And? This isn't a problem for them.

You aren't being paid to 'stretch your legs'. Get back to work and be productive, slacker.

Why are we still printing documents?

Back in the day, my college campus mainframe, a Burroughs B6700, had (in addition to its more conventional "disk pack" drives) a head-per-track (HPT) drive. The disk was several feet in diameter and the whole surface was covered with read/write heads (they didn't need to move).

Can't find specs on the B6700 version, but here's a blurb about the older B5500 version (from http://www.retrocomputingtasma...)

The powerful advanced systems concepts of the Burroughs B 5500 are fully complemented by the revolutionary Burroughs On-Line Disk File subsystem. With its "head-per-track" design, the Disk File provides all-electronic access to any record throughout the file in an average of 20 milliseconds.

        File organization, programming, and use are simplified because access is entirely by electronic switching, with no moving arms, card drops, or the like. Each record segment is equally available regardless of physical location on the disks. Multiple segments can be transferred with a single instruction.

        Module size is four disks totalling 9.6 million alphanumeric characters of information capacity. Up to 100 of these modules may be used with the Burroughs B 5500, effectively extending the memory of the computer systems by almost a billion characters. Transfer rate is 100,000 characters per second.

As others below have noted, plenty of old fogies remember The Terminator, its sequels, or The Sarah Connor Chronicles (watchable only for Summer Glau).

I have to confess though that my first thought was to wonder if he was related to John Bigboote ("that's Bigboo-tay!") or John Smallberries.

I only got them to stay on the line for about 15 minutes. When he told me to press the Windows key ("The what?" "The key with a flag picture on it") I said "My key has a picture of a penguin on it, does that make a difference?"

He hung up.

Its a programming language, not a car.. It should be treated like a tool. What should be 'cool' is what you do with it..

Back in my (pre PC) college days, COBOL was big in business but wasn't taught or used by anyone in the Computer Science department. If you wanted to learn COBOL, those courses were offered through the school of Business.

And APL was taught by the department of Mathematics, to the extent that APL packages were used in the statistics classes.

Computer science classes weren't about teaching programming languages (we probably went through a dozen or more, from Algol and assembler to Lisp and Simula and Snobol -- we were expected to learn them ourselves depending on the assignment), but about how to think about programming (and operating systems and so on).

Posting is a terrorist *act*? it may be really tacky, uncool, and not something i would want to watch, but is NOT a terrorist act.

What is next, discussing it is considered a terrorist act ?

Man, we are falling down the rabbit hole faster than most of us could have imagined. Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves.

The sentence was not from recording the movie, it was from SELLING it.

Even for me, that crosses the line. For profit piracy is wrong.

To me it all centers around: Was BYOD optional?

If they offered a company device and you refused, then i say you are on your own.

If they didnt offer one but you NEED it to do your job, then i say they are on the hook, as well as tax credit ramifications.

If they dont offer and you only use it as its a convenience to make your life easier, then again, you are on your own.

Furthermore, if you are optionally using your device for office work, they get to mandate policy on its use, up to and including MDM type control.

BYOD is just a bad idea. Companies should give employees the tools they need for their job, and forbid personal devices.

How to be a prick? ( well, a lucky wealthy prick.. but still a prick )

Blocking your phone at the tower does not stop you from posting your incriminating photos via wifi...

So you are back to proving my point, its all about what YOU think, what the others think is irrelevant.

While i agree it was a bit of an extreme example, the crusades were considered moral, and there is no question about them imposing their concepts of it on others.

There are many non-extreme examples that can be made with one part of the world thinking another part is totally backwards/immoral/etc, and none of them have the right to interfere with the others.

And i'm done here, some of us have productive things to do.

Not in the least. I happen to feel that meddling is wrong. Regardless of what is being imposed. ( i do happen to think censorship is bad, but its none of my business if another country does not support it )