The more cards, the more buffers, the better the performance (marginally).
I'll just assume it's an ERP, cause I like ERPs. They do a ton of reading and infrequent sustained transfers. If it is an ERP, your top priority should be more main system memory. Then use more smaller, fast drives. The more cards the merrier because your double or quadruple the buffers. At worst a buffer offers no advantage. Hopefuly it's a dynamic optimization supporting what the database is already optimizing in main memory. Little bonus for reliability: this might allow you to move drives to a new channel or card in case of failure.
Yes, we all die sometime, but this isn't about death, this is about the rest of your life.
I'd rather experience the searing pain of a quick heart attack than have my life drawn out like a cancer patient's over many years, finally culminating in several months of extreme agony only aided by a slow morphine drip leaving me unintelligable to visiting family.
And long before the beginning of the end, there are many more quality of life issues. Say I have carpal tunnel, a common geek issue, and I've been eating Neotame or Aspartame or some other neurological damager, will the combination prevent my hand and fingers from healing? Will the lingering pain and numbness be mine for life? Why? So I could have fewer calories?
For some rediculous reason, people figure that life is life and death is death. Look around you. Not everyone ages the same way. How do you want to grow old?
By the way, this isn't simply genetics. By comparing cultures throughout the world, genetics is considered far less important than 1) diet 2) activity 3) outlook (including religion).
"Neotame has similar structure to aspartame -- except that, from it's structure, appears to be even more toxic than aspartame. This potential increase in toxicity will make up for the fact that less will be used in diet drinks. Like aspartame, some of the concerns include gradual neurotoxic and immunotoxic damage from the combination of the formaldehyde metabolite (which is toxic at extremely low doses) and the excitotoxic amino acid. Given all of the suffering being caused by Monsanto's aspartame, the prudent course would be to start out with the assumption that it may cause toxic damage or cancer from long-term exposure and conduct many thorough, long-term, and independent human studies to see the effects."
Sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon, by the way. Not enough to warrant cancer and neurological damage.
The Aquapad is ready to go today. It uses the Crusoe processor and runs Midori Linux or Windows CE. I don't know if the touch-screen code can be ported to your favorite distro.
I wish the techno-cult would stop believing that this is an all-or-nothing discussion. This kind of polemitization prevents progress. This issue isn't about copyright ownership or technological reality. That's all just rhetoric.
Every stakeholder, including the music corporations, is aware that once a piece intellectual property is made digital, there is no known way to restrict it's flow among concerted pirates. But this issue is not about piracy among the techno-elite. This is about maximizing profits by protracting the purchase habits of the mass audience. If big-media can keep a large portion of consumers buying at current rates, meanwhile addressing the desires of many would-be pirates through online music distribution, that is profit maximization. And as long as the cost of this tactic is greater than the cost of overhauling the industry, it will continue.
Now you may claim that changing the industry today will lead to GREATER profits tomorrow, or at least profits on the same level. I'm not sure this is true, but my opinion doesn't matter. Neither does yours.
The fact is that every public company abhors risk. The industry will not go out on a limb unless it is pushed by frustrated investors dropping its share price, artists that leave because they believe greater profit can be had under a different system, the mass audience suddenly deciding that they are paying too much, or executives who foresee greater profit for themselves.
So we can cry out the facts or we can accept the truth. This is a battle of attrition where the eventual loser is the music industry, but we don't know how far off that is.
As for legislation I could support, I don't think the ridiculousness of that proposition has sunk in. There ALREADY is legislation but it's not profitable for music-companies to come after individual pirates. Not because of the cost of lawyers, but because there is the RISK of criticism by consumers and artists if the companies are portrayed as beating-up the little guy. Massive pirating rings are one thing but what do you do with some 12-year-old with 15GB of music that would have cost anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000 if each CD had been purchased. Does Disney or AOL/Time Warner DARE go after this child and the parents?
Since there is no further legislation that can fix the problem without stripping us all of the long-appreciated fair-use doctrine, how am I to answer?
I hope that some crucial people understand the futility of chasing real pirates and the stifling side effects any effective legislation would have on the long-appreciated fair-use doctrine. I hope that several congresspersons listen to reason or take the money from electronics marketers and sabotage the bill with eviscerating amendments.
The Covad technician is arriving on Monday with my ADSL router/bridge/modem - everyone has a different name for it. I'll be very happy to have my service up and running within one month of my original order.
My install has not been trouble free, however.
I have wanted any form of high-speed access since I moved in. My cable company - Adelphia - has given me three different replies to my inquiries - Yes, No and Never. GTE, now Verizon, ran three levels of super-special tests and said it could not happen.
But Earthlink said yes! How? They asked the true provider of their DSL service, Covad, and the response was good.
But how does Covad know better than Verizon. GTE has been one of only two local carriers in the majority of California for years and in that time they managed to get a reputation for slow, incompetent service. But this is the new Verizon! All has changed!
Right. Covad put the order in to Verizon who came out to install the line whether I was capable of handling it or not.
Unfortunately the first technician was given the wrong wires and would need to send out "the cable guys." Still no women in the workforce, I guess.
It was the second tech that explained it all. The reason my three tests came up negative was that there was a second line installed previously. This line was not handled on a separate physical connection, rather it was multiplexed in a little box just below my bedroom window. This threw off the tests because GTE ran them without accounting for the multiplexer.
Covad's affirmative data came from GTE publishing the numbers that are capable of receiving a DSL feed. Covad's data actually was better than the phone company's.
So the line is fully tested and fully operational. Followed by some prodding of Covad, I should have service in a comparatively short time. May your install go so well even with a hitch.
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The more cards, the more buffers, the better the performance (marginally).
I'll just assume it's an ERP, cause I like ERPs. They do a ton of reading and infrequent sustained transfers. If it is an ERP, your top priority should be more main system memory. Then use more smaller, fast drives. The more cards the merrier because your double or quadruple the buffers. At worst a buffer offers no advantage. Hopefuly it's a dynamic optimization supporting what the database is already optimizing in main memory. Little bonus for reliability: this might allow you to move drives to a new channel or card in case of failure.
Yes, we all die sometime, but this isn't about death, this is about the rest of your life.
I'd rather experience the searing pain of a quick heart attack than have my life drawn out like a cancer patient's over many years, finally culminating in several months of extreme agony only aided by a slow morphine drip leaving me unintelligable to visiting family.
And long before the beginning of the end, there are many more quality of life issues. Say I have carpal tunnel, a common geek issue, and I've been eating Neotame or Aspartame or some other neurological damager, will the combination prevent my hand and fingers from healing? Will the lingering pain and numbness be mine for life? Why? So I could have fewer calories?
For some rediculous reason, people figure that life is life and death is death. Look around you. Not everyone ages the same way. How do you want to grow old?
By the way, this isn't simply genetics. By comparing cultures throughout the world, genetics is considered far less important than 1) diet 2) activity 3) outlook (including religion).
There is a large site dedicated to exposing the toxicity of aspartame, with hundreds of pages of documentation.
From the Neotame pages:
"Neotame has similar structure to aspartame -- except that, from it's structure, appears to be even more toxic than aspartame. This potential increase in toxicity will make up for the fact that less will be used in diet drinks. Like aspartame, some of the concerns include gradual neurotoxic and immunotoxic damage from the combination of the formaldehyde metabolite (which is toxic at extremely low doses) and the excitotoxic amino acid. Given all of the suffering being caused by Monsanto's aspartame, the prudent course would be to start out with the assumption that it may cause toxic damage or cancer from long-term exposure and conduct many thorough, long-term, and independent human studies to see the effects."
Sugar has 16 calories per teaspoon, by the way. Not enough to warrant cancer and neurological damage.
The Aquapad is ready to go today. It uses the Crusoe processor and runs Midori Linux or Windows CE. I don't know if the touch-screen code can be ported to your favorite distro.
I wish the techno-cult would stop believing that this is an all-or-nothing discussion. This kind of polemitization prevents progress. This issue isn't about copyright ownership or technological reality. That's all just rhetoric.
Every stakeholder, including the music corporations, is aware that once a piece intellectual property is made digital, there is no known way to restrict it's flow among concerted pirates. But this issue is not about piracy among the techno-elite. This is about maximizing profits by protracting the purchase habits of the mass audience. If big-media can keep a large portion of consumers buying at current rates, meanwhile addressing the desires of many would-be pirates through online music distribution, that is profit maximization. And as long as the cost of this tactic is greater than the cost of overhauling the industry, it will continue.
Now you may claim that changing the industry today will lead to GREATER profits tomorrow, or at least profits on the same level. I'm not sure this is true, but my opinion doesn't matter. Neither does yours.
The fact is that every public company abhors risk. The industry will not go out on a limb unless it is pushed by frustrated investors dropping its share price, artists that leave because they believe greater profit can be had under a different system, the mass audience suddenly deciding that they are paying too much, or executives who foresee greater profit for themselves.
So we can cry out the facts or we can accept the truth. This is a battle of attrition where the eventual loser is the music industry, but we don't know how far off that is.
As for legislation I could support, I don't think the ridiculousness of that proposition has sunk in. There ALREADY is legislation but it's not profitable for music-companies to come after individual pirates. Not because of the cost of lawyers, but because there is the RISK of criticism by consumers and artists if the companies are portrayed as beating-up the little guy. Massive pirating rings are one thing but what do you do with some 12-year-old with 15GB of music that would have cost anywhere from $5,000 to $50,000 if each CD had been purchased. Does Disney or AOL/Time Warner DARE go after this child and the parents?
Since there is no further legislation that can fix the problem without stripping us all of the long-appreciated fair-use doctrine, how am I to answer?
I hope that some crucial people understand the futility of chasing real pirates and the stifling side effects any effective legislation would have on the long-appreciated fair-use doctrine. I hope that several congresspersons listen to reason or take the money from electronics marketers and sabotage the bill with eviscerating amendments.
The Covad technician is arriving on Monday with my ADSL router/bridge/modem - everyone has a different name for it. I'll be very happy to have my service up and running within one month of my original order. My install has not been trouble free, however. I have wanted any form of high-speed access since I moved in. My cable company - Adelphia - has given me three different replies to my inquiries - Yes, No and Never. GTE, now Verizon, ran three levels of super-special tests and said it could not happen. But Earthlink said yes! How? They asked the true provider of their DSL service, Covad, and the response was good. But how does Covad know better than Verizon. GTE has been one of only two local carriers in the majority of California for years and in that time they managed to get a reputation for slow, incompetent service. But this is the new Verizon! All has changed! Right. Covad put the order in to Verizon who came out to install the line whether I was capable of handling it or not. Unfortunately the first technician was given the wrong wires and would need to send out "the cable guys." Still no women in the workforce, I guess. It was the second tech that explained it all. The reason my three tests came up negative was that there was a second line installed previously. This line was not handled on a separate physical connection, rather it was multiplexed in a little box just below my bedroom window. This threw off the tests because GTE ran them without accounting for the multiplexer. Covad's affirmative data came from GTE publishing the numbers that are capable of receiving a DSL feed. Covad's data actually was better than the phone company's. So the line is fully tested and fully operational. Followed by some prodding of Covad, I should have service in a comparatively short time. May your install go so well even with a hitch.