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The question begs to be asked - what decade was that movie made in?
That, and TV shows/movies where the use of phones/flip phones/smart phones are a key part of the storyline. They age rather poorly.
Or general gadgetry. I'm reminded of the time Knight Rider first came out on DVD and I started watching a few episodes. Didn't that show look futuristic back then? Today it's laughable, and I'm not just talking about David Hasselhoff's acting.
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Gotcha. So they were very much aware of what was being said, and that was the joke.
One could've gone back a few decades prior and been totally serious with that line.
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Yes, that was one of the few items in the film that was not silly.
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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These devices look like they might be somnething from the secret workshop of @code-witch :)
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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that your not now theres monster everywere
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I'm sorry, but that makes no sense whatsoever. Please try writing it in your native language, and using Google Translate to produce an English version.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just wanted to toss this out here and ask a question. Long before I earned my EE degree (yes, I know all about motors and other things), my dad was an EE for IBM. His favorite phrase when it was recruiting season was "I can teach an engineer how to program, I cannot teach a programmer how to engineer."
Yeah, maybe a bit bigoted but work with me. This was in the late 70s early 80s, so the term "software engineer" had not been coined yet. At my university, you could get a degree in computer science but that was it. Engineers used punch cards to talk to the IBM. Those other people got to use the terminals .
So, I'm poking around on dice.com and I come across a job entry for "Senior Firewall Engineer."
wtf
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I agree. Most software is not engineered. Web stuff in particular.
I'm a software developer.
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I use the term lightly - engineer. 120v scares me, 240+ I want to pee. 480 and up? hell no. There is some spooky **** mechanical engineers do as well as civil engineers (other than making targets - google it). Then there comes chemical engineers that I salute, and nukes I just see in the distance as they glow.
I have the degree for an EE. I wrote software most of my life. Sooo, when I started calling myself a sw engineer, my better half slapped me sideways - you are an EE and don't forget it. So, since then I'm an EE but I write software. Mostly embedded but I can do desktop as well. And I respect electricity.
I still want to know wtf is a firewall engineer. I get the idea, but really?
Charlie Gilley
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I remember "sanitation engineer" was being discussed a few years ago. For a job opening for a janitor.
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It happened a LOT in the UK in the late 80's to mid 90's but back then it wasn't "engineer" that was the thing it was "technician".
I was a Computer Kid of the 1980's UK, Grew up with home computers that where primitive by todays standards, Sinclair ZX80/81, Commodore C16+4, Vic 20 and eventually onto the Acorn Machines, BBC B et al.
Since the age of 7 I've had an aptitude for this kind of stuff, and by the time I got to the later years in my Secondary School, I was effectively teaching the teachers on what the computers they had in the classrooms could do, so they could in turn be better informed what they where "reading from textbooks" to teach others.
As the 90's approached, the MS-DOS PC started to appear in UK homes, and it was a natural fit for me to want to become a "Computer Technician" at the time.
I left school and did my various BTEC's etc before spending a few years in the UK military doing communications stuff.
When I left the forces in late 1993, I came back to a world where EVERYONE was obsessed by being a "Technician" of some kind, this was bizarre to me as the very word "Technician" implies something that is "Technical" or "Technologically Related".
My CV included "Technician" several times as during my BTEC years I had worked part time for a few different companies as a trainee, and companies where salivating over the word in much the same way they salivate over "AI" and such like today.
Looking for a job was insane, trying to filter job listings by subjects I knew and including words like "Technician" was a thankless task, I regularly saw things like:
"Wanted: local pub requires cleanliness technician to maintain pub facilities" (Basically a pub cleaner)
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"Immediate Start: TV Rental's technical customer sales advisement technician" (Basically a sales person who can talk tech)
It was the same then as it is now, Out of control marketing idiots allowed to get away with devaluing any word or topic they feel like, in order to push more sales.
We've seen a few other terminologies come and go over the years, but now that being an "engineer" of some kind is popular, we are seeing the same thing happen to the word "engineer" and "engineering" as a disciplined profession.
Don't even get me started on the HR and recruitment's use of the terminology!!!
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The one that got me was "sandwich artist". Take a guess where I saw that position advertised.
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Subway.
I'm still trying to find a way to use it as some sort of greeting when I walk in, and yet remain inconspicuous about it. But there's just no way of using it without sounding as dumb as, well, it sounds.
That, and the people Apple has working at their "genius bar". Makes me wish I could bring in a defective product, and watch them make the problem worse, just so I could sarcastically say "way to go, genius"...
Oh, and low-level employees that the higher-ups insist on calling "associates" so they somehow feel empowered. Wal-Mart's guilty of that. And given the type they employ, it only comes across as demeaning.
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Yup, our local store had many of those positions available when the new store first opened in the town where I live.
Another common name was also advertising at the time for coffee related artistry and technical based positions...
I wonder how long it's going to be before we see adverts for "Burger & Fries Engineers..."
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Carbohydrate and protein materials construction engineer?
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800V crammed in a 20cm round box, it's FUN!
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The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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charlieg wrote: 120v scares me, 240+ I want to pee. 480 and up? hell no.
LOL!!! I don't blame you for that. But since I design systems that transport power at 120V through 69kV, I've had to get used to it. But it's still strange to open a cabinet and realize that if I stand a few inches closer, an arc could form and kill me, not to mention dimming the lights for a bit.
Will Rogers never met me.
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