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I like the subtitle LOL: "Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?"
by jerryjerryjerry 4y ago
I like the subtitle LOL: "Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?"
- bayindirh 4y agoThis is classic The Register tone, which I like a lot. Also, I missed these kinds of moves between vendors... BTW, BOFH[0] is a great The Register series if you want more of it. [0]: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/ https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/
- bitwize 4y agoKind of reminds me of tech Variety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpWCC2svVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpWCC2svVo
- e3bc54b2 4y agoThanks for BOFH. Whole series is genius!
- qubex 4y agoTo this day I still chortle about “big, chunky volts” delivered down innocent-looking connectors. The younglins know not what I speaketh of.
- chasil 4y agoBOFH is older than the Register. "The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell "The Register was founded in London as an email newsletter called Chip Connection. In 1998 The Register became a daily online news source." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Register
- bayindirh 4y ago> BOFH is older than the Register. I knew that BOFH is old, yet... > "The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet..." I didn't know that it was that old. Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
- chasil 4y agoThat's not really old. My IBM Model M keyboard is from 1985. That's probably the oldest piece of equipment that I actively use.
- bayindirh 4y agoOf course it's not that old, but considering 1992 is the year I started to play with computers as a kid, that's older than I expected, at least for me. I've used internet for the first time when the The Register became an online publication.