Damn.

1000000000 / (7*24*60*60) * 20*10
= 330687

Damn...
who has mod points to mod me to oblivion?

A billion registered users.
Suppose each of them visit the site once every week (come on it's not Facebook)
Each time visiting 20 pages, perhaps each page has ~10 images

1000000000 / (7*24*60*60*20*10)
~= 8.27 requests per second.

Unless you're doing really expensive operations, most modern servers can handle that kind of load and more.

Sure, it doesn't say anything about spikes, which is a harder problem. But usually the claims about server load of having so damn many users is really exaggerated.

(Of course, once you even *attempt* to *scale* beyond the single server - single point of failure model, you'd need somebody who's experienced enough not to shoot themselves in the foot trying.)

I'm pretty sure I remember US military personnel detonating bombs among civilians including inncen women and children, to "protect" the United States and the Constitution...

As others have mentioned, the US has enough resources that they don't have to resort to suicide bombing tactics. But, personally, I'd ask for what cause the ground troops in Iraq died for. It may upset you Americans, but honestly IMHO they were "patriotic nutcases that think dying for their country is glorious and expected", AND they killed innocent women and children.

I don't expect you to understand though. I wouldn't call you names based on your intellect and ability to understand alternative viewpoints, but I do concur with the other replies on this subject.

This argument is just lame. When a company pays you a salary, you work for them. So "offering to implement her ideas" is almost like "offering to work during office hours". Worse, it's "offering to do something really risky instead of your assigned task during office hours".

If she is wrong, of course her lack of capability will be revealed -- but will she be able to fix the mess if it goes wrong? What about the cost of the mistake?

ooohh... Sounds scary, until you realize it is basically the same thing as patriotic nutcases that think dying for their country is glorious and expected.

This makes North Korea.sound like utopia!

Get a life dude.

Yeah, automatically accuse people of lying when their anecdotal experience does not match your ideological beliefs.

Look, I've installed Linux on dozens of machines. The newer the hardware, the more cumbersome it is to get it working, unless you're using bleeding edge distros. I don't use bleeding edge distros, for my own sanity.

If I'm a fanboy at all, I'd be a fanboy of Debian stable. Any time saved by using another disto would eventually be evened out by the "cost of maintenance" of using things like *Unity*, *GNOME 3*.

In 1998 you spent two weeks to get it half working if there's actually a driver for your hardware -- or two months to write the damn driver yourself. These days you spend 2-3 days to find, install and config the latest kernel and drivers, because your 6 month old distro release (using a year old kernel) probably won't have the drivers for your newer hardware.

You know, bourgeoisie capitalism and all that shit.

The only alternative to burning money is to burn time.

- Linux: Expect around 2-3 days of hunting for audio and display drivers and tweaking with the configs until it works.
- Windows: Expect around 2-3 days of trying to clean your system of malware and converting your old machine settings to the new one. (or just accept that you have to fight daily battles against the OS to be productive with the computer)

I'm currently using a Linux machine at home. Yet the thought of spending a day or two messing with the OS instead of doing something more interesting/productive makes me dread my next computer hardware upgrade. I had more time on my hands back when I bought my current machine.

It really depends on whether you really want to do self-repair. I have a hard disk with bad sectors, and I'm procrastinating to fix it (running on backup drives now), even though I could easily spend an afternoon to buy a new disk and migrate the data over.

Life is short. Time is precious. To each their own :-/

Think of the young women and girls!! You don't want to dissuade them from pursuing a career in carrying out legalized killings!

Your *government* is a master. (Well, unless you're Obama with a funny slashdot nickname).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore

Deng Xiao-ping would be rolling in his grave to know that Hong Kong, where English is still one of the official languages, is still part of the British Empire.

In other news, it may be a surprise to you that not everyone in Britain speaks English as a first language. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II would probably object strongly to alienating their status as British subjects.

I guess most Asians don't understand English that well to feel strongly about it. (And on that point, since you're Googling, I suppose if you searched in the native language of the country you're researching you'll have more results)

And generally the expectation of privacy is not so culturally important as in Europe. When some anonymous something far far away across the pacific ocean is alleged to maybe have tapped on your communications, it doesn't register as something to be obviously outraged about.

Perhaps something about Asians living in relatively crowded cities instead of quiet suburbs gives the secure feeling of being in a crowd and not having the feeling of possibly singled out. I just made that up, but I suppose it does make sense.