But it's worth pointing out that I've seen almost as many failures caused by doing the testing as from actual main power failures (last week, both the generator and the UPS failed during scheduled testing).
That being said, I'd rather see the batteries on the UPS explode during testing than during a real power failure. Fire departments tend to be less busy...
Isn't that the point of testing? If there's going to be a failure, you want it to occur during testing so you can get it fixed.
Tow-able gennies. And yes, companies that rent/operate towable gennies usually have tender trucks to maintain and refuel the gennies. Movie production trucks often have generators built in behind the cab.
I've personally seen tow-able gennies from 350 amps to 2400 amps. You could probably get bigger, but I've never had the need to rent anything bigger than 1200 amps. The 1200 amp gennie can be towed by a duallie, no problem, and you can put it just about anywhere paved that you want. Assuming you can level it somehow.
You actually can meet people through MySpace! Thanks to MySpace, I'm now engaged to Special Agent Myron Smith, aka Tifneeeee1993!!!! 333. This sort of thing would never have been possible in the days before MySpace. What a crazy world we live in!
You're making me nostalgic for the days when bad poetry was kept hidden under the socks in a dresser drawer. I think there used to be a law requiring that it be stored there, unless it was being transported to or from a specially desginated "open mic" night.
Most bands struggle and spend considerable effort even getting people to attend their shows at the local pub or club. As a tool, a MySpace page represents a considerable mechanical advantage over such labor intensive tasks as putting up flyers and calling everyone you know.
A band might aspire to the heights of stardom, but being able to generate enough buzz to fill a club on a regular basis is a significant achievement.
We live in an age where, due to widely-held populist views, and political correctness, it is a "sin" to act in a manner that is supposedly "elitist." Now my question is, what precisely is wrong with believing that people have different potentials, and contribute different amounts to society?
Because we'll see a terrible backlash from the non-white minority groups and women?
I was wondering why we haven't had any stories about slashdot's recent series of outages, but I realized that it really wasn't important news, even to users of this site. =)
It's impossible to simulate a heavy load on a test server? Hmmm. Maybe they should look into these doohickeys called computers that can be used to simulate all sorts of complicated things. I hear scientists use them.
The fact of the matter is that MySpace doesn't use test servers and that they have no real QA to speak of. They're running on their prototype software that they've patched a million times, and I doubt anyone there really understand what their code is doing anymore.
It's incredible but not surprising. It's a very dodgy site that uses barely competent developers that alpha test their new code live on users. Their practices represent all the worst aspects of Web 2.0, patching and extending their proof-of-concept prototype code.
After their huge success, you'd think they'd pay for real developers, real infrastructure, etc. But the top management is too busy funneling that money off into their bank accounts and for lavish parties, hookers, expensive cars and other toys.
It's a case of stupidity and greed. Who cares about infrastructure while there's a party going on?
The easy solution for this is to follow the lead of Las Vegas casinos. Basically you want to make it as hard as possible to leave the store with money. Hide the registers behind a wall of mirrors. Funnel the customer through a gauntlet of racks of impulse buy goods before the can get to the check out*. Put speed bumps on the floor. Offer free cocktails and a $5.99 prime rib buffet.
Additionally, there is the phenomenon in the market of buying on the rumor and then selling when the facts are out. It's a subset of market timing strategies.If you look at the last 8 or 9 years or so, I bet that you'd find a lot of buying just prior to MWSF or WWDC with lots of selling right after the keynote. This might have changed slightly in the last year or so, as more people have become interested in Apple as an investment.
I think this Apple branded Digital Tampax might be repurposed to "fit your needs". Or you might see if an iPod nano would fit by turning it sideways. =)
The way your dad looked at it, this iPod was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this iPod up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the iPod. I hid this uncomfortable mp3 player up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the iPod to you.
MySpace was a pretty sleazy company before Murdoch bought it. Tom is the public face, but the original investors are a mysterious and well hidden group that has links to spyware and adware.
Can I substantiate this? Yes. Will I substantiate it? No.
I don't care if anyone believes me. Just remember, you heard it here first.
But to address your assertion: A website might want to pass the buck to whoever was doing the ad-serving, but it was their site that was spreading the disease. They have ultimate responsibility.
If you are invited to participate in a college sport, you are subject to whatever silly rules they want to enforce, scholarships or no. If you don't like it, you don't have to participate.
I don't mind analogies, so long as they're car analogies. I couldn't make head or tail from your dinosaur analogy. Er, make that, I couldn't make hood or trunk.
Has anyone dicked around over there, had a looksee? I did. I created a profile and a page partway, before I got hung up in their process.
I wouldn't say that they're trying to rip off myspace. They're using the idea of MySpace to sell product. This is about marketing back-to-school clothes in an interactive quasi-social way. It's marketing. It's marketing. It's marketing. There is a video contest sponsored by sony. You're supposed to create a video for your page. The video is supposed to be an commercial showing you doing school "your way". That's the marketing slogan: School Your Way.
There is no social interactivity, as near as I can tell. No way to leave comments.
They're not trying to attract the hip kids, so much as they're trying to do a makeover on kids that would normally be shopping for their clothes at walmart. There going after the kids that want to be hip, but aren't. Not ever mall contains a hot topic. This isn't about kids being hip, this is about marketers trying to be hip, tryng to understand the MySpace phenom so they can sell it back to you.
A little Frank Zappa song would be apropos here.
I am gross and perverted Im obsessed n deranged I have existed for years But very little had changed I am the tool of the government And industry too For I am destined to rule And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious But you cant look away I make you think Im delicious With the stuff that I say I am the best you can get Have you guessed me yet? I am the slime oozin out From your tv set
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't that the point of testing? If there's going to be a failure, you want it to occur during testing so you can get it fixed.
Tow-able gennies. And yes, companies that rent/operate towable gennies usually have tender trucks to maintain and refuel the gennies. Movie production trucks often have generators built in behind the cab.
I've personally seen tow-able gennies from 350 amps to 2400 amps. You could probably get bigger, but I've never had the need to rent anything bigger than 1200 amps. The 1200 amp gennie can be towed by a duallie, no problem, and you can put it just about anywhere paved that you want. Assuming you can level it somehow.
Sudan? Personally, I'd pick Somalia, but that's just because they have real (ocean going) pirates.
Good point. And that's not even getting into the technological parenting enhancements.
As soon as I have a kid, I'm going to chip the little fucker.
You actually can meet people through MySpace! Thanks to MySpace, I'm now engaged to Special Agent Myron Smith, aka Tifneeeee1993!!!! 333. This sort of thing would never have been possible in the days before MySpace. What a crazy world we live in!
You're making me nostalgic for the days when bad poetry was kept hidden under the socks in a dresser drawer. I think there used to be a law requiring that it be stored there, unless it was being transported to or from a specially desginated "open mic" night.
Most bands struggle and spend considerable effort even getting people to attend their shows at the local pub or club. As a tool, a MySpace page represents a considerable mechanical advantage over such labor intensive tasks as putting up flyers and calling everyone you know.
A band might aspire to the heights of stardom, but being able to generate enough buzz to fill a club on a regular basis is a significant achievement.
Because we'll see a terrible backlash from the non-white minority groups and women?
Kidding! I'm kidding! =)
I was wondering why we haven't had any stories about slashdot's recent series of outages, but I realized that it really wasn't important news, even to users of this site. =)
It's impossible to simulate a heavy load on a test server? Hmmm. Maybe they should look into these doohickeys called computers that can be used to simulate all sorts of complicated things. I hear scientists use them.
The fact of the matter is that MySpace doesn't use test servers and that they have no real QA to speak of. They're running on their prototype software that they've patched a million times, and I doubt anyone there really understand what their code is doing anymore.
I don't get what your "problem" is, actually.
He's just jealous because his parents force him to use Walmart's Hub.
It's incredible but not surprising. It's a very dodgy site that uses barely competent developers that alpha test their new code live on users. Their practices represent all the worst aspects of Web 2.0, patching and extending their proof-of-concept prototype code.
After their huge success, you'd think they'd pay for real developers, real infrastructure, etc. But the top management is too busy funneling that money off into their bank accounts and for lavish parties, hookers, expensive cars and other toys.
It's a case of stupidity and greed. Who cares about infrastructure while there's a party going on?
The easy solution for this is to follow the lead of Las Vegas casinos. Basically you want to make it as hard as possible to leave the store with money. Hide the registers behind a wall of mirrors. Funnel the customer through a gauntlet of racks of impulse buy goods before the can get to the check out*. Put speed bumps on the floor. Offer free cocktails and a $5.99 prime rib buffet.
*Fry's Electronics already uses this technique.
Additionally, there is the phenomenon in the market of buying on the rumor and then selling when the facts are out. It's a subset of market timing strategies.If you look at the last 8 or 9 years or so, I bet that you'd find a lot of buying just prior to MWSF or WWDC with lots of selling right after the keynote. This might have changed slightly in the last year or so, as more people have become interested in Apple as an investment.
And it's becoming more scarce in many places around the world. Some say it's going to be the next really big commodity, as fossil fuels are today.
I think this Apple branded Digital Tampax might be repurposed to "fit your needs". Or you might see if an iPod nano would fit by turning it sideways. =)
MySpace was a pretty sleazy company before Murdoch bought it. Tom is the public face, but the original investors are a mysterious and well hidden group that has links to spyware and adware.
Can I substantiate this? Yes. Will I substantiate it? No.
I don't care if anyone believes me. Just remember, you heard it here first.
But to address your assertion: A website might want to pass the buck to whoever was doing the ad-serving, but it was their site that was spreading the disease. They have ultimate responsibility.
Dude, you missed the point of the joke entirely. Do I really need to explain it to you?
Whoosh.
Part of the problem for the Kent State athletes is that they haven't yet learned:
What happens in Cleveland stays in Cleveland! (Apologies to Las Vegas and Tijuana)
If you are invited to participate in a college sport, you are subject to whatever silly rules they want to enforce, scholarships or no. If you don't like it, you don't have to participate.
I don't mind analogies, so long as they're car analogies. I couldn't make head or tail from your dinosaur analogy. Er, make that, I couldn't make hood or trunk.
I wouldn't say that they're trying to rip off myspace. They're using the idea of MySpace to sell product. This is about marketing back-to-school clothes in an interactive quasi-social way. It's marketing. It's marketing. It's marketing. There is a video contest sponsored by sony. You're supposed to create a video for your page. The video is supposed to be an commercial showing you doing school "your way". That's the marketing slogan: School Your Way.
There is no social interactivity, as near as I can tell. No way to leave comments.
They're not trying to attract the hip kids, so much as they're trying to do a makeover on kids that would normally be shopping for their clothes at walmart. There going after the kids that want to be hip, but aren't. Not ever mall contains a hot topic. This isn't about kids being hip, this is about marketers trying to be hip, tryng to understand the MySpace phenom so they can sell it back to you.
A little Frank Zappa song would be apropos here.
Ethan, I'm sending you a wallmart hub invite. Hope you'll join us. OMGZ PONIES!!!