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[Artlav]

Well, Uber is an absurdity. Somehow it manages to be right in the middle of the uncanny valley - a mix of lateral inter-people interactions and technology, that is anxi-painful to use and nearly impossible to take seriously despite any evidence.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Don't hear it often on the radio, probably because it makes people like me speed, but I heard it today when driving home :RnR1::

 

[Linguofreak]

Epiphany: Jawas are basically hobbit Nazgul.

This changes everything...

 

[jedidia]

The moment that changed everything about Nazgul for me was when a friend spontaniously pronounced it in turkish...

 

[Andy44]

The moment everything changed for me was when I realized that The Flintstones and The Jetsons are actually the same time period in the same universe.

Jetsons live in the sky on those skinny towers; you never see the surface of the planet they are on.

Meanwhile, where are they getting their raw materials?

Down on the surface, in towns like Bedrock, guys like Fred and Barney work in rock quarries mining minerals to supply the sky people. These aren't cavemen from Earth's past; these are a servant race in the future. They have genetically engineered dinosaurs and other animals capable of speech and performing special functions around the work site or the homes.

That episode where the Jetsons travel through time to meet the Flintstones? No time travel required!

It all comes clear now. Flintstones is now so much darker, the Jetsons are exploiting them. It all makes sense now!

 

[Donamy]

Don't hear it often on the radio, probably because it makes people like me speed, but I heard it today when driving home :RnR1::

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1irgU2O4EMk

Yes, it can have bad results. When I was listening to it, one day, while driving. A guy pulled out in front of me, and I said, " That SOB just cut me off." So I pulled up beside him and related a gesture. You know, "... giving him the bird." I took off and he chased after me. I yelled, " ...talk to me goose!" Finally, I made the bad decision, of putting the brakes on, thinking he would fly right by. Wrong !! :facepalm:

 

[Andy44]

As long as you don't try to drive your car roof-to-roof with an another car in an inverted negative-G dive you should be able to manage.

 

[jedidia]

Just great. Here I am, ready to write some code, and VisualStudio sign-in is broken. Who decided that a free license should have constant bloody DRM protection? :facepalm:

 

[Thunder Chicken]

The moment everything changed for me was when I realized that The Flintstones and The Jetsons are actually the same time period in the same universe.

Jetsons live in the sky on those skinny towers; you never see the surface of the planet they are on.

Meanwhile, where are they getting their raw materials?

Down on the surface, in towns like Bedrock, guys like Fred and Barney work in rock quarries mining minerals to supply the sky people. These aren't cavemen from Earth's past; these are a servant race in the future. They have genetically engineered dinosaurs and other animals capable of speech and performing special functions around the work site or the homes.

That episode where the Jetsons travel through time to meet the Flintstones? No time travel required!

It all comes clear now. Flintstones is now so much darker, the Jetsons are exploiting them. It all makes sense now!

This was the plot of H.G. Well's Time Machine - the subterranean Morlock servant race and the surface-dwelling elegant Eloi (which were also the main source of food for the Morlocks).

 

[Quick_Nick]

Just great. Here I am, ready to write some code, and VisualStudio sign-in is broken. Who decided that a free license should have constant bloody DRM protection? :facepalm:

Edit: I am likely wrong.
That's some BS!

 

[jedidia]

Well, it's not constant, apparently. It just requires you to sign in every once in a while.

But it just so appears to happen that the sign-in is broken when I have some time and energy. First I was getting script errors and 403s, now I'm just getting "The profile service command 'GetProfile' is temporarily unavailable". I can change my password, but apparently can't sign in. How difficult can it be?

 

[Andy44]

Well, Microsoft just pushed some sort of stupid update to Windows 10 that forced my computer to take foreeeeeeeevvvvveeeeer to install. Seriously, I think I could've rebuilt the engine in my truck while this was going on. Had something you desperately need your computer for during that time? Too bad, MS says you are getting this update right now!

And now my computer is trying to frog march me into using Edge. And these little propaganda photos of happy smiling people enjoying their MS products accompany all of this.

I understand pushing security updates in these days of wanna cry viruses, but treating my computer as if it belongs to MS is not cool.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, Microsoft just pushed some sort of stupid update to Windows 10 that forced my computer to take foreeeeeeeevvvvveeeeer to install. Seriously, I think I could've rebuilt the engine in my truck while this was going on. Had something you desperately need your computer for during that time? Too bad, MS says you are getting this update right now!

And now my computer is trying to frog march me into using Edge. And these little propaganda photos of happy smiling people enjoying their MS products accompany all of this.

I understand pushing security updates in these days of wanna cry viruses, but treating my computer as if it belongs to MS is not cool.

You might like Linux:

 

[Andy44]

You might like Linux:

I can't read that thumbnail; I'm sure it's funny.

In any case, Linux is for nerdy computer people, not ordinary schmoes like me for whom a computer is merely an appliance like a stove or a refrigerator which I expect to simply turn on and have it work.

That is the whole point of the Windows line of products after all. Back when I used DOS on my 386 machine I liked swapping parts and adding memory, etc., but now a computer is just a tool to me and I don't have much patience in messing around trying to get things to run on it.

Some of the computers where I work use Linux but I don't have to worry about making those work; we have sys admins for that. I just use the software to do my actual work.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

In any case, Linux is for nerdy computer people, not ordinary schmoes like me for whom a computer is merely an appliance like a stove or a refrigerator which I expect to simply turn on and have it work.

This is really not the case anymore. Linux is much less of a headache than Windows now IMO, especially with MS going with software-as-service model and controlling the use of your own machine. I use both Linux and Windows at work and home and Linux is my go-to for getting things done without hassle. If you like the feel of Windows you might like Linux Mint. You can download an ISO for free, burn it onto a thumbdrive, boot Linux off of the thumbdrive and give it a test spin. You can also buy a DVD with it installed (nominal cost of $6) and do the same thing. I really recommend giving it a try.

 

[Linguofreak]

I can't read that thumbnail; I'm sure it's funny.

In any case, Linux is for nerdy computer people, not ordinary schmoes like me for whom a computer is merely an appliance like a stove or a refrigerator which I expect to simply turn on and have it work.

That is the whole point of the Windows line of products after all. Back when I used DOS on my 386 machine I liked swapping parts and adding memory, etc., but now a computer is just a tool to me and I don't have much patience in messing around trying to get things to run on it.

Some of the computers where I work use Linux but I don't have to worry about making those work; we have sys admins for that. I just use the software to do my actual work.

Linux, at this point, is good for the technically clueless and for the die-hard computer nerd. The people that are most likely to have trouble with it are the Windows power users (who are used to the way that things work under the hood on Windows) and people with specific application dependencies that won't run well enough under Wine.

The remainder of my response is split into the basement here.

 

[jedidia]

Well, it was really just the sign-in being offline yesterday. Worked without a hitch this morning.

I kind of thought it would be impossible that a simple log-in service could be offline for several hours in an architecture like microsofts. What the hell were they doing?

 

[tl8]

Well, it was really just the sign-in being offline yesterday. Worked without a hitch this morning.

I kind of thought it would be impossible that a simple log-in service could be offline for several hours in an architecture like microsofts. What the hell were they doing?

Putting all their code into a shiny new Git repo

 

[Urwumpe]

Finally back online for some hours... what a week. My plans ended when my girlfriend and I parted ways, with me waiting useless in a room and she going to the surgeon... Now I slowly try to find back into some sort of organized chaos. GF, newborn son, daughter and dog are all fine, state of the father is best described with "nuts".

Say welcome to Liam Niklas... he started life with 3980g mass, 55 cm length and 38 cm head circumference, after loosing 100 g during the first days, he is now doing what his parents can't: Just eat and sleep in repetition.

 

[jedidia]

he started life with 3980g mass

Wow. That's almost twice as heavy as both my boys together at birth. :thumbup:

state of the father is best described with "nuts".

He, yeah... The state of my Wife the first day after birth was best described with "on drugs". Literally. Didn't help my sanity much either. :lol:

Congratulations on a clean birth, and on many sleep-deprived months ahead!