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Well, most of my readers are in their final week of finals and don't have much time to waste, so I'll keep it short.

If you haven't looked at my home page lately, it's time to take an- other look. I've put in a front end with a graphical menu, and under Pentium Jokes and from the e-mail option on the front end you can send me e-mail! Give it a try!

For those who don't remeber:
If you have a graphical viewer like Mosaic or Netscape:
change the URL to http://www.eden.com/~etrigan and press enter.
If you only have text:
try typing 'lynx http://www.eden.com/~etrigan'

Also if you have access to cuseeme (this is a video broadcast and viewing tool) I'll be sending out a schedule of Eden Matrix's broadcast of local bands. It's quite chic!


Table Of Contents

Pentium Jokes.
Yes, I succumb to popularity and print Pentium jokes.
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
Taken from the book, now available in stores.

this came from a friend at Dell. For those who aren't up on the latest e-news, Intel announced recently that their Pentium chips have a flaw that causes errors in calculations involving the 9th decimal place. This means that calculations that need to be specific to 0.000000001 (one billionth) could be faulty. They also say that they will only replace processors for people who can verify they need that kind of precision. A lot of people have become mighty upset, some because they forgot their 2nd grade math skills and confused "9th decimal place" with "9 decimals". Basically the ignorant portion of the user community is in an up-roar roar over something petty (to most users). The popular comparison ison is to say Widget Car Company sold a car with faulty brakes when the car is operated at high speeds, but will only replace the brakes on cars that can prove they'll be going fast. This analogy is only partially correct. The correct analogy would end "...only replace the brakes on cars that can prove they'll be going more than 200 mph." I'll stop my tirade, now. Suffice it to say that the Pentium flaw will affect a teensy tiny percent of computer users.

News Item: The Pentium math processor has a bug that causes it to give non-zero answers to: y - x * y / x for some values of x and y....

Responses:

Q&A: THE PENTIUM FDIV BUG

Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: 1.99904274017, but that's close enough for non-technical people.
Q: What do you get when you cross a Pentium PC with a research grant?
A: A mad scientist.
Q: What's another name for the "Intel Inside" sticker they put on Pentiums?
A: The warning label.
Q: What do you call a series of FDIV instructions on a Pentium?
A: Successive approximations.
Q: Complete the following word analogy: Add is to Subtract as Multiply is to: 1) Divide 2) ROUND 3) RANDOM 4) On a Pentium, all of the above
A: Number 4.
Q: What algorithm did Intel use in the Pentium's floating point divider?
A: "Life is like a box of chocolates." (Source: F. Gump of Intel)
Q: Why didn't Intel call the Pentium the 586?
A: Because they added 486 and 100 on the first Pentium and got 585.999983605.
Q: According to Intel, the Pentium conforms to the IEEE standards 754 and 854 for floating point arithmetic. If you fly in aircraft designed using a Pentium, what is the correct pronunciation of "IEEE"?
A: Aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

TOP TEN NEW INTEL SLOGANS FOR THE PENTIUM

  9.9999973251   It's a FLAW, Dammit, not a Bug 
  8.9999163362   It's Close Enough, We Say So 
  7.9999414610   Nearly 300 Correct Opcodes 
  6.9999831538   You Don't Need to Know What's Inside
  5.9999835137   Redefining the PC -- and Mathematics As Well 
  4.9999999021   We Fixed It, Really
  3.9998245917   Division Considered Harmful
  2.9991523619   Why Do You Think They Call It *Floating* Point? 
  1.9999103517   We're Looking for a Few Good Flaws
  0.9999999998   The Errata Inside

the follwoing came from mbuna@eden.com. It's selections from the 'Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey" book. I've got more of them on my WWW home page (http://eden.com/~etrigan). I've also got more Pentium jokes on there.

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.

When you're riding in a time machine way far into the future, don't stick your elbow out the window, or it'll turn into a fossil.

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real

Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby."

I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.

I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

Children need encouragement. If a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.

The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.

Sometimes I think I'd be better off dead. No, wait, not me, you.

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!

I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.

It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.


Well, that's all for now. Remeber back issues are available on the weekend update home page, and if you want to submit your fun and in- teresting topics, just email me!!!!