At one point, Tom seemed pretty pro-AMD, then the PIII 1.13 GHz debacle came up, Tom made a ruckus and things seemed to change a little after that. They do seem to lean slightly in favor of Intel (I don't think that any reasonable person who reads the regular launch articles would deny that) but I really like their reviews because they provide benchmarks for older hardware. This makes their charts really long, but very useful to people who may not have upgraded for a couple of years and want to see where their system stands against the latest and greatest.
Intel still has a couple of advantages, and one of them is the heat problem that comes with AMDs. OK, in a normal case you'd never notice because you basicly have the room to fit in airconditioning if you wanted to. In a 1U case however, you have to stick to about 1cm (that's less than half an inch, for those who don't know the metric system) for a fan.
On a 1U with an intel on the motherboard, I've rarely had any cooling problems. On a 1U with an AMD I've on regular basis had problems. The money customers save on buying an AMD, they'll have to spend on buying a 2U instead of a 1U.
AMD's chips don't need to go any faster, they are plenty fast to compete with Intel, I'm sure that Apple is just a distant thought when the business strategy is being drafted.
It's also funny how the AMD chips seem to still have more performance than the previous ones. Maybe those FSB and cache improvements are working? Surely the 3000+ is faster than the 2500+.
Slow down buddy. While there are definitely clueless IT workers and manager out there, it's a bit on the zealous side to accuse anyone who doesn't advocate F/OSS as being incompetent.
The cost of obvious solutions will never be zero because the cost of nothing is zero. Even if every empoyee was a PHP or C coder the time to actually gather requirements, test, revise, and implement solutions costs money. There is nothing inherent in F/OSS that changes that.
So with this being the case, if a consultant feels that they can deliver the best product with MS tools them it's their choice. If they are overpriced, then it is the reponsibility of the company contracting the consultant to figure that out. It's called due diligence which is what most real businesses practice, either by getting a specialist to coordinate the contracting or bringing multiple contractors in and hearing what they all have to say.
Personally, as a part-time consultant, I see the aftermath of people getting screwed over by IT "gurus" all of the time so I hear what you're saying, but Open Source is not the magical answer to everybody's needs. There are as large a number of idiots that push F/OSS out of pure zealousness with only a marginal understanding of it as there are Microsoft shills and they all make us look bad. As soon as people stop treating software like it's fucking Jesus and start treating it like a pool of options to satisfy our customers then maybe we can overcome the bad rep that consultants have.
While your point is well-taken, I have to say that while Jag may be faster, Panther wasn't exactly a speed demon for me in the first place. I have a Dual 1GHz G4 system and speed is not one of it's notable qualities.
I'm not saying that it's slow, but generally getting around the system doesn't seem to be much faster than Win32 if at all.
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You won't be disappointed. This is a truly (and brilliantly IMHO) muddled film.
Even saying that the film is about time travel is spoiling it.
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Because it is ridiculously convoluted and unattractive to the average filmgoer. I saw it last month at the Atlanta Film Festival and you really have to be pretty heavily into Sci-Fi or just mind fucks in general to get into it.
With that said, I loved it. This review absolutely fucking ruins the film. Most (maybe even all) of the fun is trying to figure out exactly what the hell is going on. It's easy to make it to the final frame and still be thinking that. Shane Carruth, the director, was on hand at our screening and basically said that it was intentionally dense but all of the pieces are there.
He also said that this was his first film (a short) and he never went to film school. apparently he got a math degree and started out as a programmer and then at some point decided to do film. He shot the whole thing for 7 grand. It cost him 5 times that to get it blown up from Super 16 to 35MM for Sundance.
Maybe a more accomplished filmmaker could have made it more accessible but I thought that it was very effective the way that it was. Knowing absolutely nothing about it before I saw it, my brain was aching by the time that it was over. That is generally a bad thing but in the case of Primer it wasn't. It's always good to see something different.
Assuming Vernon (the sysadmin) was actually doing his job, and not spending all of his time on this vendetta, I hope he wins the wrongful termination suit. Firing him over this seems to have been overkill. He should have been reprimanded and warned like they did with the game playing supervisor.
They let you abstract data access procedures. It's kind of like asking "why are functions a good thing?"
Because a person who knows what the hell they are doing can write a good function (or stored procedure) containing what the hell they know so that a person who doesn't know a hell of a lot about what the first person knows but a lot about something else on a higher level can interface with that logic and get a result without having to be a guru.
I may be incorrect but views are still not as fast as SPs as SPs are compiled code. Also, you can't really pass arguments to views unless you're using dynamic SQL, which brings you back to square 1.
SPs can also make switching web development platforms pretty easy if all of your special functions and dynamic queries are already coded.
I can't speak for PL/SQL but T-SQL is pretty simple to pick up and anyone who knows a 4th generation language should have no problems designing their own logic. It is probably best to have a database czar to manage the creation of objects on the database though. If the database guy is the bottleneck it's time to get a new database guy, that simple.
IE (OE) never did *everything* that Netscape did. Roaming Profiles and LDAP Autocomplete immediately jump to mind as things that kept me using 4.x for WAAAY longer than I had any business. Unfortunately Mozilla is just getting the peices together for the former.
This is not a new as you may think. I know that I had been hearing about Netscape 7.2 for at least the last couple of months. Just before the whole "kick IE" glut of articles started to run.
IIS has a much thicker dossier of vulnerabilities. PHP seems to have really gotten their act together over the past few years.
However, it all comes down to the administrator. If you use best practices, and stay on top of your patches, IIS is much less of a headache than its reputation would lead you to believe.
It's flawed because it's total BS..NET does work well with MS SQL and have special object properties for IE but any competent developer can build totally cross platform solutions with it. In my experience, you have to TRY to be IE specific in.NET. Now I learned ASP.NET without using Visual Studio (and still only use VS to build my assemblies) so maybe it pushes you in that direction but if so, I haven't seen it.
Also, does PHP support data molding? As it's an ADO feature I doubt that the FreeTDS library would deal with it. I don't use it because it's such a proprietary feature but I just mention it to say you should be careful with the "anything that ASP can do with MS-SQL" line.
I understand licensing issues but they just aren't as big a deal in ASP.NET as these posts (and the article) are making it out. To use ASP.NET you need a license for the server and that's it. Most add-on components are the same. There is also so much ASP.NET sample code out there that there isn't a lot that you can't figure out for free using the same methods that you would use for PHP code.
Licensing issues get a little more complex when dealing with database servers and the like, but using Oracle isn't going to change that and it's not like you can't use MySQL with ASP.NET.
I'm all for the advantages of OSS and PHP does have advantages, but let's not cloud the issue unnecessarily.
Rappers are more performers than musicians though there are several MCs who can play instruments (Mos Def and Andre 3000 as two quick examples). There isn't much difference between them and a singer except for the fact that most rappers write their own lyrics.
There are plenty of Hip Hop producers who can play. Though much of the music is simple and may not be to your taste, there is nothing in the definition of music that excludes what most rappers rhyme over.
Thug is 24" chrome wheels on your escalade, spraying champagne on a bikini-wearing skank's ass, while threatening violence for anyone who disagrees with you.
Only the last item there is really "thug." Some people like big rims and some people like to objectify women and are nowhere near the whole "thug" image. Threatening violence against anyone who disagrees with you however is classic thug behavior.
None is this shit is particularly special or new. Extravagant cars, marginalization of women, and violence as a means of imposing power are all old hat and predate hip hop by at least the amount of time between now and when automobile offerings were differentiated.
Of course self rightousness by those who don't like these things is equally as dated.
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At one point, Tom seemed pretty pro-AMD, then the PIII 1.13 GHz debacle came up, Tom made a ruckus and things seemed to change a little after that. They do seem to lean slightly in favor of Intel (I don't think that any reasonable person who reads the regular launch articles would deny that) but I really like their reviews because they provide benchmarks for older hardware. This makes their charts really long, but very useful to people who may not have upgraded for a couple of years and want to see where their system stands against the latest and greatest.
Intel still has a couple of advantages, and one of them is the heat problem that comes with AMDs. OK, in a normal case you'd never notice because you basicly have the room to fit in airconditioning if you wanted to. In a 1U case however, you have to stick to about 1cm (that's less than half an inch, for those who don't know the metric system) for a fan.
On a 1U with an intel on the motherboard, I've rarely had any cooling problems. On a 1U with an AMD I've on regular basis had problems. The money customers save on buying an AMD, they'll have to spend on buying a 2U instead of a 1U.
One word: Hammer.
Learn it. Love it.
AMD's chips don't need to go any faster, they are plenty fast to compete with Intel, I'm sure that Apple is just a distant thought when the business strategy is being drafted.
It's also funny how the AMD chips seem to still have more performance than the previous ones. Maybe those FSB and cache improvements are working? Surely the 3000+ is faster than the 2500+.
Actually the P4EE was a knee jerk reaction to the FX. When the A64FX was first announced, there was no high end gaming CPU from Intel to speak of.
But of course this is all moot because of what the other reply states...
Slow down buddy. While there are definitely clueless IT workers and manager out there, it's a bit on the zealous side to accuse anyone who doesn't advocate F/OSS as being incompetent.
The cost of obvious solutions will never be zero because the cost of nothing is zero. Even if every empoyee was a PHP or C coder the time to actually gather requirements, test, revise, and implement solutions costs money. There is nothing inherent in F/OSS that changes that.
So with this being the case, if a consultant feels that they can deliver the best product with MS tools them it's their choice. If they are overpriced, then it is the reponsibility of the company contracting the consultant to figure that out. It's called due diligence which is what most real businesses practice, either by getting a specialist to coordinate the contracting or bringing multiple contractors in and hearing what they all have to say.
Personally, as a part-time consultant, I see the aftermath of people getting screwed over by IT "gurus" all of the time so I hear what you're saying, but Open Source is not the magical answer to everybody's needs. There are as large a number of idiots that push F/OSS out of pure zealousness with only a marginal understanding of it as there are Microsoft shills and they all make us look bad. As soon as people stop treating software like it's fucking Jesus and start treating it like a pool of options to satisfy our customers then maybe we can overcome the bad rep that consultants have.
While your point is well-taken, I have to say that while Jag may be faster, Panther wasn't exactly a speed demon for me in the first place. I have a Dual 1GHz G4 system and speed is not one of it's notable qualities.
I'm not saying that it's slow, but generally getting around the system doesn't seem to be much faster than Win32 if at all.
You won't be disappointed. This is a truly (and brilliantly IMHO) muddled film.
Even saying that the film is about time travel is spoiling it.
Because it is ridiculously convoluted and unattractive to the average filmgoer. I saw it last month at the Atlanta Film Festival and you really have to be pretty heavily into Sci-Fi or just mind fucks in general to get into it.
With that said, I loved it. This review absolutely fucking ruins the film. Most (maybe even all) of the fun is trying to figure out exactly what the hell is going on. It's easy to make it to the final frame and still be thinking that. Shane Carruth, the director, was on hand at our screening and basically said that it was intentionally dense but all of the pieces are there.
He also said that this was his first film (a short) and he never went to film school. apparently he got a math degree and started out as a programmer and then at some point decided to do film. He shot the whole thing for 7 grand. It cost him 5 times that to get it blown up from Super 16 to 35MM for Sundance.
Maybe a more accomplished filmmaker could have made it more accessible but I thought that it was very effective the way that it was. Knowing absolutely nothing about it before I saw it, my brain was aching by the time that it was over. That is generally a bad thing but in the case of Primer it wasn't. It's always good to see something different.
Assuming Vernon (the sysadmin) was actually doing his job, and not spending all of his time on this vendetta, I hope he wins the wrongful termination suit. Firing him over this seems to have been overkill. He should have been reprimanded and warned like they did with the game playing supervisor.
You don't live in the south do you?
What ways would those be?
They let you abstract data access procedures. It's kind of like asking "why are functions a good thing?"
Because a person who knows what the hell they are doing can write a good function (or stored procedure) containing what the hell they know so that a person who doesn't know a hell of a lot about what the first person knows but a lot about something else on a higher level can interface with that logic and get a result without having to be a guru.
Or something like that...
I may be incorrect but views are still not as fast as SPs as SPs are compiled code. Also, you can't really pass arguments to views unless you're using dynamic SQL, which brings you back to square 1.
SPs can also make switching web development platforms pretty easy if all of your special functions and dynamic queries are already coded.
I can't speak for PL/SQL but T-SQL is pretty simple to pick up and anyone who knows a 4th generation language should have no problems designing their own logic. It is probably best to have a database czar to manage the creation of objects on the database though. If the database guy is the bottleneck it's time to get a new database guy, that simple.
He had a shotgun in The Dark Knight Returns, but it didn't shoot bullets.
IE (OE) never did *everything* that Netscape did. Roaming Profiles and LDAP Autocomplete immediately jump to mind as things that kept me using 4.x for WAAAY longer than I had any business. Unfortunately Mozilla is just getting the peices together for the former.
As long as Netscape is based on extra-stable Mozilla branches this will be the case.
This is not a new as you may think. I know that I had been hearing about Netscape 7.2 for at least the last couple of months. Just before the whole "kick IE" glut of articles started to run.
You're confusing HTTP with HTML.
IIS has a much thicker dossier of vulnerabilities. PHP seems to have really gotten their act together over the past few years.
However, it all comes down to the administrator. If you use best practices, and stay on top of your patches, IIS is much less of a headache than its reputation would lead you to believe.
It's flawed because it's total BS. .NET does work well with MS SQL and have special object properties for IE but any competent developer can build totally cross platform solutions with it. In my experience, you have to TRY to be IE specific in .NET. Now I learned ASP.NET without using Visual Studio (and still only use VS to build my assemblies) so maybe it pushes you in that direction but if so, I haven't seen it.
Also, does PHP support data molding? As it's an ADO feature I doubt that the FreeTDS library would deal with it. I don't use it because it's such a proprietary feature but I just mention it to say you should be careful with the "anything that ASP can do with MS-SQL" line.
Well they both get compiled to the CLI anyway so I would venture to guess that any differences would have to do with syntactical elegance.
I understand licensing issues but they just aren't as big a deal in ASP.NET as these posts (and the article) are making it out. To use ASP.NET you need a license for the server and that's it. Most add-on components are the same. There is also so much ASP.NET sample code out there that there isn't a lot that you can't figure out for free using the same methods that you would use for PHP code.
Licensing issues get a little more complex when dealing with database servers and the like, but using Oracle isn't going to change that and it's not like you can't use MySQL with ASP.NET.
I'm all for the advantages of OSS and PHP does have advantages, but let's not cloud the issue unnecessarily.
Rappers are more performers than musicians though there are several MCs who can play instruments (Mos Def and Andre 3000 as two quick examples). There isn't much difference between them and a singer except for the fact that most rappers write their own lyrics.
There are plenty of Hip Hop producers who can play. Though much of the music is simple and may not be to your taste, there is nothing in the definition of music that excludes what most rappers rhyme over.
Thug is 24" chrome wheels on your escalade, spraying champagne on a bikini-wearing skank's ass, while threatening violence for anyone who disagrees with you.
Only the last item there is really "thug." Some people like big rims and some people like to objectify women and are nowhere near the whole "thug" image. Threatening violence against anyone who disagrees with you however is classic thug behavior.
None is this shit is particularly special or new. Extravagant cars, marginalization of women, and violence as a means of imposing power are all old hat and predate hip hop by at least the amount of time between now and when automobile offerings were differentiated.
Of course self rightousness by those who don't like these things is equally as dated.