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Two fig wasps walk into a bar. The first walks over to the juke box and picks out Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. The second walks up to the bartender and orders two two-fingered scotches.
The bartender says "Hey, that's a lot scotch for one fig wasp don't you think?"
To which the fig wasp who ordered the drinks responds "Well, one's for me and the other's for my music critic of a buddy over there making the tune selection"
(I don't get it either ... and I would suggest Googling parts of the text of the joke in search of context is probably as futile a quest as pouring coffee on the wound and settling for any results obtained thusly)
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It's a joke about racism, because the one buying the drinks is a Rimsky-Korsakov fan, obviously.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ok,
Obviously. Because I can't play piano, really ...
And of course, my ears are so big.
(How big are they?)
They're so big, when I was a child, before I went to bed each night, I'd tape them with cellophane to the sides of my head in order to keep from trapping them on my pillow when I rolled over in my sleep, and thereby aggrevating my condition.
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The "protected" keyword in Java is "public within the package."
Why. 
I mean, not that I really care, but it's still asinine. A good discussion on SO[^].
Marc
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well i think you'll find Christan Grauss more the happy to answer your programming question.
Hes an excellent chaps and just loves to help people out with their computer related issues. Suggest you drop him an email - i'm sure he'd love to hear from you
cheers
Bryce
*chortle*
MCAD
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PHP starting to look better every day, eh?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: PHP starting to look better every day, eh?
Hmmm...I'm acquiring a much deeper appreciation of how Microsoft "fixed" Java with C#. 
Marc
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Hey,
Here's what works for me when I feel a rant coming on ... especially when the old saw is symantics like keyword meaning (Stroustrop's "TC++PL" ... ever notice how that book reads like the Saga of the Volsungs?):
Go to Q&A and, if you don't know where the huge tag cloud is located, it's underneath the advert to the right the Questions line-up, hit the tags "more ..." link then take a few seconds to relax with the nebulousness of the thing in front of you. Shift your focus from individual tags to bigger regions, say by alphabet. To the point where you say to yourself "hey there are more D's than Q's" ... etc. At this point click on something ...
ANCIENT.
Today, for me it was "batch".
It's like walking back in time; click back a few pages ...
Surf. As it was originally intended.
(Now why was I about to write a rant ... I can't remember)
modified 9-Dec-14 18:09pm.
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RedDk wrote: Shift your focus from individual tags to bigger regions
There was no tag for "protected", and when I clicked on "Java", it said no questions came up.
RedDk wrote: (Now why was I about to write a rant ... I can't remember)
And upon terminating that distraction and going back to the code I'm working on, I will immediately and painfully remember again.
Marc
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Oops!
My bad. You're WORKING ...
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RedDk wrote: My bad. You're WORKING ...
Of course he is -- he might spell his name wrong, but he doesn't spell it "Java".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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java is a sin in itself ... 
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The missus is a big fan of "White Collar" and last night I endured such dialog as "It looks to me like some sort of complex algorithm" as these folks sat in a room perusing printed pages of source code." (Cause that's how us engineers like to look at code - you know, stacks of printed paper, and in black and white.)
Later it was revealed that the code was a stunningly "complex web of random generators" that picked a city, airline, and people, etc. via this "complex algorithm" to move illegal products around the country.
Eventually they got the code running on one of their computers and Voila! They had the city, airline, etc. of the next target to go and intercept the criminals! 
Evidently this "complex algorithm", via these complex web of random generators, would generate the same output even with the code now running as a different instance on a different system. 
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Brilliant! That way the QA people can make sure the super-complex super-secret algorithm works. 
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TV and movie writers generally don't have a clue about anything IT related, and assume that their audience won't either.
IPv4 addresses with out-of-range single octets seem quite popular - for example, "The Net" used 23.75.345.200 several times.
Spooks[^] had the marvellous line, "I had to trawl the non-indexed deep web to construct a cipher".
There are some good examples here[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: TV and movie writers generally don't have a clue about anything
That is why most TV and movies work.
I'd rather be phishing!
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>> for example, "The Net" used 23.75.345.200 several times.
Well, I'd assume that's just the equivalent of using a 555 phone number. They intentionally don't want it to be a real address.
Truth,
James
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I seem to recall watching a movie called "Dolan's Cadillac" based on the Stephen King story of the same name. In it a guy has an IP address for a webcam that has 666 as part of it. I don't think the story King wrote even contained the word "computer".
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Well, they obviously used a pretty standard implementation of Random without using any form of Seed value. It's no wonder they were able to get the same values.
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One problem I came across recently was in the TV series Scorpion. The tech "genius" of the Scorpion team was in a car chasing another car, trying to take remote control of the other car by using a tablet to hack into its on-board computer and stop the car. The person said, "I'm accessing the car's operational mainframe." ...to which even my 77 year Mother-In-Law went, "Wha...?"
Thought the same thing for years. It's so annoying when blatant mistakes like that are allowed to make it into production. It won't matter to people who are not technical. But for tech folks like us, it's annoying because it takes you out of the story you are trying to be immersed in when you come across something like that. It's similar to the effect of a very noticeable anachronism. And it's so easy to fix!
What would something like this be called? Is there already a name for it? If not, we have a naming opportunity!
It is my understanding that there are script consulting companies out there that do help with this type of thing. But getting the director, producers, and writers to admit they should actually use them is one issue. The other they have to also know it's a problem to fix. To them, it's usually, "Sounds technical enough. Let's move on..."
BTW There are also companies that create those fake UIs you see in the backgrounds of scenes too. But that's a whole other conversation/rant and I'm not going there.
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A friend of our's is a doctor. She refuses to watch medical dramas for the same reason. When she did watch one, she exclaimed, "You're holding the x-ray backwards!" Left was right; right was left.
Employment a script/continuity consultant would help immensely.
To that effect, the series 'Numbers' did have a mathematician consultant and 'The Big Bang Theory' employs a theoretical physicist.
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>> When she did watch one, she exclaimed, "You're holding the x-ray backwards!" Left was right; right was left.
"Scrubs", right. The opening credits have the cast passing an x-ray person to person, and then putting it on the light board backward. In one of the later seasons, they ran a one-time credits, where a new cast member comes in and fixes it.
Truth,
James
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I watch Scorpion too, and have to gag at the variety of gaffs. I understand some of the technical ones, but I found it grating when they introduced a pronunciation error. They used the term SCADA in a recent episode about an offline nuclear reactor that came under terrorist attack. All of the actors pronounced the first 'A' as you would the 'a' in father, when the correct pronunciation is long 'a' as in way.
Certainly all they did here was do some online research without understanding the lingo.
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