"Geez, don't any of you watch the historical videos?"
You meant to say "the historical records" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ [Galaxy Quest])
Also, there's a fatal weakness in in the "Armageddon" arguments put forth here -- no assurance that Bruce Willis will still be alive thirty or so years henceforth (Long May He Live).
No, the student would find a way to outsource the creation of that O(nlogn) algorithm to someone in India. Americans don't do engineering (or manufacturing) any more.
Of course. While we're at it, photography has
potential for abuse. We should throw out
photography completely. And computers. They
can be abused too. And knives. And pens.
And bright lights (which can blind a victim
before an attack). Get rid of all of it.
Life is too hard for me to understand otherwise.
That might have been the 4K paper tape typesetting program. 4K because it ran in 4K words of PDP-8. It was all in assembler of course, heavily self modifying as was the fashion in those days. There was only one comment line in the whole 4 inch stack of listing and no documentation. I remember the comment line to this day "/RIP LVB" I think the contents of the instruction equated to the year that Beethoven died. I guess the author was making a point. Bastard!
The damn thing was dumped on me when I first joined DEC as a cocky little brat.
It's not necessarily true that laying off 10-13K
employees means that some executive screwed-up
years ago. It could be that conditions have
changed since then, such as being better able
to automate more jobs. My job is to create
software that automates some of the tasks that
our support people have been doing by hand.
For now, it's more the slow, tedious work that's
being automated. But, over time, the software
will move up the food chain, thereby doing more
to reduce the need for support people.
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"Geez, don't any of you watch the historical videos?" You meant to say "the historical records" (http://imdb.com/title/tt0177789/ [Galaxy Quest]) Also, there's a fatal weakness in in the "Armageddon" arguments put forth here -- no assurance that Bruce Willis will still be alive thirty or so years henceforth (Long May He Live).
...such as Jupiter?/ ess/eiu/jupitersrole/index.html
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/ess05/sci
Jupiter acts as a big shield for Earth overall, but does its gravity alone occasionally throw a big honkin' rock our way (with no collision required)?
I wish I was a Trust Fund Baby. Then I wouldn't have to work as a programmer for a living and I could give it all away for free instead.
No, the student would find a way to outsource the creation of that O(nlogn) algorithm to someone in India. Americans don't do engineering (or manufacturing) any more.
Of course. While we're at it, photography has potential for abuse. We should throw out photography completely. And computers. They can be abused too. And knives. And pens. And bright lights (which can blind a victim before an attack). Get rid of all of it. Life is too hard for me to understand otherwise.
Stolen from some web page I just googled:
That might have been the 4K paper tape typesetting program.
4K because it ran in 4K words of PDP-8. It was all in assembler of
course, heavily self modifying as was the fashion in those days. There
was only one comment line in the whole 4 inch stack of listing and no
documentation.
I remember the comment line to this day "/RIP LVB"
I think the contents of the instruction equated to the year that
Beethoven died. I guess the author was making a point. Bastard!
The damn thing was dumped on me when I first joined DEC as a cocky
little brat.
It's not amazing. Hw is just muscle. Sw is the brain.
It's not necessarily true that laying off 10-13K employees means that some executive screwed-up years ago. It could be that conditions have changed since then, such as being better able to automate more jobs. My job is to create software that automates some of the tasks that our support people have been doing by hand. For now, it's more the slow, tedious work that's being automated. But, over time, the software will move up the food chain, thereby doing more to reduce the need for support people.
...the state that wanted to charge taxes for flying over the state.