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A Mythbuster's Biggest Tech Headaches (and Solutions)
An anonymous reader writes "The Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman shares his top tech annoyances. Hyneman runs down the little things that bug him about everything from tools (exotic chargers) to cars (useless features). He also notes that there's a lot of room for improvement on PC desktops: 'In addition to being buggy ... extra features tend to bog down your system by demanding more processing power and memory. Computer-makers: Don't load up operating systems with features and then make us sweat to figure out how to get rid of the fat ... There's another solution available to consumers: Switch to a Linux-based OS such as Ubuntu. Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.'"
Since most Linux OSs are free, there's no business reason to bloat up the system with feature frills.
But Mandriva have never let a little thing like that stand in their way.
I though for sure his top tech annoyance would have been Adam Savage. :-)
...and Adam seems to like Apple, who gets Microsoft?
My guess is Buster.
Of course, when he does get hurt, it looks more painful than Adam's frequent miscues. That shot he gave himself when cutting the line to his handheld grappling hook winch was rough...it almost ranks up there with Adam putting his lips in the vacuum motor.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/01/15/funny-pictures-welkum-to-mythbusters/ :D
This is to be expected, it can be difficult to stretch a value of zero across ten fingers.
If you want devices to be single function, always look for the ones endorsed by the AARP.
Layne
Kari is pretty much average.
;)
Granted, she's not Catherine Deneuve, but hot body+cute face+understanding of physics and engineering is not average, not by a long shot. Either you spend too much time in your basement or you're banging Playboy models on a regular basis.
I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which is the most likely scenario
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
I can only imagine what that'd bring on eBay.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
And ironically, I had to click away a jumping JavaScript pop-in window in order to see the page talking about bloat and loading up an interface with crap.
E pluribus unum
Honestly, what did Buster ever do to you? Leave him out of this.
testing out my trending skills
Amen to that!
Just recently I came home to find a cockroach in the LCD panel of my microwave. A true "That's disgusting, but how the hell did he get in there!??!!" moment. Well of course my first thought is to grab can of raid, a screwdriver and open the microwave up. As I get to screw number 3, I realize that this is not your typical screw. In fact, there is no way for my multi-headed screw driver to unscrew it! So now I have no way of being able to look inside my microwave and see if it's just one roach, or if it's a whole nest.
"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get." -- H. J. Simpson
at the late niiiight, double featuuure, picture show!
Personally, I decided to forgo BIOS's and OS's altogether and just work directly in Assembly.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
His chief complaints are:
1. Electric mustache trimmers far more newfangled than the reliable steam-powered models.
2. Local beret dealer insists on selling them in outlandish, inefficient colors such as "blue" and "red" instead of the more streamlined "black" model.
3. Technological advances in promulgating human rights laws make it no longer possible to keep hyperactive co-host safely chained to a radiator in the basement between tapings.
Hmm, surely there's been at least one useful post and one accurate summary before.
Therefore, I mod this +1, Plausible.
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Me lost me cookie at the disco.