... so we'll just spread the word as far and wide as possible before it's done. Surely nobody in Italy reads Slashdot (or the news), so they'll never clue in and act to prevent this...
Just need fairydust for that... that's about the only way I could think of to contain enough energy at light enough weight to move wings capable of displacing enough air..
I wasn't discussing the other types of downloads; frankly if I run a youtube download, it doesn't degrade performanace of local file transfers on other machines; bittorrent does. This is something you can easily test for yourself; it wasn't my intent to do your research for you when providing brief anecdotal evidence.
Aside from that, you could also do a bit of digging into the background of the protocol instead of expecting me to hand it to you when I take 30 seconds out of my morning to write a post expressing disgust. Bittorrent is designed not for performance but for redundancy, accuracy (ie ensuring you get the data you should be getting), and high availability. It is a great design in that regard and it serves its purpose excellently. However, it does so with a high degree of redundancy and extra overhead -- which is/required/ to meet those design goals.
This is simple fact; you can call it bullshit if you want because I don't happen to have links right here with me, or because you don't feel like taking a half hour to check it out for yourself. However, I don't post my opinions as fact- if I state something as fact, it's because I've researched it at some point, whether I have the links handy or not.
... but seriously? Bittorrent is a horrendous resource hog. I'm/glad/ comcast is throttling it, because a significant number of paying customers don't want to watch their connectivity slow to a crawl because people simply must use this sloppy, inefficient file transfer method.
Yeah, go on. Flamebait, I'm sure. Unless you do a little bit of research - the very things that make it strong (redundancy, peer to peer nature) are also what makes it suck up bandwidth like a Hoover on crack. Even on a switched LAN, you can see noticeable slowdowns in other traffic while a torrent is running, even though the torrent itself is using relatively little of the actually available bandwidth.
Use of virtual space is almost meaningless. Unless we're talking about two different things (possible), that's not at all correct. "Working Set" is useless, but virtual space is the actual memory usage of an application.
As I'm sure some of you know well, the mark of a skilled programmer is a peculiar kind of multitasking -- the ability to maintain several 'stacks' of instruction and code in your head, representing the internal state of what you're working on at any given time. This can often encompass multiple path of execution. On the other hand, these are all facets of the same task; and perhaps not truly different/qualifying as multitasking.
well, you could put that IQ of 159 to work on improving your punctuation skills. Silly. The Grand Multitasking Mind of those with such stratospheric IQs have no need of punctuation, for such a mind never needs to finish a thought. It merely returns to it a short span of time later and starts a new thought that meshes seamlessly with the previous.
Well, it can really help sometimes. I only focus on one thing at a time because I get distracted easily. Switching tasks after trying to solve a problem for several hours can help as you might accidentally think of a different approach while taking a break to do something else. That's a different kind of thing though - multitasking in this context refers more to constantly switching tasks, or attempting to literally do more than one cognitive task at the same time (something that many people/think/ they are capable of doing well - perhaps GP falls into this category -- but extremely few if any really are).
Of course, multitasking in motor skills is a completely different matter than multitasking in higher cognitive functions. Completely different parts of your brain are used.
Now to prevent an offtopic modding myself, from the summary: Actually, you are in fact/more/ offtopic, since your reply has nothing to do with the OP's post.
I think it is important to remember that Oracle could never have bought MySQL (legal/political reasons; not because they could not afford it); Mm. Not really. There is tons of competition out there in the marketplace; there really would not have been any legal or political complications at all. If Oracle didn't buy it, it's because they didn't want it or didn't feel it was worth the exorbitant pricetag; or because MySQL didn't want to sell to them. Any kind of financial support to Sun would be documented in both companies' SEC filings, which I'll bet don't show anything of the sort - especially not to the tune of hundreds of millions or a billion dollars.
I'm actually not sure personally; but I am sure that most large corporations have not upgraded to IE7 yet. A deciding factor for those who have consider upgrading is whether their applications continue to work under IE7. When an upgrade comes out, many man-years of testing has to go into by the large companies, before they roll it out internally.
I'm not saying that corporations won't ever upgrade - but I am saying that they , as the entities with the biggest wallets, will influence Microsoft to whatever extent is possible to ensure that when they do have to upgrade, it's as smooth as possible. And... as we can see, it works.
Because Microsoft's largest customers are business; and businesses don't care about spending huge amounts of cash to make their intranets standards compliant. They want things to continue to Just Work.
Note the double entendre in "jumped the shark".
There is the obvious "Happy Days" allusion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark,
but jump can also mean "to attack or pounce upon without warning, as from ambush",
and shark is a highly colloquial term for a lawyer Hm, shouldn't you have posted all that in your original post Smitty?;)
You had a point? I thought you were just karma whoring with a contentless snark. Which is, I suppose, somehow way worse than karma whoring by making an offtopic reply to a contentless snark, soley for the sake of its proximity to the top of the comment stack...
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... so we'll just spread the word as far and wide as possible before it's done. Surely nobody in Italy reads Slashdot (or the news), so they'll never clue in and act to prevent this...
Just need fairydust for that... that's about the only way I could think of to contain enough energy at light enough weight to move wings capable of displacing enough air..
I wasn't discussing the other types of downloads; frankly if I run a youtube download, it doesn't degrade performanace of local file transfers on other machines; bittorrent does. This is something you can easily test for yourself; it wasn't my intent to do your research for you when providing brief anecdotal evidence.
Aside from that, you could also do a bit of digging into the background of the protocol instead of expecting me to hand it to you when I take 30 seconds out of my morning to write a post expressing disgust. Bittorrent is designed not for performance but for redundancy, accuracy (ie ensuring you get the data you should be getting), and high availability. It is a great design in that regard and it serves its purpose excellently. However, it does so with a high degree of redundancy and extra overhead -- which is /required/ to meet those design goals.
This is simple fact; you can call it bullshit if you want because I don't happen to have links right here with me, or because you don't feel like taking a half hour to check it out for yourself. However, I don't post my opinions as fact- if I state something as fact, it's because I've researched it at some point, whether I have the links handy or not.
Yeah, go on. Flamebait, I'm sure. Unless you do a little bit of research - the very things that make it strong (redundancy, peer to peer nature) are also what makes it suck up bandwidth like a Hoover on crack. Even on a switched LAN, you can see noticeable slowdowns in other traffic while a torrent is running, even though the torrent itself is using relatively little of the actually available bandwidth.
Frankly, I don't care if they're dumb or geniuses -- their software sucks (IME), and that's what's important to me.
Thanks for clarifying
Thanks, this is good info that I haven't seen elsewhere. All I've been able to turn up from reliable sources, really, is that "Working Set is bad".
Oh, the irony...
As I'm sure some of you know well, the mark of a skilled programmer is a peculiar kind of multitasking -- the ability to maintain several 'stacks' of instruction and code in your head, representing the internal state of what you're working on at any given time. This can often encompass multiple path of execution. On the other hand, these are all facets of the same task; and perhaps not truly different/qualifying as multitasking.
Of course, multitasking in motor skills is a completely different matter than multitasking in higher cognitive functions. Completely different parts of your brain are used.
Whoah, whoah, whoah -- am I misreading this comment tree, or did you just accuse yourself of twisting your own words? :D
Aha! You've stumbled upon it -- that was the rewrite! They removed the BSD-related string constants from the code and recompiled...
I'm not saying that corporations won't ever upgrade - but I am saying that they , as the entities with the biggest wallets, will influence Microsoft to whatever extent is possible to ensure that when they do have to upgrade, it's as smooth as possible. And ... as we can see, it works.
Because Microsoft's largest customers are business; and businesses don't care about spending huge amounts of cash to make their intranets standards compliant. They want things to continue to Just Work.
heh - I was mostly referring to the AC post. Nice play on words, though.
There is the obvious "Happy Days" allusion,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark,
but jump can also mean "to attack or pounce upon without warning, as from ambush",
and shark is a highly colloquial term for a lawyer Hm, shouldn't you have posted all that in your original post Smitty?
Whoosh.
And no, I don't believe the Government has a secret fleet of unicorns. But if they did, what better crowd to capture them than the slashdotians?