UPS Backbone and Infrastructure
While the UPS network spans through data facilities across the globe, these *TWO* U.S. cities are home to the major data centers that support UPS's worldwide computer operations. We're all constantly connecting to one or the other all day long.
Mahwah, NJ (Ramapo Ridge) & Atlanta, GA (Windward)
Also a Fireplace Implement
Poker
After an end-user demonstrates absolutely no ability or will to attempt to troubleshoot a basic problem on their own before reaching out for support, a frustrated and overworked Help Desk agent may rudely advise with this acronym....shortly before being fired.
RTFM
A government slogan of WWII said that these “sink ships”.
This Fortune 100 company got its name from what it bought from sailors & sold to natural history collectors.
Shell Oil
This U.S. city is the home of UPS Worldport -- the largest fully automated package handling facility in the world, which is a an international shipping facility that is famous enough to have its own Wikipedia article.
Louisville, Kentucky
A war vessel of the most heavily armed class
Battleship
Software development method named after the opening of a rugby game.
SCRUM
Some of Mahatma Gandhi's most famous advice was regarding how he thought anyone could change the world. He said that the change you want to see must actually be _____.
You, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
This alliterative beverage chain says it gets its name from an African word meaning "to celebrate."
Jamba Juice
UPS almost never stops running, but did one time on _______ of the current century. For a brief period of time, no aircraft -- not passenger, courier, or private -- was allowed to fly the skies of the U.S. That was the last time UPS "shut down."
September 11th, 2001
A hand weapon made of leather-covered metal
Blackjack
The most popular software development life cycle methodologies for game development ... and a lot of other things, too.
AGILE
Quantum theory makes everyone's head hurt, even geniuses. Einstein disliked the seemingly paradoxical idea of the Uncertainty Principle so much, found it so unintuitive and jarring, that he famously once insisted that God did not "_______ with the Universe."
Play Dice
The most prominent Japanese company to have a big investment in India is automobiles giant _______, which is in partnership with Indian automobile company Maruti ______, the largest car manufacturer in India. In fact, ______ sells many cars in the U.S.
Suzuki
O.R.I.O.N. is more than a figure of myth and a constellation to UPS. It stands for __________________.
On Road Integrated Optimization Navigation
A situation involving exposure to danger
Risk
Most often referred to simply as "ATAM," this risk-mitigation process is used early in the software development life cycle. Its purpose is to help choose a suitable architecture for a software system by discovering trade-offs and sensitivity points.
Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
The philosophy of the Linux Foundation can be summarized beautifully by its simple slogan: "Open your _____. Open your mind."
Source
Adjusted for inflation, this cheap nightly rate this company put in its name in 1962 is now well over fifty dollars.
Motel 6
For some extremely high-priority packages in 1985, UPS began using this technology that is now common across multiple commercial and industrial applications, and as of 2023 has become an everyday technology that most almost everyone uses and recognizes. The technology uses special frequency scanners to read miniature radio transmitters that are imbedded in objects.
RFID, Radio Frequency Identification
Regardless of the actual game or spot being played, skilled players are often metaphorically said to be "playing" this other game (born from the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga), while their losing opponents were playing Checkers.
Chess
KDD, or ____________________ , refers to the process of extracting useful knowledge and patterns from large datasets. It involves various techniques such as data mining, machine learning, and statistical analysis to uncover hidden patterns in the data.
Knowledge Discovery in Databases
The alliterative motto of the Indian Army is thickly layered with meaning, best expressed in English as: "Be honorable, true to your salt, and uphold the flag." That motto is "Naam, Namak, _____."
Nishan
This company's name is a variation on a word coined by Milton Sirotta & used in the book "Mathematics and the Imagination." The original word was intended to create a unique name for a number so high that it has never been named before. Today, this is a household word and is understood the world over.