That's no fucking joke. Please just send me an email about this meeting because it's not really worthwhile and I just want to crank out code.
averagedrunk
joined 2 years ago
Yep. A bunch of police departments give out cable locks if you just ask. I bought one for $4 because I don't want to go to the police department for any reason and I use it to lock my helmet to my motorcycle.
It's not a perfect solution but it's cheap and helpful.
I remember once Limewire became popular it was almost a magic trick to get a clean install of it. Most people I knew had a copy that came with all the toolbars and malware.
Yep. I've tried several others and they're not for me, but a lot of people are really happy with them.
I like SteamOS so much that I'm using HoloISO on mini PCs around the house to simulate consoles and stream couch games from my gaming rig upstairs. But my experience isn't everyone's so get your hands on it and try it out.
It wouldn't shock me, honestly. I did home support in a small computer repair shop for extra cash and all the leftover parts I could carry in high school in the 90s, then I did some time at an MSP for many years in the 00s and early 10s. I heard many versions of that particular anecdote from the time I started until CD drives stopped coming standard.
I can't speak to the executable, but I know back in '95 the joke about someone calling support and asking why they have a cup holder but no CD drive was already crusty. There were a bunch of variations, but here's the first one I found for those too young to remember:
Customer: "Can you help me, the cup holder on my new computer broke, and I don't know what to do?
Friend: "Cup holder? What are you talking about? None of our computers come with a cup holder attached to them, and I've never heard of one that did."
Customer: Yes, well the one you sold me did, and the other day I went to set a mug of coffee on it and it just snapped off!"
Friend: "Sir, can you describe what the cup holder looks like, because I still can't picture what a cup holder on a computer would look like?"
At this point the customer is getting a little irritated!
Customer: "Look, I don't know how you could not know that you sell computers with cup holders on them, because it's right in the middle of the thing, and when you push a button on the side, it pops out so you can set your drink on it, and it says 4X on the front cover!"
A long pause . . .
Friend: Sir, are you telling me, you're using your CD-Rom drive as a beverage holder?"
Customer: "What's a CD-Rom Drive?"
And now, a terrible bonus joke that is completely unrelated but was around at about the same time:
How do you know if you're addicted to the Internet? You get a tattoo that says "This body best viewed with Netscape 2.01 or higher."
I was barely in high school and had just gotten into heavier rock. Before that it was my dad's rock (a lot of Boston and ZZ Top) and a little grunge because it had EXPLODED the year before on the radio because of Cobain's death.
That Ozzy album and Astrocreep 2000 led that shoeless hillbilly boy down the road of heavy metal that continues to this day.
Perry Mason and I Just Want You were my favorites, but I played that cassette enough to destroy it. Same with Astrocreep. The next year I got a CD player and that changed the whole game.
That's what I was wondering. Could they please release the full definition of the version of the word "genocide" they're using?
Except for the <.1% of users who do things like compile their own version of Infinity with their own user agent. They're still there and not looking at ads.
Capital One lets you do unlimited virtual cards for each service. X1 gives you the ones like I described. There are others.
Not missed yet. Doesn't start filming until spring.
I prefer funny over accurate.