Except that F series Trinitrons are quite a bit more expensive than the Dell. It's easy to find the 2001FP for $749.
A comparison to a G series might be slightly more accurate, yes, but I've seen the G and E series side by side, and the difference is nothing like the difference between the CRT and LCD.
I really am talking night and day. It's not that the Dell looks better. It's that it looks so much better that I can't bring myself to look at the CRT at all when the two are next to each other.
Indeed. I couldn't look at my Sony CPD-E500 once I got my Dell 2001FP and set them side by side. Prior to that I thought it was the shit.
I'm debating whether to buy a second one or not. The panel really does look much better when connected via DVI, so I might hold off until I get a dual DVI graphics card.
Well, hardware is cheap compared to people, that's for damn sure. At the same time, splitting your servers into static and dynamic servers is almost trivial.
Half the servers run one httpd.conf, half the servers run another. Or half the servers run Apache, half the servers run your favorite app server. J2EE servers are enough of a pain in the ass to deal with that I'd rather get rid of half of them for simple Apache/thttpd/publicfile/mathopd/etc static content servers anyway, even if it is another piece of software to manage.
If your admin can't do this without extra staff, he's either lying or he needs to be fired:).
The homogeneous configuration idea is a good one; get a lot of identical hardware and load it all with the same OS if you can get away with it. But while it means that all your boxes are the same, if you take it too far it also means that a lot of your boxes are more complex than they have to be.
On the one hand you're right: When generating a dynamic page your code and database accesses are going to take the vast majority of the time.
At the same time, how many images does an average page of yours use? How many stylesheets? How many external JavaScript files? Your code may only be running on 5% of the requests to your server.
Static content simply needs to be blasted out to the user as quickly as possible. There's not much sense in using a 12MB Apache process loaded down with mod_perl, PHP, and god knows what else to do this. Similarly I wouldn't be wasting a precious Tomcat thread on this kind of grunt work.
If you're going to be running a small site for you, your friends, or maybe even a small community, then using one server to do all your work is fine. If you ever want to run a big site, though, you need to make sure you're using the right tool for each job.
That's a good comparison, except Blizzard hasn't been promising us Team Fortress 2 for six years. Not to mention the fact that Blizzard has a whole string of hits, while Valve has one aging game to its credit.
I think a more apt comparison would be Valve to 3D Realms. After all, Duke Nukem 3D was quite fun thirty years ago or whenever it came out.
Dump the serial port? Then what do I plug my external modem into? Or do you expect me to buy a new one just so your precious sensibilities aren't offended? (just one example...)
Well, you could buy a $5 serial port card. If you think about it, it makes sense to do that rather than give serial ports to everyone, even though 99% of them aren't going to need it.
With the push to make computers smaller and more attractive, getting rid of ugly oldschool connectors that almost nobody uses makes sense.
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That's my address, you insensitive clod!
Geek delusion #42:
The only reason girls avoid me is because they're jealous of my supercomputer.
Damn right!
I like how you said "synergy." Way to go you fucking middle manager.
Yes, by delivering a mild electrical shock to your face. Difficulties in perfecting this process are why Longhorn's ship date keeps slipping.
Making fun of Windows and Debian in the same post should be every man's goal.
If you look anywhere near as young as I do, people would believe you were going albino before they'd believe you were going grey.
Well, I would pay retail, but stealing all that music from the recording industry has completely fucked up my morals.
Oh shit. You totally burned him.
Except that F series Trinitrons are quite a bit more expensive than the Dell. It's easy to find the 2001FP for $749.
A comparison to a G series might be slightly more accurate, yes, but I've seen the G and E series side by side, and the difference is nothing like the difference between the CRT and LCD.
I really am talking night and day. It's not that the Dell looks better. It's that it looks so much better that I can't bring myself to look at the CRT at all when the two are next to each other.
Indeed. I couldn't look at my Sony CPD-E500 once I got my Dell 2001FP and set them side by side. Prior to that I thought it was the shit.
I'm debating whether to buy a second one or not. The panel really does look much better when connected via DVI, so I might hold off until I get a dual DVI graphics card.
All my crops have a roof over them ;).
(Don't NARC on my stash)
That's not a subpoena.
This is a subpoena!
I'm clicking on the link to meet the chick that thinks Tux is cute, but it just goes to some stupid website.
Holy shit that thing's cool!
Well, hardware is cheap compared to people, that's for damn sure. At the same time, splitting your servers into static and dynamic servers is almost trivial.
:).
Half the servers run one httpd.conf, half the servers run another. Or half the servers run Apache, half the servers run your favorite app server. J2EE servers are enough of a pain in the ass to deal with that I'd rather get rid of half of them for simple Apache/thttpd/publicfile/mathopd/etc static content servers anyway, even if it is another piece of software to manage.
If your admin can't do this without extra staff, he's either lying or he needs to be fired
The homogeneous configuration idea is a good one; get a lot of identical hardware and load it all with the same OS if you can get away with it. But while it means that all your boxes are the same, if you take it too far it also means that a lot of your boxes are more complex than they have to be.
On the one hand you're right: When generating a dynamic page your code and database accesses are going to take the vast majority of the time.
At the same time, how many images does an average page of yours use? How many stylesheets? How many external JavaScript files? Your code may only be running on 5% of the requests to your server.
Static content simply needs to be blasted out to the user as quickly as possible. There's not much sense in using a 12MB Apache process loaded down with mod_perl, PHP, and god knows what else to do this. Similarly I wouldn't be wasting a precious Tomcat thread on this kind of grunt work.
If you're going to be running a small site for you, your friends, or maybe even a small community, then using one server to do all your work is fine. If you ever want to run a big site, though, you need to make sure you're using the right tool for each job.
Maybe that's why nobody likes me :(.
That's a good comparison, except Blizzard hasn't been promising us Team Fortress 2 for six years. Not to mention the fact that Blizzard has a whole string of hits, while Valve has one aging game to its credit.
I think a more apt comparison would be Valve to 3D Realms. After all, Duke Nukem 3D was quite fun thirty years ago or whenever it came out.
In other words, not the protocol specific (HTTP) definitions.
Well, you could buy a $5 serial port card. If you think about it, it makes sense to do that rather than give serial ports to everyone, even though 99% of them aren't going to need it.
With the push to make computers smaller and more attractive, getting rid of ugly oldschool connectors that almost nobody uses makes sense.
You hate porn?
Step away from the computer...
But, of course, all it takes is one time. Unless you're retiring tomorrow, there's still a chance you'll fuck up and do it once, too.
In fact, even if you are retiring tomorrow it might happen. We call that "retirony".
Unless your wife is into that sort of thing...
XSLT? He wants easier, not harder. That's probably the one thing I wouldn't recommend he try.