Comment Shouldn't they start with the universal greeting? (Score 1) 179
Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.
Comment Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide *is* a serious threat (Score 1) 296
Did you know that it is also the main ingredient in acid rain!
Comment Re:Uh. (Score 1) 298
We'll all remember to get off your lawn.
Comment Re:Just putting my 2 cents in (Score 1) 97
I really would like chrome OS on a tablet device. Seems like the perfect place to use it IMHO.
Horizontal Scaling of SQL Databases? 222
still_sick writes "I'm currently responsible for operations at a software-as-a-service startup, and we're increasingly hitting limitations in what we can do with relational databases. We've been looking at various NoSQL stores and I've been following Adrian Cockcroft's blog at Netflix which compares the various options. I was intrigued by the most recent entry, about Translattice, which purports to provide many of the same scaling advantages for SQL databases. Is this even possible given the CAP theorem? Is anyone using a system like this in production?"
Comment Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 405
I have to say this really is a good idea, and me without mod points.
Ubuntu Desktop In the Cloud 83
jimjimovich writes "One new feature in Ubuntu 10.04 that caught my attention is the Desktop in the Cloud project. Ubuntu already has great EC2 support, and it's getting even better. Now you can launch Ubuntu Desktop instances on EC2 and connect to them with an NX client."
Comment Re:It makes sense really (Score 1) 325
That takes me back, If I recall correctly, fog was used on the N64 as a visual trick to limit the rendering depth of a scene.
Comment Re:Too much input (Score 5, Insightful) 818
I couldn't agree more. Whenever I have moved to a new apartment/house there is always a 1-3 week period where I have no cable or internet. After I would get home from work my wife and I would pretty much make dinner read a book and go to bed. It was absolutely amazing how our stress levels went down and how much more recharged we were waking up after calm evenings like that.
Now of course like most people, once my cable and internet showed up, my tv was always on, I was checking my email and working in the evenings. Long story short, I think the mind really does need some time to relax.
Now of course like most people, once my cable and internet showed up, my tv was always on, I was checking my email and working in the evenings. Long story short, I think the mind really does need some time to relax.
Comment Re:How does it compare with the other NVidia drive (Score 1) 289
I guess if we need a car analogy we need a car analogy.
As much as I enjoyed the dessert analogy I think you went a little to the extreme.
It's more like if you had a car but the radio doesn't work. You can fully enjoy the car but a feature of the car that is completely disconnected from the core purpose of the vehicle doesn't work.
As much as I enjoyed the dessert analogy I think you went a little to the extreme.
It's more like if you had a car but the radio doesn't work. You can fully enjoy the car but a feature of the car that is completely disconnected from the core purpose of the vehicle doesn't work.
Comment Re:Makes Sense (Score 1) 257
From an evolutionary perspective its easier to leave no longer needed biological features in tact than it is to completely remove them. That is why creatures like snakes and whales have small remnants of legs.
Comment Re:GPL is not the definition of open (Score 1) 325
Yeah but why did we have to change, they were the ones who sucked.
Bletchley Park WWII Staff Finally Recognized 122
99luftballon writes "Nearly 70 years after Station X (aka the Bletchley Park cryptanalysis unit) was set up, the surviving members are to be honored by the British government. Bletchley was one of the most important computing centers of its time and housed giants of the technology industry (as it was) like Tommy Flowers, who built Colossus, and Dr. Alan Turing. I was lucky enough to meet one of the staff at the site 11 years ago, and she was very bitter that their work was never recognized, and that they were bound by the Official Secrets Act and couldn't talk about it. It's just a shame that so few of the staff are still alive to receive the award."
Comment What about the other costs of AV? (Score 5, Insightful) 691
My company was hit pretty hard by the conficker virus. It took a lot of users offline for days. The cleanup effort included bringing in a small army of consultants to help fix the issue. After everything was cleaned up and ready to go, IT's response to the outbreak was to kick our Virus Scanner into some crazy ultra cautious mode. The end result of that is 50% of my cpu is being used up by my virus scanner constantly and opening an app or compiling something in eclipse takes substantially longer than it used to.
The fact that virus scanning software decreases worker productivity by tying up substantial system resources should be part of the TCO as well.
Comment Re:anonymous coward (Score 1) 536
I just handled a similar problem where I work and the solution was a pretty simple combination of using rsync over ssh.
