I wonder how often the slashdot effect is caused, not by truly overwhelmed servers, but by hosting services automatically cutting off service because the site went over its bandwidth allocation.
And for those (like me) who just discovered this announcement, it has now ended, at 16:00 GMT. The last thing they said is that they will be uploading a recording of the ceremony and the news conference as soon as they can.
Most of the data is probably video. They have a gazillion cameras, recording in HD and 3D, and they may well need to store it raw/uncompressed, compressed, before and after editing. I do not have any intuition about how much space one game's video might take up, but they probably have seasons-worth of footage stored there, probably from thousands of games where commentators might refer during play. Someone else in another thread was talking about the Cleveland Indians being able to recall statistics and video of the pitcher's previous games, to be viewed in the dugout by upcoming batters, which would mean that there is a plethora of metadata attached to these files. I would have no doubt that football managers would have access to similar information.
The article also said that the data equipment is consolidated from other Cowboys data centers around Dallas, so who knows what data was migrated with that equipment.
Does it really take 2 developers to figure this out?
No, one developer on their own would have figured it out. It takes two developers to make it an issue.;c)
At first, I didn't understand what all the fuss was about, because I gathered that the server functionality always behaved like a filter. If that is the case, then just treat it like a black box; don't even muddy the waters with the fact that this box is doin' its thing "out" on a server somewhere else. The stream I feed it is 'in', the stream it gives me back is 'out'. No big deal, whether I am developing the client or the server.
But if the client will sometimes send a stream off, expecting nothing in return, then maybe 'in' doesn't make sense? I dunno. It is a convention. People establish conventions so that semantics are predictable, and good conventions align with the user's intuition. If the intuition of users or developers happens to clash, then they ought to just pick something and be done with it, then get accustomed to it. If it moves things along, I am of the crowd that says, "Call one way 'TweedleDum' and the other 'TweedleDee' and get on with your lives."
Words give you power.
I have not used it, but I think that OSCgroups does some related things with passing messages and streams to disparate clients and servers, and if one roots through the codebase it is possible that there might be some interesting conventions there.
Those are the countries of origin for the news items, I gather. The former item was from Vancouver, and this one is out of Manchester. I don't know what phone booths have to do with anything, though. They are usually brought up with questions of volume. (How many of my pals can fit in this one?)
I totally agree that the icons could be more relevant. I can only conclude that the fancy new icon set does not contain suitable images.
I disagree. I think that plays, concerts, and related performances place their audiences on a single side of the performance area because it is cheaper and easier to provide a rich experience for the audience, not because a single vantage point makes for better art.
Consider theater in the round. From what I can imagine, the reasons for theater in the round being less popular than its viewpoint-restricted counterpart are mostly technical. It is harder to change scenery, there are no wings to hide actors and props, and acoustics are hard for any but the most intimate of audiences. Plus, it is harder to act when the audience is all around you. I also suspect that the typical arrangement of a proscenium dividing performers and viewers is optimal of the majority of performances (for the reasons I mentioned), which would explain the lack of venues with more rounded layouts.
Æ exists in Unicode, but it also exists in other schemes, such as Latin-1. Slashdot is using one of the many character encodings that include Æ, but exclude characters found in languages such as Japanese.
Once you've obtained the appropriate tool from iFixit, why would you put in Phillips ones? Or, having done so, why wouldn't you put the odd screws back in when preparing to send it to Apple for service?
There is clearly a need for an encryption scheme where the cyphertext is always human-readable.
"I luv u, too man!" -> "The Government is out to get us!"
"lol meet us at the bar, then" -> "visit http://bit.ly/madhakz for the app to read this msg"
"dude where are you were thru the 1st pitcher" -> "encryption=freedom"
"omg barry just stepd on a rusty nail outside O'Brawly's" [picture of toe attatched] -> [no text, message & toe pic steganographically concealed in image of bald eagle weeping under the foot of a cop who is rifling through the eagle's belongings]
"hay man opeth gig was wicked tell u bout it l8tr" -> "Burma Shave"
No sweat. I understand what you mean. I minored in CS at a school that fit my description, and the only time we were tutored was in CS 101. The tutor was a student, and during the first session he showed us how to log into the department's Linux server remotely and write, compile, and execute a small Java program.
This contrasted supremely with the programming environment we were using during lectures: Eclipse on Windows XP. I had used and installed Linux, but never used it remotely, nor done any programming on it. I was sold from the outset.
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She uses the dumbwaiter, but I haven't been able to fit in there for 35 years.
Aha. I will have to give that a shot next time. Need to find the stairs again, though. It has been quite some time since my last attempt.
I wonder how often the slashdot effect is caused, not by truly overwhelmed servers, but by hosting services automatically cutting off service because the site went over its bandwidth allocation.
If my wife gets on my case, I'll just ask her why she is on the site, too!
Actually, my wife's profile info is more likely than mine to show up on such a site, because of our respective privacy settings.
I tried that, once. Got a nosebleed.
I think the idea is that you melt the snow near the storm drains, first.
And for those (like me) who just discovered this announcement, it has now ended, at 16:00 GMT. The last thing they said is that they will be uploading a recording of the ceremony and the news conference as soon as they can.
Most of the data is probably video. They have a gazillion cameras, recording in HD and 3D, and they may well need to store it raw/uncompressed, compressed, before and after editing. I do not have any intuition about how much space one game's video might take up, but they probably have seasons-worth of footage stored there, probably from thousands of games where commentators might refer during play. Someone else in another thread was talking about the Cleveland Indians being able to recall statistics and video of the pitcher's previous games, to be viewed in the dugout by upcoming batters, which would mean that there is a plethora of metadata attached to these files. I would have no doubt that football managers would have access to similar information.
The article also said that the data equipment is consolidated from other Cowboys data centers around Dallas, so who knows what data was migrated with that equipment.
5,000 square feet of data center and only 100TB of storage? Those hard drives must feel like they are princesses!
In terms of counting their toes and dividing by ten.
Does it really take 2 developers to figure this out?
No, one developer on their own would have figured it out. It takes two developers to make it an issue. ;c)
At first, I didn't understand what all the fuss was about, because I gathered that the server functionality always behaved like a filter. If that is the case, then just treat it like a black box; don't even muddy the waters with the fact that this box is doin' its thing "out" on a server somewhere else. The stream I feed it is 'in', the stream it gives me back is 'out'. No big deal, whether I am developing the client or the server.
But if the client will sometimes send a stream off, expecting nothing in return, then maybe 'in' doesn't make sense? I dunno. It is a convention. People establish conventions so that semantics are predictable, and good conventions align with the user's intuition. If the intuition of users or developers happens to clash, then they ought to just pick something and be done with it, then get accustomed to it. If it moves things along, I am of the crowd that says, "Call one way 'TweedleDum' and the other 'TweedleDee' and get on with your lives."
Words give you power.
I have not used it, but I think that OSCgroups does some related things with passing messages and streams to disparate clients and servers, and if one roots through the codebase it is possible that there might be some interesting conventions there.
Half a friend, then.
Fifty shiftless caftan-clad crofters eftsoon hefted bifteck loftily after their thrifty Lufthansa chieftain.
I suppose that next, he'll say that compound words and suffixes don't count. I don't care. That was fun! And he's an AC.
Those are the countries of origin for the news items, I gather. The former item was from Vancouver, and this one is out of Manchester. I don't know what phone booths have to do with anything, though. They are usually brought up with questions of volume. (How many of my pals can fit in this one?)
I totally agree that the icons could be more relevant. I can only conclude that the fancy new icon set does not contain suitable images.
And yet BCE, in turn, is predated by "BC," by at least a thousand years.
It occurs to me that the first time an Internet kill switch is used would be a most-suitable flag day for the transition to IPv6.
I disagree. I think that plays, concerts, and related performances place their audiences on a single side of the performance area because it is cheaper and easier to provide a rich experience for the audience, not because a single vantage point makes for better art.
Consider theater in the round. From what I can imagine, the reasons for theater in the round being less popular than its viewpoint-restricted counterpart are mostly technical. It is harder to change scenery, there are no wings to hide actors and props, and acoustics are hard for any but the most intimate of audiences. Plus, it is harder to act when the audience is all around you. I also suspect that the typical arrangement of a proscenium dividing performers and viewers is optimal of the majority of performances (for the reasons I mentioned), which would explain the lack of venues with more rounded layouts.
Æ exists in Unicode, but it also exists in other schemes, such as Latin-1. Slashdot is using one of the many character encodings that include Æ, but exclude characters found in languages such as Japanese.
Who is Knuth? He's my homeboy.
"911. What is your emergency?"
"I've just been shot, and some shrapnel damaged my monitor. How long would it take to get a replacement?"
Once you've obtained the appropriate tool from iFixit, why would you put in Phillips ones? Or, having done so, why wouldn't you put the odd screws back in when preparing to send it to Apple for service?
Unless, of course, your friend's mom's house is the one that is upstairs.
The app I use encrypts that one with AES and the others with rot13.
There is clearly a need for an encryption scheme where the cyphertext is always human-readable.
"I luv u, too man!" -> "The Government is out to get us!"
"lol meet us at the bar, then" -> "visit http://bit.ly/madhakz for the app to read this msg"
"dude where are you were thru the 1st pitcher" -> "encryption=freedom"
"omg barry just stepd on a rusty nail outside O'Brawly's" [picture of toe attatched] -> [no text, message & toe pic steganographically concealed in image of bald eagle weeping under the foot of a cop who is rifling through the eagle's belongings]
"hay man opeth gig was wicked tell u bout it l8tr" -> "Burma Shave"
LOL
No sweat. I understand what you mean. I minored in CS at a school that fit my description, and the only time we were tutored was in CS 101. The tutor was a student, and during the first session he showed us how to log into the department's Linux server remotely and write, compile, and execute a small Java program.
This contrasted supremely with the programming environment we were using during lectures: Eclipse on Windows XP. I had used and installed Linux, but never used it remotely, nor done any programming on it. I was sold from the outset.