Your PC may be fine, but you are probably going to spend the $2000 dollars every 3 three years nevertheless, only this time on other sorts of hardware:
- Wireless LAN basestations
- You'll swap your PC for a faster laptop
- Multitude of wireless devices (PDA's, WebPad's, internet enabled wristwatches, 3G/4G mobile phones, etc., etc.)
- Faster modems to connect to the internet (paid per month)
In essense, the killer app is not some software product, but it's the wireless internet.
Microsoft has long recognized this, that's why.Net, Hailstorm, Windows CE, and why you see Microsoft is leaving Intel (e.g. no support for HomeRF, nor for USB in Windows XP). Microsoft now rather goes to bed with Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Nokia, etc.
Rereading the article I now think this is not going to hurt the satelitte companies at all. Instead of $50 a month, these companies will ask $10 a month. So you'll get a lot more for a lot less money.
This is certainly going to hurt the billions put into the satellite companies Sirius and XMRS. That is: as long you drive only within the boundaries of a city. As soon as you're driving outside you probably need the signals coming from the satelittes.
Loz
I'm willing to buy commercial music, but I do not have a turntable nor a CD player. I do have a computer.
So, record companies out there: are you able to sell me your stuff?
No?
Oh well, then I guess you leave me other choice than me using Napster.
Loz
Don't use Session variables, ever, they'll kill performance and give you scalability problems.
I find programming ASP and databases a doddle: what I do is have my own include file inc_ado.asp which contains only the ADO constants I ever use (which is only about 5 to 10% of the original adovbs.inc file), and then add one extra constant which contains the DNS-less connection string to the database, e.g.:
Make sure that connection pooling is on! (see the links below to find out how to do that.. it's a registry setting, as simple as that).
Then open the database connection as late as possible, and close as early as possible, and use adOpenForwardOnly whenever possible, because it's by far the fastest cursor (there's only about 5% of the cases where I have to use adOpenStatic in order to be able to jump to the end and walk backwards). E.g.:
Dim rs
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset") rs.Open query, DB_ROOT, adOpenForwardOnly [... ] ' do your stuff rs.Close Set rs = Nothing
With Windows 2000 / IIS 5 there are also quite a few parameters within the properties of a website that can have dramatic effects on the performance: the most important one is to make sure you've got "Enable client side script debugging" turned OFF. Having it turned on will have your website run in single-thread mode which is extremely crap in a live environment.
re 4th bullet: Witin IIS 5 all ASP scripts can be cached so that they are ready in optimized form. I've not looked closly enough into PHP/Zend, but I'll bet the same is or will be possible with that combination.
re XHTML: you're hyping this. Anyone who writes HTML which will have a browser re-render the layout several times will probably write it in the same way in XHTML. No difference there. Pages written in XHTML will not be better than pages written in HTML. They are better prepared for future browsers and business applications, that's true.
Freedom in the US? only 2% of the world's population lives in the US, but 25% of the world's prisoners are in US jails... the US even can make a buck out of their jail system, that's why they need as many prisoners as they can get. loz
"My personal experience suggests we tend to overestimate our design abilities." -- Bill Joy
I'm suprised he didn't take this any further. In order to create intelligent/sentient machines you need to be one hell of a designer. Current neural networks are badly understood and badly performing even on supercomputers. My own estimations say that in 30 years the chances of having sentient machines is an absolute zero.
A far more plausible route will be that human beings will physically merge with their own technology, with simple machines. Actually, that is already common practice, e.g. pacemakers that keep your heart beating. To be honest I'm awaiting the mobile phone that will be subdermally implanted in my ear (I expect this within 5 years). I also believe in nanobots that will circulate through your bloodveins continuosly scanning for virusses and other "enemies". There are numerous other examples where human beings will merge will their own technology. I'm not afraid of that future. Life is about change.
Slashdot Mirror
hehehe, Afrodot, news for idiots.
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loz
soon we'll have IPv6 where we'll be communicating securely by default. Is the US going to forbid the deployment of IPv6?
Your PC may be fine, but you are probably going to spend the $2000 dollars every 3 three years nevertheless, only this time on other sorts of hardware:
.Net, Hailstorm, Windows CE, and why you see Microsoft is leaving Intel (e.g. no support for HomeRF, nor for USB in Windows XP). Microsoft now rather goes to bed with Sony, Philips, Panasonic, Nokia, etc.
- Wireless LAN basestations
- You'll swap your PC for a faster laptop
- Multitude of wireless devices (PDA's, WebPad's, internet enabled wristwatches, 3G/4G mobile phones, etc., etc.)
- Faster modems to connect to the internet (paid per month)
In essense, the killer app is not some software product, but it's the wireless internet.
Microsoft has long recognized this, that's why
yo
loz
Rereading the article I now think this is not going to hurt the satelitte companies at all. Instead of $50 a month, these companies will ask $10 a month. So you'll get a lot more for a lot less money.
Loz
This is certainly going to hurt the billions put into the satellite companies Sirius and XMRS. That is: as long you drive only within the boundaries of a city. As soon as you're driving outside you probably need the signals coming from the satelittes. Loz
I'm willing to buy commercial music, but I do not have a turntable nor a CD player. I do have a computer. So, record companies out there: are you able to sell me your stuff? No? Oh well, then I guess you leave me other choice than me using Napster. Loz
Loz
I find programming ASP and databases a doddle: what I do is have my own include file inc_ado.asp which contains only the ADO constants I ever use (which is only about 5 to 10% of the original adovbs.inc file), and then add one extra constant which contains the DNS-less connection string to the database, e.g.:
Make sure that connection pooling is on! (see the links below to find out how to do that.. it's a registry setting, as simple as that).
Then open the database connection as late as possible, and close as early as possible, and use adOpenForwardOnly whenever possible, because it's by far the fastest cursor (there's only about 5% of the cases where I have to use adOpenStatic in order to be able to jump to the end and walk backwards). E.g.:
With Windows 2000 / IIS 5 there are also quite a few parameters within the properties of a website that can have dramatic effects on the performance: the most important one is to make sure you've got "Enable client side script debugging" turned OFF. Having it turned on will have your website run in single-thread mode which is extremely crap in a live environment.
Optimizing ASP: a very good link is here, also worthy to note are here, here, here, here, here and here.
Loz
In IIS 5 this is now the default.
Loz
re XHTML: you're hyping this. Anyone who writes HTML which will have a browser re-render the layout several times will probably write it in the same way in XHTML. No difference there. Pages written in XHTML will not be better than pages written in HTML. They are better prepared for future browsers and business applications, that's true.
loz
and never mind that the real huge boost came out of CERN.
That's not the point is it? Those co-called "inventors" were strangly narrow-minded to begin with.
Freedom in the US? only 2% of the world's population lives in the US, but 25% of the world's prisoners are in US jails. .. the US even can make a buck out of their jail system, that's why they need as many prisoners as they can get. loz
I'm suprised he didn't take this any further. In order to create intelligent/sentient machines you need to be one hell of a designer. Current neural networks are badly understood and badly performing even on supercomputers. My own estimations say that in 30 years the chances of having sentient machines is an absolute zero.
A far more plausible route will be that human beings will physically merge with their own technology, with simple machines. Actually, that is already common practice, e.g. pacemakers that keep your heart beating. To be honest I'm awaiting the mobile phone that will be subdermally implanted in my ear (I expect this within 5 years). I also believe in nanobots that will circulate through your bloodveins continuosly scanning for virusses and other "enemies". There are numerous other examples where human beings will merge will their own technology. I'm not afraid of that future. Life is about change.
Lawrence
Okay, so how much would the equipment cost me?rough estimate?
It's not even a Window Manager. Window Maker is an example of a Window Manager. Linux is "just" an operating system.