Kind of nerdy, I know, but I find it interesting to read about individuals such as Newton, Feynman, or Darwin. It gives a humbling perspective on one's life to read about people who truly have pushed out the boundaries of human knowledge in a major way.
I checked out a version from my local library just so I could try and read it for myself. This edition was a fairly recent translation from Newton's original work, which was in Latin, into modern day English. Even with that and with an advanced engineering degree and some study of orbital mechanics, I couldn't begin to grasp what he was saying. His mind worked on levels far above mere mortals. I can only imagine that reading his personal notes would be like staring into the face of the Sun without protection. He was an amazing individual, his devotion to alchemy not withstanding.
I totally agree. I'm not a big fan of TV shows and I started to get peeved about the selection of streaming movies. Weeks would go by with no new content. I'd pull up the latest releases menu and they'd have movies on there that were 2, 3, or more years old. I could have dealt with the price increase but paying more for the same old crap just made me pull the plug. If their content improves, I'll consider going back but not now.
I thought about this one as well but I decided not to post because TMMM is really about program management, not programming, per se. Still, it is a fabulous book that every engineer and manager should read, study, and practice.
That is almost exactly how it works except that Netflix itself doesn't provide the caching of popular videos. Limelight and Level3 are actually the source of the video data and they will provide the storage and will serve it to the customers. When a customer requests something not in their cache, they'll go the Netflix server to obtain it and then serve that to the requestor.. That video will then be cached until such time as it ages out because there are no further requests.
Over its six seasons, Lost must have killed off over a thousand people, many implied, but a large number explicitly. Major cast members, guest stars, red shirts. They all died. Guns, smoke monsters, drownings, flaming arrows. Towards the end, they were running out of new and unique ways to off people. It's my theory that that is reason they had to end the series.
If they were really serious, they would have sued for one-hundred and eleventy-three kajillion dollars and 37 cents. The 37 cents would be there to show that they weren't just estimating.
if these suits were commercially available and people used them. We'd have people falling out of the sky like live turkeys being thrown from the traffic helicopter by Les Nessman in the old WKRP in Cincinnati TV show.
** As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly! **
Is the suit filed because of the original accident or because, 3 months later, an 87 year old woman died? I can't imagine anyone trying to prove that the accident lead directly to the death given the woman's age. Further, if a jury trial is called for, what lawyer would bring a 6 year old child into a courtroom to be examined. If the kid wasn't bawling her eyes out, she sit there in that big chair with her legs dangling in the air, looking like a cute 6 year old. No jury in the world would ever find against her. In addition, where in the world could you gather a jury of her peers? You must be 18 to sit in a jury and its hard to make the connection that a bunch of adults are her peers.
One more greedy corporation who muscled out the small, neighborhood stores and when they finally became the big kid on the block, squeezed their customers for everything they could. Now, in the light of new technology they're unable to control, they become unable to compete. So be it.
In the words of airline stewardesses everywhere: B'bye!
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Kind of nerdy, I know, but I find it interesting to read about individuals such as Newton, Feynman, or Darwin. It gives a humbling perspective on one's life to read about people who truly have pushed out the boundaries of human knowledge in a major way.
I checked out a version from my local library just so I could try and read it for myself. This edition was a fairly recent translation from Newton's original work, which was in Latin, into modern day English. Even with that and with an advanced engineering degree and some study of orbital mechanics, I couldn't begin to grasp what he was saying. His mind worked on levels far above mere mortals. I can only imagine that reading his personal notes would be like staring into the face of the Sun without protection. He was an amazing individual, his devotion to alchemy not withstanding.
I always loved those model ships in a bathtub being attacked by Godzilla scenes.
Now if they can only re-animate Raymond Burr.
Or those classified documents of how they faked the moon landings?
Nerd!
Oh, wait, this is Slashdot.
I totally agree. I'm not a big fan of TV shows and I started to get peeved about the selection of streaming movies. Weeks would go by with no new content. I'd pull up the latest releases menu and they'd have movies on there that were 2, 3, or more years old. I could have dealt with the price increase but paying more for the same old crap just made me pull the plug. If their content improves, I'll consider going back but not now.
And provide a decent, living wage to those who can teach and provide the resources and books to support them in their effort.
Ah, it's amazing how the absence of a simple space character can change a sentence from true to false.
Here's a helpful hint. If you crash on a mysterious island in the Pacific, watch out for polar bears.
I wonder if online pet food stores are coming back.
I thought about this one as well but I decided not to post because TMMM is really about program management, not programming, per se. Still, it is a fabulous book that every engineer and manager should read, study, and practice.
Newton, 1993
Lisa, 1983
Pippin, 1996
The newest thing on your list is 15 years old. I doubt very much most Apple fans even know what they were.
Bingo! John wins the intertubez for today for what should be the most obvious and yet, most intelligent, statement of this thread.
That is almost exactly how it works except that Netflix itself doesn't provide the caching of popular videos. Limelight and Level3 are actually the source of the video data and they will provide the storage and will serve it to the customers. When a customer requests something not in their cache, they'll go the Netflix server to obtain it and then serve that to the requestor.. That video will then be cached until such time as it ages out because there are no further requests.
They've got reserves of $60 billion or so. $4.5 million is like the budget for snacks in the break room.
Over its six seasons, Lost must have killed off over a thousand people, many implied, but a large number explicitly. Major cast members, guest stars, red shirts. They all died. Guns, smoke monsters, drownings, flaming arrows. Towards the end, they were running out of new and unique ways to off people. It's my theory that that is reason they had to end the series.
It certainly worked with the teabaggers. Dumb as fucking stumps.
If they were really serious, they would have sued for one-hundred and eleventy-three kajillion dollars and 37 cents. The 37 cents would be there to show that they weren't just estimating.
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if these suits were commercially available and people used them. We'd have people falling out of the sky like live turkeys being thrown from the traffic helicopter by Les Nessman in the old WKRP in Cincinnati TV show.
** As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly! **
Is the suit filed because of the original accident or because, 3 months later, an 87 year old woman died? I can't imagine anyone trying to prove that the accident lead directly to the death given the woman's age. Further, if a jury trial is called for, what lawyer would bring a 6 year old child into a courtroom to be examined. If the kid wasn't bawling her eyes out, she sit there in that big chair with her legs dangling in the air, looking like a cute 6 year old. No jury in the world would ever find against her. In addition, where in the world could you gather a jury of her peers? You must be 18 to sit in a jury and its hard to make the connection that a bunch of adults are her peers.
It took me a couple of scans through the article to believe this was real and not a parody news story.
One more greedy corporation who muscled out the small, neighborhood stores and when they finally became the big kid on the block, squeezed their customers for everything they could. Now, in the light of new technology they're unable to control, they become unable to compete. So be it.
In the words of airline stewardesses everywhere: B'bye!
... and Mike Rowe cleaned up the mess left behind.
We have to go back!!