Undoubtedly the best phrase that simply explains everything there is to scaling web applications.
Undoubtedly the best phrase that simply explains everything there is to scaling web applications.
Dishing Out Real Power “The dish, made by Stirling Energy Systems in Phoenix, is the world’s most efficient solar generator. It uses an old principle—that concentrated light is a great heat source—to achieve a level of efficiency on par with conventional power sources and far higher than traditional solar cells. Instead of converting sunlight directly [...]
A moving mass has been shown to generate a gravitomagnetic field (just like a moving electrical charge creates a magnetic field) and “the measured field is a surprising one hundred million trillion times larger than Einstein’s General Relativity predicts”.
Electricity is a subject I don’t understand well. I’ve taken several physics classes, and everytime someone mentions volts, wattage, current, power, my mind goes blank. I finally looked everything up and basically understand it; here is a very brief summary. Part of the reason why electricity seems so mystifying is because you can’t see it. [...]
On the way to class, it’s an uncommon sight to see less then 20 people with the familiar white headphones characteristic of iPods ending into a winter jacket. I’d be surprised if the ratio of iPod owners to non-owners is less than 1:5. If the average size of an iPod is 20GB and Bloomington has [...]
I’m hesitant to list this here because of the amount of random pointless messages people will send me. However, against my better judgment I’m going to post it with the hope that morons don’t abuse it. Not only is it annoying to keep having to check your phone, but costs $.02/message. Unless you are a [...]
We recently bought a glass dining table and I’ve been working primarily on it wirelessly via the laptop. Apart from it being way too warm upstairs (as I’m sure I’ve complained too many of you) I’ve always liked glass tables. Give a modern, stylistic feel. Well moving on to the point. I got tired of [...]
After couple days using this I think I know how the IPOD does its skip free deal. The music is originally stored on a hard-drive and then loaded into its buffer memory. That’s why it appears to be ‘skip-free’. Most other Mp3 players are all buffer memory. It’s actually stored in the memory so its [...]
CNN.com – Microsoft apologizes for NY decals. Microsoft apologizes for MSN decals they littered all over New York City (hundreds of them) and gets slapped with a $50 fine. With $40 billion in the bank (and a $300 million budget for marketing MSN 8), I’m sure that will serve as a great deterrent.
I was paying bills by Credit card on Friday for my parents when I thought of a pretty weird idea. Most of you who either have a credit card or seen one know that credit cards have holograms on them for authenticity purposes and what not. A hologram is really a flattened version of a [...]