"Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers 283
secmartin writes "Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when they decide to shut down this service in a couple of years."
Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Now I remember why I decided to go with software development over network administration!
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Now I remember why I decided to go with software development over network administration!
As a network administrator, let me be the first to say, I hate you.
STEP2 REVEALED!!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
1. Take a distributed distribution system.
2. Centralize it create a single point of failure.
3. PROFIT!
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
And you know why we become DBAs - because we don't just hate you -- we hate everybody. Us Oracle DBAs even hate ourselves.
Re:Why is it downloading at all? (Score:5, Funny)
Here's a hint:
When picking on someone for their spelling, don't misspell words.
Ignorat twit.
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
You're not dead yet? Damn modern medicine is keeping people alive forever... so much for quality over quantity... too bad euthanasia is not legal ;-)
Re:Why is it downloading at all? (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the lack of knowledge about Blu-Ray that makes you ignorant. It's the fact that you can't spell 'ignorance'.
You should look up the definition of ignorance. Then you should look up the definition of typo.
And I think this was more of a " updataeable content" bit anyway.
*sigh* Well maybe by the time you've mastered usage of those words your sphincter muscles will relax enough to pull your head out.
Re:WFM. Well, FGFM. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh man, do I remember what I was doing at 6:66 PM that day... it was glorious. A beautiful flock of pigs were flying toward the sunset, and the ground beneath me seemed to be a touch colder (I remembered hearing about hell freezing over a couple of minutes beforehand). Meanwhile, someone, somewhere had divided by zero, causing my calendar to indicate that it was the year 1900.
Good times, good times.
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
You all better be glad we in Medicine love you all. If we were anything like you guys...
Re:Great Idea! (Score:5, Funny)
I shudder at the thought...
- Hey, any idea whether this tissue does anything important?
- Can't remember... cut it out and we'll see where it breaks.
Re:PS3 (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks. That clears it up.
Possible solution... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they should use bittorrent to alleviate the load on their servers. :)
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Re:Why is it downloading at all? (Score:2, Funny)
Here's a hint:
When picking on someone for their spelling, don't misspell words.
Ignorat twit.
You mispelled "twat".
Re:NO. Absolutely NOT. (Score:4, Funny)
Only a pirate terrorist would deny a corporate citizen its inalienable right to profit. Why do you hate freedom so much ?