Annika1980 wrote:
On Feb 18, 12:00 am, Savageduck
wrote:
On 2011-02-17 20:53:35 -0800, "Bill Graham" said:



Noons wrote:
On Feb 18, 5:14 am, Annika1980 wrote:
On Feb 16, 5:48 pm, Noons wrote:

On Feb 17, 1:48 am, Annika1980 wrote:

On Feb 16, 5:13 am, Noons wrote:

Annika1980 wrote,on my timestamp of 16/02/2011 3:11 PM:

HDR,like it oughta be.

http://bretdouglas.smugmug.com/Photo...h#1188993192_x...

Anybody wanna guess how I made that one?

With a 5D2?

Seriously: it looks great. Well done!

Sarah, does your dad know you're on his computer? Miss ya,
sweetie.

I'll let the enormous stupidity of that remark stand on its own.

Ah, you're back. That'll teach ya to leave your computer
unattended. I appreciate the compliment, whoever it was from.

I don't leave my computer unattended.

I do, but I unplug the wire that goes from the main frame to the
modem. When disconnected from the outside world, it can't be
impregnated.......

Damn! Bill! What kind of people do you have in Oregon who would
impregnate a computer?
You would think they would use some sort of "protection".

--
Regards,

Savageduck

That reminds me of the early days of computers when DEC had a computer
called the VAX.
As I recall the Operating System was pretty basic ... heck, it might
even have been BASIC.
You'd give it a command and if it was successful the prompt would say,
"Ready" meaning it was ready for the next command. If you typed
something it didn't recognize it would come back with an error message
like "That command cannot be completed" or something similar. You
could abbreviate the commands because it only recognized the first
three letters so SCR meant the Screen command and HEL might mean Help.

Anyway, this one guy I heard about was having a helluva time
communicating with this beast and he got so flustered he started
typing in cuss words. He'd suggest something obscene and the computer
would dutifully reply with, "That command cannot be completed."
Finally, at wit's end, he typed, "Screw you!"

The computer answered, "Ready."

I remember the DEC VAX'es.....I think it would have been relatively simple
to reprogram it to say, "I beg your pardon!"