Another thing to do, if your card punch did not print the code at the top of the card, was to have JCL cards to just print everything in between. This worked for small stuff, like college assignments, but not great for real world programs.
Someplace I still have a card deck, a DEC tape, and a write-protect ring for a tape reel.
Whoever the designer of this was, has no experience with offshore platforms.
Doesn't look like they have much experience with the ocean, either. Bad news for the people that go there from, oh, June to November, roughly. But, this is more like the concept cars that the automakers used to come up with, back when they had money. Interesting to look at, but completely impractical.
Sometimes the fault does lie with the person carrying out the instructions. Every set of instructions assumes some minimum level of skill and/or intelligence from the person carrying them out.
So true. One of our offices called in, saying the computer wasn't working. In the background I could hear the UPS screaming its battery-all-but-dead alarm. I asked if they had checked the circuit breaker, because it sounded like the UPS was not getting power. They replied that the power was out, and had been for almost an hour. I guess they thought that a UPS was Three Mile Island In A Box. Anyway, there was shutdown software on the computer, but it did not work because they had disconnected the UPS monitor cable (the software would not start if it could not see the UPS). Why had they done this? Well, they had no choice. Every time the power went out, the software would shut down the computer! (/indignant_tone_of_voice) Of course. Where was my head at?
The old saw about them making better idiots is true
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Another thing to do, if your card punch did not print the code at the top of the card, was to have JCL cards to just print everything in between. This worked for small stuff, like college assignments, but not great for real world programs.
Someplace I still have a card deck, a DEC tape, and a write-protect ring for a tape reel.
... The Linux community ought to prop up Tom Tom with legal and technical support--at least on the software patent theory.
As as long long as as they they don't don't bring bring back back those those stupid stupid ads ads.
Unless, you turn the whole thing into a bong...
Is Idle cross-posting to Hardware?
What about essence of burnt jawa, to keep the deer and rabbits out of the garden?
Ok, it's not cologne, but people by fox urine and stink bait, and they're not cologne either (for most people).
What they need is Trek SOAP. Preferably in the shape of various Trek heroines and female villains. Then the fanboys might actually use it.
Yeah, but not the way it should be used....
Why does belly button lint cause urine suds to dissipate in the toilet?
Either you need less soap in your diet, or you are drinking your beer way too fast.
Some police departments use them for the shoot/don't shoot training.
Rub two spotted owls together.
Long story short, I got blisters on my palms from shaking the joystick to vigorously to often.
It may not be what you meant, but it still put soda all over my keyboard.
Now, "soul callous" does sound like it was porn-induced.
"Guitar Scrotum"? Well, it could explain why Pete Townshend did the things he did on stage. But, damned if I will be the one to ask him about it.
Actually, the real danger is combining a microwave oven and non-fat dairy creamer.
Read?? I have a GBIC just behind my right ear. I just download everything from the server.
Sorry if my voice is a little funny, I must have picked up your cold virus too.
Why does he want to force the blind to rely on the limited availability of commercial and specialised works for the blind?
Maybe he's gone mad with power. Maybe he just doesn't understand the situation.
Nah. He's a dick.
Your eye patch should arrive, oh, mid-September, around the 17th.
Wolf's Nipple Chips?
Is this word association? Felps! Rosetta Stone! Bong!
I'd buy that for a dollar!
I am a big fan of SMART, but nothing comes from IBM for free.
Yeah, new slashdot handle, "Cataract Man".
Anyway, this crap has been around since at least the '70s in Popular Science. There is a reason it was not called Practical Science.
Whoever the designer of this was, has no experience with offshore platforms.
Doesn't look like they have much experience with the ocean, either. Bad news for the people that go there from, oh, June to November, roughly. But, this is more like the concept cars that the automakers used to come up with, back when they had money. Interesting to look at, but completely impractical.
And camel legs. Don't forget the camel legs.
It worked until they managed to let it catch on fire. There was only a watchman there, and the place got rather torn up.
Sometimes the fault does lie with the person carrying out the instructions. Every set of instructions assumes some minimum level of skill and/or intelligence from the person carrying them out.
So true. One of our offices called in, saying the computer wasn't working. In the background I could hear the UPS screaming its battery-all-but-dead alarm. I asked if they had checked the circuit breaker, because it sounded like the UPS was not getting power. They replied that the power was out, and had been for almost an hour. I guess they thought that a UPS was Three Mile Island In A Box. Anyway, there was shutdown software on the computer, but it did not work because they had disconnected the UPS monitor cable (the software would not start if it could not see the UPS). Why had they done this? Well, they had no choice. Every time the power went out, the software would shut down the computer! (/indignant_tone_of_voice) Of course. Where was my head at?
The old saw about them making better idiots is true