I like JProbe. It's a little cumbersome to setup, but has great analysis tools with graphical call trees, call stack drill-down, etc. What I like the best is the ability to prune the results interactively to isolate the piece of code you are interested in.
Thanks dude! I don't like to wear my problems on my sleeve, so I've avoided bringing it up. My 3 year old daughter died from a brain tumor. So when some luser yaps about the importance of primes, I get a little pissed off. Luckily, I still have 4 beautiful children to make my life complete. Seeing death up close and personal changes you and ways that cannot be described. Especially when you know it is coming.
The left-wingers cry save-the-children so they can be free to surf the net for pr0n. The right-wingers cry save-the-children so they can't be free to surf the net for pr0n.
All valid points. I am not saying the world comes to a stop. I just don't think one can argue that solving primes is more important than curing cancer. Go ahead and solve your primes. If you think it IS more important, I would be curious what the reasoning is. I'll admit I don't know what the practical applications of solving Mersenne primes are.
I don't associate myself with the candy-ass-liberal-bed-wetting types that cry save-the-children, etc. to promote a cause. I have just seen first-hand the ravages of cancer and think we would be better off doing something about. The irony is that our modern lifestyle is the likely cause of a lot of cancer.
But unlike folding@home - any results from grid.org DO go into commercial only hands....
Good point. I guess I'm ok with that. If they can cure important diseases, I'm willing to suffer the consequences. One could argue that a commercial venture will yield beneficial results sooner, since they are poised to act on any breakthrough that the project may produce.
I don't run anything ATM, but I used to participate in GIMPs, looking for large Mersenne primes. That's more interesting to me than curing cancer.
Well, you are certainly entitled to do as you wish. But, let me go on record as saying that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read. You do realize that you or someone you love will more than likely be afflicted by cancer. Meanwhile, I hope you find the prime you're looking for.
Personally, I always felt SETI was not very philanthropic - more like an amusing experiment in grid computing.
I have been running grid.org for many years. They focus on medical research. They provide great features for managing all your computers that run the grid projects. You can even choose which research to participate in. And, to satiate a geek's lust for power, they have rankings for your aggregate compute time.
There was definitely a huge counter-strike player base, but that does not preclude a large Q3 FFA player base. I used to watch the Gamespy player stats in the hey-day. Sure HL:CS had more players, but Q3 and UT had a decent following too. The Q3 crowd I played with preferred the lack of realism, in contrast to the UT crowd. I'll take umbrage with your statment that Q3 was "ignored".
With respect to the article, we can agree that this era was notably absent.
As the article mentioned, Half-Life changed single-player FPS. In the same era, Quake III solidified the multi-player FPS experience. Many would argue that Q3 was not revolutionary, but it dovetailed well with the birth of broadband access at home.
I am in the same boat as you. I work from home developing and maintaining a website for a medium-sized company. Running a website means you work from the moment you wake to the time you go to bed. I also play PC games when not working.
I have an Aeron chair and can safely say I never feel uncomfortable. As others have said, I also exercise and maintain a decent weight (ok, so I could lose 20lbs.).
In comparison, when I visit the home office and sit in "generic" chairs in conference rooms, I get uncomfortable after a few hours.
Another bonus of the Aeron chair is that it doesn't trap any air that you might pass.:-)
In general, avoid the trends. Stay away from magazines - they are the greatest purveyors of trends. I generally wait until the technology has matured. It will either die on the vine, or fix the most annoying issues. For example, early versions of JSP were pretty horrible, but now it is the cornerstone of the web apps that I build.
Boring anecdote: I am glad that I fended off the EJB hype. Now, most of the industry has realized what I suspected all along - EJBs are mostly useless and usually create more problems than they solve. About 5 years ago I had a technical manager that insisted we use EJBs for all our new development. I resisted the best I could. One engineer on the team even proved that for database access, the EJBs were 10x slower. The manager didn't seem to care. We ended up putting in enough EJBs to satiate his mandate, but mostly avoided them like the plague. EJB == Extra Java Bloat
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Yeah, I was gonna point that out, but was feeling nice this morning.
Joshua
Amen, brother! PreparedStatements can mean the difference between a scalable app, and a thrash-monster.
What we really need is a paradigm-shift. Something with non-moving parts, like solid-state storage, or holographic memory.
Kenwood actually had a pretty good CD-ROM based on this concept. They had 7 "heads" that allowed reading multiple tracks at the same time. I don't know if it improved latency much, but it certainly improved bandwidth.
Use of your favorite lube does not necessarily imply that you got laid.
It depends what you use it for. Great for archives and other infrequent write operations. Not so great for swap space, OLTP databases, etc.
In any case, I can't think of any hard drive that I haved kept in active use for 10 years.
Can I get the KY Jelly version to store all my pr0n?
(blush) Thanks for the heads up.
I like JProbe. It's a little cumbersome to setup, but has great analysis tools with graphical call trees, call stack drill-down, etc. What I like the best is the ability to prune the results interactively to isolate the piece of code you are interested in.
Thanks dude! I don't like to wear my problems on my sleeve, so I've avoided bringing it up. My 3 year old daughter died from a brain tumor. So when some luser yaps about the importance of primes, I get a little pissed off. Luckily, I still have 4 beautiful children to make my life complete. Seeing death up close and personal changes you and ways that cannot be described. Especially when you know it is coming.
Yeah, everyone has their own agenda and I should stop trying to force mine on them. My remark was made in haste.
The left-wingers cry save-the-children so they can be free to surf the net for pr0n. The right-wingers cry save-the-children so they can't be free to surf the net for pr0n.
It was a knee-jerk reaction. You are right. That is the price of submitting comments.
All valid points. I am not saying the world comes to a stop. I just don't think one can argue that solving primes is more important than curing cancer. Go ahead and solve your primes. If you think it IS more important, I would be curious what the reasoning is. I'll admit I don't know what the practical applications of solving Mersenne primes are.
I don't associate myself with the candy-ass-liberal-bed-wetting types that cry save-the-children, etc. to promote a cause. I have just seen first-hand the ravages of cancer and think we would be better off doing something about. The irony is that our modern lifestyle is the likely cause of a lot of cancer.
Good point. I guess I'm ok with that. If they can cure important diseases, I'm willing to suffer the consequences. One could argue that a commercial venture will yield beneficial results sooner, since they are poised to act on any breakthrough that the project may produce.
Well, you are certainly entitled to do as you wish. But, let me go on record as saying that is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read. You do realize that you or someone you love will more than likely be afflicted by cancer. Meanwhile, I hope you find the prime you're looking for.
Personally, I always felt SETI was not very philanthropic - more like an amusing experiment in grid computing.
I have been running grid.org for many years. They focus on medical research. They provide great features for managing all your computers that run the grid projects. You can even choose which research to participate in. And, to satiate a geek's lust for power, they have rankings for your aggregate compute time.
There was definitely a huge counter-strike player base, but that does not preclude a large Q3 FFA player base. I used to watch the Gamespy player stats in the hey-day. Sure HL:CS had more players, but Q3 and UT had a decent following too. The Q3 crowd I played with preferred the lack of realism, in contrast to the UT crowd. I'll take umbrage with your statment that Q3 was "ignored".
With respect to the article, we can agree that this era was notably absent.
As the article mentioned, Half-Life changed single-player FPS. In the same era, Quake III solidified the multi-player FPS experience. Many would argue that Q3 was not revolutionary, but it dovetailed well with the birth of broadband access at home.
I am in the same boat as you. I work from home developing and maintaining a website for a medium-sized company. Running a website means you work from the moment you wake to the time you go to bed. I also play PC games when not working.
:-)
I have an Aeron chair and can safely say I never feel uncomfortable. As others have said, I also exercise and maintain a decent weight (ok, so I could lose 20lbs.).
In comparison, when I visit the home office and sit in "generic" chairs in conference rooms, I get uncomfortable after a few hours.
Another bonus of the Aeron chair is that it doesn't trap any air that you might pass.
Damn! I was hoping to see Live videos.
In general, avoid the trends. Stay away from magazines - they are the greatest purveyors of trends. I generally wait until the technology has matured. It will either die on the vine, or fix the most annoying issues. For example, early versions of JSP were pretty horrible, but now it is the cornerstone of the web apps that I build.
Boring anecdote: I am glad that I fended off the EJB hype. Now, most of the industry has realized what I suspected all along - EJBs are mostly useless and usually create more problems than they solve. About 5 years ago I had a technical manager that insisted we use EJBs for all our new development. I resisted the best I could. One engineer on the team even proved that for database access, the EJBs were 10x slower. The manager didn't seem to care. We ended up putting in enough EJBs to satiate his mandate, but mostly avoided them like the plague. EJB == Extra Java Bloat
The people responsible for sacking the people responsible for the parent post have also been sacked.
LLAMA!
They DID cut a deal. Pre-order was $17.95