I doubt it. It's not like this is some frequent event - as someone said early, some jackass was probably just messing with the breaker. How often is LiveJournal normally down, I ask you? Besides, how exactly can you blame a power-outage in any way, shape, or form on Six Apart? What exactly could they do to make electricity stop running, and why would they do it?
"Technorati crawls the whole blogosphere almost real-time. How they do that is a trick I would probably get sued to tell you, so figure it out yourself.:)"
If I were a wise man, I would think it has something to do with TrackBack...
But seriously, yes, I realize that most of the world understands metric - as do I, and I prefer it. I translated it to better suit the rhythm of the joke. That's right, my post was meant to be humor - if you honestly have to nit-pick at that, I feel sorry for you.
Why can't we just admit to ourselves that out of the 98% of people who use computers in some form, the remaining 2% just isn't interested? The elderly in the next 20 years will shift away from computer illiteracy with the passing of the previous generations of the old, so why bother? I can understand if Grandpa wants to learn to use the PC, then fine - but if he doesn't, who really cares? These kinds of products have always struck me as somehow an attempt to make an easy buck from people who need a firmer root in computers for them to know any better. Nothing more.
Doesn't really seem practical for robot/human soccer matches (considering the humans would obviously be at a severe advantage), but what about a Robot World Cup? And yes, I mean real soccer-robots, not some BattleBot hitting a soccer ball with it's wedge before another innappropriately-placed hole appears.
Is this in the same route of saying something in 1955 that will happen in 2005? If so, might I ask where all of the predictions from that era went? And why is no one bragging about "being right"?
If you're on any major P2P network surfing for...unmentionables, then about a third the Windows Media files will be encoded with some sort of spyware or other prompt taking advantage of the DRM. However, keep in mind several things -
1) Windows Media Player will open the page in your default browser, and thus, IE exploits aren't much of a danger 2) This is only a problem in Windows Media Player, anyway - products like Winamp, IrfanView, and the like present little problems
So all you have to do is keep Firefox chuggin' along, or avoid downloading suspicious WMV files.
Would it be possible to convert it into a location to house fragile or endangered plants and certain animals? I mean, if they can solve that oxygen problem, that is.
Eh, I doubt it's intentional. Odds are it's just checking where the most users are coming from, and displaying the URL. If it had been intentional, I doubt they would have included the full URL, opting for "/." or "Slashdot".
Slashdot Mirror
Their old power didn't seem to reliale either, what's the difference? :)
In this version, the black smoke flying from the machines is normal.
Spins, most likely.
Sir, I will fight your advice until my grave.
I doubt it. It's not like this is some frequent event - as someone said early, some jackass was probably just messing with the breaker. How often is LiveJournal normally down, I ask you? Besides, how exactly can you blame a power-outage in any way, shape, or form on Six Apart? What exactly could they do to make electricity stop running, and why would they do it?
"And yes, before anyone feels intelligent enough to post it:
-assembly
+assemble"
Shit, did I just post that?
-assemble
+the assembly
And yes, before anyone feels intelligent enough to post it:
-assembly
+assemble
...to a grand total of 20...
Update from the site:
"Update #1, 7:35 pm PST: we're up on 'dirty' power for now (it works, but it's unreliable)".
Congrats to LiveJournal for assembly a coal generator in a record time.
"Our data center (Internap) lost all its power, including redundant backup power, for some unknown reason. (unknown to me, at least)"
Coffee is a hell of a drink.
"Technorati crawls the whole blogosphere almost real-time. How they do that is a trick I would probably get sued to tell you, so figure it out yourself. :)"
If I were a wise man, I would think it has something to do with TrackBack...
For $10,000 I can pay my neighbor to come over everyday for the rest of my life and make toast for me. And he won't break. I hope.
Finally, something that can meet Longhorn's specifications...
At least my backward country can spell "inches".
But seriously, yes, I realize that most of the world understands metric - as do I, and I prefer it. I translated it to better suit the rhythm of the joke. That's right, my post was meant to be humor - if you honestly have to nit-pick at that, I feel sorry for you.
Why can't we just admit to ourselves that out of the 98% of people who use computers in some form, the remaining 2% just isn't interested? The elderly in the next 20 years will shift away from computer illiteracy with the passing of the previous generations of the old, so why bother? I can understand if Grandpa wants to learn to use the PC, then fine - but if he doesn't, who really cares? These kinds of products have always struck me as somehow an attempt to make an easy buck from people who need a firmer root in computers for them to know any better. Nothing more.
Doesn't really seem practical for robot/human soccer matches (considering the humans would obviously be at a severe advantage), but what about a Robot World Cup? And yes, I mean real soccer-robots, not some BattleBot hitting a soccer ball with it's wedge before another innappropriately-placed hole appears.
Is this in the same route of saying something in 1955 that will happen in 2005? If so, might I ask where all of the predictions from that era went? And why is no one bragging about "being right"?
"a descendent of the 38cm tall VisiON"
38cm = 14.9606299 inches, or about a foot and two inches
Nothing to fear here. Except maybe leg-humping offenses.
Unless it rains.
If you're on any major P2P network surfing for...unmentionables, then about a third the Windows Media files will be encoded with some sort of spyware or other prompt taking advantage of the DRM. However, keep in mind several things -
1) Windows Media Player will open the page in your default browser, and thus, IE exploits aren't much of a danger
2) This is only a problem in Windows Media Player, anyway - products like Winamp, IrfanView, and the like present little problems
So all you have to do is keep Firefox chuggin' along, or avoid downloading suspicious WMV files.
Would it be possible to convert it into a location to house fragile or endangered plants and certain animals? I mean, if they can solve that oxygen problem, that is.
I agree...er..
I just realized something:
Millionaire + Self-Sustained Environment = Human Hunting Adventure
This is gonna be fun.
A quick note - the ultimate goal of the Wikipedia project is to produce a stable version of the Encyclopedia, that is fact-checked and such.
Eh, I doubt it's intentional. Odds are it's just checking where the most users are coming from, and displaying the URL. If it had been intentional, I doubt they would have included the full URL, opting for "/." or "Slashdot".
Mod parent up.