At The Cloud Appreciation Society we believe that clouds are unjustly maligned and that life would be immeasurably poorer without them
We believe that clouds are for dreamers, and their contemplation benefits the soul. They are the Rorschach images of the sky, and if you consider the shapes you see in them you will save on psychoanalysis bills.
Picture gallery. I kinda like this one.
Cloud Surfing Video.
She was on the original committee that developed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language). COBOL was a computer programming language designed and used primarily for business applications.
Despite this huge achievement, Grace maintained a modest attitude. Upon being asked how she developed COBOL she once lightheartedly stated, “It really came about because I couldn’t balance my checkbook.”
Grace spiced her talk with many amusing anecdotes. One such story regarded the increasing speed of computers, where she introduced the idea of the “nanosecond.” She showed the nanosecond to be the distance that electricity traveled over an 18 inch wire, which she willingly distributed to audience members.
She told a story about how the computer term “bug” came to be in our vocabulary. Apparently, in the early days of computing there were vacuum tubes and wire meshes. The wire meshes were the early memory devices of the computer. One day the computer she was working on ceased to function. Upon examination, someone found that a bug had found its way into the wire mesh and had fried itself in the process. By entangling itself in the wire mesh, the bug had short circuited the CPU.
Since then, whenever someone looks for the cause of a program or computer malfunction it is called “debugging” the computer.
First half, standard close up magic. Second half, I’m blown away!
This Renault V10 can really sing!
Pokulator has developed unique poker odds calculators to teach people the odds in poker. We at Pokulator are the first to admit that playing good poker involves much more than just knowing the odds. But, all good poker players must have a grasp of the odds in order to make educated decisions at the poker table.
If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
Don’t cheat!
The Missouri Department of Transportation will spend $3 million annually on a program to monitor the movements of individuals on highways via their cell phones — without their knowledge or consent.
A pilot program in Baltimore only tracks Cingular cell phones on 1,000 miles of road. AirSage Inc. has contracted with Sprint to spy on motorists in Norfolk, Virginia and Atlanta and Macon, Georgia.
Our software converts wireless phone signals into real-time traffic information. Our patented technology delivers travel times, speeds and other performance measurements at a fraction of the cost of traditional sensor-based solutions.
With over 125 million subscribers carrying wireless devices wherever they go, wireless carriers are uniquely positioned to deliver real-time traffic and other travel information to those that need it when they need it the most.
In partnership with wireless carriers, AirSage’s software solution can blanket the nation with critical data that has never before been available. In a matter of months, the AirSage system can be implemented to monitor nearly every priority travel corridor in the country, scanning for heavy traffic volumes, irregular movements, network capacity, alternate routes and other critical transportation related intelligence.
Oh, and then there’s this.