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Own a Piece of An Apple-Based Supercomputer
Graff writes "Now that Apple has come out with the Xserve G5, Virginia Tech has been swapping out parts of their 'System X' supercomputer for the more compact 1U Xserves. MacMall is selling some of those System X component G5 systems with an approximate $200 savings and an extra 512 megs of RAM over a normal G5. You can read more about it at MacCentral."
or not
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
I am outside. Are you outside? Why should I go outside? Is there someone out there? Where can I buy sunglasses, because my future is so bright?
romeo and juliet 2: juliet lives
a three act play by jimmy o'leary
authorized by the estate of william shakespeare
act 1, verona, italy, the date is september 11 2001, it is an unusually hot day and the italians are out on the street milling about and buying shit from street vendors and whatever the fuck it is that italians do all day i've never been able to figure it out myself, a shopkeeper comes out and yells to the crowd out on the street
shopkeeper: america has been attacked, four planes crashed into it
crowd: gasp
the crowd stampedes to the shopkeeper's shop to watch the news because he is the only person in a five mile radius with a television set, in the process they tear up some cobblestones from the street and a mad scientist walking by notices something very odd
mad scientist: well i seem to have noticed something very odd
the mad scientist pulls up on the cobblestones and discovers a hidden trap door underneath the streets of verona, he opens the door and finds a hidden tunnel deep beneath the city, he follows the tunnel to a crypt and finds a very well preserved body
mad scientist: omfg, what a find, i must take this back to my lab and experiment on it
the mad scientist takes the body back to his lab
act 2, the mad scientist's lab, it is pretty dark and there's all sorts of test tubes and bottles churning and bubbling and shit, the mad scientist has put the body on a table and is doing an autopsy to figure out what happened to her
mad scientist: jesus christ this bitch looks like she stabbed herself but she is very well preserved so maybe i can bring her back from the dead
the mad scientist takes some jumper cables and attaches one end to the body's ears and the other end to the battery terminals on a rusted out 1969 plymouth fury, he gets in the car and starts it up and the body jumps up immediately
body: omfg jesus christ wtf
mad scientist: i have brought you back to life what is your name
body: my name is juliet, what time is it
mad scientist: it is just past noon, the date is september 11 2001
juliet: hahahaha ror
mad scientist: no really i'm serious
the mad scientist takes juliet around and shows her all sorts of things like cell phones and computers and tells her everything that has happened in the 10000 years that she has been dead, juliet is very impressed by all of this and thanks the mad scientist profusely for bringing her back to life
act 3, kandahar, afghanistan, scores of camels are feeding on camel chow outside of a small tent in the afghanistan desert, inside the tent several key al qaeda leaders are holding a staff meeting
mullah omar: the attack went precisely as planned my lord
osama bin laden: omfg ror lolf
ayman zawahiri: however there is disturbing news from our operatives in italy
mohammed atef: yes it appears that the ancient one has been revived and is now among the living
osama bin laden: jesus christ this means that the dreaded prophecy has come to pass omfg what will we do we must do something about this now before the situation is allowed to become complicated
all of the al qaeda guys get into a huddle and there are several minutes worth of feverish whispering in arabic, then they all break from the huddle and look expectantly at bin laden
bin laden: here is what i propose
act 4, u.s.s. warren g. harding, a supermassive united states aircraft carrier stationed 190 miles southwest of the coast of sri lanka, warplanes are taking off and landing at a rate of two per minute, general fridley m. happenstance is in the control room going over the latest intelligence reports from the pentagon with a determined look on his face, a courier from the dia arrives and gives him a telegraph from washington d.c.
general happenstance: omfg do you know what this means
courier: no
general happenstance: they have activated operation plinko planko plonko that
I'm lazy, somebody POST A STORY ABOUT THIS ON SLASHDOT!!!
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1460599,00.a
Interesting story! HERE'S the link. Just click.
Isn't this more insightful/interesting than funny?
Fine, I pointed out that was after a $99 dollar rebate for the RAM and a $40 installation fee. Then I was modded down. Hmmm.
What I would like to know is if the owners of this site get money for some of the stories they post. I wonder, because what I posted about the fee was vaild, yet it was marked off topic. If they get money based on some stories, then I would probably go elsewhere for my news.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
In Soviet Russia the supercomputer owns a piece of YOU!
why cant they moderate both 'Insiteful/Interesting and Funny" at the same time?
"Persistance is Fertile" - Me. I can quote myself if I want to.
hey moderators !
my post was 3 minutes younger than the post above saying the same thing (but with different arguments).
Google passes Turing test : see my journal
She saw the audit sticker and assumed I stole it and gave it to her. Still doesn't believe me to this day that the computer is legit
You've got some real trust problems WRT your GF.
Unless you've given her a real reason to make said assumption, I'd dump her ass ASAP. That's going to turn into real trouble later in your relationship.
ON TOPIC CONTENT: Does anyone know if the discount is off the retail price, or off the educational price?