Your post exemplifies the problem here, both with the 3rd brakelight and the new rear view camera. The thrid brakelight was mandated by Elizabeth Dole, then US Secretary of Transportation. Was it the result of a study that measured its effectiveness and a comprehensive cost/benefit study? No, she just figured "it's gotta be helpful", so, whoop, there it is. The same sort of reasoning is being applied to the rear view camera. This sort of wishful thinking is no basis to make decisions that cost millions and billions of dollars.
I have a magic rock that keeps the tigers away. If you doubt it's needed or effective....well, I've been living here in the States for years, and haven't been attacked by a tiger even once! Thank god I have my magic rock, and fie on those who doubt the need for it!
I took years and years of vector & euclidean math, differential euqations and the like. Mow after working as a programmer for a very long time, I've used data structures, graphs, algorithms and the like on a daily basis. I've used the other, "Buck Rogers" math...once. I realize this is anecdotal, but I can't see how most programmers would have more use for the advanced analysis style math over the discrete stuff. Gradients, divergences, curls, triple integrals and partial differential equations are a lot of fun, but they just don't come up that often unless you're a physicist or a games developer.
Yah, the advent of CDs meant that you didn't have to perch over your turntable like a watchdog during a party, afraid of what could happen to your $300 cartridge and stylus, or a brand new $10 album (and a dollar was a lot of money back then - you could get a damn good car for $4000). When CDs arrived, you could let your drunk girlfriend change albums wihout having to get up and do it yourself.
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- "NSDAP" the Party also known as the "NAZI"-party
- "HJ" (Young Hitlericans(male))
- "BDM" (Young Hitlericans(female)
- "SS" (Sturm Staffel)
The SS were the Schutzstaffel, German for "Protective Echelon". Perhaps you were thinking of the Sturmabtielung, the "Storm Detachment" - the brownshirted Storm Troopers from the early days.
When this happend at a place I worked at long ago, I wrote an application to generate plausible sounding time log entries - worked like a charm! Once a week I updated a list of phrases it needed to keep it sounding currnet, ran it, and was done. Bosses never figured it out.
See, the thing of it is, programming used to be so damned hard, that only really, really smart people could work in the field...thus, you didn't see a fraction of the widespread idiocy in computing back then that you do now. It was a golden age...now the barrier to entry has been lowered so much, you get all kinds of pigeon brains cranking out bad code.
"Well, I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side. There's just one thing I've got to know, can you tell me please, who won the war?"
"the referendum system blocks them from doing anything that's unpopular with 51% of the voters"...yes, damn those pesky voters - how are politicians supposed to wield unlimited power and do things that are totally against the will of the governed under these circumstances? Sounds like a horrible situation...
Filename syntax, stream and socket IO are all just a little bit of gingerbread on the product. The internals of NT, including memory management, IO, process structure, scedhuling, were practically identical to VMS. Very little UNIX like structure to be found.
Are you for real? Windows NT's kernel was practicaly a copy of VMS, it wasn't "inspired by UNIX". VMS was based on RSX. RSX came to be at approximately the same time as UNIX, circa 1970. RSX and VMS were influenced by UNIX allright, in a negative way - if UNIX did something, RSX and VMS definitely wanted to do it some other way.
Not only that - if GOogle Updater gets blocked by a corporate firewall or proxy authentication, it goes into a snit...and retries approximatey 25 times/second. Multiply by a few hundred machines, and the load on proxies and firewalls becomes significant, not to mention exploding the dize of proxy & firewall logs....I spent a couple of weeks exorcising this particular demon from my network. I was pretty disappointed to see this kind of coding from Google...
"NASA is the only place that can verify the authenticity of a moon rock. They would not guarantee that they would give it back. A moon rock is a national treasure. A national treasure can not be owned so it can't be legally sold."
Not so - not all moon rocks came from the US Apollo missions. The USSR brought moon rocks back via automated sample return missions.
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Your post exemplifies the problem here, both with the 3rd brakelight and the new rear view camera. The thrid brakelight was mandated by Elizabeth Dole, then US Secretary of Transportation. Was it the result of a study that measured its effectiveness and a comprehensive cost/benefit study? No, she just figured "it's gotta be helpful", so, whoop, there it is. The same sort of reasoning is being applied to the rear view camera. This sort of wishful thinking is no basis to make decisions that cost millions and billions of dollars.
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I have a magic rock that keeps the tigers away. If you doubt it's needed or effective....well, I've been living here in the States for years, and haven't been attacked by a tiger even once! Thank god I have my magic rock, and fie on those who doubt the need for it!
I took years and years of vector & euclidean math, differential euqations and the like. Mow after working as a programmer for a very long time, I've used data structures, graphs, algorithms and the like on a daily basis. I've used the other, "Buck Rogers" math...once. I realize this is anecdotal, but I can't see how most programmers would have more use for the advanced analysis style math over the discrete stuff. Gradients, divergences, curls, triple integrals and partial differential equations are a lot of fun, but they just don't come up that often unless you're a physicist or a games developer.
Yah, the advent of CDs meant that you didn't have to perch over your turntable like a watchdog during a party, afraid of what could happen to your $300 cartridge and stylus, or a brand new $10 album (and a dollar was a lot of money back then - you could get a damn good car for $4000). When CDs arrived, you could let your drunk girlfriend change albums wihout having to get up and do it yourself.
like - "NSDAP" the Party also known as the "NAZI"-party - "HJ" (Young Hitlericans(male)) - "BDM" (Young Hitlericans(female) - "SS" (Sturm Staffel) The SS were the Schutzstaffel, German for "Protective Echelon". Perhaps you were thinking of the Sturmabtielung, the "Storm Detachment" - the brownshirted Storm Troopers from the early days.
VMS clusters, with the Distribute Lock Manager, solved this problem decades ago.
If you don't consider the RSX family major operating systems, you're displaying your ignorance of computing history.
ALso a bit of "Call Me Joe", by Poul Anderson in there.
I always thought the obvious influence for the character of C3PO was Ambassador Magnan from Keith Laumer's Retief stories.
I haven't seen Moon...but the reviewer in the Houston paper said it was very long and very boring...
When this happend at a place I worked at long ago, I wrote an application to generate plausible sounding time log entries - worked like a charm! Once a week I updated a list of phrases it needed to keep it sounding currnet, ran it, and was done. Bosses never figured it out.
See, the thing of it is, programming used to be so damned hard, that only really, really smart people could work in the field...thus, you didn't see a fraction of the widespread idiocy in computing back then that you do now. It was a golden age...now the barrier to entry has been lowered so much, you get all kinds of pigeon brains cranking out bad code.
They'll be OK...until it's time for a new Certificate Revocation List. When a new CRL doesn't get published, the cards become useless.
"Well, I can see by your coat my friend that you're from the other side. There's just one thing I've got to know, can you tell me please, who won the war?"
"the referendum system blocks them from doing anything that's unpopular with 51% of the voters"...yes, damn those pesky voters - how are politicians supposed to wield unlimited power and do things that are totally against the will of the governed under these circumstances? Sounds like a horrible situation...
Filename syntax, stream and socket IO are all just a little bit of gingerbread on the product. The internals of NT, including memory management, IO, process structure, scedhuling, were practically identical to VMS. Very little UNIX like structure to be found.
SO, NASA is going the way of Mythbusters - from an organization devoted to scientific inquiry into one that just blows things up for kicks...
The "interstate highways designed for bombers to land on" is an urban legend - at least in the USA.
Are you for real? Windows NT's kernel was practicaly a copy of VMS, it wasn't "inspired by UNIX". VMS was based on RSX. RSX came to be at approximately the same time as UNIX, circa 1970. RSX and VMS were influenced by UNIX allright, in a negative way - if UNIX did something, RSX and VMS definitely wanted to do it some other way.
Not only that - if GOogle Updater gets blocked by a corporate firewall or proxy authentication, it goes into a snit...and retries approximatey 25 times/second. Multiply by a few hundred machines, and the load on proxies and firewalls becomes significant, not to mention exploding the dize of proxy & firewall logs....I spent a couple of weeks exorcising this particular demon from my network. I was pretty disappointed to see this kind of coding from Google...
You know a guy....from the future?
I am you and you are me and we are all together.
Assorted flavors of DDT were extant on any number of DEC operating systems long before Kildall had it in CP/M.
"NASA is the only place that can verify the authenticity of a moon rock. They would not guarantee that they would give it back. A moon rock is a national treasure. A national treasure can not be owned so it can't be legally sold." Not so - not all moon rocks came from the US Apollo missions. The USSR brought moon rocks back via automated sample return missions.