"By some researches, in cases of point-to-point delivery of high-speed data with binary encoding used over NetTcp bindings, there are very impressive results. Transporting on reasonably large and complex messages (using strong types) can reach almost 10.000 messages per CPU. So if you have a quad processor server you can perform over 40,000 messages."
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"Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported."
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"Advertisers target IE users because of distinct demographics they've identified: more likely to be surfing from work, less technologically capable, inclined to use what others use, etc. I'm sure there are also huge international demographics. India is very PC as I understand it, while Japan has more Macs percentage wise than the U.S." Hmmrph.
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"Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. A federal holiday, it is usually observed on November 11. However, if it occurs on a Sunday then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if it occurs Saturday then either Saturday or Friday may be so designated.[1] It is also celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)"
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"Now, I know why most people compress they're js files, because they don't won't people to steal the code, but it must be the case that sometimes, like what happened to me today, you've just gotta crack that encryption. I'm a bit worried about posting this, so I hope it's in someway new and/or useful."
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I have confirmed that technique still works - but only when the bookmarklet is launched from Firefox. Obviously as soon as the "Decode" button is removed, that's the end of this hack.
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"In two generations, Mandarin will become our mother tongue," said Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew at the launch of the 2009 Speak Mandarin Campaign earlier this year.
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"The scenes showing Lightman's computer dialing every number in Sunnyvale led to the term "war dialing", a technique of using a modem to scan a list of telephone numbers to search for unknown computers, and indirectly to the newer term "wardriving." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
"A three-alarm fire is burning Whatcom Middle School in Bellingham. The fire was reported by a neighbor at 1 a.m. Thursday, and Fire Chief Bill Boyd told The Bellingham Herald it had burned through most of the roof within 15 minutes and heavily damaged the building's third floor."
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Last night Whatcom Middle School, a historic School building was heavily damaged by fire probably started by the welding activity on the roof as part of renovations currently underway. It is probably a total loss and a new school will need to be build of the students absorbed into the three remaining middle schools. The school building in the past...
"The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. It's not our own good works that get us through the gates of Heaven." -- Bono