I find "Lucida Console" to be the best terminal font available on Windows. it's a monospaced TrueType font, so you get infinitely variable sizing and antialiasing (cleartype with XP), whereas bitmapped fonts like "Terminal" don't.
most big sites have changed their DNS CNAMEs to point directly to one of their datacenters rather than relying on Akamai to route users to the "nearest" datacenter.
akamai offers a DNS feature that would be very expensive for even a large company to replicate: location-based name resolution.
a company like Yahoo! or Google have their servers in multiple physical datacenters mostly for fail-safe operation.
akamai's service will direct a user to the "nearest" (in network terms) operational datacenter.
the infrastructure to provide this intelligent DNS service is huge, and justifies the fact that a whole company is built around this idea.
it took me 5 minutes to write an RSS-formatted output algo for my site's homebrew blogging function.
what does this give me? not much. but it allows my friends, family, etc to add my site/blog to their My Yahoo page or RSS newsreader program so they can see my news along side Reuters and AP.
i'd say that's pretty damn cool, and far from useless.
The power of RSS is that headlines are aggregated (hence the name) into one interface.
If the full articles were available through the feeds, commercial sites would have no incentive to publish RSS, since their existence depends on eyeballs looking at their site (and ads).
Aggregating many different sites into a single interface allows you to more quickly decide what your path of consumption will be.
a dark room, a mic, a preamp, a silicon controlled rectifier, and a photo flash leads to high-speed sound activated photography:
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scene photos and diagram included.
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that's because yahoo *offers* much more than google does.
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oooh ... that's nice.
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a bit taller than Lucida Console, but i'll give it a whirl.
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- current F1 engines hit nearly 19,000 RPM. that's 3x the speed of a typical car engine, and 1.5x the speed of a fast motorcycle engine.
- at 19,000 RPM, the pistons in the engine experience 10,000 g of acceleration/deceleration as they move up and down
- the pistons reach a maximum vertical-axis speed of 132 feet per second, or 90 MPH
- the cars IDLE at 4,000 RPM, near the maximum speed of many automobile engines
- the cars generate enough downforce (roughly 1300 lbs) at 90MPH to *drive upside down*
- at a maximum of 200-210MPH, the car is exerting nearly 5,000 lbs of pressure onto the ground, thanks to its aerodymic profile
- the faster the car goes, the faster it can go around a turn (see above)
I find "Lucida Console" to be the best terminal font available on Windows. it's a monospaced TrueType font, so you get infinitely variable sizing and antialiasing (cleartype with XP), whereas bitmapped fonts like "Terminal" don't.
most big sites have changed their DNS CNAMEs to point directly to one of their datacenters rather than relying on Akamai to route users to the "nearest" datacenter.
akamai offers a DNS feature that would be very expensive for even a large company to replicate: location-based name resolution. a company like Yahoo! or Google have their servers in multiple physical datacenters mostly for fail-safe operation. akamai's service will direct a user to the "nearest" (in network terms) operational datacenter. the infrastructure to provide this intelligent DNS service is huge, and justifies the fact that a whole company is built around this idea.
he made $3 Million on the patent over the course of 30 years. $100K per year isn't going to make anyone who lives in Los Gatos, CA rich.
useless!?!?!
it took me 5 minutes to write an RSS-formatted output algo for my site's homebrew blogging function.
what does this give me? not much. but it allows my friends, family, etc to add my site/blog to their My Yahoo page or RSS newsreader program so they can see my news along side Reuters and AP.
i'd say that's pretty damn cool, and far from useless.
The power of RSS is that headlines are aggregated (hence the name) into one interface. If the full articles were available through the feeds, commercial sites would have no incentive to publish RSS, since their existence depends on eyeballs looking at their site (and ads). Aggregating many different sites into a single interface allows you to more quickly decide what your path of consumption will be.
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a dark room, a mic, a preamp, a silicon controlled rectifier, and a photo flash leads to high-speed sound activated photography: m.i.l.k.d.r.o.p. scene photos and diagram included.
that's because yahoo *offers* much more than google does.
if you want a simple search box, navigate to the yahoo! search page.