Slightly off-topic, but what is stopping Tesla from establishing a franchise store in Texas? What stops Elon Musk from personally establishing an dealership like any other?
"Ozturf grasses have been scientifically tested by the CSIRO for strength and long term ultraviolet stability." (http://www.ozturf.com.au/products.html)
Swings and roundabouts -- if the mining boom collapses, our dollar will crash and exports will pick up some of the slack. On one hand, we'll have more expensive imports and perhaps less tax revenue, on the other hand, we'll see an upturn in manufacturing and local services.
I disagree. There is no third party in this case. If Apple forced you to sign with a specific carrier, that would be third line forcing. As it turns out, the iPhone is available in Australia from all three major carriers.
This is an issue of semantics, and of marketing strategy. A rose by any other name... still evolved from its Rosoideae anscestors in the wild fields of Asia.
As the owner of Whirlpool, please moderate the parent as uninformed.
While I'm not in a position to provide an unbiased opinion of WebCentral, they do cater to a very important market -- people who need a premium quality service. If my experience with the $0 service they provide Whirlpool is any indication, WebCentral are not just technically excellent, their support system is outstanding and reactive. I can only imagine how much better they treat the customers who pay them.
Just because you only want the bargain service, doesn't mean everyone does.
And the only reason Whirlpool isn't blazing fast, is because we're running with a bunch of WebCentral's spare hardware. We're a community service, not a business.
That's 40 requests per second to the web server, not the database. Actually, this custom-built application is quite efficient, because that only translates to around 50-70 queries per second.
MySQL isn't the bottleneck. It's simply running on hardware that's not even a quarter as powerful as it should be if it were commercially operated. And that's before we take into account failover resources or future proofing.
I've seen cases of PHPBB and vB installations, with better hardware than us, unable to handle even a tenth the load we get.
40 requests per second is not a small load for a single website. Whirlpool gets around 1.5 to 2 million non-spider page views per day, plus and additional half million spider hits.
PostgreSQL and Firebird are certainly more comprehensive database stacks, but I'm quite sure they wouldn't match MySQL for efficiency when dealing with these relatively uncomplicated queries. Even if they could provide a nominal improvement, the effort involved in porting the databases and every query in this custom application would be extreme overkill.
The single web server that powers Whirlpool is typically handling 30 to 40 non-cached template requests per second. We've got over 15 gigabytes worth of user posts online, and receive hundreds of referrals from Google every minute.
Given that it's running on a 4-year-old web server (in tandem with another 4-year-old MySQL box), I think ColdFusion is doing pretty well for itself.
So if you won't be able to buy a new copy of XP any more, how long until one could reasonably consider it abandonware? If I needed to build a new PC tomorrow, I'll want to install XP on it. But if Microsoft won't sell it to me, what can I do about it?
I'd imagine that if do a software RAID between an external FireWire drive and an external USB2.0 drive, you'd probably end up with the absolutely fastest disk performance the Mac Mini is ever likely to see......that would work, right?
...the propogation of errant domain names into the media by Telstra was just an exercise in gaining publicity at the expense of morality.
I mean, what better way to solidify the name in the eyes of teenage girls than to have news story after news story directing them to -- or explaining how people were being mistakenly directed to -- a website which features an image of a large penis (and the male human it's attached to).
Very clever... and to top it off, Telstra BigPond get to be seen as making the internet safer for young girls. It's a win win win scenario.
Oh, and I should also point out that I'm a left wing tree-hugger. Anyone who cares about the environemnt should realise that nuclear power is the only realistic way to ween society off fossil fuels and onto a hydrogen economy.
Sure, first and second generation nuclear plants did kinda suck -- but all that proves is that early revisions of technology under the control of incompetent twats is a bad idea.
Modern nuclear technology is not only outrageously safe, but can also create significantly less spent fuel per gigawatt.
Less what? People complain about the very idea of nuclear waste, but personally I'd prefer to see waste products in storage (yes, back in the ground (where it came from) than in the atmosphere (where fossil fuels absolutely didn't).
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Hence why a exceptionally good education system is necessary for a democracy to endure.
The glue matters too? So let's call it POSIX/Linux then. Or perhaps Intel/Linux? Or how about Semiconductor/Linux?
Slightly off-topic, but what is stopping Tesla from establishing a franchise store in Texas? What stops Elon Musk from personally establishing an dealership like any other?
Indeed they have.
"Ozturf grasses have been scientifically tested by the CSIRO for strength and long term ultraviolet stability."
(http://www.ozturf.com.au/products.html)
Swings and roundabouts -- if the mining boom collapses, our dollar will crash and exports will pick up some of the slack. On one hand, we'll have more expensive imports and perhaps less tax revenue, on the other hand, we'll see an upturn in manufacturing and local services.
30% of... ten million theoretical dollars!
It was?
I haven't posted here for years, and only read this article because it was on HackerNews. ;-)
I disagree. There is no third party in this case. If Apple forced you to sign with a specific carrier, that would be third line forcing. As it turns out, the iPhone is available in Australia from all three major carriers.
This is an issue of semantics, and of marketing strategy. A rose by any other name ... still evolved from its Rosoideae anscestors in the wild fields of Asia.
As the owner of Whirlpool, please moderate the parent as uninformed.
While I'm not in a position to provide an unbiased opinion of WebCentral, they do cater to a very important market -- people who need a premium quality service. If my experience with the $0 service they provide Whirlpool is any indication, WebCentral are not just technically excellent, their support system is outstanding and reactive. I can only imagine how much better they treat the customers who pay them.
Just because you only want the bargain service, doesn't mean everyone does.
And the only reason Whirlpool isn't blazing fast, is because we're running with a bunch of WebCentral's spare hardware. We're a community service, not a business.
Cheers
Simon Wright
That's 40 requests per second to the web server, not the database. Actually, this custom-built application is quite efficient, because that only translates to around 50-70 queries per second.
MySQL isn't the bottleneck. It's simply running on hardware that's not even a quarter as powerful as it should be if it were commercially operated. And that's before we take into account failover resources or future proofing.
I've seen cases of PHPBB and vB installations, with better hardware than us, unable to handle even a tenth the load we get.
40 requests per second is not a small load for a single website. Whirlpool gets around 1.5 to 2 million non-spider page views per day, plus and additional half million spider hits.
PostgreSQL and Firebird are certainly more comprehensive database stacks, but I'm quite sure they wouldn't match MySQL for efficiency when dealing with these relatively uncomplicated queries. Even if they could provide a nominal improvement, the effort involved in porting the databases and every query in this custom application would be extreme overkill.
Cheers
Simon Wright
The single web server that powers Whirlpool is typically handling 30 to 40 non-cached template requests per second. We've got over 15 gigabytes worth of user posts online, and receive hundreds of referrals from Google every minute.
Given that it's running on a 4-year-old web server (in tandem with another 4-year-old MySQL box), I think ColdFusion is doing pretty well for itself.
Cheers
Simon Wright
So if you won't be able to buy a new copy of XP any more, how long until one could reasonably consider it abandonware?
If I needed to build a new PC tomorrow, I'll want to install XP on it. But if Microsoft won't sell it to me, what can I do about it?
http://digg.com/tech_news/Sun_announces_plans_to_buy_MySQL
Sun has been thinking about this for a while
http://www.news.com/2100-7344_3-5562799.html
I wonder how long till someone does a hack to turn the scroll ball into a fully fledged trackball?
Then you could reserve moving the mouse for... umm... scrolling?
Mighty Mouse? That name sounds too cheesy to be an Apple product, don't you think? No pun intended, of course.
Probably either NEF or CR2...
This new technology should put any future pants/no pants issues to rest.
I thought this was the cliffhanger for last season's The West Wing
I'd imagine that if do a software RAID between an external FireWire drive and an external USB2.0 drive, you'd probably end up with the absolutely fastest disk performance the Mac Mini is ever likely to see... ...that would work, right?
...the propogation of errant domain names into the media by Telstra was just an exercise in gaining publicity at the expense of morality.
I mean, what better way to solidify the name in the eyes of teenage girls than to have news story after news story directing them to -- or explaining how people were being mistakenly directed to -- a website which features an image of a large penis (and the male human it's attached to).
Very clever... and to top it off, Telstra BigPond get to be seen as making the internet safer for young girls. It's a win win win scenario.
Oh, and I should also point out that I'm a left wing tree-hugger. Anyone who cares about the environemnt should realise that nuclear power is the only realistic way to ween society off fossil fuels and onto a hydrogen economy.
Sure, first and second generation nuclear plants did kinda suck -- but all that proves is that early revisions of technology under the control of incompetent twats is a bad idea.
Modern nuclear technology is not only outrageously safe, but can also create significantly less spent fuel per gigawatt.
Less what? People complain about the very idea of nuclear waste, but personally I'd prefer to see waste products in storage (yes, back in the ground (where it came from) than in the atmosphere (where fossil fuels absolutely didn't).
Simon