Geek Jokes

[walm]

jeremyc said:

When geeks run companies ...

BBC website said:

Alphabet's board approved a plan to buy back a precise $5,099,019,513.59 in shares starting in the fourth quarter.

There has been speculation the number represented the square root of 26 - the number of letters in the alphabet.

Chief financial officer Ruth Porat acknowledged that was indeed the reference during a post-results conference.

Google has form with this one.
Their IPO aimed to raise $2,718,281,828 (rather than say $3bn) and they did a secondary offering a year later for 14.159265 million shares.

[Morningside]

Although when I tried it it did not work. But I understand Unix as much as I understand gobbledygook.

[Vaud]

Russian roulette for RM-R?

[strudel]

Pick a random number from 0 to 5.

If it equals 0 you lose every file going.

Otherwise you get lucky.

Russian roulette for *nix

[MartG]

[MissChief]

[Moonhawk]

edit: never mind

[TorqueDirty]

[Dogwatch]

Don't know about acuracy but question setter's spelling needs some work!

Sounds as if someone was in a class way below their abilities. Always a recipe for trouble.

Brilliant!

[loafer123]

That is brilliant!

[ChemicalChaos]

What I find odd about that is the questions are a-level or degree level Chemistry, but the paper has been made to look like a primary school effort. I'm calling fake

[Mr Happy]

ChemicalChaos said:

What I find odd about that is the questions are a-level or degree level Chemistry, but the paper has been made to look like a primary school effort. I'm calling fake

Chemistry 201 would generally be 2nd year uni? (or whatever the US equvalent is - College?)

[MartG]

[RobDickinson]

[8Ace]

Mr Happy said:

ChemicalChaos said:

What I find odd about that is the questions are a-level or degree level Chemistry, but the paper has been made to look like a primary school effort. I'm calling fake

Chemistry 201 would generally be 2nd year uni? (or whatever the US equvalent is - College?)

If they really wanted to show off they should have drawn the rest of the p, d and f orbitals.

[Hooli]

RobDickinson said:

[McAndy]

Hooli said:

RobDickinson said:

Agreed.

[Nom de ploom]

re the chemistry paper looks like a lot of marks / points for such short answers...

reminds me of the book "f in maths" with extracts from "real" exam papers...

In particular I loved the pythagoras Q. esseentially "find X" and the candidate had circled the X and written "here it is!"

priceless

[driverrob]

A joke for yesterday, only I couldn't upload at the time.

[Brother D]

TorqueDirty said:

What do they teach in GCSE and ALevel physics/chemistry nowadays in the UK?
At school it was just discrete shells each containing 2,8 etc. (Probably mistaken, but even at uni I don't recall my girlfriend at the time studying phys and molecular chem referring to orbital model (this was 20 years ago thou)?