Er, exactly, fuckard. The point is, the fact that anyone's mum can't do anything is irrelevant.
Plus only the most fervent Linux-loving Windows-blind idiot (see mirror for details) would argue that any distribution of Linux was anything like as easy to install and set up as Windows.
BTW, looking at the long roll-call of PhD's, grad students, and very experienced and skilled professional programmers contributing to Free software, one could hardly dismiss us as "geeks in their bedrooms."
Are you saying that PHD, grad students and programmers aren't geeks? Or they don't have bedrooms? In what way can they not be dismissed as 'geeks in their bedrooms'?
BTW, looking at the long roll-call of PhD's, grad students, and very experienced and skilled professional programmers contributing to Free software, one could hardly dismiss us as "geeks in their bedrooms."
Are you saying that PHD, grad students and programmers aren't geeks? Or they don't have bedrooms? In what way can they not be dismissed as 'geeks in their bedrooms'?
Yeah, so long as you get her an interesting boyfriend in return...
Re:For a geek with everything- maybe the Aibo
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The aibo is fucking annoying for everyone else in the room who doesn't own it, so it's best to not have any friends if you're gonna get one of these... oh!
Yeah, on a (slightly) more serious note - Nokia advertise the 9210 with 'you can be at work before you're there' - personally, that's the last thing I want!!
However, they also advertise it with suits on half-pipes, so there you go...
but to be at the bar with a pint when i get a support call or my whinging boss telling me that something has stopped running or needs to be brought up, and just simply open the phone, telnet in on a qwerty keyboard, run a quick nohup job, shut the phone.. "yeah, it's fixed now", RULES.
nah, saying 'I only have a Motorola Timeport, so I'm staying here and getting drunk - suck my cheesy boner' RULES...
I heard a rumour that you don't actually *have* to buy these new internet devices - there's a recent law passed that means you can just spend your own money on what you want.
Surely your refrigerator ordering food for you does make your life easier - not that geeks need food - *real* geeks live off of nicotine and caffeine;-)!!
As far as I can see, so long as you're only browsing *legal* porn, there's nothing to worry about - you're not telling me the internet has *other* uses are you;-)?
Plus the fact that every ex-box you buy stabs MS for a 100 bucks if you only use MAME on it, using it to play only games that do not support MS.
Er, yeah, but it also stabs you for 400 bucks (or whatever it is) so if you use it to run something you can already run on a P60 this is a bit of a cutting off your nose to spite your face situation. But if that's how you get your kicks - 'YAY, I'm, like, TOTALLY screwing a billion dollar organisation by 100 bucks'. Spank away, boys.
When they can recreate a living person on screen, and can make them do whatever they want, screw you guys, I'm staying in with my copy of 'Cindy Crawford spanks Naomi Campbell whilst being orally pleasured by Claudia Schiffer'
>>We modified a floppy disk by melting a chocolate mousse under the disk cover and we scribbled 'speedball 2' on the front.
This is not correct. That would imply that
'I ran past the wal-mart, the garage, the pimp and the ho' is incorrect and that 'I ran past the walmart and I ran past the garage and I ran past the pimp and I ran past the ho' was better. Na.
Punching holes in floppy disks to make them double-sided was where its at (was?). Any others got cool examples of technology that's screwed that you can improve with dodgy methods? (no overclocking stories, boooorrring!)
Best thing I ever did was at my Amiga game piracy club - there was a fervour waiting for Speedball 2 to come out. We modified a floppy disk with a melted chocolate mouse under the disk cover and scribbled 'speedball 2' on the front. Much amusement when some poor bastard put it into his computer. Even better, you should have seen the excitement on the poor bastard's face when he 'found' a copy of Speedball 2 on the floor. Swwweeeet. Jesus, children are evil!!
Dreamcast? pah - Another overpriced system with o
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Sure it's neat, but save some money and get a Dreamcast. You can buy DCs on Ebay all day for $40. It has some great games like DOA2, Soul Caliber, NBA2K1, Crazy Taxi (a classic), and Shenmue.
I've got a Spectrum 48k you can have governor - 2 dollars, with all the roms you could want. Obsolete but cheap technology all the way!!
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Nice bit of karma whoring there :) - round of applause...
Er, exactly, fuckard. The point is, the fact that anyone's mum can't do anything is irrelevant.
Plus only the most fervent Linux-loving Windows-blind idiot (see mirror for details) would argue that any distribution of Linux was anything like as easy to install and set up as Windows.
BTW, looking at the long roll-call of PhD's, grad students, and very experienced and skilled professional programmers contributing to Free software, one could hardly dismiss us as "geeks in their bedrooms."
Are you saying that PHD, grad students and programmers aren't geeks? Or they don't have bedrooms? In what way can they not be dismissed as 'geeks in their bedrooms'?
BTW, looking at the long roll-call of PhD's, grad students, and very experienced and skilled professional programmers contributing to Free software, one could hardly dismiss us as "geeks in their bedrooms."
Are you saying that PHD, grad students and programmers aren't geeks? Or they don't have bedrooms? In what way can they not be dismissed as 'geeks in their bedrooms'?
I'm with this guy, especially since he managed to avoid insults. I'll count to ten next time.
Again, can your mother do that
;-).
Was getting a little tired of this argument, so just thought I'd stick my oar in. My mother can't install Linux, so maybe we should dump that as well?
Or could it be that maybe we shouldn't have to design for the lowest common denominator - i.e. your momma
Yeah, also, try getting laid, fucker. By a girl.
Thankyou kind sir - and just how much karma do you need to post at +2?????
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Damn, gonna lose some offtopic karma here
Come on guys, Christmas is the time for giving ;-)!
Yeah, so long as you get her an interesting boyfriend in return...
The aibo is fucking annoying for everyone else in the room who doesn't own it, so it's best to not have any friends if you're gonna get one of these... oh!
>>or perhaps just another 21"
I could go for a few more inches, but 21 might be a bit extravagant.
The RealDoll. Never have to talk to a real girl again!
Again?
I'm not sure 'not being allowed to look at donkey porn from work' counts as 'oppressed' ;-).
Yeah, on a (slightly) more serious note - Nokia advertise the 9210 with 'you can be at work before you're there' - personally, that's the last thing I want!!
However, they also advertise it with suits on half-pipes, so there you go...
but to be at the bar with a pint when i get a support call or my whinging boss telling me that something has stopped running or needs to be brought up, and just simply open the phone, telnet in on a qwerty keyboard, run a quick nohup job, shut the phone.. "yeah, it's fixed now", RULES.
nah, saying 'I only have a Motorola Timeport, so I'm staying here and getting drunk - suck my cheesy boner' RULES...
I heard a rumour that you don't actually *have* to buy these new internet devices - there's a recent law passed that means you can just spend your own money on what you want.
;-)!!
Surely your refrigerator ordering food for you does make your life easier - not that geeks need food - *real* geeks live off of nicotine and caffeine
As far as I can see, so long as you're only browsing *legal* porn, there's nothing to worry about - you're not telling me the internet has *other* uses are you ;-)?
I totally dig the fact that the submitter of this story was 'anonymous coward'...!
Plus the fact that every ex-box you buy stabs MS for a 100 bucks if you only use MAME on it, using it to play only games that do not support MS.
Er, yeah, but it also stabs you for 400 bucks (or whatever it is) so if you use it to run something you can already run on a P60 this is a bit of a cutting off your nose to spite your face situation. But if that's how you get your kicks - 'YAY, I'm, like, TOTALLY screwing a billion dollar organisation by 100 bucks'. Spank away, boys.
When they can recreate a living person on screen, and can make them do whatever they want, screw you guys, I'm staying in with my copy of 'Cindy Crawford spanks Naomi Campbell whilst being orally pleasured by Claudia Schiffer'
Blimey - I viewed it with IE and it was absolutely fine! Bit of a shocker that eh - I thought *everything* microsoft did was a bunch of crap ;-).
Furthermore..
>>We modified a floppy disk by melting a chocolate mousse under the disk cover and we scribbled 'speedball 2' on the front.
This is not correct. That would imply that
'I ran past the wal-mart, the garage, the pimp and the ho' is incorrect and that 'I ran past the walmart and I ran past the garage and I ran past the pimp and I ran past the ho' was better. Na.
Punching holes in floppy disks to make them double-sided was where its at (was?). Any others got cool examples of technology that's screwed that you can improve with dodgy methods? (no overclocking stories, boooorrring!)
Best thing I ever did was at my Amiga game piracy club - there was a fervour waiting for Speedball 2 to come out. We modified a floppy disk with a melted chocolate mouse under the disk cover and scribbled 'speedball 2' on the front. Much amusement when some poor bastard put it into his computer. Even better, you should have seen the excitement on the poor bastard's face when he 'found' a copy of Speedball 2 on the floor. Swwweeeet. Jesus, children are evil!!
Sure it's neat, but save some money and get a Dreamcast. You can buy DCs on Ebay all day for $40. It has some great games like DOA2, Soul Caliber, NBA2K1, Crazy Taxi (a classic), and Shenmue.
I've got a Spectrum 48k you can have governor - 2 dollars, with all the roms you could want. Obsolete but cheap technology all the way!!