Comment IL - Voted absentee (Score 1) 821
Voted a week ago. Simple fill in the oval paper ballot.
Recurly's Backup Mess Takes Days to Clean Up 21
A cascading hardware outage struck subscription payment provider Recurly last week, and that started a long example in how not to manage critical infrastructure. From the article: "Last Monday, the payment provider suffered an intermittent hardware failure, which prevented the company from processing either payments or refunds. The company says it serves over 1,000 customers, including Adobe, BrightCove, and Fox News Radio, processing recurring payments for subscriptions.
By Friday, the company still hadn’t completely straightened out the mess, providing updates to customers using payment gateways such as Authorize.net and LinkPoint/First Data."
Comment Re:Summary of tests? (Score 1) 130
Uhhhh, why? That was the point of the test. Same hardware, different software, what is the performance difference?
Er, the point of the test was to generate page views. But yes, a graph showing the clear winners and losers at the end in the summary would have been helpful. At least with Tom's Hardware, they put a summary of the different pages.
Comment Summary of tests? (Score 5, Interesting) 130
15 pages of a review, with a poor summary of the results, results in the most number of page views. It would have been nice if they had some sort of summary or benchmark to compare the two against rather than individual tests spread across this. Perhaps a summary chart?
Also, comparing a well tuned video device driver versus the (usually) hastily written Linux one is a poor comparison.
I really doubt people choose a mac over Linux over this kind of test. There more solid reasons to choose one or the other.
Also, comparing a well tuned video device driver versus the (usually) hastily written Linux one is a poor comparison.
I really doubt people choose a mac over Linux over this kind of test. There more solid reasons to choose one or the other.
Comment Re:Fantastic first impressions (Score 3, Insightful) 368
You would have more influence if you actually had any history, anywhere. But you don't.
Why would I want to customize my advertisements, I like them unobtrusive. I doubt I could turn them off.
With tagging, who needs folders.
I doubt it will be faster than gmail, what with the extra javascript required for metro.
And who has trouble remembering their email address domain? Seriously?
And why would I want integration for my email.
And of course it's your honest opinion, you were most likely paid for this.
Seriously, just get out.
Why would I want to customize my advertisements, I like them unobtrusive. I doubt I could turn them off.
With tagging, who needs folders.
I doubt it will be faster than gmail, what with the extra javascript required for metro.
And who has trouble remembering their email address domain? Seriously?
And why would I want integration for my email.
And of course it's your honest opinion, you were most likely paid for this.
Seriously, just get out.
Comment Re:maximum age crystals (Score 1) 158
Not since SyFy killed it, anyway,
Comment If only... (Score 1) 646
If only we had a consumer group that could protect children from getting into their parents guns... Oh wait, we do, and they are more worried about kids swallowing small magnets instead.
Comment Re:Okay then (Score 1) 129
This ^
Do It Yourself Biology Research, Past and Present 108
Harperdog writes "Laura Kahn has a great article about the long and fascinating history of do-it-yourself research, from Darwin and Mendel to present day. From the article: 'Welcome to the new millennium of do-it-yourself (DIY) biology. Advances in technology in the twenty-first century have enabled anybody, with the desire and the disposable income, to build rather sophisticated laboratories in their own homes. Entire communities have even materialized to promote these efforts -- like the thousands of amateur biologists who contribute to DIYbio.org, a website "dedicated to making biology an accessible pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists and biological engineers."'"
Comment Re:Tagline: (Score 1) 256
I have high hopes for this.
Because there are four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode(software), and high-speed pizza delivery.
Because there are four things we do better than anyone else: music, movies, microcode(software), and high-speed pizza delivery.
Comment Google doodle finally (Score 3, Informative) 230
I've requested a Google doodle for Alan Turing's birthday for a couple years now. I'm just glad to hear they'll finally put one up.
Comment Re:NewFail (Score 1) 594
I also am a little disappointed in this. They ended up shipping mine yesterday evening, so I'm slated for end of day tomorrow. Which is kind of a pain since I have tomorrow scheduled off. (Yes, I took a comp day to play Diablo 3 since I worked Saturday, what of it!)
Comment I don't buy it (Score 1) 738
Maybe I'm outside the norm, but I had two different offers the last time I looked for a new job (6 months ago), despite moving from another state and being just shy of 40. Of course, I keep up with new tech and had an app in the Android market, so maybe I seem young.
Comment Sell to your customers (Score 1) 288
This article made me go and buy Aziz Ansari's special: http://azizansari.com/
I had always meant to, but it reminded me that a $5 directly to the artist does WAY more than spending $20 on a dvd to a large company. I had bought Louie CK's thing the day it came out, but waited on Aziz's.
So yes, Louie CK did not monetize because not everyone got their pound of flesh, but it's so easy to just sell a product cheaply when there are no concerns about who can watch it. And who knows, maybe those people go see his standup live and we have a decent comedian in arenas, unlike Dane Cook.
I had always meant to, but it reminded me that a $5 directly to the artist does WAY more than spending $20 on a dvd to a large company. I had bought Louie CK's thing the day it came out, but waited on Aziz's.
So yes, Louie CK did not monetize because not everyone got their pound of flesh, but it's so easy to just sell a product cheaply when there are no concerns about who can watch it. And who knows, maybe those people go see his standup live and we have a decent comedian in arenas, unlike Dane Cook.
Comment Re:Built on bleeding edge technology (Score 2) 138
I know I'm feeding the troll here, but what application developers has access to threads (or sound or graphics even) in the 70s? First reference to threads I can find is SunOS 4.x, which came out in 82. The 80s is also when some sounds and graphics became available on many computers (Commodore Vic-20, Atari 2600, IBM PC, Apple II, etc). There might have been specialty computers that had those features, but nothing available for the average application developer in the 70s.
