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

Ok, so I really need to be studying right now (you have no idea how badly) but I just
came across something that I had to through out there.
Both of you have put out a "you know your a *your occupation here*" thing lately and while that is not exactly what this is, it tells the story of what my life has been reduced to since I began working on my networking degree. The following is a list of legit computer industry acronyms and I have added the proper definitions in asterisk to make it make more sense. However the made up ones may be more accurate at times lol.
ps. if it works I am putting the real definitions in blue and the fake in red to further clarify.

Enjoy...


CD-ROM:*Compact Disk Read Only Memory*
Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

PCMCIA: *Personal Computer Memory Card International Association*
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

ISDN:*Integrated Services Digital Network*
It Still Does Nothing

SCSI: *Small Computers System Interface*
System Can't See It

MIPS: *Million Instructions Per Second*
Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

DOS: *Disk Operating System*
Defunct Operating System

WINDOWS: *Windows*
Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

OS/2: *Operating System two*
Obsolete Soon, Too

PnP: *Plug and Play*
Plug and Pray

APPLE: *Apple*
Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

IBM: *International Business Machines*
I Blame Microsoft

DEC: *Digital Equipment Corporation*
Do Expect Cuts

MICROSOFT: *This isn't confirmed but I would think is stands for Microcomputer Software*
Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers

COBOL: *C0mmon Business-Oriented Language - aka programming language*
Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

LISP: *List Processor - another programming language*
Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses

MACINTOSH: *As far as I know just Macintosh*
Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs


Well, I'm sure I could come up with more if I had the time but it is was fun sharing just a taste off all the fun. Fortunately there are computer guys out there that like to have fun too. For instance if you don't already know and actually care... You are surely used to a Gigabyte in reference to song storage or such, however that Gigabyte is equal to about 1000 Megabytes which is about 1000 bytes (if I am remembering correctly). A Byte is 8 bits. A bit is the farthest is breaks to and is always a 1 or a 0 which is where the Binary numbering system comes into play, Bi of course meaning 2 and nary meaning nary another lol. Yeah whatever right. So getting back to the point somewhere along the way someone decided to classify 4 bits and when considering 8 bits was a byte they decided to name it a nibble.

So there now if you are ever asked what the name for 4 bits is you know. Aren't you a happier individual now.