I know I'm not answering your question, but before commiting your dad's thousands of messages, remember that Gmail is still in beta. I still get messages like "can't access your mailbox. cross your fingers and try again later" or something to that effect.
As far as I am concerned AOL has been in beta all these years. Google will get it right... question is - will AOL EVER get their head out of their ass?
The announcement was later rectracted by NASA officials after it was confirmed that the "dried-up lake" was, in fact, Joan Rivers vacationing in the new Klingon botox retreat.
I hope you are not referring to the service in Japan because anywhere I went in that country I could not ask for better service. Hands down the best service of anywhere in the world.
To give you an example - in the hotel room service comes literally 10 seconds after you hang up the phone asking for something! And this is in a $50/night hotel.
I know Nozomi is not a particular train - I was referring to the fastest trains as in fastest service.
I rode in the green cars - expensive yes but so is flying AND driving in Japan. In my opinion bullet trains are a comfortable hassle-free service. They are ALWAYS on time, no security checks, no leg cramps. When was the last time a plane left on time or you didn't have to spend an hour for security checks? When was the last time you didn't hit a traffic snarl in a big city?
Driving here in the US is cheap but there is a HUGE tradeoff - the traffic blows. I make 2 or 3 big trips per year and if there were bullet trains in the US at the same cost as the green car service in Japan I'd use them every time.
You won't know until you've tried Nozomi - the current fastest bullet train in Japan... in a luxurious-2-feet-of-room-in-front-of-you seat in a noise-free air-conditioned cabin where you can read, eat lunch, enjoy the view AND sip your beer all the while you are being taken where you want to go. In under 3 hours for most destinations.
Compare this to a 7-hour drive in peak bumper-to-bumper traffic on a 4th of July on interstate 91 going from DC to New York...
Yep, we know building highways was the best idea ever...
It's also great when sysadmins decide to install AV on db servers and run the AV scanner at peak daytimes without giving you the option to turn it off. In our case the process was scanning a 300GB mySQL database... let the good times roll...
Actually it's a lot simpler than that. If the "editors" at Slashdot would get off their asses they can whip together 2 perl scripts in 2 days that will pre-download the pages to which an article links and host them on Slashdot (ala Google's cached version)... Simple but probably not gonna happen.
It is not worth the difference. In fact it's the opposite - I prefer the online medium and WOULD pay for a good news source if it had what I wanted. The determining factors for me and many people of my generation and younger are:
1. ease of access 2. ability to quickly weed the crap from the good stuff 3. ability to interact with other readers
Some of the best exercise a brain can have is trying to learn a new foreign language. Even if the end goal is not to be exactly fluent in it. There is plenty of self-paced software out there - notably the Rosetta Stone series. Good luck!
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In part 2 of this article series the inverstigative journalists will explore the topic: "Drawing White Suburbian Kids into Basketball".
TopCoder
The Molten Core is simply an exercise before the real battle...
I know I'm not answering your question, but before commiting your dad's thousands of messages, remember that Gmail is still in beta. I still get messages like "can't access your mailbox. cross your fingers and try again later" or something to that effect.
As far as I am concerned AOL has been in beta all these years. Google will get it right... question is - will AOL EVER get their head out of their ass?
Here's how they come up the number:
10 spread butt cheeks
20 pull digit
30 if count(digit) 8 goto 10
Most likely he was offed because he was hogging all the viagra, or he failed to consolidate all that debt...
Fear not, someone else is going to be taking over the operation now.
Umm you forgot:
A) Poland
B) Natalie Portman
Microsoft is considering the acquisition of an ASCII art company.
Kudos man, I think this is one of the greatest educational stories I've heard. I don't have kids yet but when I do I'd like to be a father like David.
WTF do you want as news? Another "Debian version 1.02103219032.213 has been released"?
Well, one this is for sure - it will be fun to watch those lawyers explain compiler theory to the jury!
You may have misunderstood - I am not bragging about anything in the US/Canada. I like the transportation in Japan.
The announcement was later rectracted by NASA officials after it was confirmed that the "dried-up lake" was, in fact, Joan Rivers vacationing in the new Klingon botox retreat.
"Notoriously bad level of service"?!?!
I hope you are not referring to the service in Japan because anywhere I went in that country I could not ask for better service. Hands down the best service of anywhere in the world.
To give you an example - in the hotel room service comes literally 10 seconds after you hang up the phone asking for something! And this is in a $50/night hotel.
I know Nozomi is not a particular train - I was referring to the fastest trains as in fastest service.
I rode in the green cars - expensive yes but so is flying AND driving in Japan. In my opinion bullet trains are a comfortable hassle-free service. They are ALWAYS on time, no security checks, no leg cramps. When was the last time a plane left on time or you didn't have to spend an hour for security checks? When was the last time you didn't hit a traffic snarl in a big city?
Driving here in the US is cheap but there is a HUGE tradeoff - the traffic blows. I make 2 or 3 big trips per year and if there were bullet trains in the US at the same cost as the green car service in Japan I'd use them every time.
Ambivalent about whether it was the right choice?
You won't know until you've tried Nozomi - the current fastest bullet train in Japan... in a luxurious-2-feet-of-room-in-front-of-you seat in a noise-free air-conditioned cabin where you can read, eat lunch, enjoy the view AND sip your beer all the while you are being taken where you want to go. In under 3 hours for most destinations.
Compare this to a 7-hour drive in peak bumper-to-bumper traffic on a 4th of July on interstate 91 going from DC to New York...
Yep, we know building highways was the best idea ever...
It's also great when sysadmins decide to install AV on db servers and run the AV scanner at peak daytimes without giving you the option to turn it off. In our case the process was scanning a 300GB mySQL database... let the good times roll...
This is like SO not funny anymore. Go back to fark please.
How is Google able to cache almost anything on the internet? I agree about the bandwidth costs, though...
why the frack were they using UPS to carry their data? What, not enough armored carriers around? And why was the data not encrypted?
Actually it's a lot simpler than that. If the "editors" at Slashdot would get off their asses they can whip together 2 perl scripts in 2 days that will pre-download the pages to which an article links and host them on Slashdot (ala Google's cached version)... Simple but probably not gonna happen.
But if you stepped off the grid how did you get that article to Slashdot?
So what else do you save money on? You probably prefer inflatable dolls over the real thing?
It is not worth the difference. In fact it's the opposite - I prefer the online medium and WOULD pay for a good news source if it had what I wanted. The determining factors for me and many people of my generation and younger are:
1. ease of access
2. ability to quickly weed the crap from the good stuff
3. ability to interact with other readers
Some of the best exercise a brain can have is trying to learn a new foreign language. Even if the end goal is not to be exactly fluent in it. There is plenty of self-paced software out there - notably the Rosetta Stone series. Good luck!