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25221. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 7:27:08 PM My next option for fast internet service at home. 25222. alistairConnor - 4/1/2009 7:33:43 PM Yeah, it certainly sounds like the best connectivity option for your location, Ark.
Hard to see how Google makes money out of it, but they've always had an unusual business model. 25223. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 8:02:23 PM Ha! I believe it's an April Fools joke, Alistair! 25224. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 8:04:40 PM But we have a septic anyway, so when Bro first emailed it, I thought "damn!" Then read how it "works" and what problems might arise, such as "data wipes" and "brownouts." 25225. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 8:10:06 PM Ooooh, 3i. I just saw, y'all were in MS? That explains a lot. A whole lot. 25226. iiibbb - 4/1/2009 8:13:10 PM You are a sharp cookie Arky... I always thought so. 25227. iiibbb - 4/1/2009 8:17:53 PM The funny thing is that she started making friends in the last 3 months and she misses it a little. Doesn't matter because the job situation for her was still a wash and 80% of the reason we left... but maybe if we have to move somewhere like that again she'll give it a better chance from the start. 25228. wabbit - 4/1/2009 8:32:59 PM More from Google - Gmail Autopilot
Does Autopilot work for Gmail chat too?Yes. Chat was actually simpler to build, given the natural language headway made by Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA. While many claim ELIZA oft times passed the Turing test, Gmail Autopilot passes with 99.9% accuracy due to the inclusion of human-like qualities such as compassion and wisdom and CADIE's related ability to calibrate to match your chat style.
These guys have more fun with April 1 than anyone.25229. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 9:07:24 PM Ooooh, 3i. I just saw, y'all were in MS? That explains a lot. A whole lot. 25230. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 9:10:13 PM Aw crap! The refresh bug got me! That hasn't happened in a while!
Thanks 3i! MS has some nice folks, but to me it's mostly a depressing state, whereas we Arkies are just poor. Except the delta, which is just like MS. 25231. iiibbb - 4/1/2009 9:23:37 PM Luckily we weren't in the Delta... we were a bit in the sticks though... and I did do some work in the Delta. 25232. arkymalarky - 4/1/2009 9:44:14 PM Now, I love the sticks. Wouldn't live anywhere else. 25233. alistairConnor - 4/1/2009 10:12:05 PM (arky... I got the joke...really I did...just playing along)
Last year I fell for an april fool gag in the Guardian, so this year I was quite pleased to score 9 out of 10 in their spot the april fool quiz 25234. anomie - 4/2/2009 12:16:38 AM I'm slow. I know it's a joke, but what exactly does TiSP stand for? 25235. anomie - 4/2/2009 12:20:49 AM As to the Guardian quiz...strange cow and strange Pope. 25236. wabbit - 4/2/2009 12:51:56 AM near as I can tell... TiSP = Trickle Internet Service Provider
How can Google offer this service for free?We believe that all users deserve free, fast and sanitary online access. To offset the cost of providing the TiSP service, we use information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward...
Check out the various links, it's all pretty funny.25237. wabbit - 4/2/2009 1:11:24 AM omg, I wish I still had some punchcards... …we fed Google's new CADIE Strategic Decision Maker the App Engine issue tracker, our groups, and various blog posts around the internet to help select a new runtime language for App Engine. Today we're excited to officially announce support for FORTRAN 77!…
Download our SDK and deploy your application by mailing punch cards to:
Google App Engine, C/O APPCFG
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
and we'll take care of the rest!… LOL!!
I'm really enjoying Google today. I probably need to get out more.25238. anomie - 4/2/2009 1:45:10 AM "Trickle"? Good as anything I guess. 25239. arkymalarky - 4/2/2009 2:19:07 AM Not tinkle? 25240. arkymalarky - 4/2/2009 2:25:53 AM Had a headache today, so the kids didn't even try one on me or I on them.
I know I've told this before, but the best I ever did was giving a fake test to an AP English class. It was a scheduled test, the questions were on the material and sounded fine, grammatically correct and.all, but they made no sense whatsoever. I'll bet the kids sat there at least ten minutes--some writing but most just looking at the test--before anyone dared try to get me to explain a question, at which point I pulled out the real test.
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