what exactly do you expect cnn to write ? most of their listeners/watchers are at least to some level christians or have an idea how much the christianity means to their fellow victims. they can't say "hey prayer doesn't help one bit".
the same as in iraqi papers you can't right now write "americans are bad and have killed tens of thousands of our civilians". it's been censored also, but on different reasons.
let them pray and enjoy their bliss, at least they die happy.
i have to agree, the song really isn't bad. it's not too great either, but for something that you can just download it's good. still there's no reason why it should be a #1 single.
and the quality could be a bit better:)
this will find a nice place for it in my playlist.
but 99% of tfa isn't about competition at all, it's ipod hype and not very well hidden.
i like the opensource movement and stuff, but i don't really see a reason why apple should push ipod open and free, let them keep it closed if they want to. instead ofcourse other people could go the "sun way", meaning create a decent compact mp3/video player, and just publish all the specs on the net. itunish music/video buying capability behind it and zap, there you go, a real affordable and not struck down ipod killer.
but then again, who would be intersted in pushing a free movement like this ? perhaps the music/movie industry itself (it could get customers that they miss right now because of the cost of the ipod and the illegal mp3/divx downloads from elsewhere) ?
ipod may not be expensive for advanced countries, but a 3rd world country worker can't really afford it (it's more than their montly wage, in some places a lot more). the 3rd world countries make a lot of customers (we're literally talking about billions of people here).
I guess it depends on the taste, 1Gb would never be enough for me, my "little" collection here is around 6-7Gbytes in the computer here and even that annoys with repeating the songs;) And 128kbps doesn't really sound that well with good jazz and/or acoustic music.
I should be described as a real oldtimer, althrough i compile gentoo at nights on my machine and love to hack on really down layers in software (nothing beats the adrenaline buzz of working with raw devices on the kernel layer), i don't consider myself young&geeky enough to be an ipod or any-other-manufacturer mp3 player fan. I have a builtin radio in my mobile, if i want fresh music tunes, i will just tune on a good channel and listen. This way you can even find out news&information about the mysterious "real life" thing that they claim exists.
Besides, if you wear a mp3 player too frequently, it's maybe a note from mother nature that you need more friends to hang out with and talk to. I guess it could be very dangerous in the malta traffic aswell (these people don't really know what traffic rules are for).
But if you look at the selection of games for nintendo, you'll see for yourself that an old 'wow' and 'hl2' fans don't really have much to play.
I sometimes run n64 here in the emu, tv consoles are just too cumbersome for me to use. n64 loads the games really fast (compared to psx), and they have good graphics. the visual part is fun, it's nice to see that most games are without any kind of violence whatsoever (a'la you fall on your butt and are just unhappy when you crash in a flying simulator). but sometimes you just want the 'action', and nintendo doesn't really provide it.
If i'd have a kid, a nintendo would be a quite safe bet. PS(x/2/3) & Xbox(/360) would be big nono's...
PS. Would you ppl thin that there'd be any kind of chance to talk to the console games developers so they'd rebuild their applications for linux ? We'd get a nice big set of quality games at normal speed (instead of the lagbehind emus)...
Nethack was fun for years but it's beginning to fade...
Re: "We're the founders, but we're far from the smartest people here," Mr. Lavoie, the chief executive, said during an interview at Rite-Solutions' headquarters outside Newport, R.I.
Admitting to the reality is actually a vital sign of the intelligence in the leadership. If you'd hire people more stupid than you in any intellectual business, you're f-d.
I wish my boss would consider this fact in some areas more often:) I think it's a quite normal case in any IT company, the bosses are "oldschoolers", meaning sure they know how a pic cpu works and how perl text databases are cool, but their knowledge doesn't always map to the current situation out there. Transaction rdbms is the word, not a text database.
I do understand that the bosses in situations like that usually do realize that their workforce is more talented or at least more up-to-date in the expertise, but unluckily for the workers, the selfpride of the bosses preceeds the rationality that you'd expect.
Anyway, seems like one company (at least officially) is trying to fight the/disease/, i hope they do well and give a good example to the others.
Ps. how would you fight this "pride" issue ? My current strategy is either to explain very calmly my selections in development paths or if that fails, just go along and point the primary reason out when it starts to fall apart... Humans are supposed to learn most from their "personal" failures.
why mess around with mechanical emulators if you can just run the games on your pc and output the picture on the telly through your tv-out cable ?
yeah sure playing screens on a display that requires a magnifying glass is cool, but running epsxe in foreground and building gentoo on the back is way more sexy:)
kernel security this and kernel security that. sure it gives you something, but it doesn't really protect you from the dumb administrators and even more dummy users.
what i'd gladly see in the linux world, userspace transparent jailing (meaning i could run my applications without endangering the rest of the system). i could give the application read access where it needs to read, hide files that it doesn't need to know about, and not let it write a thing except the directory that it runs in. sure running another linux inside your linux does the trick, but the regular really can't do it, it requires root permissions and a nice bucket of time (that most of us don't really have in hand). ye, and memory access control wouldn't hurt either (meaning the app could only read and write from the memory that i allow it too, not what it thinks it should read/write). and if you've got a really nice application/preloadable_lib that already provides it, pleas be just kind enough to reply this in here.
enhancing only the kernel isn't enough, we need sandboxes around our buggy apps. kernel doesn't really have an idea that a dummy php script could save an uploaded file and execute it with eval ( 'system (/tmp/foobar) '); or smth in the way. but a properly configured sandbox would know it and could prevent it.
i have a perl script here , around 40 lines long, that takes a linux box down to halt from the "nobody" user account, within half an hour (tested both, 2.4 and 2.6 series). that's not what i'd define as security, do you ?
sure the idea behind konqueror's "freedom" is quite nice, qt and trolltech:)
anyway, i sometimes use konqueror for simpler stuff, but as soon as the dhtml/js gets complicated, i have to go for mozilla because konq. just mocks things up. must admit tho, from memory usage and gui speed, konq. beats the ass of mozilla.
phoenix was nice and shiny, why in the world did they have to change it into this "item" that it is right now ? firefox is not really that much faster or lightweight than the mozilla-browser from the mozilla suite anymore.
i still sometimes find myself using galeon instead of the 2 mentioned above, it's faster than mozilla and has the compatibility with html/js of mozilla since it runs the same gecko, just without the slow gui:p
epiphany was also quite nice, but too "gnomefied", you couln't really configure much from "inside", had to run the gnome conf each time which sometimes wasn't such a bright idea from inside kde.
it's not only classical music that is affected by the compressor, good rock music too. if you've got a silent nice guitar solo, you don't want it to scream as loud as the chorus, it totally ruins the song.
sure the everyday trance/disco music doesn't really lose any quality by this, but then again, it's not real music either, it's a natural noise pollution that has nothing to do with notes or melody:)
it's really difficult to even manually adjust the volume as a preset for a song to make it sound right and save your ears at the same time, you can't really expect a machine to do it automatically on the run on regular crappy mp3-s.
and i totally agree with the parent, different headphones have different sensibility and therefor it's impossible to make an item that's good with just any phones. you must tune it exactly for one output device, anything else will crap it up and make it sound like a built-in pc speaker.
I think it's extremenly annoying how lightly they take the braking of backward compatibility. Please spend 1 month more on proper planning and datastructure design and get a standard out that will let the extension work for at least 2 years.
I just finished upgrading the last extensions to 1.5, and already you're going to break it again:S
If the new datastructure design doesn't really flex along the old model, make a freaking sandbox that runs the old extensions in an emulated mode which is on-the-run translated to the new calls.
Sure new features are insteresting and new possibilites tempting, but it's hard to keep track all the time. If backward compatibility can't be done, do the sandboxing and emulation. I don't care how slow it gets, i want it to work.
Imho more than 1 movie on any theme is a disaster, stretching reapeating boring stuff. Just look at chuck or seagal, these dudes play the same record for years (or decades, depends on the actor).
The series were nice tho, i think it's one of the funniest tv cartoons that we have had in the last 10 years.
electric fences for the cows in the ussr didn't really have any protective measures, i can promise you that. ofcourse it wasn't deadly, my post wouldn't be here if that would be the case.
and from the eager time of my youth, repairing of home electronics, i can also tell that this wasn't nowhere as 'harmless' as a regular shot from a 220v line. that fence hurt as hell and definetly leaved a blue trace for at least a month on my arm. maybe it really was high voltage mixed with weak current, but it certainly didn't feel like ac. and all the safety claims for the 12v computer lines here presume that the hardware&electronics work correctly, but if you've got a 1kw fuse and something goes wrong (and according to murphy it does), you should know that 100mA@12V isn't always the case.
ps. as for the rest of your comment, the cpus suck at stepping down if they get peak loads over 5 second intervals for 1 second. it's a hopeless attempt to up/downscale a server cpu if the server is used in similar style to one that a http server would be used. peak there , peak here, stepping just wont cut it. ofcourse in laptops it works fine, i give you an A on this one.
but on servers you need something that keeps itself down on the wattage drainage all the time and still manages to do the work. i think the person who administrates google network electricity bill would agree too;)
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It was greek's beer for me the first time i read it...
from tfa :
Its choice of method is wind power, which provides 100 percent of the brewery's energy needs, making the 1,658,000 gallons of beer it produces green year-round.
so, no wind, no beer ? all the green one's and also the greeks have to blow really hard all year around to get any drop of beer. so during the thunderstorms you get all the beer you'll need, and on a nice quite windless hot summer day you're on the dry. that may be nature friendly and shit, but i still want my beer on a hot summer day...
Eddie Murphy about Star Trek'n'Captain Kirk : 'If the b*tch is green, then there must be something wrong with the p*ssy' - does this also apply to green beer ?:p
you obviously have never touched the wires of the 'safe 12v' car electricity system when you're starting the engine, go try it out, i promise it will be fun. probably not lethal, but fun enough.
but you're right about the ovens and cars, if they are built the right way, it won't really be dangerous to you, but then again, you don't beat the battery connections in the car or the wiring of the oven when you miss a frag do you ?
the electric cow fences run at a moderatly low voltage, but the current strenth in it so large that if you touch it with bare hand, you'll remember it for the rest of your life (i remember it pretty well:s). if currents inside the computer continue the rise, we have to find methods to make the connections safer.
i on the other hand am looking around for machines with mobile cpu's or even built ontop of the via or transmeta cpu's, because the eletricity bills are starting to get really large if you have a lot of boxes running and an alternative must be found. sure the via cpu can't do what amd or intel does, but 3 boxes of via will do better on my threaded stuff than 1 p4 box, and will consume less energy at the same time. for a quite and economical multiprocess server machine , a 4 way via or transmeta box would be much much better than a stupid p4 box which takes more energy and does less.
ofcourse gamers will continue on the gigahertz race unless somebody totally redefines the 3d engines in the way that it can be run on many many economical cpu's instead of one that blows your fuses.
But you'd have to scratch a usb hdd really hard to break it, don't you think ?
I'll go for a 200gb or bigger usb drive instead. BlueRay (at least with these prices) can 'blue' my ass bye-bye. Sure it won't work with my neighbours 1000$ blueray player but i don't like him anyway:)
Seriously, this blueray is quite many times more expensive than storing stuff on a dvd, and also can be scratched and broken really easily. So why relay on this ? To pay 60$ for a worthless scratched plastic disc that's only good for holding a coffe cup after 1 scratch.
And for real portable data transfer, the usb sticks are the best right now, they just work and don't require a 1000$ reader. Disks like dvd/blueray/cdrom are far too large to fit into my pocket.
well checking your applications with valgrind never hurt anyone...
i found valgrind extremely useful for tracking down memory allocation issues, some applications that are considered safe are not so safe at all when you "valgrind" them...
look it up on google, i can't even remember the link since it's a packaga on debian/ubuntu just from the repository.
and you can use memory pools from which you allocate instead of manually mallocing all the time.
makepool;
do stuff; allocate A through the pool; do stuff; allocate B through the pool; do stuff; free A; do stuff
freepool; # ditto we forgot to free B , but the pool knows it's # allocated and free it for us... ofcourse this creates a # danger by itself if B's pointer travelled somewhere else # outside the scope of this block... but it's still usually # better no free at all.
and C is always safe to use if it's used the right way, the user/programmer is the unsafe element:)
nobody will ever optimize java for your specific needs.
java right now is fast where it's supposed to be, in large serverside applications running in multiple threads and having a stable platform all around it. if you've got 50 threads up and running , all doing various sort of fast i/o and depending heavily on automatic garbage collection, java sweeps the place clean. python is dead, perl doesn't even have proper threads (ithreads are not really that much of "thread"...), ruby with 50 threads ? right....
and you are comparing this to a 5 liner scripting language.... doh
starting an entire platform is a lot more than reading a dummy script.
i could aswell claim that a damn ruby/python/perl thing sadly dies if it goes over 100 threads all fighting over db connection pools and managing a shared memory of 1gb... these things aren't even comparable so why do you bother ?
Anyway, i'm suspicious about their great "AI". AI is supposed to think on it's own, make attempts to make something new, learn from it's own istakes. Just following the learning path described by the original programmer leaves it still dumb as it is, maybe a bigger databank behind it, but still dumb.
The search engine isn't really the place for an AI to start up anyway, too much information throughput with too few references.
You don't get smart by reading an encyclopedia, you get smart by understanding it and creating relations on your own. Accoona certainly won't do the latter on it's own.
it'd be great if they'd get php5 up and running properly before they put their effort into php6;)
i still get segfaults with xslt processing on every typo that's in the xslt file, so i have no line numbers or even filenames to track down the error that causes it to segfault:S
other than that, adding a more proper oop support in php5 is a very welcome addition.
namespaces ? sure they'd be good to use in complex applications, but proper oop code can easilly live without them.
some fast way for persistant data is still a todo (shared memory via php's own functions really isn't "fast", and storing data into the database all the time is also slow compared to what applications servers and persistant classes could offer.)
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what exactly do you expect cnn to write ? most of their listeners/watchers are at least to some level christians or have an idea how much the christianity means to their fellow victims. they can't say "hey prayer doesn't help one bit".
the same as in iraqi papers you can't right now write "americans are bad and have killed tens of thousands of our civilians". it's been censored also, but on different reasons.
let them pray and enjoy their bliss, at least they die happy.
i have to agree, the song really isn't bad.
:)
it's not too great either, but for something that you can just
download it's good. still there's no reason why it should be a #1 single.
and the quality could be a bit better
this will find a nice place for it in my playlist.
but 99% of tfa isn't about competition at all, it's ipod hype and not very well hidden.
i like the opensource movement and stuff, but i don't really see a reason why apple should push ipod open and free, let them keep it closed if they want to. instead ofcourse other people could go the "sun way", meaning create a decent compact mp3/video player, and just publish all the specs on the net. itunish music/video buying capability behind it and zap, there you go, a real affordable and not struck down ipod killer.
but then again, who would be intersted in pushing a free movement like this ? perhaps the music/movie industry itself (it could get customers that they miss right now because of the cost of the ipod and the illegal mp3/divx downloads from elsewhere) ?
ipod may not be expensive for advanced countries, but a 3rd world country worker can't really afford it (it's more than their montly wage, in some places a lot more). the 3rd world countries make a lot of customers (we're literally talking about billions of people here).
I guess it depends on the taste, 1Gb would never be enough for me, my "little" collection here is around 6-7Gbytes in the computer here and even that annoys with repeating the songs ;) And 128kbps doesn't really sound that well with good jazz and/or acoustic music.
I should be described as a real oldtimer, althrough i compile gentoo at nights on my machine and love to hack on really down layers in software (nothing beats the adrenaline buzz of working with raw devices on the kernel layer), i don't consider myself young&geeky enough to be an ipod or any-other-manufacturer mp3 player fan. I have a builtin radio in my mobile, if i want fresh music tunes, i will just tune on a good channel and listen. This way you can even find out news&information about the mysterious "real life" thing that they claim exists.
Besides, if you wear a mp3 player too frequently, it's maybe a note from mother nature that you need more friends to hang out with and talk to. I guess it could be very dangerous in the malta traffic aswell (these people don't really know what traffic rules are for).
But if you look at the selection of games for nintendo, you'll see for yourself that an old 'wow' and 'hl2' fans don't really have much to play.
...
...
I sometimes run n64 here in the emu, tv consoles are just too cumbersome for me to use. n64 loads the games really fast (compared to psx), and they have good graphics. the visual part is fun, it's nice to see that most games are without any kind of violence whatsoever (a'la you fall on your butt and are just unhappy when you crash in a flying simulator). but sometimes you just want the 'action', and nintendo doesn't really provide it.
If i'd have a kid, a nintendo would be a quite safe bet. PS(x/2/3) & Xbox(/360) would be big nono's
PS. Would you ppl thin that there'd be any kind of chance to talk to the console games developers so they'd rebuild their applications for linux ? We'd get a nice big set of quality games at normal speed (instead of the lagbehind emus)...
Nethack was fun for years but it's beginning to fade
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:) I think it's a quite normal case in any IT company, the bosses are "oldschoolers", meaning sure they know how a pic cpu works and how perl text databases are cool, but their knowledge doesn't always map to the current situation out there. Transaction rdbms is the word, not a text database.
/disease/, i hope they do well and give a good example to the others.
"We're the founders, but we're far from the smartest people here," Mr. Lavoie, the chief executive, said during an interview at Rite-Solutions' headquarters outside Newport, R.I.
Admitting to the reality is actually a vital sign of the intelligence in the leadership. If you'd hire people more stupid than you in any intellectual business, you're f-d.
I wish my boss would consider this fact in some areas more often
I do understand that the bosses in situations like that usually do realize that their workforce is more talented or at least more up-to-date in the expertise, but unluckily for the workers, the selfpride of the bosses preceeds the rationality that you'd expect.
Anyway, seems like one company (at least officially) is trying to fight the
Ps. how would you fight this "pride" issue ? My current strategy is either to explain very calmly my selections in development paths or if that fails, just go along and point the primary reason out when it starts to fall apart... Humans are supposed to learn most from their "personal" failures.
yep, dr. evil is on the roll ....
...
but could you imagine a beowulf cluster of these lunar motels
http://www.epsxe.com/news.php
:)
why mess around with mechanical emulators if you can just run the games on your pc and output the picture on the telly through your tv-out cable ?
yeah sure playing screens on a display that requires a magnifying glass is cool, but running epsxe in foreground and building gentoo on the back is way more sexy
1 bug that let's take over the sendmail process and do pretty much anything that the hacker/cracker wants, is more than enough for 2.5 years.
only 1 remote hacker in your machine is enough to destroy your 2.5-years work without blinking and you think this is good ? i certainly don't.
kernel security this and kernel security that. sure it gives you something, but it doesn't really protect you from the dumb administrators and even more dummy users.
what i'd gladly see in the linux world, userspace transparent jailing (meaning i could run my applications without endangering the rest of the system). i could give the application read access where it needs to read, hide files that it doesn't need to know about, and not let it write a thing except the directory that it runs in. sure running another linux inside your linux does the trick, but the regular really can't do it, it requires root permissions and a nice bucket of time (that most of us don't really have in hand). ye, and memory access control wouldn't hurt either (meaning the app could only read and write from the memory that i allow it too, not what it thinks it should read/write). and if you've got a really nice application/preloadable_lib that already provides it, pleas be just kind enough to reply this in here.
enhancing only the kernel isn't enough, we need sandboxes around our buggy apps. kernel doesn't really have an idea that a dummy php script could save an uploaded file and execute it with eval ( 'system (/tmp/foobar) '); or smth in the way. but a properly configured sandbox would know it and could prevent it.
i have a perl script here , around 40 lines long, that takes a linux box down to halt from the "nobody" user account, within half an hour (tested both, 2.4 and 2.6 series). that's not what i'd define as security, do you ?
sure the idea behind konqueror's "freedom" is quite nice, qt and trolltech :)
:p
anyway, i sometimes use konqueror for simpler stuff, but as soon as the dhtml/js gets complicated, i have to go for mozilla because konq. just mocks things up. must admit tho, from memory usage and gui speed, konq. beats the ass of mozilla.
phoenix was nice and shiny, why in the world did they have to change it into this "item" that it is right now ? firefox is not really that much faster or lightweight than the mozilla-browser from the mozilla suite anymore.
i still sometimes find myself using galeon instead of the 2 mentioned above, it's faster than mozilla and has the compatibility with html/js of mozilla since it runs the same gecko, just without the slow gui
epiphany was also quite nice, but too "gnomefied", you couln't really configure much from "inside", had to run the gnome conf each time which sometimes wasn't such a bright idea from inside kde.
it's not only classical music that is affected by the compressor, good rock music too. if you've got a silent nice guitar solo, you don't want it to scream as loud as the chorus, it totally ruins the song.
:)
sure the everyday trance/disco music doesn't really lose any quality by this, but then again, it's not real music either, it's a natural noise pollution that has nothing to do with notes or melody
it's really difficult to even manually adjust the volume as a preset for a song to make it sound right and save your ears at the same time, you can't really expect a machine to do it automatically on the run on regular crappy mp3-s.
and i totally agree with the parent, different headphones have different sensibility and therefor it's impossible to make an item that's good with just any phones. you must tune it exactly for one output device, anything else will crap it up and make it sound like a built-in pc speaker.
I think it's extremenly annoying how lightly they take the braking of backward compatibility. Please spend 1 month more on proper planning and datastructure design and get a standard out that will let the extension work for at least 2 years.
:S
I just finished upgrading the last extensions to 1.5, and already you're going to break it again
If the new datastructure design doesn't really flex along the old model, make a freaking sandbox that runs the old extensions in an emulated mode which is on-the-run translated to the new calls.
Sure new features are insteresting and new possibilites tempting, but it's hard to keep track all the time. If backward compatibility can't be done, do the sandboxing and emulation. I don't care how slow it gets, i want it to work.
Imho more than 1 movie on any theme is a disaster, stretching reapeating boring stuff. Just look at chuck or seagal, these dudes play the same record for years (or decades, depends on the actor).
The series were nice tho, i think it's one of the funniest tv cartoons that we have had in the last 10 years.
Must kill all humans
well if the xbox team is behind it, it will probably overheat and scratch your cd's aswell (without using them).
:D
Can't wait anymore, i'm too excited
electric fences for the cows in the ussr didn't really have any protective measures, i can promise you that. ofcourse it wasn't deadly, my post wouldn't be here if that would be the case.
;)
and from the eager time of my youth, repairing of home electronics, i can also tell that this wasn't nowhere as 'harmless' as a regular shot from a 220v line. that fence hurt as hell and definetly leaved a blue trace for at least a month on my arm. maybe it really was high voltage mixed with weak current, but it certainly didn't feel like ac. and all the safety claims for the 12v computer lines here presume that the hardware&electronics work correctly, but if you've got a 1kw fuse and something goes wrong (and according to murphy it does), you should know that 100mA@12V isn't always the case.
ps. as for the rest of your comment, the cpus suck at stepping down if they get peak loads over 5 second intervals for 1 second. it's a hopeless attempt to up/downscale a server cpu if the server is used in similar style to one that a http server would be used. peak there , peak here, stepping just wont cut it. ofcourse in laptops it works fine, i give you an A on this one.
but on servers you need something that keeps itself down on the wattage drainage all the time and still manages to do the work. i think the person who administrates google network electricity bill would agree too
It was greek's beer for me the first time i read it ...
...
:p
from tfa :
Its choice of method is wind power, which provides 100 percent of the brewery's energy needs, making the 1,658,000 gallons of beer it produces green year-round.
so, no wind, no beer ? all the green one's and also the greeks have to blow really hard all year around to get any drop of beer. so during the thunderstorms you get all the beer you'll need, and on a nice quite windless hot summer day you're on the dry. that may be nature friendly and shit, but i still want my beer on a hot summer day
Eddie Murphy about Star Trek'n'Captain Kirk : 'If the b*tch is green, then there must be something wrong with the p*ssy' - does this also apply to green beer ?
would that include msdn ? cause it is kindof harmful to a sane mind, minor or not ...
you obviously have never touched the wires of the 'safe 12v' car electricity system when you're starting the engine, go try it out, i promise it will be fun. probably not lethal, but fun enough.
:s). if currents inside the computer continue the rise, we have to find methods to make the connections safer.
but you're right about the ovens and cars, if they are built the right way, it won't really be dangerous to you, but then again, you don't beat the battery connections in the car or the wiring of the oven when you miss a frag do you ?
the electric cow fences run at a moderatly low voltage, but the current strenth in it so large that if you touch it with bare hand, you'll remember it for the rest of your life (i remember it pretty well
i on the other hand am looking around for machines with mobile cpu's or even built ontop of the via or transmeta cpu's, because the eletricity bills are starting to get really large if you have a lot of boxes running and an alternative must be found. sure the via cpu can't do what amd or intel does, but 3 boxes of via will do better on my threaded stuff than 1 p4 box, and will consume less energy at the same time. for a quite and economical multiprocess server machine , a 4 way via or transmeta box would be much much better than a stupid p4 box which takes more energy and does less.
ofcourse gamers will continue on the gigahertz race unless somebody totally redefines the 3d engines in the way that it can be run on many many economical cpu's instead of one that blows your fuses.
But you'd have to scratch a usb hdd really hard to break it, don't you think ?
:)
I'll go for a 200gb or bigger usb drive instead. BlueRay (at least with these prices) can 'blue' my ass bye-bye. Sure it won't work with my neighbours 1000$ blueray player but i don't like him anyway
Seriously, this blueray is quite many times more expensive than storing stuff on a dvd, and also can be scratched and broken really easily. So why relay on this ? To pay 60$ for a worthless scratched plastic disc that's only good for holding a coffe cup after 1 scratch.
And for real portable data transfer, the usb sticks are the best right now, they just work and don't require a 1000$ reader. Disks like dvd/blueray/cdrom are far too large to fit into my pocket.
Well shit is there too, but you don't step into it just because of the fact that it's possible to do it, or do you ?
May i be damned if i let m$ anywhere near a mac.
well checking your applications with valgrind never hurt anyone ...
...
... ofcourse this creates a ... but it's still usually
:)
i found valgrind extremely useful for tracking down memory allocation issues, some applications that are considered safe are not so safe at all when you "valgrind" them
look it up on google, i can't even remember the link since it's a packaga on debian/ubuntu just from the repository.
and you can use memory pools from which you allocate instead of manually mallocing all the time.
makepool;
do stuff;
allocate A through the pool;
do stuff;
allocate B through the pool;
do stuff;
free A;
do stuff
freepool;
# ditto we forgot to free B , but the pool knows it's
# allocated and free it for us
# danger by itself if B's pointer travelled somewhere else
# outside the scope of this block
# better no free at all.
and C is always safe to use if it's used the right way, the user/programmer is the unsafe element
nobody will ever optimize java for your specific needs.
...), ruby with 50 threads ? right ....
.... doh
... these things aren't even comparable so why do you bother ?
java right now is fast where it's supposed to be, in large serverside applications running in multiple threads and having a stable platform all around it. if you've got 50 threads up and running , all doing various sort of fast i/o and depending heavily on automatic garbage collection, java sweeps the place clean. python is dead, perl doesn't even have proper threads (ithreads are not really that much of "thread"
and you are comparing this to a 5 liner scripting language
starting an entire platform is a lot more than reading a dummy script.
i could aswell claim that a damn ruby/python/perl thing sadly dies if it goes over 100 threads all fighting over db connection pools and managing a shared memory of 1gb
It takes an AI to spell it ...
Anyway, i'm suspicious about their great "AI". AI is supposed to think on it's own, make attempts to make something new, learn from it's own istakes. Just following the learning path described by the original programmer leaves it still dumb as it is, maybe a bigger databank behind it, but still dumb.
The search engine isn't really the place for an AI to start up anyway, too much information throughput with too few references.
You don't get smart by reading an encyclopedia, you get smart by understanding it and creating relations on your own. Accoona certainly won't do the latter on it's own.
it'd be great if they'd get php5 up and running properly before they put their effort into php6 ;)
:S
i still get segfaults with xslt processing on every typo that's in the xslt file, so i have no line numbers or even filenames to track down the error that causes it to segfault
other than that, adding a more proper oop support in php5 is a very welcome addition.
namespaces ? sure they'd be good to use in complex applications, but proper oop code can easilly live without them.
some fast way for persistant data is still a todo (shared memory via php's own functions really isn't "fast", and storing data into the database all the time is also slow compared to what applications servers and persistant classes could offer.)