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Login/Join to ParticipateHOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I remember back in the day when personal computers (the IBM PC and the Apple II) were brand new. One thing they taught us was that *COMPUTERS DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU TELL THEM TO DO*
God I miss those days.
So here I am and I give my computer a command: "scroll down." The web page was loaded, it wasn't doing anything particularly strenuous, and so it proceded to pop up a warning that it had crashed and needed to be restarted. Now at NO POINT did I give it a command to crash. I didn't even give it two contradictory commands.
For that matter, a few weeeks in the middle of the night I woke up because my computer suddenly, and quite out of the blue, went *BONG!* at about 3AM, 4 hours after I'd last touched it. And it had crashed. Now what the heck was it doing in the middle of the night that was so fecking strenuous that it crashed itself?
The new rule is "Computers do a strange mix of what you tell them to do as interpreted by the programmers who programmed the operating system and the software that you're using. This may result in strange and inexplicable behavior that has nothing to do with what you are instructing the computer to do."
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
1,007 posts
Location: Horsham
Bring back acorns!
actually don't. they were poo.
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Pooh-Bah
1,848 posts
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia
time for a format methinks Doc. try getting rid of all your spyware/adware first though.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
I love formating my pc, its punishment for going wrong! I allways win in the end
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10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...
I'm sure Doc has ranted about it befire.
What with his whole "Back in the day...", I'm fairly ceertain that his forgetting of this rant is obviously a sign of senality.
Bummer, dude. You're OLD!
*flees*
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Written by: FoxInDocs
time for a format methinks Doc. try getting rid of all your spyware/adware first though.
I have a mac. We don't have that problem.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog
I'm sure Doc has ranted about it befire.
What with his whole "Back in the day...", I'm fairly ceertain that his forgetting of this rant is obviously a sign of senality.
Bummer, dude. You're OLD!
*flees*
Shaddap, sonny, before I whack you with my cane!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
15,417 posts
Location: South Wales
Dont do that...
you'll only encourage him.
and thats to both of you
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Johnny! HAFFY BIRFTAY!!!!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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