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Xbox 360
I got a Xbox 360 for xmas, it rocks :-)
How My Wife Ruined GTA IV
After watching me play for GTA IV for hours, I wondered if my wife wanted a turn. She was sitting on the couch next to me, so I extended the controller to her and asked, “You wanna drive around for a bit?” She replied, “Sure, why not.” My wife somehow figured out how to suck all of the fun out of GTA IV and managed ruin one best games of all time.
If Dr. Seuss did Technical Books…
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash And your data is corrupted ‘cause the index doesn’t hash Then your situation’s hopeless and your system’s gonna crash! If the label on the cable on the table at your house Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol That’s repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang ‘Cause as sure as I’m a poet, the sucker’s gonna hang! When the copy of your floppy’s getting sloppy on the disk And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk Then you have to flash your memory and you’ll want to RAM your ROM Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.
l337 Hackers
There’s an excellent little dictionary I found that might make it easier for people to understand l33t (l337?) speak: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html Talking of “hackers”, I found this dictionary definition which I thought was quite amusing, so here it is for others to appreciate:
Hacker /n./1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary. 2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming. 3. A person capable of appreciating hack value. 4. A person who is good at programming quickly. 5. An expert at a particular program, or one who frequently does work using it or on it; as in `a Unix hacker’. (Definitions 1 through 5 are correlated, and people who fit them congregate.) 6. An expert or enthusiast of any kind. One might be an astronomy hacker, for example. 7. One who enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations.
