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Ith that thuper Thoth or thecret Thoth?
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Wow, work is blocking everyone of those images. I'm sure they're hilarious. See ya tommorow!
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Wow, secret message is awesome. I wanna retire when I'm 35!
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7th! It's Dysan not Dyson. Dyson makes vacuum cleaners.
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use pixlr to load the url of the picture. it worx
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Reason: The Websense category "Not funny" is filtered.
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TRWTF is that Thoth is not y2k compatible.
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Your workplace installs AdBlock by default?
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Wow, I can't believe people actually used to read 2-page ads! Nowadays, you're lucky to get their attention to read your Google AdWords one-liner.
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Memories.....sigh!
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If you're not seeing the images, check to see if you have AdBlock enabled - my AdBlock configuration (a fairly common one, I believe) blocked them all, leading me to a real WTF, as the captions by themselves are fairly meaningless.
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Go bravely with Thoth!
That must be where Nethack got that name . . .
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And spheres?
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Interesting. Wikipedia lists a bunch of strange diskette formats, but 3 1/4" is not among them. I wonder if this was produced before 3 1/2" became widespread, or whether they were knowingly promoting an obscure dead-end technology as "where personal computing is going".
One thing that is obviously dishonest is praising a "durable methal hub" as an advantage in one sentence and the absence of "rigid metal shutters" in the next.
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DaveAronson: Snap!
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Whatever it is, it's done at the proxy server we go through.
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Wow, that was trippy, but I was sorely disappointed by the ASCII dog. I feel like Ralphie decoding the Ovaltine commercial.
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Like others said, check AdBlock if you can't see the pics. The images are all in an /ads/ directory. https://thedailywtf.com/images/ads/110414/xor-corporation_sm.jpg for example.
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Wow! Frits has a job!
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Once again, surfing pr0n from home is NOT a job... At least, not yet it is.
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If the software is anything like this other THOTH, then...
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I'm still trying to decide if I should donate to the Old Programmers' Home, or apply to be a resident.
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Dysan and Shugart tried to introduce 3.25" diskettes and drives around 1981. They were just one of several competing formats that didn't make it, along with a 3" diskette and a tiny hard-shelled 2" version that looked like a Barbie accessory. There was even a short-lived computer that used Dysan's disk - the Seequa Chameleon Once Sony jumped on the 3.5" bandwagon, followed closely by IBM and Apple, the little guys' days were numbered.
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Re: the 3.25" disks. That's "Dysan", not "Dyson". Always a mistake to confuse data disks and vacuum cleaners :-)
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The "absence of rigid metal shutters" sounds like they are trying to promote their own format after the Sony-originated 3 1/2" format had already gained considerable traction. The year 1984 seems to confirm that.
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As far as I am aware, 'Manager' is not a verb.
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So far, no comments about Mata Hari. If you read the ad, Lockheed (yes, the airplane people) is selling a 1200 baud modem. High technology for the time. Promoting computer security through a dialup connection. Nobody heard of forging caller id?
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Jealousy makes you ugly in the face.
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Legal length paper, 14", folded twice is 3½", and fit inside a man's coat pocket. Shirt pockets became standardized at around 4". Mini floppy diskettes were made 3½" so they would fit in a man's shirt pocket. Look it up.
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Considering that Mata Hari was a WW1 spy who was executed in 1917, I don't think that boosting that she couldn't break into your computer is much or a selling point.
a) she's (long) dead b) she had probably never heard of a computer c) she was the seducing military bigwigs type of spy rather than the tech-savvy breaking into stuff spy
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They did exist: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/drive.html#325
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You do not cross The Lamp of Thoth, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6r3xI_9LUU
You probably shouldn't cross Jex Thoth either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLHe9l1cF08
Akismet does seem to want to cross them, though...
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Actually, it does mention them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk#The_3-inch_compact_floppy_disk
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Actually, this probably predates Caller ID. I'm old enough to remember when a modem was a box with rubber inserts that you put the phone handset into. You couldn't actually buy one. Like the phone, you leased it from the phone company.
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Wikipedia talks about this size disk in "History of the floppy disk". There were a lot of weird sizes back in the day. For a while, I thought the 3" disk would become standard but, like the superior Amstrad and Apple computers that used them, were passed over by most of the US.
Some of our company's CNC machines still used 8" floppies, one more reason to hook them into the network.
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ah, because these are images are ads, they've been put in a folder called ads, and that's probably why they're blocked for everyone like me who use adblockers
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Yes is 'doez', but its pretty much a pain in the arse and destroys the flow of the web page.
All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!
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Yes is 'doez', but its pretty much a pain in the arse and destroys the flow of the web page.
All that needs to happen for this to work for everyone is for the stubborn what-nots at The Daily WTF to rename the 'ads' directory on their web server to something else - however, as they have shown, this is far too much hassle as it is still the same as last time they published some ad images!
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Or - I could hit the quote button then my comment might make some sense!
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To be fair, people still do. (In fact, they pay for something that are like ads -- ever seen people reading Consumer Reports?) You just have to be in the right mindset.
To be fair, it was actually doing its job.
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Google dysan 3.25" diskettes
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"""During the early 1980's many competing formats were tried to compete with the 3.5 inch drives. From various companies there were 2.0, 2.5, 2.8, 3.0, 3.25, and 4.0 inch formats!"""
from http://www.accurite.com/FloppyPrimer.html
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3.14159265 inch computing is ready when you are ....
Also, CAPTCHA was "genitus"
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Hmmm... Unit testing for management... I like it!
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The selection process and interview should be interesting!