The C in BlueGene/C stands for "Cyclops64", which is the name of the architecture. (It's usually shortened to C64)
When you read this, are you thinking what I am thinking?
A 64 eyed cyclops? Yeah man, that would be AWESOME! It would totally kick Magnetos ass!
Wow, how unheard of is this??? A nation is attacked, unprovoked, by a small but murderous gang of disenfranchised people previously unknown to the populace, damage is done, people are killed, and the government of said nation seeks broad new powers to defend the democracy and protect the people, sacrificing a few petty human rights that only terrorists would use anyways along the way... Hmm, I wonder where they end up? I'll have to study up on my 1930s German history and find out!
Yes, there were other circumstances there as well, but it's just too close for comfort. "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it"?
Why bother renaming it at all? We've all been calling it Longhorn for years now... it's not like Chicago, where that was an internal name that wasn't often used outside of Redmond. Longhorn this and Longhorn that have been the standard phrases for years in every trade rag... and they're throwing it all away to call it "Vista"... eeeyyyuuuuchhh...
The only possible reason I can think of for it is that they think Longhorn is associated with too much bad publicity, and they want a fresh start. Except, I haven't seen that much "bad" said about Longhorn... so, I guess Bill was bored recently, and decided to let his youngest name the new OS.
At least it's not Windows: Snoopy Although maybe if it was, we could see the Red Baron straffing Clippy...
In other news, IBM will finally update their system clocks on their Executives' PCs to reflect the fact that it's now 2005 and not 1995.
Unfortunately, because it's OS/2, it took 20 minutes to do, and the computer crashed 3 times. The executives, who have a typical IBM attention span, decided it would be more efficient to just continue providing OS/2, and that it would be too confusing to switch to "Not having OS/2".
However, this IS IBM... so, in about 3 years, they'll wake up and go "Oh, right, I was going to cancel OS/2".
Seriously, WTF dude? It takes 2 pages to describe where you should mount your fan? We need another how-to on how to cut a fuckin hole in your case? "Have some fans in the front and some more in the back"... well, THERE'S a fuckin gem! Christ, I never would have thought of that!! I thought I should go out and buy 20 fuckin 200mm fans and duct-tape them all in a GIANT FUCKIN STACK right over my CPU, creating a giant VORTEX OF DOOM sticking out the side of my case, and THEN I would vent that GIANT VORTEX OF DOOM back INTO the front of my case, to make sure I made appropriate use of my airflow, and THEN to make sure I didn't have any leaks I'd duct-tape EVERY FUCKIN HOLE in my case shut, including those wussy holes on the back, they're not for anything, right? And THEN, when I have my GIANT VORTEX OF DOOM running at FULL BLAST, with my tower jitterbugging off the edge of my desk due to the MASSIVE VIBRATIONS, and my cats are running for their lives lest they be SUCKED IN to the one dime-sized hole I left open on the front of my case (for my wires to run for my most awesome LCD panel dude!), and THEN, I would have the GREATEST COOLING RIG EVAR!!!! Mwahahaha!!!
But now, thanks to this in-depth, insightful article, I now know that, if I want to cool my case, I have to put FUCKING FANS ON MY CASE... and if I want a fan where there isn't a hole, I can either CHANGE MY FUCKING MIND, or CUT A FUCKING HOLE.
HOLY SHIT DUDE, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.
Thanks you Slashdot. I feel my intelligence being leeched out by the alien overlord editors as we speak. Your grand plan for DUMBING DOWN THE FUCKING WORLD is working great. Good job. I am a l33t h4ck3r now. Feer me, for I know the power of the FAN!!!
Please let me know when I can cast my vote for Kodos. Anything that queer slimy bastard can do to stop this story from being duped next week will make me very very happy.
Actually, the phrase "D-Day" came from the Normandy landings of WW2, where they had to code the possible landing dates to further confuse German spies. A, B, and C days were a wash because of bad weather, and D day was the lucky winner.
Sheesh, no wonder every time you guys get something from a foreign provider you always screw up the conversion... it's bad enough you have feet instead of meters, gallons instead of liters..... but, come on man, you guys just have to have your own special, unique number of hours in 3 days?!? It was all fine and good that you started spelling things differently after the War of Independance, but that's just wrong!
Self heating coffee? I don't need no self-heating coffee... I may arrive at an unlikely circumstance where I'm nowhere close to a coffee shoppe, but I am never far away from my overclocked P4 laptop... just flip that baby over, plug the fan, put my coffee cup over the CPU, and in just a minute I have steaming hot coffee! With the added bonus of a slight burny-laptop aftertaste. Juan Valdez, eat your heart out!
Dear Slashdot; I'm looking to set the site record for most duped question every, and Dvorak Vs Qwerty is the easiest subject to continually post under the guise of "News for Nerds". Could you please post a minor variant of Dvorak Vs Qwerty every, say, 3 weeks, until someone notices? Thanks, Dvorak-Dork
I go to/. every morning. I pop open all the new, interesting stories in tabs... At first, I think something is stale in my cache, because that stupid "Windows will break in 12 minutes" is the top story. Queue a few minutes of checking before "Oh, nope, exact dupe." Then I think something is strange with my tabs, because this story is exactly the same as "Share FIles? Get Fired.". Oh, nope, wait a minute, another dupe....
THe headline should really be "How/. can waste your time in new and interesting ways"
Pi is acheived via a mathmatical calculation... wouldn't it be easier on the cerebrum (or, perhaps, the cerebellum) to carry out the calculations in your head and spew the results as you acheive them, rather than memorizing 80,000 digits? In fact, would it be a stretch to suggest that the highest-rankers are doing this instead of memorizing?
Who else read this and thought Google had started launching space probes and satellites for free?
They have to do something with the exhaust from all their server farms... pipe it all into a single tube, and make the worlds largest blow-dart gun that can launch into space:)
Maybe my memory is getting a little faulty, but IIRC, wasn't the protection of the ISPs from getting sued by everyone in Utah for carrying porn that they were a 'common carrier' and not liable for what went over their lines?
Does this rescind their status as a common carrier? If so, how long until every bible-thumper and Save-The-Children organization starts sueing every ISP for not blocking porn/drugs/terrorists/flavour-of-the-week?
The team leader getting diced was actually one of my favourite scenes from that otherwise mostly dreadful movie. Here he is, trapped in a room, helpless, faced by an inescapable net of killer lasers approaching him... and he takes it like a man. Doesn't run, doesn't cower against the far wall... says to himself "Well, I'm dead regardless, I might as well stand here with courage and die on my feet."
Of course, bad luck for him that the heroine managed to disable the lasers just a few feet past where he was standing, but hey... if you're gonna take it like a man, sometimes Fate misunderstands and sends a large man named Bruno to screw you in the ass.
Yeah, yeah, it did "got" to be said, eh? Silly ACs, eh, I'd shove my toque up your backside if I hadn't left it upstairs on the chesterfield while watching the CBC.
If I didn't know better, I'd say I have a bitter foe.:)
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Why is it that whenever this joke comes out, the UID of the responder generally seems to be HIGHER than the UID of the OP?
When you read this, are you thinking what I am thinking?
A 64 eyed cyclops? Yeah man, that would be AWESOME! It would totally kick Magnetos ass!
Wow, how unheard of is this??? A nation is attacked, unprovoked, by a small but murderous gang of disenfranchised people previously unknown to the populace, damage is done, people are killed, and the government of said nation seeks broad new powers to defend the democracy and protect the people, sacrificing a few petty human rights that only terrorists would use anyways along the way...
Hmm, I wonder where they end up? I'll have to study up on my 1930s German history and find out!
Yes, there were other circumstances there as well, but it's just too close for comfort. "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it"?
Since when did we start treating all depressed people as if they were Marvin?
Why bother renaming it at all? We've all been calling it Longhorn for years now... it's not like Chicago, where that was an internal name that wasn't often used outside of Redmond. Longhorn this and Longhorn that have been the standard phrases for years in every trade rag... and they're throwing it all away to call it "Vista"... eeeyyyuuuuchhh...
The only possible reason I can think of for it is that they think Longhorn is associated with too much bad publicity, and they want a fresh start. Except, I haven't seen that much "bad" said about Longhorn... so, I guess Bill was bored recently, and decided to let his youngest name the new OS.
At least it's not Windows: Snoopy
Although maybe if it was, we could see the Red Baron straffing Clippy...
No no no, you mean:
Hi, I'm Clippy! Would you like some help inspiring the wrath of linux geeks everywhere?
Hey, it looks like you're trying to admit taking it up the rump from Satan! Would you like some help with that?
Oh, god, now I'm suddenly picturing someone using clippy as lube to take it up the rump from Satan. Ahhhh!!! Out of my head! Out! Out!
In other news, IBM will finally update their system clocks on their Executives' PCs to reflect the fact that it's now 2005 and not 1995.
Unfortunately, because it's OS/2, it took 20 minutes to do, and the computer crashed 3 times. The executives, who have a typical IBM attention span, decided it would be more efficient to just continue providing OS/2, and that it would be too confusing to switch to "Not having OS/2".
However, this IS IBM... so, in about 3 years, they'll wake up and go "Oh, right, I was going to cancel OS/2".
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot ....
Seriously, WTF dude? It takes 2 pages to describe where you should mount your fan? We need another how-to on how to cut a fuckin hole in your case? "Have some fans in the front and some more in the back"... well, THERE'S a fuckin gem! Christ, I never would have thought of that!! I thought I should go out and buy 20 fuckin 200mm fans and duct-tape them all in a GIANT FUCKIN STACK right over my CPU, creating a giant VORTEX OF DOOM sticking out the side of my case, and THEN I would vent that GIANT VORTEX OF DOOM back INTO the front of my case, to make sure I made appropriate use of my airflow, and THEN to make sure I didn't have any leaks I'd duct-tape EVERY FUCKIN HOLE in my case shut, including those wussy holes on the back, they're not for anything, right? And THEN, when I have my GIANT VORTEX OF DOOM running at FULL BLAST, with my tower jitterbugging off the edge of my desk due to the MASSIVE VIBRATIONS, and my cats are running for their lives lest they be SUCKED IN to the one dime-sized hole I left open on the front of my case (for my wires to run for my most awesome LCD panel dude!), and THEN, I would have the GREATEST COOLING RIG EVAR!!!! Mwahahaha!!!
But now, thanks to this in-depth, insightful article, I now know that, if I want to cool my case, I have to put FUCKING FANS ON MY CASE... and if I want a fan where there isn't a hole, I can either CHANGE MY FUCKING MIND, or CUT A FUCKING HOLE.
HOLY SHIT DUDE, I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT.
Thanks you Slashdot. I feel my intelligence being leeched out by the alien overlord editors as we speak. Your grand plan for DUMBING DOWN THE FUCKING WORLD is working great. Good job. I am a l33t h4ck3r now. Feer me, for I know the power of the FAN!!!
Please let me know when I can cast my vote for Kodos. Anything that queer slimy bastard can do to stop this story from being duped next week will make me very very happy.
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I'd try to trade mine for sex first, and if that didn't pan out, I'd take the bookplate.
I don't care how desperate you are dude, sex with J.K. Rowling is just WRONG!
You forgot to capitalize the "I" when you blithly ignored my witty pun. ;)
Actually, the phrase "D-Day" came from the Normandy landings of WW2, where they had to code the possible landing dates to further confuse German spies. A, B, and C days were a wash because of bad weather, and D day was the lucky winner.
Sheesh, no wonder every time you guys get something from a foreign provider you always screw up the conversion... it's bad enough you have feet instead of meters, gallons instead of liters..... but, come on man, you guys just have to have your own special, unique number of hours in 3 days?!? It was all fine and good that you started spelling things differently after the War of Independance, but that's just wrong!
Self heating coffee? I don't need no self-heating coffee... I may arrive at an unlikely circumstance where I'm nowhere close to a coffee shoppe, but I am never far away from my overclocked P4 laptop... just flip that baby over, plug the fan, put my coffee cup over the CPU, and in just a minute I have steaming hot coffee! With the added bonus of a slight burny-laptop aftertaste.
Juan Valdez, eat your heart out!
Dear Slashdot;
I'm looking to set the site record for most duped question every, and Dvorak Vs Qwerty is the easiest subject to continually post under the guise of "News for Nerds". Could you please post a minor variant of Dvorak Vs Qwerty every, say, 3 weeks, until someone notices?
Thanks,
Dvorak-Dork
Yeouch!
You talk to your mother with that potty mouth?
Actuallly, you probably say the exact same thing to her...
I go to /. every morning. I pop open all the new, interesting stories in tabs...
/. can waste your time in new and interesting ways"
At first, I think something is stale in my cache, because that stupid "Windows will break in 12 minutes" is the top story. Queue a few minutes of checking before "Oh, nope, exact dupe."
Then I think something is strange with my tabs, because this story is exactly the same as "Share FIles? Get Fired.". Oh, nope, wait a minute, another dupe....
THe headline should really be "How
Oddly enough, the probes last though before impact was "Oh no, not again."
Pi is acheived via a mathmatical calculation... wouldn't it be easier on the cerebrum (or, perhaps, the cerebellum) to carry out the calculations in your head and spew the results as you acheive them, rather than memorizing 80,000 digits? In fact, would it be a stretch to suggest that the highest-rankers are doing this instead of memorizing?
Who else read this and thought Google had started launching space probes and satellites for free?
:)
They have to do something with the exhaust from all their server farms... pipe it all into a single tube, and make the worlds largest blow-dart gun that can launch into space
Maybe my memory is getting a little faulty, but IIRC, wasn't the protection of the ISPs from getting sued by everyone in Utah for carrying porn that they were a 'common carrier' and not liable for what went over their lines?
Does this rescind their status as a common carrier? If so, how long until every bible-thumper and Save-The-Children organization starts sueing every ISP for not blocking porn/drugs/terrorists/flavour-of-the-week?
Billy Corgan? Is that you?
The team leader getting diced was actually one of my favourite scenes from that otherwise mostly dreadful movie. Here he is, trapped in a room, helpless, faced by an inescapable net of killer lasers approaching him... and he takes it like a man. Doesn't run, doesn't cower against the far wall... says to himself "Well, I'm dead regardless, I might as well stand here with courage and die on my feet."
Of course, bad luck for him that the heroine managed to disable the lasers just a few feet past where he was standing, but hey... if you're gonna take it like a man, sometimes Fate misunderstands and sends a large man named Bruno to screw you in the ass.
Where's mod points when I need em?
Yeah, yeah, it did "got" to be said, eh? Silly ACs, eh, I'd shove my toque up your backside if I hadn't left it upstairs on the chesterfield while watching the CBC.
:)
If I didn't know better, I'd say I have a bitter foe.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but...
... check
:)
The Project Operations Assistant.
Let's review:
Sexy foreign (to me) accent... check
Geek... check
Cute... check
Knows how to blog... check
Plays with models all day long
Gets to work with stuff that makes a REALLY BIG BOOM... check
Can take a joke... we'll see.