Real Programmers toggle programs in from the front panel toggle switches.
"Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone."
Satire:
1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
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2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
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HR/Personnel is in no way related to meeting room booking, and vacation autoresponders and I'm stunned that you'd think it is.
HR/Personnel is all about payroll, insurance, retirement packages, sensitivity training, sick days, vacation days, HIPPA, SOX and the 100,000 other bits of federal, state and local regulations.
Besides. What you suggested is too much work. I'd have to get a gun permit to get a pistol (which is a Herculean task, living in Kings County, NY), expending money and energy in the process.
If you're going to cap yourself, how hard and how much energy is it to buy a hot pistol from some shady character's trunk? After all, you're in Brooklyn.
Here is the traditional "Hello World" progam in COBOL (for the youngsters out there who never had to program in it).
As a former COBOL-85 programmer, who still really likes the language, I have to say that the obsession with My language can do "Hello World" in only X lines is silly.
COBOL was designed for "big apps", not scripting. In a 5000 line file, the 8 lines of "comments" stating necessary stuff like program name, who wrote it and when, is only 0.16% of the line count.
I could respond to your erudite points, but how about you explain why one should "never invade China"?
2 million Japanese soldiers were needed in China. And they still weren't able to pacify the whole country.
by invading Russia, others have fared better -- the Mongols and Japanese
The Japanese invaded Russia? (And no, little bitty pieces of far eastern Siberia doesn't count. It's like saying that the Japs invaded the US by occupying a couple of frozen rocks at the edge of the Aleutians.
"Greater" Russia
By that, I mean Russia + Ukraine, which was under Russian domination, and then rule, for 350 years.
Now, to give you some idea of the scale of what we're talking about, the state of the law in 1983 meant that you couldn't actually wire up a large building with a private phone system. You had to get the Post Office to do it for you. The Post Office argued that it had the right to insist on this, as anything else was a blatent attempt to circumvent its monopoly. Worse, if the system was to be connected to the PSTN (via a PBX or something), then miswiring could cause the entire telephone network to be destroyed.
If if takes 6 months for the PTT to get around to wiring your house, and then they charge you outrageous fees, why even get a phone? So, when cell phones come along that bypasses the PTT monopoly, you jump at the chance.
AT&T had a monopoly too, but they were (relatively) quick to wire up buildings and enable service, and prices were reasonable.
My wife has a cell phone (she's a "soccer" mom), but I don't go out much, and wire-line costs just as much as wireless, so why do I need one?
we only require licensing for *really complicated* stuff like hooking together PVC pipe!
That's a distortion of the truth.
Repairs or upgrades (homeowners or handymen repairing a sink, replacing a toilet, etc), don't need a licensed plumber.
You only really need a licensed plumber for projects for which require a building permit, and thus a county/city building inspector to sign off on the work.
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incessant respect for life, no matter what the quantity or quality.
Oh, like Terry Schiavo being made to starve to death, and girls/women using abortion as birth control?
They are able to be held responsible for killing someone,
Those are all boys.
so why is it someone elses fault when she decides to sleep with someone she met over the net?
This was a girl.
This is the part of the feminist hypocrisy: "Let me do what I want, but if I screw up, I get to sue you."
Real Programmers toggle programs in from the front panel toggle switches.
"Jim was able to repair the damage over the phone, getting the user to toggle in disk I/O instructions at the front panel, repairing system tables in hex, reading register contents back over the phone."
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
Isn't this just another mono-culture waiting to be exploited?
A mono-culture needs a specific software+hardware combination.
So a buffer overflow exploit use a specific bit of exceutable code for a specific processor.
So, that UCAV running vxWorks-on-ARM with the Linux compatibility ABI won't be affected by the exploit that has x86 code in it.
FCS is getting scaled back because of the extreme cost.
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War is a regulatory instrument between states, that enables economically weaker states to feed on someone else's wealth and hence achieve balance.
But wouldn't the economically-stronger state know that, and build up it's own defenses? (Which it could better do, since it is wealthier.)
Unless, like post-WW2 Western Europe, and Asian nations like Japan, it is shielded by an even stronger state. The US, in this case.
are you going to send your troops in destroy them, or your own robots designed to take out your opponent's defenses?
Neither. I'd use mortars (indirect fire), or maybe concealed 20mm hi-speed cannons.
They were imitating, not satirizing.
Satire:
1. A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
[1913 Webster]
2. Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: Lampoon; sarcasm; irony; ridicule; pasquinade; burlesque; wit; humor.
[1913 Webster] Satiric
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HR/Personnel is in no way related to meeting room booking, and vacation autoresponders and I'm stunned that you'd think it is.
HR/Personnel is all about payroll, insurance, retirement packages, sensitivity training, sick days, vacation days, HIPPA, SOX and the 100,000 other bits of federal, state and local regulations.
girls dig guys with great computer hacking skills.
I thought chicks dig giant robots.
Besides. What you suggested is too much work. I'd have to get a gun permit to get a pistol (which is a Herculean task, living in Kings County, NY), expending money and energy in the process.
If you're going to cap yourself, how hard and how much energy is it to buy a hot pistol from some shady character's trunk? After all, you're in Brooklyn.
Excuse me, you've misspelled 'VOTE'.
Actually, I think he's correct. If you really and truly don't like it, then leave.
VOTE if you like it enough to stay and fix it.
The subject of today's lesson is the difference between prostate and prostrate.
Actually, I think he was calling them assholes, testicles, etc. If so, then prostate would be the correct word.
In any case, We don't need you prostrate subjects doesn't sound right either, in context.
Just about all alternatives I can think of where I could maintain my standard of living have other governmental problems.
If it sucks everywhere, why not apply pistol to temple and permanently ease your horrible suffering?
I didn't think the states were supposed to regulate interstate comerce
IANALE, but I don't think that the employer-employee relationship is defined, in law, as commerce.
Here is the traditional "Hello World" progam in COBOL (for the youngsters out there who never had to program in it).
As a former COBOL-85 programmer, who still really likes the language, I have to say that the obsession with My language can do "Hello World" in only X lines is silly.
COBOL was designed for "big apps", not scripting. In a 5000 line file, the 8 lines of "comments" stating necessary stuff like program name, who wrote it and when, is only 0.16% of the line count.
an inspector comes to see that the work is done properly.
But wouldn't the inspector see if you screwed things up?
I could respond to your erudite points, but how about you explain why one should "never invade China"?
2 million Japanese soldiers were needed in China. And they still weren't able to pacify the whole country.
by invading Russia, others have fared better -- the Mongols and Japanese
The Japanese invaded Russia? (And no, little bitty pieces of far eastern Siberia doesn't count. It's like saying that the Japs invaded the US by occupying a couple of frozen rocks at the edge of the Aleutians.
"Greater" Russia
By that, I mean Russia + Ukraine, which was under Russian domination, and then rule, for 350 years.
If the homeowner does their own electrical work, and they screw up, the worst they can do is burn down their own property.
But then what if they sell it? How would the new owner know that un-inspected work was done?
but as far as I'm concerned, the government needs to keep its nose out of my electrical wiring too.
Do you have a clue as to why building & electric codes are necessary?
Now, to give you some idea of the scale of what we're talking about, the state of the law in 1983 meant that you couldn't actually wire up a large building with a private phone system. You had to get the Post Office to do it for you. The Post Office argued that it had the right to insist on this, as anything else was a blatent attempt to circumvent its monopoly. Worse, if the system was to be connected to the PSTN (via a PBX or something), then miswiring could cause the entire telephone network to be destroyed.
If if takes 6 months for the PTT to get around to wiring your house, and then they charge you outrageous fees, why even get a phone? So, when cell phones come along that bypasses the PTT monopoly, you jump at the chance.
AT&T had a monopoly too, but they were (relatively) quick to wire up buildings and enable service, and prices were reasonable.
My wife has a cell phone (she's a "soccer" mom), but I don't go out much, and wire-line costs just as much as wireless, so why do I need one?
we only require licensing for *really complicated* stuff like hooking together PVC pipe!
That's a distortion of the truth.
Repairs or upgrades (homeowners or handymen repairing a sink, replacing a toilet, etc), don't need a licensed plumber.
You only really need a licensed plumber for projects for which require a building permit, and thus a county/city building inspector to sign off on the work.
Get real. Mac OS X, Linux, Windows - they all have major security holes, and they will continue to have security holes indefinately.
Do you even know why Outlook and IE are such insecure apps, and thus why no other MUA or web browser (even other Windows apps) is?
There is no stupid software, only stupid people.
Stupid Senior Software Analysts design stupid software.