Google jobs

[Migsy]

With all this Google nonsense, and so many geeks on nopesport, it seems right to tell those who don't know that Google are advertising jobs at the moment.

http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html

[distracted]

very good migsy!

Applicants must be at least 18 years of age by April 1, 2007 and have proof of earth residency. Google is an equal opportunity employer.

[brooner]

Also quite interesting at google is their forthcoming plans to launch their own webmail service g-mail (currently beta), offering a whacking 1GB of space! like anyone has a need for 1GB of space for webmail, anyway get some simple maths on the go calculating the possible storage requirements of the operation:
1 million users * 1GB = one petabyte = one quadrillion bytes

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/04/02/cx_ah_0402tentech.html
A petabyte is one quadrillion bytes, or 1,024 TB. It's the equivalent of 250 billion pages of text, 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets, or 83,000 full-length movies. That's some serious storage capacity.

lovely large numbers all sounds very nice but everything is not as it seems:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3621169.stm
and some interesting stuff here:
http://www.google-watch.org/
invasion of privacy perhaps?

oh yeah and i forgot, the [nope]ed up with the name, as at least one other e-mail provider is using gmail... doh
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/07/google_trademark/

[Ed]

Another article on just how much computing power and storage Google may or may not have at their disposal:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1202522,00.html

And surely the big cheese hasn't sold the land and given planning permission to google yet?

[Kitch]

Did anyone see the Horizon program about time travel ?
I only caught the end bit where they were saying that a good alternative to physical time travel (which is limited by the fact that you can't travel back to before you built your time machine - I'm sure Graeme could explain why) is virtual time travel.

What you do is you look at the rate at which computer memory has been expanding and (assuming that at some point Microsoft stop eating it all up with stupid stuff like Word and Project) you realise that before very long it will be possible to simulate real life environments down to a T. You take it further than that and before long it will be possible to simulate billions of environments of this kind based on known history. You can have them all running at a slightly different phase, so you can skip around in virtual time.
But
Next you think about the probabilities and you realise that it is unlikely that, of the billions of virualities possible we are THE reality time line that invented the computer. In fact it is billions to one that we are a virtuality created by the original reality which invented the computer -
We are in the Matrix - cool !

[Ed]

What you do is you look at the rate at which computer memory has been expanding and (assuming that at some point Microsoft stop eating it all up with stupid stuff like Word and Project)...

That'll be the same Microsoft who have good technology then?

[Ed]

On second thoughts... why are google needing any more humans at all?

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

[distracted]

I'd forgotten about that one - someone at Google has an 'interesting' sense of humour!

[Jene]

bit random like.....

[Nailest]

From another website (sorry Rocky, you had to learn the truth sometime, I know it might seem harsh, but that's life)

I for applied that job and I got an e-mail back that said:

Thank you for contacting Google about our Copernicus Research Center.

We've received an overwhelming response to this opportunity and are not currently accepting additional resumes. We will, however, keep your information on file should we have an opening in the future. At the current staffing levels, we anticipate that we may need additional applicants on or around April Fool's Day in 2104. Until then, we appreciate your interest in Google and your taking the time to write us.

Sincerely,

The Googlunar Recruiting Team