Because they wouldn't get funding to commission a theme song without all the drama. Arkansas, seriously? The first program that will be written will a cow tipping game.
That's just the thing, at some point someone will make a mistake, he should have been more like the Dread Pirate Roberts and retired before that happened. From what I understand he had made a lot of money, should have walked away while he still could (yeah, yeah I know easier said than done).
Erm, I can still find Windows ME on the net, not that I would actually want to install it. All MS are doing (and it boggles the mind that they can't see it) is shooting themselves in the foot. One of the reasons Windows XP was so insanely popular is because it was so easy to pirate. If MS pulled their head out of their own a$$ and looked around they would realise that Linux with Android have made huge inroads in replacing MS as the dominant OS. Steam OS is around the corner, I am a huge gamer and when it's out I will definitely be dual booting. MS should follow the same licensing model for windows that they are taking with Visual Studio. Free for personal use. Companies have to pay for a license. That being said we just recently formatted about 200 PC's and put Linux on them, they are being used as POS terminals which is web based, so why pay for an MS license when all you need is a browser?
Free electricity is retarded, they did it here and now we have Rolling blackouts Arguably it's also due to mismanagement (they put ditch diggers in charge). There is nothing wrong with the poor people sitting in the dark, they need to get up early to dig ditches anyway. Also since they can't watch TV they end up breeding more, so we can have more ditches dug.
Oh please, this just stops the morons, anyone with ANY computer skills will get around it. It's a fvcking waste of time and tax money. With 4 clicks of your mouse you can download and be surfing via the TOR network, anyone can do it.
Alternately it will create a legion of future business people who think that they can code and say "just put a button there to do xyz, it's easy, I can do it in my sleep" without really understanding the system or architecture and hence not realizing that the "button" requires days of rework or hacking the current code into an abhorrent mess. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
It was 640kb, I know because I learned to code on one. An 8088, actually still have it, still worked the last time I switched it on. Was looking for some files on it, transferring the data to another PC was a real pain in the ass, ended up using a serial cable.
So what you are saying is that we should all STFU and not speculate and toss ideas around about a better mouse trap because we already have a working mouse trap. I have another idea, you STFU and we will toss ideas around about a better mouse trap. You do realise this is/. and there are actually mechanical engineers taking part in the discussion, sure most of the commenters are armchair engineers, but sometimes a bit of "outside of the box" thinking can open new avenues of thought. Either that or make a lot of mechanical engineers shake their heads and grimace.
Stop speeding, the limits are there for the safety of yourself and the poor innocent bystander you kill when lose control of your car and wipe out, because NO, you do not have the driving skills of a race car driver.
A bunch of rich people with no real military protecting them
You do realise these are uber rich people.
They can just hire their own military
You do realise a good portion of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq were not actually fought by the American military.
Sigh, forcing people to "learn to code" is just going to create legions of substandard programmers. Every year we get interns fresh out of varsity, it takes at least half a year to teach them to forget the crap coding standards that they got away with in varsity and to code properly. Memory leaks they didn't even know they had because their programs never ran longer than 20 minutes, and these are people who actively sought out becoming programmers. Imagine a legion of people who didn't want to learn to code in the first place.
Yeah, democracy in the Western sense, where you only have two parties and they are both stooges to the corporations and have no real power. Democracy does not exist.
Soz to burst you bubble but new COBOL programs are written every day, my wife is a COBOL programmer working for a major bank and she's on new projects all the time. I do agree with you that a lot of COBOL systems are being replace though, but the main drive around that is a lack of resources to write new COBOL programs. I worked with COBOL a long time ago, and I have worked with lots of other languages since then, nothing has come close to the ease with which COBOL parses data. Just define your working storage and drop the chunk of data into the 01 level. Tada, parsed. Hate the rest of the bloody language though.
Could not agree more. Everything is a bloody youtube video, wanted to do some modding in Skyrim, there's a youtube video for that, and precious little else. Then the first 5 minutes is waffle waffle waffle about his dietary requirements and recent bowel movements, as if I cared. There used to be the &wadsworth=1 option to skip the first 10% but apparently it's not working anymore. (Youtube is banned at work, and I avoid it like the plague at home).
COBOL has increased in popularity because all the people who know it are retiring, so the people who are willing to learn it are getting humongous salaries. There are literally billions of lines of COBOL code still churning away, working out your interest payments and processing your credit card transactions etc. I know of one company (retail) which have bought the SAP cool aid and are spending millions to convert their systems to SAP. SAP said it would take 5 years, well it's 5 years further down the line and they have only finished phase one, and that was a fvck up of note (and still not finished). There are another 3 phases to go, and they started on the "small" one first. So yeah, COBOL is going to be around for a LONG time, and anyone with 2+ years experience in it will coin it big time.
The F-Anything is an apt description for a project which has hugely overrun and is hugely over budget and still isn't actually usable. So it's more like Fvckit at this point we'll take anything.
And in ten years after it has migrated into all of those products they will discover it causes cancer, and deformities in babies. Like the wonder material asbestos before it.
True to a point, but the knowledge gained from the ISS is nothing to sneeze at either. I do agree that a manned mars mission is a bit silly at this point though, we don't really have the technology yet to make it feasible. More research into alternate energy sources should be where most of the money should be going.
Well hopefully they are better at working on their "car" than you are at working on yours. If you have bits left which are not the bits you replaced you start to wonder why there is a slight rattle coming from under the hood when you turn left on an incline (yes I also end up with bits left over).
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Nuclear is also location limited. You need water for cooling.
Because they wouldn't get funding to commission a theme song without all the drama. Arkansas, seriously? The first program that will be written will a cow tipping game.
That's just the thing, at some point someone will make a mistake, he should have been more like the Dread Pirate Roberts and retired before that happened. From what I understand he had made a lot of money, should have walked away while he still could (yeah, yeah I know easier said than done).
Erm, I can still find Windows ME on the net, not that I would actually want to install it. All MS are doing (and it boggles the mind that they can't see it) is shooting themselves in the foot. One of the reasons Windows XP was so insanely popular is because it was so easy to pirate. If MS pulled their head out of their own a$$ and looked around they would realise that Linux with Android have made huge inroads in replacing MS as the dominant OS. Steam OS is around the corner, I am a huge gamer and when it's out I will definitely be dual booting. MS should follow the same licensing model for windows that they are taking with Visual Studio. Free for personal use. Companies have to pay for a license. That being said we just recently formatted about 200 PC's and put Linux on them, they are being used as POS terminals which is web based, so why pay for an MS license when all you need is a browser?
Free electricity is retarded, they did it here and now we have Rolling blackouts
Arguably it's also due to mismanagement (they put ditch diggers in charge).
There is nothing wrong with the poor people sitting in the dark, they need to get up early to dig ditches anyway. Also since they can't watch TV they end up breeding more, so we can have more ditches dug.
Oh please, this just stops the morons, anyone with ANY computer skills will get around it. It's a fvcking waste of time and tax money. With 4 clicks of your mouse you can download and be surfing via the TOR network, anyone can do it.
I'm not retarded, my mother had me tested!
I say make all drugs legal, let the problem sort itself out. Might be a bit chaotic until the gene pool clears though.
Alternately it will create a legion of future business people who think that they can code and say "just put a button there to do xyz, it's easy, I can do it in my sleep" without really understanding the system or architecture and hence not realizing that the "button" requires days of rework or hacking the current code into an abhorrent mess.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
It was 640kb, I know because I learned to code on one. An 8088, actually still have it, still worked the last time I switched it on. Was looking for some files on it, transferring the data to another PC was a real pain in the ass, ended up using a serial cable.
So what you are saying is that we should all STFU and not speculate and toss ideas around about a better mouse trap because we already have a working mouse trap. I have another idea, you STFU and we will toss ideas around about a better mouse trap. You do realise this is /. and there are actually mechanical engineers taking part in the discussion, sure most of the commenters are armchair engineers, but sometimes a bit of "outside of the box" thinking can open new avenues of thought. Either that or make a lot of mechanical engineers shake their heads and grimace.
Stop speeding, the limits are there for the safety of yourself and the poor innocent bystander you kill when lose control of your car and wipe out, because NO, you do not have the driving skills of a race car driver.
A bunch of rich people with no real military protecting them
You do realise these are uber rich people.
They can just hire their own military
You do realise a good portion of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq were not actually fought by the American military.
Sigh, forcing people to "learn to code" is just going to create legions of substandard programmers. Every year we get interns fresh out of varsity, it takes at least half a year to teach them to forget the crap coding standards that they got away with in varsity and to code properly. Memory leaks they didn't even know they had because their programs never ran longer than 20 minutes, and these are people who actively sought out becoming programmers. Imagine a legion of people who didn't want to learn to code in the first place.
Yeah, democracy in the Western sense, where you only have two parties and they are both stooges to the corporations and have no real power. Democracy does not exist.
Soz to burst you bubble but new COBOL programs are written every day, my wife is a COBOL programmer working for a major bank and she's on new projects all the time. I do agree with you that a lot of COBOL systems are being replace though, but the main drive around that is a lack of resources to write new COBOL programs. I worked with COBOL a long time ago, and I have worked with lots of other languages since then, nothing has come close to the ease with which COBOL parses data. Just define your working storage and drop the chunk of data into the 01 level. Tada, parsed. Hate the rest of the bloody language though.
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Yeah, it's big
Could not agree more. Everything is a bloody youtube video, wanted to do some modding in Skyrim, there's a youtube video for that, and precious little else. Then the first 5 minutes is waffle waffle waffle about his dietary requirements and recent bowel movements, as if I cared. There used to be the &wadsworth=1 option to skip the first 10% but apparently it's not working anymore. (Youtube is banned at work, and I avoid it like the plague at home).
COBOL has increased in popularity because all the people who know it are retiring, so the people who are willing to learn it are getting humongous salaries. There are literally billions of lines of COBOL code still churning away, working out your interest payments and processing your credit card transactions etc. I know of one company (retail) which have bought the SAP cool aid and are spending millions to convert their systems to SAP. SAP said it would take 5 years, well it's 5 years further down the line and they have only finished phase one, and that was a fvck up of note (and still not finished). There are another 3 phases to go, and they started on the "small" one first. So yeah, COBOL is going to be around for a LONG time, and anyone with 2+ years experience in it will coin it big time.
You need a catchy slogan to go with it, The war on drugs, the war against terror (which is TWAT when abbreviated) that sort of thing.
The F-Anything is an apt description for a project which has hugely overrun and is hugely over budget and still isn't actually usable. So it's more like Fvckit at this point we'll take anything.
And in ten years after it has migrated into all of those products they will discover it causes cancer, and deformities in babies. Like the wonder material asbestos before it.
Telephone sanitizers are more useful than this wunch of bankers.
True to a point, but the knowledge gained from the ISS is nothing to sneeze at either. I do agree that a manned mars mission is a bit silly at this point though, we don't really have the technology yet to make it feasible. More research into alternate energy sources should be where most of the money should be going.
Well hopefully they are better at working on their "car" than you are at working on yours. If you have bits left which are not the bits you replaced you start to wonder why there is a slight rattle coming from under the hood when you turn left on an incline (yes I also end up with bits left over).