[MyG]Catlin
June 27th, 2008, 22:12
All VERY True:
ACORN: Astounding Computers Often Ridiculed Nonetheless
AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BIOS: But It's Only Software
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
DEC: Do Expect Cuts
DOS: Defunct Operating System
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools
Teenagers
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of
Mathematics
SCSI: System Can't See It
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WWW: World Wide Wait
486: The average IQ needed to understand a P.C
Computer Chip: Any starchy food stuff consumed in mass quantities while
programming
Keyboard: The standard way to generate computer errors
Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate
Floppy: The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer
Hard Drive: The sales technique employed by most computer salesmen
Portable Computer: Device invented to force business men to work at home, on
vacation and business trips
Disk Crash: A typical computer response to any critical deadline
Power User: Anyone who can format a disk from DOS
System Update: A quick method of trashing ALL of your current software
ACORN: Astounding Computers Often Ridiculed Nonetheless
AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
BASIC: Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BIOS: But It's Only Software
CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
DEC: Do Expect Cuts
DOS: Defunct Operating System
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
LISP: Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools
Teenagers
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of
Mathematics
SCSI: System Can't See It
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
WWW: World Wide Wait
486: The average IQ needed to understand a P.C
Computer Chip: Any starchy food stuff consumed in mass quantities while
programming
Keyboard: The standard way to generate computer errors
Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate
Floppy: The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer
Hard Drive: The sales technique employed by most computer salesmen
Portable Computer: Device invented to force business men to work at home, on
vacation and business trips
Disk Crash: A typical computer response to any critical deadline
Power User: Anyone who can format a disk from DOS
System Update: A quick method of trashing ALL of your current software