Check the novelette "Pantaleón y las Visitadoras", by Mario Vargas Llosa, about a (fictional) specops unit set up by the peruvian army to... hmmm... "cool down" its troops in the amazonian zone. It is written in an hilarious language, mocking the military report style when Capt. Pantaleón Pantoja writes to his superiors discussin his "personnel" needs to "service" his soldiers adequately...

It was made into a movie, with the colombian bombshell Angie Cepeda in the main female role.

That (no engineering background) is not true. From TFA:

"All the design work, the calculations and engineering systems have been done entirely in Catalonia, in collaboration with engineering companies that have shown a great capacity for innovation, research, and the ability to meet new challenges".

Two of the four "leaders" have engineering background. One of them has experience in marine design. Engineering companies and students have cooperated in the project.

Procedural languages are OK for > 90% of needs. You don't really need an OO language nor a fancy framework to read a sequential file and summarize its records to generate a payroll... Oh, and the fixed-column format is optional in the modern COBOL compilers.

IDE? Who needs an IDE? :) A text editor is enough!

Record (file) handling. To process a record-composed file in C you have to write a lot of boilerplate code (just parsing the records into its components and re-creating the records by parts) requires probably to write a specific function to do that. In COBOL you just declare the structure mapping the physical record and you are done.

By the way, the languge has all the control structures needed to write decent code since COBOL-81. Before that (COBOL-74) it was a really ugly mess, but the modern COBOL (yes, it has been updated a lot of times) allows to write clean and understandadble code.

The PDP-11 is a 16 bit computer...

Indeed. There are several projects around to implement a full PDP-11 in single FPGA. For example:

http://opencores.org/project,w11

Those things are probably not networked. Will Adama would have no trouble having them on board of Galactica.

... but the PDP-11 had (has) better interrupt latency so it was preferred for realtime applications. It is not (so) surprising it is still around...

Perhaps you saw it in a documentary. That's the way the Orlan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlan_space_suit) russian space suits work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OrlanDonning.jpg)

No, it was not. OS/2 has nothing to do about OS/400 (I guess you are refering to that one). OS/2 is an independent development, in which _probably_ you can find traces of ideas and implementations in other operating systems, but you can say the same about any OS. Take into account OS/2 1.X was being developed by Microsoft, and it was when MS switched their goals to enhance the Windows Family when IBM toke the lead.

No, they simply will not be allowed to make business with european companies. And their european subsidiary (located in Dublin afaik) will be fined to oblivion.

You can ask the pharma and the car industries about what happens when you try to sidestep EU regulations.

This is not about controlling the world. Guessing you are american, you can sell you entire life to an american company if that's what you want. It's just that company will not be allowed to sell its products within the EU unless it obeys the EU regulations. As for how does that company behaves in the rest of the world, it's not our problem. Actually, it is YOUR problem.

To paraphrase your comment, unilateralism is dead and the USA no longer controls the EU.

You, sir, are a nazi retard, and YOU should be awarded with a for-life sentence working as a janitor in the visitors centre of Auswitz concentration camp, so you can learn every day of your stupid life the consequences of that stupid thinking of yours.

Or, directly, given a bullet in your head.