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Why is it called plug and play??

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  • C CataclysmicQuantum

    ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

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    Pete OHanlon
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    CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

    ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

    What? Your god is giving you sexual jokes? It makes a change to having Moses talking to a burning bush I suppose; damn - all we got were commandments and not innuendo.

    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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    • C CataclysmicQuantum

      ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

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      El Corazon
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      CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

      ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

      If I had a dime for every sexual innuendo involved in the computer industry, I would be rich. Honestly, it is there, everywhere you look. Mostly because computer geeks notoriously got very "little" action, so they settled for embedding sexual innuendo. Do you really want an honest and complete assessment for what USB plug-n-play really is? and what it means?

      _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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        I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"

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        Because we like 3 letter-wide stuff, regardless of senses. Plug and Play gives you "PnP", which is cool. where else, according to your version, "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" gives you "Pittttr", which is not only non-cool, but also hard to pronounce.

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        • C CataclysmicQuantum

          Marc Clifton wrote:

          Because of its sexual connotations. Nothing succeeds better marketing wise than something with sexual connotations.

          No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.

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          Shog9 0
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          It is now... ;P

          every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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            CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

            ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

            If I had a dime for every sexual innuendo involved in the computer industry, I would be rich. Honestly, it is there, everywhere you look. Mostly because computer geeks notoriously got very "little" action, so they settled for embedding sexual innuendo. Do you really want an honest and complete assessment for what USB plug-n-play really is? and what it means?

            _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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            Pete OHanlon
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            Hence why we have floppy and hard disks, motherboards, male and female adapters. It's not just the computer industry - it's wherever you have a bunch of undersexed overhormoned males. It always reminds me of the refute to the men can't multitask argument - "I can multitask, I can fantasise about a beautiful woman and not drool - both at the same time."

            Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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              Because we like 3 letter-wide stuff, regardless of senses. Plug and Play gives you "PnP", which is cool. where else, according to your version, "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" gives you "Pittttr", which is not only non-cool, but also hard to pronounce.

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              Pete OHanlon
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              Mmmm. Pitta - lovely. Goes well with Not an actual number of Naan.

              Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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              • E ed welch

                I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"

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                Shog9 0
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                It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:

                every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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                • E El Corazon

                  CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

                  ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

                  If I had a dime for every sexual innuendo involved in the computer industry, I would be rich. Honestly, it is there, everywhere you look. Mostly because computer geeks notoriously got very "little" action, so they settled for embedding sexual innuendo. Do you really want an honest and complete assessment for what USB plug-n-play really is? and what it means?

                  _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                  CataclysmicQuantum
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                  El Corazon wrote:

                  got

                  So they get lots of action now? I doubt it.

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                  • P Pete OHanlon

                    Hence why we have floppy and hard disks, motherboards, male and female adapters. It's not just the computer industry - it's wherever you have a bunch of undersexed overhormoned males. It always reminds me of the refute to the men can't multitask argument - "I can multitask, I can fantasise about a beautiful woman and not drool - both at the same time."

                    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                    Paul Conrad
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                    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                    "I can multitask, I can fantasise about a beautiful woman and not drool - both at the same time."

                    :laugh::laugh::laugh:

                    "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                    • C CataclysmicQuantum

                      Marc Clifton wrote:

                      Because of its sexual connotations. Nothing succeeds better marketing wise than something with sexual connotations.

                      No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.

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                      CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

                      No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.

                      Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc

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                        CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

                        No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.

                        Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc

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                        CataclysmicQuantum
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                        Wow, If I was high on DXM that would be an amazing story.

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                          CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

                          No it is not you pervert. Its not funny.

                          Did I say something funny? I was being dead serious. If you disagree, well, that's fantastic. You're the model Waldorf[^] parent then, as you obviously haven't been exposed to any form of advertisement what-so-ever! And even more importantly, your soul hasn't been influenced by Ahrimanic[^] forces and you should find your period of kamaloka[^] significantly reduced and your journey to the Sun being much easier. Marc

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                          Patrick Etc
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                          He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..


                          "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert

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                          • C CataclysmicQuantum

                            Wow, If I was high on DXM that would be an amazing story.

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                            Shog9 0
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                            "That's an amazing story!"

                            every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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                              He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..


                              "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." - Frank Herbert

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                              Marc Clifton
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                              Patrick Sears wrote:

                              He's one of our resident trolls, Marc. Captain See Sharp reincarnated. Ignore him..

                              Ahhhh. :) Marc

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                              • S Shog9 0

                                It's all relative. Sure, it ain't nearly as easy as what it purports to be, especially the cheap stuff. But... it's been almost a decade since i last had to worry about IRQs, or choose between a working sound card and a CPU-intensive parallel port driver. So by comparison, it's almost fun... :rolleyes:

                                every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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                                Michael Dunn
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                                Ah, the goodbad ol' days of jumpers and ISA cards.

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                                • E ed welch

                                  I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"

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                                  code frog 0
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                                  I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:

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                                  • C CataclysmicQuantum

                                    norm .net wrote:

                                    Plug and piss about for an hour

                                    What the hell is that? Do you call that humor? I find it appalling.

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                                    Then feel free to go away forever.

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                                    • C CataclysmicQuantum

                                      ENOUGH WITH THE SEXUAL JOKES MY GOD!

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                                      ghle
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                                      CataclysmicQuantums wrote:

                                      ENOUGH SEX GOD!

                                      Must be.

                                      Gary

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                                      • C code frog 0

                                        I thought it was called "Plug & Pray".:laugh:

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                                        Mike Poz
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                                        And here I am being mundane in my thinking that it had something to do with being able to play CDs on your computer using an external drive... Wait.. drive, that's one of those innuendo things, right?:)

                                        Mike Poz

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                                        • E ed welch

                                          I always wonder why they called it "plug and play". If you really want to be accurate it should be "plug, install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play"

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                                          Yeah, but marketing couldn't remember that slogan, they always forgot the reboot. And you know what happens then... so "install drivers, then unplug and plug again, then reboot, then open device manager and fiddle around, then reboot again, reinstall drivers and finally play" became shortened to "play".


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