There is no need to get into a terminalogy war. Tell me what is wrong. When someone says "My hard drive is broken", they are offering an opinion without having a clue what is happening. If my car is broken, I don't tell the mechanic about the parts I think are broken. I describe what is happening. When a person opines out of ignorance, they risk sending the repair person down the wrong path. Just describe the problem.
Let's see. I was coming in to work and all the roads were blocked off. I parked a few blocks away and walked into work. When I got to the building, a deputy almost whacked me. He told me to get in the office and stay there. Some nutbag had killed a policeman a few yards from the office. We even debated whether the office windows were bulletproof. That same year, we were locked in again when some nutbag decided to shoot up a bunch of classrooms.
This was more difficult than working with the cougar who kept talking about meeting me in motels near her house. I passed.
That's very true because nothing comes for free in our world. But remember. Computers cost money. Computers come with Windows therefore Windows is part of the computer. If they pay for Windows separately, they think it is different from the Windows on their PC. I had a person ask me to install Linux on their Windows. Windows is as much a part of their computer as the TV thing or the printing thing. If you install Linux on a repeatedly pwn3d box and the first thing out of the person's mouth will be "Where are my icons? I knew where everything was and now its gone".
This was so much easier when schools used Apple. Take what you get and like it.
You can learn COBOL in about a month. We taught a bunch of consulting Accountants COBOL so they could write us a billing system. They did really well until they hit CICS and we ran out of money trying to teach them that crap.
Geez dude, you got 32G of RAM. Why do you need to worry about a PIC S9(09) COMP-3 variable blowing the top of the stack? It's not an operating system. It's an Accounts Payable interface that runs for 8 minutes. I don't think that 100K of memory is going to drive the system to its knees. Let a FOCUS program do that.
IF WS07-INSULT-TXT = 'LOOSER'
MOVE 'LOSER' TO WS07-INSULT-TXT
MOVE WI01-USERID TO WA01-USER-LIST[WX01-IGNORANT-SHITKICKER, WX02-IX)
ADD +1 TO WX02-IX END-IF.
Especially when you are not really sure what the code does. If it works, you try not to mess with it. Many of these systems were written when memory was pricey and variable names cost something. It can be hard to figure out what they did when you are trying to analyze a variable called WC03-IDX that is used 62 times. COBOL may be "fat" but memory and processors are cheap now. I worked for a company that hired non-programmers to cut code and handle maintenance. It was all in COBOL. Nice, easy-to-read-at-2AM COBOL.
Cue up the Theme from Shaft, I'm ready to walk that aisle. Twenty-eight years later, I am ready for my place in the sun. You bunch of Java-smoking hippies make a hole cause I'm coming through. I told you that personal microcomputers were a flash in the pan. Take your Winchester drives and Hercules graphics and shove em up your ass. Big Iron is here to stay.
Dammit, where are my car keys? Honey, where are the keys to the Citation?
Forget it. Just do what the White House does and lose the tapes periodically. Whoops. Sorry. What's done is done.
Anyway, who wants to read:
"Hey Monica, how about lunch? We'll eat in the Oval Office." "Hey Cheney, how do I work this pen again?" "Hey Bristol, I found your Promise Ring. It was in the back seat."
Bloom County was perfect for the Clinton years because Bill was Steve to a T. Whether he was standing naked in front of someone's house or get maced in a bar trying to put the make on a girl. Breathed's Reagan quips were legend.
The old Burroghs mainframe has a system that was written in Algol. I wrote some Algol apps which the company inheirited when I left. A few weeks later, I get a call asking "What does it mean when it says a program made a stinky?"
I tried to be a beta-tester but I got disqualified because I once had a date. I tried to tell them it was my cousin but they said because I'm from West Virginia, it counts.
I set up my wife with a free email account which she used for sending emails to Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. After a few years, they canceled her account for spamming. I thought I would never hear the end of that. She still brings it up.
If you have a free account, don't expect a whole pile of customer support. If they decide to cancel some VP's account, it just sucks to be you.
If the government controlled the media, everyone who writes a letter to the editor of a newspaper would go to jail. They all complain about the government. Someone calls George Bush a "liar" on a daily basis.
I'm sure there is some deep dark conspiracy that can explain the rationale behind this. Maybe they can explain it to the Chinese so that they can get it on the action.
They not only found the craft, there was a book with it. It was simply titled "To Serve Man". We have been unable to decipher the strange but beautiful language. Also, the aliens were able to inject alcohol into people.
Maybe you can't stop it but ask yourself this: What if he had walked into a police station at Virginia Tech and done this? I guarantee 50 people wouldn't be shot. Someone would have shot him before he did much damage. As it stood, he had free unfettered access to unarmed people. That's why so many died.
If he had tried this at the mall in Christiansburg or the MR hospital or the Roanoke Gun Show, he would not have been as successful. Even at the local public schools, he would have to take out the police on campus. Ironically, on the day of the VT shooting, a students was walking around Blacksburg Middle School (where my daughter goes to school) trying to sell a gun out of his backpack. Laws restricting guns just don't work. 4/16 proved that. All you do is put power in the hands of people willing to break the law...like the VT gunman.
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I paid $100 and got a cell phone, 1.3 years of service and 900 minutes from Tracfone. I don't see that as expensive
You know that you can get a machine with more than 1 gig of memory now.
I have a one gig laptop and it will barely run Eclipse. It runs fine on my two gig and 6 gig machine.
There is no need to get into a terminalogy war. Tell me what is wrong. When someone says "My hard drive is broken", they are offering an opinion without
having a clue what is happening. If my car is broken, I don't tell the mechanic about the parts I think are broken. I describe what is happening. When
a person opines out of ignorance, they risk sending the repair person down the wrong path. Just describe the problem.
Let's see. I was coming in to work and all the roads were blocked off. I parked a few blocks away and walked into work. When I got to the building, a deputy almost
whacked me. He told me to get in the office and stay there. Some nutbag had killed a policeman a few yards from the office.
We even debated whether the office windows were bulletproof.
That same year, we were locked in again when some nutbag decided to shoot up a bunch of classrooms.
This was more difficult than working with the cougar who kept talking about meeting me in motels near her house. I passed.
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When you get back from fighting in Fallujah, come back and tell us what really happened, Until then, stick to playing games.
That's very true because nothing comes for free in our world. But remember. Computers cost money. Computers come with Windows therefore Windows is part of the computer. If they pay for Windows separately, they think it is different from the Windows on their PC. I had a person ask me to install Linux on their Windows. Windows is as much a part of their computer as the TV thing or the printing thing. If you install Linux on a repeatedly pwn3d box and the first thing out of the person's mouth will be "Where are my icons? I knew where everything was and now its gone".
This was so much easier when schools used Apple. Take what you get and like it.
How could a Republican chair a committee when the Democrats control the Senate?
I need one of those under my bed.
"Yeah baby. Feel that. That's my Love Sonar. You can't hide from my love".
I need somethin', that's for sure.
Four gig?????? My first mainframe had 4 meg of RAM.
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That's all I need to know from Obama, my main man. I want some pie. Share some wealth with your boy, Pres.
You can learn COBOL in about a month. We taught a bunch of consulting Accountants COBOL so they could write us a billing system. They did really well until they hit CICS and we ran out of money trying to teach them that crap.
Anyone can read COBOL. IF, MOVE, FETCH, WRITE, PERFORM. Pretty easy stuff.
When my kids move out and I retire, I'm going to be punching COBOL until I IPL.
Geez dude, you got 32G of RAM. Why do you need to worry about a PIC S9(09) COMP-3 variable blowing the top of the stack? It's not an operating system. It's an Accounts Payable interface that runs for 8 minutes. I don't think that 100K of memory is going to drive the system to its knees. Let a FOCUS program do that.
IF WS07-INSULT-TXT = 'LOOSER'
MOVE 'LOSER' TO WS07-INSULT-TXT
MOVE WI01-USERID TO WA01-USER-LIST[WX01-IGNORANT-SHITKICKER, WX02-IX)
ADD +1 TO WX02-IX
END-IF.
Especially when you are not really sure what the code does. If it works, you try not to mess with it. Many of these systems were written when memory was pricey and variable names cost something. It can be hard to figure out what they did when you are trying to analyze a variable called WC03-IDX that is used 62 times. COBOL may be "fat" but memory and processors are cheap now. I worked for a company that hired non-programmers to cut code and handle maintenance. It was all in COBOL. Nice, easy-to-read-at-2AM COBOL.
But I still live in fear of CICS.
Cue up the Theme from Shaft, I'm ready to walk that aisle. Twenty-eight years later, I am ready for my place in the sun. You bunch of Java-smoking hippies make a hole cause I'm coming through. I told you that personal microcomputers were a flash in the pan. Take your Winchester drives and Hercules graphics and shove em up your ass. Big Iron is here to stay.
Dammit, where are my car keys? Honey, where are the keys to the Citation?
Forget it. Just do what the White House does and lose the tapes periodically. Whoops. Sorry. What's done is done.
Anyway, who wants to read:
"Hey Monica, how about lunch? We'll eat in the Oval Office."
"Hey Cheney, how do I work this pen again?"
"Hey Bristol, I found your Promise Ring. It was in the back seat."
Bloom County was perfect for the Clinton years because Bill was Steve to a T. Whether he was standing naked in front of someone's house or get maced in a bar trying to put the make on a girl. Breathed's Reagan quips were legend.
The old Burroghs mainframe has a system that was written in Algol. I wrote some Algol apps which the company inheirited when I left. A few weeks later, I get a call asking "What does it mean when it says a program made a stinky?"
Ooops.
I tried to be a beta-tester but I got disqualified because I once had a date. I tried to tell them it was my cousin but they said because I'm from West Virginia, it counts.
Too bad cause I needed the money.
I set up my wife with a free email account which she used for sending emails to Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc. After a few years, they canceled her account for spamming. I thought I would never hear the end of that. She still brings it up.
If you have a free account, don't expect a whole pile of customer support. If they decide to cancel some VP's account, it just sucks to be you.
If the government controlled the media, everyone who writes a letter to the editor of a newspaper would go to jail. They all complain about the government. Someone calls George Bush a "liar" on a daily basis.
I'm sure there is some deep dark conspiracy that can explain the rationale behind this. Maybe they can explain it to the Chinese so that they can get it on the action.
Ask Clinton. He pardoned over 150 people. Presidents do that.
They not only found the craft, there was a book with it. It was simply titled "To Serve Man". We have been unable to decipher the strange but beautiful language. Also, the aliens were able to inject alcohol into people.
Very odd indeed.
Maybe you can't stop it but ask yourself this: What if he had walked into a police station at Virginia Tech and done this? I guarantee 50 people wouldn't be shot. Someone would have shot him before he did much damage. As it stood, he had free unfettered access to unarmed people. That's why so many died.
If he had tried this at the mall in Christiansburg or the MR hospital or the Roanoke Gun Show, he would not have been as successful. Even at the local public schools, he would have to take out the police on campus. Ironically, on the day of the VT shooting, a students was walking around Blacksburg Middle School (where my daughter goes to school) trying to sell a gun out of his backpack. Laws restricting guns just don't work. 4/16 proved that. All you do is put power in the hands of people willing to break the law...like the VT gunman.
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Anytime you can limit free speech, you have done a good thing. /sarcasm