"Tanker truck remotely shutdown on railtracks, thousands die in ensuing fireball."
How can they be sure that shutting a truck down isn't going to cause a disaster/pileup?
...could best be described as "Anguished chaos". Our boss (who is the only person who defines the requirements) changes what he wants on a daily basis, never gives a clear explanation of what he wants, issues bug reports like "Everything is broken!" and gets irate when something which you said will take two weeks is not done within 24 hours.
Really.
Where's the Death Star?
It'd also be interesting to see some of the Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks' novels), like the gigantic General Systems Vehicles (which are so large they not only transport other giant craft, but even have landscapes built in).
A friend of mine has an old "System 2000" format VCR, and the quality of it is amazing. Even during fastforward/rewind the image doesn't break up at all.
Sadly, I think System 2000 sunk even faster than Betamax did.
As for Jack Schofield, I've read a lot of his pieces in the Guardian and get the impression that he's either a newspaper-based troll, or just a self-important opinionated oaf.
I used to have a Forth compiler for my ZX Spectrum.
Any language that will allow you to define the number 4 as a word that places the number 3 on the stack can be a frightening weapon in the hands of the contrary.
Hmm... If I remember correctly, early versions of FORTRAN allowed you to redefine TRUE and FALSE. Can you still do that?
There used to be an old BASIC-only computer (at around the same time as the ZX/Sinclair Spectrum). With most of these types of machines, if there was an error in your code it would halt, tell you what the error was and often show you where in the code it occurred.
This machine just stopped and the only information it would give was :
"Error"
I remember an error message from an IBM mainframe compiler, which said something like
"Syntax error. Solution: Correct code and recompile."
A guy I worked with came up with the idea of "incrementally abusive error messages" for a GUI he was working on. If you did something wrong you'd get a normal error message the first time. Keep doing the same thing and the message would get gradually more impatient and insulting each time.
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At the university I went to, about 12 years ago, we often had to hand in our CS assignments by stacking them in a big pile outside the secretary's office. This made it quite simple for anybody who hadn't done theirs to come along early in the morning, take a handful from the stack, copy what was needed and then replace them all. Some students didn't even bother trying to do the assignments because they knew they could just copy them, without the copyees:) knowing.
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I recently bought a new monitor. As I was unpacking it my nephew (he's only 11) came in and said, "Wow, cool. What games are on it?"
Physically assaulting other people is wrong. Since when did spammers count as "people"?
..to just share pr0n, not music.
You mean it has real atoms in it?
It will have excellent appeal for the phone-sex industry.
"Tanker truck remotely shutdown on railtracks, thousands die in ensuing fireball." How can they be sure that shutting a truck down isn't going to cause a disaster/pileup?
Ah, so if I want something but can't afford it, it's okay to just steal it? I'm off to the Porsche showroom, then.
...could best be described as "Anguished chaos". Our boss (who is the only person who defines the requirements) changes what he wants on a daily basis, never gives a clear explanation of what he wants, issues bug reports like "Everything is broken!" and gets irate when something which you said will take two weeks is not done within 24 hours. Really.
So, erm. where did they get the guns and ammo? Presumably they weren't included with the game.
...everyone *wants* a larger penis. And breasts.
If messages were free to send, you would get constant spam.
Where's the Death Star? It'd also be interesting to see some of the Culture ships (from Iain M. Banks' novels), like the gigantic General Systems Vehicles (which are so large they not only transport other giant craft, but even have landscapes built in).
A friend of mine has an old "System 2000" format VCR, and the quality of it is amazing. Even during fastforward/rewind the image doesn't break up at all. Sadly, I think System 2000 sunk even faster than Betamax did. As for Jack Schofield, I've read a lot of his pieces in the Guardian and get the impression that he's either a newspaper-based troll, or just a self-important opinionated oaf.
..it will be obsolete within 6 months.
Java. Or, if you really need C++ use a cross-platform GUI like Qt, and OpenGL for graphics. Don't underestimate Java, though.
Quelle fromage!
I used to have a Forth compiler for my ZX Spectrum.
Any language that will allow you to define the number 4 as a word that places the number 3 on the stack can be a frightening weapon in the hands of the contrary.
Hmm... If I remember correctly, early versions of FORTRAN allowed you to redefine TRUE and FALSE. Can you still do that?
There used to be an old BASIC-only computer (at around the same time as the ZX/Sinclair Spectrum). With most of these types of machines, if there was an error in your code it would halt, tell you what the error was and often show you where in the code it occurred. This machine just stopped and the only information it would give was : "Error" I remember an error message from an IBM mainframe compiler, which said something like "Syntax error. Solution: Correct code and recompile." A guy I worked with came up with the idea of "incrementally abusive error messages" for a GUI he was working on. If you did something wrong you'd get a normal error message the first time. Keep doing the same thing and the message would get gradually more impatient and insulting each time.
You need a Space Mountain :)
Can they play Quake III on it at lunchtime?
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Weight for weight, is inkjet ink worth more than gold now?
...will it excite the aliens like a Pentium 4 does?
At the university I went to, about 12 years ago, we often had to hand in our CS assignments by stacking them in a big pile outside the secretary's office. This made it quite simple for anybody who hadn't done theirs to come along early in the morning, take a handful from the stack, copy what was needed and then replace them all. Some students didn't even bother trying to do the assignments because they knew they could just copy them, without the copyees :) knowing.