Someone is logging my calls. So now they know I called the dentist. Then ordered a pizza. For most people, the government wouldn't even care about them. So, why should those people care?
PL/I was the first language I actually learned. Did some work in Fortran before that, but all I could do was modify a program someone else already wrote. That was the strange thing about this obscure language. I had run across so many, PL/I etc, APL, COBOL, SNOBOL, Scheme, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, Ada, Smalltalk, C. You think I would have at least heard of it. It bugs me I can't remember what it was called. It wasn't a variation of some other language.
We inherited a system written in a language we never heard of. It wasn't just uncommon, it was way out there. Unfortunately, It was a while ago and I don't remember what it was called. We ran the system, but had to rewrite it immediately. Luckily, the reason we inherited it was because the old system was crap, and the customer was willing to pay us to redesign it. If the previous vender had put a little more effort into it, we wouldn't have been able to take the business.
Sometimes, the technology just changes, and the jobs have to go with it. In the 80's, the UK had a huge coal miner strike. The strikers didn't want the economy to change, because they wanted to stay in their jobs. The strike failed, and some of the people and places involved never recovered. Switch to today, and who is looking to grow the use of coal? Their decedents may be working in the North Sea oil fields, or on wind and wave power. If they are in these fields, they are being paid much better than the coal miners who proceeded them.
One day, we were on the lawn, where a maple tree and a white pine tree grow. I asked the students which were more closely related: The maple and the pine tree, or the maple and the grass? I could not convince most of them that the 2 flowing plants were more closely related. Most insisted that being trees, they were closely related. No wonder we have trouble teaching kids science.
There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.
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Someone is logging my calls. So now they know I called the dentist. Then ordered a pizza. For most people, the government wouldn't even care about them. So, why should those people care?
PL/I was the first language I actually learned. Did some work in Fortran before that, but all I could do was modify a program someone else already wrote. That was the strange thing about this obscure language. I had run across so many, PL/I etc, APL, COBOL, SNOBOL, Scheme, Lisp, Prolog, Pascal, Ada, Smalltalk, C. You think I would have at least heard of it. It bugs me I can't remember what it was called. It wasn't a variation of some other language.
We inherited a system written in a language we never heard of. It wasn't just uncommon, it was way out there. Unfortunately, It was a while ago and I don't remember what it was called. We ran the system, but had to rewrite it immediately. Luckily, the reason we inherited it was because the old system was crap, and the customer was willing to pay us to redesign it. If the previous vender had put a little more effort into it, we wouldn't have been able to take the business.
I think you will find that more people die from the preventable disease than die from the vaccine.
I hope so, I don't know why so many people heard of one study, which was proved false, and not the others which disproved it.
Sometimes, the technology just changes, and the jobs have to go with it. In the 80's, the UK had a huge coal miner strike. The strikers didn't want the economy to change, because they wanted to stay in their jobs. The strike failed, and some of the people and places involved never recovered. Switch to today, and who is looking to grow the use of coal? Their decedents may be working in the North Sea oil fields, or on wind and wave power. If they are in these fields, they are being paid much better than the coal miners who proceeded them.
Breaking news? What does this have to do with /.?
Well, I guess I have to start buying stamps again. But beware the postal inspectors!
They were 8th graders.
One day, we were on the lawn, where a maple tree and a white pine tree grow. I asked the students which were more closely related: The maple and the pine tree, or the maple and the grass? I could not convince most of them that the 2 flowing plants were more closely related. Most insisted that being trees, they were closely related. No wonder we have trouble teaching kids science.
Dead October? Too bad. I enjoyed his books.
Not to mention NFL announcers and Jersey Shore alumni
We can only use overwater sonar from now on.
There are three basic types, Mr. Pizer: the Wills, the Won'ts, and the Can'ts. The Wills accomplish everything, the Won'ts oppose everything, and the Can'ts won't try anything.
Off to find the Black Hole...
or a hotel, or possibly a church...
This is probably the funniest thing I have ever read on /. Well done.
Good one.
Why don't they invent technology that lets plane sense and avoid drones?
No one notices
Exterminate! Exterminate!
Will work as well as cell phone data caps.
In the US, the Three Laws of Robotics would be as complicated as copyright laws.
or other movie equivalents.
I finally get upgraded at work to Windows 7 next Friday! Along with IE 8! Joy! I'm not kidding