Geek Jokes

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Billsnemesis said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

First rule of Thesaurus club, you don't talk, discuss, natter, gab, chat, converse, deliberate, confer or gossip about Thesaurus Club.

Why is there no other word for thesaurus?

For the same reason there's only one monopolies commission.

[Dr Jekyll]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

For the same reason there's only one monopolies commission joke.

EFA

[DragsterRR]

Einion Yrth said:

There's no place like ~ , surely.

There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)

[gmaz]

DragsterRR said:

There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)

Curses!

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Billsnemesis said:

Why is there no other word for thesaurus?

Why is dyslexic so hard to spell, and why is monosyllabic such a long word?

[popeyewhite]

Billsnemesis said:

Why is there no other word for thesaurus?

Synomyny

[ajprice]

Waits for MB/GB pedantry...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I was in a band called Prevention. We were better than The Cure.

[DragsterRR]

gmaz said:

DragsterRR said:

There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)

Curses!

Well VT100 escape sequences but close enough

[gmaz]

DragsterRR said:

gmaz said:

DragsterRR said:

There's no place like <ESC>[0;0H<ESC>[2J

Anyone?

(Second bit not really needed)

Curses!

Well VT100 escape sequences but close enough

Yeah I know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curses_(programming_...

I've written many a terminfo/termcap entry back in the 1980's

[MartG]

[xRIEx]

ajprice said:

Waits for MB/GB pedantry...

Nope, it's right - 1000 megabytes is a gigabyte. 1024 mebibytes would be a gibibyte.

[DataHamster]

ajprice said:

Waits for MB/GB pedantry...

Regardless of which way you define a MB and a GB, 999 MBs isn't a GB (GB or GiB) either way so your point is moot.

[Civpilot]

DataHamster said:

ajprice said:

Waits for MB/GB pedantry...

Regardless of which way you define a MB and a GB, 999 MBs isn't a GB (GB or GiB) either way so your point is moot.

You get that the whole joke is that they are not a gb but only 999mb don't you?

[DataHamster]

Civpilot said:

You get that the whole joke is that they are not a gb but only 999mb don't you?

No, that completely passed me by.

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?

[Civpilot]

DataHamster said:

No, that completely passed me by.

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?

Clearly I will be borrowing yours when your done with it ;-)

[K12beano]

What if it were re-phrased as "....started a band called 99.999% of a Gb"?

[glenrobbo]

Civpilot said:

DataHamster said:

No, that completely passed me by.

Point was that the joke still works regardless of how you define a GB.

Do you want a whoosh parrot or do you have your own?

Clearly I will be borrowing yours when you're done with it ;-)

I just popped in briefly, but even as a technophobe, I'm loving this banter!

( Sorry, but I just had to correct the "your". ) Play nicely now.

[MartG]

[MartG]