You're absolutely full of shit. The media levy only applies to cds and 90% of the time it's ignored by vendors. You can go and buy a 50 pack of brand name cd-r disks at best buy for $25 (levy included). Let's see.. at $0.59 per disk the levy is $29.50
"A commonly held myth is that water "resonates" at 2.4GHz, which is why that frequency is used in microwave ovens. Actually, water doesn t appear to have any particular "resonant" fre- quency. Water spins and jostles around near radio, and will heat when in the presence of high power radio waves at just about any frequency. 2.4GHz is an unlicensed ISM frequency, and so was a good political choice for use in microwave ovens."
Excerpt from "A Practical Introduction to Radio Physics"
I've seen too many applicants with BSc or Masters degrees that couldn't build an app if their life depended on it. Good grades don't show if someone is bright, capable, or reliable. One of the best developers I've worked with dropped out of university because of two things, money and he wanted to learn something useful.
Theory is only the beginning of a career; it means nothing if you don't know how to put it in practice.
Does my boss care if I know what a red black tree or a Duff's device is? I doubt it.
The reviewer should have factored in the cost of the hardware. After all what good is an application without the hardware. Why did they choose to use a quad Xeon box? I'm estimating $15-20K for that which brings the cost of MySQL to about half the cost of DB2. Also how do the different engines compare running on different hardware? I know that MySQL runs much better on an Opteron box than a P4 box of the same price point. Is that true for the other database engines? Does DB2 perform better under Linux or Windows 2003? Etc etc....
There are just too many holes in the review to take it seriously.
Just because something is developed for Windows doesn't mean you can't make it easily portable to other platforms. That's where standards like POSIX and the.Net CLR come in. As long as you develop to open APIs you are not locked in. Free software only gets my attention if it's free as in beer or free as in I can do whatever the hell I want with it no strings attached. RMS + FSF = BGEA.
Their relationship with the recording industry and hollywood may not be as strong as Time Warner (AOL) but I presume they want to keep cozy just in case that aquisition opportunity comes along.
Luckily I live in Canada. (The courts won't make ISPs give out personal info unless someone ended up dead.)
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You didn't have to quote the word insult. You can listen to what ever the hell you want as long as you don't drive down the street playing it at 115db; a bit too common with rap fans.
He'll keep selling out concerts (better to call them shows since there is no music involved here) because people have seemed to forgotten that music is more than poorly constructed rhythm, no melody, and lyrics that have no insight. Enough said.
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Points for giving to away? Of course he has to give it away.
Most modern compilers know more tricks than even a hardend developer. One places where you will still find great performance gains is in the algorithm design. A slow quick sort will most likely be far faster than hand tweaked asm code any day.
I was once told "The best code is no code. It's easier to read and runs a lot faster." Think at the algorithm level and let the compiler do the rest.
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You're absolutely full of shit. The media levy only applies to cds and 90% of the time it's ignored by vendors. You can go and buy a 50 pack of brand name cd-r disks at best buy for $25 (levy included). Let's see.. at $0.59 per disk the levy is $29.50
A rts/levy050808.html
also see http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/08/08/
Something I remembered reading...
"A commonly held myth is that water "resonates" at 2.4GHz, which is why that frequency is
used in microwave ovens. Actually, water doesn t appear to have any particular "resonant" fre-
quency. Water spins and jostles around near radio, and will heat when in the presence of high
power radio waves at just about any frequency. 2.4GHz is an unlicensed ISM frequency, and so
was a good political choice for use in microwave ovens."
Excerpt from "A Practical Introduction to Radio Physics"
I've seen too many applicants with BSc or Masters degrees that couldn't build an app if their life depended on it. Good grades don't show if someone is bright, capable, or reliable. One of the best developers I've worked with dropped out of university because of two things, money and he wanted to learn something useful. Theory is only the beginning of a career; it means nothing if you don't know how to put it in practice. Does my boss care if I know what a red black tree or a Duff's device is? I doubt it.
GPUs can be used for all sorts of scientific processing.
k s/R520-mhouston.pdf
Here Mike Houston talks about using a GPU for scientific calculations.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~mhouston/public_tal
also see
http://www.gpgpu.org/
The reviewer should have factored in the cost of the hardware. After all what good is an application without the hardware. Why did they choose to use a quad Xeon box? I'm estimating $15-20K for that which brings the cost of MySQL to about half the cost of DB2. Also how do the different engines compare running on different hardware? I know that MySQL runs much better on an Opteron box than a P4 box of the same price point. Is that true for the other database engines? Does DB2 perform better under Linux or Windows 2003? Etc etc.... There are just too many holes in the review to take it seriously.
Just because something is developed for Windows doesn't mean you can't make it easily portable to other platforms. That's where standards like POSIX and the .Net CLR come in. As long as you develop to open APIs you are not locked in. Free software only gets my attention if it's free as in beer or free as in I can do whatever the hell I want with it no strings attached. RMS + FSF = BGEA.
Another great tool that I'll never use.
Their relationship with the recording industry and hollywood may not be as strong as Time Warner (AOL) but I presume they want to keep cozy just in case that aquisition opportunity comes along. Luckily I live in Canada. (The courts won't make ISPs give out personal info unless someone ended up dead.)
You didn't have to quote the word insult. You can listen to what ever the hell you want as long as you don't drive down the street playing it at 115db; a bit too common with rap fans.
He'll keep selling out concerts (better to call them shows since there is no music involved here) because people have seemed to forgotten that music is more than poorly constructed rhythm, no melody, and lyrics that have no insight. Enough said.
Points for giving to away? Of course he has to give it away.
That syntax doesn't read well and I guess you've never heard compiler warnings or tools like lint.
Most modern compilers know more tricks than even a hardend developer. One places where you will still find great performance gains is in the algorithm design. A slow quick sort will most likely be far faster than hand tweaked asm code any day. I was once told "The best code is no code. It's easier to read and runs a lot faster." Think at the algorithm level and let the compiler do the rest.