Computer grads are useless.

[kandr]

The GAL mentioned gigabytes of hand-crafted assembler.

I countered that it was still there running on the original processors.

Putting the effort into writing an operating system or any other large scale system in an assembly language restricted to a specific processor is not a viable proposition these days. Hence "C" can be regarded as a ardware independent assembler language as possibly Java will become.

Not sure how we were meant to extrapolate that from your post.

[SupremeSpod]

Not sure how we were meant to extrapolate that from your post.

Oh well.

[Gibbon]

"A CompSci grad is supposed to be able to do difficult things that arts grads simply can’t understand. "


Absolute bollocks in my humble opinion.

Having done all the difficult stuff on hard real-time mission and safety critical systems I'm often surprised when people can't see how fecking easy it really is. Then again I haven't got a degree in it.

Even assembler is for puffs when compared with writing machine cod patches for an Elliot 920C which involves scouring memory maps for scraps of bytes.

Difficult is diagnosing faults on a Phantom Fire Control Radar.

Even more fecking difficult is trying to write about why virtue was an important theme in Homers Illiad. (My current OU assignment).

[SupremeSpod]

"A CompSci grad is supposed to be able to do difficult things that arts grads simply can’t understand. "

Absolute bollocks in my humble opinion.

Having done all the difficult stuff on hard real-time mission and safety critical systems I'm often surprised when people can't see how fecking easy it really is. Then again I haven't got a degree in it.

Even assembler is for puffs when compared with writing machine cod patches for an Elliot 920C which involves scouring memory maps for scraps of bytes.

Difficult is diagnosing faults on a Phantom Fire Control Radar.

Even more fecking difficult is trying to write about why virtue was an important theme in Homers Illiad. (My current OU assignment).

Gay.

[Gibbon]

Gay.

And if I was?

[kandr]

And if I was?

Don't worry about SS he is a bit mentally challenged.

[SupremeSpod]

And if I was?

I meant the subject. Just trying the humour thing out again. You know, practicing for the season of good will and all that bollocks.

[Gibbon]

I meant the subject. Just trying the humour thing out again. You know, practicing for the season of good will and all that bollocks.

Keep practicing and FYI I'm not, just practicing being arsey for the season of pretence coming up!

Actually the subject is taken up by a lot of girls, which makes the tutorials very pleasant. Otherwise a pretty uselesss subject I agree, apart from the fact I find it fascinating reading stuff written so long ago. I don't find computers interesting at all but some of the applications are, such as the jet engine stuff I'm doing and the EFA cockpit displays.

[SupremeSpod]

Keep practicing and FYI I'm not, just practicing being arsey for the season of pretence coming up!

Actually the subject is taken up by a lot of girls, which makes the tutorials very pleasant. Otherwise a pretty uselesss subject I agree, apart from the fact I find it fascinating reading stuff written so long ago. I don't find computers interesting at all but some of the applications are, such as the jet engine stuff I'm doing and the EFA cockpit displays.

Yep, I enjoy that kind of stuff to.

My next project is in that area.

[Gibbon]

Yep, I enjoy that kind of stuff to.

My next project is in that area.

Yeah, what and where? (discreetly)