Great cars - driven one of the sporty cabrio, roofless ones around Mont Blanc. Amazing how cool the little turbo engine sounds in the back, like a mini Porsche.
They are also designed to park "end-on" to the curb - they are the length of a normal car's width. Great for those San Fransisco hills?;)
Only downside is there's not much room between your arm and the window. They are generally very safe, but a friend's friend (sorry) toppled one on a motorway, slid it on its side and mashed his arm nastily.
I'd still get one for the city driving tho'.
In an ideal (simple) software implementation fork() is cheap. However, try running a few thousand simultaneous, long-running connections to an Apache 1.x server (and mod_xxx extensions) and see it grind on a moderate machine - if it even gets that far (say, 15MB per process with a memory-tuned mod_perl). A fully-functional, threaded java-based server will get there with ease, and probably Apache 2.x too. See the real-time, multipart mime Chart on our website for an example.
Of possible interest in the wider scheme of things is a fascinating free website Galmarley covering historic failings in monopolisation, competition and national economies - from the Romans to the present day. Recommended!
The fact that Microsoft can nonchalantly pass on these costs to the consumer with litte concern for its loss of market share shows how much of a monopoly they truly are, and how much they know it to be so.
When an pattern of existence dominates an environment so completely, "evolution" ceases to be an issue - short of cataclysmic or revolutionary change.
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They are also designed to park "end-on" to the curb - they are the length of a normal car's width. Great for those San Fransisco hills? ;)
Only downside is there's not much room between your arm and the window. They are generally very safe, but a friend's friend (sorry) toppled one on a motorway, slid it on its side and mashed his arm nastily. I'd still get one for the city driving tho'.
In an ideal (simple) software implementation fork() is cheap. However, try running a few thousand simultaneous, long-running connections to an Apache 1.x server (and mod_xxx extensions) and see it grind on a moderate machine - if it even gets that far (say, 15MB per process with a memory-tuned mod_perl). A fully-functional, threaded java-based server will get there with ease, and probably Apache 2.x too. See the real-time, multipart mime Chart on our website for an example.
Of possible interest in the wider scheme of things is a fascinating free website Galmarley covering historic failings in monopolisation, competition and national economies - from the Romans to the present day. Recommended!
The fact that Microsoft can nonchalantly pass on these costs to the consumer with litte concern for its loss of market share shows how much of a monopoly they truly are, and how much they know it to be so. When an pattern of existence dominates an environment so completely, "evolution" ceases to be an issue - short of cataclysmic or revolutionary change.