them. Not having to pay for these people's banner views makes the advertisers happy, and keeping the advertisers interested in advertising is the first step on the way to saving the content-based web industry.
I'm pretty sure he means what it says, and knows what it means (if you know what I mean). He's contradicting the original quote, probably implying that the perfect technology wouldn't be like magic, it would make more sense than magic. (Or something like that..my words, not his.)
DISCLAIMER: I have no knowledge whatsoever of neuroelectric patterns, neural nets, etc. I just like to think big, so indulge me or scroll past this.
Couldn't neural nets be used to "learn" neuroelectric patterns from the brain, thus enabling the guy in NASA's experiment to control the plane just by thinking about it?
Granted, it would require a much more advanced neural net, and probably much more "learning time" for the computer, but it should be possible nonetheless. Just run a precompiled simulation of a complicated flight pattern and have the guy concentrate on following the path of the plane on the screen, monitor his brain activity, and set a Beowulf cluster on the task of trying different combinations of brainwave-to-joystick-movement translations. Or am I just dreaming again?
(Notice the smooth way I slipped the words "Beowulf cluster" into that post:) )
I took a Meyers-Briggs test on the web a while ago, just out of curiosity, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the accuracy of the result. I read a couple of pages long description of my personality type, and I definitely recognized myself in it. It really helped me in some ways, since I've always thought of my own personality as very different from most others. I'm an INTJ, and although they say that's a rare type, I take comfort in knowing that 1% of the population is at least somewhat similar to myself.
Of course, it may not be quite so accurate for everyone. Either way, I personally wouldn't condone using it in any professional situation, for the simple reason that it would create an unnatural work environment. If all employees know that they've been selected for their task based on a supposedly accurate test, they might (consciously or subconsciously) end up with a way too optimistic attitude, in a way trusting their personalities to do the work for them. (Frankly, I'm in danger of becoming too cocky myself, with a personality type dubbed 'Mastermind' by the Keirsey personality sorter.)
Looks to me like the display on the eCase and the displays in the eShades are the same thing. That would make the eShades and the eCase two different, stand-alone applications of the same technology.
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Does anyone have any experience, numbers, or even just rumours pertaining to Ruby performance?
Perl is fast, and PHP has since 4.0 been close enough for the speed difference not to matter. I use them both, but I won't even consider taking a look at Ruby if the performance is significantly lower than Perl.
I would love to do this in my spare time and not earn a dime. Problem is, it's starting to cut way too deeply into my budget. I'm closing in on half a million dynamically generated hits per day, which isn't cheap to serve.
I may try the donation thing (perhaps when PayPal gets around to supporting payments to bank accounts from my country?), but I'm afraid it won't be enough, especially because many of my users are in the "haven't-yet-got-a-credit-card" demography.
I run a free community hosting service. I've developed the system myself, and I pay for the increasingly pricey server myself. The site is and will probably stay free of ad banners, but I would like to keep the service free of charge anyway.
What am I to do? I can't say I feel like I have much in common with large corporations like Yahoo and Bigfoot, but I'm having the same problem as they are. Does anyone have any ideas that might help me avoid taking their path and charge monthly fees for my service?
(This would have been an Ask Slashdot, but that section is in my humble opinion turning into a farce..)
I'm sure this probably isn't material for your paper, but I need to vent.
Being an internet user from a small country whose inhabitants have an abysmally low average level of netiquette, I've often faced prejudice online. One thing is the social level, where the prejudice is easy to negate by behaving politely and intelligently, but the technical level is different: As a user of the one major ISP in my country, an ISP which serves approximately 60% of the country's net users, I find myself banned from a large number of IRC channels. And just a few weeks ago, DALnet klined my ISP... sigh. How do I convince channel operators and IRCnets that my online.no IP doesn't necessarily mean I'm a moron?
Probably some silly person decided to log web requests to an MS Access database, live. Ha.
They're all great, my favorites being The Hero as Werwolf and The Death of Doctor Island.
The short story collection is, for those who wonder, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories.
The Doctor of Death Island by Gene Wolfe.
Short story describing a near future where humanity has defeated the age problem.
My very wrong what?
A CV in Word format? Ouch..
By your own numbers, your average page size is 200 kilobytes. Ouch.
Nope, indistinguishable means "looks like magic", not "doesn't look like magic".
I'm pretty sure he means what it says, and knows what it means (if you know what I mean). He's contradicting the original quote, probably implying that the perfect technology wouldn't be like magic, it would make more sense than magic. (Or something like that..my words, not his.)
DISCLAIMER: I have no knowledge whatsoever of neuroelectric patterns, neural nets, etc. I just like to think big, so indulge me or scroll past this.
:) )
Couldn't neural nets be used to "learn" neuroelectric patterns from the brain, thus enabling the guy in NASA's experiment to control the plane just by thinking about it?
Granted, it would require a much more advanced neural net, and probably much more "learning time" for the computer, but it should be possible nonetheless. Just run a precompiled simulation of a complicated flight pattern and have the guy concentrate on following the path of the plane on the screen, monitor his brain activity, and set a Beowulf cluster on the task of trying different combinations of brainwave-to-joystick-movement translations. Or am I just dreaming again?
(Notice the smooth way I slipped the words "Beowulf cluster" into that post
I took a Meyers-Briggs test on the web a while ago, just out of curiosity, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised with the accuracy of the result. I read a couple of pages long description of my personality type, and I definitely recognized myself in it. It really helped me in some ways, since I've always thought of my own personality as very different from most others. I'm an INTJ, and although they say that's a rare type, I take comfort in knowing that 1% of the population is at least somewhat similar to myself.
Of course, it may not be quite so accurate for everyone. Either way, I personally wouldn't condone using it in any professional situation, for the simple reason that it would create an unnatural work environment. If all employees know that they've been selected for their task based on a supposedly accurate test, they might (consciously or subconsciously) end up with a way too optimistic attitude, in a way trusting their personalities to do the work for them. (Frankly, I'm in danger of becoming too cocky myself, with a personality type dubbed 'Mastermind' by the Keirsey personality sorter.)
Three words: Retina Scanning Display. Also (formerly?) known as Virtual Retina Display.
Looks to me like the display on the eCase and the displays in the eShades are the same thing. That would make the eShades and the eCase two different, stand-alone applications of the same technology.