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The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008
coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best,
slightly off-center stories of 2008."
I had this (jpg image of my bios) displayed after a hardware failure. "Hard Dick Mode - Enhanced". I ROFL'D heavily, it was even better than the server msg "There has been an error, the error was sucess!"
FYI m200 tablet with nvidia chip, The graphics had some lines in it, and the factory driver would bsod.
These tech stories are as wacky as those ads by Microsoft featuring Jerry Seinfeld.
Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires, African-American KKK members, Atheist Christian Pastors, or Dotcom CEOS worth billions who still live in their Mom's basement. It just makes about as much sense as this story.
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You must be new here.
No, I be new here!
I got some bad grammar
to start there sentences.
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
You're not a patch on the real New Here. That guy's posted exactly the same comment (and subject) over 200 times in the last 5 years.
You've done it.... twice. And you couldn't even maintain consistency for those two comments.
Pah, imposter I say. (I won't even get started on your grammar.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
Oh right -- this is slashdot.
I meant "Was their something more to that sentence?"
Anyone caught submitting slide shows featuring minimal content smeared over 43 colorful but vapid pages should be punished. I recommend death by stoning, preferably using a truckload of rusty 486s and a pallet or two of 14" monitors instead of boulders. As for the clever soul who deemed the content on the front page, I can only assume he/she/it is blind and suffering the after-effects of a decades-old untreated case of syphilis.
No. Wait. This must be a sign that slashdot has been secretly acquired by Condé Nast. I anxiously await the premiere issue of Linux Vogue. Sigh.
(well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)
-Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
-Nope, I'm over here!
-Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
-Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.
Occam's razor leads me to conclude that the Seinfeld/Gates ad campaign was a failure, not a step in some grand plan.
I don't think Occam's razor has ever applied to Microsoft. Things that look like genius strategic moves turn out to be blind luck, while things that are absolute disasters emerge from what appears to be their most insightful thinking.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Two atoms are talking and one of them looks sad.
Atom 1: Whats wrong?
Atom 2: I lost an electron
Atom 1: Are you sure?
Atom 2: I'm positive.
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
A neutron walk into a bar and orders a drink.
"How much is that?" he asks the barman.
The barman replies "For you, there's no charge"