Geek Jokes Volume 0b10

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

Cold said:

'Kinell you lot. There's a whole section of PH for this sort of dross.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&...

Whilst I do agree that we have got seriously off-topic here and probably need to get back to the jokes, I'm not sure how anyone who claims to be a fan of geek jokes can consider the recent discussions "dross". But each to their own.

TBF CC, geekdom isn't the sole preserve of the IT world. He does have a point.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

TGCOTF-dewey said:

TBF CC, geekdom isn't the sole preserve of the IT world. He does have a point.

For sure. Although there is a massive intersection on the Venn Diagram of life.

Anyway, I am not disagreeing that we need to get back on topic and was merely bridling at the word "dross". Peace to all.

[White-Noise]

I started a new thread for more retro technology chat

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I really enjoyed reading what you guys had to put but I guess this one is more for the jokes and we could have a dedicated space to talk about any general retro technology

[Clockwork Cupcake]

BrokenSkunk said:

I've worked on and designed kit that can shift billions of ones and zeros a second. Sell a few thousand boxes, leave 'em running for an average of a decade and well, lots ones, lots of zeros. It seems only very recently that the protocols dropped 8b/10b encoding, a method of ensuring that (amoungst other clever stuff) no matter what the data you always sent the same number of 1's and 0's down the cable.

Always wondered what the point was. I mean it pays quite nicely, but couldn't we just agree to call it 0.5 and get on with something else?

So you are saying that, on average, it is a quantum state? Shroedinger's bit?

(And that is a legit joke)

[MartG]

omniflow said:

My understanding of thin was that it had a max length of 100M, ran at 2Mbit / sec and the transceivers were integrated into the ethernet card and daisy-chained. Although maybe this was the case in 1988 and it moved on pretty quickly from there. On the other hand, I may have this bit totally wrong.

Yep, wrong on this

10Base2 - 10Mbps, segment length 200m ( actually 185, but rounded up for the name )

[donkmeister]

White-Noise said:

I started a new thread for more retro technology chat

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I really enjoyed reading what you guys had to put but I guess this one is more for the jokes and we could have a dedicated space to talk about any general retro technology

Well, Mr White Noise, that was completely unexpected... In information theory we would call that maximum entropy.

(I fear that might be the geekiest joke yet, and for anyone upset about all the IT talk I'd like to remind everyone that information theory is applied mathematics, physics at a push.)

[Clockwork Cupcake]

donkmeister said:

White-Noise said:

I started a new thread for more retro technology chat

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I really enjoyed reading what you guys had to put but I guess this one is more for the jokes and we could have a dedicated space to talk about any general retro technology

Well, Mr White Noise, that was completely unexpected... In information theory we would call that maximum entropy.

(I fear that might be the geekiest joke yet, and for anyone upset about all the IT talk I'd like to remind everyone that information theory is applied mathematics, physics at a push.)

Good stuff. I am in. I also posted a link in there to the Retro Computing thread

[havoc]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

TGCOTF-dewey said:

TBF CC, geekdom isn't the sole preserve of the IT world. He does have a point.

For sure. Although there is a massive intersection on the Venn Diagram of life.

Anyway, I am not disagreeing that we need to get back on topic and was merely bridling at the word "dross". Peace to all.

In petrolhead terms, it's probably akin to a bunch of JDM nerds ( ) or BMW nerds (other relevant sub-groups exist - YMMV) taking over the conversation in the pub and discussing chassis- and engine-codes ad nauseam amongst a more generalist bunch of car guys. Everyone else's eyes glaze over rapidly.

Don't disagree on the Venn diagram though.

[Still Mulling]

Venns could also have their own sub-forum!

[Voldemort]

Still Mulling said:

Venns could also have their own sub-forum!

Hallelujah! A joke!! Hopefully it marks the end of cablewk.

[e-honda]

I've yet to see a single venn diagram on this thread (or the last)

[Still Mulling]

Indeed, not mathematically accurate, but hey ho.





That’ll do for now.