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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
Zebediah:
Want to know what bugs me? People who think that basic civil rights and social justice for all are the unattainable and undesirable fantasies of a lunatic fringe. Just saying.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Y on 10 Jul 2020, 01:27 ---Emulators for emulators, sounds like something we need in few months to use Adobe's other (acquired) product.
--- End quote ---
It happens in real life. For some years I programmed an embedded system using a chip (Zilog Z8) which had a (cut down) Basic interpreter built in (I wasn't using that, but my boss was). When I had to debug an interference between my boss's Basic program and my interrupt driver for data collection, I de-compiled the code of the interpreter, and found that it was indeed written in an intermediate language which was then interpreted in turn. That debugging took two months solid work (one of the most enjoyable times of my career), but the product it enabled remains on the market twenty-five years on, so I guess it was worth it.
The interference was that the interpreter tested a memory base-register which I used for data storage for zero by incrementing it and then using a decrement-jump-if-zero instruction; the test was required because the chip could be used in a no-external-memory configuration, and was done in many places, but only once in the way I just outlined. If my interrupt occurred between these two instructions, then I stored data in the wrong place, which caused havoc - I fixed it by making my own local copy of the base register on startup. Since the problem only manifested once or twice a week, it took a while for my boss to trust that I really had fixed it!
Thrudd:
PDF?
Locked down and secured so that it can't be changed after the final edit?
Damn right.
It is the ONLY approved transportable electronic file format allowed by the FDA otherwise it is either proprietary software or paper.
Let that sink in paper or proprietary.
Paper takes up space and the file and search functions suuuuuuuuuck.
Proprietary means you are locked to one vendor and if your OS changes you HAVE TO use an emulator and make regular sacrifices to the code gods or you will loose all access to your documents.
Adobe?
That bloated miscreant?
It copies everything and stores it all on adobes cloud servers for your convenience unless IT has managed to cut the umbilical.
Data security is everything in my industry and sadly Adobe doesn't have that feature because their servers are in the states.
chris73:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Jul 2020, 01:23 ---
--- Quote from: HotDog_Meat_Mishap on 10 Jul 2020, 00:28 ---Then he'll find another SJW hot-button to pander to.
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Using the abbreviation "SJW" has the effect of obscuring that the "J" stands for Justice.
Do you feel that the urge to encourage justice is a bad thing?
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Just because a words in there doesn't make it so, North Korea is officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea after all and i don't think they're big on democracy
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: ANeM on 09 Jul 2020, 21:03 ---While I'm certain Mae will be thrilled to hear about the progress made towards getting her a better body, I feel she will still be annoyed at the prospect of becoming a major civil rights icon.
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I don't think Mae is really worried about that right now. She's having a conversation with Greg about who they really are...
...oh, wait, you meant May, didn't you? Sorry.
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