@TehFreek said:
Linpus Linux is an atrocity, and I would not feel bad in the least if whoever designed it came down with some horrible, horrible disease.
Linpus of the genetalia.
@TehFreek said:
Linpus Linux is an atrocity, and I would not feel bad in the least if whoever designed it came down with some horrible, horrible disease.
Linpus of the genetalia.
It's probably trying to install a virus on your computer. Click "No".
Ok, you all seem to be taking this seriously, so am I the only one who's grossed out by the name "Linpus"?
@Ilya Ehrenburg said:
@henke37 said:
I think you switched the words there.Not if you consider whom I attributed the quote to.
Maybe if you hadn't concerned yourself with showing people how clever and/or smart you are and just wrote "Joseph Satlin" it would have been funny, yes?
@mihi said:
Hmm. I wonder if I am really the only person who, when a device does not work, look in device manager for all the "unknown devices", dig into details to get their (hexadecimal) vendor and device IDs and put them into Google. In most cases it returns enough information so that I know the name of the chip/device so that I can find a driver for it. This even works for cheap OEM sound chips who sometimes use different names but are chip-identical to some other model that has drivers readily available (because the vendor/device IDs are the same). In most cases, this is easier than opening the PC and looking for the components it has (especially if it is not your own PC and you should just troubleshoot why that damn network/sound/whatever is not working.
(And PCs that had components without vendor and device IDs - i. e. from before the time of Plug&Pray - have not crossed my path lately...)
Or download and use Unknown Devices
@TwelveBaud said:
I'd love it if you could explain this theory of shopping as social prestige, because it sounds like you have a misunderstanding of the fundamental reason why so many women go shopping so much and do it in the way they do.@valerion said:
@Benanov said:(sigh)I'd nominate my wife. Certain factors* make it difficult for her to decide on anything, so usually she doesn't bother shopping.And you're really really sure about the whole anatomy operations thing?
She does, however, like sending me out to do it.
*OCD, and people keep bandying about "high-functioning Asperger's"
(Joke, joke, please don't take offense, I'm not actually insulting your wife. I'm sure she's lovely).Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism where an otherwise intelligent, high-functioning individual doesn't natively know about social cues and comportment, and has to spend a lot, relatively speaking, of mental processing power on things most people take for granted, such as prosody, facial expression, gesticulation, and in some cases knowledge division. In moderate to severe cases, they may appear mentally retarded in person because they spend their quick-thinking skill on trying to read the other person's responses rather than picking their own words or focusing on their own expression/tone. A common result of this is spending a lot of time with people younger than oneself, or online (where cues are made much more clear with smileys and sarcasm tags, which are much easier to look for than the shape of someone's face), especially in communities where they aren't at any disadvantage (such as 4chan's "equal disrespect for all" system, or technical fora's dispassionate, technical nature, or TDWTF's combination of the two). Over time, people with AS can learn to be just as socially ept as everyone else, although it is extremely hard work for them almost each and every time.
(I know I'm going to get hatemail for the next paragraph.)
When women shop alone, they do so to gain what they perceive as social prestige. They typically ignore things that actually result in social prestige because such things come unconsciously to them, but instead focus on trivialities and irrelevancies and associate a pathologically high importance to them. When women shop as a group, it's a social experience, providing topics for discussion, feelings of both unity and individuality, and, again, "social prestige". Aspies actually have to spend effort to be sociable in order to both interpret the emotions of others and express their own emotions, which means they learn consciously what matters and what doesn't. They then apply
I was going to write up a detailed explanation and rant about Aspergers Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to flame Valerion, but a little under halfway through I lost interest and gave up. Instead, I'm dedicating this post to polluting the tag cloud. If you're interested in reading my rant, you can find it in the
HTML commentshopefully invisible div. God I hate Community Server.
I think it's so cool that we have so many copyright lawyers on this board. Especially ones that have studied all the documents and evidence in such depth for this trial.
@Kemp said:
Besides, in your rush to prove me wrong you forgot something important. He's not going to come into work and sit there staring at the screen while the computer boots (thus wasting the money you mentioned), he'll be grabbing a drink from the water cooler, or checking his voicemail, or saying hi to someone, or checking the notes people have left scattered around for all the "IMPORTANT" and "URGENT" things that they want doing (he *has* been away two weeks).
In your rush to get the last word in, it you forgot something important: "Who the fuck cares?!?"
@tster said:
As a follow up, sometimes it is cost efficient to restart your computer because it might make the computer run faster once it has restarted (especially old versions of Windows). But this has NOTHING to do with electricity costs.
Lets put it this way: If you are worried about electricity costs of developer workstations, you are worried about the wrong thing.
I agree. My input was going to be "Who gives a shit?" Do we realize we're arguing over the difference of about a dollar here? Sometimes I think I want to hang out with programmers more to keep in touch with the people in my industry. Then I read threads like this and realize that I'd have to hang out with programmers more. :)
On a side note, why are there so many of us Massholes that frequent this board? It's not like Alex advertises on the T...
Edit: ...and what morbius said, too.