Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems - NYTimes.com |
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Friend or Foe? Crows Never Forget a Face, It Seems - NYTimes.com
These kind of research findings are always so fun. :3 The researchers in this article researched whether crows recognize human faces by wearing various masks. (Dick Cheney mask?? yikes the hunting incident;;; It'd have been fun too if they wore the mask from the Scream movies- I've always liked that mask... ahem.) When seeing people wearing the masks that researchers wore when they captured (and later released, of course) some of the birds, the flock (murder of crows!) would harrass and even swoop down at the offensive human. wow. XD;;
I guess it coincides with the conventional adage/saying that when a kkachi cries, a guest will arrive, which is supposedly said to be because the birds cry out in warning because they see strangers. It's like... confirming what you always believed to be true (more or less) by gathering evidence that will convince almost everyone? So... hurray for scientists! :)
...wait a minute. why are my last two posts about a scare"crow" and "crows" o_o?;;;; Do I.. like birds?;; (..the short answer is "yes".. hmm.)
Letter to my future self |
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Just a test...
Amori Hanna |
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I'm Falling Deeply + Madly in Love with Hanna's Tender Bosom*********
xoxo
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shaping connections |
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She sat at the edge, unsure of where or how to fit in.
Was she square and the world round? or vice versa?
Feeling increasingly grateful for the contact she has.
Does it matter her shape?
Nursery Wallpaper - a peep inside the nurseries of the famous | Nursery Wallpaper |
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Nursery Wallpaper - a peep inside the nurseries of the famous | Nursery Wallpaper
great video with ideas for nursery wallpaper
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I almost feel like I'm a serial-blog-maker. -_- This is.. let's see.. my 5th blog? not only that, I'm planning on opening/installing one or two more blogs in the near future.. Regardless, I'm pretty excited by what sa.yona.la seems to offer me, and I absolutely love the potential I have here in terms of being an anonymous voice without worrying about all the useless things that could prevent me from saying what's on my mind. So, here it goes. :)
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torsdag 2007-10-04
6.4 är framskjuten till mitten av november, men jag har inte fått något datum. Jag kommer att höra av mig så fort jag vet något mer eller ett exakt datum så vi kan planera för det och beställa IT-tekniker där så behövs. Vårat önskemål är att det ska ske från kl 17 och framåt en månd, tisd, onsd eller torsd. Det tar ca 3-4 timmar har teknikerna på Axiell meddelat. Sen behöver vi hämta hem klienten, med eller utan hjälp av tekniker morgonen därpå. Anledningen till att det blir senare än det först meddelades beror på att vi får en senare version av 6.4:an med fler buggar rättade och med högre prestanda. Annars hade vi fåt göra 2 uppgraderingar under loppet av 2 månader vilket käns onödigt och opraktiskt.
// Helena
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IPv4 is running out, like oil?
Headius: Q/A: What Thread-safe Rails Means |
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Throwing a few mutex around loggers and database connections is only part of the battle, there are undoubtedly plenty of race conditions with ActiveRecord since with it's lack of an identity map and optimistic locking. Beyond that, Rails requests do not operate transactionally on the db side. To perform an atomic increment on an activerecord model's column naturally (model.column += 1) and having it behave correctly is a long way from happening. Rails applications generally don't even have error handling code for cases where there is an aborted transaction due to deadlocks (an expected condition in a transactionally sound system), nevermind actually implementing it correctly to re-run the unit of work. The only reason they get away with it is that most apps running Rails don't give a damn about data consistency, and hence, don't use multi-statement transactions, and hence, don't take out many locks at once, and hence, don't deadlock.
I agree with this comment. It can't be easy to make Rails thread-safe.