Good fucking job slashdot, could you seriously get any worse? YES.
Linking to Gawker? After all the negative stories here about their thieving? Lack of ethics? And holy fuck what an abomination of web design?
Does anyone at slashdot really care at all anymore? It's been fashionable to say the site has been getting worse, since, say the second(?) wipe of UIDs. But seriously guys and girls this site is as relevant as the tech section on cnn. I keep coming back, in the hopes that someone, anyone, will start caring again and work on making slashdot worth something, but every time I do it is like expecting Lucas to not fucking rape our childhood dreams again for some more cash.
You guys should seriously be ashamed of yourselves.
No, it goes far deeper than that. Apple picked up Jordan Hubbard who was basically the only reason FreeBSD existed for a while there thanks to his efforts. They've added more BSD background peoples since.
A factory is nothing like a world class data center when it comes to building materials, cooling, power, networking, interior.
One billion seems high, but this is probably the cost for both centers and everything else. World class data centers are expensive to put up with a per foot charge that would terrify most people, why do you think so few companies actually build their own?
A large proportion of the cash has been In London, where an estimated £200 million so far has been spent on the cameras. This suggests that each crime has cost £20,000 to detect.
Let's continue this out even further. What if consciousness is an emergent property of a heavily quantum entangled system (ie our brain). What happens when the forces bound into our xyzt plane of existence are rendered useless to the continuation of your life, your soul, but leaves the entanglements in dimensions 5-11 proposed by m-theory?
I have tons of trouble convincing my friends out of country that the US isn't the one portrayed on television and there are very, very, distinct differences in culture even only a few hundred miles apart. Some parts of the country actively HATE other parts and where it not for our central government would have nothing to do with each other.
I'm out in California after much time in the East and would completely love it if California where to leave the union. Those americans are crazy!
False, Android has overtaken the iPhone for one quarter.
Here's a good reality check on the size of the platforms. The OpenFeint gaming network for iPhone/iPod has more users than there are Android handsets in existence.
And in the long run open platforms do much better? How so? Huh? Look I've been using linux since kernel.96 and FreeBSD since the original PORT, but these sort of statements make no sense. They are nebulous and "weasel statements".
... and if you think it is about latency you are mildly retarded, as are the writers of this general knowledge article.
Leased lines in general have better SLAs but that isn't even much of a point anymore as they cheaper products "claim" to have similar ones. The difference here is how good is that business class dsl/fiber support at 2am? What are the odds they are actually going to be willing to send someone out to the telco closet right away if there is an issue? You buy leased lines because you need *real* support of the SLAs... not this, "well we were down for 5 hours, so how about we credit you a day off!" bullshit.
It's really scary for what passes for "good advice" these days.
You sound like someone who has never been responsible for long term backup storage. Stuff isn't just thrown on a tape and stored offsite for years. Responsible DR requires you to constantly be shifting all your long term storage onto new methods, constantly. You wouldn't have MDF hard drives with valuable data on them, or even legacy data as all that data should have been MOVED and VERIFIED onto current media.
What I find interesting is that the current OS most people use, with the exception of some RealTime and big iron custom dealies are still built in such a monolithic way that it becomes more "profitable" to the user experience to still ramp up single cores as opposed to having most cores running at the same speed.
With the exception of some high demand apps like games, extensive math apps, and stuff that could or should be offloaded to GPUs desktop OS don't need a VERY fast single core, they instead need lots of equal cores with fast context switch times coming from the OS.
For example the fastest core in Win7/OSX for a desktop should be the one handling the UI but it doesn't need to be THAT much faster than anything else. Instead all the tiny little apps need to be sent around to as many different cores as possible when they aren't multithreaded... unfortunately none of the current schedulers are that great at this in consumer land. Even worse the kernels can have so much locked in that you end up with lots of things stuck on a single core that could exist elsewhere.
Such a shame that true mach never got the switch times down because of the huge separation in "drivers" or "kernel features". QNX definitely got this right, but they never took multicores seriously, perhaps it is a much harder problem than I am assuming.
OS2 is what pushed me unto the unix for good. My bad ass 486-25 sx (with math coprocessor), 16 meg of ram and WHOPPING 1.2gig full height scsi drive was hungering for some more fun. I had been running a hodge podge of operating systems and had settled on DESQView/X. I had it all, running windows 3.0 apps, command shells, x applications, even X apps from remote! But then a new version of OS2 came out (2.0? 2.1?) that promised me everything DESQView/X was giving me, but running with out DOS! THE FUTURE HAD ARRIVED!
OS/2 promptly ate my partition table and destroyed all my DVX, windows and dos partitions.
I was so effing pissed that it did this without really asking me anything that I swore it off. Fortunately something sorta BIG had just happened there on them ol' USENETs: The new 11 Floppy version of Slackware dropped. I installed it... and never looked back.
Well it is easy to bag on things in hindsight, but in 01/02? If you were doing something like running thousands of monte carlo simulations the Alpha was untouchable for commodity hardware. I won a bitter sweet war when I swore up and down with any data I could muster that Sun e420's fully populated couldn't even remotely touch a lowly ol' DS20 running about 1/3 the cost. Ended up with a lot of underutilized sun boxen.
... the AD deluge started. Seriously, google, do I need to see on every one of your sites your insipid little ADs pushing me to use your browser on OSX now?
Congrats on having the same sort of doughbagery advertising we've come to expect from Microsoft and Apple, do you feel like you really belong now? That we really, really like you now?
Slashdot Mirror
Good fucking job slashdot, could you seriously get any worse? YES.
Linking to Gawker? After all the negative stories here about their thieving? Lack of ethics? And holy fuck what an abomination of web design?
Does anyone at slashdot really care at all anymore? It's been fashionable to say the site has been getting worse, since, say the second(?) wipe of UIDs. But seriously guys and girls this site is as relevant as the tech section on cnn. I keep coming back, in the hopes that someone, anyone, will start caring again and work on making slashdot worth something, but every time I do it is like expecting Lucas to not fucking rape our childhood dreams again for some more cash.
You guys should seriously be ashamed of yourselves.
No, it goes far deeper than that. Apple picked up Jordan Hubbard who was basically the only reason FreeBSD existed for a while there thanks to his efforts. They've added more BSD background peoples since.
You are doing it wrong if you want to use MS SQL server on dynamic virtual servers.
There are far better SQL and NoSQL solutions for such instances, not everything is a hammer.
A factory is nothing like a world class data center when it comes to building materials, cooling, power, networking, interior.
One billion seems high, but this is probably the cost for both centers and everything else. World class data centers are expensive to put up with a per foot charge that would terrify most people, why do you think so few companies actually build their own?
A large proportion of the cash has been In London, where an estimated £200 million so far has been spent on the cameras. This suggests that each crime has cost £20,000 to detect.
From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6082530/1000-CCTV-cameras-to-solve-just-one-crime-Met-Police-admits.html (1.5 years ago)
If you would do a little research before opening your mouth, you would see what their value is.
HINT: Integration.
As I said earlier in this thread... if you don't know what dropbox is, you are way behind the leading curve.
This can be good or bad depending on how you are ;).
No, if you didn't know what dropbox is, it essentially means you are moving on a slower plane of technological adoption.
Sorry, but dropbox is known through the valley and every other hot spot of tech startups.
Let's continue this out even further. What if consciousness is an emergent property of a heavily quantum entangled system (ie our brain). What happens when the forces bound into our xyzt plane of existence are rendered useless to the continuation of your life, your soul, but leaves the entanglements in dimensions 5-11 proposed by m-theory?
Things gonna' get messy 'round here!
^ this a hundred times.
I have tons of trouble convincing my friends out of country that the US isn't the one portrayed on television and there are very, very, distinct differences in culture even only a few hundred miles apart. Some parts of the country actively HATE other parts and where it not for our central government would have nothing to do with each other.
I'm out in California after much time in the East and would completely love it if California where to leave the union. Those americans are crazy!
Make the data type as precise as possible.
Now, try to make it more precise.
Indexes are like friends, you can have too many.
Don't do * querys.
If user MYSQL do everything in a view.
What's troubling to me about this article is it reads like this guy hasn't been paying attention for quite a while.
Squid is his use case to beat? Has he been in any high performance app stack in the past five years?
Squid... really?
I'd imagine it was a job that required changing part of a prolog gui environment... right?
All the experiences and memories you had of playing the game.
Even physical goods are temporary.
False, Android has overtaken the iPhone for one quarter.
Here's a good reality check on the size of the platforms. The OpenFeint gaming network for iPhone/iPod has more users than there are Android handsets in existence.
And in the long run open platforms do much better? How so? Huh? Look I've been using linux since kernel .96 and FreeBSD since the original PORT, but these sort of statements make no sense. They are nebulous and "weasel statements".
... and if you think it is about latency you are mildly retarded, as are the writers of this general knowledge article.
Leased lines in general have better SLAs but that isn't even much of a point anymore as they cheaper products "claim" to have similar ones. The difference here is how good is that business class dsl/fiber support at 2am? What are the odds they are actually going to be willing to send someone out to the telco closet right away if there is an issue? You buy leased lines because you need *real* support of the SLAs... not this, "well we were down for 5 hours, so how about we credit you a day off!" bullshit.
It's really scary for what passes for "good advice" these days.
You sound like someone who has never been responsible for long term backup storage. Stuff isn't just thrown on a tape and stored offsite for years. Responsible DR requires you to constantly be shifting all your long term storage onto new methods, constantly. You wouldn't have MDF hard drives with valuable data on them, or even legacy data as all that data should have been MOVED and VERIFIED onto current media.
What I find interesting is that the current OS most people use, with the exception of
some RealTime and big iron custom dealies are still built in such a monolithic way that
it becomes more "profitable" to the user experience to still ramp up single cores as
opposed to having most cores running at the same speed.
With the exception of some high demand apps like games, extensive math apps,
and stuff that could or should be offloaded to GPUs desktop OS don't need a VERY
fast single core, they instead need lots of equal cores with fast context switch times
coming from the OS.
For example the fastest core in Win7/OSX for a desktop should be the one handling
the UI but it doesn't need to be THAT much faster than anything else. Instead all the
tiny little apps need to be sent around to as many different cores as possible when
they aren't multithreaded... unfortunately none of the current schedulers are that great
at this in consumer land. Even worse the kernels can have so much locked in that
you end up with lots of things stuck on a single core that could exist elsewhere.
Such a shame that true mach never got the switch times down because of the
huge separation in "drivers" or "kernel features". QNX definitely got this right,
but they never took multicores seriously, perhaps it is a much harder problem than
I am assuming.
I like your thinking, just how much data could we cram in one of those old full height scsi drive bays!
AC is correct, 487 was added later on.
OS2 is what pushed me unto the unix for good. My bad ass 486-25 sx (with math coprocessor), 16 meg of ram and WHOPPING 1.2gig full height scsi drive was hungering for some more fun. I had been running a hodge podge of operating systems and had settled on DESQView/X. I had it all, running windows 3.0 apps, command shells, x applications, even X apps from remote! But then a new version of OS2 came out (2.0? 2.1?) that promised me everything DESQView/X was giving me, but running with out DOS! THE FUTURE HAD ARRIVED!
OS/2 promptly ate my partition table and destroyed all my DVX, windows and dos partitions.
I was so effing pissed that it did this without really asking me anything that I swore it off. Fortunately something sorta BIG had just happened there on them ol' USENETs: The new 11 Floppy version of Slackware dropped. I installed it... and never looked back.
Well it is easy to bag on things in hindsight, but in 01/02? If you were doing something like running thousands of monte carlo simulations the Alpha was untouchable for commodity hardware. I won a bitter sweet war when I swore up and down with any data I could muster that Sun e420's fully populated couldn't even remotely touch a lowly ol' DS20 running about 1/3 the cost. Ended up with a lot of underutilized sun boxen.
God damn kids filling up my internets with all their blewray torrents!
Thanks OnLive employee, you sure got those videos down fast!
... the AD deluge started. Seriously, google, do I need to see on every one
of your sites your insipid little ADs pushing me to use your browser on OSX
now?
Congrats on having the same sort of doughbagery advertising we've come
to expect from Microsoft and Apple, do you feel like you really belong now?
That we really, really like you now?