I can't be bothered with your stupid octopus, I have a dangerous chemical to ban
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RE: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
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RE: SSDS versus Voidtools' "Everything Search Engine": A Comparison
Great, the cancer is spreading.
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RE: Old Computer Challenge
@Anketam said:
You need more than DOA's Law. You need an of clause to go with it. I recommend DOA's Law of Old Hardware until you can come up with a cheecky or clever name for the law.
I'm a software developer, you expect me to come up with a good name for anything?@db2 said:Funny enough, I just moved three years ago, but I've still got the Vic-20 my family owned way back in 1984 or so.
Keep ruining it with your edge case and I'll change it to "The age of the oldest hardware you own is proportional to the amount of time that has passed since you last moved divided by the size of your penis". -
RE: The Handoff
@morbiuswilters said:
When are you going to fire him?
Fire him? You think he'd be doing this crap if I had any authority over him?In this company we use cronyism to hire and democracy to work. That way anyone that happened to have a drink with the boss and can write a "hello world" program can make major design decisions on mission critical software that we'll be depending on for years to come.
Incidentally anyone interested in company stock, email me.
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RE: Security #2
Worst I had was airport security in the UK stopping me because I had a small swiss army knife on my keychain. My luggage was already checked in and I sure as hell wasn't throwing it away because they were afraid I'd MacGyver my way to hijacking the plane. I ended up mailing to myself.
Actually now that I think about it there was this time I had a close call when they almost made the C4 but I got lucky. If only the stupid detonator had worked.
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RE: Security #2
@dhromed said:
Seriously, fuck KFC. I am pissed-off at the human race for actively condoning that farce.
I've never had KFC. What's wrong with it?@Rhywden said:
The typical moronic attitude of US-Americans: Equating a state to a continent full of several very different countries, most of which have culturally different states/provinces themselves.
I'm sure at least a few Americans are like that, but let's not have a flamewar, I was enjoying this thread.
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RE: Security #2
@Gordonjcp said:
I've never heard of anyone eating baked beans on toast before, and a quick ask around seems to suggest that no-one else around here has either. It sounds pretty horrible.
I'm not a Brit and I love that stuff. Of course I only add the bread as I eat to keep it nice and crunchy, so it's not beans on toast per se. Oh and I never touch that preserved canned crap, I do the cooking myself. If you want something done right and all that. Same goes for lentils.You've got to be careful though, never eat beans if you're going to be around other people in the next 24 hours.
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RE: Security #2
@dhromed said:
Hey, I liked it. Reminds me of that time in England where I heard some lady on the radio talk about going to "megp" and I was wondering what the hell a "megp" is. Took a minute or two to figure out she was saying "my GP (general practitioner)".Oh, it's a joke where a person's regional accent obscures the actual pronunciation of the word "lighter".
What a good joke!
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RE: Security #2
@FrostCat said:
A single bullet isn't any real threat, sans gun. The only way you could possibly fire it would be to put it in a vise, put the tip of a nail against the primer, whack the nail with a hammer.
Nonsense, I've watched Shoot 'Em Up and Clive Owen can fire bullets by holding them betwen his fingers and sticking his hand in a fire....come to think of it that must be why they don't allow lighters onboard.
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RE: Old Computer Challenge
Sorry, all my old stuff has gone for recycling with the exception of a prehistoric 286 which is one big ball of rust by now. I really need to get rid of that.
Latest posts made by DOA
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RE: Alex, were you this client?
@mott555 said:
http://clientsfromhell.net/post/78111023626/i-was-put-in-contact-with-a-guy-with-a-big-job-for
Great, I pop in for a second to check up on TDWTF and now I'm gonna waste half a day reading these. Thanks a lot.
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RE: Feedback
Oh man not another pointless, endless sentence-by-sentence argument.
Look, it's simple. You save the mother cause she makes for better eating.
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RE: Feedback
This can't possibly be real. It's got to be some sort of a joke or something a C*O typed up blind drunk one night.
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RE: Open position "printer installer specialist". Requirements: Bachelor's degree.
@atipico said:
This particular position lists something that can be translated as "bachelor's degree" (as it means basically finishing a complete university course) as a requirement to be a "printer installer". Less than a computer repair guy. Printer installer guy. University degree.
I actually had that job every morning for the last 3 months of my time in the army. In that time I changed a single ink cartridge. The rest of the time was spent listening to music, reading ebooks, dodging brass and smirking at NCO recruits sweeping leaves off the street. Not bad for someone without a single army connection. -
RE: Object messages are too hard to work with
@snoofle said:
Object messages are too hard to work with
"So are you, but you don't hear me complaining about it"
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RE: The Good Old Days
8x CD-ROM... oh man I remember when these were a luxury item. I was still in school at the time and my dad finally decided to buy me a Pentium to replace out ancient 286. However the budget could only cover the basic package so I had to fork over all of my own money to get a CD-ROM. These days they're practically paying you to buy a 1 million x CD/DVD-RW/Stone-engraving drive.
"What's that, 20 euros each? Sure give me two, I could use a cup holder in the car"
Also is it too late to buy a tape drive? 800Mbs of sequential access data sounds awesome.
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RE: The International Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve
Ah, great, now the terrorists know.
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RE: The "Cloud"
@JoeCool said:
Nobody is asking them to know how it works -- but really, if they think the data is actually stored in a cloud in the sky, and storms could interfere, then yes.. they are dumb.
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RE: The "Cloud"
What exactly is the point of this article? They are dumb because they don't fully understand every service they use? I'm all for poking fun at americans but this article is a little too full of itself. Just because I use GPS doesn't mean I have to understand the theory of relativity.
51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.
Define functionality. If the definition includes having access to your files then yes, stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.