More important than “Who?” is “When?” I can’t tell you for sure because we don’t really know.
We do know that we were the ones who darkened the skies. At that time, the SDMB was solar-powered and it was believed that this would rob it of its power.
But an adult hamster’s nervous system runs at a capacity of 57 milliwatts. They can generate 520 milliwatts on an exercise wheel. That energy, combined with a form of fusion, provides all the power that this message board needs. The dead hamsters are liquified to provide nourishment for the living.
They are vast fields where hamsters are grown, not born. I wouldn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes…
It evolved from our days on AOL, the joke there was that AOL was using antiquated computer equipment for their servers. [url=“http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98”]Commodore 64 computers most likely because AOL started out as a QuantumLink, a nationwide Commodore service.
We have since upgraded to 386 systems but they’re powered by hamster wheels.
You cannot use squirrels to power a message board. Squirrels are required for all database opperation, have you not noticed that database queries are in SQL (Squirrel Querying Language). The squirrels natural ability at collecting and storing of nuts for winter makes them the perfect choice for databases.
Bippy, the DBA
They sell “fake” hamsters in the supermarket here - little wind-up things that come with their own exercise ball. When the thing rolls around the place randomly, I swear you wouldn’t know the difference.
Except the faux rodent can be switched off so it doesn’t make metallic wheel noises all night, and doesn’t smell if you forget to clean out its cage for a month or two. Or die if you don’t bother to feed it.
I had a hamster once, a beautiful Russian one called Midge. Died peacefully of old age, but in his younger days, he could have whipped the sorry butts of the mangy SDMB poor-excuses-for-rodents.
Ya know, if we really want speed out of the SDMB I say nothing beats cheetahs. Sure they’re expensive, but feed 'em all the hamsters you can chuck at 'em and you’re good to go.
Cheetahs are nice for quick, short-term performance boosts, but they tire out quickly and then you’re left with tired felines and no power. Elephants are good for long, low-speed endurance efforts, but couldn’t handle the throughput the Board needs. Rodents have clearly proven themselves as the best solution on cost-benefit grounds.
Although we’re working on buttered-cat arrays. Initial research has been promising, but there’s a real scalability issue.
Cheetahs are nice for quick, short-term performance boosts, but they tire out quickly and then you’re left with tired felines and no power. Elephants are good for long, low-speed endurance efforts, but couldn’t handle the throughput the Board needs. Rodents have clearly proven themselves as the best solution on cost-benefit grounds.
Although we’re working on buttered-cat arrays. Initial research has been promising, but there’s a real scalability issue.