It is things like this Google.....

ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I had the pleasure of studying some of Windsor McCay's work in a Comics & Cartoons course a few years ago. I think he would have been pleased with this take on the work, especially that it plays with the medium.
 
strawman

strawman

Using Google voice web interface, you can send texts. I start typing and the usual counter below starts counting down from 160 characters so I know how much is left. I paste in a slightly longer message, and it changes to 2.117, meaning that it'll split it across two messages, and I have 117 left on the second message.

Cool, I think. I'll paste in a whole email.

It changes the counter to Really?

:rofl:
 
strawman

strawman

They programmed quite a few entries into that guide.

Glad they cover vogon poetry, surprised that the towel entry was so far back.
 
evilmike

evilmike

Google has an annual contest, Doodle 4 Google, that invites K-12 students in the United States to use their artistic talents to create a Doodle for their home page:

More entries here.
 
Covar

Covar

There's a Google Doodle today honoring the 107th birthday of RDML Grace Harper. If you are reading this you owe her a big thanks, she created the first compiler, COBAL, and is responsible for the "bugs" and "debugging" being used in the field of computers.
 
evilmike

evilmike

Covar said:
There's a Google Doodle today honoring the 107th birthday of RDML Grace Harper. If you are reading this you owe her a big thanks, she created the first compiler, COBAL, and is responsible for the "bugs" and "debugging" being used in the field of computers.
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I'm proud to say that I actually had a conversation with Admiral Hopper. (Admittedly, I didn't add much to the conversation.) She told me about how she used to carry around a length of wire to show the less technically proficient officers how long a nanosecond was and that's why it took so long to get a signal to and from a satellite.

As for debugging, here's the picture of it from Wikipedia:
 
Chad Sexington

Chad Sexington

evilmike said:
I'm proud to say that I actually had a conversation with Admiral Hopper. (Admittedly, I didn't add much to the conversation.) She told me about how she used to carry around a length of wire to show the less technically proficient officers how long a nanosecond was and that's why it took so long to get a signal to and from a satellite.

As for debugging, here's the picture of it from Wikipedia:
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I am so happy she taped it into a book and labelled it.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I always wonder what it must have sounded like ... thousands of relays chattering open/closed. Before the valves took over, of course.

--Patrick
 
Shakey

Shakey


Sounds a lot like the old proof machine I had to listen to every day for almost 8 hours straight at work. I do not miss it.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

In case anyone cares, here are the solutions to the Google crossword.
googlecrossword.jpg

I ended up putting that last highlighted letter in by going through the alphabet until I got a win message, but the rest I did with no cheating.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I spent about 12min before going to work filling it in, except for a couple words, then I hit the back arrow and got frustrated because I would've had to fill all the rest back in again.
Ah, well.

--Patrick
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

PatrThom said:
I spent about 12min before going to work filling it in, except for a couple words, then I hit the back arrow and got frustrated because I would've had to fill all the rest back in again.
Ah, well.

--Patrick
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Unless you're totally blocking cookies, you wouldn't. It keeps your progress (I did the same thing).
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Bowielee said:
Unless you're totally blocking cookies, you wouldn't. It keeps your progress (I did the same thing).
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I have the browser set to discard cookies between sessions, so when I returned to the page it counted as "new tab."
Eh, I'll run through it again tonight. Kati's been on a crossword binge lately, so since I've been helping her out*, my brain is crossword-primed right now.

--Patrick
*"kibitzing"
 
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