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Jokes Only A Computer Geek Would Get
One's infamous, the other I just heard today. Both somewhat funny what with the current state of computing:
"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949 "640k ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981 LAN parties would be a bit difficult with the first one, eh? |
DEAR GOD, that would be horrible...think of the laptops...they'd crush ya!
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640k!!! i have a chip of 640k!!! its great!!
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A portable computer is one that fits in a Semi Trailer.
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I catch Myself all the time telling customers, ya that 40 gig drive is enough for anyone.
Just wait, Im sure by the time I die, the newest windows version will require a terabite. |
I can't imagine how advanced PC game will be in a few years, After they stop cloning the quake 2 engine for every FPS.
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You mean Quake III :)
I run Splinter Cell on 640K, getting something like 120 FPS, it's great! ;) |
Code:
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Hahahaha! thats crazy!!! |
lol! :)
btw its the new unreal engine that gets licensed around more these days (e.g. Splinter Cell, Raven Shield) |
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary.
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God, I remember that 640K limit in dos. What a pain. Having games telling you there's not enough memory sucked. Editing the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to get them to run sucked even more. I'm glad we won't be going back to that anytime soon.
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There are only 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary.
And those that don't. You forgot the other type |
<I>"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”</I>
Can't remember who said that. |
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