Google Hires Vint Cerf 307
hsuwh writes "Google has hired Internet pioneer Vint Cerf away from MCI as its "Chief Internet Evangelist".
"He is one of the most important people alive today," said [Google CEO Eric] Schmidt, who has been friends with Cerf for more than 20 years. "Vint has put his heart and soul into making the Internet happen. I know he is going to jump right in here and start shoveling out new ideas for Google.""
snark (Score:5, Funny)
Chief Internet Evangelist? Really?
a case of mistaken identity? (Score:5, Funny)
Are they sure they didn't hire Al Gore by mistake?
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Poor metaphor (Score:5, Funny)
I can only think of one thing that people typically use the phrase "shovel out" with... and it begins with sh-.
I sure hope, for Google's sake, that he shovels out something else.
Re:Vint (Score:3, Funny)
Diesel [imdb.com].
Re:snark (Score:3, Funny)
And I'm sure nobody's cracked that joke before...
Re:Do they have a strategy behind this? (Score:5, Funny)
Google - Collecting people
love or hate? (Score:5, Funny)
(are they becoming an unstoppable giant?)
Re:Wikipedia link (Score:5, Funny)
Re:snark (Score:3, Funny)
Especially the "Chief" part... this implies a whole team of internet evangelists.
I guess Pat Robertson is diversifying his revenue sources...
Re:Poor metaphor (Score:3, Funny)
The guy makes terrible puns (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wikipedia link (Score:3, Funny)
Google TLD? (Score:4, Funny)
So how long before we get a
Re:love or hate? (Score:5, Funny)
We love Google. Always.
We love Apple. Always.
We love Linux past the point of sanity. There is nothing which couldn't be made better with Linux.
We love the FCC when they're regulating spectrum, except when they're actually selling a usage license. We hate the FCC if they're doing anything outside of that, like sneezing.
We hate Microsoft, always. If somebody in Redmond catches a cold,we gloat. If Microsoft releases a bug patch, it's an example of shoddy work (Whereas bug patches in open source are CLEARLY an example of high-quality work! No double standard there.).
We moderately dislike the Democrats, but since they're the party of opposition to Sat^H^H^Hthe Republicans, we champion them like they were Gods incarnate (Unless Libertarianism comes up, of course).
Novell is evil, except when they're doing stuff with Linux. Or against Microsoft.
IBM is totally awesome. Except where POWER chips and Linux aren't concerned, there they suck.
Anything but X86 is the best instruction set ever. Except for IA64, which was also made by Intel, so it sucks. X86-64, because it was made by AMD, rules however, and fixes all of the problems anybody has ever had with anything remotely close to X86.
Intel is always expensive crap. Except where the Pentium M comes into play. There they're just expensive.
AMD is always cheap and kickass. Except for the FX chips, which aren't cheap. And the Turion, which is just cheap.
NVidia is evil for not releasing open source drivers for Linux. NVidia is saintly for releasing solid support for Linux.
ATI is saintly for releasing open source drivers for Linux. ATI is evil for not releasing solid support for Linux.
Any mention of BSD is a troll, unless the story explicitly mentions BSD, because mentioning another Open Source Operating System draws glory from the wonder that is Linux.
And so forth and so on...
Re:Google TLD? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Google PBS commercial (Score:4, Funny)
Does "Jenna" qualify as natural phenomena?
Great! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:VC, the MCI Spam Supporter (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, but you get dispensations for doing cool things like inventing the internet.
Re:Do they have a strategy behind this? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:snark (Score:2, Funny)
I'm not entirely sure, but I heard a guy on t.v. say they got them working on computers now.
maybe, in order to understand Internet we have to look at the word itself: Internet. Basically it's made up of two separate words: 'inte' and 'rnet'. What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and so is Internet.
Now we know the final boss (Score:4, Funny)
Next step: Google Trading Cards (Score:2, Funny)
Re:love or hate? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:He did what? (Score:2, Funny)
I'm with ya! Like somebody uses TCP/IP these days, good God people!
I can't belive the nerve of these losers to compare this acient crap to all YOUR Earth shaking inventions and contributions to computer science. I shudder to think of a world devoid of your greatness.
Re:Wikipedia link (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, here's a Wikipedia link about that: (Score:5, Funny)
I have a twisted sense of humour, I suppose.
Mother of the Internet? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Do they have a strategy behind this? (Score:3, Funny)
Vegas loves people like you.
Re:love or hate? (Score:3, Funny)
Google is our ally. Google has always been our ally.
Microsoft is the enemy. We have always been at war with Microsoft, and Google is our ally.
Google Hires Vint Cerf (Score:1, Funny)
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Re:Do they have a strategy behind this? (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft twist on this (Score:3, Funny)
That is what Google is doing. That is exactly NOT what Microsoft, HP, et. al. are doing.
Actually not true, Microsof thas spent some time doing exactly the same thing - hiring really smart people and putting them in Microsoft R&D. I can't thnk of specifics, but it seemed like it was people from all fields...
However Microsoft R&D has produced almost nothing of practical value. So, the suspicious mind starts to wonder if perhaps all Microsoft R&D is there for is to keep these smart groups of people from producing something outside of Microsoft!