This is exactly how things are done in many US government agencies. Remember when that hard drive was lost at Los Alamos National Labs a couple of years ago (well I think that was a laptop drive)? Every computer has removable hard drive trays which you lock up every night before going home.
In Colorado at King Soopers (a Kroger store) we already have self checkout lines. I don't really see how this is going to be that much faster over being able to scan your groceries, swipe a credit card (or pay in cash) and be on your way. It seems like the major time constraint is scanning the groceries not the payment process.
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I think it depends on what you need your site to do. If all you need is to run database queries and output the results (basically what/. does) then languages like PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl work fine. PHP and Cold Fusion make these kinds of tasks very easy to do and they scale just fine for these types of applications. Where I always run into problems is with applications that require much more...connecting to sockets on other servers to retrieve data and then parse data (XML etc), connecting to booking systems, middleware or mainframe systems, manipulating images on the server that kind of stuff. It seems most enterprise applications end up going beyond what languages like PHP and Cold Fusion can provide without having to write custom tags in C/C++ or Java or something to make up for the shortcomings of these languages. At that point you might as well write the application in J2EE or something that is a little more robust than what most of the web scripting type languages can provide.
Actually just recently in Denver a man went to trial because his son shot himself with his father's gun (sorry I don't have a link handy). I think the dad is doing some jail time now. I think more and more gun owners are being held liable for knowing where the fire arms are at all times and keeping them stored safely.
Not to mention that CSS is just plain easier to work with. Getting sites to look good with tables is a PITA and takes much longer than just using a style sheet.
The other issue is the whitepaper states that when Microsoft bought Hotmail, hotmail had 9 million users or something in that range and by 2000 when the paper was written hotmail had 100 million users. I assume under this growth rate they were adding servers constantly, making comparisons between the number of servers required to handle the load difficult. As someone else posted in this thread, you have to look at the number of users individual machines could handle and it seems like Windows 2000 actually did better than FreeBSD in that account.
I've always thought this too. I find it funny how companies get in such a big hurry to hire a bunch of people to get some project done as fast as possible only to lay them all off again and scrape the project 6-18 months later. Hire 1 person to do a job, you'll find out in a big hurry what that person is capable of since they are the only one. Then add another if the workload is too much for one person. Hire people as temps or contractors initially with no promise of perminent employement you can't tell what a person's really worth based on a couple of interviews and a resume anyways. After a couple of months you can hire the good ones on full time. Maybe then you won't end up with these projects that are millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. Hasn't anyone ready "The Mythical Man Month"?
It's funny how turning these appliances into Linux boxes has stopped more than one company from selling them at a loss (remember the iOpener or whatever that internet appliance was called?). In some ways encouraging people to use XBoxes as cheap Linux machines (or hell even cheap Windows boxes if you could get a desktop Windows running on it) could play into Sony's and Nintindo's favor.
I don't know about about the person who posted the article to/. but the article itself states pretty clearly that this is first strain resistant to vancomycin. I think the article mentioned that staph was already resistant to most other antibiotics. Vancomycin was one of our last defenses against staph evidently. That's why this was worth posting...
It's funny on zdnet a few days ago they had an article about what Palladium brings to the user and they had several use-case scenarios...in every case I couldn't help but wonder why anyone would want it on their computer. It seems like it's entire purpose is to protect someone's bottom line be it the software manufacturer, or some record label etc.
In 24 on Fox they have those lingering shots of Fords all over the place. In fact the season premier was brought to you without commercials by Ford if you didn't mind all the Ford cars in the actual show. Car manufacturers have been doing this for a long time, notice all the Lexus cars in the Minority Report. Unfortunately this is probably the future of advertising. Why do you think shoe companies are so eager to pay these professional athletes so much money to wear their shoes? Because seeing them wearing the gear in the game is worth more than any commercial they could play during the commercial breaks.
I think they were basically forced to compete with this feature because most of the satellite companies already offer DVR. It may be that the broadcasting and cinema groups are completely unaware of Time Warner Cable offering this. Kind of how Sony music seems to be trying to kill off the MP3 format and Sony Electronics keeps cranking out devices that can play MP3s. I think it's more likely that this is another case of a large company with a left hand that has no idea what the right hand is doing. Even though they do not offer a commercial skipping feature in their device they have to be aware that customers are going to be using it for such.
Exactly. I doubt the brain is doing any complex calculations simply just taking into account the thousands of other times it's seen projectiles and guessing based on that data where this one is going to go. I've been trying to teach my young children to catch for years and they still have trouble figuring out where the ball's going to go every time. They simply don't have the experience to pull from in every case yet.
Apple already has IDE or SCSI connectors on their motherboards as it is. SATA will probably replace those and not the Firewire. As other have posted Firewire is not a great solution for internal harddrives.
I tried this a couple of different ways on Windows 2000 a minute ago and it works fine and didn't crash my system. I used Visual Studio 6 w/ service pack 5. What's the trick? Here's my last attempt:
Not to mention that the networks don't even do a good job showing most sporting events. Let the cable channels like ESPN and Fox Sports show the sports since that's what they specialize in. Unfortionately this will never happen. Look how much the networks spend just to win the rights to a sporting event like the NBA finals, Superbowl or the Olympics. I doubt Fox will ever relinquish it's rights to the superbowl (without being outbid and how can the likes of ESPN compete with Fox) or NBC the rights to the NBA or the Olympics. So sports fans are stuck with mediocre coverage and crapy anouncers while network TV fans are stuck getting their favorite shows pre-empted or cancelled and the networks continue to line their pockets with money.
Has anyone else noticed that this is just about the most comments I've seen posted on here since 9/11. Nothing like a good old fashioned Evolution/Creation debate to ramp up the page hits. Not even Microsoft can compete.
The problem is giving credit where credit's due. There was a post on here a few months ago about Redhat releasing a driver (sorry I don't remember the details but it's on/. somewhere...) that was taken from one of the BSDs, without giving credit to the original developer of the driver (as the BSD license requires). I've had professors in the past that had no problem with you borrowing code as long as you cite where you got it from (just like writing a paper). I think Computer Science is still about getting the job done without reinventing the wheel but you need to make sure you aren't outright stealing someone else's work without either their consent or giving them credit.
I recently got an email from palm source titled: " Test your app on Prototype ARM Hardware at PalmSource" apparently I ended up on their email list when I signed up as a palm developer. At any rate palm appears to be pushing towards ARM hardware. In fact wasn't there an announcement recently that palm had some kind of deal with Texas Instruments to produce the ARM processors for them? Hopefully some more multimedia features (from BeIA/OS) will coincide with the move to the ARM hardware or shortly thereafter.
I remember seeing a 60 minutes episode a year or so ago where the packed some kind of sensors into boxes and shipped them using Fed Ex, UPS and USPS and then compared the results. If I remember the results correctly, UPS fared the best but none of them did well enough to make me want to ship any kind of electronics with any of them.
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This is exactly how things are done in many US government agencies. Remember when that hard drive was lost at Los Alamos National Labs a couple of years ago (well I think that was a laptop drive)? Every computer has removable hard drive trays which you lock up every night before going home.
In Colorado at King Soopers (a Kroger store) we already have self checkout lines. I don't really see how this is going to be that much faster over being able to scan your groceries, swipe a credit card (or pay in cash) and be on your way. It seems like the major time constraint is scanning the groceries not the payment process.
McDonald's posts its first quarterly loss ever.
I think it depends on what you need your site to do. If all you need is to run database queries and output the results (basically what /. does) then languages like PHP, Cold Fusion, Perl work fine. PHP and Cold Fusion make these kinds of tasks very easy to do and they scale just fine for these types of applications. Where I always run into problems is with applications that require much more...connecting to sockets on other servers to retrieve data and then parse data (XML etc), connecting to booking systems, middleware or mainframe systems, manipulating images on the server that kind of stuff. It seems most enterprise applications end up going beyond what languages like PHP and Cold Fusion can provide without having to write custom tags in C/C++ or Java or something to make up for the shortcomings of these languages. At that point you might as well write the application in J2EE or something that is a little more robust than what most of the web scripting type languages can provide.
Actually just recently in Denver a man went to trial because his son shot himself with his father's gun (sorry I don't have a link handy). I think the dad is doing some jail time now. I think more and more gun owners are being held liable for knowing where the fire arms are at all times and keeping them stored safely.
Not to mention that CSS is just plain easier to work with. Getting sites to look good with tables is a PITA and takes much longer than just using a style sheet.
The other issue is the whitepaper states that when Microsoft bought Hotmail, hotmail had 9 million users or something in that range and by 2000 when the paper was written hotmail had 100 million users. I assume under this growth rate they were adding servers constantly, making comparisons between the number of servers required to handle the load difficult. As someone else posted in this thread, you have to look at the number of users individual machines could handle and it seems like Windows 2000 actually did better than FreeBSD in that account.
I've always thought this too. I find it funny how companies get in such a big hurry to hire a bunch of people to get some project done as fast as possible only to lay them all off again and scrape the project 6-18 months later. Hire 1 person to do a job, you'll find out in a big hurry what that person is capable of since they are the only one. Then add another if the workload is too much for one person. Hire people as temps or contractors initially with no promise of perminent employement you can't tell what a person's really worth based on a couple of interviews and a resume anyways. After a couple of months you can hire the good ones on full time. Maybe then you won't end up with these projects that are millions of dollars over budget and years behind schedule. Hasn't anyone ready "The Mythical Man Month"?
It's funny how turning these appliances into Linux boxes has stopped more than one company from selling them at a loss (remember the iOpener or whatever that internet appliance was called?). In some ways encouraging people to use XBoxes as cheap Linux machines (or hell even cheap Windows boxes if you could get a desktop Windows running on it) could play into Sony's and Nintindo's favor.
I don't know about about the person who posted the article to /. but the article itself states pretty clearly that this is first strain resistant to vancomycin. I think the article mentioned that staph was already resistant to most other antibiotics. Vancomycin was one of our last defenses against staph evidently. That's why this was worth posting...
It's funny on zdnet a few days ago they had an article about what Palladium brings to the user and they had several use-case scenarios...in every case I couldn't help but wonder why anyone would want it on their computer. It seems like it's entire purpose is to protect someone's bottom line be it the software manufacturer, or some record label etc.
In 24 on Fox they have those lingering shots of Fords all over the place. In fact the season premier was brought to you without commercials by Ford if you didn't mind all the Ford cars in the actual show. Car manufacturers have been doing this for a long time, notice all the Lexus cars in the Minority Report. Unfortunately this is probably the future of advertising. Why do you think shoe companies are so eager to pay these professional athletes so much money to wear their shoes? Because seeing them wearing the gear in the game is worth more than any commercial they could play during the commercial breaks.
I think they were basically forced to compete with this feature because most of the satellite companies already offer DVR. It may be that the broadcasting and cinema groups are completely unaware of Time Warner Cable offering this. Kind of how Sony music seems to be trying to kill off the MP3 format and Sony Electronics keeps cranking out devices that can play MP3s. I think it's more likely that this is another case of a large company with a left hand that has no idea what the right hand is doing. Even though they do not offer a commercial skipping feature in their device they have to be aware that customers are going to be using it for such.
Actually they're getting resistant to both, a few seconds on Google found this link: WebMD
Exactly. I doubt the brain is doing any complex calculations simply just taking into account the thousands of other times it's seen projectiles and guessing based on that data where this one is going to go. I've been trying to teach my young children to catch for years and they still have trouble figuring out where the ball's going to go every time. They simply don't have the experience to pull from in every case yet.
Apple already has IDE or SCSI connectors on their motherboards as it is. SATA will probably replace those and not the Firewire. As other have posted Firewire is not a great solution for internal harddrives.
Yeh this caused my machine to reboot too. Just for clarification the original poster said tab and backslash, \b is backspace.
Ooops should have previewed...I just tried your code with i<1000000 and it's still running while I post this and obviously hasn't crashed yet.
I just tried your code with i
I tried this a couple of different ways on Windows 2000 a minute ago and it works fine and didn't crash my system. I used Visual Studio 6 w/ service pack 5. What's the trick? Here's my last attempt:
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int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
printf("\t\t\t");
printf("\\\\\\");
printf("\t\t\t");
printf("\\\\\\");
return 0;
}
Not to mention that the networks don't even do a good job showing most sporting events. Let the cable channels like ESPN and Fox Sports show the sports since that's what they specialize in. Unfortionately this will never happen. Look how much the networks spend just to win the rights to a sporting event like the NBA finals, Superbowl or the Olympics. I doubt Fox will ever relinquish it's rights to the superbowl (without being outbid and how can the likes of ESPN compete with Fox) or NBC the rights to the NBA or the Olympics. So sports fans are stuck with mediocre coverage and crapy anouncers while network TV fans are stuck getting their favorite shows pre-empted or cancelled and the networks continue to line their pockets with money.
Has anyone else noticed that this is just about the most comments I've seen posted on here since 9/11. Nothing like a good old fashioned Evolution/Creation debate to ramp up the page hits. Not even Microsoft can compete.
The problem is giving credit where credit's due. There was a post on here a few months ago about Redhat releasing a driver (sorry I don't remember the details but it's on /. somewhere...) that was taken from one of the BSDs, without giving credit to the original developer of the driver (as the BSD license requires). I've had professors in the past that had no problem with you borrowing code as long as you cite where you got it from (just like writing a paper). I think Computer Science is still about getting the job done without reinventing the wheel but you need to make sure you aren't outright stealing someone else's work without either their consent or giving them credit.
I recently got an email from palm source titled: " Test your app on Prototype ARM Hardware at PalmSource" apparently I ended up on their email list when I signed up as a palm developer. At any rate palm appears to be pushing towards ARM hardware. In fact wasn't there an announcement recently that palm had some kind of deal with Texas Instruments to produce the ARM processors for them? Hopefully some more multimedia features (from BeIA/OS) will coincide with the move to the ARM hardware or shortly thereafter.
I remember seeing a 60 minutes episode a year or so ago where the packed some kind of sensors into boxes and shipped them using Fed Ex, UPS and USPS and then compared the results. If I remember the results correctly, UPS fared the best but none of them did well enough to make me want to ship any kind of electronics with any of them.