Do we really need a research study to tell us the obvious?
But suppose studies really come out, the public sees them and realizes cell phones are bad for us, do you really think people would stop using cell phones? I don't think they would, not until there is a better alternative. Hm, this just make me think of Windows. We have alternatives there, and it is still very hard for a lot of people to stop using Windows and switch to something better.
Interesting, but does that mean that I may find myself facing the dreaded BSOD when I visit google.com one day? Or that we'll soon get a search wizard or a paperclip?;)
Are you/they sure it's 20,000 hours of lamp life? If that were true, that would be about 10 times more than for a typical projector. Just recently I purchased a Panasonic projector. During my research and shopping around I observed that all bulbs have between 2,000 and 3,000 hours of life in them.
So.... I question that 20,000 hours of life time quote...
Production examples of Solaris 10 in action?
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Does anyone know of any Intel-based production servers using Solaris 10? I'd love to see some heavily loaded hardware and hear how they like Solaris 10, especially if they run Java (applications/servers) on it.
The most interesting part of that Cloudscape promotion on SF is the prize tht follows the pattern of all other promotions I've seen recently: "Win an iPod!"
That says something about Apple and iPod brand, no? That is also a great marketing for Apple and its iPod product! Jobs must be rubbing his hands...
The problem and conflict with Rojo, I find, is that it requires users' _active_ participation, while one of the major advantages of RSS/Atom is that you can subscribe to the feed and _passively_ gather information. People need information to come _to_them_, not yet another site they'll have to check daily or weekly.
Hence Simpy (URL below) - you don't need to maintain anything there, just save a page when you like it, and find it when you need it. The social/relational stuff is a nice side-effect of tagging/labelling saved links, but doesn't require active work.
H1-B quotas have been raised, actually. It's just that they've been raised for qualifying candidates with a masters or doctorate degrees.:) No luck for holders of B.S. and B.A. degrees this year.
This question is actually very easy to answer. Yes, there are such companies. Any company that treats its employees like a FIFO queue will not be around for very long. Finding, hiring, training, firing, and goto Finding is the most expensive cycle. Once you find, hire and train, you want to keep and train some more, and keep some more, and so on. You also want to stay away from startups - without making people dream about they will not make it - joining them means you accept this. So, perhaps you want to look for slightly larger companies, and/or companies that have 'proven themselves' (if there is such a thing...). You could also be smart about picking an employer by industry - don't go for fast-paced and highly competitive fields like software and other technology stuff.
Actually, the 3 microsecond effect (the Earth is now spinning a bit faster, shortening our day by about 3 microseconds) will have no long term effect. Our Moon has the drag effect on Earth anyway, continuously prolonging our days - about 15 microseconds per year.
Aha, here is a bit about that from Wikipedia[1]:
"The moment of inertia of Earth decreased a bit due to the earthquake. Because the angular momentum is conserved, this results in an increase of the angular velocity of Earth's rotation. In other words, the earthquake shortened the length of a day by as much as 3 s. However, due to tidal effects of the Moon, the Earth's rotation slows by 15 s per year. So any rotation speedup due to the earthquake will have no long-lasting effect at all."
It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].
Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search). It offers something very much like DURL, but it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].
For a lot of people long-distance flights represent, like subways/tubes/undergrounds/metros, the rare opportunity to sit down, relax, maybe read a book.
I'd rather airlines don't buy into the TV service, and instead offer more comfortable chairs or even beds for long-haul flights. Or at least give customers the choice. Some will pay more for a TV, some will pay more for a comfortable chair or bed.
Of course the web pages are stored locally. Not only are they stored locally, they are also _indexed_, which is what makes searches fast. Think Google - the same type of technology is behind Simpy.
Actually, Simpy uses Lucene [1], a search tool I know a little bit about. [2] (no, this is not a promo)
Firefox and Opera have really rudimentary bookmark search. Sites like Simpy (link below) have Google-like full-text bookmark search, as well as keyword/tag-based search (it's all really full-text underneath the covers). Which one would you rather have? I'll take full-text search, with ability to run fielded queries (think site:, inurl: and such), which is what Simpy offers.
Searchable bookmarks? Look at Simpy (link below). That's precisely what its primary goal is. Linkrot prevention is another one. Collaboration is yet another one, but it comes after search.
Slashdot Mirror
Until it can get my groceries and do my laundry, I'm not buying! I already have a Rumba - it doesn't talk, but does a good job vacuuming.
Or, more succinctly: south
Do we really need a research study to tell us the obvious?
But suppose studies really come out, the public sees them and realizes cell phones are bad for us, do you really think people would stop using cell phones? I don't think they would, not until there is a better alternative. Hm, this just make me think of Windows. We have alternatives there, and it is still very hard for a lot of people to stop using Windows and switch to something better.
Interesting, but does that mean that I may find myself facing the dreaded BSOD when I visit google.com one day? Or that we'll soon get a search wizard or a paperclip? ;)
Before /. effect kills that server, consider using Coral (www.coralcdn.org): here.
Here it is, from one of the Google guys:
Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look.
Are you/they sure it's 20,000 hours of lamp life? If that were true, that would be about 10 times more than for a typical projector. Just recently I purchased a Panasonic projector. During my research and shopping around I observed that all bulbs have between 2,000 and 3,000 hours of life in them.
So.... I question that 20,000 hours of life time quote...
Does anyone know of any Intel-based production servers using Solaris 10? I'd love to see some heavily loaded hardware and hear how they like Solaris 10, especially if they run Java (applications/servers) on it.
Anyone know any such stories/examples?
Thanks.
The most interesting part of that Cloudscape promotion on SF is the prize tht follows the pattern of all other promotions I've seen recently: "Win an iPod!"
That says something about Apple and iPod brand, no? That is also a great marketing for Apple and its iPod product! Jobs must be rubbing his hands...
The problem and conflict with Rojo, I find, is that it requires users' _active_ participation, while one of the major advantages of RSS/Atom is that you can subscribe to the feed and _passively_ gather information. People need information to come _to_them_, not yet another site they'll have to check daily or weekly.
Hence Simpy (URL below) - you don't need to maintain anything there, just save a page when you like it, and find it when you need it. The social/relational stuff is a nice side-effect of tagging/labelling saved links, but doesn't require active work.
H1-B quotas have been raised, actually. It's just that they've been raised for qualifying candidates with a masters or doctorate degrees. :) No luck for holders of B.S. and B.A. degrees this year.
This question is actually very easy to answer. Yes, there are such companies. Any company that treats its employees like a FIFO queue will not be around for very long. Finding, hiring, training, firing, and goto Finding is the most expensive cycle. Once you find, hire and train, you want to keep and train some more, and keep some more, and so on.
You also want to stay away from startups - without making people dream about they will not make it - joining them means you accept this.
So, perhaps you want to look for slightly larger companies, and/or companies that have 'proven themselves' (if there is such a thing...). You could also be smart about picking an employer by industry - don't go for fast-paced and highly competitive fields like software and other technology stuff.
Actually, the 3 microsecond effect (the Earth is now spinning a bit faster, shortening our day by about 3 microseconds) will have no long term effect. Our Moon has the drag effect on Earth anyway, continuously prolonging our days - about 15 microseconds per year.
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Aha, here is a bit about that from Wikipedia[1]:
"The moment of inertia of Earth decreased a bit due to the earthquake. Because the angular momentum is conserved, this results in an increase of the angular velocity of Earth's rotation. In other words, the earthquake shortened the length of a day by as much as 3 s. However, due to tidal effects of the Moon, the Earth's rotation slows by 15 s per year. So any rotation speedup due to the earthquake will have no long-lasting effect at all."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_ea
It amazes me to see such simple stuff celebrated and drawing so much attention. I find the DURL output quite hard to read. On the other hand, Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search, full Boolean support and so on) and it offers something very much like DURL. However, unlike DURL, it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. This makes is _much_ easier to visualize things.
If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].
[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo
Example: link history for Slashdot: chart.
Simpy[1] is a service like Delicious (but with a superior full-text search). It offers something very much like DURL, but it also shows you the popularity of a given link over time, as a chart![2]. If you don't have a Simpy account, you can try the demo account[3].
[1] Simpy
[2] Link History bookmarklet
[3] demo/demo
Not only that, but this stuff is also patented, see: here.
Hm, that's a good business idea.
For a lot of people long-distance flights represent, like subways/tubes/undergrounds/metros, the rare opportunity to sit down, relax, maybe read a book.
I'd rather airlines don't buy into the TV service, and instead offer more comfortable chairs or even beds for long-haul flights. Or at least give customers the choice. Some will pay more for a TV, some will pay more for a comfortable chair or bed.
But didn't JBuilder people buy Symantec several years ago?
Again, take a look at Simpy - URL below. It implements a lot of ideas that various people mentioned in this thread/post.
Finding similar people base don their bookmarks contents is one of those implemented features.
Of course the web pages are stored locally. Not only are they stored locally, they are also _indexed_, which is what makes searches fast. Think Google - the same type of technology is behind Simpy.
Actually, Simpy uses Lucene [1], a search tool I know a little bit about. [2] (no, this is not a promo)
[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene
[2] http://www.manning.com/hatcher2
That's not full-text search, only meta-data search.
Simpy does both for you: meta-data from web page authors, full-text search, as well as meta-data (read: tags) entered by the user himself.
Firefox and Opera have really rudimentary bookmark search. Sites like Simpy (link below) have Google-like full-text bookmark search, as well as keyword/tag-based search (it's all really full-text underneath the covers). Which one would you rather have? I'll take full-text search, with ability to run fielded queries (think site:, inurl: and such), which is what Simpy offers.
Searchable bookmarks?
Look at Simpy (link below). That's precisely what its primary goal is. Linkrot prevention is another one. Collaboration is yet another one, but it comes after search.
Considering how much traffic coming from Windows a TCP sniffer catches, I would be VERY afraid of installing this. Toolbar call home, call home...