I'm not sure where your getting that number, but from everything I've read/learned, electrons travel at about 6 meters a second (minute?) in copper communications wire, either way, it's pretty slow compared to the speed of light. However, the signal is not transmitted by the electrons, they only propagate it, the actual signal is an EM pulse which also travels the speed of light, or very close to it.
nothing, instead of EM pulses propigated by electrically conductive substances, it will be self propigating photons directed by optics.
If I'm reading it right, most of the control could be handled by the same mechanisms, it's just that different signal senders and recievers will need to be used.
And, I thought lasers didn't offer significantly lower latency, only better bandwidth?
Obviously his cheating in English, and thus rendering him inable to communicate in a meaninful manner, didn't teach him anything. Sadly the results of cheating in Halo are even less drastic, so he won't learn his lesson here either.
I got the impression he thinks PHP is a univeral fix all.
There are no universal fixalls except time, effort, and if you are lucky, good documentation.
Use what works, Sometimes PHP is good, other times it sucks. It all depends on your needs and wants. But to inxrease performance over 50x by switching from Postgress to MySQL? I like/use MySQL as my primary DB, but somehow I doubt Postgress is THAT much slower.
Yeah, but I wouldn't use OO for editing webpages. That's a job I delegate to emacs. Not fond of WYSIWYG web editors.
Anyway, you should try two, it's a MAJOR improvement. I preferred my version of MS Office over OO in version 1 of OO, but OO 2 I am just as happy to use. It's a lot more responsive and less buggy than version 1.
I dunno, I hold more faith in OpenOffice than Google for wordprocessing, they've been at it for quite a while and have a really good product.
As for web browser, I'll probably stick to FireFox.
Problem is, google is not unknown for somewhat shady practices on occasion, and with them being in an excellent position to bias things (they are a search engine after all - ever search with "web", "internet", "net", and "browser" could have the first result become GoogleUseItOrDieWebBrowser or someting).
I have so many things I use, it'll be nice to try some new stuff in there, and see if some of the existing software gets displaced in my preferences, for something better.
not really, typically there is a language barrier between regions, a lot of people wouldn't buy out of region due to language issues.
ex: I like games, but I wouldn't buy Japanese FFXII, even though I could have gotten it months earlier, simply for the fact that I can't speak Japanese.
That would be the case with a lot of games for a lot of people, though certainly not all, the exceptions are small.
aside from hurting your own sales...
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is there any reason to make something that isn't region free?
I mean, it would seem that sales would increase if they weren't restricted to a region.
As for Ubuntu, well, look at my other posts in this group of replies, it has been for me.
the problem isn't with me using multiple distros at once, its for apps that I can only get via source, and then won't compile because they are attached to something in some other distro that works slightly differently.
yes it was adept, it's been a while, and I didn't remember the names.
No warnings, just updated the KDE packages, rebooted, and no X, and nothing would get it to work. I used the default repositorys in KUbuntu.
I've been using Linux for years, I was much more proficient at Windows after the same about of time, or FreeBSD after less than 1/10th the amount of time.
It's not a matter of not putting the time into it, it's just for whatever reason, I seem to run into a lot of errors in it that a lot of it's proponents don't seem to think exist.
actaully the biggest reason I gave up on KUbuntu was buggyness. (1) on my notebook, with a relatively standard 945GM chipset, it has graphical distortions that nothing else has. Secondly, upgrading KDE broke X somehow (just went into the GUI installer and installed the updates that it said it needed all of the KDE packages).
In Gnome Ubuntu, I had the graphical glitch errors as well, but also I couldn't find out how to get KDE installed (I think I could do it now), and Gnome was being too slow in responsiveness for my liking, nor could I get some customisations to be more suitable to my uses.
synaptic broke KDE on my first attempt at using it.
I have had several experiences with APT get where it could not find a package or dependancies, or it tried to update them but failed for other reasons.
yes, for the business world, Linux is fine (even superb), but when I think "desktop" I think "home user", as soon as it's business, it becomes "workstation"
even the most tech unsavvy people that I help often have installed many applications on their computers, be they games, office products, or what not, and they have no issues with it in windows in most cases.
Now this is sometimes a bad thing I admit, but when one gets them to stop installing random things, it's nice to not have to install stuff on their computers every few days, as they can do it themselves.
Even if its only one to three times a year, most users I have seen in a non corperate setting do in fact install stuff on their own machines, and the fact that a lot of troubleshooting is needed in linux to get around, and they need to be taught a lot more, makes it less feasible than windows or macos.
I tried getting some system monitoring software setup on several machines, couldn't do it, couldn't find any documentation, trying to hassle with the dependancies, wasn't worth it. I don't know why but in Linux (and really, only Linux), I have about a 50% chance of getting software installed on an extant system within 2-3 hours of starting the attempt, including looking up docs. This is about the time it takes me to give up. My time is more valuable than that. Especially considering multiple packages. Even BSD didn't give me that issue when I first learned it. make install, and 9 out of 10 packages just worked, looked at how CVSUP worked, and I could 99% of the time get the last package of the 10 working with only a few minutes of effort.
In the linux world Yum was horribly unreliable. Apt-get was better, but still not there. I can't say anything about emerge because I coudln't get the new kernel to boot, and too many of my apps I wanted to get working required kernel source.
I want something where (a) the install has everything need, such as in windows, or (b) the installer has a very obvious list of what it can install (such as the ports/portage) directories, that are quickly and easily found, and it automatically handles all dependancies. (c) when I install/update something, I want to keep the likelyhood of breaking other things down (which was my big problem in Ubuntu/KUbuntu other than an error that looked like a memory leak in the frame buffer)
Trust me, if 20mins to 30mins were all it took in Linux, I would be quite happy, but I've found, at least in my experience, if it doesn't get installed with the OS, I'll be lucky if it gets installed that quickly.
No, while it lacks driver support, FreeBSD's documentation is way to good for any respectable geek to use it. Sure you can ignore it, but it's just not the same.
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there is an EM pulse that travels along the length of the wire, causing a disturbance in the electrons, which then helps to propigate the EM pulse.
What they try to due is reduce the EM radiation perpendicular to the wire, not along it.
Sorry, I should have clarified, that was an average I was giving.
I'm not sure where your getting that number, but from everything I've read/learned, electrons travel at about 6 meters a second (minute?) in copper communications wire, either way, it's pretty slow compared to the speed of light. However, the signal is not transmitted by the electrons, they only propagate it, the actual signal is an EM pulse which also travels the speed of light, or very close to it.
nothing, instead of EM pulses propigated by electrically conductive substances, it will be self propigating photons directed by optics.
If I'm reading it right, most of the control could be handled by the same mechanisms, it's just that different signal senders and recievers will need to be used.
And, I thought lasers didn't offer significantly lower latency, only better bandwidth?
the laser is still being generated by the chip (and hence, I suspect, by elecrtical), so I don't think that works.
OK Bill...
I got the impression he thinks PHP is a univeral fix all.
There are no universal fixalls except time, effort, and if you are lucky, good documentation.
Use what works, Sometimes PHP is good, other times it sucks. It all depends on your needs and wants. But to inxrease performance over 50x by switching from Postgress to MySQL? I like/use MySQL as my primary DB, but somehow I doubt Postgress is THAT much slower.
I think someone needs to go sit in a corner.
Is vista really that hard to admin?
Yeah, but I wouldn't use OO for editing webpages. That's a job I delegate to emacs. Not fond of WYSIWYG web editors.
Anyway, you should try two, it's a MAJOR improvement. I preferred my version of MS Office over OO in version 1 of OO, but OO 2 I am just as happy to use. It's a lot more responsive and less buggy than version 1.
I dunno, I hold more faith in OpenOffice than Google for wordprocessing, they've been at it for quite a while and have a really good product.
As for web browser, I'll probably stick to FireFox.
Problem is, google is not unknown for somewhat shady practices on occasion, and with them being in an excellent position to bias things (they are a search engine after all - ever search with "web", "internet", "net", and "browser" could have the first result become GoogleUseItOrDieWebBrowser or someting).
ahh, that makes sense, artificial market inflation...
I have so many things I use, it'll be nice to try some new stuff in there, and see if some of the existing software gets displaced in my preferences, for something better.
not really, typically there is a language barrier between regions, a lot of people wouldn't buy out of region due to language issues.
ex: I like games, but I wouldn't buy Japanese FFXII, even though I could have gotten it months earlier, simply for the fact that I can't speak Japanese.
That would be the case with a lot of games for a lot of people, though certainly not all, the exceptions are small.
is there any reason to make something that isn't region free? I mean, it would seem that sales would increase if they weren't restricted to a region.
why stop there, give him the whole arm!
As for Ubuntu, well, look at my other posts in this group of replies, it has been for me.
the problem isn't with me using multiple distros at once, its for apps that I can only get via source, and then won't compile because they are attached to something in some other distro that works slightly differently.
yes it was adept, it's been a while, and I didn't remember the names.
No warnings, just updated the KDE packages, rebooted, and no X, and nothing would get it to work. I used the default repositorys in KUbuntu.
I've been using Linux for years, I was much more proficient at Windows after the same about of time, or FreeBSD after less than 1/10th the amount of time.
It's not a matter of not putting the time into it, it's just for whatever reason, I seem to run into a lot of errors in it that a lot of it's proponents don't seem to think exist.
actaully the biggest reason I gave up on KUbuntu was buggyness. (1) on my notebook, with a relatively standard 945GM chipset, it has graphical distortions that nothing else has. Secondly, upgrading KDE broke X somehow (just went into the GUI installer and installed the updates that it said it needed all of the KDE packages).
In Gnome Ubuntu, I had the graphical glitch errors as well, but also I couldn't find out how to get KDE installed (I think I could do it now), and Gnome was being too slow in responsiveness for my liking, nor could I get some customisations to be more suitable to my uses.
synaptic broke KDE on my first attempt at using it.
I have had several experiences with APT get where it could not find a package or dependancies, or it tried to update them but failed for other reasons.
Yeah, I keep my systems updated though.
yes, for the business world, Linux is fine (even superb), but when I think "desktop" I think "home user", as soon as it's business, it becomes "workstation"
even the most tech unsavvy people that I help often have installed many applications on their computers, be they games, office products, or what not, and they have no issues with it in windows in most cases.
Now this is sometimes a bad thing I admit, but when one gets them to stop installing random things, it's nice to not have to install stuff on their computers every few days, as they can do it themselves.
Even if its only one to three times a year, most users I have seen in a non corperate setting do in fact install stuff on their own machines, and the fact that a lot of troubleshooting is needed in linux to get around, and they need to be taught a lot more, makes it less feasible than windows or macos.
Where's the wine bottle to use it on? I think wineries should start working on that now.
Try hours/days.
I tried getting some system monitoring software setup on several machines, couldn't do it, couldn't find any documentation, trying to hassle with the dependancies, wasn't worth it. I don't know why but in Linux (and really, only Linux), I have about a 50% chance of getting software installed on an extant system within 2-3 hours of starting the attempt, including looking up docs. This is about the time it takes me to give up. My time is more valuable than that. Especially considering multiple packages. Even BSD didn't give me that issue when I first learned it. make install, and 9 out of 10 packages just worked, looked at how CVSUP worked, and I could 99% of the time get the last package of the 10 working with only a few minutes of effort.
In the linux world
Yum was horribly unreliable. Apt-get was better, but still not there. I can't say anything about emerge because I coudln't get the new kernel to boot, and too many of my apps I wanted to get working required kernel source.
I want something where
(a) the install has everything need, such as in windows, or
(b) the installer has a very obvious list of what it can install (such as the ports/portage) directories, that are quickly and easily found, and it automatically handles all dependancies.
(c) when I install/update something, I want to keep the likelyhood of breaking other things down (which was my big problem in Ubuntu/KUbuntu other than an error that looked like a memory leak in the frame buffer)
Trust me, if 20mins to 30mins were all it took in Linux, I would be quite happy, but I've found, at least in my experience, if it doesn't get installed with the OS, I'll be lucky if it gets installed that quickly.
No, while it lacks driver support, FreeBSD's documentation is way to good for any respectable geek to use it. Sure you can ignore it, but it's just not the same.