
Happy Pi Day! #piday #piday2016 #pi #pie

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/6/11168718/ray-tomlinson-dead-inventor-of-email-obituary
Ray Tomlinson passed away Saturday. What a legacy to leave.
The new 5.2L V12 twin turbo DB11 from Aston has appeared at Geneva, with rather delicious body styling and gorgeous paint. Why say no! (apart from price and availability)
It’s kind of silly that smartphones commonly have as much, if not more, memory than new laptops.
It’s also kind of sucky that phone screens commonly ship as 2560×1440, whereas premium laptops are still 1920×1080.
For $655 (£470) you can get:
http://liliputing.com/2016/03/vivo-xplay-5-first-phone-6gb-ram.html , or
Just ordered a new PSU for re-purposed server (from front-line to a backup server), plus drive caddies for new front-line servers. Great guns!
If I see just one more clichéd, top-down image of a coffee cup, notepad, laptop and pastry, I’m gonna … I’m gonna … be miffed. And maybe write a letter.
Scientists have successfully detected gravity waves, 100 years after Einstein predicted them.
“It would have been wonderful to watch Einstein’s face had we been able to tell him.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/11/gravitational_wave_detected
Moore’s law is at an end. It was good while it lasted 🙂
http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/moores-law-really-is-dead-this-time/