cousteau | damn printer... it's made like 4 fubared copies |
cousteau | jamming all the time, having to remove an accordion-shaped paper each time |
cousteau | turns out there was another sheet jammed, but it was hidden and the printer wasn't detecting it |
pulse | i wonder if printers will still jam paper in the year 3000 |
pulse | maybe it's a paradox of physics |
pulse | a fluke in nature |
`Gin | I think its more down to the fact printer companies have been milking their cash cow dry, £10 in R&D each year. etc. |
pulse | maybe some day paper will become obsolete, then there will be no problem any more |
`Gin | There are still employees at my job who would prefer to print an email out, read it and then reply to the email. |
`Gin | I don't have much hope for that dream pulse :P |
pulse | that's just stupid :P |
cousteau | pulse, how in the hell would printers work BETTER in the future? |
cousteau | the more intelligent they become, the more stupid things they'll do! |
cousteau | the machine rebellion will start with printers, it's a known fact |
koollman | I suppose the equivalent of paper jam with a 3d printer can get really messy |
cousteau | heh |
koollman | "we cannot access the printer, it is inside a large blob of solidified plastic" |
koollman | "the first maintenance team went in, but that was 2 days ago, and we are preparing a rescue mission" |
pulse | maybe they could produce the paper in the process |
pulse | maybe they'll print you a hologram |
pulse | lol |
cousteau | koollman, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo |
koollman | cousteau: yes, but that one would auto-reproduce, which is much more scary ;) |
koollman | although I guess a very advanced printer could print itself, it's the goal of reprap-like systems |
pulse | nothing a giant EMP wave wouldn't fix |
rindolf | koollman: heh. |
cousteau | maybe the 3D printer accidentally gets programmed with printing a 3D copy of itself, and that copy turns out to be already programmed with the same program |
pulse | haha |
cousteau | 3D printer fork bomb! |
koollman | :) |
rindolf | Heh. |
keepsake | Ah, replicators. |
* koollman | remembers actually using a postscript 'bomb' |
cousteau | ...as an unrelated note, the :(){... forkbomb doesn't work on the `dash` interpreter |
cousteau | it says that : is not a valid function name |
cousteau | so you can fool your friends by trying to convince them that the forkbomb doesn't work |
koollman | cousteau: that's not to hard to modify, although the result will be less obscure. or is it that it doesn't support recursion ? |
cousteau | koollman, replace : with F and you have a working one |
koollman | OK, so just the character is forbidden as a name. a bit sad |
cousteau | or with _ |
koollman | _ works, it's still quite hard to read :) |
cousteau | with _, if you tilt your head, it looks like a toilet on top of a tree |
pulse | that's some vivid imagination |
wei2912 | lol |
cousteau | or a chair or something |
koollman | pulse: shell programming may have unexpected side-effects ;) |
pulse | like waking up in a mental asylum |
pulse | ? :) |
koollman | nah. But I do remember making very bad jokes about zombie processes, reapers and clones |
pulse | hmm |
koollman | I woke up as a sysadmin, too. that may partially qualify |
pulse | lol |