I’ve worked in the IT field for some time now. I haven’t had this happen to me, but I can totally relate.
<Macko>helping out another customer with pc problems on the phone again today
<Macko> after he gave me his specs i told him “hold on for a second”
<Macko> three seconds later he’s like, “ok, that turned my computer off”
Source: Bash.org
I hate when things go wrong. Working in IT, people remember when you screw up instead of all the times that things worked fine. This quote represents that ideal better then I can explain it.
If you really think about it, the fact that anything on a computer works is amazing. At a low level, magnets read and write ones and zeros on ridiculously fast rotating platters, and then are assembled into files, which then is stored in memory, which is then passed through a video card and converted into some format that can be displayed on a screen. Throw in networked computers and the potential for signal loss over long distances and the probability that something at some point in the process will fail, and the potential for failure increases exponentially. Maybe I’m alone, but I’m in awe of the fact that my computer doesn’t just randomly catch fire and explode.
Source: Cold. Hard. Credit Report.
I love BF 2142, but I think this is going to be the next big thing.
I’ve tried to stay out of the iPhone hype, but this is just too cool.
You wouldn’t believe some of the things one can see on Slashdot.
A colleague of mine was a submariner who had this story. They were down for an extended dive, and when they surfaced, they would send a short, dense burst of communications and data on a very powerful microwave uplink – get up, send fast, get back down. It was a very powerful signal – and they would surface to a depth that would get the periscope and the antenna above water, do a quick scan for surface vessels, send the burst and dive. One day they did this and saw thru the periscope there was a gull on the antenna mast. So they would dive to submerge the antenna, the bird should fly away. They resurfaced, and the bird perched on the antenna. They did it again. Bird comes back. Third time. Fourth. Can’t shake the bird. Finally the OD tells them "punch it" and send the microwave burst signal. He said the bird just keeled over and dropped into the water. –jpellino
I’m sorry, that is one of the funniest visuals I’ve ever gotten off of Slashdot. Totally off topic, but would get a +5, funny from me if I had moderator points today.
-Source: Slashdot