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"Sarkozy to William & Kate wedding". This is the famous Sarkozy handshakes the Queen scene.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Don't forget the cannoli!
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If you say it with an Italian Mafia accent, it sounds something like Fat Tony would say.
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"Style of one about to form one state?"(12)
Best of luck.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Independence?
Amalgamation?
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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No, neither.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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No.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Fabulous, fabulous technology from Stanford.
I really enjoyed reading the article until it mentioned the IBM effort.
This is called 'SyNAPSE'. And of course, it's a cute acronym for some b@ll@cks or other. At which stage I lose interest. I mean, it's 2014 and I suppose that the IBM'ers are adults, so seeing drooling, puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke.
The IBM tech may or may not be cool.
I doubt it.
And I don't care.
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I need a link so I too can be annoyed by it....
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The Insider is what you are looking for.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Simon O'Riordan from UK wrote: puerile attempts at backronyms for naming a project just makes me want to choke
According to my experience, projects names made up of crap acronyms are much more likely to stick in memory than project named DS3875-T9-#.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Yeah - and these things seem to go in phases.
In the 1980s and early 1990s they were all Roman or Greek gods (Apollo, Pegasus etc.)
Then there were physics related names (Electron, Quantum etc.)
Now biological / neuroscience (Hive, Synapse, Cortex)
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Have you installed Hives?
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What about 'Neurogrid'? That's not a load of drivel.
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Oh, and also...[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Still in use at many, many companies.
I don't mind them really as indeed it helps to memorize the content of the project (given it is done properly)
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The best (and most ridiculous) Backronym we have was made out of the inventor's first name.
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Just nipped out to look at the eclipse before the sun sets behind the hills.
Can hardly read the screen now, for the mass of green and purple dots.
For a safer view, click here[^] (although it seemed to go fizzy a few minutes ago - like someone stood in front of the camera!
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Lunar eclipse? Not solar?
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No, it was a partial solar eclipse[^]
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Whoa. You should never look at those.
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Well, depends on the sky conditions, there are times you can look full at the sun and be fine (e.g. at sunset when the air is thick and it's orange). But yeah as a rule looking straight at the sun is a poor idea.
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