I was involved in a quite heated./ discussion about this and the conclusion was as follows:
Spend on the source ( cd player / turntable / receiver ) and the reproduction units aka speakers.
As for a lot of hi-end equipment there are still a few worth paying the price for like McIntosh but most of what you get these days is just what this is all about, selling the brand, screw whats inside, sell the brand..
Yes they are small compared with big civilian reactors, but they scale nicely.
But given that they have built and deployed hundreds of these reactors and their safety record is phenomenal then I would let them put one in operation in by backyard. 148 MW(th) could light most of San Francisco and a few of them could light the entire SF Bay Area.
Most of the major fuckups that have been the fault of the Navy have had to do with VERY minor coolant leaks. Having been in the Navy and served on submarines ( in a non nuclear rating ) I have personal experience with the lengths that the "Nukes" go to to keep everything in tip-top shape.
I think that forming a "nuclear power corps" if you will, would be a great thing and they would be subject to a set of rules and laws ver much like the military eg: take false log entries and you can end up in Leavenworth Kansas spending time reflecting on the wisdom of that decision.
reactor, 148MW Thermal / 50MW Electrical / 30,000 shaft horsepower. Aircraft Carrier reactors are just a wee bit larger.
Oh and you reference contains exactly two (2) Naval Reactors lost, both in submarines that were lost, at yet after years and years of continuous monitoring there has not been a detectable trace of the cores have broken up, leaked, corroded and failed in any way of then safe.
The TVA is NOT run to US Naval Warship Standards nor is it operated according to US Naval Warship Standards.
If you really want to understand Nuclear Safety read up on Naval Reactors in Wikipedia or from the Naval Reactors web site and learn what safety in the context of nuclear reactors is all about.
“RESPONSIBILITY IS A UNIQUE CONCEPT"
It can only reside and inhere in a single individual.
You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished.
You may delegate it, but it is still with you.
You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Even if you do not recognize it or admit its presence, you cannot escape it.
If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance, or passing the blame
can shift the burden to someone else.
Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes
wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”
ADM H.G. RICKOVER
You might have noted that on Federal Reservations that entry is consent to be searched, much as driving is implied consent to be tested for intoxication/impairment; however, "Probable Cause" is always a good thing to have on your side when you go to court for an evidentiary hearing eg: "Your Honor, we could not determine the exact nature of the item shown by the scanner but as you can plainly see from the image this item does not conform to any particular body part, common medical item or prosthetic or item of clothing and prompted us to conduct a complete search of the individual and we discovered (insert name of contraband here ->) a/an _________.
Perhaps not required under "implied consent" but always good to have a backup.
This is exactly why nuclear plants in the hands of profit motivated companies is utterly stupid.
I have said it before and I will say it again, when nuclear reactors to generate power are built to U.S. Naval Warship standards, manned and maintained to US Naval Warship standards they can build one in my backyard, literally, until then fuck off!
Yes the china syndrome was a movie, but the main "bad act" was the falsification of weld radiography to shave money off the construction costs. Running Vermont Yankee for the last 38 years, cutting corners on maintenance, cooling tower partial collapse do to lack of maintenance and inspection , all those problems are why a profit motivated civilian nuclear program is just completely insane.
You want nuclear power, I am all for it but it MUST be run by a not for profit entity and hang the costs, the power goes out subsidized.
That is because you are not among the anointed and you don't have a cool handle like "dumbnose". Don't let it get you down, I have submitted actual news that was completely appropriate for/. only to have it languish in purgatory unlit is was rejected about a week later.
You are either missing or evading speaking to his very valid points.
I love FF as much as anyone else, but he is correct FF is limited in those types of situations. Business is not a free-for-all environment, it requires tools for a purpose.
Those tools need to be controlled because everyone is curious, but damn few posses the wisdom to know when curiosity is going to get them in trouble or perhaps do damage that has to be cleaned up by already over-stressed Admins who are being pushed ever harder to do more with less.
In the business world where you average employee knows exactly dick about what they are doing they need to be sand boxed in a big way. Like it or not MS caters to that need. I personaly think AD is shit, but with it you can apply changes to the local system profile, eg: control where IE can surf to, what it can run, etc. and its all built in, giving the Admin who has to baby sit a couple of hundred employees AND keep all the servers spinning a job that is doable.
Well 1990 prices for a complete Los Angeles Class sub was +- 900 Million
I spent around 30 minutes google'ng to try and find a breakdown of that cost but couldn't anything in the way of real detail. My guess would probably have to be somewhere is the range of about 15% to 20% of the cost of the entire unit between 135M to 180M per unit but I could be WAY off.
The S6G is a pretty old design that has been updated, but not what you would call a HUGE R&D effort since when I stepped on to my first submarine it was in 1978 and SSN-692 was brand new. SSN-688 had only put to sea a few years before that and it was the first boat with that reactor.
So as a purchase price for the Reactor Plant and associated control gear ( core, steam generators, coolant pumps and associated "in the reactor compartment equipment ) I don't think a guess of around 60M would be too far off th mark.
So for sake of argument 10 of those might set you back a billion all in. A new core every 5 or 6 years might set you back 10 million or so, again WAY WAY guessing.
To re-core a submarine costs about 150M but that includes cutting the hull open, a shipyard period, all kinds of shipyard trades, dry docking, etc. etc,
You can use a old Los Angeles Class submarine nuclear reactor that is tiny ( it fit in a cylindrical section that was 33' by about 33') yet produced 148 TMW ( Thermal MegaWatts ) and this space contained the reactor itself, steam generators, primary coolant pumps, primary coolant expansion chambers then entire primary system
Now admittedly it had the volume and temperature difference of the ocean to condense the steam, but let me tell ya, even when injection temps where hovering in the low 80's it performed flawlessly for years and years on end.
Now EFPH ( effective full power hours ) was limited because the core was so tiny (however it did run on 97.3% Uranium) , but you could crank the thing at 100% of their thermal rating for about 3 years before is was time to re-core. Now of course no submarine runs around at 100% rated thermal power or anywhere near it all the time so the cores lasted for 15 years or longer.
So 10 of these little plants could pump out 1.5GW and take up about a football field less condensing towers. Because you have 10 of them at a station you can throttle the station down in 1/10th increments when demand is low and bring the station back up to rated power in a big hurry just by having the turbines spinning at a very slow speed and drawing very little from the core(s) and given that you might stretch the cores to 5 years or better.
to collect his filthy lucre. I mean it, I really I do. I as as much a fan of FOOS as anyone and I cheer those who work their asses off to make it possible, but this guy is nothing but a greedy schmuck.
Hmmm interesting, I dunno I have a few laying around in the garage. You can probably pull the same thing out of most any cheep transistor radio and get "close nuff fo guvment werk" or just google POTS telephone schematic and see what they are exactly and then find them cheap at radio shack or on the net.
Pretty much like NAS but without the "N". With all of the new drive technologies comming out, we really havent advanced much in the way we use and access them. We are still having to deal with sectors / clusters / heads and all of that stuff.
I believe there is much to be gained in performance by realizing all of that in hardware that we have a very simple and straight forward conversation with the device instead of having to deal with all the drive geometry and all that other very complicated stuff.
Imagine if you will any of the popular file systems done in hardware. You would eliminate a lot of overhead, get it out of the kernel and deal with it with a far simpler set of instructions. An ASIC would do one thing and one thing only, deal with data requests and maintain the most efficient use of the available storage. We would still fopen() fclose() etc. but those would simply talk to the hardware port that is the storage device, then let the storage device decide how best to store the data.
Yes, it would very closely resemble NAS, but there would be no TCP stack involved.
The thing is we are starting to really push drive technology. Solid state drives, drives with bigger sectors, is the structure of the drive layout better suited for one thing then another, or could some very interesting optimizations be had by removing this stuff from the OS and putting it in firmware and having that hardware / firmware combo be an ASIC or a Programable Gate Array?
A LOT of things are done faster and more robustly in Hardware and there are other tasks that really require a more completely software based approach and I think this is one of those things that could really make large gains if realized in hardware.
If firmware was involved it could be upgradeable much like flashing the bios.
With the exception of recovery utilities no OS needs to know anything about the disk geometry.
Drives should simply be on a port and you either read or write a stream to that port.
The only commands sent to the drive would be to read, write, create and delete.
DMA would be handled by the drive, hell there really isn't a need for a controller.
The BIOS should be the only thing that knows anything about the drives and that would be limited to booting up.
Linux uses a "filename" to access everything from a disk, so this becomes a simple matter of the "drive subsystem" sending a command to the disk drive to create a "library" called "/" and one called "/boot" etc. etc. and even this is only a file with an index. The drives manufactures could then do all of the low level work to handle the cluster and sector stuff ( hell even on the fly if it notices that the file sizes are getting smaller or larger. it could re-adjust things to take advantage of that fact and keep the drive completely optimized at all times.) and the OS would be none the wiser simply because it does not need to be.
Live feed when astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her tool bag!
Nicole Stott's very fine ass in full frame for about 10 minutes as she closed out a hatch!
Ohh ok, I know I am going to hell for that second reference and I know she is smarter then I am, and no I am not denigrating her, but dayum she does have one nice butt!
So there you have it, titillation AND adventure, so leave our channel alone!
You want a modem, you have but to only take out your credit card and go to
US Robotics and purchase one to suit your needs from the about $250.00 to 19.95.
The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy knowledge distribution.
What I should have said is, "The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy quality of the knowledge distributed."
So often these days and this is true of/., the content we see is not original journalism, but rather a bad rewrite of bad journalism that was cooked up as you say. They used to send journalists on assignment to the places things were happening and have them stay there for a few days and really scope out what was going on and to write a piece that consisted of the facts eg: who, what, where, when and why and then write the story using correct English using terms and phrases that the folks back home would understand that gave them the facts and the falvor of what was happening.
Even now when I either read or watch the "local" news it is often without depth, without the information that would help to explain the event. TV news is pathetic these days and consists mostly of some asian or other ethnic "hottie" that looks good on camera and has done all of about 20 minutes of "journalism" to get the story on the air for the 6 O'Clock news or in the "drive time" slot for radio.
What is even more deplorable are the blogs. These people that know almost nothing but manage to gobble together enough inflammatory phrases to get peoples attention and one need look no farther then the supposed "article" that was in/. the other day comparing how well PHP could do against C++ for a "carbon footprint".
Damn I have mod points and I really wanted to mod up the posting directly above yours, but you diatribe must be answered and corrected.
The only thing that has really changed is the distribution model for original content.
The problem that Murdoch and all the others are having is now they have to contend with two distribution models.
The first is the original one, the classic news paper that you buy off the rack or get delivered, which is now going away. Their revenue stream came from selling those papers. You wanted to read it, you paid your monthly subscription fee and it was delivered yo your home or you got it from the news stand or from the little box that you stuffed some coins into. Your advertisers just the effectiveness of the ads bye their sales revenue. The vast majority of the ads were local to your area because back then the paper was local to your area.
Cometh the World Wide Web and everything changes. How do you sell targeted advertising for a publication that can now be viewed world wide? Advertisers were willing to pay X for their ads in print, but are now only willing to pay Y for their electronic campaigns and most will only pay something more then a few pennies if your actually click on the ad in question and visit their site because the feel they can be far more compelling when you see their site in all its glory.
So now while one rather expensive distribution model winds down and the other starts to ramp up costs are not plummeting. Yes they are declining, but they are not plummeting as everyone says or thinks they should, and on top of that, gathering original content is getting more expensive as it costs more and more to send actual journalists around the globe to generate that content. Tack that on top of investors in public companies see their investment as a lottery ticket instead of an actual investment where you make money over time and not overnight and you have athe current problem when some pencil neck on wall street screams SELL SELL SELL because your company was off their revenue projection by a penny.
The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy knowledge distribution.
The only real solution is to go to a hybrid model. You subscribe to heir content and read at your will or you don't get to read it at all, well unless some steals it and hosts it elsewhere.
Lovely graphs, really they are. Uhmm small problem, your benchmarks are completely and totally irrelevant to the subject at hand!
The vast majority of what PHP is used for is to generate web pages, not search through a hard disk of hundreds of thousands of files for a word or phrase, and further to use PHP for that would be seriously horrible technical decision.
As a matter of fact CGI is irrelevant for this for that matter.
Please at least use the language for its intended purpose and all the other languages for the same purpose if you are going to be making comparisons.
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I was involved in a quite heated ./ discussion about this and the conclusion was as follows:
Spend on the source ( cd player / turntable / receiver ) and the reproduction units aka speakers.
As for a lot of hi-end equipment there are still a few worth paying the price for like McIntosh but most of what you get these days is just what this is all about, selling the brand, screw whats inside, sell the brand..
Yes they are small compared with big civilian reactors, but they scale nicely.
But given that they have built and deployed hundreds of these reactors and their safety record is phenomenal then I would let them put one in operation in by backyard. 148 MW(th) could light most of San Francisco and a few of them could light the entire SF Bay Area.
Most of the major fuckups that have been the fault of the Navy have had to do with VERY minor coolant leaks. Having been in the Navy and served on submarines ( in a non nuclear rating ) I have personal experience with the lengths that the "Nukes" go to to keep everything in tip-top shape.
I think that forming a "nuclear power corps" if you will, would be a great thing and they would be subject to a set of rules and laws ver much like the military eg: take false log entries and you can end up in Leavenworth Kansas spending time reflecting on the wisdom of that decision.
If you read up on the Management of Naval Reactors each succeeding director has been just as hard assed as Rickover was if not a bit more.
You could not be more incorrect if you tried.
S6G a tiny submarine
reactor, 148MW Thermal / 50MW Electrical / 30,000 shaft horsepower. Aircraft Carrier reactors are just a wee bit larger.
Oh and you reference contains exactly two (2) Naval Reactors lost, both in submarines that were lost, at yet after years and years of continuous monitoring there has not been a detectable trace of the cores have broken up, leaked, corroded and failed in any way of then safe.
The TVA is NOT run to US Naval Warship Standards nor is it operated according to US Naval Warship Standards.
If you really want to understand Nuclear Safety read up on Naval Reactors in Wikipedia or from the Naval Reactors web site and learn what safety in the context of nuclear reactors is all about.
“RESPONSIBILITY IS A UNIQUE CONCEPT"
It can only reside and inhere in a single individual.
You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished.
You may delegate it, but it is still with you.
You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.
Even if you do not recognize it or admit its presence, you cannot escape it.
If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance, or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else.
Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.”
ADM H.G. RICKOVER
That is a direct quote from Admiral Hyman G. Rickover the father of the Nuclear Navy.
You might have noted that on Federal Reservations that entry is consent to be searched, much as driving is implied consent to be tested for intoxication/impairment; however, "Probable Cause" is always a good thing to have on your side when you go to court for an evidentiary hearing eg: "Your Honor, we could not determine the exact nature of the item shown by the scanner but as you can plainly see from the image this item does not conform to any particular body part, common medical item or prosthetic or item of clothing and prompted us to conduct a complete search of the individual and we discovered (insert name of contraband here ->) a/an _________ .
Perhaps not required under "implied consent" but always good to have a backup.
Civilian Nuclear Power is observed "in the wild".
This is exactly why nuclear plants in the hands of profit motivated companies is utterly stupid.
I have said it before and I will say it again, when nuclear reactors to generate power are built to U.S. Naval Warship standards, manned and maintained to US Naval Warship standards they can build one in my backyard, literally, until then fuck off!
Yes the china syndrome was a movie, but the main "bad act" was the falsification of weld radiography to shave money off the construction costs. Running Vermont Yankee for the last 38 years, cutting corners on maintenance, cooling tower partial collapse do to lack of maintenance and inspection , all those problems are why a profit motivated civilian nuclear program is just completely insane.
You want nuclear power, I am all for it but it MUST be run by a not for profit entity and hang the costs, the power goes out subsidized.
News at 11
That is because you are not among the anointed and you don't have a cool handle like "dumbnose". Don't let it get you down, I have submitted actual news that was completely appropriate for /. only to have it languish in purgatory unlit is was rejected about a week later.
With all due respect...
You are either missing or evading speaking to his very valid points.
I love FF as much as anyone else, but he is correct FF is limited in those types of situations. Business is not a free-for-all environment, it requires tools for a purpose.
Those tools need to be controlled because everyone is curious, but damn few posses the wisdom to know when curiosity is going to get them in trouble or perhaps do damage that has to be cleaned up by already over-stressed Admins who are being pushed ever harder to do more with less.
In the business world where you average employee knows exactly dick about what they are doing they need to be sand boxed in a big way. Like it or not MS caters to that need. I personaly think AD is shit, but with it you can apply changes to the local system profile, eg: control where IE can surf to, what it can run, etc. and its all built in, giving the Admin who has to baby sit a couple of hundred employees AND keep all the servers spinning a job that is doable.
example command line
ffmpeg -i input -acodec libfaac -ab 128kb -ac 2 -ar 48000 -vcodec libx264 -level 21 -b 640kb -coder 1 -f psp -flags +loop -trellis 2 -partitions +parti4x4+parti8x8+partp4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 -g 250 -s 480x272 output.mp4
Pfffft!
Well 1990 prices for a complete Los Angeles Class sub was +- 900 Million
I spent around 30 minutes google'ng to try and find a breakdown of that cost but couldn't anything in the way of real detail. My guess would probably have to be somewhere is the range of about 15% to 20% of the cost of the entire unit between 135M to 180M per unit but I could be WAY off.
The S6G is a pretty old design that has been updated, but not what you would call a HUGE R&D effort since when I stepped on to my first submarine it was in 1978 and SSN-692 was brand new. SSN-688 had only put to sea a few years before that and it was the first boat with that reactor.
So as a purchase price for the Reactor Plant and associated control gear ( core, steam generators, coolant pumps and associated "in the reactor compartment equipment ) I don't think a guess of around 60M would be too far off th mark.
So for sake of argument 10 of those might set you back a billion all in. A new core every 5 or 6 years might set you back 10 million or so, again WAY WAY guessing.
To re-core a submarine costs about 150M but that includes cutting the hull open, a shipyard period, all kinds of shipyard trades, dry docking, etc. etc,
2000 Acres for 200MW?!
You can use a old Los Angeles Class submarine nuclear reactor that is tiny ( it fit in a cylindrical section that was 33' by about 33') yet produced 148 TMW ( Thermal MegaWatts ) and this space contained the reactor itself, steam generators, primary coolant pumps, primary coolant expansion chambers then entire primary system
Now admittedly it had the volume and temperature difference of the ocean to condense the steam, but let me tell ya, even when injection temps where hovering in the low 80's it performed flawlessly for years and years on end.
Now EFPH ( effective full power hours ) was limited because the core was so tiny (however it did run on 97.3% Uranium) , but you could crank the thing at 100% of their thermal rating for about 3 years before is was time to re-core. Now of course no submarine runs around at 100% rated thermal power or anywhere near it all the time so the cores lasted for 15 years or longer.
So 10 of these little plants could pump out 1.5GW and take up about a football field less condensing towers. Because you have 10 of them at a station you can throttle the station down in 1/10th increments when demand is low and bring the station back up to rated power in a big hurry just by having the turbines spinning at a very slow speed and drawing very little from the core(s) and given that you might stretch the cores to 5 years or better.
to collect his filthy lucre. I mean it, I really I do. I as as much a fan of FOOS as anyone and I cheer those who work their asses off to make it possible, but this guy is nothing but a greedy schmuck.
CmdrTaco this is nothing but a blatant RGA © 2010 (Revenue Generating Article) and you are an asshat for even posting it. Yes you may have started /. but now you are abusing it.
Monty, take your money and go have a great big mug of shut the fuck up you disingenuous little weasel.
Whoops, my bad.
Hmmm interesting, I dunno I have a few laying around in the garage. You can probably pull the same thing out of most any cheep transistor radio and get "close nuff fo guvment werk" or just google POTS telephone schematic and see what they are exactly and then find them cheap at radio shack or on the net.
This might be a helpful link.
Yeah pretty much.
Pretty much like NAS but without the "N". With all of the new drive technologies comming out, we really havent advanced much in the way we use and access them. We are still having to deal with sectors / clusters / heads and all of that stuff.
I believe there is much to be gained in performance by realizing all of that in hardware that we have a very simple and straight forward conversation with the device instead of having to deal with all the drive geometry and all that other very complicated stuff.
Imagine if you will any of the popular file systems done in hardware. You would eliminate a lot of overhead, get it out of the kernel and deal with it with a far simpler set of instructions. An ASIC would do one thing and one thing only, deal with data requests and maintain the most efficient use of the available storage. We would still fopen() fclose() etc. but those would simply talk to the hardware port that is the storage device, then let the storage device decide how best to store the data.
Yes, it would very closely resemble NAS, but there would be no TCP stack involved.
The thing is we are starting to really push drive technology. Solid state drives, drives with bigger sectors, is the structure of the drive layout better suited for one thing then another, or could some very interesting optimizations be had by removing this stuff from the OS and putting it in firmware and having that hardware / firmware combo be an ASIC or a Programable Gate Array?
A LOT of things are done faster and more robustly in Hardware and there are other tasks that really require a more completely software based approach and I think this is one of those things that could really make large gains if realized in hardware.
If firmware was involved it could be upgradeable much like flashing the bios.
With the exception of recovery utilities no OS needs to know anything about the disk geometry.
Drives should simply be on a port and you either read or write a stream to that port.
The only commands sent to the drive would be to read, write, create and delete.
DMA would be handled by the drive, hell there really isn't a need for a controller.
The BIOS should be the only thing that knows anything about the drives and that would be limited to booting up.
Linux uses a "filename" to access everything from a disk, so this becomes a simple matter of the "drive subsystem" sending a command to the disk drive to create a "library" called "/" and one called "/boot" etc. etc. and even this is only a file with an index. The drives manufactures could then do all of the low level work to handle the cluster and sector stuff ( hell even on the fly if it notices that the file sizes are getting smaller or larger. it could re-adjust things to take advantage of that fact and keep the drive completely optimized at all times.) and the OS would be none the wiser simply because it does not need to be.
Live feed when astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost her tool bag!
Nicole Stott's very fine ass in full frame for about 10 minutes as she closed out a hatch!
Ohh ok, I know I am going to hell for that second reference and I know she is smarter then I am, and no I am not denigrating her, but dayum she does have one nice butt!
So there you have it, titillation AND adventure, so leave our channel alone!
Dude, you must not know how to use google...
You want a modem, you have but to only take out your credit card and go to US Robotics and purchase one to suit your needs from the about $250.00 to 19.95.
Nicely put. If I dare to quote myself:
The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy knowledge distribution.
What I should have said is, "The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy quality of the knowledge distributed."
So often these days and this is true of /., the content we see is not original journalism, but rather a bad rewrite of bad journalism that was cooked up as you say. They used to send journalists on assignment to the places things were happening and have them stay there for a few days and really scope out what was going on and to write a piece that consisted of the facts eg: who, what, where, when and why and then write the story using correct English using terms and phrases that the folks back home would understand that gave them the facts and the falvor of what was happening.
Even now when I either read or watch the "local" news it is often without depth, without the information that would help to explain the event. TV news is pathetic these days and consists mostly of some asian or other ethnic "hottie" that looks good on camera and has done all of about 20 minutes of "journalism" to get the story on the air for the 6 O'Clock news or in the "drive time" slot for radio.
What is even more deplorable are the blogs. These people that know almost nothing but manage to gobble together enough inflammatory phrases to get peoples attention and one need look no farther then the supposed "article" that was in /. the other day comparing how well PHP could do against C++ for a "carbon footprint".
Damn I have mod points and I really wanted to mod up the posting directly above yours, but you diatribe must be answered and corrected.
The only thing that has really changed is the distribution model for original content.
The problem that Murdoch and all the others are having is now they have to contend with two distribution models.
The first is the original one, the classic news paper that you buy off the rack or get delivered, which is now going away. Their revenue stream came from selling those papers. You wanted to read it, you paid your monthly subscription fee and it was delivered yo your home or you got it from the news stand or from the little box that you stuffed some coins into. Your advertisers just the effectiveness of the ads bye their sales revenue. The vast majority of the ads were local to your area because back then the paper was local to your area.
Cometh the World Wide Web and everything changes. How do you sell targeted advertising for a publication that can now be viewed world wide? Advertisers were willing to pay X for their ads in print, but are now only willing to pay Y for their electronic campaigns and most will only pay something more then a few pennies if your actually click on the ad in question and visit their site because the feel they can be far more compelling when you see their site in all its glory.
So now while one rather expensive distribution model winds down and the other starts to ramp up costs are not plummeting. Yes they are declining, but they are not plummeting as everyone says or thinks they should, and on top of that, gathering original content is getting more expensive as it costs more and more to send actual journalists around the globe to generate that content. Tack that on top of investors in public companies see their investment as a lottery ticket instead of an actual investment where you make money over time and not overnight and you have athe current problem when some pencil neck on wall street screams SELL SELL SELL because your company was off their revenue projection by a penny.
The web has done a lot to spread knowledge, but it has also done a lot do destroy knowledge distribution.
The only real solution is to go to a hybrid model. You subscribe to heir content and read at your will or you don't get to read it at all, well unless some steals it and hosts it elsewhere.
Actually I would prefer 1192.2168.3548.1256 rather then that asshat solution called ipv6. Hex?! Hex?! what a bunch of fucktards!
Lovely graphs, really they are. Uhmm small problem, your benchmarks are completely and totally irrelevant to the subject at hand!
The vast majority of what PHP is used for is to generate web pages, not search through a hard disk of hundreds of thousands of files for a word or phrase, and further to use PHP for that would be seriously horrible technical decision.
As a matter of fact CGI is irrelevant for this for that matter.
Please at least use the language for its intended purpose and all the other languages for the same purpose if you are going to be making comparisons.