What is even more special is the list of "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed" products.

Now I have to get a towel and clean the coffee off my monitor.

+3: Laughing at the DPRK is really the only thing you can do. Unfortunately you stop laughing when you think about what life inside the DPRK must be like. Grim does not begin to describe it.

After all the acid I did over the years you would think I would have gotten at least one, teensy little flashback. But nooooooo!

Then I went to the CHM and they almost had to carry me out on a stretcher. I went into a fugue state and got my hand slapped by a docent for touching the mouse of the Xerox Alto. It was like 30 years hadn't passed and I just knew there were people out there, waiting in the maze, peeking around the corners like cockroaches.

The card readers, ginormous disk drives, core memory, video games, etc., etc. -- it all combined to warp space and time. I had thought 2 hours would be enough (my wife was shopping) ... ha! Ten hours wouldn't be enough! Go for the Super Geek package and you get the entrance fee + a really geeky black/white T-shirt with CHM spelled out in binary-ASCII (I'm wearing it as I type this).

Why has the parent comment not been modded up? It's one of the more detailed, thoughtful answers to this question I've seen. It makes me think (again) that StackOverflow's voting system is far superior to the outdated /. mod system.

Python is not a good example to make this point. Google did not start the Python project, and Python has lots of uses that have nothing to do with Google. If Google were to fold tomorrow, Python (and Guido) would survive just fine.

Uhm, if we do that we will ... die. The CO2 partial pressure in your blood is what actually makes your body decide when to breathe.

At the suggestion of a friend from the PLATO IV project (Hi, Mike!) I visited PARC in September of 1974. Not knowing anything about it I walked up to the front desk and asked if I could have a tour. The nice lady asked where I was working and I said I had just moved to the area and didn't have a job yet. She said she would see if there was someone who had some time.

About 15 minutes later this nice guy came out and proceeded to give me about a 2.5 hour tour. I was not only amazed at the tech they had, but also at how deeply he seemed to understand all of it. It was a like a walk through Disneyland led by Walt himself. I called my friend and absolutely bubbled over about what I had seen. He asked who had shown me around and I admitted I was horrible with names, but I knew his first name was .... Alan. I also told my friend that someday I hoped to work there.

Yes, it was Alan Kay, and although I never worked at PARC, 4 years later I was working down the hill at Xerox ASD on the BravoX project with the in/famous Charles Simonyi as my manager.

Good times.

You wouldn't believe the Tour of the Internet I just took to see if the HBGary Aaron Barr was (somehow) the same guy who was a housemate of mine back in the 70s.

No, thank God, he's not. My guy is the one who wrote The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence back in the early 80s.

I think you're just being pedantagorically silly.

Brilliant comment ... simply brilliant. I was going to try to come up with something about a null hypothesis, but I am stunned into silence by the beauty of this.

When has lack of understanding ever stopped anyone on /. from commenting on anything?

Come on modders ... that was genuine, laugh-out-loud funny.

Wow, that's not the movie I saw. I could see eating people, but shit? Nah, this sequel will never work.

My very first reaction was to think of Asimov's Foundation trilogy and the fact the the Galactic Library was stored as nicked quanta in a paperweight on the Librarian's desk. The Barbarians allowed him to take his personal belongings with him before they destroyed the Library Planet.