http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ or anything about F5 BigIPs. Most of understanding load balancing is about understanding (a) how to fool layers above you in the OSI stack (switching on layer 4 through 7 -- particularly 7 -- can take a while to wrap your head around) and (b) the algorithms to pick which physical server gets the next connection (round robin, least connections, predictive, whatever).
What, "UPC" or even "model number" weren't good enough? SKU is the Boba Fett of consumer lifestyle. People want to sound informed and elitist, and that's the only time it gets busted out.
"Oh it's not the same thing" you're going to say, "a SKU is a particular combination of widgets and gizmos that make it separate." I don't care, it sounds like when a 14 year old first finds out about the stock market and tries to use EBITDA in casual conversation.
It's a lot funnier if you've spent the past six hours listening to the same voice try to build a rapport with you (with some exceptionally dry humor thrown in) and then try to kill you.
I'd imagine dell corporate runs an awful lot of non-dell servers. It's not like they make any large machines, or systems with any built-in redundancy. They are, and always have been, in the commodity PC market -- on the desktop and in the server room.
"This isn't a McFarlane production (i.e., not Spawn, which was a tour de force.)"
It may have amazing character design and art, but come on, the story was written by a drop-out mouthbreather who wouldn't recognize a cliche if he was reading a wikipedia page called "List of Cliches in Literature". Face it, McFarlane is a dunce who can draw pretty.
Havoc? The pirates would be too busy drinking to keep the ball in their own lane; In the ninja lane the scoreboard would be blank one moment, the lights would go out for three or four seconds, and suddenly it'd read 300, 300, 300... and there might be some dead pirates.
They're not parenting in lieu of parents, they're empowering parents to participate in the decision making process on what their kids are playing. Or at least, the guy who got shitcanned was.
It doesn't take many people using 99% of their bandwidth to totally fuck up the bandwidth oversell formula used by an ISP, thus ruining performance for everyone in that bandwidth pool.
Because if they give the exact byte amount that triggers it, people will find a way to use 99.99% of that 24/7, thus making things worse. It's like the probably urban-legend business school example of the beer factory: under old ownership, they had a "drink all you want" policy on the bottling floor, and there were no problems; When new management came in and said "10 beers per day maximum" suddenly everyone was drunk every day.
I was wondering this myself. I bet it's a lot cheaper to get a license for stock photos that requires you to include the credit watermarked in, instead of being able to use the photos on your own without obvious credits.
I'd say pretentious and pathetic describes most of us pretty well. And "dry, boring humour that you're not going to get if you don't watch over the [tech] industry like a hawk" probably isn't far off the mark, either. Oh... and that part where you mention how P-A interjects "bizarre and exaggerated situations" only ever happens for us in soviet russia, but there, of course, the bizarre and exaggerated situations interject you or something like that.
So yeah, (some) geeks liking P-A seems pretty logical to me.
Dude, I have a PS3 and even actually play it from time to time (although I have to admit that today's (7/27) Ctrl-Alt-Del comic http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php rings a little too true). I don't understand why everyone on Slashdot seems to hate Sony so badly.
But even *I* think your post seems a little off-the-wall and reeks of Sony astroturfing.
Why have sex when you can masturbate? They have the same result, right?
Anyone who's used a brand-name TiVo for more than a few hours will be disgusted by all the DVRs from cable and satellite companies (and MythTV for that matter). TiVo has, for the most part, done DVR *right*.
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I'd say doing more pageviews with less (and older) hardware says more about a "better setup" than having shinier boxes.
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ or anything about F5 BigIPs. Most of understanding load balancing is about understanding (a) how to fool layers above you in the OSI stack (switching on layer 4 through 7 -- particularly 7 -- can take a while to wrap your head around) and (b) the algorithms to pick which physical server gets the next connection (round robin, least connections, predictive, whatever).
As green as the power in San Jose is. That is to say, not very.
However, the webservers all have little green LCDs. Does that count?
What, "UPC" or even "model number" weren't good enough? SKU is the Boba Fett of consumer lifestyle. People want to sound informed and elitist, and that's the only time it gets busted out.
"Oh it's not the same thing" you're going to say, "a SKU is a particular combination of widgets and gizmos that make it separate." I don't care, it sounds like when a 14 year old first finds out about the stock market and tries to use EBITDA in casual conversation.
It's a lot funnier if you've spent the past six hours listening to the same voice try to build a rapport with you (with some exceptionally dry humor thrown in) and then try to kill you.
I'd imagine dell corporate runs an awful lot of non-dell servers. It's not like they make any large machines, or systems with any built-in redundancy. They are, and always have been, in the commodity PC market -- on the desktop and in the server room.
Agreed, that's the one I was thinking of when I read the summary.
Best. name. ever.
"This isn't a McFarlane production (i.e., not Spawn, which was a tour de force.)"
It may have amazing character design and art, but come on, the story was written by a drop-out mouthbreather who wouldn't recognize a cliche if he was reading a wikipedia page called "List of Cliches in Literature". Face it, McFarlane is a dunce who can draw pretty.
It improves the meter of the sentence. Most curses are iambs or anapests, so they punch up the rhythm a little to emphasize the words around them.
Havoc? The pirates would be too busy drinking to keep the ball in their own lane; In the ninja lane the scoreboard would be blank one moment, the lights would go out for three or four seconds, and suddenly it'd read 300, 300, 300... and there might be some dead pirates.
Ninjas > pirates. Everyone knows that.
Nin. ten. do. It's a cereal, now!
Nin. ten. do. For breakfast? WOW!
They're not parenting in lieu of parents, they're empowering parents to participate in the decision making process on what their kids are playing. Or at least, the guy who got shitcanned was.
It doesn't take many people using 99% of their bandwidth to totally fuck up the bandwidth oversell formula used by an ISP, thus ruining performance for everyone in that bandwidth pool.
Because if they give the exact byte amount that triggers it, people will find a way to use 99.99% of that 24/7, thus making things worse. It's like the probably urban-legend business school example of the beer factory: under old ownership, they had a "drink all you want" policy on the bottling floor, and there were no problems; When new management came in and said "10 beers per day maximum" suddenly everyone was drunk every day.
The game's up, President. There are no more missiles left on that plane.
Oh, c'mon, you don't expect me to fall for that old trick.
It's not a trick! There was one launched at Mr. Body in the study, two for the chandelier, two at the lounge door, and one for the singing telegram.
That's not six.
One plus two plus two plus one.
Uh-uh. There was only one nuke that got the chandelier. That one plus two plus ONE plus one.
Even if you're right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus two plus one plus one.
Alright, fine, one plus two plus one..........SHUT-UP!
...and how the news would have broken six months earlier if Cheney hadn't been interfering or something.
You gotta do what you gotta do.
I was wondering this myself. I bet it's a lot cheaper to get a license for stock photos that requires you to include the credit watermarked in, instead of being able to use the photos on your own without obvious credits.
I'd say pretentious and pathetic describes most of us pretty well. And "dry, boring humour that you're not going to get if you don't watch over the [tech] industry like a hawk" probably isn't far off the mark, either. Oh... and that part where you mention how P-A interjects "bizarre and exaggerated situations" only ever happens for us in soviet russia, but there, of course, the bizarre and exaggerated situations interject you or something like that.
So yeah, (some) geeks liking P-A seems pretty logical to me.
These pretzels are making me thirsty!
Now that Winnie wrote a math textbook with doodles and other silliness, does that mean Madeline will write a french textbook dripping with seduction?
Fred Weasley is *undead*. Finally their parents can tell the twins apart.
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Confucius say: Be careful what you wish for on the internet.
Nasrudin say: Be more precise in what you wish for on the internet.
Dude, I have a PS3 and even actually play it from time to time (although I have to admit that today's (7/27) Ctrl-Alt-Del comic http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php rings a little too true). I don't understand why everyone on Slashdot seems to hate Sony so badly.
But even *I* think your post seems a little off-the-wall and reeks of Sony astroturfing.
Why have sex when you can masturbate? They have the same result, right?
Anyone who's used a brand-name TiVo for more than a few hours will be disgusted by all the DVRs from cable and satellite companies (and MythTV for that matter). TiVo has, for the most part, done DVR *right*.