@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
What do you think of a "christmas tree" made of empty wine bottles?
We call that a 3-Day Weekend, son
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Cool Stuff Thread:
What do you think of a "christmas tree" made of empty wine bottles?
We call that a 3-Day Weekend, son
A person has a meeting with a lawyer to get some legal advice. After the meeting is finished the lawyer says "That will be two hundred dollars". The client pays the lawyer but accidentally gives him three hundred dollars instead of two hundred.
After the client has gone the lawyer notices that the client gave him too much money. What should the lawyer do?
(A) Keep the money and say nothing.
(B) Split the money with his partner.
@jinpa said in The Belt Onion club:
@coderpatsy Though I do remember you could change your cursor. Don't know if you can still do that.
Follow-up: Yes you can.
My favorite was the banana, and the "busy" version would peel itself while waiting.
So, yes, you can still change the cursor but now the only choices are boring. Just one more thing that Microsoft ruined
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Doesn't Windows pretend it can grow the pagefile infinitely for a very similar end result?
Not "infinitely" but up to the size of your hard drive. Which is a lot, unless you are using a really old computer with a really small hard drive.
I have an e-mail account on Microsoft's outlook.live.com because .... raisins.
E-Mail from Microsoft, promoting Microsoft Co-Pilot, is marked as spam. On Microsoft's own e-mail system.
@TimeBandit said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
@HardwareGeek said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
It's currently (23:00) 4°C in central , with a forecast overnight low of 2°. It looks like that's the coldest it's supposed to get all week, but it's a weather forecast, so .
IOW, central Texas and Montreal's weather are currently almost the same
I remember several years ago I was following the news of one of the Mars rovers and noticed that it was warmer on Mars than it was in Boston that day.
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
Canadians .... throwing pottery?
Doesn't it break?
No. Because in context, “throw” is the beginning of the making process—you throw the wet clay onto the wheel to spin it.
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Article @izzion posted said in WTF Bites:
meaning that for the first time in four years, it's February 29.
Written as if that was an astonishing or unexpected occurence....
Leap Year / Feb. 29 has only been a thing for hundreds of years. So definitely unexpected, and can't possibly be able to handle it.
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gern_Blaanston 1989 was not before the Internet. Usenet dates to 1980, and I personally used it as early as 1984, maybe late 1983, during a 6-month internship while in university. Even the Web existed in 1989 (although it didn't open to the public until 1991). As for the Sears catalog, I would assume the 1889 version got the job done, too. (Actually, I have no idea when they started putting photos of the merchandise in the catalogs, so maybe it didn't.)
I thought about editing the year to 1969 or something, but
This particular joke was obviously created by someone who thinks that 1989 is "old".
@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a video interview in 5 minutes and I just realized I don't have pants.
Did you ship your pants?
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@TimeBandit I hate it when they pan away. I want to see the carnage!
Yes, the whole point of the video is that she crashed.
The Doobie Brothers have announced their 50th anniversary tour.
Many years ago, I lived next door to their parents, Chuck and Helen Doobie.
@izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...:
125,000 Gigabytes
How many Library of Congresses of Porn is that?
My parents opened a restaurant but it never did very well. I tried to tell them that they shouldn't use their own names but they wouldn't listen.
Eventually, the Sam 'n Ella Restaurant went out of business.
@da-Doctah said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
"Brithday"?
Misspelled birthday.
Misspelled name.
And it's a carrot cake.
They really don't like Marc.
@BernieTheBernie said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024:
Turbo Pascal
Oh ye good old days of the early 1990ies (or was it late 1980ies?).
And Turbo Basic and .... Turbo Assembler.
Object Oriented Assembly Language
A guy says to a trans woman
"Does the carpet match the drapes?"
And she replies:
"I don't have carpet. I have hard wood floor."
@dkf said in Delphi 2024:
@Gern_Blaanston Turbo Pascal was great. It was fast and relatively easy to understand.
Yes. Pascal was sort of similar to BASIC and I was able to figure it out pretty quickly.
Once I got what it was doing, I was then able to transfer my knowledge to C. C was less great, but with a whole lot more code available and less restricted memory models
I was never able to get interested in C, and then C++ .... just made my brain hurt.
I found this somewhere a while back.
A.I. can write reviews (that no one reads) of A.I. novels (that no one buys), generate playlists of A.I. songs (that no one listens to) and create A.I. images (that no one looks at) for websites (that no one visits).
This is the A.I. future. Endless content generated by robots, enjoyed by no one, clogging up everything, and wasting everyone's time.
When I was first starting out, all I had access to was BASIC and assembly language. Then I got a copy of Delphi's great-grandfather, Borland Turbo Pascal, which I thought was pretty good. By the time it morphed into Delphi I had already moved on to other stuff.
@Arantor said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread:
@remi 16384 columns, you’re welcome.
No one should need more than 640 columns.
-- Bill Gates
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Zecc said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Dragoon If Earth is moving away from the sun, the years are getting longer.
Yes, that's what he said. Unless longer days means something else when un-divided into years....
A "day" is the earth's rotation on its axis. A "year" is the orbit of the earth around the sun. Two completely different things.
If the earth's rotational speed changed, a day would be longer (or shorter if it sped up) but it would still take the same number of "days" for the earth to make one orbit around the sun. Assuming you continue to use one complete rotation as the definition of a day.
Or, if the earth's orbital speed changed, the length of a day would stay the same but a year would be longer (or shorter if it sped up). Assuming you continue to use one complete orbit of the sun as the definition of a year.
Thought experiment: What if the earth's rotation slowed down and instead of 24 hours it took 29 hours. How would that affect society?
I used to buy shampoo
.
Now I only buy real poo.
@remi said in Fun with maps:
@dkf the sign says "omelette," not "scrambled eggs."
Omelette is just the fancy schmancy Europeen word for scrambled eggs.
@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier Actually it seems it's pronounced … it isn't pronounced at all, because it appears to be made up—neither Google nor Openstreet maps know anything of such place.
It' s almost as if the sign is .... a joke.
@Atazhaia said in Fun with maps:
Iceland and Greenland are all one big landmass. And it's not nice to Iceland.
Is that why Iceland has more green than Greenland and Greenland has more ice than Iceland?
@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
So why not just export it into a plain text file then? Why even screw around with .csv format? I guess that would be too simple.
They'd still have to use some sort of character separator.
Nope.
Here is the configuration file for Media Player Classic. Plain text, easily readable and editable. The program has a GUI that will take care of all this for you, but if for some reason you want to read/edit it, you can. This is the correct way to do it:
; MPC-HC
[Capture]
AudDispName=dummy
AudOutput=1
AudPreview=1
Country=1
FileFormat=0
FileName=E:\Documents\MPC-HC Capture\mpc-hc64_capture_[time].avi
SepAudio=1
VidDispName=dummy
VidOutput=1
VidPreview=1
[Dialogs\CmdLineHelp]
WindowPlacement=1635,756,2586,1484,1,0,-1,-1
[Dialogs\OrganizeFavorites]
WindowPlacement=136,1005,1105,2039,1,0,-1,-1
[Dialogs\SubtitleDl]
ColWidth=100,300,80,40,50,40,250,40,
SortColumn=0
SortOrder=0
WindowPlacement=73,127,1573,714,1,0,0,0
[Dialogs\SubtitleUp]
ColWidth=120,75,250,
WindowPlacement=73,127,1091,674,1,0,0,0
[DVBConfiguration]
BDABandWidth=8
BDAIgnoreEncryptedChannels=0
BDAOffset=166
BDAReceiver=
BDAScanFreqEnd=858000
BDAScanFreqStart=474000
BDASymbolRate=0
BDATuner=
BDAUseOffset=0
LastChannel=-1
RebuildFilterGraph=2
StopFilterGraph=2
[Favorites]
RelativeDrive=0
RememberABMarks=0
RememberPosition=0
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I remember version 0.7 as being the first one I tried
IOW, you're not afraid of using alpha version software.
20 years ago, that was pretty much all there was. And when you're young and stupid (instead of old and stupid) you just go ahead and try everything.
@Zerosquare said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Still, I do not retract my low opinion of Firefox
devlopersmanagement
Yes, it's a shame they can't get some decent, competent management in there.
@PleegWat said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston That suite was branded Mozilla for a while too.
Yes, I forgot about that. I used it for a while before Firefox.
I don't recall when I switched from that to Firefox.
All Firefox releases are available and I see that Firefox 0.8 is dated Sept. 2004 so that's probably when I first tried Firefox. Although I remember version 0.7 as being the first one I tried, but it isn't listed on there.
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
Seamonkey is the open source version of the old Netscape that was a web browser and e-mail client all in one (and some other crap that nobody cared about).
TIL: Seamonkey still exists and there is active development going on.
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
@Arantor said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else:
I remember it as Phoenix
I remember it as Mozilla, the open source version of Netscape
I’d always thought the open sourced part was always called Seamonkey as the original codebase that later became its official name?
Hang on a second .... let me tighten my
In 1996 I signed up with a local internet provider and they mailed me a floppy disk containing a copy of Netscape 2.x which was already out of date and not good for much other than going online long enough to download a newer version.
Seamonkey is the open source version of the old Netscape that was a web browser and e-mail client all in one (and some other crap that nobody cared about).
Firefox started out as Phoenix, then briefly renamed to Firebird but there was a potential trademark problem because of a database program with that name, so they changed to Firefox.