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Tech Thread Flame War Cease Fire Declared (vanity)
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| 2010-07-24
| Dayglored
Posted on 07/24/2010 5:49:03 PM PDT by dayglored
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To: Cboldt
Programmed in assembly using "poke." ..and CALLed into BASIC using "PEEK"...
Used to use that "cheat" during friendly contests to see how powerful a BASIC program we could write in an 80-character line of code. The "big" trick was making CALLs to entire Monitor ROM routines -- instead of just assembly code you'd "hacked together"...
(That was back in the day when "gay" meant "happy" -- and "hacking" was a good thing!) :-(
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:12:44 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: MichiganMan
"How about peole that beat me to stealing a classic joke... can I still call them names? " "Peole" is probably as close as you can get, now... '-)
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:18:03 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: FLcitizen
LOL! Reminds me of a toy that keeps Texas Aggies occupied for hours:
It's a card -- with "See other side." -- printed on both sides... '-)
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:23:44 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: ThunderSleeps
>
In the end, it comes down to this: use the right tool for the job. We all have to realize what we consider the right tool for a particular job may not be the right tool when evaluated by someone else's criteria and priorities. That's exactly correct, IMO.
Friends and family ask me, "What computer should I get?", and I respond, "Depends on what you want to do with it. Figure that out first, and then I'll tell you what computer I think does that job best."
And that's why, after 40 years of playing with computers, I have an array of Unix, Linux, PC/Windows, and Mac/OS-X machines cluttering my house (and work). (And a bunch of ancient hardware, but I don't use it anymore.) If you have enough different tasks to do, then "Get the right tool for the job" may cause you to have a lot of different machines around.
And another person may use a very different set of tools, depending on their background, familiarities, and personal preferences.
Which is one reason why the flamewars here were so disgusting to me... I'm very glad we're taking steps to calm them down.
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:37:24 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Gondring
REAL PROGRAMMERS COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE
To: driftdiver
>
Theres 10 kinds of people, those that understand binary and those that dont. Yep! I got the T-shirt for my daughter a few years ago from ThinkGeek.com:
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:45:05 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: grey_whiskers
>
I'm all hurt, you didn't ping me. And you being another FORTRAN beast and all... My apologies; as I was about to post the vanity thread I got a call that caused me to have to drop what I was doing and basically run out for quite a few hours... so I missed a lot of folks including you in my initial ping. I'm hoping that Swordmaker's Mac ping, and Shadowace's Tech ping, pull in the ones I missed...
> Cheers!
Right back at'cha!
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:53:24 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
>
aw, yer not putin till yer putin with vacuum tubes. and i dont mean the display. That is the truth!
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:54:38 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: MrEdd
>
People who have a problem with Apple shouldnt have bought one. Agreed -- but it seems that most of the folks who trashed Apple and Apple customers, were not themselves Apple customers (and often said so proudly).
It got a little surreal at times.
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posted on
07/24/2010 11:58:13 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: eyedigress
>
Do you have an apple thingy going on? In what regard? I have a number of Apple products and like them for what they're good for. Same is true of Microsoft and a number of other vendors of hardware and software.
I own no stock in any of these companies.
What sort of "thingy" did you have in mind?
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:01:21 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Gil4
![](http://www.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/images/dilbert-unix2.png&sa=X&ei=TI9LTLDpN4P48AavjP0w&ved=0CAQQ8wc4Bw&usg=AFQjCNGxRsayHcjD06LuQXz_uLxOA0VIEg)
Yes, that's exactly right!!
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:03:42 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Company Man
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:09:23 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
I had it worse than all of them....
I programmed in APL...
And later became a Certified OS/2 Engineer...
(All after I got bored with my Atari and my Happy Drives...)
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:25:08 AM PDT
by
EasySt
( Join Free Republic Folders - A tribute to Ronald Reagan)
To: EasySt
>
I programmed in APL... I still have a closet full of my leftover right-parentheses. I'm going to will them to my daughter.
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:30:41 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: Jeff Gordon
>
Lets not throw out the baby with bath water. Not likely to happen. There will still be plenty of lively discussion of pros and cons. What needed to go were the pointless disruptions and personal attacks.
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:36:04 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: mnehring
>
Maybe each side could make a Religion Caucus thread, some treat it as such. You won't be surprised to know that that was seriously considered at some points in the recent past. :)
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posted on
07/25/2010 12:37:29 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: OCC
Lucky for me, the next semester (1984), we had access to Apple II's with cool 5 1/4 floppy disks!
I actually know what you mean. I went back to college on "Sabbatical" between my work in Saudi and Mexico to immerse in Spanish and study F77 simulation programming. I got to sit at home with my 64K Mac, telecommute with my blazing fast 300 baud modem. I could drink coffee, smoke cigars, watch TV, vacuum, and run the blender while programming. Computing had definitely turned the corner at that time.
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posted on
07/25/2010 1:08:29 AM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the occupation media.)
To: EasySt
Certified OS/2 Engineer...Is it true they called it that because it was half an operating system?
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posted on
07/25/2010 1:33:19 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: Company Man
Whoa! That’s Chuck Norris confidence!
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posted on
07/25/2010 2:35:52 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: dayglored
When you "programmers" can read seven different ladder logic programs with up to 24,000 rungs, troubleshoot them write them and understand every machine they are being used on - give me a call....
;^)
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posted on
07/25/2010 5:16:31 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(Someone who invades another country is NOT an immigrant - illegal or otherwise.)
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