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  1. Re:FiiO on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning this. I have a FiiO X3. It plays pretty much all hi-res audio files, it can be used as a DAC, it has some internal storage with a MicroSD slot, and it's a fraction of the cost at around $200. Even the newer, more powerful X5 with dual MicroSD slots is $349 on Amazon. The new Sony Walkman seems rather pointless.

  2. Re:Ambiguous Title on OpenStreetMap Sends UK Volunteer Mapper To Antigua · · Score: 1

    I read it the same way. This is a poorly worded title.

  3. Re:17,000 mph sounds like it's fast on Challenges Ahead In Final Hubble Servicing Mission · · Score: 1

    Do you not change the radio while driving?

    I change the "stations" ON the radio. I don't actually change the radio itself, which is more what these guys are doing.

  4. HA is not load balancing on Learning High-Availability Server-Side Development? · · Score: 1

    This is a broad topic, but I would say begin by identifying your single points of failure. You can then research setting up HA solutions for each of those resources. Also, understand the difference between high-availability and load balancing. Just because your database is fault-tolerant, it does not necessarily mean it can scale to cope with increased traffic.

    Draw a high level map of your application and all the server/network resources it uses. Take each one of those components and analyze them for load balancing and fault tolerance. Any single component failure should not affect the overall uptime of the application. Part of a high-availability system is having proper monitoring and notification tools in place. It takes a lot to make a high availability environment work and some of it is not engineering related, but business process related. If your servers are in a data center and a database server goes down, yet your notification system sends an email to a database developer who works 9am to 5pm (maybe on vacation) alerting him/her of the issue... You can see how this can lead to problems. Proper health checks, escalation paths, etc. are all part of making your system work.

    My $0.02.

  5. Re:Is that the best he can come up with? on Windows Vista - Still Fresh After 19 Months? · · Score: 0

    Yep. Windows XP search is entirely useless, especially if you try to locate files containing certain strings. XP rarely finds them so in XP I have to use 3rd party tools for searches. I don't have this problem in Linux.

  6. No specifics on Is the One-Size-Fits-All Database Dead? · · Score: 1

    I was hoping the article would mention specific relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) results versus specialized ones.

  7. Re:Many schools no longer accept AP credits on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 1

    Other ways are NOT acceptable since they are not nearly as efficient. You will be immediately transferred to a PPS (Pill Popping School) while your classmates wave Ivy branches and laugh at you since you clearly have no understanding of what it takes to be an elitist and most likely will never make it into any professional sport. :-p

  8. Many schools no longer accept AP credits on University of Virginia Student Graduates in One Year · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many IV league schools no longer accept AP credits. They want you to get an education from THEIR institution. If you enroll into a school with 72 credits, about half of your university education doesn't even come from the university you attended. This is why many schools are following the examples of the IV league institutions.