Uh, at least your first two points are flat out in accurate...as for the second, I'll agree memcache is important, but that's a lot more to do with database performance than drupal. We're serving on average 950k-1.1M views a day off a quad core web server and a dual core db server. That's more than acceptable to me.
Is it as tight as if we'd written everything by hand? Of course not, but if we had not been able to build on the framework and contributed modules, it would have taken us years to develop instead of 6 months. Newsflash: Configurability and generality cost CPU cycles. CPU is cheaper (MUCH cheaper) than programmer time.
(p.s. "It was like hard n stuff when I tried to setup my 2 page personal website" isn't really a valid complaint. Sort of like complaining a 737 sucks as a hangglider.
Wait until you need something like SP/DIF output to work, or want to actually make it run natively at 44.1KHz instead of the abomination that is 48Khz.
Except you're completely missing the point. It's not about sharpness or speed. It's about being an even multiple of 24hz so you can display film material (e.g. about everything you'd really want on a 1080p set) without any tricks that ruin the smoothness of motion.
Really, in the end blame Wikipedia for not producing diffs. Storm in a teakettle... Is 4GB really such an imposition these days? That's about 40 minutes of downloading. How long do you think making many many changes to a heavily compressed 4GB archive on your PC is going to take...never mind two-transfer of 4GB of stuff over USB or whatever.
Try getting ATI drivers to work on a recent kernel and call me back. The drivers are usually at least 3 months behind the kernel releases. (See also the great Ubuntu Jaunty ATI clusterfrak.)
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The profit motive also encourages them to A: ship product B: on time C: on budget D: that meets the customer's needs. NASA seems to have trouble with all four of those.
*sigh* Why is anyone still using null-terminated strings? It's almost a shame that Pascal didn't become dominant...many of these bugs would simply not occur.
Since when is EVE a shining example of a MMO UI? EVO works (for some people) very much *despite* the cluttered, poorly laid out, typographically flawed UI.
Airplanes go pretty fast on asphalt actually. A typical commerical airliner takes off at about 200 mph and lands at 150-175. The Concorde took off at 250 mph. The shuttle is well over 200 at touchdown.
BOINC is quite possibly the single worst bit of software I've ever seen. It's kind of like the team did a detailed study of the best practices for software usability and then did the exact opposite.
Still the same symmetrical plug design....stupid, stupid move. Would have been that hard to add a ridge on one side or something, so you don't have to stare at the end??
Have a two level plan. Users would pay for however many gigabytes of high speed service at the wanted, which would be ultra-fast, 10Mbit at least, preferably higher.
They'd also have access to a baseline service in unlimited amount, but highly throttled...512Kbit say. Plenty useable for basic stuff, even MMOs and the like, but not for mass pirating. The user could toggle between the modes so as not to waste high-speed bandwidth checking e-mail or whatever.
Ruby is a neat language. Basically imagine a language that can do all of the great hacks you can do in perl (and then some) but with a sane syntax. Python is a very very good language, I've written quite a bit of code in it. Ruby is nicer, at least from a syntax standpoint. It's just SO expressive, even beating python. But, at least until now, the speed always SUCKED balls. Maybe this new release will get it roughly on par with python.
Thanks to the heads-up from the GP, I was actually able to grab one of these during my lunch break. Picked it up at approx. 11:30AM. There were about 10 left when I grabbed mine. According to the clerk they got about 80 of them in. I live in a town of ~70k population.
I think it has more to do with the state of Led Zeppelin on CD. The currently released CDs are a circa 1992 masters. Hardly the peak of sonic fidelity, although the situation isn't nearly as dire, as, for instance the Beatles.
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Uh, at least your first two points are flat out in accurate...as for the second, I'll agree memcache is important, but that's a lot more to do with database performance than drupal. We're serving on average 950k-1.1M views a day off a quad core web server and a dual core db server. That's more than acceptable to me.
Is it as tight as if we'd written everything by hand? Of course not, but if we had not been able to build on the framework and contributed modules, it would have taken us years to develop instead of 6 months. Newsflash: Configurability and generality cost CPU cycles. CPU is cheaper (MUCH cheaper) than programmer time.
Umm, yea, I'll take my expirience developing and managing a network of Drupal sites that push over 1M page views a day vs. your urban dictionary link.
And what exactly is so wrong with Drupal?
(p.s. "It was like hard n stuff when I tried to setup my 2 page personal website" isn't really a valid complaint. Sort of like complaining a 737 sucks as a hangglider.
Wait until you need something like SP/DIF output to work, or want to actually make it run natively at 44.1KHz instead of the abomination that is 48Khz.
Except you're completely missing the point. It's not about sharpness or speed. It's about being an even multiple of 24hz so you can display film material (e.g. about everything you'd really want on a 1080p set) without any tricks that ruin the smoothness of motion.
There's a small problem with those... unstrung weight is really bad for handling, braking, and ride quality.
Really, in the end blame Wikipedia for not producing diffs. Storm in a teakettle...
Is 4GB really such an imposition these days? That's about 40 minutes of downloading. How long do you think making many many changes to a heavily compressed 4GB archive on your PC is going to take...never mind two-transfer of 4GB of stuff over USB or whatever.
The file on the device is probably compressed in a way that makes a diff impractical.
I thought offloading graphics computations to the CPU was the whole *point* of integrated video.
So how exactly do you think these things normally work? That there are magic estate management companies or something?
Try getting ATI drivers to work on a recent kernel and call me back. The drivers are usually at least 3 months behind the kernel releases. (See also the great Ubuntu Jaunty ATI clusterfrak.)
The profit motive also encourages them to A: ship product B: on time C: on budget D: that meets the customer's needs. NASA seems to have trouble with all four of those.
*sigh* Why is anyone still using null-terminated strings? It's almost a shame that Pascal didn't become dominant...many of these bugs would simply not occur.
Since when is EVE a shining example of a MMO UI? EVO works (for some people) very much *despite* the cluttered, poorly laid out, typographically flawed UI.
Airplanes go pretty fast on asphalt actually. A typical commerical airliner takes off at about 200 mph and lands at 150-175. The Concorde took off at 250 mph. The shuttle is well over 200 at touchdown.
Don't twist history. The reason flash took over web video is because vistors tired of WMV/QT codec hell.
BOINC is quite possibly the single worst bit of software I've ever seen. It's kind of like the team did a detailed study of the best practices for software usability and then did the exact opposite.
The RIAA is just an advisory board kinda thing. They don't actually own any stake in the actual record companies.
Tell that to anyone who refers to the blue 'E' as "The Internet".
Still the same symmetrical plug design....stupid, stupid move. Would have been that hard to add a ridge on one side or something, so you don't have to stare at the end??
Have a two level plan. Users would pay for however many gigabytes of high speed service at the wanted, which would be ultra-fast, 10Mbit at least, preferably higher.
They'd also have access to a baseline service in unlimited amount, but highly throttled...512Kbit say. Plenty useable for basic stuff, even MMOs and the like, but not for mass pirating. The user could toggle between the modes so as not to waste high-speed bandwidth checking e-mail or whatever.
Ruby is a neat language. Basically imagine a language that can do all of the great hacks you can do in perl (and then some) but with a sane syntax. Python is a very very good language, I've written quite a bit of code in it. Ruby is nicer, at least from a syntax standpoint. It's just SO expressive, even beating python. But, at least until now, the speed always SUCKED balls. Maybe this new release will get it roughly on par with python.
Thanks to the heads-up from the GP, I was actually able to grab one of these during my lunch break. Picked it up at approx. 11:30AM. There were about 10 left when I grabbed mine. According to the clerk they got about 80 of them in. I live in a town of ~70k population.
But then you end up writing to the lowest common denominator. That's not good.
I think it has more to do with the state of Led Zeppelin on CD. The currently released CDs are a circa 1992 masters. Hardly the peak of sonic fidelity, although the situation isn't nearly as dire, as, for instance the Beatles.