Geek Jokes

[JonRB]

I think I already posted this a while back, but it still makes me laugh so much.

[Balmoral Green]

What's a Grecian urn?

About 30 Drachmas a week.

[slomax]

PH specific....

[JonRB]

[plasticpig]

JonRB said:

Nothing wrong with GOTO statements as long as you have COME FROM statements as well.

[Morningside]

aclivity said:

thread collision - Geek Jokes meet Facebook Fails

stolen from another site
f(x) went into a bar. The bartender says "Sorry, we don't cater for functions".

[mchammer89]

Morningside said:

stolen from another site
f(x) went into a bar. The bartender says "Sorry, we don't cater for functions".

3.14 walks into a bar, "Sorry mate we don't serve pi"

[JonRB]

mchammer89 said:

3.14 walks into a bar, "Sorry mate we don't serve pi"

That joke is pretty irrational

[Marf]

Groan.

[PJ S]

Nom de ploom said:

I did Stats + further stats at A level and that's a bit recondite for me....

give me binomial (plant pot) any day....

I've read Gleik and I don't get the mandlbrot joke...have a at my expense...

Google mandlbrot - images

Then as B = "Benoit B Mandlbrot", therefore:
Benoit Benoit Benoit Benoit....ad infinitum

[PJ S]

EDLT said:

havoc said:

EDLT said:

Lateral-G said:

I rented a DVD from Blockbusters today, and on the box somebody had written "3.142 stars out of 5".

I think it may be a pirated copy!

EFA.

I got it the first time.

Comedy is no excuse for poor rounding.

Ah but was it poor rounding, or accurate to 3 decimal places?

[Captain Flashman]

aclivity said:

if we are including nerdy flowcharts:

M Ward does a brilliant cover of that song; it craps on the terrible bowie version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxQ9bvdZgU

[Pigeon]

There was a young fellow named Fisk
Who fenced most exceedingly brisk.
So fast was his action
The Fitzgerald contraction
Reduced his rapier to a disc.

[Fabric 2.2]

[PoleDriver]

Micra Bore said:

cazzer said:

Geek memes.

World of Lovecraft.

Did you buy that on HP?

[jimothy]

JonRB said:

DaveL485 said:

Code zero zero zero, Destruct, Zero.

That's the stupidest code since the King of Druidia set the planetary shield code to "12345" in Spaceballs.

12345? Thats the same code as my luggage.

[Funk]

ZesPak said:

Mr Will said:

plasticpig said:

mrmr96 said:

james_tigerwoods said:

(I do, tragically, have a vague idea as to why it the copying time changes)

I thought it was because it bases it's time estimate on the number of files left vs. number copied, whereas it would be more accurate if it measured on file size, not number? Am I close?

Nope. The main problem is that other applications and services require access to the hard drive and memory at the same time. There is no mechanism for predict the amount of access these other things require.

The main problem is that it bases the estimated time on the current speed, leading to wild spikes, rather than basing it on the speed over the last few minutes/transfer so far which would smooth it out significantly.

Instead of taking average transfer speed, which would take a while to "stabilize", it takes the current transfer speed, which could jump up and down every couple of seconds.

They fixed this for a big part in Win 7, it's much less "twitchy" in 7 ime.

I use this: http://www.codesector.com/teracopy.php

It's brilliant, and absolute blows the built-in Windows file copy into the weeds. Has pause and resume functions as well, and is far more accurate on transfer times. It also offers a number of features if one file is corrupted, eg. skip and continue with the rest (rather than aborting the entire operation like Windows does). I put it on all the machines I use.

[JonRB]

jimothy said:

12345? Thats the same code as my luggage.

I was hoping someone would pick up on that and deliver the punchline.

Bravo

[Marf]

Can't believe I missed it!

[racingmegashed]

Thanks guys - a joke about Dijkstra really takes some doing.... now if you could just come up with something really cool on VTAM....