Funny Pictures Thread. It begins again
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GasBandit
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That's not a hovercar, though. It's a regular car. But with no wheels. So that it is slimmer, you see?
But it's rated safest in a crash.
Now that's a false equivalency, and you know it.
Removed the stereo system, maybe, but wheels? C'mon...
--Patrick
GasBandit
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You think people who buy iPhones use it as a phone? It's an ipod with texting.
I'm pretty sure that applies to most smartphones, not just apple ones.
This does lend credence to my theory that the real GasBandit doesn't post anymore and you are actually an elaborate Perl script.Reviewing my process for posting images has revealed to me a flaw in our forum structure! See if you can find it.
I can count on one hand the total number of times I've used my headphone jack over the past year.
Well, perhaps that's not true. I might actually need to use two hands.
I suppose this means I'll be minimally impacted by this sort of change.
--Patrick
Yet, I use mine for several hours a day. We all use things differently, but totally removing the option to use a physical plug on the phone (without buying an adapter) sucks for the way that a very large number of people use their phones.
I can count the number of times I used my head phone jack on one hand too. It would be about 90 times.
I did say that.
I'm actually just happy that the thing being discontinued is finally something I don't care about for a change. Every other time something gets removed or discontinued, it's been something I really liked.
--Patrick
We are all elaborate Perl scripts (except for @stienman, who was an experiment in Python, and @Charlie Don't Surf, who was written in VB.)
Halforums has been JCM's testing ground. What he has accomplished here will soon win him the Nobel Prize.
GasBandit
Staff member
It's not often I'm disappointed in an Ars Technica article, but this one didn't say what the harbinger demo IS, nor give examples of products affected. Felt like a waste of time to read anything past the headline.
Also I was sorely tempted to change your title to "Harbinger of Retail Doom"
That's because the assertion is that this effect affects any product.
Doing that would have broken the link.
--Patrick
I'm genuinely curious how it would have.
Oh, he meant my user title. I thought he meant the title of the web page I was linking.
Anyhow, changing my personal title "on a whim" would be conduct unbecoming of an admin (i.e., abuse), so I'm glad he was able to resist.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
I fondly remember when anybody could change anybody else's title by spending halbucks.
I fondly remember gaming the investment software for halbucks.
I'm too stupid to know if this is an insult or not
What? No. It's because he named himself with a movie reference, a form of visual art.
It's from a book called the Elements of Eloquence - super interesting read. The reason he specifically mentions "green great dragons" is because just before that passage he discusses a story Tolkien wrote as a small boy, about a green great dragon - and how he was crushed when he mother told him there can only be great green dragons.
The worst is that VB.NET gets a ton of shit, but C# is considered a respectable language when they're basically the same fucking thing.
I've had to just tell people, "Do it this way," rather than trying to explain why, because some people just can't seem to comprehend how much of a difference something as simple as word order will make.
--Patrick
Someone once told me that I should do myself a favor and learn all the .NET things because they were going to be the future and I would have essentially unlimited income as a result. This was prior to 4.0. I still don't know how much of an opportunity I passed up.
--Patrick
I know my office looks for COBOL programmers from time to time.
I barely understood programming when I graduated college with a C.I.S. degree (Had to take C++ three times, and still barely passed it the last time). Only reason we were taught COBOL was because employers were needing it for Y2K, which happened right after we finished that class and that class was replaced the very next semester with something else. I definitely don't remember anything now having never had a job in that field since graduating.