If you think Facebook runs on one server in a corner of a data center, then you are an idiot and have absolutely no clue what it takes to run a site with that kind of traffic and storage requirements.
No need for cell phones for this sort of thing to happen. I already had to sit just in front of some stupid bitch that flapped her gums at her boyfriend for over four hours solid non-stop. I never thought this sort of thing was humanly possible until that flight...
History has shown that all over-reaching empires collapse sooner or later. Some with a mightier thud than others. Microsoft's thud cannot come too soon...
> Makes their lack of innovation all the more remarkable
Not really when you realize that these 700 interns and 250 computer science PhD candidates have virtually no real world experience to guide them in their endeavors.
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...arbitrarily chosen deadline, probably pulled out of the air by marketing/legal/upper management. should read
...arbitrarily chosen deadline, probably pulled out of their asses by marketing/legal/upper management.If you think Facebook runs on one server in a corner of a data center, then you are an idiot and have absolutely no clue what it takes to run a site with that kind of traffic and storage requirements.
Buck the Hummers - buy an RV if you want size and gas mileage...
are now "In Fascist Amerika..."
"phoneME" sounds rather close to phony...nyet, comrade tovarisch?
When USB first came out, I refered to it as Universal Stupid Bus given that IEEE1394 could, and still can, do so much more. Frickin' Intel.
No need for cell phones for this sort of thing to happen. I already had to sit just in front of some stupid bitch that flapped her gums at her boyfriend for over four hours solid non-stop. I never thought this sort of thing was humanly possible until that flight...
And, pray tell, why would a human want to parse the XML of a 100 page word processor document, or a 10,000 vertex 3D object?
Don't be a Bush.
...is what happens during a nice, juicy rain or thunderstorm? Eh?
Just let people write games in Java. You'll see all resources used to the max...
What you want is called a "table"...
There is a reason that rap is part of the word Crap...no?
Visiting M5 Industries in San Francisco to see what Jamie and Adam have kicking around...
Why should he do that? All the source code he needs is over at http://sourceforge.net/
Time to start buying land in Florida...
History has shown that all over-reaching empires collapse sooner or later. Some with a mightier thud than others. Microsoft's thud cannot come too soon...
Now replace "money" with "cocaine".
You actually confessed to owning an over-sized, over-priced square box on wheels on /. ?!?
The only way to get your stuff to last more than a generation is to chisel out yer 0's and 1's on clay tablets...
Because some butthead mods at a private tracker will ban it because it is no longer "current".
> Makes their lack of innovation all the more remarkable
Not really when you realize that these 700 interns and 250 computer science PhD candidates have virtually no real world experience to guide them in their endeavors.
> We probably won't start rolling out Vista until we have to
Better be ready by next fall when all the freshmen show up with new laptops running Vista...
Excited? Who is excited?? Most of us are going "Oh bugger, more c*rp from Microsoft".
> Why does the Government feel it needs to tax everything possible?
So the buggers can piss it away.