I agree with the other items, but the system has to be able to decode a high resolution video stream very quickly - which is usually dedicated hardware, or the GPU on most systems. I don't think that even the faster CPU's today could manage to decode a 4K video stream quickly enough for the bandwidth required.
It's not as important though for sure, just saying there is still some base of performance you have to meet for the video needs.
Vast majority of mobile SOCs, desktop processors, and GPUs in the last few years have dedicated H264 and/or H265 decode blocks. Shouldn't be an issue from that standpoint.
Biggest challenge for many, many people is going to be bandwidth and latency.
They are. So is the message store on your phone. The problem is the key to encrypt the message store is generated during registration, and given during any re-registration. If you control the phone or phone number, and the backup, you can get the key and decrypt the message store easily.
Media is not encrypted at rest on your phone or backup by WhatsApp.
WhatsApp should add a salt or pin or something to the backup encryption to make it safer at rest. That would be straightforward and "solve" this "issue."
I don't think they're talking about turning in a roundabout, but turning in general. Slow down into it, speed up out of it, use the space available to you, etc.
For some reason around here, people love to go into turns fast, slam their brakes halfway through, then slow down until completely turned, then accelerate.
If I download a TV show and pay for cable or satellite AND a DVR, then what exactly am I doing wrong?
What am I "pirating" except to use more of the bandwidth I paid for so I don't have to manually skip commercials? Or to get a version of a TV show that ISNT cut off at the beginning or end by 5 minutes due to schedule skew? Or a version of a TV show without a quarter-screen radar image because somewhere near me is rain?
Unlimited backup for $5/mo to the cloud. FREE backup to other computers using their software which is cross platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I'd purchase an external HD(s), backup to it then get a friend to put it at their house. You can adopt the backup on their computer and then backup to their computer (FREE) and to your external HD(s) with their software automatically from your own computer.
Or you can just sync it to the cloud, but 8TB might take a while to get everything up there.
.... does he feel like Apple is making too much money and needs to return it to their employees at a higher rate?
Employees receive a wage for the work they deliver regardless of the profit of the company (with the obvious step function at insolvency). If the employee wants to share in the profit AND loss, then they're free to become shareholders.
Why is it that some employees feel like they should be better compensated when the company is profitable but have no interest in taking a pay cut when the company isn't profitable?
It seems you are implying Google somehow won't suffer such a problem... maybe because they don't hire top notch staff?
No, they have hundreds and a customer base to spread the costs of all those other items thinly enough to make sense. Having 3 datacenters and a full IT staff to support 1k odd people has to be justified and providing e-mail and document services can be done so cheaply it makes no sense to keep it in house.
In fact, that argument has been made so well that many large universities have moved to Google provided services. Providing e-mail is a commoddity business, so let the lowest cost provider do it.
Yes, all you need is a top-notch group of administrators with up-to-date skills to setup the system and monitor every security mailing list so that nothing leaks out. Plus routine maintinance, handling user requests, backup, recovery, and environment testing. Throw in their salaries along with datacenter floor space, power, and cooling on run-time costs not to mention depereciation and support on the hardware. Don't forget the additional staff time to document and track changes so that if someone leaves, dies, or is fired that the system can continue running.
This is a problem with many lines of work, not just IT and I deal with it daily: You cannot count on superman to do the job. Just because your current staff is top notch doesn't mean they'll still be there if another web boom happens. Then what?
We've gone through all this before. Your organization probably doesn't employ its own elevator or copier techs either.
Outsourcing commodity services, such as e-mail, saves serious money and provides better service.
I like this analogy, but lets take it one step further.
Telephone companies realized that they could create a tiered pricing structure, charging for 'long-distance' calls much higher than 'local' calls. If my ISP would publish an IP subnet that was 'local' and remove speed limits, quotas on this subnet then I would use far, far less 'outgoing' bandwidth than I currently do. Especially if they would provide a nice, fast local mirror of a couple hundred megs with popular content (Game Demos, Linux ISOs, etc).
You don't want the "United States of California and New York?" Currently... we have the United States of Podunk. And the current system is inherently unfair.
New York & California are relatively high density areas. You'd be ignorant to think that there are no effects of group-think & bais from living that close togther. Devaluing the effective vote of individuals in large-population states prevents wild swings in voter mood from heavily influencing an election.
Just wait till the population of the Walmart-south & Utah begin to get competitave. Then we'll shelve this popular-vote argument for a couple of generations.
An example of group think: Take a look at the opinions about 'Sustainable Farming & Small family farms' in urban centers. Isn't it interesting the vocal opinions of those urban areas, especially by those that have never been on, or worked on, a farm about returning to 'Sustainable Farming' and the 'Small Family farms'. If you've ever lived in a farming area you'd know that 'Sustainable Farming' in the vein that the 'Whole Foods' shopper thinks isn't feasible. You would also know that 'Small Family Farms' are the worst polluters and the hardest on the land. They lack the funding & economy of scale to properly manage their land & runoff. Not to mention they get federal breaks in the rules about pollution.
So you can develop your software in J2EE, use the free Eclipse IDE, on a free operating system, with a free application server (JBoss). J2EE has years of experience and large scale deployments as well as numerous books of reference and scads of talented, experienced developers. You have a choice of platform unrivaled by.NET.
So, wait, why program in.NET?
The only thing JAVA is remotely 'slow' at is on the GUI side of things, and that really isn't much of an issue these days (thanks to faster computers, better swing, and SWT).
Banning has already been upheld and practiced by companies running MMORPGs on the basis of cheats and other improper behavior.
A 'legal' force could work in a gaming environment.
You could be put in jail for up to a week. For serious crimes you would be killed. You could implement fines, strip people of titles, or confiscate land or properties (if the game allowed that).
I think the biggest problem is that MMORPGs don't provide a framework for anything like this, they don't provide a real society framework. They expect everyone to behave in a certain way, and it just plain doesn't work. Everyone is walking around armed to the gills for fighting monsters, there is no cause-effect reason to not kill people in your way or causing trouble.
UO had this problem for the longest time. You'd be killed quickly by mobs of characters if you stepped outside the city limits with too much money on you. The only punishment for the players was that they could no longer enter city limits (guards would kill them on sight) but many just had secondary mule characters for doing any in-city work.
Eventually UO added a bounty system but it did little to take down many of the evil players, there just wasn't enough reason to good in the game.
Personally, I think the game would have much better balance & results if the players had more stock in the game. More power over its running, ruling, governance, etc. Police/Private armies would go a long way (you could be inside of a kingdom and the king could raise an army and send it against criminals) towards combating lawlessness in the land (without artificial limits against it). I also think that if there was some finality in death then people would play with much more care, but as usual, gaming companies worry more about the people who play for 16 hours a day and take the game way too seriously than any of their other customers.
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It should also be noted that the chick in the middle of this picture is kinda cute.
Why don't you participate in the development in one of the OSS database systems (like Postgres) to develop a CREATE TEMPRORARY VIEW syntax. Shouldn't be too hard to do, just make it valid for the current session (like a temporary table).
Bingo, there is your 'variable' functionality without inventing a whole new language.
I wouldn't test any bot in a 'demo' area of a poker site. I was giving one of the services a try to see if I was willing to put any real money into it (could be a fun diversion, some of my friends are very into it). Its a disaster, since you can get your fake money back when lost the play style is completely over the top. Players go All-in with nothing just for the hell of it.
Playing a proper strategy or conservatively is very difficult since you'll get bet out of almost every hand. I'd say you'd have to poney up the moulah to get to the.50cent and dollar tables to get some real play (no matter the stakes, real money is real money to most people).
I'll admit, I cut my first databases in MySQL with a php front end. But I've moved on since then and I have to agree with the parent of the parent poster.
Learning how to properly design & use a DB is not an easy job, and most people do it ass-backwards wrong, especially those versed in the Php-MySQL mindset.
That is not a healthy mindset for developing a mission critical system, and I would hope that anyone consider it would realise this.
Lets put it this way: Would you hire a developer who didn't understand how to use a Linked List? What about a developer who thinks that LL are unnecessary or overly complicated? What about a developer who doesn't use hash tables? Doesn't see the point, just iterate over the array and check for equality they say! If you don't need them in the programs I've written they're just not necessary!
You'd say that person has no programming experience and you wouldn't trust them to design or implement a serious, important peice of software.
Its the same for a DB design who doesn't use forieng keys, or views, or constraints. It exhibits a clear lack of understanding and experience in developing a serious database layer. I wouldn't trust that person to ensure that the data in my database is valid data.
I recommend giving the SuSE 9.1 PRO x86_64 install a try. You can FTP install it or find the recently released ISOs (or order their free linux pack).
I've tried a bunch of different OSS OS for my Opteron system and none of them really did the trick. FC1 was slow, FC2 was buggy as was FBSD5.2.1, SuSe 9.0 was mediocre but SuSe 9.1 FTP install was amazing. Autmatically installed a 64bit version of JAVA & nVidia drivers for me too. Very fast out-of-the-box and usable.
Re:Rear Projection - Clemson University
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Clemson's Beowulf group is currently working on this exact topic, except you have ~7:1 fan out on the graphics nodes for rendering, IE, you have 7 computers rendering, sending the frame over 10/100 to the switch which has 1gig to the display node that outputs it.
It looks pretty sweet and they're getting there on real time graphics. All the projectors were just put back behind there on a rack (24 I think) and software + webcam is used to align and create a striaght and hopefully soon, color accurate picture.
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Your local GPU is no longer important
I agree with the other items, but the system has to be able to decode a high resolution video stream very quickly - which is usually dedicated hardware, or the GPU on most systems. I don't think that even the faster CPU's today could manage to decode a 4K video stream quickly enough for the bandwidth required.
It's not as important though for sure, just saying there is still some base of performance you have to meet for the video needs.
Vast majority of mobile SOCs, desktop processors, and GPUs in the last few years have dedicated H264 and/or H265 decode blocks. Shouldn't be an issue from that standpoint.
Biggest challenge for many, many people is going to be bandwidth and latency.
They are. So is the message store on your phone. The problem is the key to encrypt the message store is generated during registration, and given during any re-registration. If you control the phone or phone number, and the backup, you can get the key and decrypt the message store easily.
Media is not encrypted at rest on your phone or backup by WhatsApp.
WhatsApp should add a salt or pin or something to the backup encryption to make it safer at rest. That would be straightforward and "solve" this "issue."
I don't think they're talking about turning in a roundabout, but turning in general. Slow down into it, speed up out of it, use the space available to you, etc.
For some reason around here, people love to go into turns fast, slam their brakes halfway through, then slow down until completely turned, then accelerate.
If I download a TV show and pay for cable or satellite AND a DVR, then what exactly am I doing wrong?
What am I "pirating" except to use more of the bandwidth I paid for so I don't have to manually skip commercials? Or to get a version of a TV show that ISNT cut off at the beginning or end by 5 minutes due to schedule skew? Or a version of a TV show without a quarter-screen radar image because somewhere near me is rain?
Where is the moral wrong?
And of course, this qualifies as "Stuff that Matters"
http://www.crashplan.com/
Unlimited backup for $5/mo to the cloud. FREE backup to other computers using their software which is cross platform on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I'd purchase an external HD(s), backup to it then get a friend to put it at their house. You can adopt the backup on their computer and then backup to their computer (FREE) and to your external HD(s) with their software automatically from your own computer.
Or you can just sync it to the cloud, but 8TB might take a while to get everything up there.
.... does he feel like Apple is making too much money and needs to return it to their employees at a higher rate?
Employees receive a wage for the work they deliver regardless of the profit of the company (with the obvious step function at insolvency). If the employee wants to share in the profit AND loss, then they're free to become shareholders.
Why is it that some employees feel like they should be better compensated when the company is profitable but have no interest in taking a pay cut when the company isn't profitable?
It seems you are implying Google somehow won't suffer such a problem... maybe because they don't hire top notch staff?
No, they have hundreds and a customer base to spread the costs of all those other items thinly enough to make sense. Having 3 datacenters and a full IT staff to support 1k odd people has to be justified and providing e-mail and document services can be done so cheaply it makes no sense to keep it in house.
In fact, that argument has been made so well that many large universities have moved to Google provided services. Providing e-mail is a commoddity business, so let the lowest cost provider do it.
Yes, all you need is a top-notch group of administrators with up-to-date skills to setup the system and monitor every security mailing list so that nothing leaks out. Plus routine maintinance, handling user requests, backup, recovery, and environment testing. Throw in their salaries along with datacenter floor space, power, and cooling on run-time costs not to mention depereciation and support on the hardware. Don't forget the additional staff time to document and track changes so that if someone leaves, dies, or is fired that the system can continue running.
This is a problem with many lines of work, not just IT and I deal with it daily: You cannot count on superman to do the job. Just because your current staff is top notch doesn't mean they'll still be there if another web boom happens. Then what?
We've gone through all this before. Your organization probably doesn't employ its own elevator or copier techs either.
Outsourcing commodity services, such as e-mail, saves serious money and provides better service.
FYI: Microsoft paid 5.2 billion in taxes last year on a profit of ~20 billion, so they paid roughly 25% as their income tax.
Yeah! I hate those richy-rich stock holders too! They only care about profits, not about us, the little guy.
Now, where did I put my 401k statement........
Maybe you should try a bit harder to pick your flights & airlines. American Airlines has seat power on all of its airplanes.
This should help:
http://www.seatguru.com/
I like this analogy, but lets take it one step further.
Telephone companies realized that they could create a tiered pricing structure, charging for 'long-distance' calls much higher than 'local' calls. If my ISP would publish an IP subnet that was 'local' and remove speed limits, quotas on this subnet then I would use far, far less 'outgoing' bandwidth than I currently do. Especially if they would provide a nice, fast local mirror of a couple hundred megs with popular content (Game Demos, Linux ISOs, etc).
New York & California are relatively high density areas. You'd be ignorant to think that there are no effects of group-think & bais from living that close togther. Devaluing the effective vote of individuals in large-population states prevents wild swings in voter mood from heavily influencing an election.
Just wait till the population of the Walmart-south & Utah begin to get competitave. Then we'll shelve this popular-vote argument for a couple of generations.
An example of group think: Take a look at the opinions about 'Sustainable Farming & Small family farms' in urban centers. Isn't it interesting the vocal opinions of those urban areas, especially by those that have never been on, or worked on, a farm about returning to 'Sustainable Farming' and the 'Small Family farms'. If you've ever lived in a farming area you'd know that 'Sustainable Farming' in the vein that the 'Whole Foods' shopper thinks isn't feasible. You would also know that 'Small Family Farms' are the worst polluters and the hardest on the land. They lack the funding & economy of scale to properly manage their land & runoff. Not to mention they get federal breaks in the rules about pollution.
I feel sorry that you think a 100+ CPU system is a High Performane Cluster....
A language degree, specifically: Hindi
If they distribute Sun's version of Java, then they're not allowed to distribute any other versions like gcj.
Then how does SuSE get away with it?
J2EE .NET
.NET ..... x86_64 coming? Maybe.
.NET.
.NET?
Windows, Linux, AIX, Solaris, OSX, etc
Windows
J2EE
x86, x86_64, Sparc, PPC, Alpha, IBM-Mainframe (quasi PPC)
x86
So you can develop your software in J2EE, use the free Eclipse IDE, on a free operating system, with a free application server (JBoss). J2EE has years of experience and large scale deployments as well as numerous books of reference and scads of talented, experienced developers. You have a choice of platform unrivaled by
So, wait, why program in
The only thing JAVA is remotely 'slow' at is on the GUI side of things, and that really isn't much of an issue these days (thanks to faster computers, better swing, and SWT).
Banning has already been upheld and practiced by companies running MMORPGs on the basis of cheats and other improper behavior.
A 'legal' force could work in a gaming environment.
You could be put in jail for up to a week. For serious crimes you would be killed. You could implement fines, strip people of titles, or confiscate land or properties (if the game allowed that).
I think the biggest problem is that MMORPGs don't provide a framework for anything like this, they don't provide a real society framework. They expect everyone to behave in a certain way, and it just plain doesn't work. Everyone is walking around armed to the gills for fighting monsters, there is no cause-effect reason to not kill people in your way or causing trouble.
UO had this problem for the longest time. You'd be killed quickly by mobs of characters if you stepped outside the city limits with too much money on you. The only punishment for the players was that they could no longer enter city limits (guards would kill them on sight) but many just had secondary mule characters for doing any in-city work.
Eventually UO added a bounty system but it did little to take down many of the evil players, there just wasn't enough reason to good in the game.
Personally, I think the game would have much better balance & results if the players had more stock in the game. More power over its running, ruling, governance, etc. Police/Private armies would go a long way (you could be inside of a kingdom and the king could raise an army and send it against criminals) towards combating lawlessness in the land (without artificial limits against it). I also think that if there was some finality in death then people would play with much more care, but as usual, gaming companies worry more about the people who play for 16 hours a day and take the game way too seriously than any of their other customers.
How much vodka have you had tonight?
Why don't you participate in the development in one of the OSS database systems (like Postgres) to develop a CREATE TEMPRORARY VIEW syntax. Shouldn't be too hard to do, just make it valid for the current session (like a temporary table).
Bingo, there is your 'variable' functionality without inventing a whole new language.
I wouldn't test any bot in a 'demo' area of a poker site. I was giving one of the services a try to see if I was willing to put any real money into it (could be a fun diversion, some of my friends are very into it). Its a disaster, since you can get your fake money back when lost the play style is completely over the top. Players go All-in with nothing just for the hell of it.
.50cent and dollar tables to get some real play (no matter the stakes, real money is real money to most people).
Playing a proper strategy or conservatively is very difficult since you'll get bet out of almost every hand. I'd say you'd have to poney up the moulah to get to the
I'll admit, I cut my first databases in MySQL with a php front end. But I've moved on since then and I have to agree with the parent of the parent poster.
Learning how to properly design & use a DB is not an easy job, and most people do it ass-backwards wrong, especially those versed in the Php-MySQL mindset.
That is not a healthy mindset for developing a mission critical system, and I would hope that anyone consider it would realise this.
Lets put it this way:
Would you hire a developer who didn't understand how to use a Linked List? What about a developer who thinks that LL are unnecessary or overly complicated? What about a developer who doesn't use hash tables? Doesn't see the point, just iterate over the array and check for equality they say! If you don't need them in the programs I've written they're just not necessary!
You'd say that person has no programming experience and you wouldn't trust them to design or implement a serious, important peice of software.
Its the same for a DB design who doesn't use forieng keys, or views, or constraints. It exhibits a clear lack of understanding and experience in developing a serious database layer. I wouldn't trust that person to ensure that the data in my database is valid data.
I recommend giving the SuSE 9.1 PRO x86_64 install a try. You can FTP install it or find the recently released ISOs (or order their free linux pack).
I've tried a bunch of different OSS OS for my Opteron system and none of them really did the trick. FC1 was slow, FC2 was buggy as was FBSD5.2.1, SuSe 9.0 was mediocre but SuSe 9.1 FTP install was amazing. Autmatically installed a 64bit version of JAVA & nVidia drivers for me too. Very fast out-of-the-box and usable.
Clemson's Beowulf group is currently working on this exact topic, except you have ~7:1 fan out on the graphics nodes for rendering, IE, you have 7 computers rendering, sending the frame over 10/100 to the switch which has 1gig to the display node that outputs it.
It looks pretty sweet and they're getting there on real time graphics. All the projectors were just put back behind there on a rack (24 I think) and software + webcam is used to align and create a striaght and hopefully soon, color accurate picture.