Actually, they leave it in the rack and mark it offline. Only when a large number of servers are history do they bother taking out the trash. That's the glory of well-managed commodity hardware!
Physicists said the new approach to taming light could hasten the arrival of a futuristic era
I hate statements like this. How does a 'futuristic era' arrive? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it impossible to hasten the arrival of the future? And when the future does indeed arrive, will it not then be simply 'the present'? Not if you can get Doctor Emmett Brown to pomp your DeLorean.
We never said that we'd wipe them off the map. In fact we don't want to destroy them at all. They are part of our territory. Why would we nuke part of our territory?
You can stay deluded if you'd like, but maybe you'd like to absorb a dose of reality.
Why this is modded insightful is beyond me. This is the reason why China needs such tests, because the Americans are threatening us. I'm presuming you're Chinese because you (a) use the term "we", and (b) despite your grammatical grasp of English being far better than most Slashdotters, you still failed to grasp the contextual meaning completely.
"wipe them off the map" was in this case analogous to "attack and defeat soundly" rather than "destroy completely". And as for other responses, I agree that the US has in fact attacked/invaded many more countries than China in recent years (Ie,. it is WORSE). That does not absolve China in any way, however.
The U.S. is also pushing for reviving a 1962 treaty (never ratified) that would give the large cable distributors (like Discovery, Sci-fi, Spike, etc) ownership of even public domain content if they carry it.
How does that work?
Does this mean the material is no longer public domain? If I was them I'd be more worried that it means loss of "common carrier" status... meaning that if they now own the content they supply (whether public domain or not) then they are now legally liable for any violation it may cause.
Really? I don't recall in the last 5 years China saying anything about wiping another country off the map. I'm sure residents of Taiwan and Tibet would be happy to disagree wth you.
Who wouldnt want to be the first torrent site on Sealand? Shhh, don't tell them! Otherwise if I want first torrent site I'll have to wait until someone decides to create New Sealand... How many sheep can you fit on an oil platform?
A number type of nano-scale architecture developed... Mi scusi? No habla Engrish... Seriously Taco, got editing skills? The whole summary is a direct cut-and-paste of the first paragraph of TFA, grammatical errors and all. Perhaps "A number of types of nano-scale architectures developed..." would've made more sense.
Flash player for x86 Linux is now final and no longer beta. Every x86 Linux user, at least those willing to load binary software, can rejoice and no longer feel like a second rate citizen. Excuse me? I've been perfectly happy with the lack of Flash content in my Linux-based web-browsing experience to this point. Remind me why I should rejoice again?
If China doesn't care about DRM - why have both their attempts to compete with HD-BLU-DVD-RAY included DRM? Because they'll never officially get the Western content (and thus the Export bucks) without at least a token attempt.
You do it because all your friends are doing it. So you go out, get drunk, and find the cheapest, skankiest thing you can get home to plug. And now you're actually touching it! And boy you're on it ALL NIGHT (in five minute incremements between reboots). When you wake up in the morning and take your first sober look at the 'face, knowing you could have done much better, you barely succeed in convincing yourself that it wasn't necessarily the wrong thing to do.
Then you realize you have 17 viruses. And a Trojan in your backdoor?
From the responses to TFA (posted at 3:17PM on 3rd Jan 2007):
11 . At 7:58 PM on Jan 3, 2007, Matt Cutts wrote:
Re: So long, and thanks for all the fish!
Hi Rick, this is Matt Cutts (I'm an engineer at Google). It didn't take long at all for someone to alert me to this.
I agree with your assessment that having that tens of thousands of spammy forum messages could have caused this issue.
I'll ask someone to check into this right now.
...so this is a storm in a teacup. IMHO Google is in fact doing what they're supposed to do (filtering out the crap content). The guy got a personal response to the blog post less than five hours later, by a Google engineer, and the site is now back in Google.
Now on to losing PageRank... even if it has happened (proof please), who cares? Sites lose PageRank every day, why is this one special?
Preventing the crap content in the first place is not in Google's remit, rather it is the webmaster's job.
George Lucas even.. there are a lot of extremely good directors who are far more talented than Jackson... hope one of them get to do the Hobbit, then we might have better plot, characters and far, far intrusive CGI nonsense. Eeeeeexcuse me? George Lucas is the grand-master of intrusive CGI nonsense. I'm not a huge fan of Peter's work, but compared to him, PJ is only halfway up the chain.
We'll look back at LoTR in a few years and say 'god, it looks so dated, those CGI battles are just crap', whereas no-one says that about the very first Star Wars. Correct - they're too busy saying it about the new Star Wars movies instead. The old versions are works of art made as skilfully as was possible with the tools of the day. The new one, on the other hand... seriously, how can you whinge about CGI in movies at the same time as praising the guy who created Jar Jar Binks?
The RIAA, MPAA and BSA all band together and officially buy the U.S. government and military/industrial complex. Bush becomes an RIAA, MPAA, BSA executive by default... Yeah. I can see it now. You can see it too? So my TV isn't playing tricks on me?
Not at all - I was referring more to the fact that you thought it at all, rather than what your actual point was. Perhaps you have trouble receiving compliments?
Let me put it this way: It's like a real woman. Just because you can whip out a microscope and examine every inch of her body (every pimple, every blemish, every hair), doesn't mean you do. She's there, she's naked, presumably she wants to fuck you, so why are you counting the hairs in her landing strip? She's there, she's naked, presumably she wants to fuck you, and the object you choose to whip out is... a microscope. You, sir, are one nerd who is overdue for a promotion.
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Actually, they leave it in the rack and mark it offline. Only when a large number of servers are history do they bother taking out the trash. That's the glory of well-managed commodity hardware!
pomp? pimp! Damn dyslexic fingers!
How long until someone invents an RFID-tracking RPG?
We never said that we'd wipe them off the map. In fact we don't want to destroy them at all. They are part of our territory. Why would we nuke part of our territory?
You can stay deluded if you'd like, but maybe you'd like to absorb a dose of reality.
Why this is modded insightful is beyond me. This is the reason why China needs such tests, because the Americans are threatening us. I'm presuming you're Chinese because you (a) use the term "we", and (b) despite your grammatical grasp of English being far better than most Slashdotters, you still failed to grasp the contextual meaning completely.
"wipe them off the map" was in this case analogous to "attack and defeat soundly" rather than "destroy completely". And as for other responses, I agree that the US has in fact attacked/invaded many more countries than China in recent years (Ie,. it is WORSE). That does not absolve China in any way, however.
Does this mean the material is no longer public domain? If I was them I'd be more worried that it means loss of "common carrier" status... meaning that if they now own the content they supply (whether public domain or not) then they are now legally liable for any violation it may cause.
Thankyou, thankyou, I'll be here all week. Try the mutton.
Wrong. Everything is toxic (including water) - the dose makes the poison, not the substance. I thought that was common sense!
I call "bingo"!
Then you realize you have 17 viruses. And a Trojan in your backdoor?
Now on to losing PageRank... even if it has happened (proof please), who cares? Sites lose PageRank every day, why is this one special?
Preventing the crap content in the first place is not in Google's remit, rather it is the webmaster's job.
Hello, is that the Thought Police? Yes, please come right away, we've just found a live one.
I'm sorry, please continue...
Personally I'm waiting for SCO to wigh in here, and sue Transmeta for infringing on SCO's patented business model...
Not at all - I was referring more to the fact that you thought it at all, rather than what your actual point was. Perhaps you have trouble receiving compliments?
True - I meant "you" in the collective sense. Apologies for any misunderstanding.