Yeah, I haven't killed AGM's yet. But the older Lead acids would sometimes catch on fire. Its a very scary site to see a plastic container of acid burning in a third world country with no fire extinguisher. If you do see, please check that the first rag you find to extinguish the fire is not soaked in diesel. Thats even more frightening.
Can't believe that was modded as a troll. So the company isn't new, there were plenty of other comments that had never heard of the company or its product either. I was wrong, not trolling. More importantly, I think the post made a good pont on the differences between open source products and closed source. I, and others, are more willing to kick the tires of an open source product. Closed source has a more difficult time proving itself
ok, YOU try writing an os on a 16 bit processor ( using only tools that were available at that time ( late 80's to early 90's) , and then get back to me. Hardware isn't everything, but sometimes its everything. Compare Modern linux to that based on the 386, if you want an example. Which one would you run your database on? Which one would you use as a desktop? The truth is that its a combination of experience + hardware that leads to better software. Sometimes you can do better with either one.
Further research on gemstone's scalability sounds promising. Still have reservations, and would still like to have a non press release review of its capabilities by an independant third party.
k, found his blog where he describes gemstone a little better. Still sounds limited. There is still only one data store in gemstone according to the blog post. Can it be scaled beyond that? How? I've never heard of any big website using gemstone. If it was open, I'd be more willing to kick its tires, knowing that small problems could be fixed and a community might arise around it. I'm less confident about the same happening around a closed source product that isn't in wide use by large data driven websites.
I try to limit my ignorance when ever possible, so if anything is wrong ( other than the grammar/speling) feel free to correct.
It is new. Its never been used in conjunction with ruby before, but thats not really that important. I was really talking about my comfort level with the product. I never want to be the largest user of a closed source product. Who uses it? Under what kind of loads? How many servers?
I might trust non open source mission critical programs from Oracle, Cisco, and if you got me drunk enough some Microsoft products. But for something new from a previously unknown company, I'm not going to be the early adopter. Lets see twitter do it first, then I'll think about it more seriously.
You do realize how stupid it is to have one program depend upon a completely unrelated program. I understand that might be the case because they built a wrapper for their osx-y code that works with win32, but the same could be said about gnome begin built on the gimp tool kit (GTK). Yet You can easily install Gnome or any other app that use GTK without installing the GIMP. If the wrapper really isn't separated out into its own library by now, then apple is really lazy.
No it isn't. If a machine works flawlessly for ten years 90% of the time, and you only have one odds are everything will always work. If you have ten, odds are one will die with in that ten years. Things are different at large scale, and failure prediction is an important part of creating such a big cluster. But yes, even on a small scale you should always plan for failure.
Ok, more context could have helped. The university converted all of its computers form OS/2 to NT4 because MS Office wasn't available for OS/2. For a school that prides itself on its business school, word and excel were an absolute priority. So thats why NT4 was better given enough resources. Initially they made the mistake of converting the OS with out upgrading the hardware. SO I did get to see the crazy difference in performance of the two ion identical hardware. Nt4 was more of a resource hog, but there was more software available for it in the mid 90's.
People didn't have to remember commands, they could just point and click. It was point and click from that point on. It wasn't the first one like it,but the first widespread use of GUI interfaces on x86.
I understand both points of view. It was an amazing improvement over 3.1, but it was never satisfying. I missed good o'le stable DOS. It never crashed on me. It felt like MS just gave up at making the command line more productive. Yes, millions of people could finally realise the promise of using a computer thanks to the intutive interface. And thats an amazing accomplishment. But for me and those like me, it was disappointing because it wasn't for us. It was for everyone else.
Well, here's the thing: its not that you didn't think it was funny, you didn't detect the attempt at humor. Some jokes are really emotional intelligence tests in disguise.
If you read their patent claims on their website they aren't quite making that broad of a claim. They believe they have a patent on submitting a search and showing image (of the respective website) links as a result of that search. I agree that was done long before, and they actually state on the website that it was not in "wide use" for "enterprise websites" prior to 2000. So apparently the think they can patent ideas that have prior art, just as long as they aren't being used by the majority of large companies.
If you actually subscribe to their insane claims, or are extremely paranoid, you could get around it very easily by not having the image use a href. Their patent claim specifically mentions hrefs.
SATA's and lower performing SAS drives come in higher capacities. I've never understood why. If some storage expert would like to explain I'd love to hear it.
I think the author of the "nerd credentials" statement should have his nerd credentials revoked, if he ever had them at all. Star wars is Dorky, not nerdy. Nerds like math, dorks like D&D. Completely different. Nerds get girlfriends due to their thirst for all knowledge and experiences, while dorks grab onto obscure games and facts, because its something that makes them difficult to quickly judge and allows them to feel superior in a field. I am a nerd, perhaps a king or duke of their kind, but I am not a dork.
Osteopathic doctors are fully licensed to practice traditional western medicine and they for all practical purposes are indistinguishable from mds. Its a very strange history of how it transformed itself from quackary to second tier doctors (basically those who can't get into a md school end up in osteopathic schools).I went to school at the birthplace of osteopathy : kirksville, Missouri. There isn't a single md in the entire county. I injured my neck while I was at school. I was pretty nervous that the hospital would just make an adjustment, give me acupuncture, or magnets to heal it, but they just took a brief look and gave me a neck brace, muscle relaxers, and pain killers.
By the same analogy, people weren't demanding cheap cell phones before they became cheap. Therefore, the market didn't exist, and anyone who tried making or selling a consumer cell phone was an idiot.
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Well, worst day, not involving fire arms, ever.
Yeah, I haven't killed AGM's yet. But the older Lead acids would sometimes catch on fire. Its a very scary site to see a plastic container of acid burning in a third world country with no fire extinguisher. If you do see, please check that the first rag you find to extinguish the fire is not soaked in diesel. Thats even more frightening.
Can't believe that was modded as a troll. So the company isn't new, there were plenty of other comments that had never heard of the company or its product either. I was wrong, not trolling. More importantly, I think the post made a good pont on the differences between open source products and closed source. I, and others, are more willing to kick the tires of an open source product. Closed source has a more difficult time proving itself
ok, YOU try writing an os on a 16 bit processor ( using only tools that were available at that time ( late 80's to early 90's) , and then get back to me. Hardware isn't everything, but sometimes its everything. Compare Modern linux to that based on the 386, if you want an example. Which one would you run your database on? Which one would you use as a desktop? The truth is that its a combination of experience + hardware that leads to better software. Sometimes you can do better with either one.
Further research on gemstone's scalability sounds promising. Still have reservations, and would still like to have a non press release review of its capabilities by an independant third party.
k, found his blog where he describes gemstone a little better. Still sounds limited. There is still only one data store in gemstone according to the blog post. Can it be scaled beyond that? How? I've never heard of any big website using gemstone. If it was open, I'd be more willing to kick its tires, knowing that small problems could be fixed and a community might arise around it. I'm less confident about the same happening around a closed source product that isn't in wide use by large data driven websites.
I try to limit my ignorance when ever possible, so if anything is wrong ( other than the grammar/speling) feel free to correct.
It is new. Its never been used in conjunction with ruby before, but thats not really that important. I was really talking about my comfort level with the product. I never want to be the largest user of a closed source product. Who uses it? Under what kind of loads? How many servers?
I might trust non open source mission critical programs from Oracle, Cisco, and if you got me drunk enough some Microsoft products. But for something new from a previously unknown company, I'm not going to be the early adopter. Lets see twitter do it first, then I'll think about it more seriously.
You do realize how stupid it is to have one program depend upon a completely unrelated program. I understand that might be the case because they built a wrapper for their osx-y code that works with win32, but the same could be said about gnome begin built on the gimp tool kit (GTK). Yet You can easily install Gnome or any other app that use GTK without installing the GIMP. If the wrapper really isn't separated out into its own library by now, then apple is really lazy.
No it isn't. If a machine works flawlessly for ten years 90% of the time, and you only have one odds are everything will always work. If you have ten, odds are one will die with in that ten years. Things are different at large scale, and failure prediction is an important part of creating such a big cluster. But yes, even on a small scale you should always plan for failure.
Ok, more context could have helped. The university converted all of its computers form OS/2 to NT4 because MS Office wasn't available for OS/2. For a school that prides itself on its business school, word and excel were an absolute priority. So thats why NT4 was better given enough resources. Initially they made the mistake of converting the OS with out upgrading the hardware. SO I did get to see the crazy difference in performance of the two ion identical hardware. Nt4 was more of a resource hog, but there was more software available for it in the mid 90's.
Yeah, the server must have been written in .
People didn't have to remember commands, they could just point and click. It was point and click from that point on. It wasn't the first one like it,but the first widespread use of GUI interfaces on x86.
Yeah, but were any of those trojans written 17 years ago? could they work on a 286? Its easy to write better software decades after its been written.
I think a lot of praise thats beign showered on 95, really deserves to be put on 3.1. It was the gateway drug of windows.
yeah. NT4 on pentiums with 16 megs sucked. But there was software for it. OS/2 only allowed you to run the 16 bit windows programs. No word or excel.
But NT 4 on pentium II with 48 Megs.. That worked well.
I understand both points of view. It was an amazing improvement over 3.1, but it was never satisfying. I missed good o'le stable DOS. It never crashed on me. It felt like MS just gave up at making the command line more productive. Yes, millions of people could finally realise the promise of using a computer thanks to the intutive interface. And thats an amazing accomplishment. But for me and those like me, it was disappointing because it wasn't for us. It was for everyone else.
Well, here's the thing: its not that you didn't think it was funny, you didn't detect the attempt at humor. Some jokes are really emotional intelligence tests in disguise.
I'd mod you down for watching American Idol, if I had any points left.
If you read their patent claims on their website they aren't quite making that broad of a claim. They believe they have a patent on submitting a search and showing image (of the respective website) links as a result of that search. I agree that was done long before, and they actually state on the website that it was not in "wide use" for "enterprise websites" prior to 2000. So apparently the think they can patent ideas that have prior art, just as long as they aren't being used by the majority of large companies.
If you actually subscribe to their insane claims, or are extremely paranoid, you could get around it very easily by not having the image use a href. Their patent claim specifically mentions hrefs.
Apparently, you have no experience with high performance drives. 15k SAS drives max out around 300 GB.
See Cheetah capacities
SATA's and lower performing SAS drives come in higher capacities. I've never understood why. If some storage expert would like to explain I'd love to hear it.
Uhhmm, Nothing can say its 100% secure. Nothing. Even OpenBSD has had two remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
I think the author of the "nerd credentials" statement should have his nerd credentials revoked, if he ever had them at all. Star wars is Dorky, not nerdy. Nerds like math, dorks like D&D. Completely different. Nerds get girlfriends due to their thirst for all knowledge and experiences, while dorks grab onto obscure games and facts, because its something that makes them difficult to quickly judge and allows them to feel superior in a field. I am a nerd, perhaps a king or duke of their kind, but I am not a dork.
Osteopathic doctors are fully licensed to practice traditional western medicine and they for all practical purposes are indistinguishable from mds. Its a very strange history of how it transformed itself from quackary to second tier doctors (basically those who can't get into a md school end up in osteopathic schools).I went to school at the birthplace of osteopathy : kirksville, Missouri. There isn't a single md in the entire county. I injured my neck while I was at school. I was pretty nervous that the hospital would just make an adjustment, give me acupuncture, or magnets to heal it, but they just took a brief look and gave me a neck brace, muscle relaxers, and pain killers.
Yeah, I think my summer of breathing heavy metals while operating a grinder may come back to bite me in the but.
By the same analogy, people weren't demanding cheap cell phones before they became cheap. Therefore, the market didn't exist, and anyone who tried making or selling a consumer cell phone was an idiot.