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Gasit pe YouTube.

Rasfoind feedurile rss am dat peste urmatorul zvon, al celor de la cnet:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/TechInvestor/2006/10/06/1964343-ap.html

Care spune ca Google e in discutii cu YouTube in vederea cumpararii sale integrale cu un pret undeva in jurul a 1.6 miliarde USD. Iata cum banii cumpara si ideile si, poate, si un marketing prost al lui YouTube. Greu de crezut ca la un asemenea trafic nu ar fi putut castiga enorm, pe timp nelimitat si, evident, din ce in ce mai mult.

Pe de alta parte, din februarie 2005, de cand a fost fondat YouTube, adica intr-un an si jumatate… cine se mai poate lauda cu o asemenea valoare obtinuta intr-un interval atat de scurt?

Publicul cred ca s-a obisnuit cu tot felul de inovatii aparute la Google, dar care nu le apartin neaparat. Pentru inceput au avut idei, care au facut bani, iar acum banii alimenteaza ideile altora, care, in final, ajung sa le apartina, iar aici sta drept dovada toata suita de servicii care au fost cumparate de Google si au lasat pe spate publicul care a vazut “mama, ce a scos Google…”. Iata cat de mult poate schimba lumea o idee, o inovatie.

Atat de mult incat la un moment dat nici nu mai ai nevoie de idei ca sa o schimbi…

Articol scris de Caffe au lait si publicat cu permisiunea ei

Am citit foarte atenta cugetarea si cand am ajuns la final am izbucnit in ras pentru ca m-a prins pe nepregatite .

Meritul publicarii acestei cugetari apartine mamei lui Andrei.

Cugetare a filozofului chinez Chang Ying Yue:

Cel care, toata ziua
E activ ca o albina,
E puternic ca un taur,
Munceste precum un cal,
Si care seara se-ntoarce rupt de oboseala precum un caine,
Ar trebui sa consulte un veterinar, caci este foarte probabil sa fie un bou.

Iata poza cainelui care a castigat concursul international de cel mai urat caine din lume.

Inca mai aveti o sansa, sa va razganditi…

Oh, the pain, the horror

Dupa cum se spune, "oldies but goldies". Pentru cei din domeniul calculatoarelor, enjoy

How do you shoot yourself in the foot:

C
You shoot yourself in the foot.

C++
You accidentally create a dozen clones of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can’t tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying, "That’s me, over there."

JAVA
After importing java.awt.right.foot.* and java.awt.gun.right.hand.*, and writing the classes and methods of those classes needed, you’ve forgotten what the hell you’re doing.

Ruby
Your foot is ready to be shot in roughly five minutes, but you just can’t find anywhere to shoot it.

PHP
You shoot yourself in the foot with a gun made with pieces from 300 other guns.

ASP.NET
Find a gun, it falls apart. Put it back together, it falls apart again. You try using the .GUN Framework, it falls apart. You stab yourself in the foot instead. (corect!)

SQL
SELECT @ammo:=bullet FROM gun WHERE trigger = ‘PULLED’; INSERT INTO leg (foot) VALUES (@ammo);

Perl
You shoot yourself in the foot, but nobody can understand how you did it.
Six months later, neither can you. (via Andy)

Javascript
YOu’ve perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

CSS
You shoot your right foot with one hand, then switch hands to shoot your left foot but you realize that the gun has turned into a banana.

FORTRAN
You shoot yourself in each toe, iteratively, until you run out of toes, then you read in the next foot and repeat. If you run out of bullets, you continue anyway because you have no exception-handling ability.

Modula2
After realizing that you can’t actually accomplish anything in this language, you shoot yourself in the head.

COBOL
Using a COLT 45 HANDGUN, AIM gun at LEG.FOOT, THEN place ARM.HAND.FINGER. on HANDGUN.TRIGGER and SQUEEZE. THEN return HANDGUN to HOLSTER. CHECK whether shoelace needs to be retied.

LISP
You shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds the gun with which you shoot yourself in the appendage which holds ..

BASIC
Shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol. On big systems, continue until entire lower body is waterlogged.

FORTH
Foot in yourself shoot.

APL
You shoot yourself in the foot, then spend all day figuring out how to do it in fewer characters.

Pascal
The compiler won’t let you shoot yourself in the foot.

SNOBOL
If you succeed, shoot yourself in the left foot.
If you fail, shoot yourself in the right foot.

Concurrent Euclid
You shoot yourself in somebody else’s foot.

HyperTalk
Put the first bullet of the gun into the foot of the left leg of you.
Answer the result.

Motif
You spend days writing a UIL description of your foot, the trajectory, the bullet, and the intricate scrollwork on the ivory handles of the gun. When you finally get around to pulling the trigger, the gun jams.

Unix
% ls
foot.c foot.h foot.o toe.c toe.o
% rm * .o
rm: .o: No such file or directory
% ls
%

Paradox
Not only can you shoot yourself in the foot, your users can too.

Revelation
You’ll be able to shoot yourself in the foot just as soon as you figure out what all these bullets are for.

Visual Basic
You’ll shoot yourself in the foot, but you’ll have so much fun doing it that you won’t care.

Prolog
You tell your program you want to be shot in the foot. The program figures out how to do it, but the syntax doesn’t allow it to explain.

Ada
After correctly packaging your foot, you attempt to concurrently load the gun, pull the trigger, scream and shoot yourself in the foot. When you try, however, you discover that your foot is of the wrong type.

Assembly
You try to shoot yourself in the foot only to discover you must first reinvent the gun, the bullet, and your foot. After that’s done, you pull the trigger, the gun beeps several times, then crashes.

370 JCL
You send your foot down to MIS with a 4000-page document explaining how you want it to be shot. Three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried.

Python
You try to shoot yourself in the foot but you just keep hitting the whitespace between your toes.

… sau asa si-o numeste autorul.
In esenta e doar o animatie interesanta:

http://www.johngerrard.net/smoketree1/index.htm

Daca mai aveam dubii in legatura cu masura in care ma potrivesc cu Politehnica, QuizFarm imi dovedeste pentru prima data ca mi s-ar potrivi in egala masura matematica si teatrul, si imi mai dovedeste si pentru a nu-stiu-cata oara ca e pur si simplu prost.

Poate parea ciudat, dar cursurile de la una dintre cele mai ravnite universitati din SUA sunt disponibile intr-o foarte mare masura, de prin 2000 pana astazi, chiar in reteaua lor, printr-un program numit OpenCourseWare, care, probabil, s-a instituit in acelasi timp cu momentul in care cineva a tras concluzia ca si chiulangii au potential, dar ceva mai putina rabdare sa reziste in conditii de genul six-hours-straight-Iorga-style.

Ma uit la noi, la Politehnica, tot computer science, unde, daca ar fi disponibile toate materialele pe net, cred ca si-ar permite sa inscrie de 2 ori mai multi studenti decat locurile disponibile si tot ar bate vantul prin salile de curs.

A, si pentru cei care credeau (ca si mine) ca la MIT se invata doar geeky-stuff, electronici si calculatoare, aruncati totusi o privire peste link, pentru ca se invata mult mai mult decat atat.

MIT OpenCourseWare

Electrical engineering and computer science (si pe astia ii freaca cu electronica…)

Ok, trebuie sa recunosc ca asa ceva nu am mai vazut, sau ca am ramas eu in urma cu tehnologia.

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/acrobat/pdfs/a7_tryme_gb.pdf