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The second two are both on windows, which until windows 7 was unable to schedule hyperthreading correctly.

Hyperthreading doesn't require any special OS support. As the wikipedia page states:

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I know Google employs highly efficient AC/DC converters that are far better than the ones that come stock in any old rack server, instead choosing to run DC lines through their facilities. This probably saves them a huge bundle in power costs to boot.
If someone else on your LAN gets infected because they opened an email virus, your router isn't going to help you.
Receiving money from the government does impose various governmental restrictions on you (e.g., Title IX).
Yes, but USA for some reason is rapidly
becoming more poor an unequal.
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I've watched it several times, it's a great video. I've just heard several stories now (often when asking admin friends if they watched it) of developers using it as an excuse for bad behavior, cherry picking a couple of points.
Exactly. Past a certain level of detail the brain flips from the conceptual to the specific.

More on the "uncanny valley": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
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Prior to college, I only spoke 3 languages (Persian/Spanish/English) and didn't have this problem at all, since all three were learned when younger. However, in college, I took Portuguese for Spanish native speakers and got conversationally fluent really fast. But, as a consequence, it seems I've started stuttering in English, while knowing the word in Persian instead. I wonder if this is related to my Portuguese...
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Personally I'd go with Softlayer. They have a stellar track record, and great pricing. Just like anywhere else, however, don't take their web pricing as law, but call them up and talk to them about your business.

If you really want to buy hardware, I'd look at HP or Sun. Dell is cheap, and you get what you pay for. HP & Sun have very functional and reliable remote management cards that will help ensure a minimal of on-site management time (I've built out datacenters with 500+ HP servers remotely, only having gone on-site to supervise the physical work of my contractors.)

As for colocation, that's a bigger question involving expected growth, your physical and network needs, your remote hands requirements, etc.
Thank you for answering. Personal experience was exactly what I was looking for.

The price is indeed very attractive. I am thinking of buying my own server (make an initial investment) and then pay only rent for space in a rack.
Actually, in Australia, "College" is used in a few different ways, I think varying by state. Where I went to Uni, college was where you lived. This has been now changed to "residential hall" though it is still referred to colloquially as college.

In some states, College means the final two years of school (16-18 yr olds).

Since I graduated (3 years ago), my old university has substituted "college" for what used to be called "Faculty." I think previously they still used it as an alternative organizational structure (Faculty of Arts vs College of Fine Arts). Today it seems that The University is now divided into colleges divided into colleges, divided into faculties & schools divided into departments, more or less.

Basically, the term is a moving target down here.

Anyway, we know what americans mean because all of that wonderful TV that seems to be the number one Yankie export.

What I don't understand is the term "community college," other then the fact that is not as good. I'm not sure we have an equivalent. We have crap Universities, obviously, but it's a scale rather then a different creature altogether.

Apart from Universities there are TAFEs. These are pretty much "everything else" from 1 week OHS courses to multi-year diplomas similar to University courses, training for 15 year old apprentices and professional training for every class of profession. They are not bound to any particular format.
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I disagree. One who must use it on a regular basis has every right to despise it.

On the other hand, if you've never used it, you have no right to an opinion in the first place.

So long as your opinion is tempered with experience, you have every right to it.

But, then, I'm also of the opinion that if you like PHP, you have no right to write code of any sort.
ofcourse the postbank no longer exists, so you're probably talking about ingbank.nl.
Hmm, HP sounds interesting. I've had some meh experience with IBM servers. Never had the opportunity to manage HP though.

It's the first time I've heard of Softlayer. Will definitely look at them very closely.

Thanks.
"...could servers be far behind?"

No, they're just going to buy a dedicated data center and rent it out to people. The hell kind of question is that?
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Public universities are government agencies

I'm pretty sure this is not true in the US. "State schools" (eg University of [state]) are private organizations that are chartered by the state, and partially funded by the government. So there is definitely a strong public link, but they're still private, and there is a big difference between a public university and (say) a public secondary school.

Not to disagree with your overall point; public funds should come along with some basic respect for the Bill of Rights.
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A year or so ago, I was going to help a stranger jump-start his car. He didn't have jumper cables with him, but I keep a set in all of my motorized vehicles. I generally assume (often rightly so) that folks who don't own a pair of jumper cables do not know how to correctly utilize them. Whilst giving him the 15-second explanation on their use, he interrupted me.

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I took my jumper cables out of his hands, tossed them into the back of my car and drove off, leaving him with his hood (and his jaw) wide open. I haven't the time for crap like that.
I used to think similarly, but I've been mostly unable to find any real advantages to fluency in difficult foreign languages. NB: I don't want to work for the government or doing outsourcing, the two obvious places to use foreign language skills. So, this is at least partly my own desires, but I think my point hold: I see very slim returns to the time spent learning another language to fluency. Far better to spend that 2-4 thousand hours on programming, math, etc.
That bring up an excellent point: is there a strong correlation between high-PDI countries and cheap outsourcing? Even more un-PC: is there a correlation with low-PDI and high-GDP?
Rather than focusing on the negative aspect of the game (are you an addict? is someone you know lying?), focus on selling it as a meeting tool to know when/where your friends have logged on.
I'm a bit fascinated on how the contract stipulates that it can become not art under certain conditions.

I also wonder if the drama due to non-payment would be considered part of the art piece.
The picture is still pretty much bleak. The major changes in China and India are skewing the picture and the $1/per day definition of poverty is also questionable. Go to the link below and press play to see some visualizations of similar statistics.

http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t...
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The site for my credit card requires a password that is no more than 6 characters -- talk about insecure.

Not necessarily. Oftentimes banks will set a hard limit on the number of unsuccessful attempts you can make before they lock you out entirely. Then you have to phone them and jump through a number of hoops to prove you are who you say you are, and then reset the password. If they do a really good job preventing brute-forcing, then having an un-brute-forceable password is not necessary any more.

The easiest example of this is debit card PINs. They are usually only 4 numeric digits, and yet are trusted by banks for direct access to accounts. This is because a) banks have sophisticated systems to track brute-forcing and other kinds of abuse, b) longer pins are more prone to being written down, forgotten, and mistyped, and c) there are limits on how much you can purchase / take out per day, limiting the potential damage.
To the point. I have met a few mind-blowing people who used to work at Infosys/Wipro/TCS a decade ago. Things have completely changed. Outsourcing/service based companies do not get any respect of Tier-I/II college CS people these days.
Frankly, outsourcing is going to stay. What is going to change is the way things are done. These companies have already figured out ways to get things done from not-so-good people by making use of the right tools and process. This will mostly likely be expanded further where development of the most common things would be mechanical without any kind of creativity involved. And yeah, people on the other side would move on to building tools that enable it :)
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I'm an avid Brightkite user, and a budding Foursquare user. To me, they both serve different purposes. For one, I like Brightkite because it's an okay place to start conversations. If I really want something to go to Twitter and Facebook, and to easily geo-tag my mobile photo uploads on Flickr, Brightkite is hard to beat. That said, I don't check in everywhere I go, and my check-ins are often vague. Cities or major intersections instead of actual addresses or venues. Of course, there are exceptions.

Generally, I only check in when I want people to know where I am, and it's often an invitation to come kick it with me. And if I check in to the same coffee shop every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning, you'd bet I'd be glad to have you come up and and have a talk over a cup of joe if you "stalk" me and can predict where I'll be. Heck, I've met two people I consider great friends simply because we were checked in nearby on Brightkite and finally crossed paths.

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If this were true, then cancelling the outsourced projects won't help either. That's because even if the american companies build the products in house, they will only be able to get the average programmers to do for them since the really good ones are working for google yahoo microsoft or their own startup.

My point is that I don't think outsourced projects fail because "those who build them are not our best engineers". There has to be other reasons.
>Wow, really? I though that new land was discovered and pilgrims from the English and dutch settled it

The pilgrims "discovered" land people were already living in. Does it occur to you that the country you live in might wish to paint themselves to be victims (or even noble!) regardless of what really happened?

>the godless heathens where stealing and raping women

Good thing it's so black and white! It would be less convenient if awful things were happening from both sides. Then it wouldn't be so obvious which side was good and which side was evil.
FTA: What's more, this move could clear a path for Facebook to design and build its own servers.

The question is about custom servers, it just didn't make it into the title.
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I'm fluent in four, but the vast majority of people in the US appear to speak only one. The case is similar in Germany, France and Spain, at least from my experience. As such, bilingualism is not a pinnacle of achievement (is anything ever a pinnacle of achievement) but rather a recognition that ANY other language has value of this kind. Once you get past "I can do just fine with one." you can go as far as you like. But the step from one to two seems to be the critical one.
Privacy concerns don't affect you until they affect you.

Most of us aren't worth stalking, or even paying attention to. For most of us, regardless of our stance on privacy, the benefits of finding people to eat lunch with (http://www.amazon.com/Never-Eat-Alone-Secrets-Relationship/d...) outweigh the risks of attracting a stalker.

It's possible that one day we'll get our 15 minutes of fame/notoriety in front of 15 people or 15 million. Then we'll stop seeking celebrity and care more about privacy. Mostly without loss, perhaps with some nostalgia for the good old times.

Don't worry people[1] will steal your privacy; you'll have to shove it down their throats.

[1] Governments and corporations are a different matter.
Perhaps you should give it one more chance; I've been using chromium for months now, and so have gotten used to the better performance, compared to firefox-3.5.

With 3.6, I don't see the difference anymore.

On Linux.
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i think the new site is about discovery. if you like the music, stick it on your iphone or listen to it in itunes--it probably consumes a lot of bandwidth to constantly replay the same music. use the site to find new music. that's just my opinion on it.
I've been using prawn recently on a project, the only feature I'm missing is the ability to read its own output so I can compose operations independently.

It looks like it would be pretty difficult to add -- prawn is implemented as a clever DSL for writing postscript.
It reads like classic FUD material. They cast doubt on the technology yet they don't mention you can disable SMT in the BIOS of an Intel system. It also doesn't answer the most obvious question: What if I want 8-12 cores and the possible +20% performance of SMT?
No extensive OS support is required to utilize basic SMT, true -- but the scheduler needs to be aware of SMT to do remotely-intelligent scheduling. As a trivial example, if you have 2 runnable processes, 4 logical cores, and 2 physical cores, it obviously makes sense to schedule one process on each physical core. (In fact, the Wikipedia article says this, in the very next paragraph after the one you quoted.)
Holiday Inn is pirating ideas from a Chinese story... :-)

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this design actually makes more sense in my mind. i used the old site mostly to replay my favorites until i got tired of them. i think they want you to take that behavior off the site and onto your mobile devices (so download or buy the song if you prefer to listen to them on autoplay). i think the site pushes you fully in the direction of new music discovery, and i welcome that change. i've discovered much more music since the site changed, my habits are completely different now.
This guy is delusional. Big time.
First of all - what that means?:
[level of living standards in United States is still a lot higher.]
I never heard about this expression - "level of living standards".Where it is derived from?

Now if we abandon PPP adjusted GDP we'll see that US is not that super-rich country - average GDP per capita places USA on 17th place, far behind many european countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nom...
Even Canada (that has been long time a laughstock of USA),
in fact has a tiny little difference in nominal GDP with USA - 1-2k$.
So why nominal GDP of Canada is 2000$ less than American, but adjusted 8000$ less?.
Because Canada is a lot more equal society:
GINI (inequality) in Canada = 34 (little higher than european)
GINI in USA = 45 (average for African countries).
To maintain equality you need more taxes. So less left in pockets of consumers.

Now, let's move to hallucinations: "European unemployment rate is higher than American":
USA=10%
Norway=3.6%
Netherlands = 3.6%
Denmark=4.40%
Austria=4.8%

You want me continue??
What about obesity:
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In a phone conversation you are having an actual conversation. You can hear a human, the tone of the voice, hear if the other person responds immideately or hesitates. You get lots of contextual information you can't get from text alone.

And as the name implies a telephone conversation is an actual conversation. A conversation involves interaction.

With twitter you are not so much in a conversation as you yelling and hoping that gits on the internet will give you attention.

So yes, I'd say there is a difference and it lies in how the medium works, not in its implementation (i.e. digital or analog).
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And another thing that's incredibly irritating are these stupid sites that force you to type out your password (they don't let FF write it in the text field). How is that more secure! It just forces me to either use a simple password or write it down somewhere. My normal behavior is to use a totally different password for every site and let my browser manage it.
I remember reading somewhere that the first million words you write are crap, anyway.
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This isn't so cut and dry. How many rights do you expect to hold over people in your private store? I had a boss tell me that if he was paying me I had to do anything he said. If I didn't like that I had the "right" to quit. Fantastic. Imagine if every company worked like that.
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I would apply Hanlon's Razor here. I'd venture the journalist misinterpreted what Google was saying, as many headlines on popular news aggregators talked about Google "pulling out of China".
The opportunity will come after you've learnt the language. Honestly I live in Italy, and I wish they had spent more time teaching english to me. It's a shame that in north europe most people are fluent in english while here only a few are.
The argument I once heard for restricting length of a password (and possibly special characters) is that it would be harder to craft a buffer overflow (or SQL injection attack) with those limitations. I don't agree that this is a good solution, but it's not always good programmers/managers who are making these decisions. It at least sounds plausible.
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Seems to miss the point. The hard part of writing is editing, not producing. Nobody wants to read 40,000 random words; the internal act of curating is the hardest part.
There need to be more "find things like this" buttons in the world. I love Pandora for being able to find related works very quickly, but I hate the lack of real ability to explore. This seems to be a nice mix.

Why don't more sites leverage the "if you liked X, you'll love Y" data that gets generated by millions of clicks?
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Very impressive. Can't believe no-one has thought of this before. More please.