When you say “That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all year!” or any of the year-related phrases, how do you use ‘year’?
A.) Year is the current year (January ‘09 – December ‘09)?
B.) A sliding year (a year leading up to that point, ie. February ‘08 – February ‘09)?
C.) The fiscal year (for varying forms of fiscal!?)?
I prefer B, myself.
From a comment at ‘The Old New Thing,’ a blog by Microsoft’s Raymond Chen.
That reminds me of my favorite science joke:
“Researchers in Fairbanks Alaska announced last week that they have discovered a superconductor which will operate at room temperature.” (Link)
So, people occasionally ask me “What was wrong with Windows Vista?”
Though this link is from a discussion for Windows Server 2k8, it exactly explains one of the issues Vista had:
Why do people think server SKUs should be tuned like client SKUs ?
Because they assume that a machine that is able to run Win Server 2008, with (most likely) multiple 2GHz+ cores should have enough horsepower to play an audio file ? Maybe because they remember that they were able to play audio on their 300 MHz Celeron back in 1998 ? But I guess those people have unrealistic expectations, those fools. Because in 2009, playing audio is so difficult and demanding that it only works on a special client-tuned OS that devotes so many billions of cycles per second to audio that it has to slow down its network throughput to handle the monumental task of playing Burt Bacharach. (Link)
Now, this was sort of an issue I had on my Vista x64 workstation (which had Service Pack 1, which was supposedly supposed to fix all these issues!) at Orion. Except I didn’t use it to play audio. It was dog slow at copying between hard-drives and doing nothing else. I ended up torching half the data on a drive for a new Win2k3 install because I slated an entire weekend for the copy.
It couldn’t complete a totally automated copy of a simple several tens of GB over a weekend. And I checked it that late Saturday. It had progressed some. Came back Monday, it had progressed some more.
Psht. Server 2003 was so much better. Maybe I’ll get to compare Server 2008 soon.
I just saw a good Vista install this week. It was sweet with everything at normal for Home Premium.
What was it? Core 2 Quad, 4GB RAM, x64 edition.
Huh. Those ‘System Requirements’ for default Vista? Bah-ha-ha!
A gentleman just came in to the shop I work at and sold me a 2009 calendar, ‘The Way We Were,’ containing old photos from c. 1908 to the 1940s.
Interestingly, the calendar has a short list of the years when this calendar was good in the past, and when it will next be good.
Here’s the list for 2009:
1891, 1903, 1914, 1925, 1931, 1942, 1953, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1987, 1998, and 2015.
Pretty cool in conjunction with the photographs, including one showing where the Liberty Theatre’s original entrance was.
Currently trying to figure out a good way to store my games, which primarily comprise jewel cases. Of course, my collection of the ‘full-sized’ plastic game boxes pose a problem for storage.
For most of the games, I’m using flip-open plastic storage boxes. I guess this will work for the moment, but I need to upsize to larger boxes for parts of the collection.
From this Slashdot post
Anonymous Coward:
This reminds me of a joke where how students are treated in high school is compared with their treatment in college. We keep telling students to “behave” in elementary school, where “behaving” usually means keeping quiet, not causing trouble, not questioning the teacher. Then we wonder why people turn apathetic in college…
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