Oh, I think I'm safe in saying that at least one major auto company uses SQL. Really really old SQL. That line didn't come from one of their tables, of course.
Bah! It's not a vehicle indentification number and it's 17 characters, not digits! (Of course I remembered that after my previous post.) Stupid bad terminology.
Commodore got their start making start making office equipment in Toronto--like filing cabinet type equipment. Then they jumped on calculators and later computers.
Okay, so that doesn't explain MP3 players other than as a trendy item, but now you can be puzzled on a higher level!:)
Well said. I wonder how often this happens - a developer is hired in the hopes of bringing onboard magical knowledge, but it turns out to be more of an impediment than anything else.
I know of a company where both their main products were from work programmers brought from elsewhere. One idiot even kept faxes to himself at his old company in the files. Eventually they promoted him out of the way to "architect".
Hard to say if it really was an impediment since the whole purpose of the company was to sell out for big bucks--and they did that.
They ruined the joke. The other car is supposed to be a huge bargemobile driven by an old fart.
Young person says "Yes! That's what you can do when you're young and fast!"
Other driver proceeds to back into the spot anyway and cube the little toy. "That's what you can do when you're old and rich."
Yup, you could park a small country in that space!
Did they use any kind of three laws of robotic parking?
1. I will not squash a human being.
2. I will not dent another car, except when this can not be observed by a human being that I can not squash.
3. I will not hang with my shiny metal ass out in the traffic. Blow horn and rules #1 and #2 can hang.
4. Restricted
I'll take a stab at Methuselah's Children, but it was a pretty standard technology in a lot of his stories. Of course, it was combined with RSS newsfeeds too.
I think I'll write a cautionary tale about a spammer who sent out so much email to so many people that one day he emailed a flipped out serial killer for whom this email was the final straw. The killer tracked him down and [insert gory death here].
And then I'll email it to a bunch of people to warn them. And sign it Cowboyneal.
Does Seattle still have the monorail that came with the Space Needle? Besides, Dick Tracy had wrist phones in the 1930's. Heinlein being Heinlein, I'm surprised that he didn't predict ring-tones, but perhaps this was a later future where they were no longer a big deal.
And you don't even have to be faster than your prey. Humans did well as cursorial hunters because they can outlast their prey. Of course humans (and other cursorials) have excellent mechanisms for getting rid of waste heat--we sweat, wolves pant. And a T-Rex, with its body mass, must have had a huge heat disposal problem. My nose itches just thinking about a sweaty T-Rex, euugh!:)
I remember a mighty hunter / time-traveller short story. The fool bags a big dinosaur, then gets munched by the "small" opportunist creatures that lived on it. Heh.
That's like those mail-in "discounts" on computer stuff. After people pay the full price, a percentage won't send in the card. Those cards that are sent in can be given to vogons to process.
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Oh, I think I'm safe in saying that at least one major auto company uses SQL. Really really old SQL. That line didn't come from one of their tables, of course.
Bah! It's not a vehicle indentification number and it's 17 characters, not digits! (Of course I remembered that after my previous post.) Stupid bad terminology.
Might work. I doubt if any of the code tries to manipulate it as a number. (Unless there's a checksum built into it.)
Okay, so that doesn't explain MP3 players other than as a trendy item, but now you can be puzzled on a higher level! :)
Corner office and a pile of stock. :[
Even in bad times companies are always hiring them. And they always seem to be the last let go.
I know of a company where both their main products were from work programmers brought from elsewhere. One idiot even kept faxes to himself at his old company in the files. Eventually they promoted him out of the way to "architect".
Hard to say if it really was an impediment since the whole purpose of the company was to sell out for big bucks--and they did that.
Young person says "Yes! That's what you can do when you're young and fast!"
Other driver proceeds to back into the spot anyway and cube the little toy. "That's what you can do when you're old and rich."
Did they use any kind of three laws of robotic parking?
1. I will not squash a human being.
2. I will not dent another car, except when this can not be observed by a human being that I can not squash.
3. I will not hang with my shiny metal ass out in the traffic. Blow horn and rules #1 and #2 can hang.
4. Restricted
That's going to be one solid wall of ugly! The only thing worse would be spammers encased in fake wood panelling.
Which one? The original book by S. Morgenstern, or the one abridged by William Goldman?
I'll take a stab at Methuselah's Children, but it was a pretty standard technology in a lot of his stories. Of course, it was combined with RSS newsfeeds too.
The old one used to be shiny and new too, you know. I swear, you people just can't be trusted with anything nice!
And then I'll email it to a bunch of people to warn them. And sign it Cowboyneal.
It must be a hell of an accent if it changes the spelling too! Zowie!
Outlook and OE, which would run VB script automatically in the preview window or when the email was opened.
Does Seattle still have the monorail that came with the Space Needle? Besides, Dick Tracy had wrist phones in the 1930's. Heinlein being Heinlein, I'm surprised that he didn't predict ring-tones, but perhaps this was a later future where they were no longer a big deal.
When they can r00t my QVT-102 terminal, I'll be impressed! (Especially since it's in the box in the basement right now.)
Keep in mind that Slashdot does check for common open proxies the first time that you post that "day".
And you don't even have to be faster than your prey. Humans did well as cursorial hunters because they can outlast their prey. Of course humans (and other cursorials) have excellent mechanisms for getting rid of waste heat--we sweat, wolves pant. And a T-Rex, with its body mass, must have had a huge heat disposal problem. My nose itches just thinking about a sweaty T-Rex, euugh! :)
I remember a mighty hunter / time-traveller short story. The fool bags a big dinosaur, then gets munched by the "small" opportunist creatures that lived on it. Heh.
Wasn't there a story about training dogs to do that?
And what aroma would that be? Luser eaten by a t-rex?
Ahh, I thought maybe they sold hints to Zork and HHGTTG!
That's like those mail-in "discounts" on computer stuff. After people pay the full price, a percentage won't send in the card. Those cards that are sent in can be given to vogons to process.