Geekly Update - 08 Feb 2018 - Comments Page 2

I'm pretty sure "You bet your life" was from Groucho.

I note that Stoll wrote "...the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading."

Regardless of whatever has turned out differently, that comment remains as true as ever. For every site that tries to set things straight (like Wikipedia, International Fact Checking Network, Snopes, Hoax-Slayer, TruthOrFiction,or Politifcact) there are scores of other sites that are determined to deceive people into being outraged over imaginary "facts".

Re: "Microsoft Office 2019 will only run under Windows 10." I'm not surprised.
One thing their XP 'upgrade' killed was my $80 Sidewinder joystick pro that I BOUGHT FROM MICROSOFT 'cause I thought that it would be good to go for years. It's was GREAT! Programmable! Lots of buttons! Piece of sh*t now!
They killed the expensive Office 2000 suite. Really? I've switched to free Open Office. I hope everyone else will, too.
I expect that some small utilities won't be supported as time goes by, but are we surprised that the guys from Redmond have little respect for the consumer?

I'm going to say either That was the Week That Was or the Rowan & Martin Show

You bet your sweet bippy that when I start using a cellphone, I will make sure to put a rat between the phone and my ear. Rats lives matter, too!

You bet your sweet bippy it was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.