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Facebook’s number of friends limit is 1500

September 4, 2007 Facebook, friends limit, How, norwegian model 1,766 comments

It was very surprising to know that the fast growing social network Facebook has set a limit for the allowed number of friends to 1500. However the strange side of the story is they kick the user out of the network for using too much resources like it happened with the well-known norwegian model Lene Alexandra à˜ien which appears to be the first to gather this massive number of friends and reach this limit of 1500.

Well, a few questions arise from this story. First what is the reason behind this number? Why not 2000 or a typical power of 2 number 1024 or 2048. Is there some statistical reason behind it like is there some studies that a normal person should not have more than 1500 friends in a social network ?!
Secondly, why throwing the user out of the network? Shouldn’t Facebook support active members? If their resources are really being abused they could have just stopped her from adding new friends rather than kicking her totaly out of the network !

Anyways, à˜ien got no doubt a little push out of this story !!

SonyEricsson.com Without Main Page

June 19, 2007 How, Mobile, sony ericsson 4 comments

The global provider of mobile multimedia devices seems to have IT problems. Sony Ericsson’s homepage is unreachable.
I’m not sure how long their website has been down, but here’s the situation anway:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/ redirects to http://www.sonyericsson.com/null and no display whatsoever.
While the actual website is sitting at this url http://www.sonyericsson.com/spg.jsp?cc=global&lc=en&ver=4001&template=ph1&zone=ph

Let’s wait and see how long will it take for Sony Ericsson’s Web developers to fix this problem.

Why Ask Why

June 18, 2007 How, Why No comments

I know I should be writing posts about RF / Microwave, Wireless communications topics, but I thought these WHY questions would be more interesting to investigate !

  • Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting dead?
  • Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough money?
  • Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
  • Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?
  • Why do they use sterilized needles for death by lethal injection?
  • Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
  • Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?
  • Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
  • Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?
  • If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
  • Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
  • Is there ever a day that mattresses are not on sale?
  • Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
  • Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?
  • Why is it that no plastic bag will open from the end on your first try?
  • How do those dead bugs get into those enclosed light fixtures?
  • When we are in the supermarket and someone rams our ankle with a shopping cart then apologizes for doing so, why do we say, “It’s all right?” Well, it isn’t all right, so why don’t we say, “That hurt, you stupid idiot?”
  • Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that’s falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
  • In winter why do we try to keep the house as warm as it was in summer when we complained about the heat?

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