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Obama-Google Interview

Started by Ross Mead, 2008-10-01T03:12:25-05:00 (Wednesday)

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Ross Mead

If I wasn't already political, this would be enough reason for me to vote for Obama:

Obama-Google Interview

I think that this clip needs to show up in at least one of the classes, perhaps during the discussion of the bubblesort...

QuoteCS150 Professor: Hey, if the bubblesort is important enough for (President?) Obama to know it, you should know it!

... and/or when teaching complexity...

QuoteCS340 Professor: As (President?) Obama says, the bubblesort would not be appropriate here.

Ehh,... just a thought... :-p

(Special thanks to Justin Camerer, who brought this video to my attention! :D)

Also, I would like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to vote.  Though my choice is blatantly clear in this post, I'm honestly not trying to sway anyone one way or another; I don't care who you vote for, just so long as you do, indeed, make a choice and vote!  You can register (or check to see if you are registered) for your location here.

William Grim

Well, not voting is also a respectable choice if that's what they want.  Indifference, however, is not encouraged.
William Grim
IT Associate, Morgan Stanley

raptor

I wonder if someone prompted him on that term so he would use it?
President of CAOS
Software Engineer NASA Nspires/Roses Grant

Shaun Martin

Shaun Martin
SIUE Alumni
Associate IT Analyst, AT&T Services, Inc. St. Louis, MO.

Tony

Quote from: raptor on 2008-10-01T14:10:04-05:00 (Wednesday)
I wonder if someone prompted him on that term so he would use it?

Umm, yeah lol.  He said "We have our spies". 
I would rather be hated for doing what I believe in, than loved for doing what I don't.

Tony

Does anyone know where the closest voting registration office is?  I never changed my address when I moved so I have to do it now and it needs to be done by the 7th.
I would rather be hated for doing what I believe in, than loved for doing what I don't.

Bryan

You can look up the forms and everything online and it will give you an address to mail them.  Not that Illinois is ever really contested.
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

Tony

Yeah, the forms said that it had to be at their office by the 7th if you mail it.  Which is weird because it says if you deliver it in person, to the same place, that you can have it there by the 23rd or something like that.  Weird.  Anyways, just FYI, you can go up to the Court House and turn it in there.
I would rather be hated for doing what I believe in, than loved for doing what I don't.

arcdrag

Just an add to this, Obama just referenced the Mark I in his debate tonight. 

Justin Camerer

Justin Camerer
Do yo' chain hang low?

Bryan

Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

Tony

#11
Quote from: arcdrag on 2008-10-07T20:39:09-05:00 (Tuesday)
Just an add to this, Obama just referenced the Mark I in his debate tonight. 

Are you talking about when he said, "Government scientist invented the first computer that....".  I am not so sure he really referenced it, he just acknowledged that Bill Gates didn't event the computer lol.
I would rather be hated for doing what I believe in, than loved for doing what I don't.

robespierre

#12
Government domination party candidate A has been fed computer related buzzwords by his handlers and government domination party candidate B has not. I suspect we will still see the inexorable march of intellectual property enforcement further and further into extra-constitutional territory.  The recent PRO-IP act, which was a bipartisan effort, nearly snuck through with provisions to create a new war against copyright violators, much like the drug war, the war on poverty, the war on obesity, or the war on terror.  The DOJ had that taken out at the last minute because they refused(amazingly and to their credit) to criminalize an area of law that had been entirely civil up to this point.

Do you all trust Obama with the levers of power? He and his minions will appoint the directors of all the executive agencies.

America has traditionally had a comparative advantage over other countries in intellectual freedom.  A vote for Obama OR McCain threatens that.  I don't know what the solution is, but I know what it's not.

Meh...Wake me up when the Tar & Feather committee/mob is approaching the federal reserve.


<removed a picture of a british tax collector being tarred & feathered to avoid further controversy & possible misunderstandings...>
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."

Bryan

Welcome, robespierre way to make a hell of a first impression.  Feel free to NOT POST AGAIN*



*This is my opinion, and not necessarily that of CAOS, though I'm sure some of them just won't voice it.
Bryan Grubaugh
Quickly aging alumni with too much time on his hands
Business Systems Analyst, Scripps Networks.

robespierre

#14
Quote from: Bryan on 2008-10-24T13:08:35-05:00 (Friday)
Welcome, robespierre way to make a hell of a first impression.  Feel free to NOT POST AGAIN*



*This is my opinion, and not necessarily that of CAOS, though I'm sure some of them just won't voice it.

What? You don't like my opinion? Is there some unwritten rule about openly disagreeing with the prevailing opinion in a thread?

I've got to be missing some subtext here.  I don't understand the hostility...  Please explain.

/edit
Okay, I think I see what set you off.  The picture <was> of a british tax collector being tarred & feathered during the revolutionary war.
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."