After spending MUCH time criticizing Netcraft, they finally come to *their* technique. Maybe they hope people will get convinced that Netcraft sucks and then gloss over their own approach.
Their approach is valid, but they make one assumption that is not. They talk as if the Fortune 1000 corporations web sites (their own pool) were the sites most heavily visited on the Internet.
Huh??? Amazon is a heavily visited site. The New York Times is a heavily visted site. Slashdot is a heavily visited site. Google is a heavily visited web site. Big corporations may make a lot of money, but that doesn't mean the average user has much reason to visit their sites.
So this assumption of theirs, which they make explicitly, is invalid.
Then again, Microsoft is one of the Fortune 1000 corporations, isn't it?:-)
I don't know where did the USA comes into this particular discussion. But I'm told the USA has not signed the Geneva Convention, so that shouldn't be a problem for them.
It would also strike all hospitals, causing loss of life. Which is particularly bad, because the Geneva convention forbids attacks against medical facilities, which shall be marked with a red cross, and the e-Bomb *would* attack such.
No, they are ALWAYS slower. It might not be _relevant_ if the time it takes to setup the process in memory is insignificant compared to how long the application runs, but the setup time will ALWAYS be slower for dynamically linked applications, and there is NO factor that makes them faster than statically linked ones.
The only hypothetical scenario where a system with all-dynamically linked apps would perform better than the former cases is one where lots of _different_ statically compiled apps run for a long time, and the memory available is not enough to run them all without trashing. But, first, that's a problem of lack of memory, not a problem of speed of execution; and two, we are talking about/bin and/sbin, which do not fit this scenario.
"Some folks who've never seen the Twilight Zone or even the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horrors thought that was a spoiler. If you're one of those people, I'm very sorry."
Well, I have seen both, and, for that matter, I have seen Revolutions too, and that STILL was a spoiler, and it WOULD have upset me if I hadn't seen Revolutions.
Now, I'm happy that CN has apologized, but does his ego really require him to snipe at the people who were rightfully upset at his needless spoiler?
This very idea has appeared before (on Slashdot) as "reverse mx". It involved use of another kind of DNS record, but the principle was the same. Alas, _is_ it the same people, with a different name and implementation? Anyone knows?
It's simple. We had no middle class. Then we had one, and now world economics are destroying it.:-)
I don't mean globalization, btw, just how the cards have been dealt in the past two or three decades, that happens to have been screwing us up. But I'm generally optimistic. I think we are getting better, and, most importantely, more of our children are getting a basic education, which is essential to the advancement of standards of living.
As for whose at fault for our problems, that's really simple: us. We have been a democracy for a long, long time, and while election in some places have been rigged, in most of the country there has been no need of that: either the votes were up for sale, or people just voted really, really bad.
So people complain about how the politicians suck, how the violence is so huge nowadays, how there's corruption everywhere, over some bottles of beer, and then get in their cars and go home speeding and crossing red signs, and they see nothing wrong with that. We have a serious problem of people disregarding any kind of social contract that includes everyone obeying the law or social responsibility.:-(
I can relate to that, and, actually, after seeing some interviews I wouldn't be surprised if some of them DID read Slashdot.
BTW, it seems it wasn't an explosion. It was simply a fire. A 3000 celsius degrees fire, which happened during routine procedures that didn't, theoretically, offer any danger. So, for this reason, there were a lot of people around, who burned to death under the incredible heat. And not instantly either. One guard, after running away at first (that's procedure, not cowardice:), got back as he realized no explositions followed, and had time to see people burning to death.:-(
...I wish Dillon luck. I have always admired his work, and thought the goals of his project I had heard of before interesting.
People should realize FreeBSD couldn't go both ways at the same time. We went one way, and Dillon will be going another way. If his project survives, and I hope it does, it should benefit everyone. Even if the source itself is never used elsewhere, we'll learn with the experience.
And if you feel you are having trouble, you should see how *my* homework looked like when I went after 802.1x for ethernet.
(and, for those who are curious, there are many, many applications -- if you can't think of any, you don't have meeting rooms with network points in your workplace...:)
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After spending MUCH time criticizing Netcraft, they finally come to *their* technique. Maybe they hope people will get convinced that Netcraft sucks and then gloss over their own approach.
:-)
Their approach is valid, but they make one assumption that is not. They talk as if the Fortune 1000 corporations web sites (their own pool) were the sites most heavily visited on the Internet.
Huh??? Amazon is a heavily visited site. The New York Times is a heavily visted site. Slashdot is a heavily visited site. Google is a heavily visited web site. Big corporations may make a lot of money, but that doesn't mean the average user has much reason to visit their sites.
So this assumption of theirs, which they make explicitly, is invalid.
Then again, Microsoft is one of the Fortune 1000 corporations, isn't it?
I see someone indicating that the US has, indeed, signed the Geneva Convention *and* ratified it. I thank the correction.
Since we are talking about city-destroyers here, I agree that an e-Bomb would be better than an h-Bomb.
I don't know where did the USA comes into this particular discussion. But I'm told the USA has not signed the Geneva Convention, so that shouldn't be a problem for them.
It would also strike all hospitals, causing loss of life. Which is particularly bad, because the Geneva convention forbids attacks against medical facilities, which shall be marked with a red cross, and the e-Bomb *would* attack such.
No, they are ALWAYS slower. It might not be _relevant_ if the time it takes to setup the process in memory is insignificant compared to how long the application runs, but the setup time will ALWAYS be slower for dynamically linked applications, and there is NO factor that makes them faster than statically linked ones.
/bin and /sbin, which do not fit this scenario.
The only hypothetical scenario where a system with all-dynamically linked apps would perform better than the former cases is one where lots of _different_ statically compiled apps run for a long time, and the memory available is not enough to run them all without trashing. But, first, that's a problem of lack of memory, not a problem of speed of execution; and two, we are talking about
I wish it was $2.50... :-) I paid about $200 for my Windows XP, and that's a lot of money for us.
Yes, Richard Stallman was here just a couple of weeks ago. The initiative, though, is almost a year old. This is a dup.
Actually, no. Dynamically linked binaries are slower than statically linked ones.
"Some folks who've never seen the Twilight Zone or even the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horrors thought that was a spoiler. If you're one of those people, I'm very sorry."
Well, I have seen both, and, for that matter, I have seen Revolutions too, and that STILL was a spoiler, and it WOULD have upset me if I hadn't seen Revolutions.
Now, I'm happy that CN has apologized, but does his ego really require him to snipe at the people who were rightfully upset at his needless spoiler?
Shame on you, CowboyNeal!
For a bit I thought people were talking about the release of GitS: Standalone Complex in the US.
Well, it certainly doesn't look like a myth to me, who have been involved in the process of acquiring a range of IP addresses.
It is scheduled for 2005 indeed. Only everyone knows it won't be finished by 2005.
Is an abomination. I do *not* use HTML in e-mail, and I don't *read* e-mail with HTML.
:-)
I hate when people make assumptions about what "everyone" does. Specially when they are wrong.
Like Baen's WebScriptions. So, perhaps, the problem is people trying to sell an "e-book" like it was another binding of a paper book?
I think the problem is not with the e-book, but with the way they are trying to sell it.
This very idea has appeared before (on Slashdot) as "reverse mx". It involved use of another kind of DNS record, but the principle was the same. Alas, _is_ it the same people, with a different name and implementation? Anyone knows?
Bullshit.
I work for an ISP, and I have had the experience of various IP addresses being blacklisted by various dnsbl at various times.
I *NEVER* had *ANY* trouble unblacklisting these IP addresses.
At least such attacks are more easily prosecutable.
It's simple. We had no middle class. Then we had one, and now world economics are destroying it. :-)
:-(
I don't mean globalization, btw, just how the cards have been dealt in the past two or three decades, that happens to have been screwing us up. But I'm generally optimistic. I think we are getting better, and, most importantely, more of our children are getting a basic education, which is essential to the advancement of standards of living.
As for whose at fault for our problems, that's really simple: us. We have been a democracy for a long, long time, and while election in some places have been rigged, in most of the country there has been no need of that: either the votes were up for sale, or people just voted really, really bad.
So people complain about how the politicians suck, how the violence is so huge nowadays, how there's corruption everywhere, over some bottles of beer, and then get in their cars and go home speeding and crossing red signs, and they see nothing wrong with that. We have a serious problem of people disregarding any kind of social contract that includes everyone obeying the law or social responsibility.
BTW, a few hours saved some undergrad students on visit from joining the others.
Actually, Brazil has been launching light satellites for quite a while now. This one that exploded is the project for heavier stuff.
I can relate to that, and, actually, after seeing some interviews I wouldn't be surprised if some of them DID read Slashdot.
:), got back as he realized no explositions followed, and had time to see people burning to death. :-(
BTW, it seems it wasn't an explosion. It was simply a fire. A 3000 celsius degrees fire, which happened during routine procedures that didn't, theoretically, offer any danger. So, for this reason, there were a lot of people around, who burned to death under the incredible heat. And not instantly either. One guard, after running away at first (that's procedure, not cowardice
And, btw, it's actually 21 dead.
...I wish Dillon luck. I have always admired his work, and thought the goals of his project I had heard of before interesting.
People should realize FreeBSD couldn't go both ways at the same time. We went one way, and Dillon will be going another way. If his project survives, and I hope it does, it should benefit everyone. Even if the source itself is never used elsewhere, we'll learn with the experience.
And if you feel you are having trouble, you should see how *my* homework looked like when I went after 802.1x for ethernet.
:)
(and, for those who are curious, there are many, many applications -- if you can't think of any, you don't have meeting rooms with network points in your workplace...
Alas, Brazilian military have already changed to open source on their own, and the decree doesn't cover them anyway.