Coding & Computer Jokes

[MagusOfMirrors]

I found some awesome nerdy jokes online. Just Google them- their funny!

Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?

Because Oct 31 = Dec 25!

CDROM: Consumer Device, Rendered obsolete in months

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

SCSI: System Can't See It

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

DOS: Defunct Operation System

WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too

PnP: Plug 'N Pray

APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

IBM: I Blame Microsoft

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses

MACINTOSH: Most Application Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs

AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse

WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You're Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well

Find others urself.

Edited December 13, 2011 by MagusOfMirrors

[ZeZar]

Can someone explain the first joke?

[Jeru]

We use the decimal system, which uses the digits 0-9.

But there are other systems for writing numbers and they are common in computing for various reasons mostly related to how the hardware works. Binary numbers use only 0 and 1, octal numbers use only the digits 0-7 and hexadecimal numbers use 0-9 and "new digits", A-F, where A = 11, B = 12, etc.

In octal numbers "31" is what we know as 25. (31_oct = 3 * 8 + 1 = 25_dec.)

[Almin]

And therefore there are only 10 types of persons: those who understand binary and those who don't!