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By 15:50 UTC, Facebook's domains had expired from the caches in all major public resolvers. A little before 21:00 UTC, Facebook resumed announcing BGP updates, with Facebook's domain name becoming resolvable again at 21:05 UTC. [14] On October 5, Facebook's engineering team posted a blog post explaining the cause of the outage.
The term "bullet time" was first used with reference to the 1999 film The Matrix, [2] and later in reference to the slow motion effects in the 2001 video game Max Payne. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the years since the introduction of the term via the Matrix films it has become a commonly applied expression in popular culture.
The ensuing flood of page requests from readers can exceed the site's available bandwidth or the ability of its servers to respond, and render the site temporarily unreachable. Google Doodles, which link to search results on the doodle topic, also result in high increases of traffic from the search results page. [7]
After a pair of 200-point slides so far this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEX: ^DJI) was clearly looking for some positive news to give it a break from its dreary performance.
Slow motion video of a fruit falling into water. In fluid mechanics, a splash is a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water).The disturbance is typically caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface, although splashes can occur in which moving liquid supplies the energy.
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His first novel, Slow Fall to Dawn, was in the Top Ten for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. [2] As Guest of Honor at Bubonicon 43 [when?] Leigh was interviewed for MTV Geek Coverage about working on the Wild Cards series. [3] A special one-shot convention was held in his honor in Minneapolis, April 11–13, 2008, called Applecon.