shadowslair wrote:
Q: how many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: none, that's a hardware problem
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Q: how many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: none, they just make darkness a standard and tell everyone "this behavior is by design"
Yes ... this is what people though about computers in the future in 1954. Quite funny imho. On the other hand: even Sci-Fi authors from that time thought computers would get bigger and bigger (e.g. Isaac Asimov IIRC). I guess these scientists would be shocked if you went back to the time and took your mobile phone along
That's exactly what we've been wondering about here at work. Maybe it's the very first version of a mouse wheel? But as the mouse as we know it was not yet invented (you ... technology that's not yet invented is used a lot in that computer) they got it wrong. Whow knows?
Haha, funny pic. The next generation will be laughing about us, though. "Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor? Why would I want to touch anything -- without a basic mind-controlled holographic interface you're totally losing direct control!"
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
~Arthur C. Clarke
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