If you read the blurb, or the article, this is not the same thing as ReadyBurst TM which MS touts as a new feature in Vista. ReadyBurst TM, allows you to plug in a flash drive and use it as a sort of replacement for part of the disk. ReadyBurst TM allows you to use up to 2GB of flash. This technology puts the flash right on the drive, uses a much smaller amount of flash (128-256MB is optimal), and is more about power management than speed increases. Think of it as a relatively large, non-volatile cache on the HDD. The drive can use it as a buffer until it's full then write the data in one concentrated burst. This way, the power hungry spinning drive only has to spin occasionally.
They may be effective, but Oracles sales organization is annoying as hell. I've downloaded many things from Oracles web site, and unfortunately my account *HAD* my real contact information on it. Invariably within 48 hours of any download I would get a call from an Oracle "Technician" asking in broken English if I needed any assistance with whatever I downloaded. The conversation would quickly turn into a mini-license audit, where the "Technician" was more interested in our existing installs and what our licensing was like than how the downloaded product was working. One the rare occasion that I actually could have used some help, the "technician" wouldn't be able to answer the simplest question. It got so bad that the corporate office sent a memo around saying don't talk to anyone from oracle for any reason, just forward them to someone at the home office whos job it is to deal with them.
It's almost like Oracle is doing everything they possibly can to promote MS Sql. They just went gestapo on us about licensing and decided that every person who walks up to a kiosk running an app with an oracle back end needs to be a named user, that or we need to buy per processor licensing. $80,000 for our dual proc backend box buys a lot developer time to port to a different database.
Not really. It's more like Ford making a deal with Alpine (stereo manufacturer) so that Alpine 10 disc changers only accepted 5 discs if installed in a non Ford vehicle. Basically, is a great move for Ford and not anti-competitive at all. It's most likely a foolish move for Alpine, but thats not really a big deal since there are other stereo companies.
In the long run, it's a non-issue to the consumer, they have other options.
There is no law here, no one is going to be FORCED to buy an Intel.
Maybe I've got bum equipment then because I have CF bulbs in many rooms in my house and they frequently take minutes to warm up to full brightness. I have 2 (in 1 fixture) in my bedroom and while they do turn on immediately, they are extremely dim for 5 minutes or more almost every time I turn them on. Furthermore, I just plain can't fit CF bulbs into all my fixtures, meaning if I wanted to completely move away from traditional bulbs I'd have to buy and install new light fixtures in a number of places as well. Also, there are spectrum problems with fluorescent bulbs, they just don't make the same quality of light unless you buy full spectrum bulbs which are 10x the cost (and they don't come in compact sizes at all). Where I live we only get a couple hours of daylight in the winter and there are serious health concerns associated with switching wholesale to non full spectrum bulbs.
So far my solution has been to replace 1/2 my bulbs with CF where I can. So I cut down on power usage some and still have rich full spectrum light...
I'm no "greenie" either. I'm just practicing what the energy business refers to as "Demand Destruction", the cost of electricity has gone up so high that myself and many other consumers are motivated to find ways to cut our usage. A large percentage of those cuts will never be regained by the energy industry once made, even if the cost of power suddenly drops. A good example of demand destruction is Hybrid cars. People buy them because the price of gas is high, but if the price of gas drops you don't see people running out and trading in their prius on a F-350.
Bingo! It's called a "Free Market", and it's the next best thing since sliced bread. Verizon owns the pipes (arguments about subsidies and eminent domain are moot, unless you can convince the courts) and they can do whatever they want with them. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot by alienating a large percentage of their users. So be it. As the parent said, another player with will step in to meet those needs.
Yeah? How many black guys were in your computer science classes? In my experience, minorities are the first hired and last laid off. I'm not being a racist or anything here, it's just what I have experienced.
I was look for a good place to drop a post saying that this is a complete waste of effort, because in a situation like this the goverment (EU search engine team) will always be thoroughly outperformed by the market (Google, Yahoo). After a couple minutes it hit me I should search for "dada21" first...
In short, I agree. This project has no chance of ever being in the same sport, much less the same league as Google, Yahoo, or even MSN.
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I did the same and get so little spam it's not even funny. I use both gmail and yahoo and both are excellent at rooting out the spam. The one difference being that I get a small amount (couple times a month) of Yahoo spam on the Yahoo account, which is a small price to pay for free email. I don't remember the last time I considered spam a serious problem.
Hows that for a useless "me too" post?
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Unless you want to do something useful. Like watch more than OTA or non-digital programming. In which case you'll have to set up an IR blaster. That's going to quadruple the 1 hour estimate at least. Then if you want to add a second tuner which you also want to do something useful add another couple hours.
Don't get me wrong. If you want a single tuner MythTV box which only needs to capture non-digital cable or OTA broadcast you can have it inside an hour. But the learning curve is steep after that. I have 2x pvr-150 each using it's own blaster to drive a cable box so I can watch more than 12 of my 200 channels. I have well over 40 hours invested in the setup and it's still not perfect.
To be fair, none of the windows solutions (beyondtv, sagetv) I looked at could accomplish this at all, so I guess I can't complain too much.
I responded to a different but similar comment already, but... My comment doesn't have anything to do with type. Basically what I'm trying to say is in non-declarative (you don't have to specifically declare variables) languages, it's easy to typo variable names and not know you did it.
String FOO;/* "EFF"+"OH"+"OH" */
FOO = 'BAR';
if (FO0 == 'BAR')/* notice that this FO0 = "EFF"+"OH"+"ZERO" */
{
print('This will never print and the compiler won''t tell you why');
}
My argument has nothing to do with types. I don't care what type foo and fo0 are. I'm saying is that if you think you're type foo and you really type fo0 and the complier doesn't bitch about it, you can and will end up spending a bunch of time trying to find out why fo0 = null even though you know damn well you just populated it 2 lines before.
Get my drift? The point is you typo the variable, and instead of being warned you basically just made an entirely new, and empty variable. But since the compiler doesn't give a crap, you're going to have to manually scan all the code and find the typo.
MythTv and cool new cases are great but IMHO it won't be "The year of the HTPC" until someone comes out with a cablecard v2 capable, hdtv capable capture card. Right now you're basically SOL if you want to capture anything but over the air HD content (which rules out a lot of great programming). If you want to view digital cable (all channels are digital in my area) or satelite you need a STB and some sort of IR blaster (none of which are elegant). And you can't get HDTV that way, even if the STB decodes HDTV, you're capture card will only capture SDTV.
What this market needs to REALLY take off and make the HDPC useful is a tv capture card that you can drop your cable card into and be 100% functional without a set top box. Unfortunately this will basically never happen because it flies in the face of DRM.
IMHO this is a very bad thing for a beginner (or anyone really). I don't know how many hours I've spent diagnosing bugs in non-declarative languages that turned out to be due to the fact the variable != varaible. This can be alleviated by a decent IDE that will warn you, but in general I don't see this "feature" as a plus.
So this benchmark on a 500Mhz machine will of course show Reiser in a bad light, and moving lower down to a 266Mhz will make it even worse.
If you look at the charts, the "editing" doesn't help either. For example one cpu usage chart showed a range starting @ 92% and ending @ 94%. The Rieser4 bar was 3x as long as the next bar, but guess what, it was using something like.7% (ie 93.7% as opposed to 93%) more CPU. If the scale hadn't been jacked up you wouldn't have been able to spot the difference at all, but they way they chose to present the data, it looked like a total smackdown.
Are you kidding? I watch house fairly regularly and it has to be one of the most formulaic shows ever.
1. Person comes in mysteriously ill
2. No one know whats wrong
3. Med students guess some crap but house arrogantly shoots them down
4. House makes an off the wall obscure diagnosis which:
a) None of the med students believe, and
b) the treatment of which will kill the patient if he's wrong, but must begin immediately if the patient is to live at all
5. (not neccesarily in order) House gets in fight with Cuddy or other superior
6. House was right on all preceding counts. Everyone else is wrong and foolish
7. Meanwhile, some ultimately unrelated and useless person drama is affecting one of the main characters.
In the end, no-one but house EVER makes the correct diagnosis. Thew few times House permits his assistants to actualy do anything they are wrong and the patient almost dies, setting up an even more dramatic "House Saves the Day" moment...
Why the hell would an ISP want to do this? What other reason could anyone really have for a $60 a month 5 Megabit cable modem? If the isp limits you to legitmate web surfing and email checking no-one will need their big dollar broadband anymore...
That and the fact (as mentioned 50 times above this post) that blocking the ports would be laughably ineffective.
No one is reading this anymore, but the americas suck. Start in Australia (1 point of entry), take russia, but do so by taking and holding the Ukraine (in Europe). Then you hold Australia for 2, and russia for 5, you only have 3 points of entry, and as a sweet bonus, you deny europe to your adversary. You can go one bonus step further and hold Alaska on your eastern flank instead of kamtchaka (or whatever the russian bit is) then you're still only defending 3 squares, and you're denying the opponent all major regions. If you can hold that for 2 or 3 turns, it's all over.
I think you're the one smoking. Who cares that they announced their lameness at the top of the page? It's still utterly lame to announce the winners of an obscure coding challenge and not show the code.
Thats akin to the Academy Awards occuring for as yet unreleased movies. Which apparently is OK with you, as long as they tell you that you can't watch the movies for another month or two.
Not really. The way.NET (C# anc vb.net) stored procs work is you basically write you logic just like you would for a regular application and upload it to the database with a few extra decorating tags. From what I've seen it should be trivial to rip this code out and put it back in your application should you wish to do so.
That said, you'll still have to make some changes to make it talk to something other than sql server, but if you've written your code with that in mind that also should be trivial.
So in short, C# stored procs are little more than a gimmick. I've actually heard that Oracle is implementing the same system.
Give me a break. Are you seriously trying to blame Microsoft because your outdated, extremely poorly coded vb6 apps won't work with a product being released at least 5 years after they became obsolete? Any programmer worth a penny puts things like database connection strings in a single, central, secure place that can be edited without recompiling the app, anything else is inexcuseable.
Furthermore, I don't know what version of SQL server you're running, but you haven't been able to have a blank sa password for at least 2 years. Which tells me that you're either full of it, or running unpatched databases. Would you blame Red Hat if your linux server was hacked via an exploit they patched 3 years ago but you just never bothered to apply the patch?
If anyone but MS made Visual Studio I have 0 doubt that everyone on/. would be singing it's praises right now. VS is IMHO if not the best, then without of a doubt one of the top 2 IDE's in existance right now and has been for quite some time. Even in the much maligned VB.net you aren't forced to do anything with the GUI.
The authors gripes about not being able to see the code in it's entirety are complete BS. All you have to do is expand the conveniently hidden setup and autogenerated code and you can read to your hearts content. The default is to hide most of that code because frankly, it's insignificant. Do you really need to see the declarations for the 250 objects on your form? Do you really need to see the wrappers around database drivers? No and No.
Are you going to claim that a mechanic who uses the computer in your car to tell him you have a bad sparkplug is a bad mechanic? Or are you going to be quietly grateful that he was able to fix your problem for $50 in 1/2 an hour instead of the old school "hard core" method of slowly replacing part after part until you figure out which was the broken one, which costs you lots of time and money?
And pay extra to rent a second set-top box to decode the channels on that second input.
Wrong. My cable box has both coax and composite out. I hook the composite out to my mythtv box, the mythtv box to the tv via svideo, I hook the coax to my tv. If I want to watch tv straight from the tuner (ie bypass mythtv), I can simply tell the tv to use the coax input. Then I'm basically watching tv just like I didn't even have a pvr. Of course this breaks the mythtv somewhat if it tries to change the tuner in order to record a previously scheduled recording, but what else are you going to do, you'll never be able to watch more channels at once than you have tuners (ie, even without the pvr I couldn't watch one channel while recording another without 2 cable boxes...)
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If you read the blurb, or the article, this is not the same thing as ReadyBurst TM which MS touts as a new feature in Vista. ReadyBurst TM, allows you to plug in a flash drive and use it as a sort of replacement for part of the disk. ReadyBurst TM allows you to use up to 2GB of flash. This technology puts the flash right on the drive, uses a much smaller amount of flash (128-256MB is optimal), and is more about power management than speed increases. Think of it as a relatively large, non-volatile cache on the HDD. The drive can use it as a buffer until it's full then write the data in one concentrated burst. This way, the power hungry spinning drive only has to spin occasionally.
I share all those traits. I bet we know each other since you went to UAF (I see the asuaf link in your description). I got my bscs in '01...
They may be effective, but Oracles sales organization is annoying as hell. I've downloaded many things from Oracles web site, and unfortunately my account *HAD* my real contact information on it. Invariably within 48 hours of any download I would get a call from an Oracle "Technician" asking in broken English if I needed any assistance with whatever I downloaded. The conversation would quickly turn into a mini-license audit, where the "Technician" was more interested in our existing installs and what our licensing was like than how the downloaded product was working. One the rare occasion that I actually could have used some help, the "technician" wouldn't be able to answer the simplest question. It got so bad that the corporate office sent a memo around saying don't talk to anyone from oracle for any reason, just forward them to someone at the home office whos job it is to deal with them.
It's almost like Oracle is doing everything they possibly can to promote MS Sql. They just went gestapo on us about licensing and decided that every person who walks up to a kiosk running an app with an oracle back end needs to be a named user, that or we need to buy per processor licensing. $80,000 for our dual proc backend box buys a lot developer time to port to a different database.
Not really. It's more like Ford making a deal with Alpine (stereo manufacturer) so that Alpine 10 disc changers only accepted 5 discs if installed in a non Ford vehicle. Basically, is a great move for Ford and not anti-competitive at all. It's most likely a foolish move for Alpine, but thats not really a big deal since there are other stereo companies.
In the long run, it's a non-issue to the consumer, they have other options.
There is no law here, no one is going to be FORCED to buy an Intel.
Maybe I've got bum equipment then because I have CF bulbs in many rooms in my house and they frequently take minutes to warm up to full brightness. I have 2 (in 1 fixture) in my bedroom and while they do turn on immediately, they are extremely dim for 5 minutes or more almost every time I turn them on. Furthermore, I just plain can't fit CF bulbs into all my fixtures, meaning if I wanted to completely move away from traditional bulbs I'd have to buy and install new light fixtures in a number of places as well. Also, there are spectrum problems with fluorescent bulbs, they just don't make the same quality of light unless you buy full spectrum bulbs which are 10x the cost (and they don't come in compact sizes at all). Where I live we only get a couple hours of daylight in the winter and there are serious health concerns associated with switching wholesale to non full spectrum bulbs.
So far my solution has been to replace 1/2 my bulbs with CF where I can. So I cut down on power usage some and still have rich full spectrum light...
I'm no "greenie" either. I'm just practicing what the energy business refers to as "Demand Destruction", the cost of electricity has gone up so high that myself and many other consumers are motivated to find ways to cut our usage. A large percentage of those cuts will never be regained by the energy industry once made, even if the cost of power suddenly drops. A good example of demand destruction is Hybrid cars. People buy them because the price of gas is high, but if the price of gas drops you don't see people running out and trading in their prius on a F-350.
Bingo! It's called a "Free Market", and it's the next best thing since sliced bread. Verizon owns the pipes (arguments about subsidies and eminent domain are moot, unless you can convince the courts) and they can do whatever they want with them. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot by alienating a large percentage of their users. So be it. As the parent said, another player with will step in to meet those needs.
Yeah? How many black guys were in your computer science classes? In my experience, minorities are the first hired and last laid off. I'm not being a racist or anything here, it's just what I have experienced.
Wouldn't that still be racism?
I was look for a good place to drop a post saying that this is a complete waste of effort, because in a situation like this the goverment (EU search engine team) will always be thoroughly outperformed by the market (Google, Yahoo). After a couple minutes it hit me I should search for "dada21" first...
In short, I agree. This project has no chance of ever being in the same sport, much less the same league as Google, Yahoo, or even MSN.
I did the same and get so little spam it's not even funny. I use both gmail and yahoo and both are excellent at rooting out the spam. The one difference being that I get a small amount (couple times a month) of Yahoo spam on the Yahoo account, which is a small price to pay for free email. I don't remember the last time I considered spam a serious problem.
Hows that for a useless "me too" post?
Unless you want to do something useful. Like watch more than OTA or non-digital programming. In which case you'll have to set up an IR blaster. That's going to quadruple the 1 hour estimate at least. Then if you want to add a second tuner which you also want to do something useful add another couple hours.
Don't get me wrong. If you want a single tuner MythTV box which only needs to capture non-digital cable or OTA broadcast you can have it inside an hour. But the learning curve is steep after that. I have 2x pvr-150 each using it's own blaster to drive a cable box so I can watch more than 12 of my 200 channels. I have well over 40 hours invested in the setup and it's still not perfect.
To be fair, none of the windows solutions (beyondtv, sagetv) I looked at could accomplish this at all, so I guess I can't complain too much.
I responded to a different but similar comment already, but... My comment doesn't have anything to do with type. Basically what I'm trying to say is in non-declarative (you don't have to specifically declare variables) languages, it's easy to typo variable names and not know you did it. /* "EFF"+"OH"+"OH" */ /* notice that this FO0 = "EFF"+"OH"+"ZERO" */
String FOO;
FOO = 'BAR';
if (FO0 == 'BAR')
{
print('This will never print and the compiler won''t tell you why');
}
My argument has nothing to do with types. I don't care what type foo and fo0 are. I'm saying is that if you think you're type foo and you really type fo0 and the complier doesn't bitch about it, you can and will end up spending a bunch of time trying to find out why fo0 = null even though you know damn well you just populated it 2 lines before.
Get my drift? The point is you typo the variable, and instead of being warned you basically just made an entirely new, and empty variable. But since the compiler doesn't give a crap, you're going to have to manually scan all the code and find the typo.
MythTv and cool new cases are great but IMHO it won't be "The year of the HTPC" until someone comes out with a cablecard v2 capable, hdtv capable capture card. Right now you're basically SOL if you want to capture anything but over the air HD content (which rules out a lot of great programming). If you want to view digital cable (all channels are digital in my area) or satelite you need a STB and some sort of IR blaster (none of which are elegant). And you can't get HDTV that way, even if the STB decodes HDTV, you're capture card will only capture SDTV.
What this market needs to REALLY take off and make the HDPC useful is a tv capture card that you can drop your cable card into and be 100% functional without a set top box. Unfortunately this will basically never happen because it flies in the face of DRM.
IMHO this is a very bad thing for a beginner (or anyone really). I don't know how many hours I've spent diagnosing bugs in non-declarative languages that turned out to be due to the fact the variable != varaible. This can be alleviated by a decent IDE that will warn you, but in general I don't see this "feature" as a plus.
int itemcount = 0;
while itemcount end while
welcome to an endless loop...
So this benchmark on a 500Mhz machine will of course show Reiser in a bad light, and moving lower down to a 266Mhz will make it even worse.
.7% (ie 93.7% as opposed to 93%) more CPU. If the scale hadn't been jacked up you wouldn't have been able to spot the difference at all, but they way they chose to present the data, it looked like a total smackdown.
If you look at the charts, the "editing" doesn't help either. For example one cpu usage chart showed a range starting @ 92% and ending @ 94%. The Rieser4 bar was 3x as long as the next bar, but guess what, it was using something like
1. Person comes in mysteriously ill
2. No one know whats wrong
3. Med students guess some crap but house arrogantly shoots them down
4. House makes an off the wall obscure diagnosis which:
5. (not neccesarily in order) House gets in fight with Cuddy or other superior
6. House was right on all preceding counts. Everyone else is wrong and foolish
7. Meanwhile, some ultimately unrelated and useless person drama is affecting one of the main characters.
In the end, no-one but house EVER makes the correct diagnosis. Thew few times House permits his assistants to actualy do anything they are wrong and the patient almost dies, setting up an even more dramatic "House Saves the Day" moment...
Why the hell would an ISP want to do this? What other reason could anyone really have for a $60 a month 5 Megabit cable modem? If the isp limits you to legitmate web surfing and email checking no-one will need their big dollar broadband anymore...
That and the fact (as mentioned 50 times above this post) that blocking the ports would be laughably ineffective.
Get a slashdot poll on the topic and read the insightful comments.
Taught at universities in Texas and Alberta.
And Alaska. And you're right, there is a shortage and these guys make BIG bucks.
No one is reading this anymore, but the americas suck. Start in Australia (1 point of entry), take russia, but do so by taking and holding the Ukraine (in Europe). Then you hold Australia for 2, and russia for 5, you only have 3 points of entry, and as a sweet bonus, you deny europe to your adversary. You can go one bonus step further and hold Alaska on your eastern flank instead of kamtchaka (or whatever the russian bit is) then you're still only defending 3 squares, and you're denying the opponent all major regions. If you can hold that for 2 or 3 turns, it's all over.
I think you're the one smoking. Who cares that they announced their lameness at the top of the page? It's still utterly lame to announce the winners of an obscure coding challenge and not show the code.
Thats akin to the Academy Awards occuring for as yet unreleased movies. Which apparently is OK with you, as long as they tell you that you can't watch the movies for another month or two.
Not really. The way .NET (C# anc vb.net) stored procs work is you basically write you logic just like you would for a regular application and upload it to the database with a few extra decorating tags. From what I've seen it should be trivial to rip this code out and put it back in your application should you wish to do so.
That said, you'll still have to make some changes to make it talk to something other than sql server, but if you've written your code with that in mind that also should be trivial.
So in short, C# stored procs are little more than a gimmick. I've actually heard that Oracle is implementing the same system.
Give me a break. Are you seriously trying to blame Microsoft because your outdated, extremely poorly coded vb6 apps won't work with a product being released at least 5 years after they became obsolete? Any programmer worth a penny puts things like database connection strings in a single, central, secure place that can be edited without recompiling the app, anything else is inexcuseable.
Furthermore, I don't know what version of SQL server you're running, but you haven't been able to have a blank sa password for at least 2 years. Which tells me that you're either full of it, or running unpatched databases. Would you blame Red Hat if your linux server was hacked via an exploit they patched 3 years ago but you just never bothered to apply the patch?
If anyone but MS made Visual Studio I have 0 doubt that everyone on /. would be singing it's praises right now. VS is IMHO if not the best, then without of a doubt one of the top 2 IDE's in existance right now and has been for quite some time. Even in the much maligned VB.net you aren't forced to do anything with the GUI.
The authors gripes about not being able to see the code in it's entirety are complete BS. All you have to do is expand the conveniently hidden setup and autogenerated code and you can read to your hearts content. The default is to hide most of that code because frankly, it's insignificant. Do you really need to see the declarations for the 250 objects on your form? Do you really need to see the wrappers around database drivers? No and No.
Are you going to claim that a mechanic who uses the computer in your car to tell him you have a bad sparkplug is a bad mechanic? Or are you going to be quietly grateful that he was able to fix your problem for $50 in 1/2 an hour instead of the old school "hard core" method of slowly replacing part after part until you figure out which was the broken one, which costs you lots of time and money?
And pay extra to rent a second set-top box to decode the channels on that second input.
Wrong. My cable box has both coax and composite out. I hook the composite out to my mythtv box, the mythtv box to the tv via svideo, I hook the coax to my tv. If I want to watch tv straight from the tuner (ie bypass mythtv), I can simply tell the tv to use the coax input. Then I'm basically watching tv just like I didn't even have a pvr. Of course this breaks the mythtv somewhat if it tries to change the tuner in order to record a previously scheduled recording, but what else are you going to do, you'll never be able to watch more channels at once than you have tuners (ie, even without the pvr I couldn't watch one channel while recording another without 2 cable boxes...)