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I used to think Monster cables were a complete joke too until a musician friend pointed out that they have a lifetime warranty and very generous terms of exchange. One can essentially walk into any music store in the country and swap out the splinched cables for new ones, no questions asked.

Is he doing it right? Should the cables fail after every show? Shouldn't he just get better cables?


Chaotic environment; hookup and unhooking frequently stresses connectors; people trip over them.


I wonder how it tastes...


Better if you leave out the sperm additive.



That was a big vague. He said "causing the problem" but didn't go into specifics about what that problem might be. Seems a bit too much like PR speak to me. Let's get it on the table: are these chargers a fire hazard?


I thought it was the Moscow Ballet...


Fixed! I guess I wasn't paying enough attention during that scene...


Dremel, Sawzall, what's next?


I don't know, but I wonder if this may get them in a little hot water. Both Dremel and Sawzall are trademarked.

I also don't particularly like the use of the words, I am very attached to my Dremel and I don't see how it applies to processing a database :)


Trademark restrictions are tied to the field of use.

If Google was releasing power tools and calling them Dremel, they would have a problem. But they can release a programming language called Dremel and are likely to be legally in the clear.

(Or such is my non-lawyerly understanding. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.)

((The reason people say that about not legal advice is that if you give legal advice and someone gets in trouble because of it - even if the advice was correct and the person misunderstood - you are liable for the consequences of that advice.))


But these are not products. They're internal code names and there's no chance that Google will ever be releasing these pieces of software to the public. Thus no possible trademark issues.


Google Naming conventions:

Indexing Systems: Caffeine, Percolator

Database Systems: Spanner, Sawzall, Dremel

Mobile: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Haggis


Seeing 'Haggis' really brought a smile to my face. I wish it were the case but 'Honeycomb' is the name there.


You're right; this was from an old source file.


IIRC, there's a class-action lawsuit against Sony for removing OtherOS.


I believe it was recently thrown out.


Citation? I the latest news I could find on google was that the nine or so class-actions were consolidated into one, and that Sony has filed a motion to dismiss, but nothing more that that.


Thrown out....in Australia.


The actual quote was:

About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.


What could they possibly need $25K for? As far as I can tell, all it is is a web app + a magazine/book.


$25k is 500 one-year subscriptions. That's the point at which the printed magazine makes economic sense.


_If they just allowed a fewer number of people into the park on any given day, would the customers be more likely to return again?_

Well... not the ones that are turned away. They'll be mad.


Adding to this, is there any easy way to set up a git deployment architecture on your own server?


check this out.. heroku-like deployment. The concept is simple enough to hack to your own needs

http://remi.org/2010/01/03/phd_passenger-based_heroku-like_d...

https://github.com/remi/phd

https://github.com/remi/pushand


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