When's the last time you saw a toothpaste ad on TV. In the 60s and 70s they were ubiquitous. This one gave you minty fresh breath, that one fights cavities, the other one makes your teeth whiter.
Now you never see one. My guess is all the patents expired, everyone implemented everyone else's patents, and all toothpaste is essentially the same nowdays. So buy the cheapest tube you can, cuz it ain't gonna matter.
Some 20 years I worked on a big budget (it involved Satellites...) project. One of my co-workers was from Russia, and was his wife. Once you ran his code through indent it was pretty sweet stuff. He was a great guy, his wife was a wonderful woman, and last I saw of him his wife was 8 months pregnant. The joys of being a consultant at the end of the project.
/ we used to joke that in Russia they charged for whitespace // Seriously, Alex indented 1 column at a time, no blank lines anywhere, no whitespace in for/while loops, etc /// After indent his code was beautiful.
I bought all this crap several years ago, then they made a law that I couldn't use said crap. Now not only can I make virii to evolve humanity the way I want it to evolve, I get a nice fricken tax break for it! Whooo Hooo, MAGA!!!!
I've said this before. I've been programming some 40 years. Awk, sed, TCL/TK, bash, Z80/8086/68k/MIPS/SH-4/32016 assembler, python, java. Oh yeah, C and C++, which have been my bread and butter for 35 years.
I've liked some languages (z-80 & 68k assembly, C, Python), disliked others (MIPS assembly, C++, TCL/Tk). But there is only one language I actively hate and that is Ecmascript, also know as Javascript. I found it mind boggling that my scripts would run differently on different PCs because "reasons". I spent 6 months coding Javascript and all I remember about it is shit like "oh, you're department sets this flag on install while mine doesn't? Gee, be nice to get a runtime error instead of wrong fucking answers".
What part of "TRS-80" and "late 70's" would lead you to think anything else?
I'm guessing the reverse engineered C++ code is gonna cost a hella amount of time to reverse engineer the reverse engineered code the tool generates.
I've reversed engineered C. C++? Not seeing how a tool is gonna be a lot of help. Basing this on going from C to ASM is pretty straightforward. Going from C++ to C is problematic, especially as you are going C++ -> ASMas opposed to C++ -> C.
Back in the late 70's I loaded TRS-80 games into my debugger, it also let me dump the results into a text file. Finding things like "jump to label_foo" helped, but was not the be-all end-all.
The killer was when I debugged my TRS-80 BASIC interpreter in ROM. You'd have some 3 byte instruction, "jump here", then somewhere else you'd have a 3 byte instruction "jump into the middle of this 3 byte instruction to do something completely different". My understanding is Bill did those, but for all the evil he did I have major respect for his coding abilities.
I beat a lot of games running my debugger on them. 90% sure it was called TRS-MON, but wouldn't bet my retirement on it.
Considering what it costs to rent, based on me (I cook, don't eat out, don't eat frozen food), if they are spending more than 10% of their monthly outgo on food they're idiots.
The real headline should be "1 in 4 are at risk of being homeless".
Instagram. Some social media thing. Don't have a facebook/tumblr/myspace/linkedin/pinterest/whatever "social giving companies personal information" accounts.
As a tecchi, I give 2 grams of dogshit about this because? A) Someone paid you to post it; B) I'm way out of touch with how things work today.
I'ma gonna go with A, cuz I may be out of touch, but I'm damn near 60 y/o and have learned a thing or three about how things work.
I have music I bought on 8 track (Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Led Zep, UFO), then bought the album (my music buying exploded about this time, an album a week), then in some cases bought the CD. I have some 3500 CDs. It's easier to download the MP3 of a CD I own than it is to dig through boxes in a closet, find the CD, and rip it myself. Have I broken copyright law? I'm sure the MAFIAA will say HELL YES!, but I'm not so sure. Where is the line? Own the CD, download the MP3? Own the LP, download the MP3? Own the 8-track, download the MP3?
IMHO, I bought the IP already. To me I'm not breaking any laws. Those who get money from the buying of 8-tracks->LPs->cassettes->CDs think otherwise. I think they're thinking is greedy and they need to cut back on the coke and hookers they consume.
Copyright law is about sucking as much $$$ out of people as it can, not what is right.
We won't even get into the CDs that sounded worse than the LPs. *cough* Nektar - Remember the future, *cough* Black Sabbath - Paranoid, *cough* I can come up with dozens of other examples where they rushed out a CD that sounded like crap cuz, well, people wanted their LPs on:"A better sounding format".
or gin, or whiskey, I'm sure 50% of the type 2 diabetics are gonna be fine with this. For the other 50%, if a packet of gruel can replace McDonald's cheeseburgers then good on them.
Me? Drunks not drinking? Fatties not fast fooding? I'm gonna guess this is a treatment in search of patients. That said, best of luck to the 10-15% of type 2 diabetics who are neither drunks nor fatties, the study says half of you have a chance.
From the bottom of my heart. I "upgraded" to Win10 when some other program wanted an OK, and the Win10 update msg appeared and stole my "Yes". Classic shell was the only reason I stuck with Win10. I've been using it for some 2 years now and, outside of the fucking "we've installed an update, aren't we cool?" reboots my laptop makes while I'm eating dinner, I find Win10 to be OK. Granted, get my games to run on Linux and I'm fucking out of here on a hot rocket, but, hey. Who are we kidding. If my games ran under Linux I'd be out of here so fast I'd be auditioning the the Flash TV show.
Seriously. Close my laptop, go to bed/dinner/ vacation. Open my laptop and it's rebooted? That is serious bad mojo. Fuck you Microsoft of ever thinking rebooting my machine, without me ever clicking an "OK" button, is OK. Cuz it's not. Just fuck you and the billions of bux your executives stole due to the stock going up.
A month or so ago SyFy did a Futurama marathon. Watched one, tons of ads. Actually timed it. 4 minutes of show, 2 minutes of ads. 2 minutes of show, another 2 minutes of ads. I gave up.
The last ep of Orville did the same thing. Break for commercial, show a block of ads, show 3-4 minutes of show, and another block of ads.
If your idea of "free TV" is "a block of ads every 3-4 minutes", then, well, fuck you with a pointy cactus. I've got a bookmark for Pirate Bay, and not only know how to use it but also know how to throw things from my laptop to my TV.
I have to wonder who wrote Schumer's BOTS act. cuz you know damned well neither he nor his staff don't understand the issue, let alone legislate it. It was written by lobbyists who paid the most the Chucky's attention.
I've got some C++ on a microcontroller that detects kids on my lawn and does the yelling for me. Had I written it in Javascript it would activate twice as often for no good reason, and miss real issues 50% of the time.
Some 6 years ago us kids decided he couldn't drive anymore, and he wouldn't give up his keys. I swapped a couple of his ignition wires, truck wouldn't start and dad (who used to be an A-1 mechanic) (now with the alzheimer's option) couldn't figure out why.
6 years later dad is still going strong, health wise, is totally gone, mentally wise, and I don't remember which wires I crossed and am not an A-1 mechanic. Plus 4 flat tires, and a truck that hasn't moved in 6 years/
31 years from now? My niece is a useless waste of oxygen who can barely maintain her US-gov mail to keep her welfare coming while she plays video games 24/7. The other niece and nephew are 2,000 miles away and have never been part of dad's life, doubt they could start dad's truck. If I'm alive in 31 years I expect to make a killing on the talk show circuit. Won't be actively trying to kill off oldest person alive, but will be sending thoughts and prayers that they let me be #1 for a week or two.
I have yet to hear of a single useful thing IME gets me, and lots of bad things it gets me. Current laptop runs an AMD chip, when it dies/becomes obsolete in 5 years or so I'll use it to determine which CPU my new system will have.
/ Yeah, I said 5 years. This thing is 3-4 years old // hard drive is less than half full, even though I have a NAS I'm not good at updating /// I remember the 3 year updates, with a graphics card every 18 months. Times have changed
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When I do it, it's playing around. When you do it it's OMFG PRISON 4 LIFE!
When's the last time you saw a toothpaste ad on TV. In the 60s and 70s they were ubiquitous. This one gave you minty fresh breath, that one fights cavities, the other one makes your teeth whiter.
Now you never see one. My guess is all the patents expired, everyone implemented everyone else's patents, and all toothpaste is essentially the same nowdays. So buy the cheapest tube you can, cuz it ain't gonna matter.
Some 20 years I worked on a big budget (it involved Satellites...) project. One of my co-workers was from Russia, and was his wife. Once you ran his code through indent it was pretty sweet stuff. He was a great guy, his wife was a wonderful woman, and last I saw of him his wife was 8 months pregnant. The joys of being a consultant at the end of the project.
// Seriously, Alex indented 1 column at a time, no blank lines anywhere, no whitespace in for/while loops, etc
/// After indent his code was beautiful.
/ we used to joke that in Russia they charged for whitespace
I bought all this crap several years ago, then they made a law that I couldn't use said crap. Now not only can I make virii to evolve humanity the way I want it to evolve, I get a nice fricken tax break for it! Whooo Hooo, MAGA!!!!
Been running scriptblock in my browser for years now, maybe 1 in 10 sites get the 'allow->temp'. The rest it's like "um, yeah, how about no".
So what's your point?
The rest of the world as a whole is fucked.
I've said this before. I've been programming some 40 years. Awk, sed, TCL/TK, bash, Z80/8086/68k/MIPS/SH-4/32016 assembler, python, java. Oh yeah, C and C++, which have been my bread and butter for 35 years.
I've liked some languages (z-80 & 68k assembly, C, Python), disliked others (MIPS assembly, C++, TCL/Tk). But there is only one language I actively hate and that is Ecmascript, also know as Javascript. I found it mind boggling that my scripts would run differently on different PCs because "reasons". I spent 6 months coding Javascript and all I remember about it is shit like "oh, you're department sets this flag on install while mine doesn't? Gee, be nice to get a runtime error instead of wrong fucking answers".
What part of "TRS-80" and "late 70's" would lead you to think anything else?
I'm guessing the reverse engineered C++ code is gonna cost a hella amount of time to reverse engineer the reverse engineered code the tool generates.
I've reversed engineered C. C++? Not seeing how a tool is gonna be a lot of help. Basing this on going from C to ASM is pretty straightforward. Going from C++ to C is problematic, especially as you are going C++ -> ASMas opposed to C++ -> C.
Back in the late 70's I loaded TRS-80 games into my debugger, it also let me dump the results into a text file. Finding things like "jump to label_foo" helped, but was not the be-all end-all.
The killer was when I debugged my TRS-80 BASIC interpreter in ROM. You'd have some 3 byte instruction, "jump here", then somewhere else you'd have a 3 byte instruction "jump into the middle of this 3 byte instruction to do something completely different". My understanding is Bill did those, but for all the evil he did I have major respect for his coding abilities.
I beat a lot of games running my debugger on them. 90% sure it was called TRS-MON, but wouldn't bet my retirement on it.
The children that evangelical christians doomed to a sock, due to the lack of a 14 y/o receptacle. Or the 14 y/o receptacle being male.
Considering what it costs to rent, based on me (I cook, don't eat out, don't eat frozen food), if they are spending more than 10% of their monthly outgo on food they're idiots.
The real headline should be "1 in 4 are at risk of being homeless".
Instagram. Some social media thing. Don't have a facebook/tumblr/myspace/linkedin/pinterest/whatever "social giving companies personal information" accounts.
As a tecchi, I give 2 grams of dogshit about this because? A) Someone paid you to post it; B) I'm way out of touch with how things work today.
I'ma gonna go with A, cuz I may be out of touch, but I'm damn near 60 y/o and have learned a thing or three about how things work.
If it's within 50 kilometers build railroad track, possibly with overhead wires for powers. Seems to me it would be much more efficient, and cheaper.
Then again, I write low level software like device drivers, so WTF do I know about hauling cargo anywhere?
There's no debate... Idiots use Windows and intelligent people use Linux. But who uses Mac?
Intelligent people who want to play games are stuck with Windows. The rest of your quote is accurate.
I have music I bought on 8 track (Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Led Zep, UFO), then bought the album (my music buying exploded about this time, an album a week), then in some cases bought the CD. I have some 3500 CDs. It's easier to download the MP3 of a CD I own than it is to dig through boxes in a closet, find the CD, and rip it myself. Have I broken copyright law? I'm sure the MAFIAA will say HELL YES!, but I'm not so sure. Where is the line? Own the CD, download the MP3? Own the LP, download the MP3? Own the 8-track, download the MP3?
:"A better sounding format".
IMHO, I bought the IP already. To me I'm not breaking any laws. Those who get money from the buying of 8-tracks->LPs->cassettes->CDs think otherwise. I think they're thinking is greedy and they need to cut back on the coke and hookers they consume.
Copyright law is about sucking as much $$$ out of people as it can, not what is right.
We won't even get into the CDs that sounded worse than the LPs. *cough* Nektar - Remember the future, *cough* Black Sabbath - Paranoid, *cough* I can come up with dozens of other examples where they rushed out a CD that sounded like crap cuz, well, people wanted their LPs on
or gin, or whiskey, I'm sure 50% of the type 2 diabetics are gonna be fine with this. For the other 50%, if a packet of gruel can replace McDonald's cheeseburgers then good on them.
Me? Drunks not drinking? Fatties not fast fooding? I'm gonna guess this is a treatment in search of patients. That said, best of luck to the 10-15% of type 2 diabetics who are neither drunks nor fatties, the study says half of you have a chance.
From the bottom of my heart. I "upgraded" to Win10 when some other program wanted an OK, and the Win10 update msg appeared and stole my "Yes". Classic shell was the only reason I stuck with Win10. I've been using it for some 2 years now and, outside of the fucking "we've installed an update, aren't we cool?" reboots my laptop makes while I'm eating dinner, I find Win10 to be OK. Granted, get my games to run on Linux and I'm fucking out of here on a hot rocket, but, hey. Who are we kidding. If my games ran under Linux I'd be out of here so fast I'd be auditioning the the Flash TV show.
Seriously. Close my laptop, go to bed/dinner/ vacation. Open my laptop and it's rebooted? That is serious bad mojo. Fuck you Microsoft of ever thinking rebooting my machine, without me ever clicking an "OK" button, is OK. Cuz it's not. Just fuck you and the billions of bux your executives stole due to the stock going up.
A month or so ago SyFy did a Futurama marathon. Watched one, tons of ads. Actually timed it. 4 minutes of show, 2 minutes of ads. 2 minutes of show, another 2 minutes of ads. I gave up.
The last ep of Orville did the same thing. Break for commercial, show a block of ads, show 3-4 minutes of show, and another block of ads.
If your idea of "free TV" is "a block of ads every 3-4 minutes", then, well, fuck you with a pointy cactus. I've got a bookmark for Pirate Bay, and not only know how to use it but also know how to throw things from my laptop to my TV.
Dunno the details, but if I was a teacher with 6 classes of 30 students each then everydamnedone of them would be sent to this.
I have to wonder who wrote Schumer's BOTS act. cuz you know damned well neither he nor his staff don't understand the issue, let alone legislate it. It was written by lobbyists who paid the most the Chucky's attention.
I've got some C++ on a microcontroller that detects kids on my lawn and does the yelling for me. Had I written it in Javascript it would activate twice as often for no good reason, and miss real issues 50% of the time.
Pray pray pray.
I think you're wrong.
pray pray pray pray pray pray
Javescript/Ecmascript (giving it a real name, a spec, and a couple books doesn't make it better) really needs to die.
if you are halfway competent in C/C++ you can see at a glance what a steaming pile Javascript is. Especially the 2010 version of Javascript.
I don't like C++ for various reasons, but the only language in a good 40 years of programming I've learned to hate is Javascript.
Some 6 years ago us kids decided he couldn't drive anymore, and he wouldn't give up his keys. I swapped a couple of his ignition wires, truck wouldn't start and dad (who used to be an A-1 mechanic) (now with the alzheimer's option) couldn't figure out why.
6 years later dad is still going strong, health wise, is totally gone, mentally wise, and I don't remember which wires I crossed and am not an A-1 mechanic. Plus 4 flat tires, and a truck that hasn't moved in 6 years/
31 years from now? My niece is a useless waste of oxygen who can barely maintain her US-gov mail to keep her welfare coming while she plays video games 24/7. The other niece and nephew are 2,000 miles away and have never been part of dad's life, doubt they could start dad's truck. If I'm alive in 31 years I expect to make a killing on the talk show circuit. Won't be actively trying to kill off oldest person alive, but will be sending thoughts and prayers that they let me be #1 for a week or two.
I have yet to hear of a single useful thing IME gets me, and lots of bad things it gets me. Current laptop runs an AMD chip, when it dies/becomes obsolete in 5 years or so I'll use it to determine which CPU my new system will have.
// hard drive is less than half full, even though I have a NAS I'm not good at updating
/// I remember the 3 year updates, with a graphics card every 18 months. Times have changed
/ Yeah, I said 5 years. This thing is 3-4 years old
Really hate the way /. requires explicit line breaks between lines. I hit CR, isn't that enough of a hint? Do I really need
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fuckin stupid is what I call it. -br- -br- -br- There, you happy now?