Rexx, on the other hand.. Well, that's certainly a case of something they couldn't make money off to begin with.
According to TFA "Rexx occupies a useful ecological niche between the relative crudeness of shell scripting and the cumbersome formality of full systems languages.".
There's nothing sadder to see than a die-hard fan clinging to a shred of hope that this final movie is going to be the one that puts everything in perspective and makes two sucky movies good.
No? What about the dorks who try to justify the "Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs" line?
database field has a type (50 characters, for instance, or a floating point number to two decimal places
floating point number to two decimal places? That sounds like a pretty fixed point to me.
It talks about new techniques for normalising data which eliminate problems, though unsurprisingly the elimination of some gotchas has brought about the need to introduce some new concepts to make the model work successfully.
In the beginning was the workaround. And the workaround begat the kludge.
And the kludge begat the bodge.
And the consultant looked upon the workaround, and the bodge, and the kludge, and saw that they were not good [you mean he smelled a marketing opportunity - Ed].
And he created the paradigm shift. Which was a bodge. And a kludge. And a workaround.
I had one person complain that since LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emissions of Radiation, that the light itself was radioactive and therefore could cause cancer!
You can make a shield against them though. You need some diluted unobtanium, except it's illegal because it's used in cluster bombs which are a chemical weapon. Or something like that.
No, it really is bullshit. They are two separate things. You can take the water out without cooking them (freeze drying). You can cook them without taking the water out (boiling). Occasional correlation is not the same thing as equivalence.
P.S. Does the fact that when the OP said 'cook', you seemed to interpret it as 'fry' say something about your career? It would certainly be appropriate.
they found their first air-to-air pictures of it were fuzzy & grainy. They soon realized that their Kodak camera used a sonar-like system for focusing
One, grain has nothing to do with focus. It's a property of the film and how it's processed.
Secondly, I doubt any form of sonic distance measurement would work at the normal distances between aircraft in flight, let alone with all the ambient noise. Oh, and the fact that it would be trying to operate through glass or perspex.
Thirdly, I suspect professional airforce photographers would know all that and switch to manual.
surely the effective focal length for ALL aerial shots will be infinity anyway?
Focal length is a property of the lens. The focus distance will be as near to infinity as matters, especially if using a wide-angle lens which have a larger depth of field.
I work in IT, know many scientists and researchers in my area and some beyond, and very few of them would be willing to live in the U.S. [...]
Now about work, that's different. If I would be offered a job for a few years in the U.S., I would take it.
And during that time, what? It'd be bit of a long commute from Bombay.
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So it's perl, then?
Maybe if it was spelled "chiernux" you'd be right. Then it could compete with Merdecrottesoft.
In the beginning was the workaround. And the workaround begat the kludge.
And the kludge begat the bodge.
And the consultant looked upon the workaround, and the bodge, and the kludge, and saw that they were not good [you mean he smelled a marketing opportunity - Ed].
And he created the paradigm shift. Which was a bodge. And a kludge. And a workaround.
But with nice flowcharts. Or something.
And another thing - isn't "Piquepaille" French for "straw biter" or something similar?
No, it really is bullshit. They are two separate things. You can take the water out without cooking them (freeze drying). You can cook them without taking the water out (boiling). Occasional correlation is not the same thing as equivalence.
P.S. Does the fact that when the OP said 'cook', you seemed to interpret it as 'fry' say something about your career? It would certainly be appropriate.
Secondly, I doubt any form of sonic distance measurement would work at the normal distances between aircraft in flight, let alone with all the ambient noise. Oh, and the fact that it would be trying to operate through glass or perspex.
Thirdly, I suspect professional airforce photographers would know all that and switch to manual.
I call bullshit on the grandparent.
Worse than that - my clock might be wrong!
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