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How massively over bright is the VDU screen ?
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This pole is one day early for April Fools day. Everybody knows that all the things listed in the selections are trivial for any decent computer professional. Why is everybody being so modest?
Hogan
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And wish that computers would actually do that! The Windows "barf" sound when an error occurs is awful. Microsoft should talk to Hollywood. Obviously though, these things should be able to be turned off, but they do sound like fun (pun intended.)
Marc
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I'm with you. I sorta miss the audible click per key (I don't mean the mechanical keyboard), the amber screen and blinking bar cursor.
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mikepwilson wrote: the amber screen and blinking bar cursor.
I remember when I bought an amber monitor. Oooh, it was sooo cool. And the CGA card displayed different shades!
Marc
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I had one of those...with my AMD 286 processor! Could never compile anything right cuz it wasn't totally compatible with the Intel...
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Ah, 320x200. 40x24 text.
How the heck I ever worked with that I have no idea.
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mikepwilson wrote: How the heck I ever worked with that I have no idea.
It was a dramatic improvement to the teletype and punch cards, both of which I've worked on.
Besides, my first real development system was a Commodore Business Machine (80 x 25) and I wrote my own extenders (that Skyles Electric Works[^] sold) to provide full screen editing, automatic code scrolling when cursor-ing up/down, etc. I did all my development on that and had a sweet little utility that ported the assembled code to the C-64. By the time I started using a PC, it was all 80x25 there too.
Marc
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yep. I remember getting "the 80 column card" for the Apple ][ and being blown away.
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"Chole, intercept the diagonals and get me a vector into the plane's flight management system!" I'm trying to explain to my wife that this is NOT what a programmer does. This is not what anyone does. 
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Best line in the 24's hacking is when Jack says: "Get me the socket", and it solves almost every communication related issues.
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The disk is encrypted, give me 20 minutes!
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Who else noticed that?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Yes, I can't really talk my way out of that one!
Well I'm disappointed. I would have thought in a forward-thinking environment such as Elysium the benefits of lower power processing would have been recognized. Instead it runs on a 150 year old crappy PC.
OK then, in the original Terminator, that is, without doubt, 6502 assembler that pops up as he scans around. Terminators are 8 bit you know.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Reminds me of the movie 'Screamers'...the guy is looking at the code scrolling by:
'...this one seems to have modified itself...'
...heh 
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Yeah, but the Terminator runs off a 6502 processor.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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This is fun one. I tend to ruin anything my wife watches on TV by asking/telling her about how the little beepy noises that only computers on TV emit are TOTALLY UNREALISTIC!!
Why does James Bond sneak around with a tracker watch bleeping every second? James Bond is an idiot.
Even in the recent Line Of Duty BBC drama they had it, which cheapened it for me.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I have written at least one app that beeped whenever it updated the screen. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Why does James Bond sneak around with a tracker watch bleeping every second? James Bond is an idiot.
He also immediately introduces himself to everyone he meets with his real name. Some secret agent.
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Rob Philpott wrote: Why does James Bond sneak around with a tracker watch bleeping every second? James Bond is an idiot.
No. Q is an idiot.
I'm not a programmer but I play one at the office
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...Herself believes that:
1) Her mobile phone can unlock my car and let her drive it away.
2) You can use the reflection in the eye of a suspect in a photo to see the behind the photographer and recognise number plates. With a mobile phone.
3) Any laptop can track any mobile phone, even if it is turned off.
4) Encryption can be bypassed in seconds.
5) Your IP address can be traced back to which room you are in.
And she wonders why I don't watch them...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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..that sounds more like healthy paranoia. And what makes you so sure a phone is turned off? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Also, a woman looking like Sandra Bullock won't be able to sight read hex like she does in the net. This can never happen.
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However advanced/secure/complex the program, they manage to hack/edit/re-develop it in a few seconds despite never having set eyes on it before 
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