In addition, Anand used sub-optimal memory in the Opteron, and non-NUMA config.
Looks like he had some Intel "assistance" in designing the "benchmarks" as well... the database read/write ratio is not at all realistic, favors the Xeon.
The annoying little kids who think it's cool to steal IP are totally shooting themselves in the foot. One day, someone is going to write a history of the free software movement, and it's going to sound like this:
"The community of intellectuals and idealists that developed this software was keenly aware of the need for strong intellectual property protection. They understood that the GPL was utterly powerless in a world without protected IP.
"But ultimately, as they succeeded in growing the community of users, these leaders were blindsided by the influx of a more practical sort of user. These consumers of the free software weren't interested in the freedom-to-modify aspects of the software. They were motivated by the fact that it didn't cost anything.
"But one thing they did pick up on was the incredible fervor of the founders of the movement that it was a moral imperative that software should be 'Free'. They championed this, and expressed outrage when copy-protection schemes were put in place, even around other forms of intellectual property, like movies.
"In the end, the behavior was so widespread in the culture that the Free Software leadership lost all credibillity in the legal world. Among legal scholars and the courts, the view of the GPL and Free Software ultimately became one of resigned pragmatic rejection:
"'A long history of experience has shown that owners of the property cannot reasonably expect these licenses to protect their property from being freely distributed. Our society has rejected the idea that if an author fails to meaningfully protect his property from copying, somehow he can require the government to protect it for him. "
gotcha, sorry i missed the original point.
i don't have any idea how much he's paying the retailer to handle this stuff. usually you have to pay big fees for promotion and placement of products before a retailer will even begin to carry it.
maybe if you email him he'll just send it to you directly.
dude -- this guy made this movie with his own money and is selling it with no encryption or region encoding because the community is always bitching about how evil the movie industry is with all their countermeasures.
If you want the DVD, just buy it. Show some support for one of the few people who did exactly what we're always asking for.
You know, that's just rude.
The director self-financed this documentary, and has been one of the most flexible and open independent filmmakers EVER in trying to publish incredible material about the linux & open source community without doing the bullshit things that the big media companies do, like regional encoding.
To stiff him his $15 bucks on such an amazing and expensive-to-produce piece of Linux history is EXACTLY the attitude that the RIAA expects of us.
If I see this thing on Kazaa, I'll change my opinion about the RIAA's stuff. There's no reason to fight for the moral high ground if the community acts so incredibly selfish and hypocritical, and destroys one of the most obvious supporters of the open-source value system.
hey... did you see that SourceForge 3.2 gets a plug in the new Michael Crichton novel, Prey? The blond, surfer hacker guy wears a SourceForge 3.2 t-shirt!
It's weird what the authors pick up as signs of the community.
just because something generates revenue, doesn't mean it can generate profit. things that are expensive to provide have a low gross margin, and make it hard to be profitable.
selling open source software is a near-zero-margin business. you can't possibly cover salaries and things. that's why all the "open source" companies are tiny consultancies selling hours (not software, really), or sell proprietary plug-ins, like Covalent, the apache people.
selling advertising on slashdot can generate lots of revenue dollars, but there are huge costs of revenue from paying the bandwidth and the staff and everything. as a whole, the online advertising industry is almost impossible to succeed in unless you're incredibly large and already have other publications to leverage your overhead against, the way that AOL/TW does, and even then it's tough to make money in a recession, because advertising spending is the first thing companies cut.
There was this killer article in the New York Times last week about how cell phones are making "squishy time" more common.
People can be late for meetings as long as they call and say things like "I'm fifteen minutes away," and it's now more acceptable. He also talks about how you sort of plan unspecifically to meet someone for dinner after work, and you sort of home in on each other in location and time by calling their phones in the middle of a crowd or a parking lot.
I never wear a watch anymore, really. I think the days of precise time for human scheduling are starting to weaken.
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I wore my Dad's accutron throughout junior high school. People used to ask me about it, and I'd tell them the story of the Astronaut watch.
The coolest thing was, it hummed all the time, and the desks would amplify the sound. During a test, when all the room was quiet and scratching pencils, I would put it on my desk, next to Nadine, my hot 13-year-old desk mate, and she'd smile at the sound it made. That was great.
Then she'd say, "Nerd," and stick out her tongue. That was soooooo great. But I would blush.
Later on, on the foursquare court, people would ask about it, and if I wanted them to think I was cool, I'd let them put their ear to my arm and listen to it.
I tried the same thing last week. The girl at the bar laughed at me, said, "Nerd," and took my buddy home for some reportedly mind-blowing sex.
Call me a cynical deconstructionist, but I think it's more important to realize what BEA is trying to do with comments like this.
Clearly, BEA needs to grow over the next decade, and has to be very careful about the inevitable market power that Microsoft will have with.Net. Whether or not you you like it versus J2EE, Microsoft has the deep pockets to basically buy a market position for.Net over the next five years. BEA is king of the hill today, in a Java dominated market. As.Net grows, there will be a new niche opening. That might be filled by Microsoft itself, but it will be just as attractive for a more enterprise-oriented new company to fill if BEA doesn't.
BEA isn't stupid. It realizes it has to be ready as a potential Microsoft partner, or it risks limiting its dominant position in the application servers and related software market to the Java side of the world. That's why it's being so "honest" about things like this.
Plot: The Ribbon comes swooping by early 21st Century San Francisco and deposits a young Wesley Crusher in the famous rainbow-striped shirt at the corner of Haight and Ashbury.
The story unfolds as he battles depression, overcome that the once-hip intersection is now dominated by a huge Starbucks, serving only Earl Grey, hot, and Mint Tea, hot, with a Ben and Jerry's across the street.
He retreats to a small internet cafe and spends the next twenty years working on his blog, and occasionally visiting Gracie the whale at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which for some reason has been moved ninety miles to the City.
At the age of 37, Wesley's snatched out of the oncoming path of a hurtling Suliban-driven MUNI bus by a Traveler from another time, who does some weird magic with his hands and looks despondent, and suddenly they're both in a huge City in the far-distant future, where everything is destruction and decay, and all the citizens are dead.
"This wasn't supposed to happen," says the Traveler.
Roll credits
No. There's a huge, massive, practically engorged difference between the VHS and audio cassette markets.
Audiophiles could limp toward CD purchasing without too much concern, but the true VHS addicts are turgid in their desire to replay and replay particular favorite scenes from old collections, even if they originally shot in the 80s.
Now, I realize that their VHS performance does degrade over time, it's pretty clear these hard-core fans will happily squeeze out 50 or 60 bucks for new versions of the same old tapes.
Clearly, these fans are also being teased by more modern devices, like DVDs and the Internet, but they're not going to wipe up and flush their VHS collections. And if their VCR breaks, there's no question they're going to buy a brand-spanking new one. They've just got too much stock on hand to ignore.
Look Jon -- It's a convenient device to raise the battle between Spider-man and AotC to the level of culture-shifting battles between one kids generation and the next.
But to say that Lucas has a lock on marketroid obsession and that the Stan Lee clan hasn't tried to "shroud Spider-man in market hype", and that that's why Spider-man is winning the hearts of all the little Generation X++ers, isn't just wishful thinking... it's plain wrong.
For breakfast this morning, I had Kellog's Spider-man cereal. (Honestly. I really did.) It tasted just like Cap'n Crunch Berries, but it sure looked like little spider webs. I could have tried the Spider-man Pop-tarts or Rice-Krispies, but I was in the mood for something a little sweeter.
Then I popped over to Wal-mart to pick up the new Spider-man game, and found out I could get a free trip to Universal Studios, complements of Sam Walton!
For lunch I "swung into Carl's Jr" or did I "drop into Hardee's" for a quick Spider-man burger, and washed it down with a Spider-man Dr. Pepper, which I became a big fan of ever since I heard they were racing a Spider-man Dr. Pepper car in the NASCAR Busch Series.
The amazing thing is, even the marketing press is completely aware of what Sony Pictures is doing with Spider-man. Why aren't you?
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In addition, Anand used sub-optimal memory in the Opteron, and non-NUMA config. Looks like he had some Intel "assistance" in designing the "benchmarks" as well... the database read/write ratio is not at all realistic, favors the Xeon.
The annoying little kids who think it's cool to steal IP are totally shooting themselves in the foot. One day, someone is going to write a history of the free software movement, and it's going to sound like this:
"The community of intellectuals and idealists that developed this software was keenly aware of the need for strong intellectual property protection. They understood that the GPL was utterly powerless in a world without protected IP.
"But ultimately, as they succeeded in growing the community of users, these leaders were blindsided by the influx of a more practical sort of user. These consumers of the free software weren't interested in the freedom-to-modify aspects of the software. They were motivated by the fact that it didn't cost anything.
"But one thing they did pick up on was the incredible fervor of the founders of the movement that it was a moral imperative that software should be 'Free'. They championed this, and expressed outrage when copy-protection schemes were put in place, even around other forms of intellectual property, like movies.
"In the end, the behavior was so widespread in the culture that the Free Software leadership lost all credibillity in the legal world. Among legal scholars and the courts, the view of the GPL and Free Software ultimately became one of resigned pragmatic rejection:
"'A long history of experience has shown that owners of the property cannot reasonably expect these licenses to protect their property from being freely distributed. Our society has rejected the idea that if an author fails to meaningfully protect his property from copying, somehow he can require the government to protect it for him. "
gotcha, sorry i missed the original point. i don't have any idea how much he's paying the retailer to handle this stuff. usually you have to pay big fees for promotion and placement of products before a retailer will even begin to carry it. maybe if you email him he'll just send it to you directly.
If you want the DVD, just buy it. Show some support for one of the few people who did exactly what we're always asking for.
To stiff him his $15 bucks on such an amazing and expensive-to-produce piece of Linux history is EXACTLY the attitude that the RIAA expects of us.
If I see this thing on Kazaa, I'll change my opinion about the RIAA's stuff. There's no reason to fight for the moral high ground if the community acts so incredibly selfish and hypocritical, and destroys one of the most obvious supporters of the open-source value system.
hey... did you see that SourceForge 3.2 gets a plug in the new Michael Crichton novel, Prey? The blond, surfer hacker guy wears a SourceForge 3.2 t-shirt! It's weird what the authors pick up as signs of the community.
it always boggles me that people are so clueless about how companies make money.
Revenue
- Cost of revenue
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Gross margin
-operating costs
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profit (or loss)
just because something generates revenue, doesn't mean it can generate profit. things that are expensive to provide have a low gross margin, and make it hard to be profitable.
selling open source software is a near-zero-margin business. you can't possibly cover salaries and things. that's why all the "open source" companies are tiny consultancies selling hours (not software, really), or sell proprietary plug-ins, like Covalent, the apache people.
selling advertising on slashdot can generate lots of revenue dollars, but there are huge costs of revenue from paying the bandwidth and the staff and everything. as a whole, the online advertising industry is almost impossible to succeed in unless you're incredibly large and already have other publications to leverage your overhead against, the way that AOL/TW does, and even then it's tough to make money in a recession, because advertising spending is the first thing companies cut.
Bong-O-Rama. Humming. Excellent.
That's the thing I remember most about that movie. Mr. Roarke had become a professional wrestler, or a romance novel clutch hero.
Right. Maybe I'll try to get him to wear it next time we go out.
Of course, he'll probably find some spectacular and brilliant engineer who thinks it's hot and takes him home for some more mind-blowing sex.
There was this killer article in the New York Times last week about how cell phones are making "squishy time" more common.
People can be late for meetings as long as they call and say things like "I'm fifteen minutes away," and it's now more acceptable. He also talks about how you sort of plan unspecifically to meet someone for dinner after work, and you sort of home in on each other in location and time by calling their phones in the middle of a crowd or a parking lot.
I never wear a watch anymore, really. I think the days of precise time for human scheduling are starting to weaken.
I wore my Dad's accutron throughout junior high school. People used to ask me about it, and I'd tell them the story of the Astronaut watch.
The coolest thing was, it hummed all the time, and the desks would amplify the sound. During a test, when all the room was quiet and scratching pencils, I would put it on my desk, next to Nadine, my hot 13-year-old desk mate, and she'd smile at the sound it made. That was great.
Then she'd say, "Nerd," and stick out her tongue. That was soooooo great. But I would blush.
Later on, on the foursquare court, people would ask about it, and if I wanted them to think I was cool, I'd let them put their ear to my arm and listen to it.
I tried the same thing last week. The girl at the bar laughed at me, said, "Nerd," and took my buddy home for some reportedly mind-blowing sex.
Sigh.
Call me a cynical deconstructionist, but I think it's more important to realize what BEA is trying to do with comments like this.
.Net. Whether or not you you like it versus J2EE, Microsoft has the deep pockets to basically buy a market position for .Net over the next five years. BEA is king of the hill today, in a Java dominated market. As .Net grows, there will be a new niche opening. That might be filled by Microsoft itself, but it will be just as attractive for a more enterprise-oriented new company to fill if BEA doesn't.
Clearly, BEA needs to grow over the next decade, and has to be very careful about the inevitable market power that Microsoft will have with
BEA isn't stupid. It realizes it has to be ready as a potential Microsoft partner, or it risks limiting its dominant position in the application servers and related software market to the Java side of the world. That's why it's being so "honest" about things like this.
Plot: The Ribbon comes swooping by early 21st Century San Francisco and deposits a young Wesley Crusher in the famous rainbow-striped shirt at the corner of Haight and Ashbury. The story unfolds as he battles depression, overcome that the once-hip intersection is now dominated by a huge Starbucks, serving only Earl Grey, hot, and Mint Tea, hot, with a Ben and Jerry's across the street. He retreats to a small internet cafe and spends the next twenty years working on his blog, and occasionally visiting Gracie the whale at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which for some reason has been moved ninety miles to the City. At the age of 37, Wesley's snatched out of the oncoming path of a hurtling Suliban-driven MUNI bus by a Traveler from another time, who does some weird magic with his hands and looks despondent, and suddenly they're both in a huge City in the far-distant future, where everything is destruction and decay, and all the citizens are dead. "This wasn't supposed to happen," says the Traveler. Roll credits
No. There's a huge, massive, practically engorged difference between the VHS and audio cassette markets.
Audiophiles could limp toward CD purchasing without too much concern, but the true VHS addicts are turgid in their desire to replay and replay particular favorite scenes from old collections, even if they originally shot in the 80s.
Now, I realize that their VHS performance does degrade over time, it's pretty clear these hard-core fans will happily squeeze out 50 or 60 bucks for new versions of the same old tapes.
Clearly, these fans are also being teased by more modern devices, like DVDs and the Internet, but they're not going to wipe up and flush their VHS collections.
And if their VCR breaks, there's no question they're going to buy a brand-spanking new one. They've just got too much stock on hand to ignore.
Look Jon -- It's a convenient device to raise the battle between Spider-man and AotC to the level of culture-shifting battles between one kids generation and the next.
But to say that Lucas has a lock on marketroid obsession and that the Stan Lee clan hasn't tried to "shroud Spider-man in market hype", and that that's why Spider-man is winning the hearts of all the little Generation X++ers, isn't just wishful thinking... it's plain wrong.
For breakfast this morning, I had Kellog's Spider-man cereal. (Honestly. I really did.) It tasted just like Cap'n Crunch Berries, but it sure looked like little spider webs. I could have tried the Spider-man Pop-tarts or Rice-Krispies, but I was in the mood for something a little sweeter.
After breakfast I signed up for the new Spider-man Cingular account that I saw lots of cool commecials for, and entered to win a custom Spider-man Dodge Viper.
Then I popped over to Wal-mart to pick up the new Spider-man game, and found out I could get a free trip to Universal Studios, complements of Sam Walton! For lunch I "swung into Carl's Jr" or did I "drop into Hardee's" for a quick Spider-man burger, and washed it down with a Spider-man Dr. Pepper, which I became a big fan of ever since I heard they were racing a Spider-man Dr. Pepper car in the NASCAR Busch Series.
The amazing thing is, even the marketing press is completely aware of what Sony Pictures is doing with Spider-man. Why aren't you?