Granted there was the time I was starving and almost picked up a slice that I saw on the sidewalk.... In retrospect I should have totally eaten it for the purpose of better answering a future /. poll... hindsight is 20/20!

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Truthfully I have no excuse for being drunk that day. I should ban myself from posting on /. during such times.

Perhaps I should build and post a hardware interlock anti-post submitting breathalyzer to avoid such posts in the future... I bet it would at least make hack-a-day, if not prevent this all too known problem from happening. (At least the grammar check in the old office wouldn't have caught it!)

I wish I could claim I was not educated in the matter of the English language, but sadly I was. This was also not an isolated event, which makes it worse. Thanks to all who came to my defense, but I was in the wrong here!

Just another stupid American here, nothing to see, move along.

Anyone else notice this? -> Mikael Ricknäs (IDG News Service) 07/12/2009 07:53:00

When Hell Freezes Over.

Last upgrade I managed was a phenom II 805 (payed $79 us for it) which I overclocked... and that chip went into a motherboard that I bought back late in 2007 for 3x what that chip cost me. Hardly any cash means no upgrade sadly!

I have to agree, this is a real nice curve, one that any researcher would have been proud to produce - in fact, it's too nice if you ask me!

"During the first six months of the year, state Department of Transportation workers faced 101 significant IT outages totaling 4,677 hours: an average of more than 46 hours per outage. One took 360 hours to fix."

wait, 4,677 hours? how could that be? There were 181 days in the first 6 months of this year, that's only 4,344 hours.. there was more downtime on the system than days in it's operational life! (did someone /0 here?)

Outsourced, no thanks... I think I'd rather dig up a Univac I to do work on, at least it would be more reliable

I have 8 CRT's on my desk which comprises of 2 fold out tables and 7 computers with 3 kvm's.

one of my 22"er trinitrons is going fuzzy sadly though...

Innovation in faster page loading never ceases to amaze me.. I mean back in the day, Netscape was lightning fast compared to other browsers, and if I dig up an old build of of navigator I find it unbearably slow compared to firefox, or other new browsers out, not to mention surprisingly unstable.
I am happy because this kind of thing is what spurs competition on and leaves us without stale old browsers, even though I am not a chrome user myself, the effects of it are already being felt and features added onto our browsers of preference. Go Google!

Nasa, Take off your management hat and put on your engineering hat.

In other news Nerd Rage is a good bypass for the preview button.
(*why us this = why is this, )

Next on /. it'll be "Unicorns from Intel magically displace all PC's" or perhaps another annoying post
or perhaps one of a million intentionally badly spelled bot generated emails that ends up in my gmail's spam filter selling "chaep druzz 4 yoou"

Seriously why us this /. material?!

Since the Deathstar was mentioned I think we should focus on establishing SKYNET for our own planet first. Once it becomes sentient we can focus efforts on other things =D

haha that reminds me of a media PC I had hooked to my 55" samsung crt bigscreen... the convergence boards in the TV blew every single year to the day in october, and the 2nd time around the tv repair guy blamed it on the media pc.... Still covered under our extended warranty though (One of the only extended warranties I will buy, as for a bigscreen tv they make sense) but as a result of that idiot I had to take my media PC off of it, and sure enough, one year later the convergence board still blew out sans PC.

I remember once leaving my NES on for a week straight trying to get to the end of the original super mario bros when I was a kid without using any warps, good times.
I'm glad however that the wii one is getting a multiplayer, and I look forward to the level designs, I may actually have to buy a wii now instead of just fixing them for friends!