Well, that seems to be the way that Google works. I guess if Eric Schmidt gets chosen, that will be his first move: Declare all Commerce to be Beta. So if there are any problems with the US Commerce, he can just say, "Hey, this is all still Beta . . . problems are to be expected."
Most male mammals wield a penis covered with spines made of keratin, the same material that forms fingernails, to sweep out competitors' sperm and irritate a female into ovulating.
Human females are different. They get irritated when ovulating. Before, during and after, in fact.
In other news, university officials have noticed a sharp increase in the number of terrorists applying for admission to EE degree programs. Until now, terrorists have traditionally favored chemistry and chemical engineering programs. Chem E applications have dropped sharply.
Chem E prof: "I really don't understand it. We still have a great program, Although it was strange: all that these students seemed interested in, were exothermic reactions.
EE prof: "I really don't understand it. Who would study EE, when the country you come from doesn't even have electricity? Although it is strange: all these students seem interested in, is building high power transmitters at frequencies where such power is not allowed by the FCC. Maybe they don't have an FCC where they come from?
Stars? Luxury! When I was a young'n the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
So we had to develop a Spirit of God (SOG) navigation system. And He kept moving over the surface of the waters, which made it even more difficult. This is still in use today, as some US soldiers will tell you that they are assigned to SOG, but are not allowed to tell you exactly what they do.
Iran: "We are not using these centrifuges to enrich uranium. We are just trying out some recipes in this cookbook."
International Atomic Energy Agency Inspector: "Well, I do have to admit that the concentrated flavor molecules in this powerfully aromatic liquid layer is ideal for cooking."
Ocean's cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers (plus additional I/O, network and cluster controller nodes in 10 racks) with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM. Coming soon to a theater near you!!
Can the two break the banks at major Las Vegas casinos? The difficult part is getting Watson to do all those spectacular acrobatic tricks. I guess they'll have to use a stunt Watson. Or maybe Watson can generate his own stunt scenes, just like Jackie Chan does his own stunts?
From Wikipedia, "Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who on April 12, 1994 posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam . . .
Canter and Siegel were not the first Usenet spammers. The "Green Card" spam was, however, the first commercial Usenet spam, and its unrepentant authors are seen as having fired the starting gun for the legions of spammers that now occupy the Internet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_and_Seagal
But this case seems to be more about wire fraud, than spam.
But still, thanks a lot Cantor and Siegel! You should have patented it! "A Method and Process of Sending Unwanted Advertisements to Everyone on the Internet, Which They Don't Want, and Don't need."
The Economist had an excellent article about this a while back. Using the number of blades in a razor as the example. The made a graph of time, on the bottom, and the number of blades on the left. Then they drew a curve that fit. For a long time, there was only one blade. Then there were two, and that held a while. Then came three, then four, and now we have five. Now, using sound mathematical methods to extrapolate this curve, The Economist projected that by 2020, a razor will have something like 40 or 50 blades.
The lesson? Just because this worked for Moore's Law, doesn't guarantee that this will hold true for other industries.
So how about instead of pointing out who is Evil, we try to find someone who isn't evil? Any suggestions?
It's like some kind of new fashion / management trend.
Scene from a golf clubhouse:
Executive #1: "Hey, were you Evil today?"
Executive #2: "Oh, I was exceptionally Evil today! Evil, with extreme prejudice*!"
* "extreme prejudice" was a term used in the Vietnam war by the US forces, which was a euphemism for killing someone. It was used in Apocalypse Now. Martin Sheen was told to "terminate Colonel Kurtz's command with extreme prejudice."
The more 17- kids will want it. Doing something forbidden is always more fun! But the kids will get bored of it soon, and say, "What was the big deal about this app?"
So what are you up to, professor number 1? "Oh, I'm cooking up some cold fusion, in my basement." And you, professor number 2? "Oh, I'm making gasoline from algae." Now to professor number 3, what is your area of research? "I'm training mice to become wine connoisseurs. Hey, don't laugh, my mice gave a Château Mouton Rothschild five squeaks!"
So the next time that I'm in a expensive restaurant, and they ask if I want to look at the wine menu, I'll just pull a mouse out of my pocket. And say, "My expert here, will just take a quick scamper through your wine cellar, and find the best wine."
Hell, this is well known from military airplanes . . . if your radar is on, you can see them . . . but they can see you! So if you are doing some Secret Squirrel stuff, and think that you might be tracked, turn the damn thing off.
Yo! Charlie! Your kids are over at Darl McBride's house . . . bring over a briefcase of cocaine, and some porn stars, and he will give them back to you, real soon . . .
Now, didn't this cocaine business get DeLorian into trouble, but . . . whatever . . . .
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Well, that seems to be the way that Google works. I guess if Eric Schmidt gets chosen, that will be his first move: Declare all Commerce to be Beta. So if there are any problems with the US Commerce, he can just say, "Hey, this is all still Beta . . . problems are to be expected."
Most male mammals wield a penis covered with spines made of keratin, the same material that forms fingernails, to sweep out competitors' sperm and irritate a female into ovulating.
Human females are different. They get irritated when ovulating. Before, during and after, in fact.
Time to dig out that movie again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000
In other news, university officials have noticed a sharp increase in the number of terrorists applying for admission to EE degree programs. Until now, terrorists have traditionally favored chemistry and chemical engineering programs. Chem E applications have dropped sharply.
Chem E prof: "I really don't understand it. We still have a great program, Although it was strange: all that these students seemed interested in, were exothermic reactions.
EE prof: "I really don't understand it. Who would study EE, when the country you come from doesn't even have electricity? Although it is strange: all these students seem interested in, is building high power transmitters at frequencies where such power is not allowed by the FCC. Maybe they don't have an FCC where they come from?
I'm not getting my gold bars?
You'll be getting . . . well, you said it in your subject line.
Why do you have lawns then?
If you don't have a lawn, you can't yell at kids to get off it.
Having lawns in places that would need a lawn to be watered is a braindead idea.
I'd just call it a very stupid way of squandering scarce resources.
Stars? Luxury! When I was a young'n the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.
So we had to develop a Spirit of God (SOG) navigation system. And He kept moving over the surface of the waters, which made it even more difficult. This is still in use today, as some US soldiers will tell you that they are assigned to SOG, but are not allowed to tell you exactly what they do.
Iran: "We are not using these centrifuges to enrich uranium. We are just trying out some recipes in this cookbook."
International Atomic Energy Agency Inspector: "Well, I do have to admit that the concentrated flavor molecules in this powerfully aromatic liquid layer is ideal for cooking."
The Economist had an article, 10+ years ago, about countries' names. They wrote, "People's Republics . . . usually aren't."
"Headmaster, Headmaster . . . Nelson, minor, has twitter up his shitter!"
Shamelessly stolen from Viz.
With lots of BBQ sauce: http://www.mndl.hu/works/fractalcow
Now how do I find the T-bones on that thing?
F1 may be the pinnacle of engineering excellence
http://jalopnik.com/#!373884/f1-boss-max-mosley-caught-with-five-hookers-in-nazi-orgy-video-scandal
True, a dragster may not be able to run for more than a few seconds without blowing up
Well, how true that fits into this context.
Pilot-in-training: "So my landing went well, don't you think?"
Flight Instructor: "Yes, but you forgot one thing. You are supposed to slow down before we land. We are now doing Mach 1, on the ground."
Ocean's cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers (plus additional I/O, network and cluster controller nodes in 10 racks) with a total of 2880 POWER7 processor cores and 16 Terabytes of RAM. Coming soon to a theater near you!!
Can the two break the banks at major Las Vegas casinos? The difficult part is getting Watson to do all those spectacular acrobatic tricks. I guess they'll have to use a stunt Watson. Or maybe Watson can generate his own stunt scenes, just like Jackie Chan does his own stunts?
Um, sorta.
Man, that huge cast is going to cost a fortune!
From Wikipedia, "Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel were partners in a husband-and-wife firm of lawyers who on April 12, 1994 posted the first massive commercial Usenet spam . . . Canter and Siegel were not the first Usenet spammers. The "Green Card" spam was, however, the first commercial Usenet spam, and its unrepentant authors are seen as having fired the starting gun for the legions of spammers that now occupy the Internet." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_and_Seagal
But this case seems to be more about wire fraud, than spam.
But still, thanks a lot Cantor and Siegel! You should have patented it! "A Method and Process of Sending Unwanted Advertisements to Everyone on the Internet, Which They Don't Want, and Don't need."
Crockett: "I need a new Ferrari! Didn't we confiscate anything from drug dealers that I can drive!?!?!"
Castillo: "Sorry, Sonny, no. But here, read some Incredible Hulk, Spider Man and Richie Rich. It will cheer you up.
The Economist had an excellent article about this a while back. Using the number of blades in a razor as the example. The made a graph of time, on the bottom, and the number of blades on the left. Then they drew a curve that fit. For a long time, there was only one blade. Then there were two, and that held a while. Then came three, then four, and now we have five. Now, using sound mathematical methods to extrapolate this curve, The Economist projected that by 2020, a razor will have something like 40 or 50 blades.
The lesson? Just because this worked for Moore's Law, doesn't guarantee that this will hold true for other industries.
Yay interstellar subway system!
So what I want to know about your Interstellar Subway is:
Or a manager size . . . ?
"Dave, I think that your employees deserve raises."
Lucky for me that the EEG sensors will not be able to penetrate my tinfoil hat.
So how about instead of pointing out who is Evil, we try to find someone who isn't evil? Any suggestions?
It's like some kind of new fashion / management trend.
Scene from a golf clubhouse:
Executive #1: "Hey, were you Evil today?"
Executive #2: "Oh, I was exceptionally Evil today! Evil, with extreme prejudice*!"
* "extreme prejudice" was a term used in the Vietnam war by the US forces, which was a euphemism for killing someone. It was used in Apocalypse Now. Martin Sheen was told to "terminate Colonel Kurtz's command with extreme prejudice."
etc, etc, etc... "that the government of the Facebook, by the Facebook, for the Facebook, shall not perish from the earth."
The more 17- kids will want it. Doing something forbidden is always more fun! But the kids will get bored of it soon, and say, "What was the big deal about this app?"
So what are you up to, professor number 1? "Oh, I'm cooking up some cold fusion, in my basement." And you, professor number 2? "Oh, I'm making gasoline from algae." Now to professor number 3, what is your area of research? "I'm training mice to become wine connoisseurs. Hey, don't laugh, my mice gave a Château Mouton Rothschild five squeaks!"
So the next time that I'm in a expensive restaurant, and they ask if I want to look at the wine menu, I'll just pull a mouse out of my pocket. And say, "My expert here, will just take a quick scamper through your wine cellar, and find the best wine."
Hell, this is well known from military airplanes . . . if your radar is on, you can see them . . . but they can see you! So if you are doing some Secret Squirrel stuff, and think that you might be tracked, turn the damn thing off.
Charlie Sheen had his kids taken away from him!
Yo! Charlie! Your kids are over at Darl McBride's house . . . bring over a briefcase of cocaine, and some porn stars, and he will give them back to you, real soon . . .
Now, didn't this cocaine business get DeLorian into trouble, but . . . whatever . . . .