Check the novelette "Pantaleón y las Visitadoras", by Mario Vargas Llosa, about a (fictional) specops unit set up by the peruvian army to... hmmm... "cool down" its troops in the amazonian zone. It is written in an hilarious language, mocking the military report style when Capt. Pantaleón Pantoja writes to his superiors discussin his "personnel" needs to "service" his soldiers adequately...
It was made into a movie, with the colombian bombshell Angie Cepeda in the main female role.
That (no engineering background) is not true. From TFA:
"All the design work, the calculations and engineering systems have been done entirely in Catalonia, in collaboration with engineering companies that have shown a great capacity for innovation, research, and the ability to meet new challenges".
Two of the four "leaders" have engineering background. One of them has experience in marine design. Engineering companies and students have cooperated in the project.
Procedural languages are OK for > 90% of needs. You don't really need an OO language nor a fancy framework to read a sequential file and summarize its records to generate a payroll... Oh, and the fixed-column format is optional in the modern COBOL compilers.
Record (file) handling. To process a record-composed file in C you have to write a lot of boilerplate code (just parsing the records into its components and re-creating the records by parts) requires probably to write a specific function to do that. In COBOL you just declare the structure mapping the physical record and you are done.
By the way, the languge has all the control structures needed to write decent code since COBOL-81. Before that (COBOL-74) it was a really ugly mess, but the modern COBOL (yes, it has been updated a lot of times) allows to write clean and understandadble code.
Perhaps you saw it in a documentary. That's the way the Orlan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit) russian space suits work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OrlanDonning.jpg)
No, it was not. OS/2 has nothing to do about OS/400 (I guess you are refering to that one). OS/2 is an independent development, in which _probably_ you can find traces of ideas and implementations in other operating systems, but you can say the same about any OS. Take into account OS/2 1.X was being developed by Microsoft, and it was when MS switched their goals to enhance the Windows Family when IBM toke the lead.
No, they simply will not be allowed to make business with european companies. And their european subsidiary (located in Dublin afaik) will be fined to oblivion.
You can ask the pharma and the car industries about what happens when you try to sidestep EU regulations.
This is not about controlling the world. Guessing you are american, you can sell you entire life to an american company if that's what you want. It's just that company will not be allowed to sell its products within the EU unless it obeys the EU regulations. As for how does that company behaves in the rest of the world, it's not our problem. Actually, it is YOUR problem.
To paraphrase your comment, unilateralism is dead and the USA no longer controls the EU.
You, sir, are a nazi retard, and YOU should be awarded with a for-life sentence working as a janitor in the visitors centre of Auswitz concentration camp, so you can learn every day of your stupid life the consequences of that stupid thinking of yours.
The Guyana Soyuz launch facility is not prepared to launch Soyuz spacecrafts. It's prepared to launch Soyuz ROCKETS. The manned spacecraft and the rocket share the Soyuz name (and, of course, the Soyuz capsule is launched atop of a Soyuz rocket). Right now, there will be no manned launches from Guyana. So the ISS must keep its current orbit by now.
What the heck are you talking about? It's called a JOINT VENTURE. An american company (ATK) provides the first stage. An european company provides the upper Stage. Each one developed its part. You didn't pay a dime to develop the Ariane 5 core stage!
Capitalism is based BOTH in competition and cooperation. This is a case of cooperation. If both companies get a profit, and NASA gets a cheaper/safer way to put astronauts and cargo in orbit it's a win-win situation.
I don't think this guys will be put on trial by jury. In spanish law, juries are only used for certain crimes, and I don't think computer crimes are one of those.
And what should be the legal status of the murderers? Should them be charged with homicide? Or should they be considered POWs? (given that they just targeted and killed US military people).
I wonder... if what you said happended (one enemy unit chasing and killing a drone pilot in U.S. soil) if that could be considered an act of war, so not technically a "murder". That remote (very remote) killing stuff is an unknown land regarding the laws of war.
Here at Spain a court ruled that if a carrier modifies unilaterally a contract, any binding clause is void so the customer can break the contract for zero euros.
You don't need to enable & become root to edit/etc/hosts. You can simply use sudo.
And, by the way, I use Aperture, and I've created a vault in a networked drive. Zero problems. I don't know what do you mean when you say you can't backup to a network drive.
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Check the novelette "Pantaleón y las Visitadoras", by Mario Vargas Llosa, about a (fictional) specops unit set up by the peruvian army to... hmmm... "cool down" its troops in the amazonian zone. It is written in an hilarious language, mocking the military report style when Capt. Pantaleón Pantoja writes to his superiors discussin his "personnel" needs to "service" his soldiers adequately...
It was made into a movie, with the colombian bombshell Angie Cepeda in the main female role.
That (no engineering background) is not true. From TFA:
"All the design work, the calculations and engineering systems have been done entirely in Catalonia, in collaboration with engineering companies that have shown a great capacity for innovation, research, and the ability to meet new challenges".
Two of the four "leaders" have engineering background. One of them has experience in marine design. Engineering companies and students have cooperated in the project.
Procedural languages are OK for > 90% of needs. You don't really need an OO language nor a fancy framework to read a sequential file and summarize its records to generate a payroll... Oh, and the fixed-column format is optional in the modern COBOL compilers.
IDE? Who needs an IDE? :) A text editor is enough!
Record (file) handling. To process a record-composed file in C you have to write a lot of boilerplate code (just parsing the records into its components and re-creating the records by parts) requires probably to write a specific function to do that. In COBOL you just declare the structure mapping the physical record and you are done.
By the way, the languge has all the control structures needed to write decent code since COBOL-81. Before that (COBOL-74) it was a really ugly mess, but the modern COBOL (yes, it has been updated a lot of times) allows to write clean and understandadble code.
The PDP-11 is a 16 bit computer...
Indeed. There are several projects around to implement a full PDP-11 in single FPGA. For example:
http://opencores.org/project,w11
Those things are probably not networked. Will Adama would have no trouble having them on board of Galactica.
... but the PDP-11 had (has) better interrupt latency so it was preferred for realtime applications. It is not (so) surprising it is still around...
Perhaps you saw it in a documentary. That's the way the Orlan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit) russian space suits work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OrlanDonning.jpg)
No, it was not. OS/2 has nothing to do about OS/400 (I guess you are refering to that one). OS/2 is an independent development, in which _probably_ you can find traces of ideas and implementations in other operating systems, but you can say the same about any OS. Take into account OS/2 1.X was being developed by Microsoft, and it was when MS switched their goals to enhance the Windows Family when IBM toke the lead.
No, they simply will not be allowed to make business with european companies. And their european subsidiary (located in Dublin afaik) will be fined to oblivion.
You can ask the pharma and the car industries about what happens when you try to sidestep EU regulations.
This is not about controlling the world. Guessing you are american, you can sell you entire life to an american company if that's what you want. It's just that company will not be allowed to sell its products within the EU unless it obeys the EU regulations. As for how does that company behaves in the rest of the world, it's not our problem. Actually, it is YOUR problem.
To paraphrase your comment, unilateralism is dead and the USA no longer controls the EU.
You, sir, are a nazi retard, and YOU should be awarded with a for-life sentence working as a janitor in the visitors centre of Auswitz concentration camp, so you can learn every day of your stupid life the consequences of that stupid thinking of yours.
Or, directly, given a bullet in your head.
Well, you can win the lottery, or you can steal it (at gunpoint or via scam). I don't know of any other way one person can make himself super-rich.
The Guyana Soyuz launch facility is not prepared to launch Soyuz spacecrafts. It's prepared to launch Soyuz ROCKETS. The manned spacecraft and the rocket share the Soyuz name (and, of course, the Soyuz capsule is launched atop of a Soyuz rocket). Right now, there will be no manned launches from Guyana. So the ISS must keep its current orbit by now.
What the heck are you talking about? It's called a JOINT VENTURE. An american company (ATK) provides the first stage. An european company provides the upper Stage. Each one developed its part. You didn't pay a dime to develop the Ariane 5 core stage!
Capitalism is based BOTH in competition and cooperation. This is a case of cooperation. If both companies get a profit, and NASA gets a cheaper/safer way to put astronauts and cargo in orbit it's a win-win situation.
I don't think this guys will be put on trial by jury. In spanish law, juries are only used for certain crimes, and I don't think computer crimes are one of those.
And what should be the legal status of the murderers? Should them be charged with homicide? Or should they be considered POWs? (given that they just targeted and killed US military people).
I wonder... if what you said happended (one enemy unit chasing and killing a drone pilot in U.S. soil) if that could be considered an act of war, so not technically a "murder". That remote (very remote) killing stuff is an unknown land regarding the laws of war.
Please go to your church to pay your tribute to your undead superhero and let the rest of us talk about science.
BTW, Darwin was dead before Popper wrote about "falsifying" anything. You are not only a religious nut, but also an ignorant.
Does anyone remember that novel?
Extended FORTRAN? Do you mean PL/1? ;)
Here at Spain a court ruled that if a carrier modifies unilaterally a contract, any binding clause is void so the customer can break the contract for zero euros.
You don't need to enable & become root to edit /etc/hosts. You can simply use sudo.
And, by the way, I use Aperture, and I've created a vault in a networked drive. Zero problems. I don't know what do you mean when you say you can't backup to a network drive.