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Seven Wonders of the IT World
C.G. Lynch writes "The computer closest to the North Pole. The most intriguing data center. The biggest scientific computing grid. The little kernel that rocked the world. CIO.com has compiled a list of Seven Wonders of the IT World, some of the most impressive and unusual systems on the planet (and beyond)."
"After all, Google has been competing with NSA for PhD mathematicians for some time now (and winning) and it seems like a natural fit."
If only the NSA would offer stock options and a splashy IPO, I'll bet they could get some of those candidates back.
Voyager 1: "Places it's dropped by: Juniper and Saturn"
Why anyone pays money for anything from IBM, Microsoft. Oracle or MySQL AB.
Stick Men
Steve "Monkeyboy" Ballmer and his Flying Chair Routine.
The article said WONDERS, not HORRORS.
I agree. My name isn't on the list ANYWHERE!!! Geez, come on, people!
That's when Chuck Norris tracks fugitives there.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
No; I for one thought CueCat belonged in that slot.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
It can't be 120F in North Pole, it is outside US. If something it would be 49C.
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
I agree...
So I'm compiling a top ten list of reasons to stop making 7 Wonders of the world lists
1. Wasted bandwidth
2. They're only for pageview whores
3. Most of the items are only 'wondrous' because people wonder why the hell its on the list.
4. If anything really is that wondrous, humans will probably destroy it.
5. Google will sell the #1 spot to someone else.
6. I.T. is moving so fast that in a few months, most will be obsolete.
thats as far as I got.
God made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom?
$diff terrorists hippies
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So I'm compiling a top ten list of reasons to stop making 7 Wonders of the world lists
1. Wasted bandwidth
2. They're only for pageview whores
3. Most of the items are only 'wondrous' because people wonder why the hell its on the list.
4. If anything really is that wondrous, humans will probably destroy it.
5. Google will sell the #1 spot to someone else.
6. I.T. is moving so fast that in a few months, most will be obsolete.
thats as far as I got. Ok, I'll finish it for you:
7. It will suffer from the Slashdot effect.
8. Most Slashdot posters won't read it anyway.
9. ???
10. Profit!
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
I would have put "The Internet" on the list, personally.
It gives you a research lab in all your cities too :-)
Repton.
They say that only an experienced wizard can do the tengu shuffle.
It was an amazing concept. Who would have thought to make a personal music player using a pocket sized playback device that you listened to through headphones? A truly revolutionary device.
"Number of servers: Google's mum."
The correct phrase is "keeping mum".
"Google's mum" is what you would say when implying intimate knowledge of Mrs Google, or perhaps her tendency to wear sturdy footwear.
The entire US government should IPO in chunks. Really, shareholding is a much more accurate form of representation that what we have now, and would allow corporations to actually and clearly own and control the state instead of doing so tacitly.
I mean, it just makes sense.
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