On scale Bill Gates is most likely the largest single donator to health charities in the world. Consistently....year after year....billions and billions of dollars.
It is possible to have a business face and a personal face that are largely different. Even though most of the money for this is generated through the Microsoft machine.
That is totally not the point and it's not completely true either. The point is when a new "standard" (as in supported by a standards body) comes out, it won't have near the impact on encoding overhead to force or even compell people into using it and, more importantly i might add, corporations into spending money and dev time implementing it into their products. A true standard will, over the long run, cause less problems and cost developers less time/money.
I truely don't believe you read what the guy said.
Most satellites go up into space with a designated shelf life. They are supposed to be brought down under their own power to save the trouble of building a space-garbage collector if it died and became unresponsive.
So Hubble's self-propulsion system is supposed to go bad in 8 years so they bring it down in 7.
Why use a vacuum cleaner, we already have a broom? I guess to answer, what does this guy need.NET to do that can't be done somewhere/how else? I guess if the APP is already written with.NET then why even ask if it can scale? You're already fricken screwed. It scales with hardware, buy more. It scales with more software, buy more.
We have switched from Windows Svr 2k and ASP to Apache 2 and PHP 4 on the front end. On the back end we use java 1.4 and broke our application apart to run multiple master/slave processes in a tree system (Process A, Master I, Machines a-d. Process B, Master II, Machines e-h...) to do data analysis for the requests. (This is a data mining sort of thing with analysis and a search). The DB starting becoming a bottleneck after we got up to 200 concurrent processes, which we fixed by breaking apart the DB and placing half on another server and running 2 simultaneous DB connects per slave process and this could continue for some time i'm thinking.
If that gets too goofy we may end up partitioning the requests in the beginning and mirroring two seperated complete systems, but we're not really envisioning it ever getting that big.
Of course, most of the problem is simply the back end keeping up because the front ends don't do much at all except call the java app and return the data it gets...
.NET will scale if it's just hardware you want to add to it. I think it's so new that the efficiency simply isn't there from what my programming friends have done. (Seems bloated, things that were in regular old ASP take twice as long in ASP.NET that sort of thing.)
Anyway, I agree with your statement but you're going to really pay in licensing in the long run. Of course, if the scalability is in terms of DB transaction....it's a matter of buying large equipment up front in hopes that it will last long enough to justify an upgrade to another huge box...which is real tough to guage and can come back and bite ya in the buttocks later.
That's how i've done it historically. I've found that most web-based stuff benefits from multitudes of systems vs. 1 giant system...and it's hella more stable and hella more reliable after clustering/balancing.
You can run up to a point where you need to get a giant system to do backend transactional work, but by that point your site should be helping make enough money to support the purchase....
I've used Nessus to scan mine own boxen for months now. Very useful and powerful. Having this shouldn't raise any warning flags, being that a similar tool for this has been around for a long time now.
By the by, turn off stuff you don't need and you'll find most vulnerabilities disappear like magic.
Also, remember to scan your machines from private and public access just in case.
I always wondered if a device could be made that would use highly concentrated directional ultrasonic sound. Point it at something and shake it apart with sound.
Would be a great way to get back at those morons who sit outside your house in the middle of the night with their 'Mega Bass 8' CD playing...
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How close are we to getting a cheap, easily deployable, noice cancellation system? Living in a city is great because my job is only a mile away and i can walk, but the "ghetto" blasting is getting extremely old. I mean, even through triple paned windows and extra sound insulation in the walls i can still here 50 cent in the middle of the night...*sigh*
It appears to be a 1-to-1 sort of conversion for Americans. $3 = $3. So i guess paypal may do the converstion for you if you pay it with paypal...so $3 = 2.whatever euros.
With a credit card the provider (visa/mc/amex/etc) charges X% or $.x for a transaction. This can become exorbitant for some retailers and some impose the "minimum amount for credit card purchases". How would micropayments get around this flaw? I could see possibly creating a new type of credit where I could put $20 (from credit card) into this account and the provider (on the web this time and not a behemoth) doesn't charge outrageous percentages/fees for such small payments?
Is that how this works or is this something else entirely?
Lets not forget the thousands of Iraqis who were tortured on a daily basis and the thousands more abused under the Iraqi government.
There is a lot to be said about people dying, in this case being wrong (about WMD) is still right in the end (getting rid of abusive dictators).
So whether the intentions are honorable or not, in my mind this is one thing that ended up good no matter what.
On that end i would point to WJC's record on going into countries and getting US soldiers killed.
Let us not forget that the product of peace comes at the price of war and that the nature of humanity has changed little since the beginning of recorded history.
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George Forman grill. Bought it off TV way before it was in the stores. And you know what? It still kicks ass like a prize fighter.
Thank you George!
Wanted to back up my statment, this is from the Gates Foundation website (sorry for formatting):
Amounts in thousands
PROGRAM AREA 2002 2001
Global Health $506,984 $855,567
Education 413,121 177,944
Libraries 44,607 43,176
Pacific Northwest 121,874 36,511
Special Projects 70,141 33,403
Other:
Employee Matching Gifts/Sponsorships 738 356
$1,157,465 $1,146,957
The foundation has total net assets in excess of 37 billion.
On scale Bill Gates is most likely the largest single donator to health charities in the world. Consistently....year after year....billions and billions of dollars.
It is possible to have a business face and a personal face that are largely different. Even though most of the money for this is generated through the Microsoft machine.
Most likely not 60 years.
Most likely not a whole lot of real time at all, more likely parole for the rest of his natural life.
You're right, it's not funny. It's actually very sad. To think he didn't even use obfuscating methods..oy.
The guy they arrested, Dan Baas, is my cousin. This is super funny and not the first time he's been involved in stuff like this.
That is totally not the point and it's not completely true either. The point is when a new "standard" (as in supported by a standards body) comes out, it won't have near the impact on encoding overhead to force or even compell people into using it and, more importantly i might add, corporations into spending money and dev time implementing it into their products. A true standard will, over the long run, cause less problems and cost developers less time/money.
I truely don't believe you read what the guy said.
Most satellites go up into space with a designated shelf life. They are supposed to be brought down under their own power to save the trouble of building a space-garbage collector if it died and became unresponsive.
So Hubble's self-propulsion system is supposed to go bad in 8 years so they bring it down in 7.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1231447. stm
In case someone was wondering about the reference.
Of course, Taco Bell will put a big floating bullseye in the ocean and if some titanium part of hubble hits it everyone in the US wins a Taco!
Wooo Hoooo!
Why use a vacuum cleaner, we already have a broom? I guess to answer, what does this guy need .NET to do that can't be done somewhere/how else? I guess if the APP is already written with .NET then why even ask if it can scale? You're already fricken screwed. It scales with hardware, buy more. It scales with more software, buy more.
We have switched from Windows Svr 2k and ASP to Apache 2 and PHP 4 on the front end. On the back end we use java 1.4 and broke our application apart to run multiple master/slave processes in a tree system (Process A, Master I, Machines a-d. Process B, Master II, Machines e-h...) to do data analysis for the requests. (This is a data mining sort of thing with analysis and a search). The DB starting becoming a bottleneck after we got up to 200 concurrent processes, which we fixed by breaking apart the DB and placing half on another server and running 2 simultaneous DB connects per slave process and this could continue for some time i'm thinking.
If that gets too goofy we may end up partitioning the requests in the beginning and mirroring two seperated complete systems, but we're not really envisioning it ever getting that big.
Of course, most of the problem is simply the back end keeping up because the front ends don't do much at all except call the java app and return the data it gets...
.NET will scale if it's just hardware you want to add to it. I think it's so new that the efficiency simply isn't there from what my programming friends have done. (Seems bloated, things that were in regular old ASP take twice as long in ASP.NET that sort of thing.)
Anyway, I agree with your statement but you're going to really pay in licensing in the long run. Of course, if the scalability is in terms of DB transaction....it's a matter of buying large equipment up front in hopes that it will last long enough to justify an upgrade to another huge box...which is real tough to guage and can come back and bite ya in the buttocks later.
That's how i've done it historically. I've found that most web-based stuff benefits from multitudes of systems vs. 1 giant system...and it's hella more stable and hella more reliable after clustering/balancing.
You can run up to a point where you need to get a giant system to do backend transactional work, but by that point your site should be helping make enough money to support the purchase....
Apache, FreeBSD and a cluster of 10 or so $1k servers and a nice DB server running PostgreSQL.
Works for me.
Cincinnati has horrible racial problems. It was a stupid joke, i know.
, the most frequent class of security problems are caused by race conditions.
Do you live in Cincinnati?
I've used Nessus to scan mine own boxen for months now. Very useful and powerful. Having this shouldn't raise any warning flags, being that a similar tool for this has been around for a long time now.
By the by, turn off stuff you don't need and you'll find most vulnerabilities disappear like magic.
Also, remember to scan your machines from private and public access just in case.
How much sound do you need to boil water? Or perhaps turn yourself into ash when you turn the system on?
130k watts, sheesh.
Targetted marketing through demographics.
Yes, the truth really is unbearable and it stings like a son of a bitch.
I always wondered if a device could be made that would use highly concentrated directional ultrasonic sound. Point it at something and shake it apart with sound.
Would be a great way to get back at those morons who sit outside your house in the middle of the night with their 'Mega Bass 8' CD playing...
How close are we to getting a cheap, easily deployable, noice cancellation system? Living in a city is great because my job is only a mile away and i can walk, but the "ghetto" blasting is getting extremely old. I mean, even through triple paned windows and extra sound insulation in the walls i can still here 50 cent in the middle of the night...*sigh*
It appears to be a 1-to-1 sort of conversion for Americans. $3 = $3. So i guess paypal may do the converstion for you if you pay it with paypal...so $3 = 2.whatever euros.
With a credit card the provider (visa/mc/amex/etc) charges X% or $.x for a transaction. This can become exorbitant for some retailers and some impose the "minimum amount for credit card purchases". How would micropayments get around this flaw? I could see possibly creating a new type of credit where I could put $20 (from credit card) into this account and the provider (on the web this time and not a behemoth) doesn't charge outrageous percentages/fees for such small payments?
Is that how this works or is this something else entirely?
Lets not forget the thousands of Iraqis who were tortured on a daily basis and the thousands more abused under the Iraqi government.
There is a lot to be said about people dying, in this case being wrong (about WMD) is still right in the end (getting rid of abusive dictators).
So whether the intentions are honorable or not, in my mind this is one thing that ended up good no matter what.
On that end i would point to WJC's record on going into countries and getting US soldiers killed.
Let us not forget that the product of peace comes at the price of war and that the nature of humanity has changed little since the beginning of recorded history.