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Posted on 09-18-09 02:07:29 PM Link | Quote
So I checked my mailbox and noticed an odd mail from Microsoft...

...they told me to run a "Windows 7 Launch Party" from 22 through 29 October. I would hold the party in my garden and they would bring the presents. And apparently, you get some Windows 7 party pack, too.

All I have to say to this is

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Posted on 09-18-09 02:48:25 PM Link | Quote








WTH?
Weird indeed...

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Posted on 09-18-09 02:56:17 PM Link | Quote
*check e-mail*

Awww, nothing. I would have brought punch and pie.

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Posted on 09-18-09 04:52:12 PM Link | Quote


Are those like Tupperware parties?

I probably won't rush out and buy Windows 7, although next year I would like to get a new computer

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Posted on 09-18-09 06:29:01 PM Link | Quote
I'd probably want to go to it.

Judging from how things look now... if I can't download 7 I'll be sticking with XP and Vista. Might stick with XP on here anyway until I get a HD I can back shit up onto, but I'm not quite sure.

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Posted on 09-18-09 07:36:35 PM Link | Quote


There's a Y3K bug? I know of Y2K, Year 2038, and even Y10K, and people who think the world will end in 2012.

Windows 3.1 had a funny Y2K issue Like it wiould go 1998, 1999, 19:0, 19:1, etc.

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Posted on 09-18-09 07:42:08 PM Link | Quote
There's a better one:



Computers in 1901!

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Posted on 09-18-09 08:16:56 PM Link | Quote
How would they know you're having a party so they could bring the presents?

Originally posted by Terra
Windows 3.1 had a funny Y2K issue Like it wiould go 1998, 1999, 19:0, 19:1, etc.
: is the next ASCII character after 9 so it makes sense in a way, and it reminds me of an old message board system where it went 1999 -> 19100

And MacOS before X would overflow in 2040 (looping back to 01-01-1904) ...

Changing the date on Windows XP lets me pick from 1980 to 2099, not sure what happens in 2100

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Posted on 09-18-09 08:19:19 PM Link | Quote


And the Commodore 64 didn't even track the date at all, so it had no Y2K problems

Some people thought that cars and watches and even toasters would fail when 2000 started

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Posted on 09-18-09 08:24:31 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
Some people thought that cars and watches and even toasters would fail when 2000 started

Toaster: initializiting toaster system... (c) 1978,1979 Microsoft Corporation
Toaster: starting up toasting application
Toasting application: checking current date... January 1, 19100
Toaster: ERROR: toasting application caused an unexpected system fault and was required to close
Toaster: Toasting bread failed. Please contact your system administrator for more information.

...

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Posted on 09-18-09 08:39:59 PM Link | Quote




Would the Blue Bread of Death pop out of the toaster?

And then of course there'd be the $999.99 Apple iToaster, which only works with Apple iBread

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Posted on 09-18-09 10:24:01 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
And the Commodore 64 didn't even track the date at all, so it had no Y2K problems

Some people thought that cars and watches and even toasters would fail when 2000 started


Sorry, I was gullible back then.

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Posted on 09-18-09 11:11:04 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra
and people who think the world will end in 2012.
I think it will. Shit; I hope it does.

I'll form a gang of road warriors and tax people their food, water, gasoline, and women in exchange for safe passage through my nuclear wasteland.

(until a certain successor to a certain martial art *cough*hokutoshinken*cough* persuades me to do otherwise)

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Posted on 09-18-09 11:42:53 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Terra


Would the Blue Bread of Death pop out of the toaster?

And then of course there'd be the $999.99 Apple iToaster, which only works with Apple iBread


the sad thing is what you said would happen too. Dammit Apple why do you make good things like the iPhone but not give it the ability to send and receive picture message. WHY GOD WHY?!?!?!?!
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Posted on 09-19-09 12:14:50 AM Link | Quote
I just noticed the german 3.1 SI screen Kassad posted had a button labeled "druck"

Since I don't know much German, I'm just going to assume that it's a drunk duck.

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Posted on 09-19-09 12:17:34 AM Link | Quote


I think it might mean "print". Or is that drück? I tended to confuse words that only differed by the presence or absence of an Umlaut

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Posted on 09-19-09 08:06:47 AM Link | Quote
drucken = to print, druck = imperative (command) form.
drücken = to push, to press, drück = imperative (command) form.

This should answer your question.

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Posted on 09-19-09 01:52:21 PM Link | Quote
Shit, I'd do it.

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Posted on 09-19-09 02:18:49 PM Link | Quote


Originally posted by Prince Kassad
drucken = to print, druck = imperative (command) form.
drücken = to push, to press, drück = imperative (command) form.

This should answer your question.


Yeah, now I remember doors saying "ZIEHEN" or "DRÜCKEN" depending on if you were supposed to push or pull them. I learned that the USA isn't the only country with confusing doors

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