EB Mafia

[blybrook PE]

did you have to tear off the sidessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

I did on my printer. Found a ream of that paper just a few weeks ago. Immediately to the recycle bin!

3.5in

Ahhh, the newer floppy. The one you can still find in some computers!

 

[blybrook PE]

you did not say no! 

I am redneck mafia. We are different than the game mafia, but still "mafia" of sorts. So I did answer your question.

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

i miss vista

Dear God, why???

 

[DLD PE]

did you have to tear off the sidessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

"Perfer".  They had a contest and that's the word they came up with to describe the perforated sides of the paper that was torn off.  It was added to the dictionary as one of Webster's "new words" back in the day lol.

Nerd alert!  Guilty as charged!

 

[DLD PE]

Dear God, why???

You missed the sarcasm in her tone.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

I'm mid 30's and know exactly what Lotus 123 is. I had to use it for 4 years in DOS on an IBM PC-XT until I was lucky enough to get a PC with Win 95 and Office.

Nope, not that cool, apparently. 

 

[DLD PE]

3.5in

I remember those.  They were called "floppy" but weren't even floppy.  They were also much sturdier.  You could take them anywhere just about.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

It came on a floppy disk.  And yes, floppy disks used to be a real thing.

Hey, I played Oregon Trail on 5.25" floppy disks! You know, when they were actually floppy!

 

[MadamPirate PE]

we have a spreadsheet for our bachelor draft picks and tallying points per contestant on our team lollll

That's amazing.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

@MadamPirate PE are you mafia?

Nope. I never get to be anything fun (except the cop that one time. Stupid bear.)

ETA: Well, and the Mod. Because that was super fun! But doesn't count.

 

[DLD PE]

Hey, I played Oregon Trail on 5.25" floppy disks! You know, when they were actually floppy!

They had that in our computer class.  I never made it to Fort Laramie.  I always got kicked by a horse and my wife and kids would leave me behind. 

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

You missed the sarcasm in her tone.

Guilty as charged. I hate the internet most of the time. This is one of those times I hate it.

 

[MadamPirate PE]

They had that in our computer class.  I never made it to Fort Laramie.  I always got kicked by a horse and my wife and kids would leave me behind. 

Dysentery. *sighs*

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

You missed the sarcasm in her tone.

there was no sarcasm

 

[DLD PE]

If you truly enjoyed Windows Vista, you'd be the first I've ever known.

 

[Tiger15]

*gasp!* How dare you besmirch Excel!?

To be clear. Excel is super capable, and I consider myself pretty good at it. But Microsoft is just not good at designing software anymore. Their all of their software has gotten bloated, has tons of inconsistent user interfaces, and just doesn't perform well.

Any time I'm doing something intense in Excel it bogs down and often crashes on me. And when it runs, it runs so slow. Seriously, graphing 50,000 data points is really not that difficult of a task for computers today. I have have a heavy duty simulation computer. I can do so much more, so much faster in a Python notebook. (very different, I know.)

That being said Microsoft office is ubiquitous and everyone knows Excel to some degree, so it's still the best software for general calculations.

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

If you truly enjoyed Windows Vista, you'd be the first I've ever known.

I used windows Vista once and got dysentery.

 

[Tiger15]

Floppy disks. Sealed so I can still return the book.

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

To be clear. Excel is super capable, and I consider myself pretty good at it. But Microsoft is just not good at designing software anymore. Their all of their software has gotten bloated, has tons of inconsistent user interfaces, and just doesn't perform well.

Any time I'm doing something intense in Excel it bogs down and often crashes on me. And when it runs, it runs so slow. Seriously, graphing 50,000 data points is really not that difficult of a task for computers today. I have have a heavy duty simulation computer. I can do so much more, so much faster in a Python notebook. (very different, I know.)

That being said Microsoft office is ubiquitous and everyone knows Excel to some degree, so it's still the best software for general calculations.

To be fair, they were never really good at designing software. Further, they have exactly zero idea how the features they include in their software gets used. They change something, and users scream and shout that their key feature got dropped or changed and MSFT's only response is "well that's not how that feature was intended to be used".

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

Floppy disks

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I have that text. I took the floppy and burned it to a CD.