Fold, Spindle or Mutilate

[Ice Czar]

If your not old enough to recall the title here, and even if you are, you'll get a kick out of this tongue in cheek blast from the past as we trip down computing history's memory lane.

"Machines don't lie, Mindy. There is a seventy percent chance a bundt cake resides under that lid, and a 35 percent chance your hair is actually an exploded Jiffy Pop container painted black."

View at TechPowerUp Main Site

 

[wazzledoozle]

This isn't news.

 

[Ice Czar]

well a guide isnt news either, or a review for that matter, this is however both entertaining as well as historically relevant. Ive never seen a "news" site that didn't on the odd occassion include such content provided it doesn't get out of hand.

I will of course defer to your opinion if you'd like me to delete it
but I did secure a rather broad mandate from W1zzard as a "test" run
(which is why your seeing such a marked increase in posts)

Remember: your iPod has more storage capacity than everything in this room.

you didn't laugh at that?

 

[Thermopylae_480]

Hmm. I don't know. There is a rather vague line of what would be news and what wouldn't. Guides and reviews usually go in the reviews and articles sections though, not in the news section. I think the post if fine here. It may not be current, but it provides a nice revery into the tech past. Now if you were to post something about Timmy falling into a well, or President Bush wanting to nuke Switzerland because terrorists might have money in their banks, then it might belong.

The Bush thing was a joke by the way .

Anyone ever read any Isaac Asimov stories where he talks about the super computer Multivac? Its kind of a jibe at the Univacs. I thought it was funny anyway .

 

[POGE]

As long as the news is mostly current news, I dont see how things like this really hurt us.

 

[Ice Czar]

Anyone ever read any Isaac Asimov stories where he talks about the super computer Multivac? Its kind of a jibe at the Univacs. I thought it was funny anyway .

Think Ive read most of his SciFi
and he is the one responsible for hooking me on Physics as well
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0880292512/?tag=tec06d-20
few know he wrote far more "hard" science books than Sci Fi
http://www.asimovonline.com/oldsite/asimov_catalogue.html

he had the gift of making the boring and obtuse, entertaining and understandable
to basically anyone that had more than two brain cells to rub together
and is more or less who I try to write like.
(with a hint of Douglas Adams thrown in or maybe Hunter Thompson )


Of course "our" guides and reviews go in the appropriate sections, and most of other site's reviews would make it to the "Today's Reviews" section which I take as being the email dump
but I'd assume "some" reviews and alot of guides could fall under the "news" heading if for some reason they were overlooked or related\supported to a news topic or news story.

My last gig was sort of a free-for-all and after W1zzard said go ahead I spent the better part of a week+ looking at what Tech Power Up has been doing, then I went back to W1zzard and told him the "straight" hardware looked to be very well covered and I was really "tuned" to a slightly different frequency which didn't exactly fit in with what was previously being done though it was closely related "enthusiast" issues.

So he gave me a green light for a "test" and that's more or less what I did yesterday.
at [H] Id spin out anywhere between 40 to 100 stories on a given weekend (which included the hardware mailbox), if you havent already guessed I'm Chuck the pirate loving irreverant commie pinko bastard that ruffled a few conservative feathers over there on the weekends
well thats what I was occassionally accused of at least, knee jerk reactionaries love to read in between the lines
and Im an "open web \ open source" advocate with more of a European sensibility than an American one.