Learned'd 4 - More Sequels than Rocky, y0. NSFW

[RobPaulson]

At the time of purchase, nope. But at that point I didn't see any need for a HTPC. Once I built it, I checked the manual and it has that on there, clear as day.

i FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU for you.

[AppleBonker]

For reference, here is the relevant portion of the owner's manual:



As you can see, my options suck. I either overscan painfully or shrink. The overscan is bad enough that I can't see menu bars or what ubuntu calls "panels" (which are basically the same as the taskbar in windows).

Edit: since you can't see the top of those columns, source is on the left and how it displays is on the right.

[93coupe]

yo

[Encryptshun]

And Ray, I'm jealous.

[tiger-SE-R]

happy Friday fookers

[AppleBonker]

Whaddup Ry? Chad?

And that xkcd is flawless. This is still my favorite (but that just goes to show how much of a geek I am):

[tiger-SE-R]

Whaddup Ry? Chad?

I see how it is


must be the worms talking....

[AppleBonker]

Or that we posted at the same time, a-hole. How goes it Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch? Is that, by any chance, what you call your family?

And Chad, did you read the associated text with that comic? "I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that." I love when they follow the script. I usually just tell them I'm rebooting or whatever and wander around aimlessly for the 2-3 minutes that it would normally take. As if it were a simple fix I wouldn't have figured it out. Though, I guess they need to cater to the lowest common denominator, but it sucks that I have to suffer because I'm that much smarter than the average bear.

[marlin29311]

I got your back Marky Mark.

Sup Mark?

[marlin29311]

Or that we posted at the same time, a-hole. How goes it Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch? Is that, by any chance, what you call your family?

And Chad, did you read the associated text with that comic? "I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that." I love when they follow the script. I usually just tell them I'm rebooting or whatever and wander around aimlessly for the 2-3 minutes that it would normally take. As if it were a simple fix I wouldn't have figured it out. Though, I guess they need to cater to the lowest common denominator, but it sucks that I have to suffer because I'm that much smarter than the average bear.

F that ish. I don't wait. I give it 15 seconds, and then tell the support person my PC is God, that it's OC'ed and booting off an SSD, so Win 7 takes 15 seconds to boot.

[RobPaulson]

ROFL @ both those comics, i hate u all for distracting me, epic nerd humor ftmfw

[Encryptshun]

And Chad, did you read the associated text with that comic? "I recently had someone ask me to go get a computer and turn it on so I could restart it. He refused to move further in the script until I said I had done that." I love when they follow the script. I usually just tell them I'm rebooting or whatever and wander around aimlessly for the 2-3 minutes that it would normally take. As if it were a simple fix I wouldn't have figured it out. Though, I guess they need to cater to the lowest common denominator, but it sucks that I have to suffer because I'm that much smarter than the average bear.

You have no idea, man. We outsourced all of our I.T. services. You think the help desk is bad? Try being a project manager dealing with resources from 4 different companies who are all otherwise competitors but who are being forced to play in the same sandbox on your project.

[tiger-SE-R]

Or that we posted at the same time, a-hole. How goes it Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch? Is that, by any chance, what you call your family?

they're not that funky


I'm the only one with style in the family

[AppleBonker]

F that ish. I don't wait. I give it 15 seconds, and then tell the support person my PC is God, that it's OC'ed and booting off an SSD, so Win 7 takes 15 seconds to boot.

Pointless as they never understand this. Like the average tech support monkey knows what overclocked means. Or what the benefits of an SSD are. They always try to explain things to me that I need to do in windows. And I'm like, yeah, doing that now and nothing's changing. It's just easier than trying to explain that I don't run Windows and what Ubuntu is.

Try being a project manager dealing with resources from 4 different companies who are all otherwise competitors but who are being forced to play in the same sandbox on your project.

Ouch, son!


And for good measure:

[AppleBonker]

Or that we posted at the same time, a-hole. How goes it Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch? Is that, by any chance, what you call your family?

they're not that funky

If you don't bathe them for a couple of days they will be...

[Encryptshun]

If memes have an event horizon, this one is close to it.

[Dittoz7]

Got to drive the car for 3mins!
...then my dad took it to work.
Arrg

[AppleBonker]

I laughed very hard. Not at the pun, but because it's such an epic failure. Leave science jokes to scientists please...

[snwbrdr435]

Whats up everyone. Rain screwed up my work day have to hammer a days worth of work out tomorrow morning to make it down to ct!

[frapjap]

Frick! You're going to Mark's too? Damn!

[AppleBonker]

Frick!

????

[snwbrdr435]

Ray you going?

[marlin29311]

I was going to go, until i learned my pre-cana stuff goes from 9-5 tomorrow in south jersey....

[AppleBonker]

Lou, you should find your nearest Bose store and go demo that videowave tv. If there was one close to me, I'd be all over it this weekend.

[Dittoz7]

Snwbrd check y0 pmz

[marlin29311]

Lou, you should find your nearest Bose store and go demo that videowave tv. If there was one close to me, I'd be all over it this weekend.

Im going to probably be at the mall tonight..I'll see if they have it in the Bose store there.

[AppleBonker]

Check the bose site. They have listings of locations where they are selling the tv. I really want to go in and try to convince the salesman that he will get a sale if I can see some technical specs on the tv. I want to know refresh rate because I want to connect a blu-ray player to it at 1080p24 and have it display it natively (none of this 3:2 pulldown garbage). Without knowing how the tv compares to other televisions (especially since I can't demo them side-by-side), I will need this information or else I take my money elsewhere. Then I get to see how long it takes before they say they don't have and cannot get this information, so I need to shop somewhere else. I just want to hear that asking for specs is me being an unreasonable customer.

[marlin29311]

YES they have it at my mall. Im so checking it out.

[AppleBonker]

Dude, I want a legit review from you (even if it's short). I've actually read some reviews by audiophiles that claim it isn't as terrible as one might think. I'm still skeptical, and I wanna check it out to see how much time went into room design to make it the perfect environment for the product...

[frapjap]

????

Assuming there is an image of sexy blonde doctor from Scrubs here, but I can't see it at work.
At least, there better be...
...maybe of her in lingere?

Ray you going?

Can't. I have to work on Monday in Wisconsin. Normally I wouldn't spend my weekend there too, but we are going to the Packers/Dolphins game with the same company on Sunday. Luxo box seats ftw.

What kinda tv are you looking at Adam? Why not look at the specs for each of them on Crutchfield or Newegg?