Plants vs Zombies™ Official Site - PopCap Games - Free Download Games
Topic: Miscellaneous
10:48 am EDT, May 6, 2009
Get ready to soil your plants in an all-new action-strategy game from PopCap! A mob of fun-loving zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an arsenal of 49 zombie-zapping plants. Use peashooters, wall-nuts, cherry bombs and more to mulchify 26 types of zombies before they can reach your front door.
Each zombie has its own special skills, so you’ll need to think fast and plant faster to combat them all. But be careful how you use your limited supply of greens and seeds… as you battle the fun-dead, obstacles like a setting sun, creeping fog and a swimming pool add to the challenge. And with five game modes to dig into, the fun never dies!
I want to be rich and I want lots of money I don't care about clever I don't care about funny I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds I heard people die while they are trying to find them
And I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless Cause everyone knows that's how you get famous I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror I'm on the right track yeah I'm onto a winner
Chorus I don't know what's right and what's real anymore And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore When do you think it will all become clear Cause I'm being taken over by the fear
Life's about film stars and less about mothers It's all about fast cars and cussing each other But it doesn't matter cause I'm packing plastic And that's what makes my life so fucking fantastic
And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault it's how I'm programmed to function I'll look at The Sun and I'll look in The Mirror I'm on the right track yeah we're onto a winner
Chorus I don't know what's right and what's real anymore And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore When do you think it will all become clear Cause I'm being taken over by the fear
Forget about guns and forget ammunition Cause I'm killing them all on my own little mission Now I'm not a saint but I'm not a sinner Now everything's cool as long as I'm getting thinner
Chorus I don't know what's right and what's real anymore And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore When do you think it will all become clear Cause I'm being taken over by the fear
The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images and 1.5PB of storage. The current growth rate is 220 million new photos per week, which translates to 25TB of additional storage consumed weekly. At the peak there are 550,000 images served per second. These numbers pose a significant challenge for the Facebook photo storage infrastructure.
I'm building an web app. Its need to be highly portable, very self contained, and no non-standard dependencies. I need "install is just copy the single file." Given a random Internet (not intranet) web server I have the highly likelihood of having a PHP interpreter.
So I picked PHP.
But my God ASP.NET has me spoiled! I would kill for an $_APPLICATON right now. I have an app where I need to persist data across page views and share it with all users. Sessions aren't going to work. I thought about forced Session Fixation so all visitors are using the same session and so in effect I have a shared global persistent data store. Nope. Not gonna work.
Share memory? Out, not supported on IIS+PHP. Using a database? Out, not part of a standard PHP install on some Linux installations and no IIS installations.
I'm down to using a temp file and serializing a hash table.
