It's nothing more than the classic "Not my problem". It's a real shame that there are so few people in the world today willing to do something about a problem that "isn't thier problem".
What part of "mind your own business" don't you understand?
The client did not know what he wanted when writing down the specs, the guys writing the spec were incompetent, the testers were lazy - and finally, it's you, who followed the specs to the letter, who has to hang above a vat of chemicals with a 'scope and a laptop and tweak the code to make it actually do what the client wanted, not what he meant and the spec guys understood.
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
If by "high tech" you mean "pay $250,000 for the same speed you can get on a commodity desktop in 6 months"... then sure.
People realized how stupid it was to waste money on mainframes when commodity hardware is moving so quickly.
"Commodity" desktops will never be able to process 2500 simultaneous transactions in the same database. Even in Beowulf clusters. This is why there is still some big iron around.
As just one data point, a certain place replaced a COBOL app that ran with millisecond response time just fine on a 2 megabyte 1 MIPS mainframe, replaced it with a spankin' fresh Java app that ran about 2000 times slower on an 8 gig 16-CPU, 800MHz very expensive water-cooled mainframe.
Don't forget that IBM assembler has machine-level functions that map directly to COBOL statements; that is, the COBOL is run directly on the big iron.
Contrast this to your compiled pseudo-code Java thingy; no wonder it ran 2000 times slower!!!
For instance there is now OO COBOL but the only people that use it are COBOL programmers who are stuck, perhaps because of their company's dictates, perhaps by choice, with COBOL
Ha! After years of working in Pascal, I was assigned to work on the IBM mainframe, in COBOL. So I would label my procedure as:
PROC-000 PROC-001 yadda yadda PROC-002 yadda ... PROC-014 yadda PROC-999
and call it as PERFORM PROC-000 through PROC-099.
The old COBOL heads could not figure why I was doing that...
I've seen programmers who grew up with Pascal carefully turning multiplies into sequences of adds and shifts. Great, except that something like the Athlon can do two multiplies in parallel, but only one shift at a time (because most code contains a lot more multiplies than shifts), stalling the pipeline.
This is silly. With the optimizing compilers nowadays, there is no more need to do such silly antics.
I did plenty of "dirty" things, but the most memorable must have been the four weeks spent in the server closer, watching a network analyzer to try to understand why the router would randomly go down.
It was in a huge car dealership, so being in the closet insulated me from the douchy car salesmen that poked fun at my (company) car (one of those tiny jap subcompacts) each time I came in or went out. However, I got my revenge on them plenty of times, since they were expressly forbidden to use e-mail for personal reasons (this was when ISDN was kick-ass).
Eventually, I surmised that it could be logical that the router would go belly-up whenever a big turd of a joke e-mail with 20 pictures attachment (at one time, there was even a 2 megabytes mpeg!!! I never thought I'd see such a big e-mail!!!) went through, so I started to watch the mail server logs and queue too.
This had the added benefit that I could exact sweet revenge when I catches a salesmen in flagrante delicto of using e-mail for personal purposes, so in many case, I was able to call the boss and he would fire on the spot the salesman, sometimes even before the e-mail went though...
Unfortunately, this was not the reason the router went belly-up, and eventually we found it to be a firmware error. And although the router manufacturer was glad for us to find what caused that particular bug, we got no goodies from them for me sitting a month in that closet and finding their bug...
smoking was not prohibited ANYWHERE in the building, including the server rooms. The company was absolutely opposed to to any policy that might imply in any way that smoking was dangerous to anything. HP actually charged them three times the normal support rate, and according to my coworker they were probably still losing money. The canister disks failed so regularly that he practically had scheduled weekly visit to replace them.
I can relate. I worked for $PRESTIGIOUS_TOBACCO_COMPANY, and on the mainframe, there was a big ashtray and a sign "Thank-you for smoking", and $COMPUTER_CO sure didn't mind coming 2-3 times a month to replace a disk drive on service contract... I mean, it was such a prestigious account...
I could never understand their holding "pure laine" as being so special...
Ditto. This is supposed to mean racial purity, which is totally absurd when you talk about the most mixed-race people on Earth: for 10,000 years, France has been the final resting place of all european invasions. We have blood from all over the world, and when we came here, we added indian blood to our gene pool. So you cannot talk about racial purity in those conditions...
But we kicked your froggy arses. You should be fucking grateful we didn't expel or exterminate you.
Oh really? How about the deportation of the acadians in 1755???
But no, you could not have deported or exterminated us, because you were just a handful against 70 thousand, and I am not counting our indian allies who enabled that paltry 70 thousand french to keep two thirds of North-America...
Quebec sovereigntists want to create a closed society where people don't feel an affinity with the country of Canada.
We don't have any. We've been there 200 years (10,000 years for those -- many -- who have indian blood) before the "blokes", and we've been kept aside as an underclass until about 40 years ago when we said "enough is enough" and started to get some respect after blowing up some bombs (with the british, you can never have anything until you put a knife to their throats).
As a Canadian born in Quebec I would like to add a big fuck you to all the Quebecois language bigots who feel it should be their job to stomp all over the rights of Quebecers in the name of "protecting" their language. A language does not define a culture, people should be allowed to communicate in any manor of their choosing.
This is typical of the bigoted claptrap we've been getting from the english (canadians*) for decades.
They whine about us pushing the french, but they certainly don't say that they use their demographic and economic clout to stomp out the french from Canada, by ignoring them where they are minorities and by making immigrants turn into english even if they move to Québec, where more than 80% of the people is french.
So about 30 years ago, we decided to defang the big de-francisation tool of the english and we simply passed the Charte de la langue française, which made french the only official language of Québec by various measures, the most notorious being that english signs are prohibited on stores.
The whole point is to drive home the fact that immigrants should not expect to be able to live in Québec without speaking french.
Another bullcrap we hear a lot about is that we "trample the english's human rights". This is bullshit. The regulations are solely aimed at businesses and croporations, which are not human and thus do not have "human" rights; no single individual has ever been prevented from speaking or writing in english.
If anglo-saxons view croporations as human beings, it is their sole problem and they should seek therapy for it. They should not bother the french (who certainly don't see them as such) with it.
And, besides, those laws are perfectly constitutional. If they were not, they would have been shot down by the courts a long time ago.
* They didn't call themselves "canadians" until about 50 years ago; prior to that, they were quite content to consider themselves british. Back then, the "canadians" used to be the french (canadians).
The very fact that you are twisting your panties because the neighbour has strung up a clothesline (and that you specifically expect your neighbours to be exempt from clotheslines) clearly shows how much of a utter douchebag you are.
He could have been referring to the founding fathers of the current French government too.
The "founding father of the current French government" died 39 years ago. Charles de Gaulle founded the fifth republic 50 years ago, ostensibly to replace the party rule by a more balanced system where the policical power did not rest in political parties.
That the novelty of having your private shit paraded on Google
What you see on Google is **PUBLIC VIEW**. It is not prohibited to take pictures of private property from a **PUBLIC PLACE**, say, like from the street.
Those hooligans who pitchforkmobbed the Google beetle (doesn't looks like a van to me) should be charged with obstruction of a public throughfare.
This is sensible. One of those days, the "collaborating"* ISPs are gonna cut the wrong guy by mistake and will be slapped with a breach of contract suit with the usual astronomical claims...
After all, we're all entitled to proper due process.
* In the same negative sense as those french who collaborated with the nazis during WW-II.
Mohammed was a pedophile. And it doesn't take much brain to believe some claptrap that was mostly copied from the bible by an illiterate businessman.
* * *
When rabbis found out that they could not pick up young girls with their flabby bodies as easily as young men, they decided to outlaw public nudity and force people to wrap themselves with textiles.
* * *
Scatholics people believe that some cosmic jewish zombie can make them live forever if they eat a cookie that represents the zombie's body. "Makes perfect sense"...
In a world where executives of companies that lose money expect as a matter of course to be paid millions of dollars of bonuses, it is a given that a tool such as the DMCA **WILL** be abused to silence opposition or competition...
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What part of "mind your own business" don't you understand?
We used to think that Thompson was lower than a spammer, but we're not so sure nowadays...
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
-Richard Nixon
"Commodity" desktops will never be able to process 2500 simultaneous transactions in the same database. Even in Beowulf clusters. This is why there is still some big iron around.
I dunno; since I woke up this morning, I already masturbated three times, and it sure feels better than getting a cheque.
Don't forget that IBM assembler has machine-level functions that map directly to COBOL statements; that is, the COBOL is run directly on the big iron.
Contrast this to your compiled pseudo-code Java thingy; no wonder it ran 2000 times slower!!!
Ha! After years of working in Pascal, I was assigned to work on the IBM mainframe, in COBOL. So I would label my procedure as:
and call it as PERFORM PROC-000 through PROC-099.
The old COBOL heads could not figure why I was doing that...
This is silly. With the optimizing compilers nowadays, there is no more need to do such silly antics.
And even back then, it was already silly because " premature optimization is the root of all evil ".
Go ahead, AP! Cut yourself off and fall more into irrelevence... The suits just don't understand that traffic is the new black.
I did plenty of "dirty" things, but the most memorable must have been the four weeks spent in the server closer, watching a network analyzer to try to understand why the router would randomly go down.
It was in a huge car dealership, so being in the closet insulated me from the douchy car salesmen that poked fun at my (company) car (one of those tiny jap subcompacts) each time I came in or went out. However, I got my revenge on them plenty of times, since they were expressly forbidden to use e-mail for personal reasons (this was when ISDN was kick-ass).
Eventually, I surmised that it could be logical that the router would go belly-up whenever a big turd of a joke e-mail with 20 pictures attachment (at one time, there was even a 2 megabytes mpeg!!! I never thought I'd see such a big e-mail!!!) went through, so I started to watch the mail server logs and queue too.
This had the added benefit that I could exact sweet revenge when I catches a salesmen in flagrante delicto of using e-mail for personal purposes, so in many case, I was able to call the boss and he would fire on the spot the salesman, sometimes even before the e-mail went though...
Unfortunately, this was not the reason the router went belly-up, and eventually we found it to be a firmware error. And although the router manufacturer was glad for us to find what caused that particular bug, we got no goodies from them for me sitting a month in that closet and finding their bug...
I can relate. I worked for $PRESTIGIOUS_TOBACCO_COMPANY, and on the mainframe, there was a big ashtray and a sign "Thank-you for smoking", and $COMPUTER_CO sure didn't mind coming 2-3 times a month to replace a disk drive on service contract... I mean, it was such a prestigious account...
What a cheap bastard. It's not like he is indigent; he's a vet, after all. He can afford to change computers every 3-4 years.
Ditto. This is supposed to mean racial purity, which is totally absurd when you talk about the most mixed-race people on Earth: for 10,000 years, France has been the final resting place of all european invasions. We have blood from all over the world, and when we came here, we added indian blood to our gene pool. So you cannot talk about racial purity in those conditions...
Oh really? How about the deportation of the acadians in 1755???
But no, you could not have deported or exterminated us, because you were just a handful against 70 thousand, and I am not counting our indian allies who enabled that paltry 70 thousand french to keep two thirds of North-America...
We don't have any. We've been there 200 years (10,000 years for those -- many -- who have indian blood) before the "blokes", and we've been kept aside as an underclass until about 40 years ago when we said "enough is enough" and started to get some respect after blowing up some bombs (with the british, you can never have anything until you put a knife to their throats).
A "pure virgin wool", eh? ;)
This is typical of the bigoted claptrap we've been getting from the english (canadians*) for decades.
They whine about us pushing the french, but they certainly don't say that they use their demographic and economic clout to stomp out the french from Canada, by ignoring them where they are minorities and by making immigrants turn into english even if they move to Québec, where more than 80% of the people is french.
So about 30 years ago, we decided to defang the big de-francisation tool of the english and we simply passed the Charte de la langue française, which made french the only official language of Québec by various measures, the most notorious being that english signs are prohibited on stores.
The whole point is to drive home the fact that immigrants should not expect to be able to live in Québec without speaking french.
Another bullcrap we hear a lot about is that we "trample the english's human rights". This is bullshit. The regulations are solely aimed at businesses and croporations, which are not human and thus do not have "human" rights; no single individual has ever been prevented from speaking or writing in english.
If anglo-saxons view croporations as human beings, it is their sole problem and they should seek therapy for it. They should not bother the french (who certainly don't see them as such) with it.
And, besides, those laws are perfectly constitutional. If they were not, they would have been shot down by the courts a long time ago.
(Oh, and phoque you too).
* They didn't call themselves "canadians" until about 50 years ago; prior to that, they were quite content to consider themselves british. Back then, the "canadians" used to be the french (canadians).
Not really. This is typical of the american "freedom": that is, the freedom to legally force your ways upon others.
The very fact that you are twisting your panties because the neighbour has strung up a clothesline (and that you specifically expect your neighbours to be exempt from clotheslines) clearly shows how much of a utter douchebag you are.
The "founding father of the current French government" died 39 years ago. Charles de Gaulle founded the fifth republic 50 years ago, ostensibly to replace the party rule by a more balanced system where the policical power did not rest in political parties.
What you see on Google is **PUBLIC VIEW**. It is not prohibited to take pictures of private property from a **PUBLIC PLACE**, say, like from the street.
Those hooligans who pitchforkmobbed the Google beetle (doesn't looks like a van to me) should be charged with obstruction of a public throughfare.
"Any reason" must still be justified.
After all, we're all entitled to proper due process.
* In the same negative sense as those french who collaborated with the nazis during WW-II.
Mohammed was a pedophile. And it doesn't take much brain to believe some claptrap that was mostly copied from the bible by an illiterate businessman.
* * *
When rabbis found out that they could not pick up young girls with their flabby bodies as easily as young men, they decided to outlaw public nudity and force people to wrap themselves with textiles.
* * *
Scatholics people believe that some cosmic jewish zombie can make them live forever if they eat a cookie that represents the zombie's body. "Makes perfect sense"...
In a world where executives of companies that lose money expect as a matter of course to be paid millions of dollars of bonuses, it is a given that a tool such as the DMCA **WILL** be abused to silence opposition or competition...