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and at the moment, germany has a big opportunity to solve this problem, giving a new home to syrian refugees....but, the most germans don't realize this, they have fear to share...stupid....but this gets to political here....so stop it stefan
According to Murphy's Law #8, 95% of each and every nation is peace loving, people just want to live and raise their kids.. I think the Syrian exodus was God given gift to Germany came out of the blue.. and the government was cleaver enough to grab the opportunity in (real time)
The United States has a lottery system where each year they bring 55k people into the country.. the difference is that US doesn't know who they are or what's their backgrounds, age... etc. while the Syrians are mostly young men and women in production age.. and even better, government already knows who they are.. they can also identify the bad guys among them since they are already in Germany and their life and destiny are bound to the new country and they are loyal to it.
We are living in the manufacturing war, and the #1 weapon in this is (not expensive) labor.. according to supply and demand law, which was stolen from Murphy's Law #65 that says "Every one is free", labor cost will drop and production (and consumption) will rise.. the new comers will not only work hard, but they will also buy, stimulating the economy.
The United States has a lottery system where each year they bring 55k people into the country.. the difference is that US doesn't know who they are or what's their backgrounds, age... etc. while the Syrians are mostly young men and women in production age.. and even better, government already knows who they are.. they can also identify the bad guys among them since they are already in Germany and their life and destiny are bound to the new country and they are loyal to it.
We are living in the manufacturing war, and the #1 weapon in this is (not expensive) labor.. according to supply and demand law, which was stolen from Murphy's Law #65 that says "Every one is free", labor cost will drop and production (and consumption) will rise.. the new comers will not only work hard, but they will also buy, stimulating the economy.
I was 11 years old when I watched the Apollo 11 astronauts walk on the moon on live TV. There were no desktop computers, cell phones, or computers in cars. There was no C, BASIC, JAVA, or any of the other languages that are popular now. A small computer was the size of the average refrigerator and disk drives were the size of a dishwasher. I'll let you do the math to get to the year of my birth.
A lot has changed since then, but one thing that has not is programmers wishing their programs would "do what I mean, not what I tell you".
--- Jem
A lot has changed since then, but one thing that has not is programmers wishing their programs would "do what I mean, not what I tell you".
--- Jem
That for me was the first time that I lay awake at night (I had not yet nine years). Waiting for the LEM touched the Moon, our television, which did not broadcast 24/24 as today, transmitted the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still"
Jem, your year of birth is so far back that no modern day computer can calculate it...
One can only calculate it manually like 1969 - 11 = some secret answer. Don't worry, just 4 behind you.
My first programmable computer came out 35 years ago today... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81
I spent days typing in programs from computer magazines, then found the program didnt work so spent more days figuring out why.
Ermmm.... nothing much has changed!
I spent days typing in programs from computer magazines, then found the program didnt work so spent more days figuring out why.
Ermmm.... nothing much has changed!
My first computer was IBM XT 'for Extra Technology'
It had 256K RAM, 10M HDD and color CRT screen. DOS 3.1 and BasicA.
I programmed music for a song using the Play function "Play L3, A B L2 C D E'... and so on.
When Quick Basic 4.5 compiler arrived (I still have that compiler), I was able to write Hanoi Towers
game. I remember I used white spaces to represent the blocks!! then I redrew the spaces and (moved) them
from column to column. for example:
the smallest block or the one that should always be on top was represent by the string " " (one space) and the largest one by "more spaces " with
the condition that the next larger bloc must be 2 spaces more than the above so the on one on the top can sit in the middle. That made
the game only 45k with the sound files.. the sound files were beeps and play statements, so they didn't take disk space.
unfortunately I lost the code that I kept until 1997 on 3.5" floppy disk.
It had 256K RAM, 10M HDD and color CRT screen. DOS 3.1 and BasicA.
I programmed music for a song using the Play function "Play L3, A B L2 C D E'... and so on.
When Quick Basic 4.5 compiler arrived (I still have that compiler), I was able to write Hanoi Towers
game. I remember I used white spaces to represent the blocks!! then I redrew the spaces and (moved) them
from column to column. for example:
the smallest block or the one that should always be on top was represent by the string " " (one space) and the largest one by "more spaces " with
the condition that the next larger bloc must be 2 spaces more than the above so the on one on the top can sit in the middle. That made
the game only 45k with the sound files.. the sound files were beeps and play statements, so they didn't take disk space.
unfortunately I lost the code that I kept until 1997 on 3.5" floppy disk.
The Original I always so much better than the modern copies... and that Robot!!!
Actually i am surprised to see that programming does not belong only to the younger generation.
Most older people have difficulties to make a simple task in their phone. Where i work people come to me asking why is this appearing in my phone and what means that and this was not here yesterday why is it here now...
And i try to explain to them that the phone is telling them about a missing call or this is a notification for an alarm they have set...
so i thought that technology and people above 50 are like fire and water. but it seems that we young people can learn some tricks from older guys like in this forum.
You have my Respect
I assumed the average age would be 20-40 but i guess i was wrong.
Most older people have difficulties to make a simple task in their phone. Where i work people come to me asking why is this appearing in my phone and what means that and this was not here yesterday why is it here now...
And i try to explain to them that the phone is telling them about a missing call or this is a notification for an alarm they have set...
so i thought that technology and people above 50 are like fire and water. but it seems that we young people can learn some tricks from older guys like in this forum.
You have my Respect
I assumed the average age would be 20-40 but i guess i was wrong.
Actually water is made up of Oxygen too and in some circumstances that helps fire..
I'm more surprised on the low percentage for 21-30yo (do they program? which langauge?) than for the one of us, ex-teenagers.
Personal computing began with us, programming was our hobby, so it's natural to find many of us still there.
Finally, I speak for myself, I learnt that elders were just the youngster coming before us. Often they had our same expectations, dreams, experiences..
Looking at our parents its difficult to see them as boys/girls acting as we do (I should say "we did"). We think they are from a different place in time, they can't fully understand. How wrong we are! They lived most of our same experiences exactly the same.
The 50+ year olds come from a transition period where "compute in your head" was replaced by "compute using computers". Don't write us off - we have minds as sharp as razor blades...and technology don't scare us.Actually i am surprised to see that programming does not belong only to the younger generation.
Most older people have difficulties to make a simple task in their phone. Where i work people come to me asking why is this appearing in my phone and what means that and this was not here yesterday why is it here now...
And i try to explain to them that the phone is telling them about a missing call or this is a notification for an alarm they have set...
so i thought that technology and people above 50 are like fire and water. but it seems that we young people can learn some tricks from older guys like in this forum.
You have my Respect
I assumed the average age would be 20-40 but i guess i was wrong.
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