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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: worker201 on 22 September 2008, 10:10

Title: It really is that simple
Post by: worker201 on 22 September 2008, 10:10: Local Seattle paper The Stranger ran its back2school issue this week. It's a wonderful read, beacause they blend useful info, humor, and naked truth in a compelling way. One of the features is a short description of everything you need to know about every subject. Learn this, and you're guaranteed at least a B.

Here's what they had to say about computer science:

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In the olden days (the 1980s), computers were for green-on-black word processing and Zork. Then someone plugged some computers into each other and there was the internet and Zork Online. Now we have fast internet, but very little Zork at all. Things change. This is known as Moore's Law - the internet is twice as fast and has half as much Zork every 18 months. At some point, you will have to decide if you want to be a computer geek or just a regular computer user. There is no third option. It's no longer cool or acceptable to not know how to use computers. This is like bragging that you can't read, or walk, or see. You don't have to know anything about how computers work, but you do have to know about the internet. Learn some basic HTML. Get a Mac. If you can't or won't get a Mac, for the love of god don't used Internet Explorer. If you're paying to look at porn, you're doing it wrong.

Note the jab at McCain - Seattle is hardcore Democratic.

So, are you a geek or a user?
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 22 September 2008, 15:39: Quote
If you're paying to look at porn, you're doing it wrong

HAHAHA!!!

Good little article :D
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: WMD on 22 September 2008, 23:24: Quote
Then someone plugged some computers into each other and there was the internet and Zork Online.
If only there *had* been a Zork Online... :( :D
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: Lead Head on 23 September 2008, 00:08: Funny article, true though! If you don't know how to do basic things on a computer at my school, your considered a dumbass.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: fishcorn on 28 September 2008, 15:09: I read that article while sitting in a coffee house sipping a latte and thinking about how I could help the environment. You'd best do the same if you want to fit in here, worker.

Yo, bitch, helping the environment, that's what we call straight up green cred. I'd bust a cap if you dissed the environment, but violence is wrong.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: worker201 on 29 September 2008, 00:19: I bet you didn't even recycle that newspaper.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: SiMuLaCrUm on 29 September 2008, 15:24: What newspaper? It was probably the one you posted, on the internet.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: fishcorn on 2 October 2008, 14:27: Quote from: worker201 on 29 September 2008, 00:19
I bet you didn't even recycle that newspaper.

Are you dissin' my green cred, fool? You and me, at the bicycle marathon. Whoever raises more money for breast cancer research wins, and the other one scampers back to their own turf like the little Dino Rossi-voting bitch they are. This is my town, beotch. Women's rights, yay!
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: worker201 on 3 October 2008, 02:15: What neighborhood do you live in, anyway? As I'm here for school, I'm in the U-district.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: fishcorn on 3 October 2008, 13:17: Down towards the Auburn area. Hopefully we'll never meet.
Title: Re: It really is that simple
Post by: worker201 on 4 October 2008, 00:05: I did a school project where we mapped schools in Auburn. I noticed that the city has a lot more Christian high schools than one would normally expect, given their population. Weird.