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From an old high school classmate who must have dug up this picture from some long forgotten box of absurdities
Andy Rooney says:
As I grow in age, I value women who are over forty most of all. Here are just a few reasons why: A woman over forty will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, “What are you thinking?” She doesn’t care what you think.
If a woman over forty doesn’t want to watch the game, she doesn’t sit around whining about it. She does something she wants to do. And, it’s usually something more interesting.
A woman over forty knows herself well enough to be assured in who she is, what she is, what she wants and from whom. Few women past the age of forty give a hoot what you might think about her or what she’s doing.
Women over forty are dignified. They seldom have a screaming match with you at the opera or in the middle of an expensive restaurant. Of course, if you deserve it, they won’t hesitate to shoot you, if they think they can get away with it.
Older women are generous with praise, often undeserved. They know what it’s like to be unappreciated.
A woman over forty has the self-assurance to introduce you to her women friends. A younger woman with a man will often ignore even her best friend because she doesn’t trust the guy with other women. Women over forty couldn’t care less if you’re attracted to her friends because she knows her friends won’t betray her.
Women get psychic as they age. You never have to confess your sins to a woman over forty. They always know.
A woman over forty looks good wearing bright red lipstick. This is not true of younger women. Once you get past a wrinkle or two, a woman over forty is far sexier than her younger counterpart.
Older women are forthright and honest. They’ll tell you right off if you are a jerk, if you are acting like one! You don’t ever have to wonder where you stand with her.
Yes, we praise women over forty for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it’s not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed hot woman of forty-plus, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some twenty-two-year-old waitress.
Ladies, I apologize.
For all those men who say, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free,” here’s an update for you. Now 80 percent of women are against marriage, why? Because women realize it’s not worth buying an entire pig, just to get a little sausage.
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Can the data center (DC) sector achieve 300% compute capacity growth while using 60% less space to achieve this result? Yes. That‘s the assertion made by Gartner Group a year ago. How will it happen? Not through any single bolt of lightning but through myriad changes that either conserve energy or reduce thermal impacts.
So, some of this will be achieved with obvious moves, such as incorporating row- and rack-based cooling into all new data centers and retrofitting old ones with these measures. Adopting a modular approach to DC expansion, too, will become a viable option with engineers equipping these facilities with new ways to partition off unused floorspace from HVAC needs and banking that space for future consumption.
The biggest improvements in these areas, however, will come from virtualization software that achieves significantly higher user density per physical CPU or HD spindle. Software is unaffected by the laws of physics (well, far less so than hardware). The current generation of hypervisors and data center management software exerts a considerable drag on compute operations - perhaps as great as 10%.
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The difference between Joyent and other cloud providers is that its in-house software engineers are former Sun, Intel, Oracle, Google and Apple kernel engineers who built SmartDataCenter to run on multiple operating systems, Hoffman said. "For people with unique security needs, it's actually the most secure virtualization they'll find," he said.
Security - Security and authentication can be a sticky issue for mobile apps. No one wants to wants to wake up and read that their favorite app has been sending their personal information, or worse, their password, in plaintext over the Internet. One recent report found that up to 10% of mobile apps are storing passwords as plaintext right on the device. And once an insecurity is exposed you’re stuck, as an update could take weeks to be approved by Apple. Even then not all your users will upgrade en masse. With StackMob, we bake SSL support and the industry standard OAuth into every single call to our servers. And there’s no need to fuss with OAuth headers.The provided iOS and Android SDKs handle all the details. ‘Users’ of an app are a first-class concept within StackMob. And we ensure passwords, Facebook, and Twitter credentials are always protected.
Versioning – Because there can be multiple versions of your app in the wild, it can become necessary to maintain support for old API calls to prevent the previous versions from breaking. This can quickly become a maintenance nightmare. At StackMob, we are working on a system to version every single API call as well as provide graceful deprecation. We will maintain a complete history of the evolution of your API and safeguard your users against versioning obsolescence – regardless of what version of your software they are running. Push Notifications - Push Notifications are a great way to provide real-time information to your users and keep them engaged with your app. But providing this functionality requires special push servers running 24/7. At StackMob we have built push right into the platform, so you can initiate a push message right from a device using the SDK, or server-side with a single line of code in your StackMob Custom Code.
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The fact it's Microsoft-backed makes it a relatively commercially-appropriate technology to use on production, core-business applications, plus it's a modern approach which helps you and your team to learn and explore new ways of working. The ability to squeeze more performance out of existing servers is also a big win. In all this new development of Node.js on Windows is strongly recommended.





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