Actually. no. A hit is not a page view. A hit is a single http request to the server. This could be for a page, a page part, an image, a style sheet, a separate js file, an embedded object, an iframe (itself with multiple hits possibly), a redirect, even a 206. So, if you load the slashdot homepage you are causing around 45 hits just for a single page view (that's 5 style sheets, about 40 images and the page itself). Depending on your browser cache settings a reload may cause anywhere from 1 to the full 45 hits again.
This is why, in almost every case, hits > page views > visits > visitors.
Actually, that's not quite what the act says. It says that the entity (not necessarily a company, could even be an individual) must disclose all the personal information which they have on you upon your request.
Some of it they must remove upon your request, but not all. There is a very serious legal problem in the UK between the conflicting requirements of the DPA, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP) and the Human Rights Act. I suspect that if you pay enough to your QC they will make sure that you get away with retaining or destroying data as per your individual requirements.
Anyone working in the harvesting or storage of personal data in the UK should read the DPA - it's quite an eye-opener.
When making improvements/modifications to open source code which you won't have rights to and won't be allowed to release, always make sure that you include your name and semi-permanent email address in the comments so that when the day comes that they need to change it again, you (having moved on) can offer to do the necessary for an outrageous fee and/or the mods being released to the public.
I am deeply disappointed that Elite's landmark "911TS" did not make this list. For a review, see the last piece on this page, with accompanying glorious screenshot.
I'd be interested to learn of a less innovative game.
And please, people, take care not to use their https server instead as that would not only use up extra CPU on their server but would also reveal that they're running RHEL and that some chopper has left the port open.
Just a note of caution - that link reproducibly locks up my Firefox (1.5.0.7 on Linux). With JS turned off, it's fine, but that does rather defeat the purpose.
I have to say that I can't even go that far. This really is the final straw - after years and years of bad-mouthing and spouting falsehoods at every possible opportunity, they finally go and put their money where their big mouth is. For a long time now, I have not recommended their products to anyone, but now I shall become proactive and positively recommend that everyone avoid them. Would you seriously even consider being a customer of this shower?
Bill Gates said: "Microsoft's strength is in driving digital innovation, and our vision is to open up rich, new consumer experiences that allow people to enjoy digital content anytime, anywhere and on any device.
"This vision fits squarely with the BBC's charter to lead the industry in delivering content that is compelling and accessible."
It's the last word there which is giving me qualms. Just how does signing agreements with the most proprietary business on earth qualify as extending access?
I agree with you entirely that the longer the "Next Great Version" takes the less will be the interest when it finally arrives, and that's generally a truism as well as applying specifically in this case.
What differs with Perl is that Perl5 is such a good language (for those who actually use it) that its use and development will probably continue apace (as they have during this whole Perl6 dev cycle). I really like Perl, but the Perl I like is Perl5. By trying to turn it into an "all things to all people" language with the transition to version 6, it will doubtless lose a lot of that. If Perl6 ever does really officially see the light of day, I very much doubt that I will spend much time using it. Rather, the established Perl5 (and there is a hell of a lot of it about) will continue to be my primary focus.
There are other examples of this, of course with "classic versions" of several apps (and even OSes) being run after newer versions have been produced because either the newer versions add no value or increase bloat or just take the system farther from that which it used to be (Yes, I'm talking about you, AutoCAD). There are also plenty of folks still using (even deploying) Apache 1.3 today and many of them have good reasons for doing so.
So my point is that even though the direction and implementation of Perl6 may be flawed, it does not by any stretch mean the end of Perl as a useful and productive language with widespread appeal.
Well let's just hope that this proves to be just as huge a success as.biz has been. Now, if you'll excuse me I'll just go and investigate the smoke coming out of my sarcasm detector.
3) As the search is being performed, all records must flash by the screen.
Oh, man, it just cracks me up every single time they do that on Las Vegas with the video IQ. Bad enough displaying all text in a search, but every facial image? Think how much faster the search would go if they left that out. Bad techies!
Given the bandwidth of a cable (or any other broadband) connection I don't see why this should be surprising. Since a standard phone line needs to be upgraded for ADSL anyway, clearly the throughput with VoIP should be better than POTS.
This is quite correct. I would further point out that many of the tunes listed on OLGA were neither written nor recorded on a guitar, and therefore all OLGA and their contributors are doing is describing how one might go about performing that work on a guitar. In those cases they are certainly less worthy of the banner of law-breakers than a member of the public openly violating copyright by whistling their favourite tune while walking down the street (not just copyright violation, but public performance no less). Lock up the whistlers now!
You are correct to argue that using a LINPACK-based benchmark for a molecular dynamics problem is foolish.
However, the arena of molecular dynamics is one in which clusters and MPP in general are easily the better choice than a monolithic supercomputer. On the one hand, you can make each node an automaton to describe a single particle in a very object-orientated fashion. On the other hand, you can make each node representative of a spatial cell whereby the boundaries interact with those of its nearest-neighbour nodes. It is particularly in this second scenario where the MPP approach wins hands down (and scalably so).
So, just because the benchmark is biased (which it clearly is), do not assume that this means that it undervalues one architecture or the other for solving an entirely different problem.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually. no. A hit is not a page view. A hit is a single http request to the server. This could be for a page, a page part, an image, a style sheet, a separate js file, an embedded object, an iframe (itself with multiple hits possibly), a redirect, even a 206. So, if you load the slashdot homepage you are causing around 45 hits just for a single page view (that's 5 style sheets, about 40 images and the page itself). Depending on your browser cache settings a reload may cause anywhere from 1 to the full 45 hits again.
This is why, in almost every case, hits > page views > visits > visitors.
QT is an application development toolkit. It is used by (among many others) KDE and the Opera web browser.
If that scares the crap out of you, just wait until you see their photo.
If they decide to patent it then we very much do have to care.
Actually, that's not quite what the act says. It says that the entity (not necessarily a company, could even be an individual) must disclose all the personal information which they have on you upon your request.
Some of it they must remove upon your request, but not all. There is a very serious legal problem in the UK between the conflicting requirements of the DPA, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIP) and the Human Rights Act. I suspect that if you pay enough to your QC they will make sure that you get away with retaining or destroying data as per your individual requirements.
Anyone working in the harvesting or storage of personal data in the UK should read the DPA - it's quite an eye-opener.
I think you mean the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
When making improvements/modifications to open source code which you won't have rights to and won't be allowed to release, always make sure that you include your name and semi-permanent email address in the comments so that when the day comes that they need to change it again, you (having moved on) can offer to do the necessary for an outrageous fee and/or the mods being released to the public.
I am deeply disappointed that Elite's landmark "911TS" did not make this list. For a review, see the last piece on this page, with accompanying glorious screenshot. I'd be interested to learn of a less innovative game.
And please, people, take care not to use their https server instead as that would not only use up extra CPU on their server but would also reveal that they're running RHEL and that some chopper has left the port open.
Just a note of caution - that link reproducibly locks up my Firefox (1.5.0.7 on Linux). With JS turned off, it's fine, but that does rather defeat the purpose.
I do hope those figures are for sessions rather than for something meaningless like hits.
I have to say that I can't even go that far. This really is the final straw - after years and years of bad-mouthing and spouting falsehoods at every possible opportunity, they finally go and put their money where their big mouth is. For a long time now, I have not recommended their products to anyone, but now I shall become proactive and positively recommend that everyone avoid them. Would you seriously even consider being a customer of this shower?
It's the last word there which is giving me qualms. Just how does signing agreements with the most proprietary business on earth qualify as extending access?
I agree with you entirely that the longer the "Next Great Version" takes the less will be the interest when it finally arrives, and that's generally a truism as well as applying specifically in this case.
What differs with Perl is that Perl5 is such a good language (for those who actually use it) that its use and development will probably continue apace (as they have during this whole Perl6 dev cycle). I really like Perl, but the Perl I like is Perl5. By trying to turn it into an "all things to all people" language with the transition to version 6, it will doubtless lose a lot of that. If Perl6 ever does really officially see the light of day, I very much doubt that I will spend much time using it. Rather, the established Perl5 (and there is a hell of a lot of it about) will continue to be my primary focus.
There are other examples of this, of course with "classic versions" of several apps (and even OSes) being run after newer versions have been produced because either the newer versions add no value or increase bloat or just take the system farther from that which it used to be (Yes, I'm talking about you, AutoCAD). There are also plenty of folks still using (even deploying) Apache 1.3 today and many of them have good reasons for doing so.
So my point is that even though the direction and implementation of Perl6 may be flawed, it does not by any stretch mean the end of Perl as a useful and productive language with widespread appeal.
SVG is not ignored by Firefox nor by Mozilla as a whole.
HTH
Well let's just hope that this proves to be just as huge a success as .biz has been. Now, if you'll excuse me I'll just go and investigate the smoke coming out of my sarcasm detector.
Oh, man, it just cracks me up every single time they do that on Las Vegas with the video IQ. Bad enough displaying all text in a search, but every facial image? Think how much faster the search would go if they left that out.
Bad techies!
Given the bandwidth of a cable (or any other broadband) connection I don't see why this should be surprising. Since a standard phone line needs to be upgraded for ADSL anyway, clearly the throughput with VoIP should be better than POTS.
Woah there! Easy with those factors of 10 - you never know when one too many will get you in trouble.
Sounds good to me. I'll bring the free speech, you bring the free beer.
It's just as well that they weren't holding back any controversial announcements until nine days afterwards, eh?
... to ... be ... trusted".
Repeat after me, "Not
Is it just a coincidence that this comes out a mere 9 days after ICANN gets its contract renewed?
I wonder why they didn't announce this last month?
If I were an artist and thought everyone was learning some ham-handed version of my tune, I'd probably be a bit pissed.
Maybe so, but would you not also feel a little bit satisfied that nobody could play your song as well as you do, and they don't even know why?
This is quite correct. I would further point out that many of the tunes listed on OLGA were neither written nor recorded on a guitar, and therefore all OLGA and their contributors are doing is describing how one might go about performing that work on a guitar. In those cases they are certainly less worthy of the banner of law-breakers than a member of the public openly violating copyright by whistling their favourite tune while walking down the street (not just copyright violation, but public performance no less). Lock up the whistlers now!
You are correct to argue that using a LINPACK-based benchmark for a molecular dynamics problem is foolish.
However, the arena of molecular dynamics is one in which clusters and MPP in general are easily the better choice than a monolithic supercomputer. On the one hand, you can make each node an automaton to describe a single particle in a very object-orientated fashion. On the other hand, you can make each node representative of a spatial cell whereby the boundaries interact with those of its nearest-neighbour nodes. It is particularly in this second scenario where the MPP approach wins hands down (and scalably so).
So, just because the benchmark is biased (which it clearly is), do not assume that this means that it undervalues one architecture or the other for solving an entirely different problem.