• (cs)

    damn... this l33t h4x0r its here too... =|

  • Simmo (unregistered) in reply to poochner
    poochner:
    Curious Mind:
    Um. What's going to happen in 2070?

    We're all going to die.

    not me. I'll stil be bouncing around at age 106, possibly even playing a little tennis, while all you lot are succumbing to The Big One (a combination of religion-inspired apocalypse, capitalism-inspired famine and technology-inspired ecological disaster)

  • (cs) in reply to ParkinT
    ParkinT:
    Although George Orwell knew nothing of computers, he apparently predicted the year correctly!!

    George Orwell predicted that there would be a year 1984? Wow!

  • (cs) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    brazzy:
    The problem with puns is that they can be very hard to recognize when it's not your native language. As it happens, I'm German, and I don't get it. What's particularly funny about a Siemens building in Cummings? I mean, apart from the place's name itself?
    Without the 'i' in 'ie', Siemens would be literally synonymous with (male) Cummings.
    Ahhhhhhh. Does a plural of that even exist, though? That's why I didn't recongnize it.
    Your point therefore leads me to believe that the fault lies with some Georgian red-neck PHB getting back at his employers by deliberately making them seem stupid.

    Quite possible. And it reminds me of a story I heard that's too funny not to post here:

    Apparently there was this German webdesigner (back when "webdesigner" didn't have the ring of "failed at actual programming") who was going to move to Spain to do some work there with a Spanish friend. Knowing that domain registration fees in Spain were extremely high, he registered the German domain la-concha.de, named after a bay called "la concha" (the clam) near the place he was moving to - client websites would be loacted in directories (back then, not having your own domain was acceptable).

    After he got settled in, he had an interview with his first customer, a very rich high society lady who wanted a personal "web presence" for bragging rights with her high society friends. All went well, but when he afterwards did a review with his friend, the friend exploded in laughter after being told the URL the website would reside at: http://www.la-concha.de/<clients_name>

    After several minutes, he had calmed down enought to explain that "concha", just like the English translation is a euphemism for female genitalia. The .de domain thus made the URL read "the clam of <clients_name>". The webdesigner now got quite agitated and exclaimed "oh god, we have to get a different domain immediately!" whereupon the fried said "no, we don't - that lady is too well-bred to realize it, and I want to see how long it takes till someone has the courage to tell her".

  • (cs)

    I'm not that much older than some of the so-called "kids" here, but I do recall that, as a child, my best friend's father had a Wang. My memory is goldfish-like at the best of times, but I seem to recall that it pretty much resembled an 80s IBM-compatible PC, but perhaps larger. This was, I guess, in the late 80s, maybe early 90s.

    The man used to joke about having a Wang, but as far as I know, that was simply due to the funny-sounding name -- like Mr Spock and his frock (he has a very weird sense of humour). Isn't "wang" a US euphemism that's made it to the UK in recent years? It's like all the Americans who call themselves Randy ;)

    I have no idea what became of that computer, though. Nor what it got replaced with, if anything, oddly.

  • (cs) in reply to Curious Mind
    Curious Mind:
    Um. What's going to happen in 2070?
    UNIX systems are designed to interpret two-digit years found in input as being between 1970 and 2069. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm
  • Monday Zombie (unregistered) in reply to Nobody

    Not at the store server room level. Even the old hardware is Class A and Class D servers...the oldest hardware in there is the serial mux panel (timeclock, sometimes a Monarch printer in Receiving, some other stuff), the ~12+ year old RAID arrays, and closely followed by the NCR 7452 registers on the front end (big suckers with integrated cash drawers) which are vintage '97-'98. I should know, I get to replace the class-Ds with proper class As and the obsolete RAIDs with only 5 year old Hitachi single units.

    Hilariously, Depot had to get a special support contract to even get the maker of the SCSI RAIDs to support them, because said maker hasn't made the drives or parts for them for years now. We ship the old ones back to Depot, so if another store's 15-year-old array fails they can be shipped a 14-year-old used-just-as-hard replacement.

  • (cs) in reply to brazzy
    brazzy:
    real_aardvark:
    brazzy:
    The problem with puns is that they can be very hard to recognize when it's not your native language. As it happens, I'm German, and I don't get it. What's particularly funny about a Siemens building in Cummings? I mean, apart from the place's name itself?
    Without the 'i' in 'ie', Siemens would be literally synonymous with (male) Cummings.
    Ahhhhhhh. Does a plural of that even exist, though? That's why I didn't recongnize it.
    Your point therefore leads me to believe that the fault lies with some Georgian red-neck PHB getting back at his employers by deliberately making them seem stupid.

    Quite possible. And it reminds me of a story I heard that's too funny not to post here:

    Apparently there was this German webdesigner (back when "webdesigner" didn't have the ring of "failed at actual programming") who was going to move to Spain to do some work there with a Spanish friend. Knowing that domain registration fees in Spain were extremely high, he registered the German domain la-concha.de, named after a bay called "la concha" (the clam) near the place he was moving to - client websites would be loacted in directories (back then, not having your own domain was acceptable).

    After he got settled in, he had an interview with his first customer, a very rich high society lady who wanted a personal "web presence" for bragging rights with her high society friends. All went well, but when he afterwards did a review with his friend, the friend exploded in laughter after being told the URL the website would reside at: http://www.la-concha.de/<clients_name>

    After several minutes, he had calmed down enought to explain that "concha", just like the English translation is a euphemism for female genitalia. The .de domain thus made the URL read "the clam of <clients_name>". The webdesigner now got quite agitated and exclaimed "oh god, we have to get a different domain immediately!" whereupon the fried said "no, we don't - that lady is too well-bred to realize it, and I want to see how long it takes till someone has the courage to tell her".

    I'm afraid I saw that coming, but it's a great story anyway.

    Viel Dank!

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