Links to the WBM contain the original URL and a timestamp so it would be easy to redirect it. The issue is however unlikely to come up as Wayback links are meant to be long-term stable. They've already survived one complete rewrite of the underlying application.
And how are they going to survive being bought by Rupert Murdoch?
While some of those titles may mean nothing more than "Gabe paid for our lunch one time so he's an Investor, and he said that the dosas were pretty good so that makes him a Strategic Advisor too", it's still a list designed to make even people who aren't fans of Neal Stephenson take notice.
Follow the thinking for a second. Outbox* collects people's mail, scans it, and delivers it to them in "a beautiful digital format". Outbox is located in Austin. Its founder has spoken at Capital Factory. President Obama has also spoken at Capital Factory. President Obama's government runs the Post Office. Clearly, Outbox, Capital Factory, and the President are going to replace the Post Office with Outbox.
If you follow that logic, it means that Half Life 3 will be released next summer! I KNEW it!
Tenured or tenure-track faculty: Paid reasonably well, have some job security, but had to fight seventeen other applicants to the death in a gladiatorial arena just to be considered for the position. Understand that tenure makes their job completely safe, but reality means that they're always one spilled martini away from being out on the street again.
Untenured instructors: Generally sessionals, hired for a few months at a time, who need to beg for their own job back at the end of every semester. Rarely given the opportunity to teach the same class twice in a row, often prevented from working more than two or three years at the same school (to encourage them to apply for permanent positions which don't exist, naturally) and would make better money serving coffee to students than teaching them. Sometimes have difficulty refraining from asking "Would you like fries with that?" when handing out assignments or exams.
Really, it's a wonder any of these people have time for teaching at all. We're not that far away from handing students a list of textbooks to buy at the beginning of the year and then sending them to an empty classroom and asking them to teach one another.
Indeed. We tried to warn the world about this almost twenty years ago, but nobody listened.
RDRAND will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but
it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It
will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit
cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It
will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and
leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming
over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit
pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
RDRAND will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will
give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your
gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your
girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to
your Discover card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she
is dead, such is the power of RDRAND, it reaches out beyond the
grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't
find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on
your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It
is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather
interesting shade of mauve.
RDRAND will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the
toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub
and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase
gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
It's designed to replace the 64G of flash storage used in existing tablets, so comparing the new product with the old one is not unreasonable.
If your new Library of Congress was designed to fit in exactly the same space and have the same weight as a regular library, then saying that it has 6x the capacity of a regular library would be a useful point of comparison.
As I recall, the traditional way involved wearing a white robe and holding a knife in your hand while your trusted second stood behind you with his sword drawn, ready to finish the job.
The modern way seems to involve holding a press conference in which you say "Gosh, we don't know how that went wrong. It certainly wasn't our fault. I hope it doesn't happen again. Again." while your trusted second brings you a coffee.
I'm sure that one of those approaches will suffice to restore TEPCO's spotless public image.
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Links to the WBM contain the original URL and a timestamp so it would be easy to redirect it. The issue is however unlikely to come up as Wayback links are meant to be long-term stable. They've already survived one complete rewrite of the underlying application.
And how are they going to survive being bought by Rupert Murdoch?
Lotus Notes can out-crap all of those put together.
It's not just Stephenson. Take a look at who else is involved with Subutai, the team behind Clang:
While some of those titles may mean nothing more than "Gabe paid for our lunch one time so he's an Investor, and he said that the dosas were pretty good so that makes him a Strategic Advisor too", it's still a list designed to make even people who aren't fans of Neal Stephenson take notice.
COBOL was designed by a woman.
Not exactly helping your case there.
Women can hate humanity just as well as men can.
Agreed. The correct term is "Phondleslab".
More importantly, when will we see GNOME 2 support?
$18 Billion in sales would seem to suggest otherwise.
And Valve is already working on Half Life 3.
I'll believe both when I see them.
Asking one person to build Twitter is an insane demand? Are you aware of just how basic Twitter is?
While one person could code the basic structure, you would need at least one more person to draw the Fail Whale.
Follow the thinking for a second. Outbox* collects people's mail, scans it, and delivers it to them in "a beautiful digital format". Outbox is located in Austin. Its founder has spoken at Capital Factory. President Obama has also spoken at Capital Factory. President Obama's government runs the Post Office. Clearly, Outbox, Capital Factory, and the President are going to replace the Post Office with Outbox.
If you follow that logic, it means that Half Life 3 will be released next summer! I KNEW it!
People will dirty/graffiti/vandalize/steal the vehicles
They would already have giant pink moustaches on the front. What could any vandal do that would be worse?
But this is kind of like hacking a door lock with a crowbar.
It's more like hacking a door lock by twisting it 45 degrees clockwise and then pushing.
Tenured or tenure-track faculty: Paid reasonably well, have some job security, but had to fight seventeen other applicants to the death in a gladiatorial arena just to be considered for the position. Understand that tenure makes their job completely safe, but reality means that they're always one spilled martini away from being out on the street again.
Untenured instructors: Generally sessionals, hired for a few months at a time, who need to beg for their own job back at the end of every semester. Rarely given the opportunity to teach the same class twice in a row, often prevented from working more than two or three years at the same school (to encourage them to apply for permanent positions which don't exist, naturally) and would make better money serving coffee to students than teaching them. Sometimes have difficulty refraining from asking "Would you like fries with that?" when handing out assignments or exams.
Really, it's a wonder any of these people have time for teaching at all. We're not that far away from handing students a list of textbooks to buy at the beginning of the year and then sending them to an empty classroom and asking them to teach one another.
About minus eight years, so this has been going on since before there even was an iPhone.
Only if you hold your phone with only the tips of your fingers.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
To.
To who?
No, "To whom".
I'm very surprised that civilization survived the 1980s.
Some people might argue that it didn't.
Indeed. We tried to warn the world about this almost twenty years ago, but nobody listened.
RDRAND will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.
It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work.
RDRAND will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.
It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of RDRAND, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.
It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
RDRAND will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.
This is McAfee. Can we trust him when he says he isn't dead?
They might get more attention, and make it easier to understand their goals, if they called it Duna One.
So don't drop it a couple times a day.
It's designed to replace the 64G of flash storage used in existing tablets, so comparing the new product with the old one is not unreasonable.
If your new Library of Congress was designed to fit in exactly the same space and have the same weight as a regular library, then saying that it has 6x the capacity of a regular library would be a useful point of comparison.
As I recall, the traditional way involved wearing a white robe and holding a knife in your hand while your trusted second stood behind you with his sword drawn, ready to finish the job.
The modern way seems to involve holding a press conference in which you say "Gosh, we don't know how that went wrong. It certainly wasn't our fault. I hope it doesn't happen again. Again." while your trusted second brings you a coffee.
I'm sure that one of those approaches will suffice to restore TEPCO's spotless public image.
Thank you for making my point for me.
Try the Piña Colada, it's fabulous.
Oh, look, it's another #1reasonwhy.
If you can't be trusted to treat other people with some respect, then perhaps the island life is for you.