Download or read book Humour the Computer written by Andrew Davison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't have to have a degree in computer science to enjoy this unique collection of funny stories, parodies, laughable true-life incidents, comic song lyrics, and jokey poems from the world of computing. Humour the Computer brings together a selection of some of the best computer-related humorous material culled from a variety of sources: news groups and FTP sites on the Internet, The New Yorker, Punch, New Scientist, BYTE, Datamation, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Irreproducible Results, and many more. Among other topics, the 70-odd assorted writings embrace the impact of computing on our lives, hilarious hardware, silly software, first encounters with computing, computer companies that we love, programming pains, and absurd academia.
Download or read book Jotd the World s Greatest Computer Joke Book written by Hershel Remer and published by Rabbs.Com. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest computer joke book ever! Written by a professional comedian/computer network administrator/rabbi, JOTD boldly makes fun of the world of computer technology, corporate America, and everything else. With a slant towards UNIX and Solaris, it gives great detail to operating systems to satisfy the most astute nerds, but offers enough broad range to reach anyone in the office world. JOTD is outrageously funny where humor doesn't even seem possible to show itself - deep inside the world of Geekdom. And, JOTD isn't just a compilation of wimpy one-liners, but is a collection of full-length caustic satires, zany scripts, and mature material. And, best of all, JOTD is low in fat and cholesterol.
Download or read book 101 Wacky Computer Jokes written by Judith Bauer Stamper and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find this and 100 more wacky, wild computer jokes that will drive you crazy with laughter.
Download or read book The Crazy Computers Joke Book written by Sean Connolly and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out why the medical computer went to prison in the pages of this technology-based joke book. Readers will learn many other technological jokes and be eager to share them with friends and family. Easy-to-follow sentences will have young readers giggling on every page.
Download or read book A Megabyte of Computer Jokes written by Bill Stott and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all computer addicts - a collection of the funniest jokes, quotes and one-liners about the trails and triumphs of modern technology! Illustrated by Bill Stott's hilarious cartoons.
Download or read book Dave Barry in Cyberspace written by Dave Barry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "RELENTLESSLY FUNNY . . . BARRY SHINES." --People A self-professed computer geek who actually does Windows 95, bestselling humorist Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious hard drive via the information superhighway--and into the very heart of cyberspace, asking the provocative question: If God had wanted us to be concise, why give us so many fonts? Inside you'll find juicy bytes on How to Buy and Set Up a Computer; Step One: Get Valium Nerdstock in the Desert; Or: Bill Gates Is Elvis Software: Making Your Computer Come Alive So It Can Attack You Word Processing: How to Press an Enormous Number of Keys Without Ever Actually Writing Anything Selected Web Sites, including Cursing in Swedish, Deformed Frog Pictures, and The Toilets of Melbourne, Australia And much, much more! "VERY FUNNY . . . After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of the book as a kind of screen saver for your brain." --New York Times Book Review
Download or read book Your Wit Is My Command written by Tony Veale and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny. Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes--how jokes actually works--Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in Interstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness. In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process--a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically--all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.
Download or read book The Best Computer Humor on the Web written by Marilyn K. Martin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Can you copy the Internet for me onto this disc?" Yes, we all marched up that steep Learning Curve to become computer-literate. And along the way, we added a few DIY aspects for Security (usually involving power tools and super-glue), and bought mousepads on sale, only to wonder how the feet of mice actually adhered to them. This four book collection contains Marilyn K. Martin's humor columns for Jack Dunning's ComputorEdge weekly on-line magazine. And it will have you doubled over with laughter, whether you are Tech Pro or still-learning User! "No, Sir. Your computer doesn't come with a cup-holder. That's your disc drive tray."
Download or read book Ohm on the Range written by and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1982 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of robot and computer jokes and riddles.
Download or read book Your Wit Is My Command written by Tony Veale and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny. Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes--how jokes actually works--Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in Interstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness. In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process--a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically--all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.
Download or read book The Official Computer Freaks Joke Book written by Larry Wilde and published by Bantam Books. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Techmares written by Timothy D. McLendon and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL
Download or read book Microserfs written by Douglas Coupland and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the era-defining author of Generation X comes a novel of overworked coders who escape the serfdom of Bill Gates to forge their own path. They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day “coding” and eating “flat” foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to “flame” one of them. But now there’s a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of their computer-driven world.
Download or read book If at First You Don t Succeed Just Call it Version 1 0 written by Anna Sasine and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny computer humor journal makes a great tech gift for the IT department, programmers, software engineers etc Would make a cool office or Secret Santa gift. 6x9, 100 pages, Matte Cover
Download or read book The Computer Contradictionary written by Stan Kelly-Bootle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary, warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions. New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this book's progenitor, The Devil's DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootle's romp through the data processing lexicon is a response to the Unix pandemic that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a hugely bewildered, lay audience.' The original dictionary, a pastiche of Ambrose Bierce's famous work, parried chiefly the mainframe and mini-folklore of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. This revision adds over 550 new entries and enhances many of the original definitions. Key targets are a host of new follies crying out for cynical lexicography including: the GUI-Phooey iconoclasts, object orienteering and the piping of BLObs down the Clinton-Gore InfoPike.
Download or read book Computer Hooters written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of riddles and jokes about computers using words and ideas associated with computers.
Download or read book Tales from a Techie written by Matt Garrett and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer users do the darnedest things. Tales from a Techy documents some of the funniest and craziest moments in the life of a tech guy. Whether in the home or the office, sometimes computer problems are just funny. Take a journey into the life of a tech guy as he tries to deal with friends, family and co-workers and help them through some of the problems they have with their computers. Find out how the users react to the problems and learn a little about what exactly goes on in the mind of a tech guy as he tries to help you. Laugh and learn as you read about some of the funniest computer problems and the users' reactions to the problems in this light, fun and witty collection of stories from a tech guy who has been helping users for over fifteen years.
