I would assume that changing the server is easier than changing the client. So I took a look at HTTP status codes and I see
413 Request Entity Too Large
The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process. The server MAY close the connection to prevent the client from continuing the request.
If the condition is temporary, the server SHOULD include a Retry- After header field to indicate that it is temporary and after what time the client MAY try again.
This suggests to me an overwhelmed RSS server could return a 413 error code with a randomized Retry-After header on the order of a couple of minutes. It seems to me that such a reply would help lessen the load on the server, as it wouldn't have to deal with content, even if said content was already cached.
If the problem is simply that of having too many open connections, then yeah, I guess you're hosed.
Cool site. I've put this to the test - I hold my cat on her back maybe two feet over my bed, then quickly pull my hands out from under her. It's pretty cool how fast she gets herself righted, but it does seem to disorient her a little, like when I get her to spin around chasing the end of a piece of string.
Cats are ordinarily so graceful that it's hard not to laugh when they do something clumsy.
those yellow Sports Walkman retrofitted to house iPods
I had one of those and found out that the rubber gasket around the edge really did make an airtight seal - I don't remember when I first opened it to put the tape in, but it was either a mile high in Colorado or in-flight; either way it was low pressure. When I landed at roughly sea level I had to pry the case open.
I could see a waterproof case being useful for an iPod, especially if you used it for, well, sports.
We were forbidden by the prof to ask the librarians, "Do you have Sex in the Snow"
There's plenty of "naughty" drink names, too (sex on the beach, blow job, etc.,) but I am always slightly amused by innocently asking pretty bartenders if they have Black Bush.
I know what else I'm thinking, but do they know what else I'm thinking? And if so, do they know that I know that they know what else I'm thinking?
Whatever. By the third shot, I'm not thinking about much.
At this point, you could say that about Linus Torvalds, too. After 8 years as a programmer, I'm more impressed by people who can manage programmers than by programmers.
I guess what I'm worried about is "Hollywood" painting its enemies in a bad light, by way of the movies it makes. I can see the preview now (not like I'd see the film.)
(Cue Hal Douglas' voice.) A band of terrorist communist librarians, covertly funded by a telecom cartel calling itself the "Personal Technology Freedom Coalition" and including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth, and having a well-placed mole in the highest echelons of government, plots to undermine America's greatest export - culture - and bring down the US economy, by depriving freedom-loving, orange-bearded set decorators of their God-given right to make an honest living.
I would recommend discrete math for anyone planning a CS degree. I took such a course in the CS department when I was a math grad student. We used Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book, which is excellent.
My take on discrete math, as a former wannabe mathematician, is that the high school math curriculum is just enough to get you to calculus and all the extra has been squeezed out. Lots of material in the realm of discrete math is accessible to a high school student.
In addition, many of the techniques and methods, like difference equations, parallel those in calculus, so it can reinforce what you've learned in calculus.
Finally, as to the author's point about calculus in high school, I think he's way overgeneralizing about the quality of high school calculus teachers. My cousin, a professional mathematician, recommended that I retake calculus in college. She said that she hadn't really understood calculus until advanced calculus in grad school! Having been down that path myself, I can see this - calculus is such a different way of thinking than its predecessors in the typical high school curriculum.
It would be more complicated than just putting your computer in a fish tank full of the stuff and letting convection do the rest (circulate the liquid keeping the coolest of it at the bottom), though.
But wouldn't that be a cool case? Everything but your drives sits in a fish tank. No fans running, but you have that soothing fish tank compressor running instead. Bonus style points for the fake plastic ferns, multi-colored stones, and deep-sea diver figure.
In the revolutionary war even the militias wore uniforms, carried their weapons openly, and obeyed the laws of war.
I was struck by your point, as I'd subscribed to the parent post's comment. It seems to me that it's not so black-or-white. I'm scarcely an historian, but what about the Boston Tea Party? Didn't colonialists dress up as native Americans to raid ships in Boston harbor? That sounds somewhat unconventional to me.
Also, I know you can't trust Hollywood for learning history, but it seems to me that in depictions of the Revolutionary War, the colonialists are shown to be clever and resourceful against the better equipped, more organized, and more numerous British. For example, while the British would march in lines, the colonialists would hide behind trees and rocks and pick them off.
Whether or not that actually happened or how representative it is, I think you'd agree that it's been romanticized to some extent, and that from the British point of view, it was hardly sporting.
I've read studies that state that blind taste tests cannot rate [Godiva chocolates] higher than Russell-Stover chocolates,
This sounded intriguing, so I googled for "blind taste test russel stover godiva" and found the following match.
They seem to be on a lite-music station in Atlanta.
Interestingly enough, on their panel, "the judges' favorite chocolate was the Lindt Truffles, closely followed by Godiva Dark Chocolate. Everyone gave Russel Stover's Low Carb Milk Chocolate the thumbs-down."
So if you can find any online references to those studies, I'd be interested, since I like chocolate and I'm cheap!
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Why didn't a program behave as expected?
Is it because didn't a program behave as expected that you came to me?
Hey, that's cool. And with this, you can turn your iPod into a car.
413 Request Entity Too Large
The server is refusing to process a request because the request entity is larger than the server is willing or able to process. The server MAY close the connection to prevent the client from continuing the request.
If the condition is temporary, the server SHOULD include a Retry- After header field to indicate that it is temporary and after what time the client MAY try again.
This suggests to me an overwhelmed RSS server could return a 413 error code with a randomized Retry-After header on the order of a couple of minutes. It seems to me that such a reply would help lessen the load on the server, as it wouldn't have to deal with content, even if said content was already cached.
If the problem is simply that of having too many open connections, then yeah, I guess you're hosed.
And the group that will add groups to that categorization.
Cats are ordinarily so graceful that it's hard not to laugh when they do something clumsy.
Especially since you can leave that 542.75 km extension cord at home.
I had one of those and found out that the rubber gasket around the edge really did make an airtight seal - I don't remember when I first opened it to put the tape in, but it was either a mile high in Colorado or in-flight; either way it was low pressure. When I landed at roughly sea level I had to pry the case open.
I could see a waterproof case being useful for an iPod, especially if you used it for, well, sports.
There's plenty of "naughty" drink names, too (sex on the beach, blow job, etc.,) but I am always slightly amused by innocently asking pretty bartenders if they have Black Bush.
I know what else I'm thinking, but do they know what else I'm thinking? And if so, do they know that I know that they know what else I'm thinking?
Whatever. By the third shot, I'm not thinking about much.
Or, put another way, "NCR set U.S. up the bombe."
At this point, you could say that about Linus Torvalds, too. After 8 years as a programmer, I'm more impressed by people who can manage programmers than by programmers.
(Cue Hal Douglas' voice.) A band of terrorist communist librarians, covertly funded by a telecom cartel calling itself the "Personal Technology Freedom Coalition" and including Intel, Sun Microsystems, Verizon, SBC, Qwest, Gateway and BellSouth, and having a well-placed mole in the highest echelons of government, plots to undermine America's greatest export - culture - and bring down the US economy, by depriving freedom-loving, orange-bearded set decorators of their God-given right to make an honest living.
Vry nfrmtv chptr on lssy cmprsn!
Must upgrade one of these days...
What do you think her trade-in value is?
It jammed.
I finally got the tape out but destroyed the drive.
It was a real nice TEAC drive
Was it, like, beep, beep, beep ?
Then, when some company wants to implement your idea, you can
Ah, yes. The original brown noise.
My take on discrete math, as a former wannabe mathematician, is that the high school math curriculum is just enough to get you to calculus and all the extra has been squeezed out. Lots of material in the realm of discrete math is accessible to a high school student.
In addition, many of the techniques and methods, like difference equations, parallel those in calculus, so it can reinforce what you've learned in calculus.
Finally, as to the author's point about calculus in high school, I think he's way overgeneralizing about the quality of high school calculus teachers. My cousin, a professional mathematician, recommended that I retake calculus in college. She said that she hadn't really understood calculus until advanced calculus in grad school! Having been down that path myself, I can see this - calculus is such a different way of thinking than its predecessors in the typical high school curriculum.
Gates' revenge is that he's going to pay the fine by donating $800M worth of MS software to the US government.
Turn it off?
I compromised between shutting it off and bearing with the noise by spinning down the drives.
I wanted to use apm to suspend the machine, but it's a dual proc, and that doesn't work, apparently. (I'd love to hear otherwise!)
I know that spinning down the drive isn't the best thing for its longevity, but I was willing to make that tradeoff.
My Linux machines are like the cool guys and I like to hang out with them, but I'm loyal to my Windows PC because it goes down on me regularly.
Hmm, interesting. I was breast-fed and tend to treat them pretty gently too.
But wouldn't that be a cool case? Everything but your drives sits in a fish tank. No fans running, but you have that soothing fish tank compressor running instead. Bonus style points for the fake plastic ferns, multi-colored stones, and deep-sea diver figure.
First RFC! W00t!
I was struck by your point, as I'd subscribed to the parent post's comment. It seems to me that it's not so black-or-white. I'm scarcely an historian, but what about the Boston Tea Party? Didn't colonialists dress up as native Americans to raid ships in Boston harbor? That sounds somewhat unconventional to me.
Also, I know you can't trust Hollywood for learning history, but it seems to me that in depictions of the Revolutionary War, the colonialists are shown to be clever and resourceful against the better equipped, more organized, and more numerous British. For example, while the British would march in lines, the colonialists would hide behind trees and rocks and pick them off.
Whether or not that actually happened or how representative it is, I think you'd agree that it's been romanticized to some extent, and that from the British point of view, it was hardly sporting.
This sounded intriguing, so I googled for "blind taste test russel stover godiva" and found the following match.
They seem to be on a lite-music station in Atlanta.
Interestingly enough, on their panel, "the judges' favorite chocolate was the Lindt Truffles, closely followed by Godiva Dark Chocolate. Everyone gave Russel Stover's Low Carb Milk Chocolate the thumbs-down."
So if you can find any online references to those studies, I'd be interested, since I like chocolate and I'm cheap!