google finance is doing more than indexing information. And there are other google properties (orkut, blogger, documents, picasa, youtube, sketch up, etc) which aren't about indexing.
Microsoft (and occasionally Apple) can kill 3rd party software by including the functionality in the core OS. The nature of the web changes that dynamic, but google's prominence and popularity means everybody who relies on them for traffic should be worried.
Last year, we dumped apache (and http altogether) and went with a gopherd/fastcgi approach for serving up our php pages. For people still stuck on port 80, we have a squid proxy which converts the request to gopher. Since then, traffic has increased 34%, while average load has dropped by 20%.
Historically, MySQL has allowed invalid input (like the dates feature) and also silently truncated or altered invalid input (like sticking 257 into an 8-bit integer). I understand with v5 you can set 20 flags so it will work like a real database. Maybe.
MySQL is fast for simple queries. I've seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of mysql sucking for more complex stuff (multiple table joins, large volume sets, etc).
We've been running our web site on a MySQL 4.0 database with MyISAM
tables, and are currently in the process of migrating to PostgreSQL
8.1 purely on the basis that it's faster.
We have two queries that our site uses that, under MySQL 4.0, take
over 20 seconds to execute on a dual 2GHz G5 XServe. Some
experimentation showed that under MySQL 5.0 these same queries would
execute in about 6 seconds. PostgreSQL on a single 1.25GHz G4
machine would execute the same query in just 4 seconds.
This is not all that complex a query - it only involves 4 tables.
Where PostgreSQL really shines above MySQL is when multiple copies of
this query are being handled at the same time. If there's 3 of these
queries running concurrently then Postgres will deliver its results
in about 12 seconds, i.e. 3 times the amount of time. Three of these
queries under MySQL however results in them taking about 3 minutes to
complete. The performance of MySQL just continues to degrade if you
add on more queries - run about 8 of them together and you'll be
waiting over an hour for the results. PostgreSQL just scales up as
you would expect - 8 queries will complete in 32 seconds.
Supply and demand are less important than improvements in efficiency, productivity, and technology. Two prime examples: oil and food. Thomas Malthus predicted mass famines. His math was right, but he didn't predict the steel plow, tractors, selective breeding, improved fertilizer, etc. Since the 1960s, people have been predicting that the world will run out of oil within 10 years. But improved extraction techniques have resulted in a steady increase in proven oil reserves. (supply and demand also come into play here; high oil prices make it economically feasible to drill in smaller oil fields).
Now the math says that IPv4 will run out. It's hard to see how you can increase productivity of a 32-bit number (aside from NAT like solutions). But unlike oil and food, it has a replacement in IPv6
I have heard of people in California (naturally) that basically botnet the MLS: whenever a new house comes on the market, they submit a contract with contingencies allowing them to cancel. That cockblocks other people from looking at it while they take their time to actually look at it, reduce their offer, etc.
It's a slight exaggeration, but there's a lot of truth in there. Google has 2 dozen people working on a powerpoint webapp. The Paul Graham/YCombinator article a couple weeks back mentioned someone who was working on something similar in his spare time. Google tried to buy it out from him, but he turned them down. Buying something for the name value, goodwill, existing users, etc is one thing, but when you can't compete with an unreleased, part time project, maybe something is wrong.
That said, google is smart to be buying up other companies. The google stock price is inflated and will fall someday. Trading it in for other companies is financially prudent.
IBM used to be the kingfisher. Then a small company selling operating systems and basic interpreters for toy home computer overtook them. Now a small company doing web searches is overtaking them... see a pattern here?
spam generating zombie PCs generally falsify the From: header in outgoing mail, based on email addresses found on the victim's computer. The @yahoo.com email address would therefore indicate that yahoo mail is quite popular.
Slashdot Mirror
Here you go!
set org.slashdot.dont_make_changes_on_the_live_server_ yes_im_talking_to_you_cmdrtaco=1
Microsoft (and occasionally Apple) can kill 3rd party software by including the functionality in the core OS. The nature of the web changes that dynamic, but google's prominence and popularity means everybody who relies on them for traffic should be worried.
It makes me wonder why google doesn't partner with AP/UPI/Knight Ridder/Reuters, etc and cut out the middleman. Or how long it will be until they do.
Like killing smart people to eat their brains?
truly an American icon.
try LOL - Linux/OCaml/Lighttpd
Last year, we dumped apache (and http altogether) and went with a gopherd/fastcgi approach for serving up our php pages. For people still stuck on port 80, we have a squid proxy which converts the request to gopher. Since then, traffic has increased 34%, while average load has dropped by 20%.
People's rights be even more restricted if he had never invented the infrared grill in the first place.
I was hoping it might be hot enough to cook a decent pizza (think coal fired ovens). I guess that's not the case? too bad.
You don't need to topple adsense. Click fraud (and their inability/unwillingness to do anything about it) are already doing that.
Also, pre 1970 time_t support is inconsistent.
Historically, MySQL has allowed invalid input (like the dates feature) and also silently truncated or altered invalid input (like sticking 257 into an 8-bit integer). I understand with v5 you can set 20 flags so it will work like a real database. Maybe.
MySQL is fast for simple queries. I've seen a lot of anecdotal evidence of mysql sucking for more complex stuff (multiple table joins, large volume sets, etc).
Example
We've been running our web site on a MySQL 4.0 database with MyISAM tables, and are currently in the process of migrating to PostgreSQL 8.1 purely on the basis that it's faster. We have two queries that our site uses that, under MySQL 4.0, take over 20 seconds to execute on a dual 2GHz G5 XServe. Some experimentation showed that under MySQL 5.0 these same queries would execute in about 6 seconds. PostgreSQL on a single 1.25GHz G4 machine would execute the same query in just 4 seconds. This is not all that complex a query - it only involves 4 tables.Where PostgreSQL really shines above MySQL is when multiple copies of this query are being handled at the same time. If there's 3 of these queries running concurrently then Postgres will deliver its results in about 12 seconds, i.e. 3 times the amount of time. Three of these queries under MySQL however results in them taking about 3 minutes to complete. The performance of MySQL just continues to degrade if you add on more queries - run about 8 of them together and you'll be waiting over an hour for the results. PostgreSQL just scales up as you would expect - 8 queries will complete in 32 seconds.
#8: "February 31, 2007"
Supply and demand are less important than improvements in efficiency, productivity, and technology. Two prime examples: oil and food. Thomas Malthus predicted mass famines. His math was right, but he didn't predict the steel plow, tractors, selective breeding, improved fertilizer, etc. Since the 1960s, people have been predicting that the world will run out of oil within 10 years. But improved extraction techniques have resulted in a steady increase in proven oil reserves. (supply and demand also come into play here; high oil prices make it economically feasible to drill in smaller oil fields).
Now the math says that IPv4 will run out. It's hard to see how you can increase productivity of a 32-bit number (aside from NAT like solutions). But unlike oil and food, it has a replacement in IPv6
I have heard of people in California (naturally) that basically botnet the MLS: whenever a new house comes on the market, they submit a contract with contingencies allowing them to cancel. That cockblocks other people from looking at it while they take their time to actually look at it, reduce their offer, etc.
It's a slight exaggeration, but there's a lot of truth in there. Google has 2 dozen people working on a powerpoint webapp. The Paul Graham/YCombinator article a couple weeks back mentioned someone who was working on something similar in his spare time. Google tried to buy it out from him, but he turned them down. Buying something for the name value, goodwill, existing users, etc is one thing, but when you can't compete with an unreleased, part time project, maybe something is wrong.
That said, google is smart to be buying up other companies. The google stock price is inflated and will fall someday. Trading it in for other companies is financially prudent.
IBM used to be the kingfisher. Then a small company selling operating systems and basic interpreters for toy home computer overtook them. Now a small company doing web searches is overtaking them... see a pattern here?
Oh deepest, not smelliest. My bad.
Just a tip: use lots of lube. Popping your ass cherry can be painful, have your boyfriend start off with just a finger and work up from there.
Mac OS X has a BSD/unix/posix layer, but there's a lot of other stuff (Quartz, Aqua, display PDF, cocoa, carbon, etc) involved.
A chainsaw and a car both run on gasoline and oil, but I wouldn't ride a chainsaw.
I take it your development team never went on a 7-day cocaine/hooker orgy and deleted all the source code?
They will include crapware... gnome! But with windows crapware, they get paid for it. Paid crapware more than covers the cost of windows.
spam generating zombie PCs generally falsify the From: header in outgoing mail, based on email addresses found on the victim's computer. The @yahoo.com email address would therefore indicate that yahoo mail is quite popular.