Completely agree. If they sold Windows for $20 precious few would bother to pirate it, so phone home and WGA wouldn't even be "needed". Has anyone ever done a study to assess whether revenues would go up or down as a result?
Fair point, I hadn't thought about the speed benefits, but all you would need would be RAID 0 in that case; all that parity checking is just going to slow things down.
Most hosts do offer back up - at a price, of course. I once had to design a super-redundant system and ended up talking to the hosts about exactly where they stored their backup tapes.
It's much more convenient to back up at the hosting company, otherwise if there's a problem you have to move your own backups (and obviously you want to have these as well) back over the wire, which could take a very long time.
I have to wonder how useful RAID is in these days of virtualization, though. My only experience of recovering data from a RAID data store where a disk had failed was neither straightforward nor fast (though it's entirely possible that whoever built the system had done it wrong).
What a shame that it's utterly impossible to run another browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera on the same computer as your legacy IE - then you could use that for everyday browsing and just stick with IE for your proprietory app/intranet. Perhaps someone could work on that. They could even - and I know it sounds insane - create a virtualised computer so you could when needed run your old, insecure browser inside it on an old version of Windows, and have a modern OS with a more modern browser for everyday use.
We have reached a point where a degraded experience is justified is IE6. (IE7 is a whole different vat of acid - how can you justify not supporting the world's most popular browser?!)
As a front-end developer, where once I would have doubled my workload if necessary to perfect layout and behaviour in IE6, now I am satisfied with a layout that isn't completely broken, and where the site is navigable.
Actually it's great. I have always talked to myself when I'm trying to get my thoughts straight, but it can be kind of awkward when I'm out and about. Now all I have to do is put in an earbud and I look like a sane person.
(As long as nobody listens in to what I'm actually saying: "Ah, I don't need to wrap the main text block in the relatively positioned DIV! I can use a negative margin to break it out of its bounding box, and use a background PNG for the drop shadow...")
Python works just fine on the windows command line (after it's been installed, of course). And there are several decent non-MS text editors; personally I like jEdit, but Notepad++ is another good one. Not used Visual Studio for IronPython, but I'd be interested in hearing people's experience; it's damn good for C# (not that I'd recommend that as a first language).
But I have noticed, when trying to effect some operation or repair, that it can make a difference whether I am actually sitting at the keyboard or just giving instructions. Computers obviously feel relaxed around me.
Chasing after more wealth than I need seems a pointless waste of time and energy to me. And why would I want power over other humans? That just seems crazy.
It does seem crazy to us, which is why we don't have it. Unfortunately it seems like a really good idea to some people.
Please forgive me, I (wrongly) assume everyone here is a computer nerd. At least I didn't call you a pedantic jackass.
There is a fundamental conceptual difference between memory and storage, which is independent of the actual material used. When a program runs, its code is first loaded into memory (probably from storage) where the CPU acts on it directly. The program can read from and write to storage, which is assumed to be more permanent, but possibly orders of magnitude slower to access. Sometimes the memory is swapped out to disk, but it has to be swapped back in again before it can actually be used.
So my question was different to yours. Since last.fm is using solid state memory as storage, I was wondering if there was some way for it to push this data to users without first reading it into memory; ie bypassing the CPU, similar to how graphics chips can handle all those polygons and transformations without troubling the CPU much. I suspect there is, but I'm not enough of a hardware geek to know the answer.
Hmm, your dumb question masks a more interesting one: aren't SSDs still considered a storage device as far as the OS is concerned?
In which case, doesn't the data from the SSDs still pass through the server's DIMMs before making its way onto the network? Or is there some fancy pipework which avoids this bottleneck?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I contest "huge". There are some very well-known artists that aren't on there (eg Pink Floyd), not to mention all the tiny ones I actually like.
Nice suggestion.
I usually produce a question mark with shift+/
Thanks for the info. I was thinking of... er... getting that game.
Here's some info for you: no matter how much of a dramatic pause you want readers to form in their mind after reading the first word,
That, is a freaking trainwreck
will never be correct English. Valid alternatives could be: "That is a freaking trainwreck" or "That... is a freaking trainwreck"
Completely agree. If they sold Windows for $20 precious few would bother to pirate it, so phone home and WGA wouldn't even be "needed". Has anyone ever done a study to assess whether revenues would go up or down as a result?
He he heh! Now that my PDF reader is reasonably popular, I can switch on its backdoor functionality.
Apple's developers tools are excellent also. They are the ones that were used to create the World Wide Web.
I had no idea that TCP/IP was implemented in Objective-C.
Fair point, I hadn't thought about the speed benefits, but all you would need would be RAID 0 in that case; all that parity checking is just going to slow things down.
Most hosts do offer back up - at a price, of course. I once had to design a super-redundant system and ended up talking to the hosts about exactly where they stored their backup tapes.
It's much more convenient to back up at the hosting company, otherwise if there's a problem you have to move your own backups (and obviously you want to have these as well) back over the wire, which could take a very long time.
I have to wonder how useful RAID is in these days of virtualization, though. My only experience of recovering data from a RAID data store where a disk had failed was neither straightforward nor fast (though it's entirely possible that whoever built the system had done it wrong).
What a shame that it's utterly impossible to run another browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera on the same computer as your legacy IE - then you could use that for everyday browsing and just stick with IE for your proprietory app/intranet. Perhaps someone could work on that. They could even - and I know it sounds insane - create a virtualised computer so you could when needed run your old, insecure browser inside it on an old version of Windows, and have a modern OS with a more modern browser for everyday use.
We have reached a point where a degraded experience is justified is IE6. (IE7 is a whole different vat of acid - how can you justify not supporting the world's most popular browser?!)
As a front-end developer, where once I would have doubled my workload if necessary to perfect layout and behaviour in IE6, now I am satisfied with a layout that isn't completely broken, and where the site is navigable.
Ah, good. She's only being fined a third of the cost of a house. That seems fair.
If you think that ending sealed the story you shut then you're *really* not familiar with Joss Whedon's work.
Actually it's great. I have always talked to myself when I'm trying to get my thoughts straight, but it can be kind of awkward when I'm out and about. Now all I have to do is put in an earbud and I look like a sane person.
(As long as nobody listens in to what I'm actually saying: "Ah, I don't need to wrap the main text block in the relatively positioned DIV! I can use a negative margin to break it out of its bounding box, and use a background PNG for the drop shadow...")
Python works just fine on the windows command line (after it's been installed, of course). And there are several decent non-MS text editors; personally I like jEdit, but Notepad++ is another good one. Not used Visual Studio for IronPython, but I'd be interested in hearing people's experience; it's damn good for C# (not that I'd recommend that as a first language).
Really not.
But I have noticed, when trying to effect some operation or repair, that it can make a difference whether I am actually sitting at the keyboard or just giving instructions. Computers obviously feel relaxed around me.
Chasing after more wealth than I need seems a pointless waste of time and energy to me. And why would I want power over other humans? That just seems crazy.
It does seem crazy to us, which is why we don't have it. Unfortunately it seems like a really good idea to some people.
This is indeed annoying. I find my computer whisperer abilities are significantly enhanced by proximity.
It's C-ist.
Please forgive me, I (wrongly) assume everyone here is a computer nerd. At least I didn't call you a pedantic jackass.
There is a fundamental conceptual difference between memory and storage, which is independent of the actual material used. When a program runs, its code is first loaded into memory (probably from storage) where the CPU acts on it directly. The program can read from and write to storage, which is assumed to be more permanent, but possibly orders of magnitude slower to access. Sometimes the memory is swapped out to disk, but it has to be swapped back in again before it can actually be used.
So my question was different to yours. Since last.fm is using solid state memory as storage, I was wondering if there was some way for it to push this data to users without first reading it into memory; ie bypassing the CPU, similar to how graphics chips can handle all those polygons and transformations without troubling the CPU much. I suspect there is, but I'm not enough of a hardware geek to know the answer.
It just doesn't make too much sense having a full fledged 2D/3D library in the browser
Actually, it would be lovely. I would far rather code games in javascript than Flash or Silverlight.
You can still make document.write() work, but it tends to be avoided nowadays because it's not unobtrusive.
No, for that you need Python,
I find it quite easy to use last.fm without Spotify.
Hmm, your dumb question masks a more interesting one: aren't SSDs still considered a storage device as far as the OS is concerned?
In which case, doesn't the data from the SSDs still pass through the server's DIMMs before making its way onto the network? Or is there some fancy pipework which avoids this bottleneck?
uninformed = uniformed
Or something.