Lightbulb Jokes

Q: How many IBM PC owners does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Only one, but he'll have to go out and buy the light bulb adaptor card first, which is extra.




Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: None - it will be fined (fixed ?) in the next version.




Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: 586 of them, and it will take them a year from the moment you convince them that the lightbulb is not functioning per the spec.




Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Three. One to screw in the bulb and the other to hold the ladder....




Q: How many Pentium designers does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Hmmm... I ran a simulation and got 0.9999999997 pentium designers...




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.


Note: This refers to the bug recently found in the Pentium. Under circumstances during division the floating point unit loses one bit at the end, thus reducing the accuracy. Intel has known about this bug for a few months but didn't admit to it until users found out about it and made it public. Now they downplay the severity of the bug by saying that it reduces the accuracy only very little and that it occurs only very rarely. In one statement they said that `only theoretical mathematicians' will ever notice it and that non-technical people will not suffer from it.)