Yes it does (look through 50TB of data), and how would you design it? It has to access all of your friends and find their postings.
Robert Johnson gave an excellent talk on facebook's design two weeks ago at OOPSLA (it should be in the ACM digital library soon). He stated that there is no clear segregation of data, the (friend) network is too connected and extracting groups of friends isn't possible.
Basically they have a huge mysql farm with memcached on top. Loading an inbox will hit multiple servers (maybe even a different server for each of your friends) across the farm.
You can buy they exact same thing in the States. Its imported from China so it's probably the exact same device. They go by the brand NJoy http://njoy.com/ around here. It goes for about a hundred bucks. The site even has a calculator to find when you'll start saving money.
No Joke. One of my friends moved to Texas and started a Granite cutting business with his brother. One of the cutters cost $2.5 million and weighed something like 40 tonnes. One day he woke up at 5AM and the darn things was missing. Somebody was stupid enough to try and steal it, but they only got it 2 miles away before they abandoned their effort.
Most malls these days let you buy prepaid debit cards in any amount you want. Look online and I'm sure you can find it. Did ask if they would accept a cashiers check? The post office offers those.
I forget the interview--Discovery Channel years ago, some interviewer was concerned that businesses where not taking cash anymore. The found some government offical who said that even though it says "All Debts, Public and Private," nothing is forcing them to do business by it. Businesses could use Euro's if they wanted.
No kidding.
I know of a certain "christian college" in Pensacola, Florida that disallows physical contact between the sexes. Violating this policy is grounds for dismissal. One young man happened to hold hands with his girlfriend and was dismissed from said school.
Imagine his surprise when he appeared on the Florida sex offenders registry! He successfully sued the school for damages and had his name removed from the list, but that really screws with your life.
Because even most colleges admit your going to forget over 90% of what you learn! It's on the course description for a critical thinking class from UW Madison. I was talking to a EE/Programmer whose been working in the field for 25 years. Since I'm in college, I asked him if he had ever used in his job some of the math their teaching me. "Nope," was his simple reply.
Seriously, knowledge these days is so frickin easy to come by. Your average 3rd grader's science fair project is about something most adults can't remember anything about.
Can you remember how to digram sentences from your high school English class? Does it matter in the real world?
This is just to keep people from buying the upgrade for new equipment. Everyone I know has been doing that (unless they buy the OEM). It's always fun to go searching around from my Windows 3.1 disks everytime I need to reinstall. (Actually that was windows 98, but you get my point.)
Sure, but do you know what Sugar actually is? They just use a lot of custom GTK+ widgets. It's a glorified GTK binding. While I love python, I don't think thats the cause of the speed. I'm pretty sure that if you used whatever GTK java bindings your application would be just as fast.
Funny. I was told about some T.V. show put on by ex thieves. The show consisted of finding willing victims then filling their house with video cameras. The "thief" would roll in and easily defeat any security measures they had in place while the family watched the cameras from a remote location. The best one was the house with the dog. The dog followed the thieves through the house while they walked out with the goods. Then they took the dog along with the loot in their van.
I dunno about anybody else, but my dad works on AUIML(Abstract User Interface Markup Language Toolkit), a large gui back-end for iSeries and any other java front end, web back-end admin type tools. Written in entirely in java there is an eclipse plugin to output the xml gui code (You can find it on the alpha works IBM web site for a free trial). My dad does all the testing with XDE tester from Rational Tools (owned by IBM, how nice!). XDE can test both the web and the java side of this. The tester is really cool, test cases are written in XML. XDE has some odd problems with the Internet Explorer java plugin and he has horror stories about trying to get it to work (He seems to be the only person around capable of getting it to run:) ). He now runs all his test cases over night on a headless machine (They take a couple hours), checks the error reports in the morning to know what he has to fix.
Usually I don't care about what RMS has to say, but on the subject of e-books he has a few very insightful comments. One of them is, you can put digital rights management in an e-book, but a paper book you can always lend to a friend, no EULAs to break . He does have a short story on how bad it could get, always having to pay for a book to reed it, no libraries or used book stores, so only the rich can learn... Plus you need and e-book reader, I can read my Suse manuals without a computer! Really e-books are a bad idea for the community IMHO.
A few months ago I bought a dvd+-rw drive which was the first DVD reader on my computer. So I install PowerDVD in windows plop in Pirates of the Caribbean and get a, "You have the wrong region set. Would you like to change you region?" I say yes and it changes nothing! I can't play a DVD on windows because of this stupid software. On the other hand, I boot into gentoo do an 'emerge mplayer.' And Pirates runs perfect! So do I really want crappy software with such a nonstandard interface on linux for a large sum of money? No way! Mplayer rules for me!
Is my favorite magazine.
Monthly linux article, hardware reviews, an xml series, look into the future tech, computer industry news, and a monthly pc modder feature. That is all great but the feature that makes it stand from the crowd is the columnists. Anand Lal Shimpi, Kyle Bennett, Alex "Sharky" Rose, Mike Magee, Rob "Cmdr Taco" Maldo (You know who he is!), Pere Loshon, Alesx St. John (Direct X, Wild Tangent), Joan Wood, and Chris Pirillo. These people are why I get this magazine. They talk about topics that interest me and I usually end up feelling smarter after hearing from them. Also they don't cater to the 100% gamer market (i.e No "Kick Ass" award). They also have a monthly q & a (between columnist and inerviewe) feature with some leading tech person (Monster.com, Nvidia execs, Hardware vendors, Nvidia n Ati back to back). So overall a kickass product!
The javagaming.org community has written a open source implementation of Java3D in the opengl wrapper JOGL (hosted on a Sun website).
It is called Xith 3D. From what I here they are getting much higher frame rates then Java 3D.
The problem with Java3D is it trys to do everything, so it is good for nothing. As far as I know there is very little usage of Java3D especially in the game programing community.
In cola maybe. But pepsi own KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Coke loses in the none Coke wars. They can't keep a good geek drink for squat. Mt. Dew is king there and Seirra Mist is awsome. Who buys pop from Coke that is not Coke? Pepsi wins on the none coke line.
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Yes it does (look through 50TB of data), and how would you design it? It has to access all of your friends and find their postings. Robert Johnson gave an excellent talk on facebook's design two weeks ago at OOPSLA (it should be in the ACM digital library soon). He stated that there is no clear segregation of data, the (friend) network is too connected and extracting groups of friends isn't possible. Basically they have a huge mysql farm with memcached on top. Loading an inbox will hit multiple servers (maybe even a different server for each of your friends) across the farm.
You can buy they exact same thing in the States. Its imported from China so it's probably the exact same device. They go by the brand NJoy http://njoy.com/ around here. It goes for about a hundred bucks. The site even has a calculator to find when you'll start saving money.
No Joke. One of my friends moved to Texas and started a Granite cutting business with his brother. One of the cutters cost $2.5 million and weighed something like 40 tonnes. One day he woke up at 5AM and the darn things was missing. Somebody was stupid enough to try and steal it, but they only got it 2 miles away before they abandoned their effort.
Most malls these days let you buy prepaid debit cards in any amount you want. Look online and I'm sure you can find it. Did ask if they would accept a cashiers check? The post office offers those.
I forget the interview--Discovery Channel years ago, some interviewer was concerned that businesses where not taking cash anymore. The found some government offical who said that even though it says "All Debts, Public and Private," nothing is forcing them to do business by it. Businesses could use Euro's if they wanted.
No kidding.
I know of a certain "christian college" in Pensacola, Florida that disallows physical contact between the sexes. Violating this policy is grounds for dismissal. One young man happened to hold hands with his girlfriend and was dismissed from said school.
Imagine his surprise when he appeared on the Florida sex offenders registry! He successfully sued the school for damages and had his name removed from the list, but that really screws with your life.
Because even most colleges admit your going to forget over 90% of what you learn! It's on the course description for a critical thinking class from UW Madison. I was talking to a EE/Programmer whose been working in the field for 25 years. Since I'm in college, I asked him if he had ever used in his job some of the math their teaching me. "Nope," was his simple reply.
Seriously, knowledge these days is so frickin easy to come by. Your average 3rd grader's science fair project is about something most adults can't remember anything about.
Can you remember how to digram sentences from your high school English class? Does it matter in the real world?
You know how I know your gay? You use codeplay.
This is just to keep people from buying the upgrade for new equipment. Everyone I know has been doing that (unless they buy the OEM). It's always fun to go searching around from my Windows 3.1 disks everytime I need to reinstall. (Actually that was windows 98, but you get my point.)
Sure, but do you know what Sugar actually is? They just use a lot of custom GTK+ widgets. It's a glorified GTK binding. While I love python, I don't think thats the cause of the speed. I'm pretty sure that if you used whatever GTK java bindings your application would be just as fast.
Funny. I was told about some T.V. show put on by ex thieves. The show consisted of finding willing victims then filling their house with video cameras. The "thief" would roll in and easily defeat any security measures they had in place while the family watched the cameras from a remote location. The best one was the house with the dog. The dog followed the thieves through the house while they walked out with the goods. Then they took the dog along with the loot in their van.
Would you like WiFrys with that?
DUH! Even terrorists know the M-16 is ineffective!
Don't set up an old pc set up ScummVM http://scummvm.org/ it even runs on linux!
How do we know its his laptop?
When I clicked the link it said, "Nothing to see here, move along."
You do know the differnece between stupidity and genious? Genious has its limits :)
I dunno about anybody else, but my dad works on AUIML(Abstract User Interface Markup Language Toolkit), a large gui back-end for iSeries and any other java front end, web back-end admin type tools. Written in entirely in java there is an eclipse plugin to output the xml gui code (You can find it on the alpha works IBM web site for a free trial). My dad does all the testing with XDE tester from Rational Tools (owned by IBM, how nice!). XDE can test both the web and the java side of this. The tester is really cool, test cases are written in XML. XDE has some odd problems with the Internet Explorer java plugin and he has horror stories about trying to get it to work (He seems to be the only person around capable of getting it to run :) ). He now runs all his test cases over night on a headless machine (They take a couple hours), checks the error reports in the morning to know what he has to fix.
Usually I don't care about what RMS has to say, but on the subject of e-books he has a few very insightful comments. One of them is, you can put digital rights management in an e-book, but a paper book you can always lend to a friend, no EULAs to break . He does have a short story on how bad it could get, always having to pay for a book to reed it, no libraries or used book stores, so only the rich can learn... Plus you need and e-book reader, I can read my Suse manuals without a computer! Really e-books are a bad idea for the community IMHO.
They Might Be Giants meets Homesstarrunner http://homestarrunner.com/expfilm.html This music videos tune has been stuck in my head for days.
A few months ago I bought a dvd+-rw drive which was the first DVD reader on my computer. So I install PowerDVD in windows plop in Pirates of the Caribbean and get a, "You have the wrong region set. Would you like to change you region?" I say yes and it changes nothing! I can't play a DVD on windows because of this stupid software. On the other hand, I boot into gentoo do an 'emerge mplayer.' And Pirates runs perfect! So do I really want crappy software with such a nonstandard interface on linux for a large sum of money? No way! Mplayer rules for me!
Is my favorite magazine. Monthly linux article, hardware reviews, an xml series, look into the future tech, computer industry news, and a monthly pc modder feature. That is all great but the feature that makes it stand from the crowd is the columnists. Anand Lal Shimpi, Kyle Bennett, Alex "Sharky" Rose, Mike Magee, Rob "Cmdr Taco" Maldo (You know who he is!), Pere Loshon, Alesx St. John (Direct X, Wild Tangent), Joan Wood, and Chris Pirillo. These people are why I get this magazine. They talk about topics that interest me and I usually end up feelling smarter after hearing from them. Also they don't cater to the 100% gamer market (i.e No "Kick Ass" award). They also have a monthly q & a (between columnist and inerviewe) feature with some leading tech person (Monster.com, Nvidia execs, Hardware vendors, Nvidia n Ati back to back). So overall a kickass product!
The javagaming.org community has written a open source implementation of Java3D in the opengl wrapper JOGL (hosted on a Sun website). It is called Xith 3D. From what I here they are getting much higher frame rates then Java 3D. The problem with Java3D is it trys to do everything, so it is good for nothing. As far as I know there is very little usage of Java3D especially in the game programing community.
In cola maybe. But pepsi own KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Coke loses in the none Coke wars. They can't keep a good geek drink for squat. Mt. Dew is king there and Seirra Mist is awsome. Who buys pop from Coke that is not Coke? Pepsi wins on the none coke line.
http://www.autopatcher.com/index.html I have used this great windows patch tool. It is around a 500mb zip file. It also contains the latest JRE
"If the devil pays let him stay." :)