I understand the economics of renting CPUs for big infrequent calculations, but how do you transfer the GB's of data required? For most business and research apps, aren't massive amounts of data typically attached to massive processing jobs?
Won't the average internet connection take more time uploading the datafiles than it takes to process the data? Is it really practical to ship hard drives full of data to Sun just to run a few calculations?
I don't really know the nitty gritty either... but I do know that one of the big pieces missing in the two packet system is the time delay. A round trip packet to a random server on the internet for me would be about 150ms, but it varies, a LOT. The time protocol needs to be a lot more accurate than that (well, for some tasks, not so much for others).
IIRC, the original 39% guys are marketers, they're worried about the marketing cookies that are used by advertising networks. These cookies are routinely deleted by SpyBot and other anti-spyware applications.
If you think about how many people have to run an anti-spyware app at least once a year, then the 39% seems quite reasonable. But this has nothing to do with the cookies that remember my login ID to Slashdot or Yahoo.
OK. I admit it. I was wrong. And, no I didn't test the inkjet printer/s example either. Whoops.
But, you'll have to belive me, there was a time when Google was doing the plural thing -- I distincly remember trying it several months ago when it raised a bit of interest in the forums at sitepointforums.com. If you google for "google stemming" you can find a few similar threads on various forums.
And, according to this page: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html (search for stemming),
stemming is used to return results. So, the # of results returned for obscure searches will still be higher on Google than on a search engine that does not use stemming.
Google started treating plurals as the same search about a year ago. Yahoo doesn't. So, if you google for "inkjet printers" and "inkjet printer" you will get the same result set; however, on Yahoo, you will get different results.
The net result is that for the same index size, Google will return more results. (And, IMHO, more meaningful ones.)
I totally agree. I pity the poor saps who have to have their first programming language be Java.
IIRC, in Basic, it was... um...
10 Print "Hello World"
Actually, I don't think the line number was required by the time I got to CS in highschool.
Basic programming is about basic concepts and algorithms, not production class code!
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (not the Constitution) applies to governments only. Many, many people don't understand this! Other acts of government, such as Human Rights legislation apply similar guidelines of behavious to individuals and corporations.
MS's growth rate can only go down from here. They had a good run, but the market has largely matured. Look around, a lot of businesses are quite happy with Windows 2000 (server and clients) and Office 2000. Those bits of code are 5 years old!
Apparently, all people wanted was an operating system that didn't crash if you looked at it funny and some productivity apps to match.
Except pay per click is NOT pennies, not Google Adsense at least. There are numerous ads that will pay more than a dollar per click to the publisher (i.e. after google takes it's share as the middle man). A few topics that do really well have to do with lawyers building class action lawsuits, good travel terms, and mortgages -- places where a single "sale" could net a few hundred dollars to the advertiser, so a buck or two per click is OK.
I work with a retail POS system that pushes around updates at night. I've noticed that there is a problem in knowing whether or not the remote servers are up to date or not. So, for a new development, I would recommend that part of your update scripts send some sort of table statistics like count(*) where date > yesterday
so that you have some idea if everything is in sync. Along a similar vein, mark records as "dead" somehow rather than try and push around record deletions -- it's a lot easier to troubleshoot.
Why do I have to worry about my laptop being yanked to the floor by someone tripping on the power cable? I know wireless power isn't practical for a laptop, but there has got to be some relatively simple solution (other than using up the limited # of recharges in the batteries life).
IIRC, the Xbox controllers do something along these lines - though, there probably isn't as much current or voltage on that cable.
Most of the same software and hardware technology behind Vonage and Packet8 is also used VERY frequently in internal phone networks. My uneducated guess is that more than half of new corporate phone systems are VOIP. It just makes sense for a corporate phone system. There is one less network to worry about, huge flexibility in changing extensions or moving them, options to connect sites over a WAN, potential use with WiFi and VPN for users, etc. MSFT's interest in this area shouldn't be too surprising, especially with the natural tie ins to their other products.
Simple. Have 8 different domains, or even 8 different URLs from the same domain. One backlink for each in the sig. I'll admit to doing this on one particular forum, but it's a web developer's site, and it's a common practice there.
The real solution, at least as far as search engine rank goes is the new rel=nofollow attribute for links that Google started using a few months ago. The best link that I could find when I was looking at this a couple weeks ago is this one. If it grows in popularity and the major forum and blog sites start using it on comments and signatures, the spam in blogs won't be able to affect search results nearly as strongly as they do today. (Unfortunately, readers will still have to skim past the SPAM comments in the victim blogs)
This thread got me thinking about how to (try) to get the thief to boot the PC so that you have a chance of tracing it. Most pro's would probably avoid booting from the hard drive and boot from a CD to format the drive. If you lock the boot order to boot from HD first, you would get a _slightly_ better chance of recovery - particularly w/integrated WiFi. Though, the real pro's would probably take the HD out and reformat on another machine...
It's not too far fetched, although I'd agree that "Dwarfs" is a little extreme.
What's the Windows desktop market share? 95%?
The vast majority of Windows and Mac systems have Flash player installed. I'd wager on 95% or more. And probably more than half of Linux and other OSS workstation boxes have Flash too.
Now if you add in non-PC's, it's probably wrong. Java runs (albeit probably too slowly for voice) on a LOT of phones... and PDA's? Does Flash run on PocketPC yet?
Unfortunately, they don't have any control over outbound connections -- I just think of them as software NAT's, which I like, since it's quite easy to manage.
Besides, I'm of the camp that believes that if uncontrolled programs are making outbound connections, you're sunk already. That said, Windows 2K+ does have "IPtables like" abilities in it's "IPSec" features. It can filter outgoing connections, set rules by source IP, etc. Here's a link that I looked at very closely at one time link.
This doesn't do any "application" filtering. It's also not the easiest thing to configure. On the plus side, however, it works with MS domain stuff. So if you do it right once, all your servers can be told to pick up the settings.
might I suggest you browse various PHP OSS projects. Most of the biggest most popular packages have language selections. You're bound to find some good examples on how to handle i18n.
I've had a hard time learning that there is a lot more to computers than a thousand dollar workstation or laptop.
There are a LOT of > USD 10K servers bought every year. If a USD 500 NIC can improve the total performance of such a server by 5%, then yeah it's worth it.
If you send a couple bucks via PayPal, even if the sender has a positive account balance (i.e. no CC transaction costs exist), the fees are quite hefty, percentage wise. (The minimum transaction fee is USD 0.3).
It would be really nice to get a break on small transactions, especially ones that don't incur CC costs.
If one particular OSS group really raises a stink, could someone "fork" the software and take screenshots of their "own" application? I suppose one would have to blur out or replace any trademarks, but that's not too hard.
Do hard drives actually spin down under XP? (or NT or 2K or a Linux?)
I've had that power saving feature set on my laptop and desktops for years. I don't think that I've noticed a hard drive get a chance to spin down in anything more recent than the late 90's and Windows 98. There are so many background tasks that seem to prevent that bit of power savings...
When I bought my first DVD burner, I specifically chose one that was DVD-RAM capable. Little did I know that the media are 5-10x the cost of DVD-RW. So, what is the verdict on DVD-RAM, are they really engineered to last decades and 10's of thousands of rewrites? If so, how do they do it?
Agreed. However, what about writing an anti-spam, anti-virus, or anti-spyware app and giving it away to businesses on some sort of introductory "promotional" offer?
Even better, with these programs there is a valid reason to connect to the internet (i.e. to get definitions and app. updates). It would probably cost less than 10M too (mind you, creating a CDROM brand from scratch doesn't cost nearly 10M, outside of a handful of top-end firms, it's all private label + customizations now).
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I understand the economics of renting CPUs for big infrequent calculations, but how do you transfer the GB's of data required? For most business and research apps, aren't massive amounts of data typically attached to massive processing jobs?
Won't the average internet connection take more time uploading the datafiles than it takes to process the data? Is it really practical to ship hard drives full of data to Sun just to run a few calculations?
I don't really know the nitty gritty either... but I do know that one of the big pieces missing in the two packet system is the time delay. A round trip packet to a random server on the internet for me would be about 150ms, but it varies, a LOT. The time protocol needs to be a lot more accurate than that (well, for some tasks, not so much for others).
IIRC, the original 39% guys are marketers, they're worried about the marketing cookies that are used by advertising networks. These cookies are routinely deleted by SpyBot and other anti-spyware applications.
If you think about how many people have to run an anti-spyware app at least once a year, then the 39% seems quite reasonable. But this has nothing to do with the cookies that remember my login ID to Slashdot or Yahoo.
OK. I admit it. I was wrong. And, no I didn't test the inkjet printer/s example either. Whoops.
But, you'll have to belive me, there was a time when Google was doing the plural thing -- I distincly remember trying it several months ago when it raised a bit of interest in the forums at sitepointforums.com. If you google for "google stemming" you can find a few similar threads on various forums.
And, according to this page: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html (search for stemming), stemming is used to return results. So, the # of results returned for obscure searches will still be higher on Google than on a search engine that does not use stemming.
Google started treating plurals as the same search about a year ago. Yahoo doesn't. So, if you google for "inkjet printers" and "inkjet printer" you will get the same result set; however, on Yahoo, you will get different results.
The net result is that for the same index size, Google will return more results. (And, IMHO, more meaningful ones.)
Will Quake 3 run on a PDA, cell phone, DVD player, or a camcorder? I have a distinct feeling that we're going to find out really soon.
Oh yes, and start imagining the Beowulf clusters...
I totally agree. I pity the poor saps who have to have their first programming language be Java. IIRC, in Basic, it was... um... 10 Print "Hello World" Actually, I don't think the line number was required by the time I got to CS in highschool. Basic programming is about basic concepts and algorithms, not production class code!
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (not the Constitution) applies to governments only. Many, many people don't understand this! Other acts of government, such as Human Rights legislation apply similar guidelines of behavious to individuals and corporations.
MS's growth rate can only go down from here. They had a good run, but the market has largely matured. Look around, a lot of businesses are quite happy with Windows 2000 (server and clients) and Office 2000. Those bits of code are 5 years old!
Apparently, all people wanted was an operating system that didn't crash if you looked at it funny and some productivity apps to match.
If I had the guts I would short the stock...
Except pay per click is NOT pennies, not Google Adsense at least. There are numerous ads that will pay more than a dollar per click to the publisher (i.e. after google takes it's share as the middle man). A few topics that do really well have to do with lawyers building class action lawsuits, good travel terms, and mortgages -- places where a single "sale" could net a few hundred dollars to the advertiser, so a buck or two per click is OK.
I work with a retail POS system that pushes around updates at night. I've noticed that there is a problem in knowing whether or not the remote servers are up to date or not. So, for a new development, I would recommend that part of your update scripts send some sort of table statistics like
count(*) where date > yesterday
so that you have some idea if everything is in sync. Along a similar vein, mark records as "dead" somehow rather than try and push around record deletions -- it's a lot easier to troubleshoot.
Why do I have to worry about my laptop being yanked to the floor by someone tripping on the power cable? I know wireless power isn't practical for a laptop, but there has got to be some relatively simple solution (other than using up the limited # of recharges in the batteries life).
IIRC, the Xbox controllers do something along these lines - though, there probably isn't as much current or voltage on that cable.
Most of the same software and hardware technology behind Vonage and Packet8 is also used VERY frequently in internal phone networks. My uneducated guess is that more than half of new corporate phone systems are VOIP. It just makes sense for a corporate phone system. There is one less network to worry about, huge flexibility in changing extensions or moving them, options to connect sites over a WAN, potential use with WiFi and VPN for users, etc. MSFT's interest in this area shouldn't be too surprising, especially with the natural tie ins to their other products.
Simple. Have 8 different domains, or even 8 different URLs from the same domain. One backlink for each in the sig. I'll admit to doing this on one particular forum, but it's a web developer's site, and it's a common practice there.
The real solution, at least as far as search engine rank goes is the new rel=nofollow attribute for links that Google started using a few months ago. The best link that I could find when I was looking at this a couple weeks ago is this one. If it grows in popularity and the major forum and blog sites start using it on comments and signatures, the spam in blogs won't be able to affect search results nearly as strongly as they do today. (Unfortunately, readers will still have to skim past the SPAM comments in the victim blogs)
This thread got me thinking about how to (try) to get the thief to boot the PC so that you have a chance of tracing it. Most pro's would probably avoid booting from the hard drive and boot from a CD to format the drive. If you lock the boot order to boot from HD first, you would get a _slightly_ better chance of recovery - particularly w/integrated WiFi. Though, the real pro's would probably take the HD out and reformat on another machine...
It's not too far fetched, although I'd agree that "Dwarfs" is a little extreme.
What's the Windows desktop market share? 95%?
The vast majority of Windows and Mac systems have Flash player installed. I'd wager on 95% or more. And probably more than half of Linux and other OSS workstation boxes have Flash too.
Now if you add in non-PC's, it's probably wrong. Java runs (albeit probably too slowly for voice) on a LOT of phones... and PDA's? Does Flash run on PocketPC yet?
Unfortunately, they don't have any control over outbound connections -- I just think of them as software NAT's, which I like, since it's quite easy to manage.
Besides, I'm of the camp that believes that if uncontrolled programs are making outbound connections, you're sunk already. That said, Windows 2K+ does have "IPtables like" abilities in it's "IPSec" features. It can filter outgoing connections, set rules by source IP, etc. Here's a link that I looked at very closely at one time link.
This doesn't do any "application" filtering. It's also not the easiest thing to configure. On the plus side, however, it works with MS domain stuff. So if you do it right once, all your servers can be told to pick up the settings.
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Hmm... I'm really starting to like Coral.
might I suggest you browse various PHP OSS projects. Most of the biggest most popular packages have language selections. You're bound to find some good examples on how to handle i18n.
I've had a hard time learning that there is a lot more to computers than a thousand dollar workstation or laptop.
There are a LOT of > USD 10K servers bought every year. If a USD 500 NIC can improve the total performance of such a server by 5%, then yeah it's worth it.
If you send a couple bucks via PayPal, even if the sender has a positive account balance (i.e. no CC transaction costs exist), the fees are quite hefty, percentage wise. (The minimum transaction fee is USD 0.3).
It would be really nice to get a break on small transactions, especially ones that don't incur CC costs.
If one particular OSS group really raises a stink, could someone "fork" the software and take screenshots of their "own" application? I suppose one would have to blur out or replace any trademarks, but that's not too hard.
Do hard drives actually spin down under XP? (or NT or 2K or a Linux?) I've had that power saving feature set on my laptop and desktops for years. I don't think that I've noticed a hard drive get a chance to spin down in anything more recent than the late 90's and Windows 98. There are so many background tasks that seem to prevent that bit of power savings...
When I bought my first DVD burner, I specifically chose one that was DVD-RAM capable. Little did I know that the media are 5-10x the cost of DVD-RW. So, what is the verdict on DVD-RAM, are they really engineered to last decades and 10's of thousands of rewrites? If so, how do they do it?
Agreed. However, what about writing an anti-spam, anti-virus, or anti-spyware app and giving it away to businesses on some sort of introductory "promotional" offer?
Even better, with these programs there is a valid reason to connect to the internet (i.e. to get definitions and app. updates). It would probably cost less than 10M too (mind you, creating a CDROM brand from scratch doesn't cost nearly 10M, outside of a handful of top-end firms, it's all private label + customizations now).