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Monday, May 9, 2011
A long list of Mac Versus Window Jokes
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- In a world without walls and fences - who needs windows and gates?!
- Computers are like air conditioners, they stop working properly if you open Windows.
- My SPARCstation has air condition. No need to open windows.
- Windows 95 Source Code
- Windows means "Work is never done on Windows systems"
- Customer: I'm running Windows 95...
Helpdesk: Yes...
Customer: ...and now my computer stopped working!
Helpdesk: Yes, you already said that. - Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for.
- "Windows for dummies", another term of "this sentence no verb"
- Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22 million bugs!
- IBM creates Operating Systems - MS-DOSn't
- Have you reinstalled your Windows today?
- How do you fix all Windows bugs at once?
mke2fs /dev/sda1
deltree /y \
- Windows 95 the most popular virus on the market today.
- Windows95 - Plug and pray...
(Bastian Kleineidam aka Calvin) - Windows - The colorful clown suit for DOS
- Windows - a solitaire game that requires 16 MB and HD
- Windows - The best $89 solitaire game you can buy
BTW: Like Unix freaks like thelogout
in the.login
file, Windows users like theSHELL=C:\WINDOWS\SOL.EXE
line in theirSYSTEM.INI
file. %-)) - Windows - so intuitive you only need a meg of help files!
- If Windows is user-friendly, why do you need a 678-page manual?
- "Fer sail cheep, Windows spel chekcer, wurks grate"
- The word "Windows" is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: "White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass..."
- Windows =Waste in DOS WorkSpace
- Bang on the LEFT side of your computer to restart Windows
- Alt-F4. Just do it.
C:\ONGRTLNS.W95
- Double your drive space: Delete Windows!
- Microsoft is to Software as McDonalds is to Cuisine
- Does someone know the cheats for Windows95?
- This is an airconditioned room - Do not open Windows!
- This virus requires Microsoft Windows 3.x
- OS/2 VirusScan -- "Windows found: Remove it? [Y,Y]"
- Favorite Windoze game: "Guess what this icon does?"
- Windows95 - crash compatible on Windows 3.x
- Windows NT - Nice Try
- Windows - a virus with mouse support
- Windows is for fun, OS/2 is for getting things done
- Windows vs OS/2 = Michael Jackson vs Mike Tyson
- The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first.
- Microsoft is not the answer.
Microsoft is the question.
"No" is the answer! - McAfee-Question: Is Windows a virus?
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
- They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
- Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
- Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
- Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
- Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2.) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus. It's a bug. - Last words of a Windows user:
- Why does that work now?
- Where do I have to click now? - There?
- Guess what this icon does...
- Message box: "Data not completely delete? Yes - No" --- User: "No - ey - Yes"
- Microsoft gives you Windows... OS/2 gives you the whole house
- Some windows were made to be broken
- Turn your 486 into a Gameboy: Type WIN at
C:\>
- Data to Picard: "No, Captain, I do NOT run WINDOWS!"
- Bugs come in through open Windows
- Windows '97 will also have artificial intelligence, e.g.:
- Unable to FORMAT A: Having a go at C:
- Can't Compress Hard Drive but don't worry I'll delete all files over size 50,000 that'll give you some space.
- How do you make Windows faster? --- Throw it harder!
- Windows95 is out! (PC Magazine, April 2013)
- Windows95: New look, same multicrashing
- Windows95 will be released as soon as Windows 3.1 finishes loading
- Windows95 - Every function is a restart function...
- Windows95 does really have preemptive Multitasking: It can boot and crash at the same time.
- Windows NT - Insert wallet into Drive A: and press any key to empty
- Windows NT? New Technology? I don't think so...
- Windows - Just another pain in the glass
- Windows - Turn your Pentium into an XT...
- Windows - The Gates of hell
- Windows - From the people who brought you EDLIN!
- Windows - a XT emulator for an AT
- If Windows sucked it would be good for something
- DOS is just an operating system that runs Windows 3.1
- DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1 - A turtle and its shell
- Windows Multitasking - screwing up several things at once
- Windows found - remove? (Y)es (S)ure (F)ine (O)K
- Windows has the ability to screw up 2 things at the same time!
- If I wanted Windows, I'd live in a greenhouse!
- Microsoft's marketing: "Windows is SEMI-shareware"
- Are you using Windows or is that just an XT?
- Have you crashed your Windows today?
- Relax... you are entering a windows free zone
- OS/2... Opens up Windows, shuts up Gates
- New from McAfee: WinScan - Removes all Windows programs
- New Windows 4.0: programmed in Turbo Logo++
- My latest screen saver: Curtains for Windows
- If Windows 95 doesn't start shipping soon, it might be Curtains 95.
- Masochist: Windows programmer with a smile!
- I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...
- I still miss Windows, but my aim is getting better
- I can't wait for EDLIN to be ported for Windows
- Father, forgive me, I've been caught using Windows...
- Exhibitionists love Windows
- Despite my car having windows, it still isn't mouse driven!
- Breaking Windows isn't just for kids anymore...
- Beat me, whip me, make me use Windows!
- A computer without Windows is like a fish without a bicycle
- Difference between a virus and windows? Viruses rarely fail.
- Newsflash: Microsoft announces Visual Edlin for Windows
- Time on your hands? Get Windows!
- Hiroshima '45 - Tschernobyl '86 - Windows '95
- What's the best of Windows95? The deinstaller!
- Why is the Pentium 166 so fast? - It's for booting faster, if Windows crashed again.
- What is the difference between Jurassic Park and Microsoft? - One is an over-rated high tech theme park based on prehistoric information and populated mostly by dinosaurs, the other is a Steven Spielberg movie.
- How many Windows PC owners does it take to change a lightbulb? Just one, as long as you explain it's Plug'n'Play... they get confused if it doesn't come with a driver disk...
- How do Microsoft employees exchange a bulb? Not at all... Bill Gates declares darkness as a standard.
- Help! There are Windows everywhere! In my car, my house
- Ever noticed how fast Windows runs? Neither did I!
- Mouse not present - click twice to continue...
- Who the fuck is General Failure? And why is he reading my harddisk?
- What's the difference between windows '95 and highly destructive unstoppable virus? About 90 Megs of hard disk space.
- Coming soon: EDLIN for Windows
- I've got two Windows hardware emulators! Really! They works much more reliable than the original: one for Windows 3.11, one for Windows95.
Unfortunately they have superscriped the emulator keys wrongly, so that on the Windows 3.11 emulator key "TURBO" and on the Windows 95 emulator is written "RESET"... But doesn't matter, works great. - Windows, it's not pretty, it's not ugly, but it's pretty ugly.
Mac Jokes | Humors | Laugh it out
What's the difference between a MAC and a bucket of cowshit?
Three pounds and a Gameboy screenWhat's the difference between a brontosaurus and a Mac?
A brontosaurus runs faster.
Why did the retarded guy buy a Mac?
What do you mean? They're all retarded!
Seriously, why do these people buy Macs?
The boxes PCs come in are too hard for them to open.
What's the difference between a turd and a Mac?
Most turds aren't gray.
Why do so many Mac users continue to use Macs?
They're afraid they'd have to pierce the other ear in order to 'switch teams', if you know what I mean...
What did the Mac hater say when he saw several hundered Macintoshes buried half-way in cement?
Geez, I hope that guy's off getting some more cement...
How do you make your Mac go faster?
Drop it from a higher window.
How can you identify a Mac user at a party?
Ask him to help you word-process on your computer. He'll instinctively pull out a magnifying glass to see the screen.
What's a sure-fire way to piss off the new neighbors?
Eject a floppy from a Mac 1,000 times. ZZerzzit! Zzerzzzit! Zzzerzzzit!...
What's the second-best way?
Restart it 1,000 times so the infamous Mac-start-up-chime blasts forth from the speaker, or until they call the cops.
Why aren't more Mac owners computer literate?
They would be, if they had a computer.
How do you make a Mac run faster?
Smoke some marijuana just before using it, to alter your perception of time. There will be a noticeable speed increase, not only of the Mac but any clocks in the room as well. Now that's performance!
What's the difference between an Apple Lisa (predecessor of MAC) and a Game Boy?
Game boy has more memory and a higher-res screen, and greater color depth: 4 shades of green!
Why don't more Mac users get depressed about owning a Mac and commit suicide?
They don't know how shitty their machine is, because they still haven't figured out how to turn it ON.
How do you recognize a Mac user at a computer store?
When he's asking the salesperson how much it would cost him to upgrade to a 33.6 Kbps transfer speed--and then realize he's referring to the hard drive.
How do you make a Mac disk drive access faster?
Wind it up again
What do you do with an obsolete Mac?
Whatever you do, don't pick it up off the store shelf and buy it!
How many Mac users does it take to change a light bulb?
Four. One to consult the manual that came with it, one to call tech-support, and two to sit and wait for the 'Smiley Face' to appear and say 'Welcome to Macintosh'.
Why aren't there more Macintosh SE's in use out there?
Too hard to find replacement tubes. (see below...)
Three pounds and a Gameboy screenWhat's the difference between a brontosaurus and a Mac?
A brontosaurus runs faster.
Why did the retarded guy buy a Mac?
What do you mean? They're all retarded!
Seriously, why do these people buy Macs?
The boxes PCs come in are too hard for them to open.
What's the difference between a turd and a Mac?
Most turds aren't gray.
Why do so many Mac users continue to use Macs?
They're afraid they'd have to pierce the other ear in order to 'switch teams', if you know what I mean...
What did the Mac hater say when he saw several hundered Macintoshes buried half-way in cement?
Geez, I hope that guy's off getting some more cement...
How do you make your Mac go faster?
Drop it from a higher window.
How can you identify a Mac user at a party?
Ask him to help you word-process on your computer. He'll instinctively pull out a magnifying glass to see the screen.
What's a sure-fire way to piss off the new neighbors?
Eject a floppy from a Mac 1,000 times. ZZerzzit! Zzerzzzit! Zzzerzzzit!...
What's the second-best way?
Restart it 1,000 times so the infamous Mac-start-up-chime blasts forth from the speaker, or until they call the cops.
Why aren't more Mac owners computer literate?
They would be, if they had a computer.
How do you make a Mac run faster?
Smoke some marijuana just before using it, to alter your perception of time. There will be a noticeable speed increase, not only of the Mac but any clocks in the room as well. Now that's performance!
What's the difference between an Apple Lisa (predecessor of MAC) and a Game Boy?
Game boy has more memory and a higher-res screen, and greater color depth: 4 shades of green!
Why don't more Mac users get depressed about owning a Mac and commit suicide?
They don't know how shitty their machine is, because they still haven't figured out how to turn it ON.
How do you recognize a Mac user at a computer store?
When he's asking the salesperson how much it would cost him to upgrade to a 33.6 Kbps transfer speed--and then realize he's referring to the hard drive.
How do you make a Mac disk drive access faster?
Wind it up again
What do you do with an obsolete Mac?
Whatever you do, don't pick it up off the store shelf and buy it!
How many Mac users does it take to change a light bulb?
Four. One to consult the manual that came with it, one to call tech-support, and two to sit and wait for the 'Smiley Face' to appear and say 'Welcome to Macintosh'.
Why aren't there more Macintosh SE's in use out there?
Too hard to find replacement tubes. (see below...)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
New research may bring solar thermal flat panels home
Solar thermal energy heats many a home’s water, but someday generating electricity might also appear on its list of household chores. Boston researchers have designed a flat panel that could expand solar thermoelectric power’s reach from the domain of large plants to neighborhood rooftops.
In solar thermal plants, sunlight heats water, with the resulting steam powering a turbine that generates electricity. These systems need to collect a lot of heat, and not lose it, to run at the highest efficiency. To achieve necessary temperatures, the plants often employ mirrors that direct concentrated sun rays toward fluid within vacuum-sealed tubes. Unfortunately, generating electricity in this fashion pretty much comes in one size—and that’s big, as in BrightSource Energy’s concentrated solar farm on thousands of desert acres in California. Meanwhile, an advantage of photovoltaic panels is that they work for utility-scale generation, as well as for distributed power through rooftop installations.

The researchers also say their device could be compatible with existing solar heaters.
Co-author Zhifeng Ren, a professor of Physics at Boston College, says in a statement:
Existing solar-thermal technologies do a good job generating hot water. For the new product, this will produce both hot water and electricity. Because of the new ability to generate valuable electricity, the system promises to give users a quicker payback on their investment.
How much quicker? The researchers say by a third. And though a commercial product has yet to see the light of day, their company GMZ Energy recently raised $7 million in funding.
Related on SmartPlanet:
The Omega Center for Sustainable Living. One of only three "Living Buildings.
Buildings that meet the Living Building Challenge requirements are at the peak of sustainability.
This green-building certification process is much more rigorous than even a LEED-Platinum building. That’s one of the reasons why there are only three buildings that have met the certification requirements. The process requires, among other things, that buildings not use a list of unhealthy building materials — lead, mercury, PVC, and others — and also generate their own energy and collect their own water on-site.
These buildings are miles ahead of their green-building competition. But that’s also part of the problem, they’re so far away, writes Jonathan Hiskes in Sustainable Industries.
Currently the only three buildings that are certified as Living Buildings are in rural areas. So while these buildings are sustainable, those who use them still must drive. And typically, even green building that are built in auto-dependent places use more energy than non-green households that are located near transit.
But supporters of the Living Building Challenge hope to see more urban Living Buildings, Hiskes reports from the Cascadia Green Building Council’s Living Future unconference.
I was glad to see a panel at Living Future on Thursday about bringing living buildings to urban infill projects that are the most inherently sustainable sites for new development. Architect Jon Hall of Seattle firm GGLO put the next task in clear terms.
“That’s great,” he said of the first three living buildings. “But how do we bring living buildings to the masses? How to we bring it to housing that people use every day?”
What would one of these ultra-green buildings look like in the city?
Hall had developed a mock-up plan for doing just that – a mid-rise urban building with street-level retail and four or five floors of smallish housing units. A sophisticated airflow system with basement heat exchangers kept heating and cooling needs low, and a rooftop combined solar photovoltaic array and solar thermal water-heating system took care of energy needs. The roof also included a catchment system to collect rainwater, and it extended over, not just the building, but also the right-of-way and a public plaza on the south side.
That’s meant to address a key barrier to larger living buildings – it’s tough to collect enough water on site, even in the drizzly Northwest. Hall’s plan calls for using water three times – first for sinks, showers and dishwashing, then for the shared laundry facilities, then for flushing toilets (with filtration between each step).
It’s an ambitious goal indeed, but one that, if successful, could make urban living even more sustainable.
Android.... Awesome!!!

Both S1 which is optimized for rich media entertainment and S2 which ideally designed for mobile communication and entertainment comes with WiFi and WAN (3G/4G), cable of internet browsing and checking e-mail as well as accessing digital content such as video, games and books through Sony’s rich premium network services and more. The S1 model features a 9.4-inch display which it’s off center of gravity design helps with stability and ease of grip as well as a sense of stability and lightness. The S2 model comes in a two 5.5-inch display which can be easily folded for ease of portability. This dual screen model allows user to combine the two screens into one to be used as one large screen or alternatively be used as two separate screens performing separate functions such as playing video on one screen while showing control buttons on the other. Both S1 and S1 tablets will hit the global market starting in fall of 2011.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Best of Technology in 2011 - Check 'em out and lay your hands on one or more...
So here we are in a new decade, and the technologies that are now available to us continue to engage (and enthrall) in fascinating ways. The rise and collision of several trends—social, mobile, touch computing, geo, cloud—keep spitting out new products and technologies which keep propelling us forward. Below I highlight seven technologies that are ready to tip into the mainstream 2011.
Before I get into my predictions, let’s see how I did last year, when I wrote “Ten Technologies That Will Rock 2010.” Some of my picks were spot on: the Tablet (hello, iPad), Geo (Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places, mobile location-aware search, etc.), Realtime Search (it became an option on Google) and Android (now even bigger than the iPhone). Some are still playing out: HTML5 (it’s made great strides, but isn’t quite here yet), Augmented Reality (lots of cool apps have AR functionality, but for the most part it is still a parlor trick), Mobile Video (FaceTime andstreaming video apps pushed it forward), Mobile Transactions (Square and other transaction processing options came onto the scene), and Social CRM (Salesforce pushed Chatter, and tons of social CRM startups pushed their wares, but enterprises are always slow to adopt). And one got pushed to 2011: Chrome OS (we are still waiting).
What’s in store for 2011? Some of these themes will continue to evolve, and some new ones will gain currency. Here are seven technologies poised to rock the new year:
- Web Video On Your TV: We’ve already seen many attempts to turn the Internet into a video-delivery pipe to rival cable TV: Google TV, Apple TV, the Boxee Box, Roku, and a slew of “Internet-enabled” TVs. None of them are quite yet cable killers, but they are seeding the market with simple ways to bring Internet video to your large-screen TV in the living room. The more cable-quality video that becomes available over the Web via streaming services such as Netflix, Vudu, or iTunes, the more that people will turn to Web when they are looking for something to watch. This trend is not about surfing the Web on your TV. Nobody wants to do that. It is about using the Internet as an alternative way to deliver movies and TV shows to your flat-screen TV. Even the cable companies will dip their toes into the Internet delivery waters (or plunge deeper if they already have their toes wet). What looks like a pale competitor to cable today will be a lot more viable in a short, twelve months.
- Quora Will Have Its Twitter Moment: Social Q&A site Quora may be the current darling of Silicon Valley, but not a lot of people beyond the insular tech startup world actually use it yet. That will start to change in 2011, which I believe will be the year Quora has its Twitter moment and start to really take off. Quora represents a bigger technology trend, which is the layering of an interest graph on top of people’s social graph. On Quora, you can follow not only people, but topics and questions. It defines the world by your interests, not just the people you may know or admire. This is a powerful concept and is not limited to Quora (both Twitter and Facebook also want to own the interest graph), but Quora is designed from the ground up to expose and help you explore your interests. It is addictive, and as it reaches a critical mass of early users, this will be the year it emerges from its shell much like Twitter did in 2007.
- Mobile Social Photo Apps:The end of 2010 witnessed a spate of mobile photo apps including Instagram, PicPlz and Path. They all take advantage of several massive key trends: the growth of iPhone and Android, the ubiquity of decent cell phone cameras, GPS, and existing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Each of these apps is built for mobile first. They let you take a picture, mark your location, and share it with your social network (sometimes public, sometimes private). With Instagram and PicPLz, you can choose a filter to make humdrum pics look more exciting or capture a mood. By building on top of existing social networks like Twitter and Foursquare, they are making popular new ways to use those services. Instead of simply checking in, now you can do a photo checkin (even Foursquare lets you do that now). Already Instagram is one of the most popular photo apps in iTunes. Sharing photos is pretty much a universal impulse, and these apps make it easier and more fun.
- Mobile Wallets: If you could use your cell phone as a credit card, would you? Everyone from Apple and Google to Nokia want to make that a reality and tap into the mobile payments market. Both Apple and Google are exploring this opportunity. Google bought mobile payments startup Zetawire to gain experience and the latest Android phone, the Nexus S, comes with an NFC chip—the same kind that is embedded into credit cards and lets you pay by waving it over a wireless reader. The iPhone 5 also may come equipped with an NFC chip, and Apple was sniffing around mobile payments startup BOKU last year for a possible acquisition. It is going to take more than just NFC chips in every phone to make mobile payments a reality, but efforts by the major players this year should begin to move the needle.
- Context-Aware Apps: Whether it’s search, mobile, or social apps and services, the most useful apps people will keep coming back to are the ones which help people cut through the increasing clutter of the Internet. Apps that are aware of the context in which they are being used will serve up better filtered information. When you search on your mobile phone, that means you get local results and local offers served up first. If you are on a service like Quora that understands your interest graph, it means that you are only shown topics that you care about, sorted in realtime. If you are on a news site, you will see the most shared links from people in you follow on Twitter or are connected to on Facebook. Music and movie services will similarly surface social recommendations. In a world of information overload, context is king.
- Open Places Database: Every mobile app, it seems, taps into the geo capabilities of phones to pinpoint your exact location and show you what is around you. (Incidentally, that is another example of a context-aware app). But there is a lot of duplication going on, with everyone from Google to Facebook to Foursquare creating their own database of places. It would make much more sense if there was an open places database that any company could both pull from and contribute to. While we are not there yet, we are making progress towards a more open places database, or at least a federated one. Factual is providing some of the data for Facebook Places and creating a places database is a major focus for the company; MapQuest (owned by AOL, as is TechCrunch) is adopting OpenStreetMaps(which could very well become the central places database with more resources and development); and Foursquare lets other apps pull from its places database through its API. There are economic reasons why some companies don’t want to participate (controlling the places database makes it easier to serve up local offers), but expect to see this movement pick up steam in 2011.
- The Streaming Cloud: As all media moves to the cloud, more and more people will stream their movies and music whenever they want to any device. I’ve already mentioned the forces that will bring Web video streaming to your TV, but those movies and TV shows should also be available on your iPads, Android Tablets, or even mobile phones if you want. Expiring downloads will still make sense for plane trips and other places where the network is spotty, but you will manage your subscriptions and collections in the cloud. Think Netflix streaming applied to all media. If Google or Apple can convince the record companies to come along for the ride, the streaming revolution will hit music as well, with both working on jukebox-in-the-sky services. Why would you want to bother with managing all the download rights for the songs you buy from iTunes between your iPhone, iPad, laptop, and your wife’s computer, when you could just sign in form anywhere and start streaming? Plenty have tried with varying degrees of success and failure (Rhapsody, Rdio, Spotify), but it will take someone with the negotiating muscle of Apple or Google to finally bring streaming music to the masses.
What technologies do you think will make it big this year?
Hottest New Technology of 2011 - The Ipad released!!!
As predicted, tablet mania ensued at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. At least 75 were introduced at the annual Las Vegas gadget extravaganza. The tablet with the most buzz was Motorola Mobility's XOOM. It's the first tablet to run on Google's ( GOOG - news - people ) highly anticipated Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. XOOM, which is expected to launch in the first quarter, supports Flash for easy and fast video viewing and includes 3G wireless access that can be upgraded to 4G LTE. Motorola's tablet also has a 10.1-inch screen, front- and rear-facing cameras, a camcorder andNvidia ( NVDA - news - people ) Tegra dual-core processor.
Microsoft's ( MSFT - news -people ) Surface, the next generation of the software giant's table-top computer, wowed the CES crowd. True, it might be theworld's biggest iPad, but it's still impressive, boasting a 40-inch HD 1080p touch-screen for optimal Web surfing and info sharing, and the top is coated with Corning's ( GLW - news -people ) rugged Gorilla glass. Samsung SUR40 also has something called PixelSense, technology that gives LCD panels the power to see without the use of cameras," Microsoft says. Uh huh.