Yahoo's Geek Statue

Philipp Lenssen writes "Yahoo put up a life-size alpha geek statue in honor of the Yahoo Mail team, which they think beat the Gmail team. The statue's plaque says it's presented "in recognition of tremendous intellectual efforts put forth in order to defeat Gmail", and: "Not since the code breakers in Britain's Bletchley Park deciphered Germany's Enigma code during World War II has so much brainpower been focused on kicking an enemy's ass." Flickr has a photo." It's a nice little article on the difference between two of the net's superpowers.

One word

[Tx]

Hubris.

And someone needs to get over there and mod that statue pronto.

Re:First Post!

[boaworm]

Also, how is it that they "defeated" Gmail? I have accounts with both and find Gmail superior.

Hey, atleast they got a statue!

Re:Here, have a trophy.

[boaworm]

I'm sure a handshake and a smile would have been more fitting but hey, it is a nice statue.


To me, that poor statue/guy looks _very_ troubled. I guess he just read some reviews of the Yahoo mail service =)

New Yahoo dictionary?

[mikaelhg]

Did Yahoo accidentally swap "win" and "lose" in their new dictionary? That can happen when database keys get mixed up!

To win (in Yahooneese):

• fall back: retreat
  
• fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
  
• allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
  
• fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
  
• suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
  
• misplace: place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
  
• miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
  
• fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
  
• miss: fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said"
  
• suffer: be set at a disadvantage; "This author really suffers in translation"
  

Re:I've got news for them...

[plumby]

Probably a less biased one than Yahoo themselves.

Re:One word

[dubl-u]

Hubris.

No shit. They give themselves a statue for being smarter than anybody since Alan Turing? For Yahoo Mail? Sheesh.

Of course, I guess Google can read it as a compliment; since Gmail is, by all reports, better, I guess that means that Yahoo thinks the google people are smarter than Turing.

Maybe it's a secret plan to get Google engineers' heads to swell so much that they burst, splattering Google's curvy walls and free juice refrigerators with glial cells and overweening pride.

Re:sigh..

[c_forq]

Stop spreading these lies! We all know the Americans did everything useful in World War II. And only the Americans captured an Enigma cipher device as you can clearly watch in this documentry. [imdb.com]

For those of you too lazy to click the link it is to the movie U-571.

Re:I've got news for them...

[Anonymous Coward]

You know you're a geek if you've ever replied to a tagline. I must be a geek, then.

Re:This is Wrong

[pipingguy]

  Yes, it's certainly hyperbole.

Stop bullshitting. A movie I saw explained that it was the Americans that broke the Enigma code. Get your history straight before posting.

Most important for me...

[SharpFang]

Google has most usernames free and open to use.
[a-z]{1-7}@yahoo.com address is impossible to get. Yahoo claims all of these: sharp, shrp, shrpy, sharpy, sharpfang, shrpfng, sharpfng, shrpfang, sfg, sfng, shfng, shfg, sfang, sharpf are "busy". Imagine this, all of them. My answer: BULLSHIT YOU FUCKING LIARS! fuck you Yahoo, whoever wants a name like Mike674 or cutegirl_969696 go, use Yahoo. If you want to save digits, semigraphics etc for password and keep your nickname strictly alpha, gmail all the way.

Image provenance?

[mysticgoat]

Can anyone identify the artist and/or supply a pointer to the original image?

I'm interested in what ray tracer was used (POV-Ray? [povray.org], what modeller (looks like maybe Blender? [blender3d.org], and time and details about the rendering.

I also think the artist should get some credit.

Re:Rich Text

[stud9920]

No, Firefox on Windows. But I guess yahoo *beats* google in their inability to write powerful multiplatform code.

Yahoo Mail is better than GMail ?

[^avenger]

Since when ? It is like microsoft presenting an award to themselves that Windows is the most secure OS - Exactly.

Re:This is Wrong

[DarkEdgeX]

If everytime I went to the bathroom I had a group of people cheering me on, I'd know there was either something horribly wrong with the world... or that I was being setup to have my ass glued to the toilet seat.

Mod the statue?

[Pichu0102]

How the hell are you gonna install Linux on THAT thing?

Re:Here, have a trophy.

[Ruis]

Thanks to the new YAHOO! MAIL we can all give the competition something to kiss.

So are they implying that Yahoo! Mail is total ass?

Taking a dump

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it me, or does that statue look like a nerd on a toilet seat struggled to unload a big one? :)

We are missing the point here

[droops]

i think the point today is that people are free to use whatever they want to use. but with pics like this in this guys flicker account, i might we switching to yahoo!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461649/in/ photostream/ [flickr.com]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentbrew/16461648/in/ photostream/ [flickr.com]