Comment Duhhhhh (Score 1) 447
Just use a fire built of your current hardware / software enemy - iWhatevers, M$Sgoofs, or any *nix platform. Hope for an unpleasant after taste.
That hurt, I am currently watching all of ST:Voyager.
On Topic I am smoking my turkey.
Ooooh - what a give away! Having a Crisco party?
Must be pretty boring to be conscious but unable to do anything at all.
Shades of _Johnny Got His Gun_, by Dalton Trumbo.
... Although it might be cheaper from a licensing and maintenance perspective to put everyone on Ubuntu, the cost of re-training all your employees to use LibreOffice and Unity greatly exceeds the cost of licensing the products.
It is surprising to me (jaded as I am) that businesses and governments fail to recognize that the conversion effort and retraining needed to shift between the recent (read: last decade or more) "upgrades" of MS products is no different than that required to move to open platforms.
I moved from MS to Linux (and associated open applications) many years ago. I have saved hundreds (nay, thousands) of dollars in license fees by doing so. Open data formats have saved my bacon on more than one occasion. I've been able to rescue and reformat data for my friends and employers with open source applications on many occasions.
Thanks for the insightful and humorous post!
You forgot 1.1.1.1 "Format like Word 97"
You owe me a keyboard!
A self-driving car doesn't have to pay much attention to the fragility of the human form when it doesn't have any on board.
Accelerate at 50g? no problem just add extra bracing.
Or add extra braking / breaking (see discussion above).
Since the legitimate government of Iran was overthrown and the current cycle of extremist leaders/newly rich plutocrats was engineered by the US and UK in Operation Ajax not so long ago
If you define 1953 as not so long ago you must be in it for the long run. Waiting for the return of Zoroaster?
Great post!
While I agree that 1953 was a "long time ago" for most of "us", please remember that people in the middle east have been fighting among themselves since the beginning of recorded history. It's likely they will continue to fight until the end of recorded history.
With any luck, Zoroaster won't show up any time soon.
Microsoft can give me a baby?
Yes. It will have four cloven hooves, and a set of horns on its head. It will also emit clouds of putrid gas, and bellow frequently.
A chair counts as a device. They should start making them. Then as an added service they can make them fly.
The only "service" that MS provides is the kind a bull provides to a cow.
Have any of you people ever even been to the sticks? All the signs I've ever seen there say: "TRESPASSERS WILL BE SHOT; SURVIVORS WILL BE PROSECUTED"
Seen in rural Texas: "No Trespassing. Violators will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
