The PostgreSQL port to the PS2 (quite a while back) made a performance issue on certain platforms very obvious. I believe as a result the Itanium port recieved a bit of a speed boost (common issue).
Simply put, looking at something from a new angle doesn't hurt any of the currently existing platforms, and often it will help.
It's the same reason many developers like to use more than one compiler. One will sometimes warn about things the other doesn't catch.
[i]I can barely get my clients to understand why they need SSL[/i]
With SSL you get the lock picture. Without SSL you simply don't get it. Everyone wants to get it, but that takes SSL and not everybody can have SSL. Do you want brand name SSL for a low low price? Gotta have the lock (tm).
In Toronto we actually describe our borders by area code "Oh, you live in 905 -- hows the commute?".
Lots of businesses in the burbs have 416 numbers forwarded to them as otherwise some Torontonians won't give them business -- even for mailorder stuff.
Anyway, while 212 is certainly much more difficult to get, the want of a prefix is not just an NY thing.
Problem is, it's not only needed but it's already in very heavy use. Too late to back out now.
My understanding is that most major backbones have switch over due to the benefits in reduced load on their routers (less data processing needs to occur).
This would mean most IPV4 traffic is already translated (tunneled) across IPV6 at one point or another.
You obviously aren't living in the core of a major city (NY, London, Tokyo, etc.). In many of these places space is at a premium. Having 2 or 3 consoles can take up quite a bit of space when only 1 will do.
So, at these locations with millions upon millions of potential customers, the smaller total package will probably win out if the prices are the same.
It's the same reason people like multifunction devices despite them often costing as much as the individual units often would.
Perhaps the intent is to have those additional items be available via XBox Live only?
Most High Speed connections can download a few megs worth of data in a reasonable timeframe required for this kind of stuff. Coupled with a small ram cache that survives reboots and it may be enough to eliminate the need for a local drive.
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In several ways Linux has caught up, in some ways it has long surpassed and in others it is behind.
Linux 2.6 scheduler was ahead. Recently a new schedular was added to FreeBSD (expect it to be default in 5.3) which took lessons learned from Linux.
FreeBSD probably as a slightly better network support for heavy load (filling GBit nics), but Linux has certainly gotten to the point where normally it makes little difference.
Unless you have very heavy or esoteric requirements, to the point where you are hiring new admins to take care of just that project, go with what you know.
That said, always pick up the competition to see if you can learn any new tricks that may be applied to your current environment.
If you're referring to the possessed object[s] of several individuals, it would be "people's", whereas if you're referring to the possessed object[s] of several groups of individuals, it would be "peoples'".
Everyone who thinks that ' should be removed from the keyboard and never spoken again, say yea.
All opposed say nay.
The yeas have it. Give me that damn keyboard -- and the dictionary while you're at it.
I've only read "Red Mars". It was good, but I decided at the time that "Green" and "Blue" would be concerned with changes to Mars that were so far in the future they couldn't possibly be as scientific as "Red".
One benefit to reading the others is the authors writing gets better as you go on -- not that it was bad in Red Mars.
Actually -- it's the best thing that could happen.
An India with big companies and a slew of tiny developing companies means a country looking to drastically increase the number of imports they are making.
No, they'll no longer be importing that much software (outside opensource of course), and perhaps their 'leadership' imports will decrease as well, but everything else will go up.
A countries growth usually increases worldwide market share -- although some specific items may suffer traditionally imported may suffer.
I give free support to all of my family/friends if they have a Mac OS X machine, or FreeBSD and KDE.
Ditto but with 3 extra stipulations.
- 24/7 internet connection (for routine remote maintenance) - I'm the only person with root access (not a problem since they don't know what it is for) - Hardware purchases are done through me. I don't charge any overhead, but it prevents them from buying a crappy product.
After 18 months, I have 0 hardware failures and generally maintenance consists of upgrading Gaim for the new MSN protocol or adding new functionality (laser printer for university projects, digital camera and related software, etc.).
They're happy because things generally "just work" and I'm happy because it cut maintenance down from tens of hours / month (another virus? another reinstall) to about 30 minutes per month.
They're also using the computer for more than they were before.
I got bit once by the table type changing back to the default during an ALTER. I don't know if it has been fixed, but beware something like ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN removing transaction support for those tables.
Also remember transactions silently fail! You need to quadrouple check everything first since you cannot rely on the database to tell you something is wrong.
I simply cannot trust myself to use MySQL for important data. Too many things to double and triple check are *still* correct and properly constrained.
No, fusion is not clean if you look at a short timeline. I understand the irradiated components will become safe within 100 years, and can be recycled at that time.
So, if a reactor is active for 30 years, stored for 100, then recycled into a newer model I think we're doing pretty good.
There isn't much we do that has an effect on the local environment (inside the structure only!) for that short of a timeframe.
If you consider this prototype is 500MW and nuclear reactor prototypes are 500kw to 1MW -- with production being close to 1GW... I predict a fusion reactor with 1TW output levels within 50 years.
That said, being idiots and making our own lives difficult isn't very bright.
What I find quite funny is the number of people who simply don't realize that virtually nothing we eat is natural. Even animals that aren't genetically engineered have been in breeding programs for years.
I dare you to find bush of 1cm blueberries in the wild, or a wild cow that produces milk like a typical barnyard Holstein.
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Granted there isn't much use, but there is some.
The PostgreSQL port to the PS2 (quite a while back) made a performance issue on certain platforms very obvious. I believe as a result the Itanium port recieved a bit of a speed boost (common issue).
Simply put, looking at something from a new angle doesn't hurt any of the currently existing platforms, and often it will help.
It's the same reason many developers like to use more than one compiler. One will sometimes warn about things the other doesn't catch.
[i]I can barely get my clients to understand why they need SSL[/i]
With SSL you get the lock picture. Without SSL you simply don't get it. Everyone wants to get it, but that takes SSL and not everybody can have SSL. Do you want brand name SSL for a low low price?
Gotta have the lock (tm).
In Toronto we actually describe our borders by area code "Oh, you live in 905 -- hows the commute?".
Lots of businesses in the burbs have 416 numbers forwarded to them as otherwise some Torontonians won't give them business -- even for mailorder stuff.
Anyway, while 212 is certainly much more difficult to get, the want of a prefix is not just an NY thing.
Actually, IBMs dominance over the database market is under attack by Oracle -- yes, you heard me.
If you go by $'s rather than # of installations (otherwise MSAccess would probably win), IBM is *normally* the market leader.
This is primarily due to DB2 being popular with Banks and Universities.
Now you can get the chip to glow without having to overheat it.
The fun will be capped at an undisclosed level.
I'm sorry sir, you had too much fun writing that comment. We are going to have to disconnect you from the Slashdot service now.
I still play the Absolute Annihilation hack atleast once a week.
Much improved AI, many more (diverse) units, and best of all, it's still maintained. They made a new release yesterday.
Problem is, it's not only needed but it's already in very heavy use. Too late to back out now.
My understanding is that most major backbones have switch over due to the benefits in reduced load on their routers (less data processing needs to occur).
This would mean most IPV4 traffic is already translated (tunneled) across IPV6 at one point or another.
Can anyone confirm or deny?
You obviously aren't living in the core of a major city (NY, London, Tokyo, etc.). In many of these places space is at a premium. Having 2 or 3 consoles can take up quite a bit of space when only 1 will do.
So, at these locations with millions upon millions of potential customers, the smaller total package will probably win out if the prices are the same.
It's the same reason people like multifunction devices despite them often costing as much as the individual units often would.
Perhaps the intent is to have those additional items be available via XBox Live only?
Most High Speed connections can download a few megs worth of data in a reasonable timeframe required for this kind of stuff. Coupled with a small ram cache that survives reboots and it may be enough to eliminate the need for a local drive.
In several ways Linux has caught up, in some ways it has long surpassed and in others it is behind.
Linux 2.6 scheduler was ahead. Recently a new schedular was added to FreeBSD (expect it to be default in 5.3) which took lessons learned from Linux.
FreeBSD probably as a slightly better network support for heavy load (filling GBit nics), but Linux has certainly gotten to the point where normally it makes little difference.
Unless you have very heavy or esoteric requirements, to the point where you are hiring new admins to take care of just that project, go with what you know.
That said, always pick up the competition to see if you can learn any new tricks that may be applied to your current environment.
If you're referring to the possessed object[s] of several individuals, it would be "people's", whereas if you're referring to the possessed object[s] of several groups of individuals, it would be "peoples'".
Everyone who thinks that ' should be removed from the keyboard and never spoken again, say yea.
All opposed say nay.
The yeas have it. Give me that damn keyboard -- and the dictionary while you're at it.
Ok, so he misspelt BSDi.
I've only read "Red Mars". It was good, but I decided at the time that "Green" and "Blue" would be concerned with changes to Mars that were so far in the future they couldn't possibly be as scientific as "Red".
One benefit to reading the others is the authors writing gets better as you go on -- not that it was bad in Red Mars.
Actually -- it's the best thing that could happen.
An India with big companies and a slew of tiny developing companies means a country looking to drastically increase the number of imports they are making.
No, they'll no longer be importing that much software (outside opensource of course), and perhaps their 'leadership' imports will decrease as well, but everything else will go up.
A countries growth usually increases worldwide market share -- although some specific items may suffer traditionally imported may suffer.
I give free support to all of my family/friends if they have a Mac OS X machine, or FreeBSD and KDE.
Ditto but with 3 extra stipulations.
- 24/7 internet connection (for routine remote maintenance)
- I'm the only person with root access (not a problem since they don't know what it is for)
- Hardware purchases are done through me. I don't charge any overhead, but it prevents them from buying a crappy product.
After 18 months, I have 0 hardware failures and generally maintenance consists of upgrading Gaim for the new MSN protocol or adding new functionality (laser printer for university projects, digital camera and related software, etc.).
They're happy because things generally "just work" and I'm happy because it cut maintenance down from tens of hours / month (another virus? another reinstall) to about 30 minutes per month.
They're also using the computer for more than they were before.
I got bit once by the table type changing back to the default during an ALTER. I don't know if it has been fixed, but beware something like ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN removing transaction support for those tables.
Also remember transactions silently fail! You need to quadrouple check everything first since you cannot rely on the database to tell you something is wrong.
I simply cannot trust myself to use MySQL for important data. Too many things to double and triple check are *still* correct and properly constrained.
I think the point was that nobody from AOL can actually dial into the system, so AOL pipes are normally fairly empty.
No, fusion is not clean if you look at a short timeline. I understand the irradiated components will become safe within 100 years, and can be recycled at that time.
So, if a reactor is active for 30 years, stored for 100, then recycled into a newer model I think we're doing pretty good.
There isn't much we do that has an effect on the local environment (inside the structure only!) for that short of a timeframe.
If you consider this prototype is 500MW and nuclear reactor prototypes are 500kw to 1MW -- with production being close to 1GW... I predict a fusion reactor with 1TW output levels within 50 years.
Agreed.. They should be building a Fusion power plant which is capable of proving that long duration, high output reactors would be possible to build.
;)
Lets call it ITER -- we can make it an international thing. Now we just need a location to put it in
Umm.. You know the Japanese bullet train that just broke the speed barrier was a ma... ugh never mind.
That said, being idiots and making our own lives difficult isn't very bright.
What I find quite funny is the number of people who simply don't realize that virtually nothing we eat is natural. Even animals that aren't genetically engineered have been in breeding programs for years.
I dare you to find bush of 1cm blueberries in the wild, or a wild cow that produces milk like a typical barnyard Holstein.
Actually, I use the G450 because it doesn't require a fan.
Yup.. so now you have the admins to setup (and maintain!) a new PC specifically for outlook as viruses hinder your work otherwise.
FreeBSD machiens running x86-64 are tough to come by. Odds are it is very close to working if not already.