The death of Microsoft

Discussion in 'Trading Software' started by prt_systems, Oct 20, 2005.

  1. I've been lucky enough to come to computers with the first 5.25" disks...actually the first I used was using a beautiful tape recorder...
     
    #91     Oct 21, 2005
  2. It seems a lot of scientific libraries are still available only in fortran too, especially for astronomy.

    And no, I'm not a zealot, just a poet...
     
    #92     Oct 21, 2005
  3. BigLoser

    BigLoser

    LOL, are you going to take your toys and go home now little boy?

    So basically your argument boils down to "I am right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong".

    Too bad the market has spoken and Microsoft isn't shrinking let alone dying. But don't let those facts get in the way of your grand delusion.
     
    #93     Oct 21, 2005
  4. Can't do science without being a poet.
     
    #94     Oct 21, 2005
  5. If that's not poetry....

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    # 472-byte qrpff, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz <sipb-iap-dvd@mit.edu>
    # MPEG 2 PS VOB file -> descrambled output on stdout.
    # usage: perl -I <k1>:<k2>:<k3>:<k4>:<k5> qrpff
    # where k1..k5 are the title key bytes in least to most-significant order

    s''$/=\2048;while(<>){G=29;R=142;if((@a=unqT="C*",_)[20]&48){D=89;_=unqb24,qT,@
    b=map{ord qB8,unqb8,qT,_^$a[--D]}@INC;s/...$/1$&/;Q=unqV,qb25,_;H=73;O=$b[4]<<9
    |256|$b[3];Q=Q>>8^(P=(E=255)&(Q>>12^Q>>4^Q/8^Q))<<17,O=O>>8^(E&(F=(S=O>>14&7^O)
    ^S*8^S<<6))<<9,_=(map{U=_%16orE^=R^=110&(S=(unqT,"\xb\ntd\xbz\x14d")[_/16%8]);E
    ^=(72,@z=(64,72,G^=12*(U-2?0:S&17)),H^=_%64?12:0,@z)[_%8]}(16..271))[_]^((D>>=8
    )+=P+(~F&E))for@a[128..$#a]}print+qT,@a}';s/[D-HO-U_]/\$$&/g;s/q/pack+/g;eval
     
    #95     Oct 21, 2005
  6. Great!
    Next time, try a oneliner
     
    #96     Oct 21, 2005
  7. If you read this thread from the beginning, you would see that trying to talk to him is like talking to yourself. Especially since most of his responses are him saying the same thing back to you that you said to him (as someone else pointed out).

    It is obvious that he is mentally retarded, so we have to be somewhat understanding.

    As someone else said, let's meet back here in five years and see who was right.
     
    #97     Oct 21, 2005
  8. ... Again you illustrate the difference between man and monkey.

    When confronted with the inability to formulate an valid argument the monkey resorts to agression .......

    Go have a bannana .....
     
    #98     Oct 21, 2005
  9. Again I refer people to your handle BigLoser ... an applicable handle ... opps .. forgot you were on my ignore list .... now you are ...
     
    #99     Oct 21, 2005
  10. They are .. .and are still being used everyday - just without the punch cards - , although many of them have been converted to C, or in some cases object oriented languages which I prefer to use if I can.....
     
    #100     Oct 21, 2005