While it is difficult, it is possible as long as everyone stays honest.
Really. Take the simplest case. If we replace boxes with boxes that can literally deal with twice the load, electricity used goes down, colo space goes down.
Now if it affects the customer, it's a matter of measuring what their experience change is. Do not measure the intangible. Just 'cause you switched from red to blue doesn't mean you'll attract more customers. If a customer can buy something faster or in some "better" way, that's measurable too.
It just gets tricky when you try to measure things that don't affect process directly, such as running ads.
Um. an API is only a way for making your program more modular for reuse and for "other developer" coding.
All API code are executable, you need code that can be run... even if it's a script.
All API takes up memory. When you run java or c, any libs you've compiled in, it is brought into memory.
THE problem is, for spamassassin is, it needs to come in over the wire ahead of time. What would be ideal is, spammers having spamassassin on their machiens to not transmit in the first place. G'luck having THAT happen.
spamassassin only processes mail that's ON the server. message in, process process process, message out. You'd have to process it as it comes through the line. It still takes up bandwith of your line, your upstream, their upsteam and so forth.
Actually, yeah, it really is. For instance, I worked at a place that had a few million members in its DB. It had only about 1/5'th active members. We needed to move an application off of the main database to a seperate one, but the application didn't need to know of the defunct members. So we only snapshotted the 1/5'th..
I'm no DBA, but the DBA's i worked with prefered small snapshots. Either they were easier to put in place or to export or something.:)
Yes, it should go out of business if software makers dont' realize, writing something that takes 40 hours a week by a group of developers only throws you so far ahead of the curve.
Let's take mySQL and Postgres for instance. They both are pretty decent. They've both been around for quite some time.. not significantly less than oracle.. but anyway.
mySQL and postgres developers aren't all (or at all) paid for 40 hours per ~50 weeks of development a year. Oracle developers are. So unless you keep inovating, your software concept will become stale. Look at office and koffice. koffice took a long while to write. office is only better integrated with itself and windows because MS not only has the API, but the time to dedicate to it. But you know what, koffice CAN compete since it has had the time to mature.
Having said that, if you can't innovate, what else can you sell? Hosting as in ASP's (not the MS thing:P ), support contracts in the form of helpdesk and bugfixes. Special versions for special requests.
Remember, writing software is a little like anything else. Anyone can do about anything with experience and time. What you pay for is the convenience.
I know mSQL had a release in Jan past.. but does anyone know the merits of using mSQL vs MySQL? We all have pounded the MySQL vs Postgres vs Uber-commercial (oracle, ms-sql, sybase) to death.
1. It's acceptable if a bird or two comes by and decides to do whatever during the event, on its own volition. It's something you have to live with when playing outdoors.
2. This is clearly, clearly, an intentional act that may or maynot disrupt the event.
3. Couldn't a rented plane be just as effective without taking what was once a wild animal and training it to do something that it naturally wouldn't do? No, I'm not a fan of circuses either. It'd be tasteful too. Hell, do one of those neat sky writting things.
4. Companies do "normal" advertising targeted at events. I.e. you don't see ads for tampons at hockey events but you'll see golf equipt ads during golf events. Hrm...
Well, speaking outside the realm of what SCO can do, using things like, DNA based computing or quantum computing, it'd be easy to brute force things like that.
And I know it's improbable to the point of impossible to do it in a matter of minutes with SCO's stuff.. but hey, it had to be pointed out.
Nothing is wrong with self destructing dvd's. Just saves you a trip of going back to the rental place. It's also stock that a rental store doesn't need to track.:P
See what happens if you get a watch designer to make a computer watch? You get a good asthetic design.
I hate the hybdrid device indusustry where one company thinks they can do "both" really well. It's prolly why a lot of pda phones fail. Pair up with Samsun or nokia and get a phone good design, work with MS or Palm to get a good software interface on there.
Why sue Cohen? I mean, yes it was wrong of him to try and defraud VeriSign, but isn't it really VeriSign's fault for not VeriFying the transfer?
He effectively stole something. How you "steal" a contract that's done electronically is beyond me, but all in all, something was taken he paid for and wouldn't give it back. He had proof he "owned" it. What's worse is, he also caused damage to a business and made money while doing it.
No, I'm stating what someone else in the thread mentioned. "Multiparadymed creamy goodness."
Imagine mixing lisp's style, c's procedural programming, OOP and aspect programming into one. ANYONE can make a bigger mess than using one technology at a time.
And if you mod me as flambait, mod the parent as funny, since he started taking what I said out of context:)
If these are snapshots then you'll need to keep downloading them for your Page Rank system to be up to date. The web is constantly changing and therefore so is Page Rank. I can't see having a data set on your computer being all that usefull as it'll soon expire.
You are absolutely right. This is Google does on your behalf. They have the computing power, storage-wise as well as processing-wise to do the needed updating. Not that google can do it 24/7, but they do better than I can with my 4 computers.:\
It would be far better to be able to link to a data set via XML and query it. That way you would have live upto the minute Page Ranks. I know that Google already does a live Page Rank system, but being able to access it and query it would be usefull.
And expensive. Remember, queries more complex than "what is related to this" and doing the computation on the data requires resources to move the data from google to you PLUS the additional query. It'd be a bandwidht hog if not compressed significantly. Google's shared API is prolly more sufficient.
lol, none taken. in your defense, nothing is wrong with procedural programming. just don't dirty one theology w/ the other, or otherwise you get C++, where you can do both. Yuck.
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Unionising is hard. Enough people don't follow, things fall apart.
While it is difficult, it is possible as long as everyone stays honest.
Really. Take the simplest case. If we replace boxes with boxes that can literally deal with twice the load, electricity used goes down, colo space goes down.
Now if it affects the customer, it's a matter of measuring what their experience change is. Do not measure the intangible. Just 'cause you switched from red to blue doesn't mean you'll attract more customers. If a customer can buy something faster or in some "better" way, that's measurable too.
It just gets tricky when you try to measure things that don't affect process directly, such as running ads.
Um. an API is only a way for making your program more modular for reuse and for "other developer" coding.
All API code are executable, you need code that can be run... even if it's a script.
All API takes up memory. When you run java or c, any libs you've compiled in, it is brought into memory.
THE problem is, for spamassassin is, it needs to come in over the wire ahead of time. What would be ideal is, spammers having spamassassin on their machiens to not transmit in the first place. G'luck having THAT happen.
Does it include a politician reminding us of his contribution to the creation of it?
spamassassin only processes mail that's ON the server. message in, process process process, message out. You'd have to process it as it comes through the line. It still takes up bandwith of your line, your upstream, their upsteam and so forth.
Snapshotting is really useful for oracle.
:)
Actually, yeah, it really is. For instance, I worked at a place that had a few million members in its DB. It had only about 1/5'th active members. We needed to move an application off of the main database to a seperate one, but the application didn't need to know of the defunct members. So we only snapshotted the 1/5'th..
I'm no DBA, but the DBA's i worked with prefered small snapshots. Either they were easier to put in place or to export or something.
Yes, it should go out of business if software makers dont' realize, writing something that takes 40 hours a week by a group of developers only throws you so far ahead of the curve.
:P ), support contracts in the form of helpdesk and bugfixes. Special versions for special requests.
Let's take mySQL and Postgres for instance. They both are pretty decent. They've both been around for quite some time.. not significantly less than oracle.. but anyway.
mySQL and postgres developers aren't all (or at all) paid for 40 hours per ~50 weeks of development a year. Oracle developers are. So unless you keep inovating, your software concept will become stale. Look at office and koffice. koffice took a long while to write. office is only better integrated with itself and windows because MS not only has the API, but the time to dedicate to it. But you know what, koffice CAN compete since it has had the time to mature.
Having said that, if you can't innovate, what else can you sell? Hosting as in ASP's (not the MS thing
Remember, writing software is a little like anything else. Anyone can do about anything with experience and time. What you pay for is the convenience.
I know mSQL had a release in Jan past.. but does anyone know the merits of using mSQL vs MySQL? We all have pounded the MySQL vs Postgres vs Uber-commercial (oracle, ms-sql, sybase) to death.
This is not at all tasteful.
1. It's acceptable if a bird or two comes by and decides to do whatever during the event, on its own volition. It's something you have to live with when playing outdoors.
2. This is clearly, clearly, an intentional act that may or maynot disrupt the event.
3. Couldn't a rented plane be just as effective without taking what was once a wild animal and training it to do something that it naturally wouldn't do? No, I'm not a fan of circuses either. It'd be tasteful too. Hell, do one of those neat sky writting things.
4. Companies do "normal" advertising targeted at events. I.e. you don't see ads for tampons at hockey events but you'll see golf equipt ads during golf events. Hrm...
Well, speaking outside the realm of what SCO can do, using things like, DNA based computing or quantum computing, it'd be easy to brute force things like that.
And I know it's improbable to the point of impossible to do it in a matter of minutes with SCO's stuff.. but hey, it had to be pointed out.
I dunno, but the world isn't so black and white. Evil people do good things and good people do evil things in this life.
Not disappointed.. but I was thinking of WinCE or whatever they call it now. If it's stinger.. ok.. palm os then.
http://www.worldwise.com/reccdsanddv.html says differently. Just google'd it up.
Well, i'm sure it can be recycled. Netflix can sponsor a recycle bin for that and aol cd's.
:)
Better yet, mail them to aol
Have a lock mode, like on your cell.
:P
Have the user make a giant X to lock and unlock it. SHouldn't be hard for the os to pick up
Nothing is wrong with self destructing dvd's. Just saves you a trip of going back to the rental place. It's also stock that a rental store doesn't need to track. :P
Netflix can really use this.
See what happens if you get a watch designer to make a computer watch? You get a good asthetic design.
I hate the hybdrid device indusustry where one company thinks they can do "both" really well. It's prolly why a lot of pda phones fail. Pair up with Samsun or nokia and get a phone good design, work with MS or Palm to get a good software interface on there.
Typical childhood behavior. You don't let me play, I take my ball and go home. Simple as that.
Am I the only one who was reminded of that old 'toon, 'Mask'? "Part man, part machine!"
He effectively stole something. How you "steal" a contract that's done electronically is beyond me, but all in all, something was taken he paid for and wouldn't give it back. He had proof he "owned" it. What's worse is, he also caused damage to a business and made money while doing it.
Verisign is just as guilty.
Sounds like fraud on fraud.. or something.
No, I'm stating what someone else in the thread mentioned. "Multiparadymed creamy goodness."
:)
Imagine mixing lisp's style, c's procedural programming, OOP and aspect programming into one. ANYONE can make a bigger mess than using one technology at a time.
And if you mod me as flambait, mod the parent as funny, since he started taking what I said out of context
Erg.. stop using analogies to defend ideas. It doesn't always .. map fully.
TV and Games don't have a direct biological feed back like drugs do.
Perhaps you can say the diff between TV and Games are like, reading a novel and a choose-your-own adventure book?
I dunno.
You are absolutely right. This is Google does on your behalf. They have the computing power, storage-wise as well as processing-wise to do the needed updating. Not that google can do it 24/7, but they do better than I can with my 4 computers.
And expensive. Remember, queries more complex than "what is related to this" and doing the computation on the data requires resources to move the data from google to you PLUS the additional query. It'd be a bandwidht hog if not compressed significantly. Google's shared API is prolly more sufficient.
lol, none taken. in your defense, nothing is wrong with procedural programming. just don't dirty one theology w/ the other, or otherwise you get C++, where you can do both. Yuck.
New constructs to java defined randomly by developer w/o java consortium == bad.
It makes code messy.