What, surely you jest. Are you telling me that the War on Drugs and the Prohibition made otherwise law abiding citizens criminals! What, and there is no Santa Clause either!
What? You are saying those fresh out of college kids are inexperienced?
Darn, and mine almost had me convinced that we should move our presently working mail system to Microsoft Exchange. Oh, and that the web-based workorder system that's been running for 2 years is too "challenging" for the average user.
Oh no, they are wise beyond their years. Or is the expression I am looking for is "wet behind the ears."
Actually that was never part of the puzzle. Greeks had their share of liars at the time, and Plato was too much of a perfectionist to get stuck with one hand clapping.
Besides that would make life entirely too simple if all liars were confined to a specific area.
I'm not trying to pick a fight, but what concept (beyond the work of Von Nauman machine, Turing, and Shannon) has actually survived 5 years in practice? (A lot, I know, but less than you would think.)
I remember a time before Object Oriented programming. I remember when 640K was REALLY enough for everyone. Look back in your own lifetime, see the complete upheavals in the field of computer science, and tell me that we have 25 years of ANYTHING with a straight face.
It's a system called "Freedom Pay." They are a dotcom that is pushing RFID to authorize payments. One of the testers showed me the text, I don't know offhand what sets it off, nor if the spiel went out to production units.
Actually it was an IBM PCjr, but I won't let that get in the way of an otherwise entertaining post.
For the record I was later handling my own interrupts under Dos 6 in C to write my own mouse handlers, video drivers, and an artificial intelligence that was last seen wreaking havok in Latvia.
I had to persue other options when they made me take out a personal loan to cover the back tuition from when they sent my Stafford loan back 2 years prior. No... I'm not bitter.
EE is a hell of a lot more than circuits. No word sets me into a fetal position muttering equations faster than "Laplace."
When you actually understand the theory of control, analog electronics, and quantumn theory, you generally regard computer science as a house of cards. It is that simple because you are meant to think of it as simple. It has as much to do with the reality of the situation as high school physics does to general relativity.
For an entertaining evening, get me drunk and discuss how many "theorums" of computer science are not actually proven. You will never trust another security system again.
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. (...scroll...) What happen ? (...scroll...) Somebody set up us the bomb (...scroll...) We get signal (...scroll...) What ! (...scroll...) Main screen turn on (...scroll...) It's You !! (...scroll...) How are you gentlemen !! All your base are belong to us You are on the way to destruction (...scroll...) What you say !! (...scroll...) You have no chance to survive make your time HA HA HA HA.... (...scroll...) Take off every 'zig' You know what you doing Move 'zig' (...scroll...) For great justice
I know for a fact that's coded into at least one company's vending machine displays.
I don't know about that. Everyone around me gets a really good lesson in 4-letter vocubulary if I forget to put a static strap on and zap my new baby and/or part of the mainboard.
I'm personally waiting for the Babelfish or those nifty bacteria from Farscape.
That is of course assuming that aliens speak at all. Imagine if aliens communicated through pigment changes in the skin, or interpretive dance. I can see the aliens now performing, what looks like to us a Marcel Marceau routine, but actually is saying "Take me to your leader."
I'm picking through the original German. He actually has an emulator for the system. Technically you could run it under linux, and then modify it to the point that it would run Linux itself, and then run linux under it (at least in simulation.)
By that point some guy in a black trenchcoat will be sitting in a room with a red and a blue pill for you to take...
Well, I don't think anyone is going to be trying to top my sig for a while. Hard to do much better than: You had a microprocessor? I had to fab my CPU out of discrete components and develop my own microcode, assembly routines, and C compiler.
$$$ to fabricate? Try man-months of fabrication and development time. This guy had to invent his own assembly code, and C compiler.
As an Undergrad in EE I designed a hell of a lot of CPU's. I never built one. In the lab we used the old trusty Motorola 68000 series. Must have been Drexel's 10 week terms or something. LOL
This guy is hard core. Look at his parts list: NAND gates, NOR gates. I don't care if this thing doesn't do more than run a train set, just the work that went into it was impressive.
I remember playing with this stuff in VLSI. It's quite another thing to actually lay it out on hardware and wire the sucker up. He designed his own ALU, register paths, everything. God, and I can barly find time to play with my Mindstorms kit.
Since you expect the overstated, this tagline is rediculously understated. Since you reasonably expect it to be unreasonable, it us unreasonable by its sheer reasonability.
If and when I borrow a code, it's usually a library at a time. Anything smaller that 10 or 20 thousand lines of code will take longer to figure out how it works than it would to simply recode from scratch.
A lot of my projects are AI and/or web based. Web based apps are too damn terse to be bothered. (Anything more sophisticated than a pretty database query ought to simply message pass to something beefier.) AI programmers think that every project require writing their own custom database engine. I generally sift out the schemas and try to re-engineer the idea to use something conventional like TCL and MySQL. (As opposed to Fred's programming language and an ANSI text flat database.)
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What, surely you jest. Are you telling me that the War on Drugs and the Prohibition made otherwise law abiding citizens criminals! What, and there is no Santa Clause either!
Gender Studies and Comparitive Anatomy. See, I'm reading the Internet for the articles!
Darn, and mine almost had me convinced that we should move our presently working mail system to Microsoft Exchange. Oh, and that the web-based workorder system that's been running for 2 years is too "challenging" for the average user.
Oh no, they are wise beyond their years. Or is the expression I am looking for is "wet behind the ears."
Besides that would make life entirely too simple if all liars were confined to a specific area.
I can update my Christmas Card list.
I am from Crete, and all Cretians are liars.
If I see far, it is because I stand on the backs of giants.
I remember a time before Object Oriented programming. I remember when 640K was REALLY enough for everyone. Look back in your own lifetime, see the complete upheavals in the field of computer science, and tell me that we have 25 years of ANYTHING with a straight face.
Bud Dwyer jokes are off limits.
It's a system called "Freedom Pay." They are a dotcom that is pushing RFID to authorize payments. One of the testers showed me the text, I don't know offhand what sets it off, nor if the spiel went out to production units.
For the record I was later handling my own interrupts under Dos 6 in C to write my own mouse handlers, video drivers, and an artificial intelligence that was last seen wreaking havok in Latvia.
I had to persue other options when they made me take out a personal loan to cover the back tuition from when they sent my Stafford loan back 2 years prior. No... I'm not bitter.
EE is a hell of a lot more than circuits. No word sets me into a fetal position muttering equations faster than "Laplace."
When you actually understand the theory of control, analog electronics, and quantumn theory, you generally regard computer science as a house of cards. It is that simple because you are meant to think of it as simple. It has as much to do with the reality of the situation as high school physics does to general relativity.
For an entertaining evening, get me drunk and discuss how many "theorums" of computer science are not actually proven. You will never trust another security system again.
I know for a fact that's coded into at least one company's vending machine displays.
I don't know about that. Everyone around me gets a really good lesson in 4-letter vocubulary if I forget to put a static strap on and zap my new baby and/or part of the mainboard.
That will bring totally new meaning to downloading patches.
That is of course assuming that aliens speak at all. Imagine if aliens communicated through pigment changes in the skin, or interpretive dance. I can see the aliens now performing, what looks like to us a Marcel Marceau routine, but actually is saying "Take me to your leader."
(Tumbleweed.)
Well it was news to me!
I'm picking through the original German. He actually has an emulator for the system. Technically you could run it under linux, and then modify it to the point that it would run Linux itself, and then run linux under it (at least in simulation.)
By that point some guy in a black trenchcoat will be sitting in a room with a red and a blue pill for you to take...
Well, I don't think anyone is going to be trying to top my sig for a while. Hard to do much better than: You had a microprocessor? I had to fab my CPU out of discrete components and develop my own microcode, assembly routines, and C compiler.
Oh, right, I'm one of about a dozen Americans who actually speaks another language fluently. My bad.
As an Undergrad in EE I designed a hell of a lot of CPU's. I never built one. In the lab we used the old trusty Motorola 68000 series. Must have been Drexel's 10 week terms or something. LOL
I don't think it has nearly enough RAM, 256 opcodes, and 5 registers.
Now, Minix on the other hand might be right up this guy's alley.
I remember playing with this stuff in VLSI. It's quite another thing to actually lay it out on hardware and wire the sucker up. He designed his own ALU, register paths, everything. God, and I can barly find time to play with my Mindstorms kit.
Macht Spass Jung!
Puzzles within puzzles, and plans within plans.
A lot of my projects are AI and/or web based. Web based apps are too damn terse to be bothered. (Anything more sophisticated than a pretty database query ought to simply message pass to something beefier.) AI programmers think that every project require writing their own custom database engine. I generally sift out the schemas and try to re-engineer the idea to use something conventional like TCL and MySQL. (As opposed to Fred's programming language and an ANSI text flat database.)