Comment His wife was on-hand? (Score 1) 69
said Carolyn Kennedy, the wife of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., who was on hand at the opening of the archive.
Didn't she die along with him, in the plane crash? The wiki says so.
Jeepers, what did
said Carolyn Kennedy, the wife of the late John F. Kennedy, Jr., who was on hand at the opening of the archive.
Didn't she die along with him, in the plane crash? The wiki says so.
Jeepers, what did
When I worked for Palm, a certain app that shipped on every Treo was written with a default schedule to hit the network every hour, starting at 8:00 am.
It wasn't a question of bandwidth, it was that some tens of thousands of devices, all synced to the same network time, opened data connections at the same time, overloading the server that was responsible for initiating data connections.
Should they have been using more than one server for that? Sure. Is it a valid reason for preventing certain apps from running on their net? Probably not.
Can apps take down the cell network? Yes.
Of course developers should have some level of access to the production environment. No matter how good your test environment is, it's not going to match the live server in load, or what's in cache, or the concurrent access to some resource, etc.
Our process was to have one person with access, investigating whatever problem via the SQL command line, or the Rails console (let the RoR jokes commence), with another person watching, to make sure they were doing select * and not update or delete. Even then we'd execute stuff in a transaction or sandbox so that we weren't making any permanent changes, although changes to memcache generally can't be rolled back so easily.
I've seen admins, who are adamant that dev not be allowed to change anything, change psql configurations at a whim, crippling DB performance. And then blame dev for poor response times. That's so not cool.
"Insightful"? Who was drinking Kool-Aid when they...
This is the only failblog post I've every bookmarked: Graffiti Win I'm compelled to visit it every few months, and it never fails to make me chuckle.
How do you think big authors got to be big authors? How are we (as readers) going to find the next Stephen King or Heinlein or Grisham? It's not going to be because somebody read something on someone's blog and told their friends about it.
Name me an author, or a band, that has made it big without involvement of a publisher or label. All these authors (and the bands releasing their stuff on the net to great acclaim and profits) are Big Names already, because of the marketing and push from the publishers and labels.
Yes, there are a couple of people who started off on the net (Scalzi, for one) and then went through a big publisher, but the big publisher is still a requirement for authors to make a good living, as opposed to just writing for a hobby, or for pizza money.
Don't get me wrong, the publishers and labels have been major a-holes to their authors and customers, but I for one don't want the publishers to go out of business. I want them to continue being a filter so I don't have to read crap that wouldn't even make it to the slush pile.
Check here.
Am I missing something? That says that it's version 1.2, updated 28 May 2010.
Is this just a developer raising a ruckus as advertising?
How about this possibility?
"Sucky non-standards-compliant browsers aren't popular"
I'm not saying this is the case, but any decent software developer can write a web browser that's really fast. Getting it to actually render the right stuff all the time takes a lot more work, error checking, and additional code. That's going to slow things down.
Yeah, other than the fact that they're both winter-time leisure activities involving strapping one or more long pieces of fiberglass to your feet, in order to make your way down a snowy slope, they're nothing alike!
And the parent got modded "insightful"? Sheesh.
Even with narrow-spectrum LEDs, you can mix a set of them to obtain the color you'd like. Pick a red LED, a green, and a blue, and mix them with the appropriate currents to get the warm light you'd like.
As pointed out, though, Cree (and others, I'm sure) have been working towards warm single-LED lighting.
Check out the candlepowerforums.com site for exhaustive discussions on LED lighting and related topics.
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