Re:Does anybody buy this Bullshit?
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I can render all the porn I want on my DNS/Mail/Server. It happens to be running Linux and is only a 300 mHz pII.
Pictures, sure, but not many modern video formats. WM9 and similiar codecs require around 1 Ghz to render at 640x480. The newer HD content requires even more processing power.
How does it advocate a monopoly? If google had only 8 advertisers and 8 producers, they could still keep that anonymity between them
Google's size and position allows them to exert control over advertisers. If Google was smaller, a large advertiser could dictate terms to Google. Anonymity is a policy decision by Google, not a technical inevitability.
Google (online) ads correct the problem. By truly separating producer and advertiser, keeping each fairly anonymous to the other, content producers are not required to pander to advertisers -- it's difficult for advertisers to boycott the web pages on which their ads happen to appear.
This only happens because one company, Google, controls a large percentage of online advertising. The same thing could happen with traditional advertising if a single media company controlled a majority of the advertising space.
The problem is that, to get to Mach 3, you still need to accelerate through the sound barrier. And unless you want to subject passengers to uncomfortable amounts of G-force, your acceleration has to be relatively slow.
Not really. It would take ~35 seconds to reach Mach 1 at one G. This roughly equivalent to the take off acceleration of conventional commercial aircraft.
But for the rest of us I'd just settle with knowing how many hours 12412 seconds is. Which in the current system is 3.4477777777777777777777 But in metric time would be an obvious 1.2412:)
You'll only discover that 5% of the population has the horrible side effect when you test on the genetically diverse human population.
Is that a bad thing if you can determine that before the subject takes the drug? A drug that works on 95% of the population is better than no drug at all.
In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk products are considered disgusting.
I drank a carton of milk in Taiwan purchased from a convenience store and it tasted very different (worse, IMO) from milk in the US. Maybe they feed their dairy cows something different. In Taiwan, at least, it's not hard to find dairy products.
most laptops will chew through the battery in a couple of hours
The 12" iBooks and PowerBooks last 4+ hours on a fully charged battery. I tend to see a disproportionate (compared to total market share) number of Apple laptops at places like coffee shops.
Don't all servers have battery backed up RAID controllers? AKA a UPS?
Oops, the sysadmin accidentally knocked out the power cord when he was moving another server in the same rack.
I have seen that happen. In one case, a sysadmin accidentally unplugged the fibre cable that connected a database server to the storage system. This somehow caused Oracle to corrupt itself (including tables that had not been written to in days) and was unrecoverable due to a misconfiguration. Good thing the backups were only a month old...
Always remember Murphy's Law. Never depend on any single component, especially if it has moving parts or can be unplugged, to keep your data safe.
Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file.
That would be great, until your computer crashes, loses power, etc. Oops, now your database is hosed.
The reason this drive is usable for a database transaction log (or anything else that requires permanent storage) is that it is battery-backed. Though, some RAID controllers already have battery-backed write caches, which should accomplish the same thing.
A spider actually "spiders" the web. It fetches an HTML page, parses out the links, then repeats the process on the links it found. A spider needs to fetch robots.txt for new domains and periodically re-check it for existing domains.
Their checker would simply fetch the URLs that are already in the Google database and verify that the content matches what Googlebot pulled. It wouldn't look for new pages to spider and thus it wouldn't need to bother with robots.txt or "being evil".
Actually probably the best way to catch a bot would be to simply watch for ips that are requesting a robots.txt file.
The cloaking-checker bot wouldn't have to request robots.txt, since it was already requested by the main bot. The checker bot doesn't have to crawl at all. It simply verifies all the URLs that the main bot pulled.
REALbasic Professional Edition lets you create software for Windows, Linux and Macintosh from a single code base.
I'd certainly shell out $50 to be able to write and distribute cross-platform gui apps.
It's more expensive than that, but well worth it considering that it's the only easy to use, cross platform development environment that creates native, single executable programs.
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I can render all the porn I want on my DNS/Mail/Server. It happens to be running Linux and is only a 300 mHz pII.
Pictures, sure, but not many modern video formats. WM9 and similiar codecs require around 1 Ghz to render at 640x480. The newer HD content requires even more processing power.
Why does Slashdot link to BN.com? They sell it for $20.00 ($18.00 if you pay to become a member), but Amazon.com sells it for $16.50.
Given enough time and money, eventually Microsoft will re-invent Unix
I sure hope not. NT is a much better OS than UNIX. It's Win32 that sucks.
How does it advocate a monopoly? If google had only 8 advertisers and 8 producers, they could still keep that anonymity between them
Google's size and position allows them to exert control over advertisers. If Google was smaller, a large advertiser could dictate terms to Google. Anonymity is a policy decision by Google, not a technical inevitability.
Google (online) ads correct the problem. By truly separating producer and advertiser, keeping each fairly anonymous to the other, content producers are not required to pander to advertisers -- it's difficult for advertisers to boycott the web pages on which their ads happen to appear.
This only happens because one company, Google, controls a large percentage of online advertising. The same thing could happen with traditional advertising if a single media company controlled a majority of the advertising space.
Your argument advocates a monopoly.
The problem is that, to get to Mach 3, you still need to accelerate through the sound barrier. And unless you want to subject passengers to uncomfortable amounts of G-force, your acceleration has to be relatively slow.
Not really. It would take ~35 seconds to reach Mach 1 at one G. This roughly equivalent to the take off acceleration of conventional commercial aircraft.
Annoys you because of an actual perceptable quality difference
The difference in quality is very noticable when you have two identical LCDs side by side, one on DVI and the other on VGA.
But for the rest of us I'd just settle with knowing how many hours 12412 seconds is. :)
Which in the current system is 3.4477777777777777777777
But in metric time would be an obvious 1.2412
It would also be obvious in base 60:
seconds = 3|26|52
hours = 3.26|52
Surely you didn't think that for $30 a month Hostway was giving you your own box, did you?
It's not that far off. For $45 a month you can get a dedicated server if you pre-pay for a year.
You'll only discover that 5% of the population has the horrible side effect when you test on the genetically diverse human population.
Is that a bad thing if you can determine that before the subject takes the drug? A drug that works on 95% of the population is better than no drug at all.
In most of south-eastern Asia, milk and milk products are considered disgusting.
I drank a carton of milk in Taiwan purchased from a convenience store and it tasted very different (worse, IMO) from milk in the US. Maybe they feed their dairy cows something different. In Taiwan, at least, it's not hard to find dairy products.
but the articles really don't have any detail as to what the fees will be
Fees? Is this a Soviet Russia joke? The purpose of this is for blogs to get paid for advertising. This is similar to Google's AdSense program.
Well compare your typical programming textbook that you'd have to buy in a CS program with a book from O'Reilly.
I had an O'Reilly book for a college course (Fall 1999 -- David Ackley is the best professor I've ever had).
is there any plans to make PHP a full member of the .NET environment?
It exists now: http://www.php-compiler.net/
Suse 9.1 you just "rip it out"
What happens if there buffered data that has not yet been written to the drive?
most laptops will chew through the battery in a couple of hours
The 12" iBooks and PowerBooks last 4+ hours on a fully charged battery. I tend to see a disproportionate (compared to total market share) number of Apple laptops at places like coffee shops.
Don't all servers have battery backed up RAID controllers? AKA a UPS?
Oops, the sysadmin accidentally knocked out the power cord when he was moving another server in the same rack.
I have seen that happen. In one case, a sysadmin accidentally unplugged the fibre cable that connected a database server to the storage system. This somehow caused Oracle to corrupt itself (including tables that had not been written to in days) and was unrecoverable due to a misconfiguration. Good thing the backups were only a month old...
Always remember Murphy's Law. Never depend on any single component, especially if it has moving parts or can be unplugged, to keep your data safe.
Imagine how fast your database server would be with its transaction log installed in a memory file.
That would be great, until your computer crashes, loses power, etc. Oops, now your database is hosed.
The reason this drive is usable for a database transaction log (or anything else that requires permanent storage) is that it is battery-backed. Though, some RAID controllers already have battery-backed write caches, which should accomplish the same thing.
But does /. ban google for hitting its RSS too often?
Yes. I have seen that happen at least once.
Here is the B&N link
Amazon: $5.97
B&N: $7.99 ($7.19 if you buy a $25 membership)
Hmm, which would I choose...
I highly recommend that you read this book.
wouldn't that be more or less what a robot does?
A spider actually "spiders" the web. It fetches an HTML page, parses out the links, then repeats the process on the links it found. A spider needs to fetch robots.txt for new domains and periodically re-check it for existing domains.
Their checker would simply fetch the URLs that are already in the Google database and verify that the content matches what Googlebot pulled. It wouldn't look for new pages to spider and thus it wouldn't need to bother with robots.txt or "being evil".
I think the reason google doesn't run a robot that say's it is Internet Explorer is part of their don't be evil policy. They say that their spider ...
Their checker wouldn't be a spider. It would simply check the URLs that Googlebot has already requested.
Actually probably the best way to catch a bot would be to simply watch for ips that are requesting a robots.txt file.
The cloaking-checker bot wouldn't have to request robots.txt, since it was already requested by the main bot. The checker bot doesn't have to crawl at all. It simply verifies all the URLs that the main bot pulled.
It does, if you get the professional version:
I'd certainly shell out $50 to be able to write and distribute cross-platform gui apps.
It's more expensive than that, but well worth it considering that it's the only easy to use, cross platform development environment that creates native, single executable programs.