Show us your un-GIF images and image macros (that are interesting)

[ReptileHouse]

@divedivedive

Maybe Jeff Bridges shuffling around downtown L.A. in a bathrobe and slippers?

Hasn’t he done that before?

I don’t know if he ever did it, but David Prowse in a Vader outfit would have been pretty great.

[BennyProfane]

@divedivedive

Maybe Jeff Bridges shuffling around downtown L.A. in a bathrobe and slippers?

I’m pretty sure most of the Quaids do that on a daily basis.

[ArtVandelay]

@ReptileHouse

I don’t know if he ever did it, but David Prowse in a Vader outfit would have been pretty great.

How would anyone know it was him? maybe he did it and no one recognized him!

[ShivaX]

It basically has to be some weird meme that’s popular. Prowse would be… him dressed as his character.

Ray Liota in that suit laughing maybe would come close, but even then it’s kind of a “dressed as his character” thing.

[Baconsoda]

[ShivaX]

[lordkosc]

[Eric_Majkut]

Ah yes one metric macaroni

[DeepT]

Ahh, the secrets of our industrialized food production. Things your not supposed to see, but sometimes do.

[RichVR]

Yeah. That delicious artisanal soup you like? It was a solid frozen block that I had to chop into four pieces so that I could fit it in the warmer.

[sillhouette]

These new Minecraft shaders are getting quite realistic.

[abidingdude]

Less talk, more un-GIF images and image macros!

[Calelari]

(Note: Tudyk - like Robin Williams - did not graduate from Juliard.)

[divedivedive]

[lordkosc]

[ArtVandelay]

I’m sure the pigeon did his best, but was he compliant with RFC2549 or any other IPoAC standard?

[Calelari]

That standard needs updating. Concorde class communication was deprecated in 2003.

[Timex]

The pidgeon is a case of the old sneaker net example that always used to (and presumably still is) teach computer networks in college.

In my old networking book, I remember in the section on data throughput, they had you compare some standard network of the time (late 90’s, so… slow) to the throughput of loading up a station wagon with hard disks and driving it across the country. The station wagon won every time.

[Tortilla]

@Timex

The pidgeon is a case of the old sneaker net example that always used to (and presumably still is) teach computer networks in college.

In my old networking book, I remember in the section on data throughput, they had you compare some standard network of the time (late 90’s, so… slow) to the throughput of loading up a station wagon with hard disks and driving it across the country. The station wagon won every time.

It still holds true today. If you want to mass migrate a ton of data into an Amazon Web Services environment, they have a service where they will basically send a truck full of racks of storage arrays to your datacenter. Then you plug it in to your LAN, transfer all the data at local network speeds, and then unplug. Afterwards the truck drives to an Amazon data center and plugs in locally and they dump all your data to your cloud storage account across local LAN. For people with serious volumes of data to move, it’s much faster than even a 10Gb/sec direct connect to the AWS cloud.

[ArtVandelay]

I believe the station wagon still wins, as storage density increases at a close enough rate to network bandwidth. A 1Gbps connection can transfer 10TB in a day, you can carry that in your pocket on flash drives.