You're not too old for a permanent job at 61! Srsly, how many permanent staff stay more than 3-6 years anyway?
{spam}btw we are hiring perl programmers in london (w12/oxford circus) and tbh I'd love to hire someone who is keeping up and interested in new things - nosql, scalability, soa etc{/spam} - seems like lovefilm slurped up every perl programmer left in london:-)
Sorry, I meant that continuing to support XP means writing updates to fix newly-found security holes. If they don't, they'll look bad when the inevitable rampant virus emerges and takes over 43% of the world.
For offline use, go nuts and keep your machine for as long as you like.
IMO the cool thing about the raspi is that you can just give one each to your kids. The laptop is still sufficiently expensive to be shared, and fixing it so the others can get to wikipedia for homework research is sufficiently annoying and time consuming to discourage too much messing about.
I gave my 6-year-old his own account on my macbook; within a week he had magically managed to change some font anti-aliasing option that affected all users. Took me hours to fix, he now has a completely locked-down account. I can give him a raspi of his own and if it breaks everyone can still use the family computer while he uses his sister's raspi to automatically reimage the OS on his SD card.
Given that they have been required to produce 'posters' since primary school and the first thing they want to do is change the font to comic sans, *yes*, they all know how to open a document and change a font.
At least since year 2 (6 year olds), anyway. TFA is about secondary ICT, which is incredibly *still* about powerpoint/word up to GCSE level.
When I asked one teacher if they taught any programming in ICT responded 'There's no point, because any language we teach them will be obsolete by the time they leave' (he didn't see the irony that he was teaching kids to use office 2003 in 2011). Would love to see the look on his face today:-)
The source says 'children as young as four' have mobiles, meaning that 55% of all 4-9 year olds must have a mobile in order for the "33% of under tens" to be true
One-third of 8-10 year olds I can believe (most people I know are getting their kids phones when they start secondary school at 10-11), but 55% of 4-9 less so.
"The consoles are close enough in raw power that the talents of the developer and style of the artists is far more important than the console."
360 Theoretical performance: 1TFLOP
PS3 Theoretical performance: 2 TFLOPs
There is a nice gap, there, in raw power.
There's a nice gap there in *theoretical* raw power. As the OP pointed out, in reality there's pretty much nothing in it. And the point is moot, as the wii is running them both ragged in terms of sales.
As a wise man once said: 'in theory there's no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is.'
Seriously, this sounds like Good News for the industry. An API for set top boxes that is more open than OpenTV, and has a sensible desktop client which can preview what it will look like on deployed machines?
Flash can scale for 4:3 and 16:9 machines instead of having a single bitmap font (cf: opentv, mheg, liberate). It antialiases fonts properly (cf: liberate, or 'at all' wrt opentv/mheg). It renders predictably (cf: ce-html). It allows you to use your own display fonts (cf: liberate, mheg), and predict how much content will display per page programatically (scrolling bad, paging good).
It allows for compression of content using zlib, for vector, resolution-independent graphics (smaller than the equivalent, SD-res jpeg).
I'm just hoping it gets deployed widely and that they find a sensible way to have a hardware player.
Which is why fusion-io is different from normal SSDs. The devices have 20% or more spare capacity and use a log-based FS with block mapping, so your writes don't go through the read/erase/rewrite cycle.
Obviously there is a little slowdown once the 20% has been used up and it goes into garbace-collection mode, but there are plenty of white papers around about steady-state usage (ie once it has started GC) and you can opt to use even less of the physical capacity in order to get more performance. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/performance/pdf/OracleFlash15.pdf for example.
a 65kb html page is going to be a problem in any browser. I've just tried this in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. Only the Webkit browsers seem not to hang.
Not hanging in Opera 7.62/win here, nor chrome . FF 3.0.3 confirmed hanging on inline search. The page itself doesn't seem to be a problem, but searching it does.
I have tried opera 9.6 on windows and osx. Both get 85/100 on acid3. They got 100/100 when there was a bug in the acid3 test which the webkit guys found, and only in an internal version, None of the released betas have ever got 100/100 AFAIK.
It falls behind on svg performance (I like to make big auto-generated sequece diagrams etc), javascript performance, rendering speed, debugging tools (network graphs showing page load times, for example) and features (auto-completing google search)
I have no idea how you can say that opera's JS performance is competitive vs ff3 or webkit nightlies - try running the benchmarks yourself rather than assuming.
It's still my preferred browser on windows (as I say, probably until chrome is a bit more polished or someone implements that right/left gesture) but webkit nightlies are the browser of choice on a mac. And I'm finding myself using other browsers far more recently, which is a shame.
Long-time opera user here, and I feel it's falling behind rapidly. No ACID3, relatively slow javascript, other browsers catching up.
When chrome gets fixed, safari gets inline search off the / key, FF stops being slow and/or any of them get the nifty right/left click gesture to go back I'll be switching.
Although just typing/. in the address bar to go to slashdot may be the opera clincher:-)
I found Cacti a nightmare to configure, setting up custom graphs is comically complicated (why can't I just use rrd syntax rather than clicking buttons?) and we always end up with three data sources for the same things. Support for SNMPv3 is patchy, and we needed to jump through hoops to get the graphs to cope with multiple cpus (cpu usage over 100%? It wraps back to zero...).
Assuming, of course, that you can actually *get* an iodrive. They've been remarkably quiet since 'shipping' in 'April'. No benchmarks, no stockists, nothing.
Agreed that there's a whole load of us waiting for an SSD that does a decent amount of iops for small writes - sustained transfer is a pretty irrelevant metric unless you're copying huge files from one disk to another.
There's a link in the white paper to the benchmarks (http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00064), which then gives you pricing info on the tested configurations.
A 1TB array with 40, 15k 2.5" drives in raid 1 is $36,500 (list price is $61k, the price used by the spc has a 40% discount!) with a three-year, 24/7 4hr maintenance contract. It generates 8,720.12 SPC-1 IOPS, making it $4.19/IOP
The other tested config used 20 146GB drives to get 5,800 IOPS for $21k, $3.53/IOP.
(a 12TB netapp system, FAS3040 gets 31k IOPS for $420k = $13.61/IOP as a comparison, no 40% discount here:-)).
Now double check the quotes. "World Record SPC Benchmark 1T: Lowest cost per SPC-1 IOPS1". Hmmm. RamSan400 gets 291,208 IOPS for $194k, at $0.67/IOP (Some places on the xiotech website say 'lowest cost per disk IOPS' as some kind of get out clause, but not all.)
Interesting that the support contract for netapp & EMC appears to be as much as a xiotech array + contract, although they do seem to have 140-150 disks in the tested configurations rather than a measly 20:-)
There's been something of a renaissance in the last few years, what with the modular Cafe Corner (which has a whole blog devoted to it) and the creator houses. Not to mention lego's official 3d modeller which links in to their ordering system - design a model and they'll ship you all the parts for it in a custom box with a picture of your model on the front.
No, he doesn't want to give you the site because he's already given you information about margins, turnover etc etc etc. As it stands it's interesting information about how supporting an older browser results in a not-insignificant amount of business; telling you the site would Obviously be a different level of disclosure.
Have you ever written a CSS-protected dvd? Or simply removed the css protection and played it in a player that will play non-protected dvds? In the case of passports, the readers are more interested in enforcing the protection than the far-eastern DVD player manufacturers (remember that the first dvd players required modding or 'secret' codes before they would play multiregion discs)
However, there is at least one way to "sell" your vote (either for monetary gain or "continued good health").
Take a cellphone camera in with you, take a picture of the ballot (serial number, top and bottom sheets, with your mark on the left hand side). This shows the match between the letter and the mark. You can then remotely verify that the vote with the serial number was cast on the left hand side.
However, there's nothing to stop the "seller" placing a piece of paper between top and bottom sheets with transposed letters - the photo would show a left mark and the letter "A" but the underlying bottom sheet could be the flipped set with a "B" underneath.
Nice system:-)
I wish the 15 second overview was a little less misleading though:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Of course :-)
more webapp-focussed - http://blog.moonfruit.com/post/2012/08/08/Perl-Application-Developer
or more systems focussed (scaling, soa etc ) - http://blog.moonfruit.com/post/2012/08/08/Perl-Platform-Developer
Bizarrely no-one put contact details on those blog posts, but email jobs@moonfruit.com if you are interested. 61 would not be our oldest programmer :-)
You're not too old for a permanent job at 61! Srsly, how many permanent staff stay more than 3-6 years anyway?
{spam}btw we are hiring perl programmers in london (w12/oxford circus) and tbh I'd love to hire someone who is keeping up and interested in new things - nosql, scalability, soa etc{/spam} - seems like lovefilm slurped up every perl programmer left in london :-)
Sorry, I meant that continuing to support XP means writing updates to fix newly-found security holes. If they don't, they'll look bad when the inevitable rampant virus emerges and takes over 43% of the world.
For offline use, go nuts and keep your machine for as long as you like.
IMO the cool thing about the raspi is that you can just give one each to your kids. The laptop is still sufficiently expensive to be shared, and fixing it so the others can get to wikipedia for homework research is sufficiently annoying and time consuming to discourage too much messing about.
I gave my 6-year-old his own account on my macbook; within a week he had magically managed to change some font anti-aliasing option that affected all users. Took me hours to fix, he now has a completely locked-down account. I can give him a raspi of his own and if it breaks everyone can still use the family computer while he uses his sister's raspi to automatically reimage the OS on his SD card.
Given that they have been required to produce 'posters' since primary school and the first thing they want to do is change the font to comic sans, *yes*, they all know how to open a document and change a font.
At least since year 2 (6 year olds), anyway. TFA is about secondary ICT, which is incredibly *still* about powerpoint/word up to GCSE level.
When I asked one teacher if they taught any programming in ICT responded 'There's no point, because any language we teach them will be obsolete by the time they leave' (he didn't see the irony that he was teaching kids to use office 2003 in 2011). Would love to see the look on his face today :-)
The source says 'children as young as four' have mobiles, meaning that 55% of all 4-9 year olds must have a mobile in order for the "33% of under tens" to be true
One-third of 8-10 year olds I can believe (most people I know are getting their kids phones when they start secondary school at 10-11), but 55% of 4-9 less so.
"The consoles are close enough in raw power that the talents of the developer and style of the artists is far more important than the console."
360 Theoretical performance: 1TFLOP
PS3 Theoretical performance: 2 TFLOPs
There is a nice gap, there, in raw power.
There's a nice gap there in *theoretical* raw power. As the OP pointed out, in reality there's pretty much nothing in it. And the point is moot, as the wii is running them both ragged in terms of sales.
As a wise man once said: 'in theory there's no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is.'
Seriously, this sounds like Good News for the industry. An API for set top boxes that is more open than OpenTV, and has a sensible desktop client which can preview what it will look like on deployed machines?
Flash can scale for 4:3 and 16:9 machines instead of having a single bitmap font (cf: opentv, mheg, liberate). It antialiases fonts properly (cf: liberate, or 'at all' wrt opentv/mheg). It renders predictably (cf: ce-html). It allows you to use your own display fonts (cf: liberate, mheg), and predict how much content will display per page programatically (scrolling bad, paging good).
It allows for compression of content using zlib, for vector, resolution-independent graphics (smaller than the equivalent, SD-res jpeg).
I'm just hoping it gets deployed widely and that they find a sensible way to have a hardware player.
Which is why fusion-io is different from normal SSDs. The devices have 20% or more spare capacity and use a log-based FS with block mapping, so your writes don't go through the read/erase/rewrite cycle.
Obviously there is a little slowdown once the 20% has been used up and it goes into garbace-collection mode, but there are plenty of white papers around about steady-state usage (ie once it has started GC) and you can opt to use even less of the physical capacity in order to get more performance. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/performance/pdf/OracleFlash15.pdf for example.
a 65kb html page is going to be a problem in any browser. I've just tried this in Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari. Only the Webkit browsers seem not to hang.
Not hanging in Opera 7.62/win here, nor chrome . FF 3.0.3 confirmed hanging on inline search. The page itself doesn't seem to be a problem, but searching it does.
dG in command mode also deletes from current position to the end of the file (in vim, at least)
I have tried opera 9.6 on windows and osx. Both get 85/100 on acid3. They got 100/100 when there was a bug in the acid3 test which the webkit guys found, and only in an internal version, None of the released betas have ever got 100/100 AFAIK.
It falls behind on svg performance (I like to make big auto-generated sequece diagrams etc), javascript performance, rendering speed, debugging tools (network graphs showing page load times, for example) and features (auto-completing google search)
I have no idea how you can say that opera's JS performance is competitive vs ff3 or webkit nightlies - try running the benchmarks yourself rather than assuming.
It's still my preferred browser on windows (as I say, probably until chrome is a bit more polished or someone implements that right/left gesture) but webkit nightlies are the browser of choice on a mac. And I'm finding myself using other browsers far more recently, which is a shame.
Long-time opera user here, and I feel it's falling behind rapidly. No ACID3, relatively slow javascript, other browsers catching up.
When chrome gets fixed, safari gets inline search off the / key, FF stops being slow and/or any of them get the nifty right/left click gesture to go back I'll be switching.
Although just typing /. in the address bar to go to slashdot may be the opera clincher :-)
I found Cacti a nightmare to configure, setting up custom graphs is comically complicated (why can't I just use rrd syntax rather than clicking buttons?) and we always end up with three data sources for the same things. Support for SNMPv3 is patchy, and we needed to jump through hoops to get the graphs to cope with multiple cpus (cpu usage over 100%? It wraps back to zero...).
Assuming, of course, that you can actually *get* an iodrive. They've been remarkably quiet since 'shipping' in 'April'. No benchmarks, no stockists, nothing.
Agreed that there's a whole load of us waiting for an SSD that does a decent amount of iops for small writes - sustained transfer is a pretty irrelevant metric unless you're copying huge files from one disk to another.
Buy a widescreen monitor with rotate. Rotate into portrait mode - voila!
Unfortunately you become an 80-column nazi instead.
Well, if it fixes the airport scanning problem then I'll be a happy bunny...
There's a link in the white paper to the benchmarks (http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1#a00064), which then gives you pricing info on the tested configurations.
:-)).
:-)
A 1TB array with 40, 15k 2.5" drives in raid 1 is $36,500 (list price is $61k, the price used by the spc has a 40% discount!) with a three-year, 24/7 4hr maintenance contract. It generates 8,720.12 SPC-1 IOPS, making it $4.19/IOP
The other tested config used 20 146GB drives to get 5,800 IOPS for $21k, $3.53/IOP.
(a 12TB netapp system, FAS3040 gets 31k IOPS for $420k = $13.61/IOP as a comparison, no 40% discount here
Now double check the quotes. "World Record SPC Benchmark 1T: Lowest cost per SPC-1 IOPS1". Hmmm. RamSan400 gets 291,208 IOPS for $194k, at $0.67/IOP (Some places on the xiotech website say 'lowest cost per disk IOPS' as some kind of get out clause, but not all.)
Interesting that the support contract for netapp & EMC appears to be as much as a xiotech array + contract, although they do seem to have 140-150 disks in the tested configurations rather than a measly 20
The UK came in sixth with just under 14 million broadband users at the end of March [2007]
Arguably an OpenID server which authenticates everyone automatically is equivalent to using mailinator or bugmenot?
There's been something of a renaissance in the last few years, what with the modular Cafe Corner (which has a whole blog devoted to it) and the creator houses. Not to mention lego's official 3d modeller which links in to their ordering system - design a model and they'll ship you all the parts for it in a custom box with a picture of your model on the front.
No, he doesn't want to give you the site because he's already given you information about margins, turnover etc etc etc. As it stands it's interesting information about how supporting an older browser results in a not-insignificant amount of business; telling you the site would Obviously be a different level of disclosure.
Erm... I think you meant to say that the Rolls Royce is the Rolls Royce of cars?
well, yes and no.
Have you ever written a CSS-protected dvd? Or simply removed the css protection and played it in a player that will play non-protected dvds? In the case of passports, the readers are more interested in enforcing the protection than the far-eastern DVD player manufacturers (remember that the first dvd players required modding or 'secret' codes before they would play multiregion discs)
Take a cellphone camera in with you, take a picture of the ballot (serial number, top and bottom sheets, with your mark on the left hand side). This shows the match between the letter and the mark. You can then remotely verify that the vote with the serial number was cast on the left hand side.
However, there's nothing to stop the "seller" placing a piece of paper between top and bottom sheets with transposed letters - the photo would show a left mark and the letter "A" but the underlying bottom sheet could be the flipped set with a "B" underneath.
Nice system :-)
I wish the 15 second overview was a little less misleading though :-)