Snap quiz: desk stuff

[Toby Corkindale]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 08:31:04PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 06:00:05PM +0000, Peter Corlett wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 05:49:42PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > [...]
> > > Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away. I'm on the
> > > right way; I don't actually own any computing device more powerful than a
> > > TI-89 calculator...
> > If you have any sort of consumer electronics produced in the last five or so
> > years, it will have a CPU in it more powerful than that old thing.
> > This includes stuff like radios and telephones.
> 
> I'd not be surprised if my bloody *fridge* did.
> 
> When it broke shortly after I bought it, the technician who came to fix
> it just did a firmware upgrade.

Not long now until the events described in One of Us will occur..
start being nice to your alarm clock and coffee machine, now..

tjc

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