Elizabeth Taylor's phone number was BUtterfield 8.
The IRS can be reached at VAmpire 9-1040

Yeah! It cost 5.6 million dollars just to bury Margaret Thatcher.

Doesn't everybody? My god, next time, you'll be complaining about how it's impossible to get high speed internet in your village.

It's the suburbs--people don't have neighborhood pub they can walk home from.

Free BSD has a walled garden? Where?

The problem here is that pdf is an open, standardized format. Google docs is not. Yes, I have a google docs account. A slashdot story should not require me to

1. Log into my third party account, or create one.
2. Discover that there is "No Preview" available.
3. Download a 30 megabyte file

All to comment intelligently on a slashdot story consisting of two sentences.

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The audio quality leaves something to be desired,

Inferior device? Nonsense. I happen to prefer Apple's "walled garden" to Google's "walled garden", but the world beyond those walls is often more interesting than what's contained within.

It's just his slides, anyway You can watch Simon give his lecture here.

A 30 MB google docs document. Oh joy. It even appears to break my ipad. Yes, it's worth reading, but would it kill you to write an interesting summary? Even a pithy one, such as "by 2020, the energy costs associated with moving bits around will exceed the costs of actually processing them.

Psychologists have PhDs. Some of them treat patients, These are called Clinical Psychologists.

Psychiatrists have MDs. So do general practitioners, and in many cases psychiatric drugs are prescribed by non-specialists.

The OED was first published in 1889, and those catalogues date from 1854.

Oh, sorry. Casinos call themselves the "Gaming Industry" because "gambling" sounds antisocial.

He got lucky. Gaming should reward luck.

I have a solution-- build facilities and industries in the district of columbia, not in the states. Since DC has no vote, they won't be able to complain when government sizes up or down with the times. The representatives of the states and districts can then judge a program on its merits, not on local concerns such as "jobs."

From some IBM propaganda

Hurray for multiprocessing!