I run a website that gets about 150,000 db queries a day across 3million court cases and 4 million people. And we add about 50,000 hits/day/month and 100,000 cases/month. I spent a good dela of my time optimizing code & queries. And the payoff is noticeable. It saves us from having to by more hardware to keep up with demand, and when we do add more hardware the improvments are substantial, for a minimal amount of cost. I think that when doing predictable queries against large databases the user should see their results in under a second when the system is fully taxed.
I tend to disagree here. The thing that made me switch from dos/win3.11 to linux in 93/84 wqas the desktop. Sure it was a pain in the ass to get the right hardware etc, but FVWM vs. Win 3.11 is a no contest. I was amazed at what I saw, and then spent 3 months trying to get it to run. No, it wasn't friendly, but holy cow was it an eye opener. Just remembering back kinda makes me misty eyed.
I belive it is no herassment for ten years from PAST ip infringments. Not future ingringments. This doesn't mean MS can steal all of SUN's ip tomarrow and avoid litigat for ten years. It read like "we won't bother you for ten years abouth the things we already know about"
Maybe it's a little Ann Raynd of me, but This seems a little unfiar. When we first started fighting this particular fight I prayed and hoped for government intervention, but not anymore. I've really enjoyed the fact that we are starting to kick their asses without getting a single handout from the man. I like knowing that we are gaining ground through our own skills and effort. It gives me a since of pride. This is like telling a sprinter that he has to remove a couple of spikes from one of his shoes because he has won too many competitions in the past. It's just enough to be irritating and give the other runners an advantage. There is nothing I want more than to see MS fall, but I want it to be a fair fight. Not MS forced to take a dive. Where's the fun in that.
What would Pinky and the Brain have done each night if someone would have just given them the world to control.
BUBBLE FUSION, the apparent generation of fusion energy through theviolent collapse of bubbles in a liquid tank, has been reported in apaper about to be published in Physical Review E (Taleyarkhan etal., upcoming, probably March 2004). The paper, a followup to acontroversial report published two years ago(http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/5 79-2.html), reports"statistically significant neutron and gamma ray emissions" aftersound waves and pulsed neutrons hit a chilled liquid acetone tankspiked with deuterium fuel. The researchers (Rusi Taleyarkhan,formerly at Oak Ridge but now at Purdue, 765-494-0198,rusi@purdue.edu ) report the observation of flashes of light(sonoluminescence) as well as the emission of neutrons with energiesof less than or equal to 2.5 MeV---what you would expect if pairs ofdeuterium atoms were fusing together to produce energy in theirsetup. While the researchers describe various improvements to theirexperimental setup, in response to comments received in theiroriginal paper 2 years ago, critics (including Aaron Galonsky,Michigan State, galonsky@nscl.msu.edu, 850-267-8976 by phone untilApril 1) still have a number of concerns. According to Galonsky,the data for neutron emissions is lumped together with data ofgamma-ray emissions. While separating neutron and gamma-ray signalsis challenging, it is necessary to have a clean neutron-onlyspectrum to have an unambiguous demonstration of nuclear fusion.Willy Moss of Livermore (925-422-7302, wmoss@llnl.gov) says"Although I believe that thermonuclear sonofusion [not to beconfused with cold fusion] may not be impossible...I am still notconvinced... I believe that additional tests need to be done andmany should have been performed and discussed in the paper, forexample...if neutrons are being generated, then how about moving thescintillator further away from the sample to see if the signaldecreases, due to the decreasing solid angle of the detector?"(Other experts, Richard Lahey, RPI, laheyr@rpi.edu , 518-276-6614, aco-author on the paper; Mike Saltmarsh, Oak Ridge, 865-576-6915,saltmars@mail.phy.ornl.gov, co-author of a paper that attempted toduplicate the initial results but reported a null result---seeShapira and Saltmarsh, Phys Rev Lett, 19 August 2002)
I think the real power of SVG is in the ability to incorporate XForms. From a thin clinet developer point of view, it just doesn't get any better. I can design my widget and and have my form pop it up on anyone's client. The only thing missing is some sort of drag and drop like standard for SVG and xforms.
those are the two things that I'd love to see in mozilla. It would make my life almost too easy.
We'll need to find innovative new ways of shielding spacecraft from fraction-of-lightspeed interstellar rubbish if we're ever to spend much time outside our own magnetosphere."
Why not just make a magnetosphere for the ship? I'm sure there is enough free floating energy in space to do so. Solar or microwaves who knows what. Or even some system to convert the highly energectic rubbish to a magnetic field, where the more it gets hit the more it protects.
I think the most important feature that is currently missing is the spam filtering. Everyone else has it, why doesn't evolution? Use the code from mozilla if you have to.
Yes, I do understand producing their "Red Hat Linux" product was expensive, and hurt their bottom line.
um..no...It was profitable, ie it did not hurt their bottom line. It just wasn't growing fast enough. I belive this was stated in the interview here on slashdot. They maintain the idea that Growth is what is important, not profitability. A steady income won't make you rich, you need growth so your stock price will rise. I think the harm that they have done through confusing the community will far out weigh the money they weren't losing to the RHL division.
I would imagine that you could transmit a very narrowband signal from the reciving station, and when the statlite/array whatever lot that signal, it would end transmission. Have that signal transmitter powered by the microwaves that it receives and if the beam is ever repositioned, then it stops. I'm sure there are flaws in this, but it seems pretty doable.
I started using dualhead about 2 years agog, and then added a third just for the hell of it. Currently I've got 1 21" in the middle for primarty work and a 17" on either side for reference or monitoring. At one point in time I had a 14" sitting on top of one of the 17". The ultimate goal howver is to have 4 flat panels around my center 21" monitor. When flatpanels fall on you fue to an earthquake they tens to do less damage than CRT's. There's really nothing like being able to have all of your reference sites open and visible at the same time plus a debuging/cl window and a source editing window. Word of advise though. XFree and xinerama will suck the life out of any system memory you have.
Sap their resources...maybe as far as marketing is concerned, but putting some finishing touches on SUSE, renaming it and sending it though their already established distro channels will hardly put a dent in thbeir resources. How many people do you think they have managing this..? I'd be shocked if it were more than 4 people. I'd even bet that if they wanted to they could squeze it down to one plus marketing, and they seem to be letting the press do that for them.
I'm more of an emacs kinda Java developer. Just give me some syntax highlighting and a commandline and I'm good to go. EJB development in this enviornment is just insane. However, I found that by simply adding XDoclet tags to my source and ant scripts that it became completely manageable with out having to switch paradigms.
This is defiantly a novel way to get the geek vote. Plus some of the yonger vote. I just hope it's an honest attempt at open source and not just a vote getting move. What's his record like?
I'm right in the midlle of writing an e-filing system and our approach is to only allow the document to be processed during court hours. Sure it can be delivered at 11 PM. but the court filing date will be for 8 AM the next day. We will show that it was dilivered at 11 pm though. Some of the courts close at different times depending on day of the week etc. And this seems to be the only way to address that. As for the clock being accurate, NTP is most definatly our protocal of choice, I've met the architect for the federal e-filing systems (which I belive this uses) and he's an older UNIX guru type who belives firmly in well built software so I would bet that they were using NTP.
Some schmuck out there will by this along with his 10,000 dollar gold shower curtain. Reminds me a little of minority report and the folks floating in the pool. But it's still dumb.
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I run a website that gets about 150,000 db queries a day across 3million court cases and 4 million people. And we add about 50,000 hits/day/month and 100,000 cases/month. I spent a good dela of my time optimizing code & queries. And the payoff is noticeable. It saves us from having to by more hardware to keep up with demand, and when we do add more hardware the improvments are substantial, for a minimal amount of cost. I think that when doing predictable queries against large databases the user should see their results in under a second when the system is fully taxed.
-jj-
I thought it was just me and RUSH that turned thirty this year. Now it's also D&D on my birthday too...thanx for making me feel old..:)
I tend to disagree here. The thing that made me switch from dos/win3.11 to linux in 93/84 wqas the desktop. Sure it was a pain in the ass to get the right hardware etc, but FVWM vs. Win 3.11 is a no contest. I was amazed at what I saw, and then spent 3 months trying to get it to run. No, it wasn't friendly, but holy cow was it an eye opener. Just remembering back kinda makes me misty eyed.
That's much better than mine..more of a Doh! on that..
did any1 come up with the answer to pine , crab sauce thing..
I think that box or nut might work, but none of those strike me as a eureka kinda word. nither of those say DoH! I can't belive I didn't see that.
I belive it is no herassment for ten years from PAST ip infringments. Not future ingringments. This doesn't mean MS can steal all of SUN's ip tomarrow and avoid litigat for ten years. It read like "we won't bother you for ten years abouth the things we already know about"
-jj-
If they unify these two things, what the heck are we going to be able to have religious wars over? vi vs. emacs? we already know Xemacs won that one.
I swear this was funny when I thought it out in my head.
Where are my mod points when I need them.
Maybe it's a little Ann Raynd of me, but This seems a little unfiar. When we first started fighting this particular fight I prayed and hoped for government intervention, but not anymore. I've really enjoyed the fact that we are starting to kick their asses without getting a single handout from the man. I like knowing that we are gaining ground through our own skills and effort. It gives me a since of pride. This is like telling a sprinter that he has to remove a couple of spikes from one of his shoes because he has won too many competitions in the past. It's just enough to be irritating and give the other runners an advantage. There is nothing I want more than to see MS fall, but I want it to be a fair fight. Not MS forced to take a dive. Where's the fun in that.
What would Pinky and the Brain have done each night if someone would have just given them the world to control.
And I'd like it in a Gerber or Letherman Knife. You know, something with a little more umph.
BUBBLE FUSION, the apparent generation of fusion energy through theviolent collapse of bubbles in a liquid tank, has been reported in apaper about to be published in Physical Review E (Taleyarkhan etal., upcoming, probably March 2004). The paper, a followup to acontroversial report published two years ago(http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/2002/split/5 79-2.html), reports"statistically significant neutron and gamma ray emissions" aftersound waves and pulsed neutrons hit a chilled liquid acetone tankspiked with deuterium fuel. The researchers (Rusi Taleyarkhan,formerly at Oak Ridge but now at Purdue, 765-494-0198,rusi@purdue.edu ) report the observation of flashes of light(sonoluminescence) as well as the emission of neutrons with energiesof less than or equal to 2.5 MeV---what you would expect if pairs ofdeuterium atoms were fusing together to produce energy in theirsetup. While the researchers describe various improvements to theirexperimental setup, in response to comments received in theiroriginal paper 2 years ago, critics (including Aaron Galonsky,Michigan State, galonsky@nscl.msu.edu, 850-267-8976 by phone untilApril 1) still have a number of concerns. According to Galonsky,the data for neutron emissions is lumped together with data ofgamma-ray emissions. While separating neutron and gamma-ray signalsis challenging, it is necessary to have a clean neutron-onlyspectrum to have an unambiguous demonstration of nuclear fusion.Willy Moss of Livermore (925-422-7302, wmoss@llnl.gov) says"Although I believe that thermonuclear sonofusion [not to beconfused with cold fusion] may not be impossible...I am still notconvinced... I believe that additional tests need to be done andmany should have been performed and discussed in the paper, forexample...if neutrons are being generated, then how about moving thescintillator further away from the sample to see if the signaldecreases, due to the decreasing solid angle of the detector?"(Other experts, Richard Lahey, RPI, laheyr@rpi.edu , 518-276-6614, aco-author on the paper; Mike Saltmarsh, Oak Ridge, 865-576-6915,saltmars@mail.phy.ornl.gov, co-author of a paper that attempted toduplicate the initial results but reported a null result---seeShapira and Saltmarsh, Phys Rev Lett, 19 August 2002)
I think the real power of SVG is in the ability to incorporate XForms. From a thin clinet developer point of view, it just doesn't get any better. I can design my widget and and have my form pop it up on anyone's client. The only thing missing is some sort of drag and drop like standard for SVG and xforms.
those are the two things that I'd love to see in mozilla. It would make my life almost too easy.
umm..that's 11 herbs and spices bub..not 7..
sorry...family owned a few KFC stores....and my uncle married Col. Sanders God Daughter..so I kinda take it personal..:)
We'll need to find innovative new ways of shielding spacecraft from fraction-of-lightspeed interstellar rubbish if we're ever to spend much time outside our own magnetosphere."
Why not just make a magnetosphere for the ship? I'm sure there is enough free floating energy in space to do so. Solar or microwaves who knows what. Or even some system to convert the highly energectic rubbish to a magnetic field, where the more it gets hit the more it protects.
I think the most important feature that is currently missing is the spam filtering. Everyone else has it, why doesn't evolution? Use the code from mozilla if you have to.
wish I had the time to do it myself.
-jj-
um..no...It was profitable, ie it did not hurt their bottom line. It just wasn't growing fast enough. I belive this was stated in the interview here on slashdot. They maintain the idea that Growth is what is important, not profitability. A steady income won't make you rich, you need growth so your stock price will rise. I think the harm that they have done through confusing the community will far out weigh the money they weren't losing to the RHL division.
20k minimum for setting up a network of harddrives.
I would imagine that you could transmit a very narrowband signal from the reciving station, and when the statlite/array whatever lot that signal, it would end transmission. Have that signal transmitter powered by the microwaves that it receives and if the beam is ever repositioned, then it stops. I'm sure there are flaws in this, but it seems pretty doable.
Seems kinda pointless now that RHL has been discontinued?
I started using dualhead about 2 years agog, and then added a third just for the hell of it. Currently I've got 1 21" in the middle for primarty work and a 17" on either side for reference or monitoring. At one point in time I had a 14" sitting on top of one of the 17". The ultimate goal howver is to have 4 flat panels around my center 21" monitor. When flatpanels fall on you fue to an earthquake they tens to do less damage than CRT's. There's really nothing like being able to have all of your reference sites open and visible at the same time plus a debuging/cl window and a source editing window. Word of advise though. XFree and xinerama will suck the life out of any system memory you have.
-jj-
Sap their resources...maybe as far as marketing is concerned, but putting some finishing touches on SUSE, renaming it and sending it though their already established distro channels will hardly put a dent in thbeir resources. How many people do you think they have managing this..? I'd be shocked if it were more than 4 people. I'd even bet that if they wanted to they could squeze it down to one plus marketing, and they seem to be letting the press do that for them.
I'm more of an emacs kinda Java developer. Just give me some syntax highlighting and a commandline and I'm good to go. EJB development in this enviornment is just insane. However, I found that by simply adding XDoclet tags to my source and ant scripts that it became completely manageable with out having to switch paradigms.
This is defiantly a novel way to get the geek vote. Plus some of the yonger vote. I just hope it's an honest attempt at open source and not just a vote getting move. What's his record like?
I'm right in the midlle of writing an e-filing system and our approach is to only allow the document to be processed during court hours. Sure it can be delivered at 11 PM. but the court filing date will be for 8 AM the next day. We will show that it was dilivered at 11 pm though. Some of the courts close at different times depending on day of the week etc. And this seems to be the only way to address that. As for the clock being accurate, NTP is most definatly our protocal of choice, I've met the architect for the federal e-filing systems (which I belive this uses) and he's an older UNIX guru type who belives firmly in well built software so I would bet that they were using NTP.
god I need coffee...
Some schmuck out there will by this along with his 10,000 dollar gold shower curtain. Reminds me a little of minority report and the folks floating in the pool. But it's still dumb.