As you can clearly see in these slides, the Internet really is a series of tubes!
Purple tubes. With pink highlights.
But look, when the internet’s tubes get clogged, it gets a triple bypass! A very routine and safe procedure these days, I’m told.
it’s a series of tubes
September 13, 2006 8:23am (3 years, 11 months and 3 weeks ago)
tags:
internet
ted stevens
Okay, I know the Ted Stevens thing was, like, so last month. But I was digging around on my computer tonight and found the power point presentation I made for a school project.
As you can clearly see in these slides, the Internet really is a series of tubes!
Purple tubes. With pink highlights.
But look, when the internet’s tubes get clogged, it gets a triple bypass! A very routine and safe procedure these days, I’m told.
As you can clearly see in these slides, the Internet really is a series of tubes!
Purple tubes. With pink highlights.
But look, when the internet’s tubes get clogged, it gets a triple bypass! A very routine and safe procedure these days, I’m told.
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Michael W. Jackson
Sep 24, 2006 10:58pm
Sep 25, 2006 1:46pm
Wow… your own personal internet is way bigger and more complicated than mine.
Sep 25, 2006 3:52pm
Michael, you need to port that application to an <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl”>Xgl</a> system so the pipes can escape the Window and maybe poke holes through other programs' Windows.
Sep 25, 2006 3:53pm
(dang it, mind lapse and preview button not working lead to stupidity)
Sep 25, 2006 4:44pm
My internet is part of the new elite premium internet. You can keep your lower-tier joke of an existence… Bwah ha ha ha… I have technology beyond my comprehension.
Sep 25, 2006 5:31pm
My preview button isn’t working?!
Time to to do-sum-bout-dis.
Oh, I see… a combination of terrible hacked-together code to support WFW-style XML comment posts and upgrading to PHP 5 around the same time. Previews fixed, XML posts not so much…
Time to to do-sum-bout-dis.
Oh, I see… a combination of terrible hacked-together code to support WFW-style XML comment posts and upgrading to PHP 5 around the same time. Previews fixed, XML posts not so much…
Sep 25, 2006 8:12pm
Let me preview myself.
Post Preview: It works!
Post Post Preview: It still works.
Post Post Post Preview: Less surprised, and the number of utils I am experiencing seem to be on some sort of marginal diminishing return, but I am no less pleased that it is working.
Post Post Post Post Preview: Now I am getting bored and would be surprised if it didn’t work.
Post Post Post Post Post Preview: Don’t even care enough to hit it, now. Hope I don’t introduce a tpyogrphacl error.
Post Preview: It works!
Post Post Preview: It still works.
Post Post Post Preview: Less surprised, and the number of utils I am experiencing seem to be on some sort of marginal diminishing return, but I am no less pleased that it is working.
Post Post Post Post Preview: Now I am getting bored and would be surprised if it didn’t work.
Post Post Post Post Post Preview: Don’t even care enough to hit it, now. Hope I don’t introduce a tpyogrphacl error.
Sep 25, 2006 8:18pm
Matt didn’t know what utils were. I forget we business majors are smarter than everybody else?! Wait for laughter to die down…
Here’s an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util
Post Preview: I like your external wikipedia “define” iconic representation and stuff.
Here’s an article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util
Post Preview: I like your external wikipedia “define” iconic representation and stuff.
Sep 25, 2006 11:16pm
I’m currently getting 1.21 GigaUtils per gallon.
In school, when somebody dropped the CS major in favor of CIS, we called it “falling to the Dark Side.” The path was quicker, yes, but at what cost?
So don’t try to tempt me with any of your business pseudo-science. I will not fall to the dark side. I am a computer scientist, like my father before me (well, he did do some programming).
Besides, why be content with simply using Microsoft Excel when you could write it from the ground up? Well, I guess I’d never get anything more than a beta release and I’d probably never be able to market it, but marketing is the darkest of the arts.
In school, when somebody dropped the CS major in favor of CIS, we called it “falling to the Dark Side.” The path was quicker, yes, but at what cost?
So don’t try to tempt me with any of your business pseudo-science. I will not fall to the dark side. I am a computer scientist, like my father before me (well, he did do some programming).
Besides, why be content with simply using Microsoft Excel when you could write it from the ground up? Well, I guess I’d never get anything more than a beta release and I’d probably never be able to market it, but marketing is the darkest of the arts.
Sep 26, 2006 3:24am
How can you even conceivably prove a product marketing campaign plan without quantifying the inherently unquantifiable? I mean there is a completely scientific process at work here!
Plus, why become a programmer anyway? As I learned on career day, all the things that are worth writing had already been written…and that was in 1995. That’s just proof that all of you uppity CS majors are basically like high-tech philosophy majors or something. You better find something practical to attach your major to or you’ll soon regret it. I mean you’ve milked an extra 11 years out of the industry. I’m sure it’s just about done by now for sure.
Plus, why become a programmer anyway? As I learned on career day, all the things that are worth writing had already been written…and that was in 1995. That’s just proof that all of you uppity CS majors are basically like high-tech philosophy majors or something. You better find something practical to attach your major to or you’ll soon regret it. I mean you’ve milked an extra 11 years out of the industry. I’m sure it’s just about done by now for sure.
Sep 26, 2006 3:29am
If the United States Patent Office has taught me anything, it is that even the must mundane and stupid software written in the past is now brilliant (and thus patentable) if you “put it on the web.” So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.
Sep 26, 2006 5:26am
You were witness to what I like to call “peak programming”. See, all the hard, really expensive programming was done back in the 80’s. Now we’re over the hump and on a steady decline.
Economists try to claim that as the cost of programming drops due to lack of unwritten code, projects which would have once been too expensive to undertake will become viable. They like to point at the number of unprogrammed VCRs in the world as an example.
But those of us in the field know better. The estimates showing trillions of barrels of utils in “proven” reserves are a pipe dream. It’s only a matter of time before the lack of things to program grinds this industry to a halt.
It’s a scary time to be alive, people.
Economists try to claim that as the cost of programming drops due to lack of unwritten code, projects which would have once been too expensive to undertake will become viable. They like to point at the number of unprogrammed VCRs in the world as an example.
But those of us in the field know better. The estimates showing trillions of barrels of utils in “proven” reserves are a pipe dream. It’s only a matter of time before the lack of things to program grinds this industry to a halt.
It’s a scary time to be alive, people.
Sep 27, 2006 1:18am
Do you write for uncyclopedia?
Sep 30, 2006 1:02am
No! Basically for the reasons I said before – way too much non-sequitur humor that makes the site read like a mad lib, which gets old fast.
Sep 30, 2006 3:28am
Oh, but the kitten huffing…
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