"It would probably take one of Microsoft's developers a short afternoon to build a simple, forthrightly labeled control panel that sits right on every user's desktop and asks, in plain English, "Which program would you like to open Web pages? Or text files? Or MP3 audio files? Or photo files?""
It would probably take most people a short afternoon to make such an application. If this is a feature you want, build it! If you think everyone should be able to have it, put it up for download on the net!
it is this close minded thinking (that only microsoft engineers can build windows applications) that is keeping the monopoly. NOT file extensions.
they have had this kind of stuff for watches for a long time.
you will not be able to power your handheld unless it is somehow connected to your skin... and it probably still wont work unless you are soaked and holding a bare electrical cord.
sircam may me feel warm today though...
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a video game i wrote 10 years ago in Qbasic was just emailed to me today via sircam...
that means that someone actually had it on their computer, and that made me feel all fuzzy.
god bless sircam, and its glorious resurrection and distribution of great software titles.
last night actually i see some smoke over by one of my servers... 'oh shit' i quietly think. i go to take the cover off and the aluminum case is too hot to touch. waiting about 10 minutes, i can finally open the thing up and plug it in again and everything seems fine inside, then i notice the power supply fan wasn't working, so i took it apart and soldered on the 2nd case fan. everything still works perfectlly.
aren't there any warnings when power supply fans go out?!! that very well would have burned my house down if i wasn't in the room.
you are *somewhat* wrong... i have a lot of experience with mod_gzip.
basically it auto-magically knows what pages it has compressed cached copies of on the server... sort of like how your browser caches pages.
on dynamic sites, you end up with TONS of compressed versions that are automatically created, sometimes to only be used once...
on slashdots main page however, it it was being viewed statically, mod_gzip would only be required to be run once per update, and believe me it is extremely fast.
so, for the cost of compressing once, you are saving 70% of bandwidth, and THUS 70% less time of apache processes being used. if a database connection was made, it would also result in 70% less time that the connection was active... that isn't really the bottleneck, but it just shows that you can save bandwidth and SOME CPU load, however minimal it is.
basically your goal is to minimize the page-load time overall, and mod_gzip does just that.
to send 4,000,000 packets that are 50 bits each is 200,000,000 bits ~ 25MB
i can send that out in a few minutes on ADSL even.
don't get me wrong, this is a retarded idea. it is NOT an exploit, it is NOT intelligent.
odds are it is $5000 research grant that a couple college kids got for beer money. i got 2 of them to make a web site that could figure out the average of a set of numbers, so they aren't that hard to come by... and oh did i drink well that year.
um... throwing away data that is impossible for the human ear to hear is NOT bad... mp3 just goes a little further and takes out a little more, and then uses huffman (NOT LOSSY) to compress the rest.
eiffel has got to be one of the greatest and best implementations of OO i've ever seen or used.
for learning it is by far the best...
as for actual production application development, stick to C
just curious, i'm a php programmer for a public company, and also create a php online game (edrugtrader.com)...
should i serious stop working on the game? the employer already knows about it, and it probably was the reason they hired me.
mike
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yes they do
i disagree... the file extensions was his only example, and he is also a homosexual.
here is my email to the author:
"It would probably take one of Microsoft's developers a short afternoon to build a simple, forthrightly labeled control panel that sits right on every user's desktop and asks, in plain English, "Which program would you like to open Web pages? Or text files? Or MP3 audio files? Or photo files?""
It would probably take most people a short afternoon to make such an application. If this is a feature you want, build it! If you think everyone should be able to have it, put it up for download on the net!
it is this close minded thinking (that only microsoft engineers can build windows applications) that is keeping the monopoly. NOT file extensions.
they have had this kind of stuff for watches for a long time.
you will not be able to power your handheld unless it is somehow connected to your skin... and it probably still wont work unless you are soaked and holding a bare electrical cord.
a video game i wrote 10 years ago in Qbasic was just emailed to me today via sircam...
that means that someone actually had it on their computer, and that made me feel all fuzzy.
god bless sircam, and its glorious resurrection and distribution of great software titles.
last night actually i see some smoke over by one of my servers... 'oh shit' i quietly think. i go to take the cover off and the aluminum case is too hot to touch. waiting about 10 minutes, i can finally open the thing up and plug it in again and everything seems fine inside, then i notice the power supply fan wasn't working, so i took it apart and soldered on the 2nd case fan. everything still works perfectlly.
aren't there any warnings when power supply fans go out?!! that very well would have burned my house down if i wasn't in the room.
mysql does whatever you want!
it just depends on what table you use, and the table management driver that it uses...
innodb = row level locking
berkeley table = transactions, table locking... the works
mysql is getting outstandingly powerful
you are *somewhat* wrong... i have a lot of experience with mod_gzip.
basically it auto-magically knows what pages it has compressed cached copies of on the server... sort of like how your browser caches pages.
on dynamic sites, you end up with TONS of compressed versions that are automatically created, sometimes to only be used once...
on slashdots main page however, it it was being viewed statically, mod_gzip would only be required to be run once per update, and believe me it is extremely fast.
so, for the cost of compressing once, you are saving 70% of bandwidth, and THUS 70% less time of apache processes being used. if a database connection was made, it would also result in 70% less time that the connection was active... that isn't really the bottleneck, but it just shows that you can save bandwidth and SOME CPU load, however minimal it is.
basically your goal is to minimize the page-load time overall, and mod_gzip does just that.
i think you are exaggerating a bit...
to send 4,000,000 packets that are 50 bits each is 200,000,000 bits ~ 25MB
i can send that out in a few minutes on ADSL even.
don't get me wrong, this is a retarded idea. it is NOT an exploit, it is NOT intelligent.
odds are it is $5000 research grant that a couple college kids got for beer money. i got 2 of them to make a web site that could figure out the average of a set of numbers, so they aren't that hard to come by... and oh did i drink well that year.
most NICs do the checksum using hardware, not the cpu... so it probably wouldn't be visable to the system at all.
yeah... telnet.
um... throwing away data that is impossible for the human ear to hear is NOT bad... mp3 just goes a little further and takes out a little more, and then uses huffman (NOT LOSSY) to compress the rest.
eiffel has got to be one of the greatest and best implementations of OO i've ever seen or used. for learning it is by far the best... as for actual production application development, stick to C
just curious, i'm a php programmer for a public company, and also create a php online game (edrugtrader.com)... should i serious stop working on the game? the employer already knows about it, and it probably was the reason they hired me. mike