If someone doesn't mod the parent as funny, I'm going to weep neuronal growth factor (NGF).
More on topic, changing one parameter of complex system that is possibly well tuned for what it does, but not well tuned for parameter changes, may result in a system that is far less efficient or even completely broken.
Imagine if you magically made it possible for signals to travel on ethernet faster than routers could process them. You might see an increase in congestion or in misrouted packets. This in turn could melt down the network, or at least make it impossible for anyone to use it.
I am not trying to say that this is what the researchers have proposed. I'm just pointing out that making one thing better can put stress on or even break the entire system.
I travel a fair amount, and I also bike commute. Here's what I carry everywhere:
Fujitsu Lifebook P5020D notebook - excellent do-anything notebook with amazing battery life and a 1280x768 screen. Built-in wireless so I don't have to carry a PC card.
Cheap-o Targus computer bag. I have no great love for this, but no reason to replace it.
No Palm or PocketPC. I never got much use out of these. I don't need a list of 1000 contacts at hand, and I always have the notebook.
Cheap digital cell phone. No camera phone, no color, just basic service
Etymotic ER-4P earbuds. As lightweight as cheapo ear buds, but the sound rivals my old Sony MDR-V600 closed-ear monitor headphones.
Swiss-Tech Utili-key - amazingly cheap and useful and small. I thought it was just a silly gimmick, but now I use the thing all the time. Great design, great feel, and great utility.
a lot of stores don't want to do this, because in one small pissant purchase, you've cleared out the register of cash, which makes it difficult to give change to the next customer.
US grocery stores are happy to do this, because it turns dirty, messy cash into nice clean electronic bits.
They are especially happy to get rid of 50s and 100s, which ATMs rarely carry.
For large withdrawals, groceries are better than ATMs. And they really are happy to get rid of physical cash.
The Bittorrent client on certain operating systems cannot download and create a directory with more than n-thousand entries. I've seen this on either FreeBSD/tcsh or Windows 2K/Cygwin
I think it's a problem between the client and the shell.
More specifically, leeching is only possible when there is an excess of upload bandwidth. When the total upload suply of all clients connected to a tracker for a specific file exceeds the total download demand, the client does not do tit-for-tat.
In other words, you can only leech when it doesn't hurt.
I built a copy of the cardboard antenna that the winning team used at the core of their mongo-horn. It turns out that the design is quite robust (that is, even I can make it) and with just the amount of cardboard you'd get from two standard 16"x16" boxes, it's possible to make a 16db gain directional antenna.
What 16db means in terms of wireless use is than instead of picking up 4 access points from a rooftop using Netstumbler, I saw 40 different access points, including the BAWRN public node over eight miles away (with clear line of sight but an enormous amount of clutter in the fresnel zone).
I'm interested in whether they have some actual processing power in the box, perhaps an embedded PC, or if it's all just IDE drives plus a Promise RAID card and minimal USB + Firewire hardware.
Used or refurbished. Not quite the same as "new or refurbished."
They put your iPod in a LIFO repair queue, and possibly take a repaired dinged one off the end of the queue. You lose your collection of Einsturzende Neubaten but possibly gain a hard drive full of Nugent.
You don't think the Internet Archive has a suite of programs that maintain and organize and serve that data? Just because it doesn't say IBM DB2 on it doesn't mean it isn't a database.
Similarly, Google might be surprised to hear that, because they're not running Oracle, they're not maintaining, indexing, caching, serving, deleting, and updating data.
Oracle and its competitors have convinced people that databases are some sort of magic. They're not.
Google is probably somewhere in that range, but they don't tell. A rough guess would be 3307998701 pages * 100KB/page / 1024KB/MB / 1024MB/GB / 1024GB/TB = 308TB.
Google counts pages as indexed whether they have the page text or just an href with text pointing to a page. In other words, they count all the URLs in their crawl as pages.
The number of crawled pages is more like 50-70% of their count, based on my experiences with the Internet Archive's crawler.
Also, the average page size is 10-20KB, not 100KB.
Assuming 50% and 15KB/page, your formula would estimate their archive as ~20TB.
As someone who once was a Senior Data Mining Analyst at IBM and has worked on both Amazon.com's and the Internet Archive's databases, I can say that the Archive most certainly is a database.
Yes, it's flat files, and yes, it's indexed, and yes, it can handle add, insert, delete, and query.
Just because the mechanisms are visible and simple does not mean that the system is anything less than a real database.
For those of you interested in dieting, do check out The Hacker's Diet. It's dieting explained in terms of engineering and project management. It's very clear and describes the essentials without resorting to euphemisms or nonsense.
The "Damn Small Linux" version of the Knoppix distribution might fit. It's a 50M bootable ISO that concentrates on small and fast applications. It boots into Blackbox and I believe includes Dillo and Firebird.
An AC writes:
[i]Great, but I still don't see how the fight for freedom relates to this fight for "I want it all free free free!"[/i]
The American Revolution was as much about money as it was about political rights. The colonists wanted goods, if not free free free, at least cheap cheap cheap.
No taxation without representation is another way of saying "we're not getting good value for our money." Getting ticked off about prices, and then doing something illegal in response to them, is the American way.
And right now, consumers feel that they are being screwed by music labels. Not just in terms of dollars (and $15/cd is ridiculous -- I can buy movies for less!) but also in terms of the inconvenience.
Look at how popular iTunes is. Most people care more that the music is reasonable priced and [b]convenient[/b] to get to. The record labels are slow to satisfy this demand because 1) they don't want to tick off their existing channels (Wal-mart, record stores) and 2) they suffer from hideous inertia.
Kazaa and Napster are what made iTunes possible. Without these services as existance proofs and, better yet, threats, the record labels would never have agreed to participate in iTunes.
Vagary writes: But companies are typically taxed on earnings rather than on number of employees. Therefore a company would not save on health costs by outsourcing their labour.
In the US, most employers pay per-employee taxes for FICA (Social Security).
I just noticed you wanted a $500 machine. The ancestors of the U101 are the Sony PCG-U1 and PCG-U3. U1s are available on eBay for $700 (recent completed eBay auction), which is a bit better than the $1500-$1700 importer price for the U101. The U1 and U3 are Transmeta machines and have smaller screens than the U101.
The Japan-only Sony VAIO PCG-U101 is what you are describing. 600MHz Centrino, 256-512MB RAM, 30G HD, 2lbs. It's only got a 10.4" screen, but it's 1024x768 and has a zoom button.
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More on topic, changing one parameter of complex system that is possibly well tuned for what it does, but not well tuned for parameter changes, may result in a system that is far less efficient or even completely broken.
Imagine if you magically made it possible for signals to travel on ethernet faster than routers could process them. You might see an increase in congestion or in misrouted packets. This in turn could melt down the network, or at least make it impossible for anyone to use it.
I am not trying to say that this is what the researchers have proposed. I'm just pointing out that making one thing better can put stress on or even break the entire system.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
multizilla.mozdev.org
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Mod parent up. It's not a troll.
The author is asking whether GIMP is doing things that we don't see in commercial tools. I'm interested in this, too.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
US grocery stores are happy to do this, because it turns dirty, messy cash into nice clean electronic bits.
They are especially happy to get rid of 50s and 100s, which ATMs rarely carry.
For large withdrawals, groceries are better than ATMs. And they really are happy to get rid of physical cash.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The Bittorrent client on certain operating systems cannot download and create a directory with more than n-thousand entries. I've seen this on either FreeBSD/tcsh or Windows 2K/Cygwin
I think it's a problem between the client and the shell.
--Pat
More specifically, leeching is only possible when there is an excess of upload bandwidth. When the total upload suply of all clients connected to a tracker for a specific file exceeds the total download demand, the client does not do tit-for-tat.
In other words, you can only leech when it doesn't hurt.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
What 16db means in terms of wireless use is than instead of picking up 4 access points from a rooftop using Netstumbler, I saw 40 different access points, including the BAWRN public node over eight miles away (with clear line of sight but an enormous amount of clutter in the fresnel zone).
I used this design from Seattlewireless.net
I strongly recommended trying this as a project. It's easy and pretty cool.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
I'm interested in whether they have some actual processing power in the box, perhaps an embedded PC, or if it's all just IDE drives plus a Promise RAID card and minimal USB + Firewire hardware.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Lacie says the drive runs at 7200 RPM. Anyone know what's inside the case and what hardware glue they're using to connect them?
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Here are some to get you started:
Hacking the Linksys WRT54G (how to build new Linux images, compile new tools, etc)
Hacking the Linksys WRV54G (similar to above).
Custom Linux CramFS image for the Linksys WAP54G
Someone's also begun hacking the Linksys WET11
There may be others.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Used or refurbished. Not quite the same as "new or refurbished."
They put your iPod in a LIFO repair queue, and possibly take a repaired dinged one off the end of the queue. You lose your collection of Einsturzende Neubaten but possibly gain a hard drive full of Nugent.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
You don't think the Internet Archive has a suite of programs that maintain and organize and serve that data? Just because it doesn't say IBM DB2 on it doesn't mean it isn't a database.
Similarly, Google might be surprised to hear that, because they're not running Oracle, they're not maintaining, indexing, caching, serving, deleting, and updating data.
Oracle and its competitors have convinced people that databases are some sort of magic. They're not.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Google counts pages as indexed whether they have the page text or just an href with text pointing to a page. In other words, they count all the URLs in their crawl as pages.
The number of crawled pages is more like 50-70% of their count, based on my experiences with the Internet Archive's crawler.
Also, the average page size is 10-20KB, not 100KB.
Assuming 50% and 15KB/page, your formula would estimate their archive as ~20TB.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
As someone who once was a Senior Data Mining Analyst at IBM and has worked on both Amazon.com's and the Internet Archive's databases, I can say that the Archive most certainly is a database.
Yes, it's flat files, and yes, it's indexed, and yes, it can handle add, insert, delete, and query.
Just because the mechanisms are visible and simple does not mean that the system is anything less than a real database.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The "Damn Small Linux" version of the Knoppix distribution might fit. It's a 50M bootable ISO that concentrates on small and fast applications. It boots into Blackbox and I believe includes Dillo and Firebird.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
The American Revolution was as much about money as it was about political rights. The colonists wanted goods, if not free free free, at least cheap cheap cheap.
No taxation without representation is another way of saying "we're not getting good value for our money." Getting ticked off about prices, and then doing something illegal in response to them, is the American way.
And right now, consumers feel that they are being screwed by music labels. Not just in terms of dollars (and $15/cd is ridiculous -- I can buy movies for less!) but also in terms of the inconvenience.
Look at how popular iTunes is. Most people care more that the music is reasonable priced and [b]convenient[/b] to get to. The record labels are slow to satisfy this demand because 1) they don't want to tick off their existing channels (Wal-mart, record stores) and 2) they suffer from hideous inertia.
Kazaa and Napster are what made iTunes possible. Without these services as existance proofs and, better yet, threats, the record labels would never have agreed to participate in iTunes.
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat
In the US, most employers pay per-employee taxes for FICA (Social Security).
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Linux on the U101
Dynamism U101 page
Sony U101 page (in Japanese)
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu