0.9.2 ist still extremely slow, you can see this when you try faster websites (1 sec. load time) - there is a very noticeable delay of 1-2 seconds. Very unfortunate.
If you're the package maintainer, release source code and statically linked binaries, so that people can use your program without hassle
If you're a distribution maintainer, figure out the dependencies and only release problematic versions once all the necessary libraries are available in your distribution
I would also recommend that projects that need so many libraries do not depend on the latest version of all of these (usually, there's no real reason to hard-code such dependencies into configure scripts etc., it's just the lack of information about incompatibilities between libary versions). If you can't ascertain that your code will work with older library versions, or if you're just too lazy to check, stick to these older versions while developing - it's what your users will have!
(why do open source software authors pay so little attention to their users' needs?)
The Amiga platform is dead for commercial applications, the brand name has changed hands many times because it's still being associated with "cool technology" and some people thought they could exploit that for marketing purposes.
It's really sad to see the disappointment of old Amiga freaks when they see announcements about something new related to Amiga, only to find out that it's just a marketing gag or whatever.
> try playing a 640x480 game on a 1024x768 laptop LCD? Yucko
How games look on LCDs with a different native resolution depends very much on the graphics card. ATIs laptop graphics chipsets have been great at scaling images for years (ATI Rage LT, Mobility, M1/4 etc.), other chipsets are extremely bad at it (NeoMagic - *cough*). Unfortunately, there's very little information available about this issue...
In Europe, electric cars are cheaper to operate than gas powered cars (because gas is expensive): newer models cost as much as a gas powered car would if it burned 1,5 lt / 100 Km - the best gas-powered cars burn 3-5 lt / 100 Km.
So, that alone doesn't explain it. The range and top speed of electric cars may be a reason, though.
I can't really find anything reasonably accurate in the article. That's hardly surprising, because most such attempts to predict the future advances in science made my science fiction authors neglect to take one important factor into account: politics. Many technological advances are suppressed because influential interest groups would rather keep an old technology that they can control (consider the OPEC or the RIAA) than support something that improves everyone's life. So, while authors certainly make desirable predictions, they - unfortunately - aren't really reliable.
They configured PostgreSQL with a low limit for the number of client processes (default = 32 usually). Either that should be increased, or the connection pooling configured in a way so that this limit isn't exceeded. Limiting the number of simultaneous Apache processes also helps, sometimes.
The only drawbacks to Haskell is that it is new and less people know about it and know how to use it. Many universities also do not teach Haskell because, again, it is too new.
There are also few high quality implementations (as in "generates extremely fast native code" and "has commercial support options") out there... Also, try to find good Haskell programmers in your area. I'm having trouble even finding a Perl expert...
Just check this page: Advertising. They wouldn't lie on that page (they claim >40 million page views monthly), it would give them a bad reputation with advertisers if they found out.
... that AnandTech gets somewhere between 500.000 and 2 million hits / day (page impressions).
We serve between 200.000 and 250.000 dynamic page views / day from 1 single-cpu front-end box and 1 dual-cpu mod_perl box and have room for approx. 3 times higher traffic. In the end it's all down to programming, page size and cacheability...
For a good example of an very scaleable configuration look at Google - their software must be extremely well designed.
There are many more alternatives for server-side programming. If you look at all the possibilities in such a shallow way as the article does, you can always safely choose PHP - it's simple and gets the job done - or whatever language you're most proficient in. In other words, the article is 100% redundant. IMHO.
... but with the common stereotype of attractive women on TV (interests: looking good, getting laid by manly guys), those of them who do have brains, often try to hide the fact.
[Unless they're so ugly that they can't get any attention otherwise.:-)]
Seriously, many intelligent women do not try to impress with their physical beauty, even if they could.
Oh, and I'm sure that 7of9 only gets so much attention because of her cleavage.
I still think that there is a large potential market for "budget" titles and shareware games for Linux. These kinds of games were often fun to play (on older systems, like the Atari ST) without taking full advantage of the available hardware, so people would gladly pay $5-10 even though there is no cool environment-mapped bump mapping etc. in use in the game.
Unfortunately, most of the amateurs' Linux games are either too unoriginal or in a perpetually unfinished state...
Unoriginal or not, I'll gladly pay $50 for a well-done cross-platform "Master of Magic" clone.
Bah, that's the same short-sighted kind of argument that got us stuck with a nuclear weapon arsenal sufficient to blow up the planet several dozen times...
to impose their view of morality on the rest of America.
If that's what the Americans want, they deserve it. I do suspect that it is much more problematic that he will try to impose their views on the rest of the world as well..
VNC will do some of these things already. It just isn't particularly efficient as far as bandwidth is concerned. The X protocol will also do, it's easier on the bandwidth, but also more complicated and less powerful (if you use it as intended, and not to emulate another protocol).
You can run both VNC and X11 inside a web browser using Java these days - not that I see a need to do that.
Protac apparently produces a mainboard called Protac Viagra Apollo MP4. Abit has been making an IDE controller card called Abit Hot Rod 66 for a while now. And, of course, there's the Microshaft Hard'un Pro (OK, I made that one up).
Win98's Wordpad doesn't read most of the Office 2000.DOC files I've been sent, at least not properly. Usually, these files will contain many spurious characters and the formatting will be lost.
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0.9.2 ist still extremely slow, you can see this when you try faster websites (1 sec. load time) - there is a very noticeable delay of 1-2 seconds. Very unfortunate.
- If you're the package maintainer, release source code and statically linked binaries, so that people can use your program without hassle
- If you're a distribution maintainer, figure out the dependencies and only release problematic versions once all the necessary libraries are available in your distribution
I would also recommend that projects that need so many libraries do not depend on the latest version of all of these (usually, there's no real reason to hard-code such dependencies into configure scripts etc., it's just the lack of information about incompatibilities between libary versions). If you can't ascertain that your code will work with older library versions, or if you're just too lazy to check, stick to these older versions while developing - it's what your users will have!(why do open source software authors pay so little attention to their users' needs?)
The Amiga platform is dead for commercial applications, the brand name has changed hands many times because it's still being associated with "cool technology" and some people thought they could exploit that for marketing purposes.
It's really sad to see the disappointment of old Amiga freaks when they see announcements about something new related to Amiga, only to find out that it's just a marketing gag or whatever.
Now the other 100.000 Open Source / GPL projects should do the same and finally produce a production quality application suite...
How games look on LCDs with a different native resolution depends very much on the graphics card. ATIs laptop graphics chipsets have been great at scaling images for years (ATI Rage LT, Mobility, M1/4 etc.), other chipsets are extremely bad at it (NeoMagic - *cough*). Unfortunately, there's very little information available about this issue...
In Europe, electric cars are cheaper to operate than gas powered cars (because gas is expensive): newer models cost as much as a gas powered car would if it burned 1,5 lt / 100 Km - the best gas-powered cars burn 3-5 lt / 100 Km. So, that alone doesn't explain it. The range and top speed of electric cars may be a reason, though.
I can't really find anything reasonably accurate in the article. That's hardly surprising, because most such attempts to predict the future advances in science made my science fiction authors neglect to take one important factor into account: politics. Many technological advances are suppressed because influential interest groups would rather keep an old technology that they can control (consider the OPEC or the RIAA) than support something that improves everyone's life. So, while authors certainly make desirable predictions, they - unfortunately - aren't really reliable.
They configured PostgreSQL with a low limit for the number of client processes (default = 32 usually). Either that should be increased, or the connection pooling configured in a way so that this limit isn't exceeded. Limiting the number of simultaneous Apache processes also helps, sometimes.
There are also few high quality implementations (as in "generates extremely fast native code" and "has commercial support options") out there ... Also, try to find good Haskell programmers in your area. I'm having trouble even finding a Perl expert ...
Just check this page: Advertising. They wouldn't lie on that page (they claim >40 million page views monthly), it would give them a bad reputation with advertisers if they found out.
We serve between 200.000 and 250.000 dynamic page views / day from 1 single-cpu front-end box and 1 dual-cpu mod_perl box and have room for approx. 3 times higher traffic. In the end it's all down to programming, page size and cacheability ...
For a good example of an very scaleable configuration look at Google - their software must be extremely well designed.
My best wishes to Mr. Greenspun - I'm sure he'll build a successful new business with his experience.
There are many more alternatives for server-side programming. If you look at all the possibilities in such a shallow way as the article does, you can always safely choose PHP - it's simple and gets the job done - or whatever language you're most proficient in. In other words, the article is 100% redundant. IMHO.
It's a pity that the Itsy was never released (AFAIK) to the public. Although current PDAs offer similar specs, the design was cool back then.
Someone rewrite that article in nroff -man format, please! sex.1 needs to be updated.
[Unless they're so ugly that they can't get any attention otherwise. :-)]
Seriously, many intelligent women do not try to impress with their physical beauty, even if they could.
Oh, and I'm sure that 7of9 only gets so much attention because of her cleavage.
... that would be useful.
Unfortunately, most of the amateurs' Linux games are either too unoriginal or in a perpetually unfinished state...
Unoriginal or not, I'll gladly pay $50 for a well-done cross-platform "Master of Magic" clone.
Oh, but he did... Read the whole article! ;-) (the bit about dating)
Bah, that's the same short-sighted kind of argument that got us stuck with a nuclear weapon arsenal sufficient to blow up the planet several dozen times...
If that's what the Americans want, they deserve it. I do suspect that it is much more problematic that he will try to impose their views on the rest of the world as well..
You can run both VNC and X11 inside a web browser using Java these days - not that I see a need to do that.
Protac apparently produces a mainboard called Protac Viagra Apollo MP4. Abit has been making an IDE controller card called Abit Hot Rod 66 for a while now. And, of course, there's the Microshaft Hard'un Pro (OK, I made that one up).
Win98's Wordpad doesn't read most of the Office 2000 .DOC files I've been sent, at least not properly. Usually, these files will contain many spurious characters and the formatting will be lost.