Am I the only one around here who is tired of reading all of this WikiPedia this and WikiPedia that stuff? Aren't there any other websites to talk about?
PokerRoom.com Powers High Transaction Online Poker System with MySQL and HP.... 12,000 players occupy the poker tables. Since each bet, each played hand and other data are recorded, the database often handles 2,000 transactions per second.
Los Alamos National Labs Relies on MySQL to Scale with 7 Terabytes of Data.
Lycos Europe Reduces TCO by 90% by Migrating to MySQL.
Lycos Europe migrated all company portal services to MySQL, displacing one of the leading proprietary databases in the market. Replacing their existing database solution with MySQL resulted in more than a 90% savings. Lycos Europe today has approximately 1 terabyte of data handled by 100 MySQL servers. At peak traffic up to 25,000 concurrent users are online and 1 Gb of data per second is delivered to users.
Cox Communications Powers Massive Data Warehouse with MySQL
To maintain optimum performance and customer-service levels, Cox has developed a huge data warehousing application. At the heart of this business-critical system is a 2-billion row MySQL database.
If you actually read the article, as part of the deal, Intel plans to optimize the code for their processor.
Why the need to optimize the code? Are you saying that the current Intel processors are too slow for the task at hand? Or is this more of a marketing lock-in type of situation?
I haven't seen anything in this article or any other article that even remotely indicates that the current processors are unable to handle the processing tasks presented.
Let's face it, aside from the gamers (and I say this with the upmost of respect for the gamers) I'd say that more people need higher bandwidth than more optimized CPU power. Of course, that's just my opinion.
I am sure that Intel, who has been losing major marketshare to AMD, may have a different opinion. And I do not have their marketing budget to buy the ink to say otherwise.
Unless and until the pointy hair managers can guarantee that the RFID tag that they force me to implant in my body will never be used for purposes other than those which I agree to, I will refuse to succumb to their idioitic desires for control of my body.
Before you ask, any company those does this to its employees, is a company I would never even consider working for.
Wikipedia says the controversy raises questions about whether it is ethical for those with a vested interest in the subject to edit entries about it.
Some WikiPedia proponents say that the strength of WikiPedia comes from those who are knowledgeable about a subject, editing and contributing to articles on that subject.
Where does "knowledgeable about" end, and "vested interest" begin?
Even if you put the noise level REALLY low you could get hearing impaired...
Think about that statement for a minute, then explain it to me once again, answering the following question: how can REALLY low noise impair your hearing? Be specific, make sure you talk about the decibel level at which that REALLY low noise can impair your hearing.
Objective-C is a object oriented superset of C with a Smalltalk style (infix) message syntax. It was originally written by Brad Cox and the StepStone corppration in the early 1980s. In 1988, it was adopted as the development language for NeXTstep and was made a part of the GNU gcc compiler in 1992. It is currently used as the principle programming language for MacOSX (which is based on NeXTstep) and as the language for the GNUstep project on Linux and other platforms. Objective-C's weak typing and runtime features distinguish it from C++ and Java./i?
It is not as much whether it is better than the US GPS system. It is more the rest of the world not wanting to be dependent upon a system that the US can turn off when it is in the selfish interests of the US to do so.
The US has not been behaving well towards the EU of late.
Err, not really. I knew about the conversion to analog during the "last mile" of cable. Indeed, on some of the lesser-watched channels, it almost looks like the color depth is only 8-bits. I guess the cable company does not allocate too much of the digital bandwidth to those channels.:(
However, before that new distribution means took place, the analog cable signals were much better. None of the "color by number" low-resolution color or smearing effects that I see currently on the 'digital-converted-to-analog' signal.
On the other hand, I agree with you about the vinyl and CD point. Just be sure to keep in mind that the low-level, very low frequency background noise on vinyl tends to impart a spaciousness to the sound, a spaciousness that is not present on digital. Those audiophiles did hear a more "open" sound from vinyl, however it was due to an inherent background noise (i.e., distortion) of the vinyl media. Ironic, isn't it.
Now, let's get back to my real point, and that is that the pricing mentioned for the items on this thread is way too high.
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Am I the only one around here who is tired of reading all of this WikiPedia this and WikiPedia that stuff? Aren't there any other websites to talk about?
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/case-studies/
PokerRoom.com Powers High Transaction Online Poker System with MySQL and HP .... 12,000 players occupy the poker tables. Since each bet, each played hand and other data are recorded, the database often handles 2,000 transactions per second.
Los Alamos National Labs Relies on MySQL to Scale with 7 Terabytes of Data.
Lycos Europe Reduces TCO by 90% by Migrating to MySQL.
Lycos Europe migrated all company portal services to MySQL, displacing one of the leading proprietary databases in the market. Replacing their existing database solution with MySQL resulted in more than a 90% savings. Lycos Europe today has approximately 1 terabyte of data handled by 100 MySQL servers. At peak traffic up to 25,000 concurrent users are online and 1 Gb of data per second is delivered to users.
Cox Communications Powers Massive Data Warehouse with MySQL To maintain optimum performance and customer-service levels, Cox has developed a huge data warehousing application. At the heart of this business-critical system is a 2-billion row MySQL database.
etc.....
Like these or these?
do desperate things. Is this the beginning of the end for the RIAA and their music industry trust?
Why the need to optimize the code? Are you saying that the current Intel processors are too slow for the task at hand? Or is this more of a marketing lock-in type of situation?
I haven't seen anything in this article or any other article that even remotely indicates that the current processors are unable to handle the processing tasks presented. Let's face it, aside from the gamers (and I say this with the upmost of respect for the gamers) I'd say that more people need higher bandwidth than more optimized CPU power. Of course, that's just my opinion.
I am sure that Intel, who has been losing major marketshare to AMD, may have a different opinion. And I do not have their marketing budget to buy the ink to say otherwise.
It's the sign of a company that is falling behind in their core markets.
You're right. It was late when I wrote that and I didn't think it through completely.
Now that I have had the time to think about it more, my response would change to NFW.
Unless and until the pointy hair managers can guarantee that the RFID tag that they force me to implant in my body will never be used for purposes other than those which I agree to, I will refuse to succumb to their idioitic desires for control of my body.
Before you ask, any company those does this to its employees, is a company I would never even consider working for.
Some WikiPedia proponents say that the strength of WikiPedia comes from those who are knowledgeable about a subject, editing and contributing to articles on that subject.
Where does "knowledgeable about" end, and "vested interest" begin?
Windows not enough for Photoshop users?
Unfortunately, AVG came across rather poorly in the recent WMF exploits.
is, "We don't want to be bothered with you unless you have a lot of money we can transfer from your bank accounts to ours.
If they do that, I'll claim that the lawyers caused me hearing loss.
Think about that statement for a minute, then explain it to me once again, answering the following question: how can REALLY low noise impair your hearing? Be specific, make sure you talk about the decibel level at which that REALLY low noise can impair your hearing.
One can carry around a $100 laptop computer. One cannot carry around a TV to attach to the cellphone.
We all have seen how difficult it is to hack Microsoft's closed-source, proprietary code.
What's the news here?
Because then the vendor does not benefit from the "breakage", i.e., those who never apply for the rebate.
Microsoft says their software is secure...
Oracle says their database is hack-proof...
Symantec says their software protects me from hackers...
Objective c language, possibly the gcc compiler
Objective-C is a object oriented superset of C with a Smalltalk style (infix) message syntax. It was originally written by Brad Cox and the StepStone corppration in the early 1980s. In 1988, it was adopted as the development language for NeXTstep and was made a part of the GNU gcc compiler in 1992. It is currently used as the principle programming language for MacOSX (which is based on NeXTstep) and as the language for the GNUstep project on Linux and other platforms. Objective-C's weak typing and runtime features distinguish it from C++ and Java./i?
Thank-you for proving my point.
So the Trustworthy Computing initiative means nothing? The security emphasis means nothing.
So long as code is reused, all is OK?
The US has not been behaving well towards the EU of late.
I presume you are willing to show the details of your extensive research that determined this factoid....
Err, not really. I knew about the conversion to analog during the "last mile" of cable. Indeed, on some of the lesser-watched channels, it almost looks like the color depth is only 8-bits. I guess the cable company does not allocate too much of the digital bandwidth to those channels. :(
However, before that new distribution means took place, the analog cable signals were much better. None of the "color by number" low-resolution color or smearing effects that I see currently on the 'digital-converted-to-analog' signal.
On the other hand, I agree with you about the vinyl and CD point. Just be sure to keep in mind that the low-level, very low frequency background noise on vinyl tends to impart a spaciousness to the sound, a spaciousness that is not present on digital. Those audiophiles did hear a more "open" sound from vinyl, however it was due to an inherent background noise (i.e., distortion) of the vinyl media. Ironic, isn't it.
Now, let's get back to my real point, and that is that the pricing mentioned for the items on this thread is way too high.