May 2012
19 posts
creative album names
the doors: the doors
the velvet underground: the velvet underground
crosby, stills & nash: crosby, stills & nash
led zeppelin: led zeppelin
led zeppelin: led zeppelin II
led zeppelin: led zeppelin III
led zeppelin: led zeppelin IV
“MARIO JUMPS IN ONE PIPE, APPEARS OUT OF ANOTHER, AND THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO...”
– Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real | The Verge
Why Women Choose Bad Boys
Women choose bad boys because their hormones make them, new research suggests. When ovulating a woman’s hormones influence who she sees as good potential fathers, and they specifically pick sexier men over obviously more dependable men.
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We use Hadoop to store copies of internal log and dimension data sources and use it as a source for reporting/analytics and machine learning.
Currently we have 2 major clusters:
A 1100-machine cluster with 8800 cores and about 12 PB raw storage.
A 300-machine cluster with 2400 cores and about 3 PB raw storage.
Each (commodity) node has 8 cores and 12 TB of storage.
We...
How do you predict and license appropriately? The answer thus far has been simple — use open source options like Linux servers, Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, Ruby on Rails…the list goes on. These tried-and-true stalwarts of the economically-challenged and deep-pocketed alike all have licensing costs equal to the number of Bugatti Veryons in the average person’s home — zero.
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of America. Sweden is a country in northern Europe.
Unless you figured it out by now, US law does not apply here.
For your information, no Swedish law is being violated.
Please be assured that any further contact with us, regardless of medium,
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April 2012
22 posts
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Orgstep Dubgasm, A Dubstep Mashup of Iconic Orgasm Scenes in Film
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A History of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame No-Shows |... →
Roger Waters and Pink Floyd weren’t getting along very well in 1996. Two years earlier, the group went on a enormous stadium tour sans Waters and grossed hundreds of millions of dollars. They invited Waters to join them for a performance of Dark Side of the Moon in England towards the end of the tour, but he declined. Waters was still fuming over the fact that the band carried on without him,...
The first European smoker was arrested because... →
The Spanish Inquisition imprisoned him for his sinful habit, because they believed only the devil could allow a man to exhale smoke. Jerez was imprisoned for seven years and by the time he was released the act of smoking had caught on throughout Spain.
March 2012
7 posts
“I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds...”
– Thomas edison
Edison Biography →
Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: “It is very beautiful over there…”
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“If perception makes up your reality, and everyone’s perception is...”
February 2012
8 posts
WatchHappy Valentine’s day me love