The Wackiest Technology Tales of 2008 97
coondoggie writes "Despite the daily drumbeat of new and improved hardware or software, the tech industry isn't all bits and bytes. Some interesting things happen along the way too. Like floating data centers, space geekonauts, shape shifting robots and weird bedfellows (like Microsoft and Jerry Seinfeld). What we include here is an example of what we thought were the best,
slightly off-center stories of 2008."
Favorite Error Message of 2008 (Score:4, Funny)
FYI m200 tablet with nvidia chip, The graphics had some lines in it, and the factory driver would bsod.
Wacky? (Score:2, Funny)
Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
Might as well talk about Vegetarian Vampires, African-American KKK members, Atheist Christian Pastors, or Dotcom CEOS worth billions who still live in their Mom's basement. It just makes about as much sense as this story.
Re:A slide show (Score:2, Funny)
New Here (Score:2, Funny)
On slashdot people use the subject line... (Score:5, Funny)
Pah! Imposter! (Score:4, Funny)
You're not a patch on the real New Here [slashdot.org]. That guy's posted exactly the same comment (and subject) over 200 times in the last 5 years.
You've done it.... twice. And you couldn't even maintain consistency for those two comments.
Pah, imposter I say. (I won't even get started on your grammar.
Re:Pah! Imposter! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... (Score:5, Funny)
Their.
Congratulations you're qualified to work in an Indian call center!
Re:It's 'their', (Score:2, Funny)
Oh right -- this is slashdot.
I meant "Was their something more to that sentence?"
Re:On slashdot people use the subject line... (Score:5, Funny)
And those apostrophes they put in "its" are really annoying too. A misplaced apostrophe sounds like nails going down a chalkboard.
Anyway, those are my two principle complaints.
Let's make a deal... (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone caught submitting slide shows featuring minimal content smeared over 43 colorful but vapid pages should be punished. I recommend death by stoning, preferably using a truckload of rusty 486s and a pallet or two of 14" monitors instead of boulders. As for the clever soul who deemed the content on the front page, I can only assume he/she/it is blind and suffering the after-effects of a decades-old untreated case of syphilis.
No. Wait. This must be a sign that slashdot has been secretly acquired by Condé Nast. I anxiously await the premiere issue of Linux Vogue. Sigh.
Re:Wow.. (Score:5, Funny)
(well unless perhaps you consider quantum mechanics - I'd call that stuff wacky)
-Hey Electron, what are you doing? You'd better not be eating my Christmas cookies!
-Nope, I'm over here!
-Hey, my cookies are gone! Damn it Heisenberg, isn't there any way to compensate?
-Judging by the size of your microscope, I'd say someone's compensating!
Yep, the Subatomic Sitcom practically writes itself.
Re:That's a tad far fetched. (Score:4, Funny)
Occam's razor leads me to conclude that the Seinfeld/Gates ad campaign was a failure, not a step in some grand plan.
I don't think Occam's razor has ever applied to Microsoft. Things that look like genius strategic moves turn out to be blind luck, while things that are absolute disasters emerge from what appears to be their most insightful thinking.
Re:Wow.. (Score:5, Funny)
Atom 1: Whats wrong?
Atom 2: I lost an electron
Atom 1: Are you sure?
Atom 2: I'm positive.
Re:Pah! Imposter! (Score:4, Funny)
(I won't even get started on your grammar.
Lest anyone else gets started on your punctuation... ;)
It was awfully nice of you to provide the closing parenthesis for him.
Re:Wow.. (Score:3, Funny)
"How much is that?" he asks the barman.
The barman replies "For you, there's no charge"