The discussion above seems to toss back and forth the good and bad points of my post, but perhaps I should tack on one clarification.
I said Ruby was more likely to be a fad because it is essentially just another programming language that does more or less the same things as any number of others, and like any language has its advantages and disadvantages. When a new language comes out it's always a fad, but at the end of the day, it's only whether the fad sticks around long enough to take root and get people sort of stuck doing things that way.
I said AJAX was something new because, although yes, you can do that sort of thing in iFrames, it's not really the same thing, is it? AJAX leverages new features in browsers (XMLHttpRequest among others) and reduces the complexity.
As someone pointed out, http wasn't designed for applications and AJAX is a shoehorn- sure it is, but HTTP/2.0 or whatever will probably address that and build something with AJAX's spirit right in.
To the point that there still is a roundtrip that occurs- sure, you're still transmitting data and getting a response, but the term roundtrip as far as web content goes has always had the connotation of packing up everything on the page, sending it back, getting some processing done, and sending it all back. So I'll clarify, rather than having to do a roundtrip of the viewstates of every object on the page and any new data from POSTs, you only need to send relevant material and only get relevant material back.
AJAX is becoming popular because it helps do away with the concept of pages that have to have every element transmitted and redrawn on every roundtrip. AJAX does one better and essentially eliminates the roundtrip altogether. A button click just sends the data that's pertinent and redraws only the pertinent parts.
Ruby is more likely to be just another fad, AJAX is actually something new. That's not to say someone won't make a better way to do what AJAX does (they probably will), but AJAX is definitely something unique, new, and important.
I don't know what SeaStar is, but if it's anything like NumaLink/CrayLink, it's not a cluster. There's a very fine line somewhere and I'm not sure what it is- but look at say an Origin 3000 server- it has 4 or more node boards in one chassis that all communicate via CrayLink/NumaLink- does that make it a cluster? Ok- now scale it out to 128 chassis, is it a cluster then?
I thnk the distinction actually is, that with CrayLink/NumaLink, there's only one OS running, and the other chassis are all controlled by the master node- in a true cluster, each machine is independant, but takes commands/computations from the head node.
I thought SGI owns Cray now? Wouldn't that mean that they made a deal with SGI?
Even so- I doubt 52 million is enough to save SGI in the long haul- especially if anything more than a few percent goes to actual hardware/research costs (and it will).
I've got an Asrock 939 Dual Sata2 (PCI Express -and- AGP) and had an older AGP visiontek radeon 9250 that pooped out on me all of a sudden (after being constantly behind the times in drivers and having a few BSODs signifiying the upcoming hardware failure). I wanted to get back up and running and this time around, I didn't want to settle for a 3rd party manufacturer (visiontek, chaintech, bfg, etc) and wanted pci-express, dual-dvi (especially dual, dual-link). So the ATI X1900GT was an obvious choice, despite being overkill for what I do. Best buy had it, and I didn't feel like waiting a day (even with overnight shipping costs) to get up and running again.
I had work to get done, and a day or two of downtime wasn't worth the extra $$.
I did install the card myself and it has been quite tempting to buy a game to play on it- but I've relegated myself to scientific visualization and actual work =)
If you're going to buy a $600 video card, you're probably looking at $600+ processors too..
especially considering you can buy fairly decent cards (dual-head even) for under $50 if you're not a gamer..
I just bought an ATI X1900GT and even at worst buy that was $349. Although I didn't go crossfire or anything, that's more or less the highest end of the readily available at brick-and-mortar stores card.
Bottom line, you're correct, ram is fairly reasonable these days, again if you don't care about ECC registered CAS 2 stuff. If you're willing to go unregistered CAS 3, or even 2.5, there's a lot of 2x1gb packs around for ~$170 or less. It seems the spread between the cheap ram and the good ram isn't so wide anymore and is often worth it for the better stuff.
But, I just had to point out the incongruity of the $600 video cards, and $200 cpu's. *shrug*
Maybe I'm having trouble with the semantics, but it sounds like "I'm hanging from this rope.. I don't really think I should trust it, but I'm hanging from it (because I have to?)"..
Perhaps these things should be called Trust Arbitrators or something that implies they handle trust related issues.
we live in ames, IA - about 40 minutes from Des Moines, where a netflix center is. If we put ours in the mail by 6p, its checked in at netflix by 10a the next day.
sometimes movies come from elsewhere and take longer.
I only recently had a couple not show up at their facilities in one day, as expected. They usually process inbound stuff between 8a and 10a from us- so lately, I've taken to reporting them 'lost in the mail' if they don't show up there by noon- then you get new ones sent that day still.
I imagine you get flagged after a while, but all of them come in to their facilities... so I'm not sure.
this isn't netflix complaining that people are keeping movies too long- in fact they encourage it both outwardly and covertly.
The point of this article is that when people don't feel pressure to return it, the movies sit around forever (which netflix makes great money on).
We usually have one of our 5 that sits around for a long time until we're ready to watch it (usually something serious), but the other 4 usually go back a day or so after they come in.
I used to spend nearly the netflix monthly fee on late fees at our local rental places- we have a two year old and being able to finish a movie in one sitting is somewhat rare unless we stay up.
When I entered Iowa State as a freshman in 2000, I took Computer E 183X and 184X (I'm pretty sure those are the right numbers) and we had little robots as part of our curriculum (I believe they were Rug Warriors). It was a great project, we made them wall-hug and do all kinds of neat tricks like distance finding with ultrasound.
Note that the X part of the course names meant experimental- I'm not sure if those courses went mainstream or not, but point is, ISU was checking this stuff out 6 years ago and as a student, it was fantastic.
Personally, I'd like to see some guy medal in good old fashioned trunks. Once upon a time, I was a resonably quick swimmer just by virtue of being in the water nearly every day, but was never interested in racing for fear of the uniform. If someone could prove they could even hold their own with old fashioned trunks, I think it'd be a great thing.
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The discussion above seems to toss back and forth the good and bad points of my post, but perhaps I should tack on one clarification.
I said Ruby was more likely to be a fad because it is essentially just another programming language that does more or less the same things as any number of others, and like any language has its advantages and disadvantages. When a new language comes out it's always a fad, but at the end of the day, it's only whether the fad sticks around long enough to take root and get people sort of stuck doing things that way.
I said AJAX was something new because, although yes, you can do that sort of thing in iFrames, it's not really the same thing, is it? AJAX leverages new features in browsers (XMLHttpRequest among others) and reduces the complexity.
As someone pointed out, http wasn't designed for applications and AJAX is a shoehorn- sure it is, but HTTP/2.0 or whatever will probably address that and build something with AJAX's spirit right in.
To the point that there still is a roundtrip that occurs- sure, you're still transmitting data and getting a response, but the term roundtrip as far as web content goes has always had the connotation of packing up everything on the page, sending it back, getting some processing done, and sending it all back. So I'll clarify, rather than having to do a roundtrip of the viewstates of every object on the page and any new data from POSTs, you only need to send relevant material and only get relevant material back.
AJAX is becoming popular because it helps do away with the concept of pages that have to have every element transmitted and redrawn on every roundtrip. AJAX does one better and essentially eliminates the roundtrip altogether. A button click just sends the data that's pertinent and redraws only the pertinent parts.
Ruby is more likely to be just another fad, AJAX is actually something new. That's not to say someone won't make a better way to do what AJAX does (they probably will), but AJAX is definitely something unique, new, and important.
I don't know what SeaStar is, but if it's anything like NumaLink/CrayLink, it's not a cluster. There's a very fine line somewhere and I'm not sure what it is- but look at say an Origin 3000 server- it has 4 or more node boards in one chassis that all communicate via CrayLink/NumaLink- does that make it a cluster? Ok- now scale it out to 128 chassis, is it a cluster then?
I thnk the distinction actually is, that with CrayLink/NumaLink, there's only one OS running, and the other chassis are all controlled by the master node- in a true cluster, each machine is independant, but takes commands/computations from the head node.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-237517.html
Even I didn't notice that happen. Apparently Tera bought Cray from SGI and changed the name back for recognition purposes.
I thought SGI owns Cray now? Wouldn't that mean that they made a deal with SGI?
Even so- I doubt 52 million is enough to save SGI in the long haul- especially if anything more than a few percent goes to actual hardware/research costs (and it will).
brings new meaning to "Alienware", doesn't it?
I've got an Asrock 939 Dual Sata2 (PCI Express -and- AGP) and had an older AGP visiontek radeon 9250 that pooped out on me all of a sudden (after being constantly behind the times in drivers and having a few BSODs signifiying the upcoming hardware failure). I wanted to get back up and running and this time around, I didn't want to settle for a 3rd party manufacturer (visiontek, chaintech, bfg, etc) and wanted pci-express, dual-dvi (especially dual, dual-link). So the ATI X1900GT was an obvious choice, despite being overkill for what I do. Best buy had it, and I didn't feel like waiting a day (even with overnight shipping costs) to get up and running again.
I had work to get done, and a day or two of downtime wasn't worth the extra $$.
I did install the card myself and it has been quite tempting to buy a game to play on it- but I've relegated myself to scientific visualization and actual work =)
If you're going to buy a $600 video card, you're probably looking at $600+ processors too..
especially considering you can buy fairly decent cards (dual-head even) for under $50 if you're not a gamer..
I just bought an ATI X1900GT and even at worst buy that was $349. Although I didn't go crossfire or anything, that's more or less the highest end of the readily available at brick-and-mortar stores card.
Bottom line, you're correct, ram is fairly reasonable these days, again if you don't care about ECC registered CAS 2 stuff. If you're willing to go unregistered CAS 3, or even 2.5, there's a lot of 2x1gb packs around for ~$170 or less. It seems the spread between the cheap ram and the good ram isn't so wide anymore and is often worth it for the better stuff.
But, I just had to point out the incongruity of the $600 video cards, and $200 cpu's. *shrug*
or was that only in XP?
except they removed that due to corporate complaints
Maybe I'm having trouble with the semantics, but it sounds like "I'm hanging from this rope.. I don't really think I should trust it, but I'm hanging from it (because I have to?)"..
Perhaps these things should be called Trust Arbitrators or something that implies they handle trust related issues.
meh- karma to burn. If you're not sick of GNAA shenanigans, you haven't used the internet long enough.
GNAA - Get Nuts Anonymous Asshole
You've never touched your mothers hands have you? If they're anything like my moms or many other women I know, they're often ice cold!
Though, the mouse could probably detect a temperature change of any sudden sort.
Yeah, for a while, I thought the new guy was a probational or interim guy or somesort and they were testing him out!
we live in ames, IA - about 40 minutes from Des Moines, where a netflix center is. If we put ours in the mail by 6p, its checked in at netflix by 10a the next day.
sometimes movies come from elsewhere and take longer.
I only recently had a couple not show up at their facilities in one day, as expected. They usually process inbound stuff between 8a and 10a from us- so lately, I've taken to reporting them 'lost in the mail' if they don't show up there by noon- then you get new ones sent that day still.
I imagine you get flagged after a while, but all of them come in to their facilities... so I'm not sure.
this isn't netflix complaining that people are keeping movies too long- in fact they encourage it both outwardly and covertly.
The point of this article is that when people don't feel pressure to return it, the movies sit around forever (which netflix makes great money on).
We usually have one of our 5 that sits around for a long time until we're ready to watch it (usually something serious), but the other 4 usually go back a day or so after they come in.
I used to spend nearly the netflix monthly fee on late fees at our local rental places- we have a two year old and being able to finish a movie in one sitting is somewhat rare unless we stay up.
true, funny, and not true.
Go to your nearest TV studio- they use Betacam SP in many many places yet.
Though, I admit being unsure whether a betacam sp deck can do consumer beta. *shrugs*
Also note, the robots were the property of the college and remained in a lab, but were available for after-hours checkout.
When I entered Iowa State as a freshman in 2000, I took Computer E 183X and 184X (I'm pretty sure those are the right numbers) and we had little robots as part of our curriculum (I believe they were Rug Warriors). It was a great project, we made them wall-hug and do all kinds of neat tricks like distance finding with ultrasound.
Note that the X part of the course names meant experimental- I'm not sure if those courses went mainstream or not, but point is, ISU was checking this stuff out 6 years ago and as a student, it was fantastic.
Why don't they just put a type R sticker on their suits? That's -GOT- to make you faster, I mean, it works for all the ricers!
Personally, I'd like to see some guy medal in good old fashioned trunks. Once upon a time, I was a resonably quick swimmer just by virtue of being in the water nearly every day, but was never interested in racing for fear of the uniform. If someone could prove they could even hold their own with old fashioned trunks, I think it'd be a great thing.
I posted the email address of the principal and an address where you can send him mail.
Did you want to TP his residence?