"you need to have a system in place to crawl sites over many days/weeks a few pages at a time"
You mean something like wget builtin systems?
"You also want to distribute the load over several IP addresses, and you need logic to handle things like auto generated/tar pits/temporarily down sites, etc. And of course you want to coordinate all that while simultaneously extracting the list of URLs that you'll hand over to the crawlers next."
Take a look at wget documentation sometime. Doing that only takes something to break files into pieces, wget, and a very very small amount of logic. That is probably what those other 9 lines of code are for.
Last time I looked, syslog was good enough to send your logs to any HA log cluster you have around. (Ok, that was just kidding, but I really don't get the problem of using syslog on a HA environment.)
And the Arabic peninsule is the only mapped place where people don't use arabic numerals... That is funny, but there is something wrong with the map, shouldn't the extreme east be all red?
But it is a lot less cycles of the memory clock of that same machine. And it isn't enough for any desktop to complete a disk writting. Their database probably uses a battery powered RAM cache for the disks.
No, if an industry buys some useless equipment, their capital grows exactly the same amount it would grow if the capital was usefull. So, that aquisition is counted on the GDP, as would any usefull activity.
I really don't understand how do you expect the government to measure the usefullness of everything you buy while calculating the GDP.
They must have used the MS data exporting tools while your former employer probably used some trhird party tools. Or your employer didn't need to translate string encodings.
On itself MS SQL ins't that bad. Just the tools that come with it (and.NET) that make it perform badly.
That experiment is much more precise for detecting such kinds of noise than LIGO. As an AC already posted here, the data that led to the original suspicion about the universe being holographic appeared on LIGO, but it isn't precise enough.
TFA is quite poor on details... I remember reading about it, and it uses some kind of mechanism to get a virtual larger arm out of a physicaly short path. I don't remember if it just reflects the lasers several times, or if it does something more complex. I just remember that it wouldn't work for gravity waves detectors, and that is why those are larger.
Of course you could extrapolate any science theory to mean that we are only data. That is because such theories are created using math, and any kind of math could be translated to a set of data and computer operations. I've seen a big number of people sudenly discover that, and becoming concerned about our universe being a simulation. (Well, I'm guilty too, but shortly after, I remembered Turing...)
Now, of course, that doesn't mean we are not on a simulation, just that we have no evidence that we are in one, as we have no evidence that we are not, and things will probably continue to be that way.
The problem with unified economies (you don't really think that China invented it, do you?) is that it is as easy to take a "self destruct" path as it is to take a "take over the world" one. They can only hope to good leaders, but those hardly survive a generation.
"When it hits reasonable amounts of power, then you can begin to even think about anything like that."
I'm not looking foward for the time the Sun turns into a red giant... Now, solar isn't shit. It is just not suitable to be used as a portable power source.
Of course the IPv4 address set was expected to never exaust either, so, while I understand that we really mean "never" this time, you'll get a hard time telling that to lay-people.
That's funny, I've not being reading the same news of yours. The first time I remember reading about IPv6, I was at undergrad, and IPv4 addresses were expected to end by somewhen near 2020. Then, already on this milenium, I've heard about 2015, later about 2012. That last prediction lasted up to today, that the news is that it will end in 2011.
You tell them that Open Office changed its name due to a trademark issue, and there is a software called Oppen Office, that is similar, but all the development is on Libre Office.
If your businesspeople can't understand trademark fights, you have bigger problems.
It seems Debian was already using Go-oo for a time, so 30% of the instalations out there (Debian based ones, like Ubuntu) droped it before the fork even happened. (By the way, at Brazil we mainly use Br-Office, that is also Go-oo based...)
It may work quite well for a rocket scientist (probably better than Windows ever would), but won't work for a civil engineer. Linux still has some path to go, and some professionals are still not burned due to selling their freedom out to proprietary software builders.
That said, the "will just read email and surf the web" people are the most obvious target. Unfortunately, those are well served by Windows XP and have no plans to migrate to something that didn't come on their computers (unless MS makes something like Vista again, obviously).
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The AC, please, can stay laughting after he makes a cluster of active instances of Oracle serving the same database.
Just remember that COBOL is dead, while Lisp and FORTRAN still have a (small, but largest ever) community.
Neither faced well the competition of C, but would C take over the world without a community?
Hey, maybe after everything Microsoft decides to buy Oracle...
It seems that Oracle bought only MySQL. And then proceeded to destroy it.
By the path things are going, it would be no worse if Microsoft bought Sun.
That is why Unix phylosophi of "do only one thing and do it well" is so important.
You mean something like wget builtin systems?
Take a look at wget documentation sometime. Doing that only takes something to break files into pieces, wget, and a very very small amount of logic. That is probably what those other 9 lines of code are for.
Last time I looked, syslog was good enough to send your logs to any HA log cluster you have around. (Ok, that was just kidding, but I really don't get the problem of using syslog on a HA environment.)
Do they use strange, charm, top and botton at Tacobel now? Those literaly blow!
And the Arabic peninsule is the only mapped place where people don't use arabic numerals... That is funny, but there is something wrong with the map, shouldn't the extreme east be all red?
But it is a lot less cycles of the memory clock of that same machine. And it isn't enough for any desktop to complete a disk writting. Their database probably uses a battery powered RAM cache for the disks.
No, if an industry buys some useless equipment, their capital grows exactly the same amount it would grow if the capital was usefull. So, that aquisition is counted on the GDP, as would any usefull activity.
I really don't understand how do you expect the government to measure the usefullness of everything you buy while calculating the GDP.
99% of the world, that don't have to clean the mess created my differing customer expectation and sotware compaies offerings.
They must have used the MS data exporting tools while your former employer probably used some trhird party tools. Or your employer didn't need to translate string encodings.
On itself MS SQL ins't that bad. Just the tools that come with it (and .NET) that make it perform badly.
Only if you declare it in Pascal. When using C it should be double.
That experiment is much more precise for detecting such kinds of noise than LIGO. As an AC already posted here, the data that led to the original suspicion about the universe being holographic appeared on LIGO, but it isn't precise enough.
TFA is quite poor on details... I remember reading about it, and it uses some kind of mechanism to get a virtual larger arm out of a physicaly short path. I don't remember if it just reflects the lasers several times, or if it does something more complex. I just remember that it wouldn't work for gravity waves detectors, and that is why those are larger.
Of course you could extrapolate any science theory to mean that we are only data. That is because such theories are created using math, and any kind of math could be translated to a set of data and computer operations. I've seen a big number of people sudenly discover that, and becoming concerned about our universe being a simulation. (Well, I'm guilty too, but shortly after, I remembered Turing...)
Now, of course, that doesn't mean we are not on a simulation, just that we have no evidence that we are in one, as we have no evidence that we are not, and things will probably continue to be that way.
Just to clarify things here, lithium isn't a rare earth.
The problem with unified economies (you don't really think that China invented it, do you?) is that it is as easy to take a "self destruct" path as it is to take a "take over the world" one. They can only hope to good leaders, but those hardly survive a generation.
I'm not looking foward for the time the Sun turns into a red giant... Now, solar isn't shit. It is just not suitable to be used as a portable power source.
The vocal minority that uses VoIP or torrent.
Of course the IPv4 address set was expected to never exaust either, so, while I understand that we really mean "never" this time, you'll get a hard time telling that to lay-people.
That's funny, I've not being reading the same news of yours. The first time I remember reading about IPv6, I was at undergrad, and IPv4 addresses were expected to end by somewhen near 2020. Then, already on this milenium, I've heard about 2015, later about 2012. That last prediction lasted up to today, that the news is that it will end in 2011.
I've never seen people postponing a date.
You tell them that Open Office changed its name due to a trademark issue, and there is a software called Oppen Office, that is similar, but all the development is on Libre Office.
If your businesspeople can't understand trademark fights, you have bigger problems.
It seems Debian was already using Go-oo for a time, so 30% of the instalations out there (Debian based ones, like Ubuntu) droped it before the fork even happened. (By the way, at Brazil we mainly use Br-Office, that is also Go-oo based...)
It may work quite well for a rocket scientist (probably better than Windows ever would), but won't work for a civil engineer. Linux still has some path to go, and some professionals are still not burned due to selling their freedom out to proprietary software builders.
That said, the "will just read email and surf the web" people are the most obvious target. Unfortunately, those are well served by Windows XP and have no plans to migrate to something that didn't come on their computers (unless MS makes something like Vista again, obviously).