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Google's Copernicus Center
Brad Barnich was one of countless readers to note that Google has begun accepting job applications for its new Copernicus data center. I imagine this will eat a sizable portion of their IPO profits, however with this new center not opening until 2007, they at least can take their time!
2007?
By that time, we'll have entered President Kerry's third term in office, with Saddam's trial nearly over, and...
Oops, never mind, I'm not really from the future, don't really know what's going to happen... put that gun down...
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Well, at least its not india...
Finally, a first post that's relevant.. What is this, april fools day?
Online Starcraft RPG? At
Dietary fiber is like asynchronous IO-- Non-blocking!
No fear of outsourcing!!
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
I'm applying for the regional Leader of the Universe position slated for 2008, that many of you might not know about if you aren't in the know at Google. My salary will be $2k/second and my office will be on Alpha Centauri, complete with Rapid Human Download back and forth from Earth on holidays, as Google's Alpha Centauri operations cater mostly to outer-world beings from the Master of Orion xeno-gaggle.
googles april fool jokes are just plain lame these days.
they must be outsourcing them to india.
Sure... Google's going to the moon just because of the fact that... ... there's no minimum wage laws. ... they'd be outside of every tax jurisdiction. ... there's no labor practice laws. ... there's a weaker gravity law there. ... the longer moon days that can be used to justify workdays. ... there's a 0% employment rate there. ... a large building's roof can also serve as an earth-visble billboard ...
... there's only one way to get one.
True story.
I call BS on that -- any data-driven company that can't ship me digital video on-demand while onsite isn't worth a damn.
They also let out the secrets of their search technology.
does anyone have Lance Bass' email address?
The journalist quotes a couple
How'd you like to spend your time at work reading Sla... oh, wait...
Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories
Sorry for being recursive, but I did a Google search for this and found nothing.
I found a use for this. In breaking up with my really not all there girlfriend. I can send this to her and tell her I got a job there and that I'm sorry but I have to move away. I would love to see her buy into this. She actually would too.
Evolution or ID?
My favorite part of the gag was when they said that the Googlunaplex would feature "a sushi chef formerly employed by the pop group Hanson." Maybe it's just my love of self-referential deprecations.
Once the facility is built, the real work begins. Google will be exploring a number of exciting research projects that have the potential to advance search science to a new frontier. Among the questions Googlunars will seek to answer are:
Exactly how far does the Worldwide web extend? Can it become an interplanetary utility? If so, will it replace Water Works on Monopoly(R)?
What are the likely effects of link attenuation over extreme distances? Is there a limit to link strength, or is it infinitely extensible like bubble gum that gets stuck to the bottom of your shoe?
What happens to PageRank in the proximity of a black hole? Is there distortion that might result in link relevancy reduction or popularity warping? Could this somehow be harnessed to generate more dates for engineers?
Does spam go on forever?
ps - yes, I know. Its called playing along.
Did you read the fine print though on GMail? They're going to be showing ads based on the CONTENT of your email. Now, I'm sure people will say that everyone already shows ads based on who you are. But I for one don't want a half-page ad for a penis enlarger showing up on my monitor at work when I'm trying to discretely communicate via email with my doctor about the real thing- a $10,000 surgery I'm lining up!
Good News: I got 5 moderator points to use or lose! Yipee!!!
Bad News: It's april 1st! BOOOOO!!!!!
The road between democracy and tyranny is paved with secrecy in the name of security.
I for one welcome our new G.C.H.E.E.S.E. eating overlords.
--HiDeHiDeHo
You had time to RTFA, email them, get your reply and still get first post!
No wonder Google looks like it's positioning itself to take over the world...
...location-based service "gSpot" ;-)
Clearly, we can conclude that Google has been infiltrated all the way to the upper levels with Masonic/Illuminati players.
Very astute of you to notice these weird connections, p0rnking.
XML causes global warming.
I emailed them the following:
> Greetings.
>
> I have been responsible for monitoring communications from your planet
> for some time now. It's been a largely dull and unsatisfying job, the
> highlights until recently being the discovery of fire and the wheel. The
> last couple of years have seen the creation of search engines; a
> development that proves you may be worthy of our further interest.
>
> I am communicating with you to tell you that we have a sleeping opeartive
> on your planet who may be useful to you. His name is <SNIP/>, a
> human as yet unaware of his importance to inter-stella information
> retrieval. He has been conditioned to know much about C/C++, languages
> that were in the ascendency before Java/C# caused the beginning of the
> end of computational technology. You would be well advised to employ this
> organism.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> [string outside unicode encoding]
>
> PS. We may be interested in exchanging your knowledge of "PageRank" with
> our knowledge of inter-stella travel. Your employment of our operative
> may help cement the deal.