I have FSHD (another mild form of muscular dystrophy). If this approach is ever applied to FSHD, I will try to be one of the first in line. To those of you who prefer that we die so that the your conception of the human race doesn't become weaker, I suggest your line of thinking presents a far greater risk to humanity than my genes.
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Our company is PCI compliant, which significantly restricts the hardware/software configurations we can use as well because of strict security requirements. We don't throw hardware at problems because hardware can't solve every problem. If you write code (whether it is C# or Transact-SQL or whatever) that uses shared resources (e.g., a database or cache) and aren't smart about it, no amount of hardware is going to help.
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Maybe you just don't know how to design scalable applications. I work for a mostly Microsoft-only shop (some PHP), and our ASP.NET sites (SQL Server backend) will generate 300+ million in revenue this year (and yes, we are very profitable). Scalability is often an application design issue, not a development environment problem. A good carpenter never blames his tools.
PasswordMaker add-on for Firefox. Choose one super-secure master password and generate unique passwords for every site you visit (based on domain name). Awesome.
Lucas has said on more than one occasion that he doesn't care what the critics or *the fans* think of his movies. I think that pretty much explains everything.
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IIRC, chess is just search (usually Alpha-Beta pruning) of a state space with some function giving the "value" of each state. Conceptually, chess AI is very simple, although I suppose the evaluation functions have become slightly more complex over time, but I'd hardly call the programs "huge and immensely sophisticated." Chess AI has gotten better largely because faster computers can search more of the state space over a given interval.
I had just the opposite experience. Using Open Office, I couldn't open a spreadsheet with more than 64K rows. I have opened sheets with over a million rows in Excel with no problems at all. I didn't try to graph anything, however...
That really is a bad analogy. The PS3 "holders" are nothing like the food court holders, because while everyone in the food court could get something to eat, no one can get a PS3. The PS3 holders are only preventing others from getting a PS3 *before they do*, which really is the point of a line (and if you can argue against a line as an equitable distribution method, I'm all ears).
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I have FSHD (another mild form of muscular dystrophy). If this approach is ever applied to FSHD, I will try to be one of the first in line. To those of you who prefer that we die so that the your conception of the human race doesn't become weaker, I suggest your line of thinking presents a far greater risk to humanity than my genes.
Our company is PCI compliant, which significantly restricts the hardware/software configurations we can use as well because of strict security requirements. We don't throw hardware at problems because hardware can't solve every problem. If you write code (whether it is C# or Transact-SQL or whatever) that uses shared resources (e.g., a database or cache) and aren't smart about it, no amount of hardware is going to help.
Maybe you just don't know how to design scalable applications. I work for a mostly Microsoft-only shop (some PHP), and our ASP.NET sites (SQL Server backend) will generate 300+ million in revenue this year (and yes, we are very profitable). Scalability is often an application design issue, not a development environment problem. A good carpenter never blames his tools.
PasswordMaker add-on for Firefox. Choose one super-secure master password and generate unique passwords for every site you visit (based on domain name). Awesome.
Lucas has said on more than one occasion that he doesn't care what the critics or *the fans* think of his movies. I think that pretty much explains everything.
IIRC, chess is just search (usually Alpha-Beta pruning) of a state space with some function giving the "value" of each state. Conceptually, chess AI is very simple, although I suppose the evaluation functions have become slightly more complex over time, but I'd hardly call the programs "huge and immensely sophisticated." Chess AI has gotten better largely because faster computers can search more of the state space over a given interval.
I had just the opposite experience. Using Open Office, I couldn't open a spreadsheet with more than 64K rows. I have opened sheets with over a million rows in Excel with no problems at all. I didn't try to graph anything, however...
That really is a bad analogy. The PS3 "holders" are nothing like the food court holders, because while everyone in the food court could get something to eat, no one can get a PS3. The PS3 holders are only preventing others from getting a PS3 *before they do*, which really is the point of a line (and if you can argue against a line as an equitable distribution method, I'm all ears).
Enough said. Jon