Comment A new meaning to the expression.. (Score 2, Funny) 149
Hope the pigeon wins, but this really does gives a new meaning to the expression 'dropped packet'...
Submission + - Pi calculated to record 2.5 trillion digits (examiner.com) 6
Joshua writes: "Researchers from Japan have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer (which is currently ranked 47th in the world according to a June, 2009 report from Top500.org). This new number more than doubles the previous record of about 1.2 trillion decimals set in 2002 by another Japanese research team. Unfortunately, there still seems to be no pattern."
Comment Re:Corporate culture (Score 5, Insightful) 883
Problem is that in a couple of years they all get fired and governments have to bail them out.. because they have overcapacity and keep working on deprecated industries (c.f today's strike in France, very much motivated by the auto industry).
This shareholding story is BS. Today's boss will want to have his money&bonus today and couldn't care less about the company; if they would, they'd be visionaries... and they're not. So following the (stock)market interests may well be the establishment, but it's not an excuse.
We should know better by now and should stop tolerating the establishment's behavior.
