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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 tried to RTFA and found that the article was nothing but a stupid slide show with a vapid paragraph of comment for each. Unless there's a link to the complete text, there really isn't anything worth looking at.
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There isn't anything relevant or newsworthy in the entire piece that was the subject of this post.
The 'article' is merely a slide-show with some of the most poorly written reporting I have ever encountered. News today is usually infotainment and not information anymore and this is a prime example. Even entries to this piece that should be newsworthy are presented so awfully that I could barely muster the willpower to proceed to the last slide.
Networkworld.com ... never visiting this website again.
Would get bored with the article.
Even the slides were boring.
If I had an Ass, I'd call it Fanny Bottom, then I could slap my Ass; Fanny Bottom, on the Arse.
I agree, it was a boring slideshow...but what did you expect?
IT and science aren't known for their amazing comic value (well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky). The wackiest things I see in IT are management decisions, particularly when they ask for something without a clue what it will take to build, then set a ridiculous time line. It's even wackier when a senior manager has a revelation and you realize that he's missed something big and lost the plot altogether. What isn't so much fun is explaining why a particular project won't work as intended, or trying to talk someone out of shooting themselves in the foot before losing their attention.
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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.
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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to start there sentences.
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
not 'there'.
(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.
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.