You know there's something physically wrong with you when...

- Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon math 
fail".

- You use a bread knife and a butter knife to prepair your meal, and as 
you walk to the sink to clean them, a quiet voice in your head says "As 
you can see we've been watching you for some time now, Mr Andrew. It 
seems that you've been using... /two/ knives..."

- You read http://xkcd.com/594/ and immediately ask Wolfram Alpha to 
check the result for you.

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On 06/08/09 09:17, Invisible wrote:
> You know there's something physically wrong with you when...
>
> - Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon math
> fail".

	Well, did he say 0.2 cents?


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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> You know there's something physically wrong with you when...

> - Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon math 
> fail".

  True, given that the expression seems absolutely correct. Maybe needlessly
contrived, but technically accurate.

  Now, if it had been "0.02 cents"...

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Invisible wrote:
> You know there's something physically wrong with you when...
> 
> - Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon math 
> fail".

:snort: I showed my wife that sound clip. She listened intently, then, 
at the very end, she's like... Do they need to go back to first grade 
math? (she's a 1st grade teacher)

> - You use a bread knife and a butter knife to prepair your meal, and as 
> you walk to the sink to clean them, a quiet voice in your head says "As 
> you can see we've been watching you for some time now, Mr Andrew. It 
> seems that you've been using... /two/ knives..."

Yyyeah... When the voices start talking to you, it's time to find some 
professional help.

(I don't know if this is just a silly joke, but if you're hearing voices 
like that, seriously, find help immediately. No! I am not being mean, I 
am not poking fun... )

> - You read http://xkcd.com/594/ and immediately ask Wolfram Alpha to 
> check the result for you.

lol, And here I was considering using Google to figure out if the math 
was right.

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Warp wrote:

> 
>   Now, if it had been "0.02 cents"...
> 

I've seen people do that before. It always gives me an uncontrollable 
urge to wring their neck... dunno why, though... :)

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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> You know there's something physically wrong with you when...
> 
>> - Somebody says "just my $0.02", and you immediately think "Verizon math
>> fail".
> 
>   True, given that the expression seems absolutely correct. Maybe
>   needlessly
> contrived, but technically accurate.
> 
>   Now, if it had been "0.02 cents"...

I think the actual number in the Verizon thing was 0.002.

I have seen people jokingly say "my 0.002 cents" after helping someone, as a
reference to the Verizon math fail.

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Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> I have seen people jokingly say "my 0.002 cents" after helping someone, as a
> reference to the Verizon math fail.

  Then they really contributed very very little. :P

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On 06/08/09 13:13, Mike Raiford wrote:
> I've seen people do that before. It always gives me an uncontrollable
> urge to wring their neck... dunno why, though... :)

	Why should it? He's just being cheap - nothing wrong with that!

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Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Every hard drive I've ever bought has been larger than all my previous 
> hard drives combined. And this is without even trying.

  That's actually not very hard to achieve. Each new hard drive has to be
only a bit over twice the size of the previous one.

  In fact, given how fast hard drive capacity grows, it would actually be
harder to *not* have this phenomenon happen, except for some exceptional
circumstances (eg. the HD you just bought breaks and you have to buy a
new one of the same size, for instance).

  (Yes, I know it was just your *signature*, not something you said.
I just couldn't resist.)

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Warp wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>> Every hard drive I've ever bought has been larger than all my previous 
>> hard drives combined. And this is without even trying.
> 
>   That's actually not very hard to achieve. Each new hard drive has to be
> only a bit over twice the size of the previous one.

Most of the HDs I've bought have been 40GB or 80GB. (Not that I've 
bought many.) It's only quite recently that I've purchased anything 
larger. Indeed, the last drive I bought was 160GB purely because that 
was *cheaper* than an 80GB...

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