Maybe I'm just too old (OK, yesterday was my 40th birthday, so call me a curmudgeon if you want, I've been called worse) but when I started out as a systems programmer, it was fashionable to speak English. Leet-speak doesn't exactly do much to promote ease of communication, does it?
Ok, you're a curmudgeon.
1337 5p34k (or however ya want to spell it) is obviously not about ease of communication. It's not appropriate business language. It's an online slang dialect created by a bunch of creative, expressive, obnoxious, little shits. You wouldn't use it in a technical spec any more than you would walk up to your boss and say "Word! That proposal was da bomb! I thought you was frontin till you whipped dat shit out. Booyah!" (my appologies if this slang is horribly outdated)
That being said, if you sit back and read it for a bit, I think you'll find leet speak can be extremely expressive and funny.
In a sense, safecracking could be considered an art.
Nope, I think that's what you would call a skill. It's not an art until you've created something that can be presented to an audience. ( Oh, and creating an open box out of a closed one and presenting the contents to an audience doesn't count so don't go there:-P ).
Now, a safecracker could create new intriguing tools that a person could consider to be art perhaps. However, creating those tools isn't safecracking, it's engineering and possibly sculpting. Using the tool is safecracking and it's just not art.
Kind of dangerous, isn't it? One of the benefits about Kazaa is its supposed anonymity in sharing files. If you set up an FTP server, wouldn't it be a lot easier for RIAA to find out who owns the server and shut it down?
That would require the RIAA to actually get into your FTP server to begin with. Unless you're stupid enough to leave on anonymous FTP, this shouldn't be an issue. Plus, I don't think Kazaa has ever been billed as an "anonymous" file sharing application. It's quite the opposite. It broadcasts to the whole world the fact that you've got files to share as it searches for other nodes.
What I think is needed to put this whole thing to rest is a filesharing network that is even furthur decentralized. Perhaps a setup where content you put into your shared folder is broken up and distributed across the network for sharing. If worked out carefully, I think it could be done in a manner in which it is impossible to tell who's machine is really the source.
The RIAA and its members have to suck it up and accept the fact that this stuff isn't going away. If they want to thrive in tomorrow's marketplace they need to invest in new delivery methods like the apple store and stop treating their customers like thieves.
Suing college kids is going to get them absolutely nowhere. Not only are college kids probably some of their most dedicated consumers, (even on a shoestring budget) but they're some of the most likely to organize boycotts, protest, and find other ways to retailiate.
People over compress/limit analog recordings all the time now too. Also, Anteres, the company that makes the oft-hated auto tuner, has a rack-mount version that people use with analog gear.
whining and assuming is only making an ass of you......Stop whining and come up with a solution.
My speculation was my first reaction to the news and the info I could glean by scanning the apple website. I am not whining, just posting my first reaction.
However, for the sake of argument, let's say that I _was_ whining. How about this? I'll stop whining when you stop being a dick.
If my band isn't signed by one of the big 5, how can I get my material posted for sale by Apple? I suspect that the answer is "I can't". I wish I could figure out what contact number or e-mail address to use from the apple site to find out...
I don't let my e-mail get out to stupid places on the net where a spider will get them. I don't sign up for weird things. I avoid anything slightly untrustworthy. And as a result I get no spam. I can't lie, I don't get no spam. I get maybe 1 spam every 2 weeks. That's right, 1. If I have managed to prevent myself from getting more than 2 spams a month so can you. So do it and stop complaining.
Try using your e-mail address for something other than trying to pick up 14 year old girls. You may find that you HAVE to put your e-mail address in places where spiders can get to it. I monitor webmaster@myVariousDomains.com, booking@myBandsSite.com, etc. If I don't put these e-mail addresses on my website so that people can contact me, what good does it do me to have the address in the first place? Sure, I get very little if any spam to my personal accounts but I have had other accounts that were getting upwards of 200 spam per day.
I can't wait for somebody to come up with a hack that will trick the TiVo into streaming video to computers instead of other TiVo's using this. That would probably prompt me to buy a TiVo Series 2.
I'm still thinking about putting one of these into my TiVo and trying to stream video via samba or whatnot. I really want to be able to watch shows that I've recorded over WiFi via my laptop and burn VCD's for archive purposes.
Well, you are wrong. The government can hold you indefinitely, but they will tell you and your lawyer why they are holding you, which the article does state.
The article says this:
Relatives and friends of Mr. Hawash, who works for the Intel Corporation and is married to a native Oregonian, say he has no idea why he was arrested by a federal terrorism task force when he arrived for work at the Intel parking lot in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb.
Mr. Hawash, who is known as Mike, has yet to be interrogated and is being kept in solitary confinement, his supporters say.
Federal officials will not comment on Mr. Hawash, though they have been pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and by a group of supporters led by a former Intel vice president, for basic information about why he is being detained.
Explain to me again how the government is within their rights? First off, if they are detaining him because they feel he is guilty of something, they don't have a right to do it under hostile witness clauses. They need to do it as a criminal prosecution. If they are honestly holding him as a hostile witness, (which I doubt) why wouldn't they tell him what he is expected to testify about?
There is a definite reason why he is detained. This much is certain. I have a few friends that are Arab, in Portland, and haven't been detained. So far 44 people have been detained, for a reason. Granted, somet times the reason is wrong, but there is always a reason.
Where did I say there wasn't a reason for his detainment? I'm saying cough up the reason and press charges or let him go. The government can't legally hold you indefinitely without telling you what you've done wrong and what you're being charged with. Check the bill of rights, I think it's the sixth amendment if I'm not mistaken...
Granted, I have no opinion on this what so ever. I think that people need to wait and look at the facts.
And how long should everybody wait for these facts? A year? 5 years? 10 years? What is a year of your life worth to you? Hell, what is a month of your life worth to you? At what point is it fair that he's either prosecuted or released?
Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla have been locked up now for around a year(Over a year in Hamdi's case I think). Both have been refused access to a lawyer and neither have had charges filed against them. These are american citizens. This could happen to you. This could happen to somebody you know.
Our own government is locking people up without due process or just killing them to save the hassle. Something really has to be done. Write your congressmen, join the ACLU(I did yesterday), participate in protests even if it feels stupid at first. The only way we're going to keep our rights is to actively work to defend them, especially with facists like Bush, Ashcroft, and Rumsfield at the helm.
Well, you can hardly call IIS "irrelevant". Look at the number of worms it propogates. Look at the security holes that allow people to hijack boxes for DDOS attacks. It's very relevant - just not in the way Microsoft would like it to be I'm guessing...
What precisely are you doing with those accounts? Updating balances or some such thing?
It's mainly synchronization type duties between our webserver's UDB server and our mainframe's DB2 server. But there are quite a few date calculations taking place as well as some aggregation and such.
Why would you do this in Java? Java == slow. Sorry it's true. Also, even if you implemented in C/C++ on distributed hardware, you're just not going to get the same performace you'd get on a mainframe. The 390 is faassst.
Well, first off, your 390 can run Java. IBM has really been investing heavily in Java. I get the impression that they see it as COBOL's eventual replacement on the big iron. As for Java being slow, it just isn't true anymore. Java is slow for certain things. You just have to know where its weaknesses are. Obviously GUI code is one place where native code spanks it. However, on most platforms, it's nearly as fast as native code when it comes to raw math. And believe it or not, there are places where it can be faster than COBOL. My batch process is very database heavy. In this case, Java outperforms COBOL. I've written it as a multithreaded application. While your COBOL program is waiting on the results of a huge DB2 transaction, my java program is kicking off 19 more transactions. I can keep the database server saturated with requests. Now, if I were working directly off a file system, without a database server, COBOL would probably be faster and the mainframe would certainly be faster than the solaris box I'm using.
Also, COBOL's not such a bad language. Not for what it's meant for anyway. Learn it and code in it for a while. You'll see.
I had to take a year of COBOL in college and I've done a little real world COBOL since school. I hate COBOL. I hate JCL. I hate the mainframe text editor that everybody uses. I hate VSAM, ISAM, CICS. Ok, CICS is a little interesting. I'm not some young kid that makes fun of COBOL because they've never used it and they view it as antique. I've used it and can't stand it. I'd rather write System 370 assembler than COBOL (and have). It's equally as awkward to use but at least it's not so verbose.
Well, I've got a batch process that is about to go into our production realm next week that processes 4 million customer accounts every night. Close enough?
You just have to understand the performance aspects of the various J2EE components. You probably wouldn't want to implement a huge batch process using entity beans with container managed persistance if you could do the same with stateless session beans. You probably wouldn't want to use a remote interface if your process is running on the same server and can use a local interface, etc...
J2EE is still fairly young but they've added tons of performance sensitive features to the spec. Also, every server vendor has included their own optimizations to get around the most common performance hurdles. It's a rapidly maturing technology.
The mainframe isn't going away but all of the software technologies that run on it certainly are. Look at IBM's investment in Linux and Java. The big shops are slowly starting to kick over from COBOL to J2EE already. It will take a long time. It's hard to get approval to spend millions of dollars upgrading a legacy system that still works. It does happen though as new features are required and interoperability with newer systems becomes an issue.
My employer has recently started several 10 million dollar+ projects to replace COBOL systems with J2EE systems. It's just a matter of time. Based on my experience, I'd predict in 15 years COBOL will be all but extinct.
I would simply switch career paths if I had to write COBOL for 40 hours per week. I had to take a year of COBOL in school, plus I did ocassional maintenance work on legacy COBOL programs in my first year out of school. Forget it. The salary would have to be high enough for me to do the following things:
1) Stay drunk or under the influence of illicit substances 24/7 2) Pay a chauffeur to drive my drunk/stoned ass everywhere I need to be 3) Retire in 5 years 4) Pay for years of rehab/detox and daily therapy until regaining some semblance of sanity
Random ASCII data is not a text file, it's a binary file. A text file typically only contains the characters you can type with a keyboard, plus a few special characters like carriage returns and tabs. Also, most text files contain words primarily in one language which causes some characters to appear much more frequently than others. This allows those frequently used characters to be represented by only a couple of bits rather than an entire byte.
Most text files compress extremely well, I frequently see text files that are compressed to roughly 20% of their original size.
I'm skeptical of their ability to significantly compress graphics and other multimedia components of pages because they're usually already compressed.
Now, as for the technology as a whole, if you go to propel's general Technical Overview, You'll also see that it's not just a compression technology, it's also proxying and caching technology. They have a local http proxy with a persistent connection to their remote proxys. This should also give a small performance boost.
To me it sounds like it could significantly increase web browsing speeds. I just don't think it's worth paying the extra cash if you can get broadband in your area for a few bucks more per month.
One thing that I think they should implement if they haven't already is predictive caching. They should try to guess where your next click is going to be and start downloading that content to your proxy in advance of you hitting it. This can be especially effective in an environment with a large userbase where they can predict your next page based on other users' behavior.
I think this is a questionable technology to invest money in. Why spend however many hundreds of thousands of dollars this must have cost to alienate a very small but dedicated chunk of your userbase?
I doubt overclocking causes a substantial loss of profits through people doing it in lieu of an upgrade. The very few people I know that overclock processors regularly do it on old boxes that they use as playthings. They always have a very up-to-date computer that they aren't overclocking, they just take their old ones and see what they can do with them. These people wouldn't have gone out to buy a new processor for these old boxes if they couldn't overclock, they'd have just used them as-is. So by preventing them from overclocking, you're just making them more likely to buy a competitor's chip for their new boxes. I doubt sales would show any significant decrease from these hobbyists buying other chips but why turn away even one sale without financial benefit elsewhere?
Certainly manufacturers aren't regularly overclocking processors. It was Kryotech's main business when they started and they don't even sell an overclocked PC anymore.
The only reason I could possibly see for this would be to prevent accidental overclocking and I can't imagine that being a significant problem. Very few novices go out and roll their own PC's. Certainly not enough that there's a widespread problem with people damaging their hardware.
Don't get me wrong, I don't bother to overclock my machines so I don't mind them putting this into their chips. I just don't understand what would make this technology worth investing in.
For those of you on the west coast that haven't gotten to see the finale yet, start popping the popcorn and crack open a cold one (or 12). It's a frelling fitting end to an incredible series.
After it was over, I hit the farscape website and it looks like they're planning on trying to continue the show with a movie, an anime project and possibly a series with another network. Let's cross our fingers because this was quite possibly the most best show on television over the last four years. Never have I seen a show with such dynamic characters and a writing team willing to take extreme risks with their "formula".
I hope everybody involved in the show is proud. They deserve to be.
Well, first off, I don't see the big deal about the BBC's load time going from.47 seconds to 1.88 seconds. It seems to me like they're doing just fine.
I know CNN used akamai for a little while because I remember seing the old ARL's on their images. We use akamai at the company I work for and I can't rave enough about their services. Our site peaked last year at 320mbit per second. It was right around 144GB in one hour. Thanks to akamai, we served that without so much as a hiccup. It was dished out from a cluster of 5 aging solaris boxen.
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Maybe I'm just too old (OK, yesterday was my 40th birthday, so call me a curmudgeon if you want, I've been called worse) but when I started out as a systems programmer, it was fashionable to speak English. Leet-speak doesn't exactly do much to promote ease of communication, does it?
Ok, you're a curmudgeon.
1337 5p34k (or however ya want to spell it) is obviously not about ease of communication. It's not appropriate business language. It's an online slang dialect created by a bunch of creative, expressive, obnoxious, little shits. You wouldn't use it in a technical spec any more than you would walk up to your boss and say "Word! That proposal was da bomb! I thought you was frontin till you whipped dat shit out. Booyah!" (my appologies if this slang is horribly outdated)
That being said, if you sit back and read it for a bit, I think you'll find leet speak can be extremely expressive and funny.
In a sense, safecracking could be considered an art.
:-P ).
Nope, I think that's what you would call a skill. It's not an art until you've created something that can be presented to an audience. ( Oh, and creating an open box out of a closed one and presenting the contents to an audience doesn't count so don't go there
Now, a safecracker could create new intriguing tools that a person could consider to be art perhaps. However, creating those tools isn't safecracking, it's engineering and possibly sculpting. Using the tool is safecracking and it's just not art.
You laugh, but in a networking class I had back in high school, the instructor wore a freakin lab coat. I never did understand that....
Maybe he was afraid he'd spill ether on himself...
Kind of dangerous, isn't it? One of the benefits about Kazaa is its supposed anonymity in sharing files. If you set up an FTP server, wouldn't it be a lot easier for RIAA to find out who owns the server and shut it down?
That would require the RIAA to actually get into your FTP server to begin with. Unless you're stupid enough to leave on anonymous FTP, this shouldn't be an issue. Plus, I don't think Kazaa has ever been billed as an "anonymous" file sharing application. It's quite the opposite. It broadcasts to the whole world the fact that you've got files to share as it searches for other nodes.
What I think is needed to put this whole thing to rest is a filesharing network that is even furthur decentralized. Perhaps a setup where content you put into your shared folder is broken up and distributed across the network for sharing. If worked out carefully, I think it could be done in a manner in which it is impossible to tell who's machine is really the source.
The RIAA and its members have to suck it up and accept the fact that this stuff isn't going away. If they want to thrive in tomorrow's marketplace they need to invest in new delivery methods like the apple store and stop treating their customers like thieves.
Suing college kids is going to get them absolutely nowhere. Not only are college kids probably some of their most dedicated consumers, (even on a shoestring budget) but they're some of the most likely to organize boycotts, protest, and find other ways to retailiate.
People over compress/limit analog recordings all the time now too. Also, Anteres, the company that makes the oft-hated auto tuner, has a rack-mount version that people use with analog gear.
Protools really has nothing to do with it.
whining and assuming is only making an ass of you... ...Stop whining and come up with a solution.
My speculation was my first reaction to the news and the info I could glean by scanning the apple website. I am not whining, just posting my first reaction.
However, for the sake of argument, let's say that I _was_ whining. How about this? I'll stop whining when you stop being a dick.
If my band isn't signed by one of the big 5, how can I get my material posted for sale by Apple? I suspect that the answer is "I can't". I wish I could figure out what contact number or e-mail address to use from the apple site to find out...
mmm.. watercooling
Why the hell would you want to watercool a machine that runs so cool it doesn't even require a CPU fan?
I don't let my e-mail get out to stupid places on the net where a spider will get them. I don't sign up for weird things. I avoid anything slightly untrustworthy. And as a result I get no spam. I can't lie, I don't get no spam. I get maybe 1 spam every 2 weeks. That's right, 1. If I have managed to prevent myself from getting more than 2 spams a month so can you. So do it and stop complaining.
Try using your e-mail address for something other than trying to pick up 14 year old girls. You may find that you HAVE to put your e-mail address in places where spiders can get to it. I monitor webmaster@myVariousDomains.com, booking@myBandsSite.com, etc. If I don't put these e-mail addresses on my website so that people can contact me, what good does it do me to have the address in the first place? Sure, I get very little if any spam to my personal accounts but I have had other accounts that were getting upwards of 200 spam per day.
I can't wait for somebody to come up with a hack that will trick the TiVo into streaming video to computers instead of other TiVo's using this. That would probably prompt me to buy a TiVo Series 2.
I'm still thinking about putting one of these into my TiVo and trying to stream video via samba or whatnot. I really want to be able to watch shows that I've recorded over WiFi via my laptop and burn VCD's for archive purposes.
You say this:
Well, you are wrong. The government can hold you indefinitely, but they will tell you and your lawyer why they are holding you, which the article does state.
The article says this:
Relatives and friends of Mr. Hawash, who works for the Intel Corporation and is married to a native Oregonian, say he has no idea why he was arrested by a federal terrorism task force when he arrived for work at the Intel parking lot in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb.
Mr. Hawash, who is known as Mike, has yet to be interrogated and is being kept in solitary confinement, his supporters say.
Federal officials will not comment on Mr. Hawash, though they have been pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and by a group of supporters led by a former Intel vice president, for basic information about why he is being detained.
Explain to me again how the government is within their rights? First off, if they are detaining him because they feel he is guilty of something, they don't have a right to do it under hostile witness clauses. They need to do it as a criminal prosecution. If they are honestly holding him as a hostile witness, (which I doubt) why wouldn't they tell him what he is expected to testify about?
There is a definite reason why he is detained. This much is certain. I have a few friends that are Arab, in Portland, and haven't been detained. So far 44 people have been detained, for a reason. Granted, somet times the reason is wrong, but there is always a reason.
Where did I say there wasn't a reason for his detainment? I'm saying cough up the reason and press charges or let him go. The government can't legally hold you indefinitely without telling you what you've done wrong and what you're being charged with. Check the bill of rights, I think it's the sixth amendment if I'm not mistaken...
Granted, I have no opinion on this what so ever. I think that people need to wait and look at the facts.
And how long should everybody wait for these facts? A year? 5 years? 10 years? What is a year of your life worth to you? Hell, what is a month of your life worth to you? At what point is it fair that he's either prosecuted or released?
Yaser Hamdi and Jose Padilla have been locked up now for around a year(Over a year in Hamdi's case I think). Both have been refused access to a lawyer and neither have had charges filed against them. These are american citizens. This could happen to you. This could happen to somebody you know.
Our own government is locking people up without due process or just killing them to save the hassle. Something really has to be done. Write your congressmen, join the ACLU(I did yesterday), participate in protests even if it feels stupid at first. The only way we're going to keep our rights is to actively work to defend them, especially with facists like Bush, Ashcroft, and Rumsfield at the helm.
Well, you can hardly call IIS "irrelevant". Look at the number of worms it propogates. Look at the security holes that allow people to hijack boxes for DDOS attacks. It's very relevant - just not in the way Microsoft would like it to be I'm guessing...
What precisely are you doing with those accounts? Updating balances or some such thing?
It's mainly synchronization type duties between our webserver's UDB server and our mainframe's DB2 server. But there are quite a few date calculations taking place as well as some aggregation and such.
Why would you do this in Java? Java == slow. Sorry it's true. Also, even if you implemented in C/C++ on distributed hardware, you're just not going to get the same performace you'd get on a mainframe. The 390 is faassst.
Well, first off, your 390 can run Java. IBM has really been investing heavily in Java. I get the impression that they see it as COBOL's eventual replacement on the big iron. As for Java being slow, it just isn't true anymore. Java is slow for certain things. You just have to know where its weaknesses are. Obviously GUI code is one place where native code spanks it. However, on most platforms, it's nearly as fast as native code when it comes to raw math. And believe it or not, there are places where it can be faster than COBOL. My batch process is very database heavy. In this case, Java outperforms COBOL. I've written it as a multithreaded application. While your COBOL program is waiting on the results of a huge DB2 transaction, my java program is kicking off 19 more transactions. I can keep the database server saturated with requests. Now, if I were working directly off a file system, without a database server, COBOL would probably be faster and the mainframe would certainly be faster than the solaris box I'm using.
Also, COBOL's not such a bad language. Not for what it's meant for anyway. Learn it and code in it for a while. You'll see.
I had to take a year of COBOL in college and I've done a little real world COBOL since school. I hate COBOL. I hate JCL. I hate the mainframe text editor that everybody uses. I hate VSAM, ISAM, CICS. Ok, CICS is a little interesting. I'm not some young kid that makes fun of COBOL because they've never used it and they view it as antique. I've used it and can't stand it. I'd rather write System 370 assembler than COBOL (and have). It's equally as awkward to use but at least it's not so verbose.
Well, I've got a batch process that is about to go into our production realm next week that processes 4 million customer accounts every night. Close enough?
You just have to understand the performance aspects of the various J2EE components. You probably wouldn't want to implement a huge batch process using entity beans with container managed persistance if you could do the same with stateless session beans. You probably wouldn't want to use a remote interface if your process is running on the same server and can use a local interface, etc...
J2EE is still fairly young but they've added tons of performance sensitive features to the spec. Also, every server vendor has included their own optimizations to get around the most common performance hurdles. It's a rapidly maturing technology.
The mainframe isn't going away but all of the software technologies that run on it certainly are. Look at IBM's investment in Linux and Java. The big shops are slowly starting to kick over from COBOL to J2EE already. It will take a long time. It's hard to get approval to spend millions of dollars upgrading a legacy system that still works. It does happen though as new features are required and interoperability with newer systems becomes an issue.
My employer has recently started several 10 million dollar+ projects to replace COBOL systems with J2EE systems. It's just a matter of time. Based on my experience, I'd predict in 15 years COBOL will be all but extinct.
I would simply switch career paths if I had to write COBOL for 40 hours per week. I had to take a year of COBOL in school, plus I did ocassional maintenance work on legacy COBOL programs in my first year out of school. Forget it. The salary would have to be high enough for me to do the following things:
1) Stay drunk or under the influence of illicit substances 24/7
2) Pay a chauffeur to drive my drunk/stoned ass everywhere I need to be
3) Retire in 5 years
4) Pay for years of rehab/detox and daily therapy until regaining some semblance of sanity
... These are the PERFECT jobs to ship overseas to India for $5 an hour :)
Random ASCII data is not a text file, it's a binary file. A text file typically only contains the characters you can type with a keyboard, plus a few special characters like carriage returns and tabs. Also, most text files contain words primarily in one language which causes some characters to appear much more frequently than others. This allows those frequently used characters to be represented by only a couple of bits rather than an entire byte.
Most text files compress extremely well, I frequently see text files that are compressed to roughly 20% of their original size.
I'm skeptical of their ability to significantly compress graphics and other multimedia components of pages because they're usually already compressed.
Now, as for the technology as a whole, if you go to propel's general Technical Overview, You'll also see that it's not just a compression technology, it's also proxying and caching technology. They have a local http proxy with a persistent connection to their remote proxys. This should also give a small performance boost.
To me it sounds like it could significantly increase web browsing speeds. I just don't think it's worth paying the extra cash if you can get broadband in your area for a few bucks more per month.
One thing that I think they should implement if they haven't already is predictive caching. They should try to guess where your next click is going to be and start downloading that content to your proxy in advance of you hitting it. This can be especially effective in an environment with a large userbase where they can predict your next page based on other users' behavior.
I think this is a questionable technology to invest money in. Why spend however many hundreds of thousands of dollars this must have cost to alienate a very small but dedicated chunk of your userbase?
I doubt overclocking causes a substantial loss of profits through people doing it in lieu of an upgrade. The very few people I know that overclock processors regularly do it on old boxes that they use as playthings. They always have a very up-to-date computer that they aren't overclocking, they just take their old ones and see what they can do with them. These people wouldn't have gone out to buy a new processor for these old boxes if they couldn't overclock, they'd have just used them as-is. So by preventing them from overclocking, you're just making them more likely to buy a competitor's chip for their new boxes. I doubt sales would show any significant decrease from these hobbyists buying other chips but why turn away even one sale without financial benefit elsewhere?
Certainly manufacturers aren't regularly overclocking processors. It was Kryotech's main business when they started and they don't even sell an overclocked PC anymore.
The only reason I could possibly see for this would be to prevent accidental overclocking and I can't imagine that being a significant problem. Very few novices go out and roll their own PC's. Certainly not enough that there's a widespread problem with people damaging their hardware.
Don't get me wrong, I don't bother to overclock my machines so I don't mind them putting this into their chips. I just don't understand what would make this technology worth investing in.
Yup
For those of you on the west coast that haven't gotten to see the finale yet, start popping the popcorn and crack open a cold one (or 12). It's a frelling fitting end to an incredible series.
After it was over, I hit the farscape website and it looks like they're planning on trying to continue the show with a movie, an anime project and possibly a series with another network. Let's cross our fingers because this was quite possibly the most best show on television over the last four years. Never have I seen a show with such dynamic characters and a writing team willing to take extreme risks with their "formula".
I hope everybody involved in the show is proud. They deserve to be.
Well, first off, I don't see the big deal about the BBC's load time going from .47 seconds to 1.88 seconds. It seems to me like they're doing just fine.
I know CNN used akamai for a little while because I remember seing the old ARL's on their images. We use akamai at the company I work for and I can't rave enough about their services. Our site peaked last year at 320mbit per second. It was right around 144GB in one hour. Thanks to akamai, we served that without so much as a hiccup. It was dished out from a cluster of 5 aging solaris boxen.