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Comment ready techonlogy that can save upto 50% (Score 1) 445

by Prodigy Savant on Monday June 21, 2010 @09:36AM (#32639978) Attached to: New Air Conditioner Process Cuts Energy Use 50-90%

ok, here's easy technology to get your domestic AC to consume about 50% less. All you need to do is continuously spray your radiator with water. This can be recycled via a tub sitting under your AC.

All the benefits of both technologies and you chill all the way to the bank :)

Comment Re:Dynamic Relational: change it, DON'T toss it (Score 2, Insightful) 381

by Prodigy Savant on Tuesday November 10, 2009 @02:19AM (#30042774) Attached to: The NoSQL Ecosystem

What you are suggesting is to mimic a key-value design with something like a json or serialized data as the value.

This would work if you never had to index on any of the values in the json. All your sql queries must have there where parts running off the key.

This is a problem that couchdb and mongodb solve.

I am not trying to paint SQL in an unflattering shade -- there would still be a lot of situations where an RDBMS design would be optimal. Infact, I am currently working on a mongodb/mysql hybrid solution for a large web site (larger than /. )

Comment Re:Space greeting (Score 1) 66

by Prodigy Savant on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @01:00PM (#27403999) Attached to: Simonyi Arrives At the ISS After Shuttle Lands

strThatsSeriouslyFunny :)

Comment Itanium would have worked-AMD screwed it for intel (Score 4, Interesting) 275

by Prodigy Savant on Monday February 16, 2009 @03:57AM (#26869929) Attached to: A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops

If AMD hadn't rushed with their 64 bit version of the x86, about now, itanium would be getting popular and hence cheap.
Market forces have so much to do with technology advancement. A lot of times, superior technology has to take a back seat ...

Comment cities also make you myopic (Score 1) 439

by Prodigy Savant on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @09:28AM (#26341863) Attached to: How the City Hurts Your Brain

According to this non peer-reviewed post cities also make you myopic

Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge 515

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 13, 2008 @04:56PM from the stepping-away-from-total-surveillance dept.

mmuch writes "In the wake of the recent copyright debate in Swedish mainstream media, the P2P Consortium has published an interview with Rick Falkvinge, the leader of the Swedish Pirate Party. He comments on the mainstream politicians starting to understand the issues, the interplay between strict copyright enforcement and mass surveillance, and the chances for global copyright reform." Some choice Falkvinge quotes: "What was remarkable was that this was the point where the enemy — forces that want to lock down culture and knowledge at the cost of total surveillance — realized they were under a serious attack... for the first time, we saw everything they could bring to the battle. And it was... nothing. Not even a fizzle. All they can say is 'thief, we have our rights, we want our rights, nothing must change, we want more money, thief, thief, thief'... Whereas we are talking about scarcity vs. abundance, monopolies, the nature of property, 500-year historical perspectives on culture and knowledge, incentive structures, economic theory, disruptive technologies, etc. The difference in intellectual levels between the sides is astounding... When the Iron Curtain fell, all of the West rejoiced that the East would become just as free as the West. It was never supposed to be the other way around."

Accurate Browser Statistics? 137

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 12, 2007 @03:25PM from the determining-browser-share dept.

zyl0x asks: "A co-worker of mine has been made responsible for a large web application for our software product, and he was having a hard time deciding what functionality to implement, and whether or not to sacrifice functionality for a larger user base. With Walmart's harsh stand on browser compatibility, we got to thinking, exactly how many users would we be alienating by using some IE-only functionality on our website? We tried crawling the internet to get some current, accurate browser usage statistics, but we could only find stats for specific websites. I thought I'd try sending Google a request, since we imagine they'd have the lowest-common-denominator in terms of types of users, but I received an email from their press department telling me that they 'don't make that kind of information available.' Where can one get a current, accurate, and un-biased measurement of browser usage? Is it even possible?"

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