• Dwayne (unregistered)

    Reminds me of the commercials

    Little Old Lady saying: "Remoulade Sauce, I put that sh*t on everything."

  • Leighton (unregistered)

    Just found this for info on the Infrant Chip:

    http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=176655&page=82

    looks like infrant are now netgear anyways.

    Cool collection of stuff

  • Hatr (unregistered)

    Mmmm.... Remoulade.... Must dig out recipe... ahh, here it is:

    Lærebog i Huslig Økonomi:
    Remoulade: Lav en mayonnaise, kom hakket syltet agurk el. asie og persille i. Smag til med karry og sennep. Kan forfines med flødeskum.
  • spivonious (unregistered) in reply to Hatr
    Hatr:
    Mmmm.... Remoulade.... Must dig out recipe... ahh, here it is:
    Lærebog i Huslig Økonomi:
    Remoulade: Lav en mayonnaise, kom hakket syltet agurk el. asie og persille i. Smag til med karry og sennep. Kan forfines med flødeskum.

    Go Go Gadget Internet! "Textbook in the Domestic economy" Remoulade: make a mayonnaise, minced cucumber el sat. asie and parsley in Taste to curry with. and mustard. Can become more refined with cream foam.

  • (cs)

    Alex, since I already sent you steak a couple years ago, I will be looking for something equally as awesome to send you soon since my kitchen needs more mugs :p

  • (cs)

    The buzzword list is incomplete! I miss the word "Leverage".

  • frits (unregistered)

    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB. [image]

  • Mike D. (unregistered)

    A couple comments:

    • Those Top Secret and Unclassified stickers are legit. I wouldn't use the TS stickers on anything; law enforcement might not get the joke. Using them in pairs won't help; highest restriction level wins.

    • The iPod Shuffle is a couple generations ago. I remember it because I have one and it was the last time they offered a Shuffle in purple.

  • (cs) in reply to Gabelstaplerfahrer
    Gabelstaplerfahrer:
    The buzzword list is incomplete! I miss the word "Leverage".
    Indeed. I was surprised not to see "Synergy" or "Paradigm" either.
  • Mike D. (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Wow, several bugs in that chart. The ones I'm seeing:

    • Java was based on C, not C++. The language creators were very clear about this.
    • Python coming from Perl? Python is more related to C or C++. It shares almost no syntax with Perl.
    • I think PL/1 is supposed to be on there around BCPL.

    Though it has MUMPS. Bravo.

  • QJo (unregistered)

    Wasn't Java a refinement and outgrowth of Oak?

  • Design Pattern (unregistered)

    Java also has borrowed a lot from Smalltalk (single inheritance, VM, garbage collection).

    In what way is Scheme based on Smalltalk?

    From the diagram it appears it's closer to Smalltalk than to Lisp. In fact it is a prominent member of the Lisp-family.

  • frans (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB. [image]
    And delphi. shudder
  • Bob (unregistered) in reply to frits

    Where is BobX?

    frits:
    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB. [image]
  • (cs) in reply to Gabelstaplerfahrer
    Gabelstaplerfahrer:
    The buzzword list is incomplete! I miss the word "Leverage".
    Hey, don't insult Leverage, that's one of my favorite shows!

    And yeah, I vaguely recall having heard somewhere (possibly it was here?) that absolutely anything that has a legitimate "top secret" tag on it is by law required to be treated as though it actually was, just in case. Which means it would be an excellent prank, running around sticking it on things at random at the public section of your local CIA headquarters. Until they shoot you.

    And finally, "singing the praises of OS X", as in singing them? That does sound like a fun job. What sorts of songs did they sing?

  • Ian (unregistered)

    Be cautious of the Abend tea... it will probably crash your cup!

    CAPCHA: enim: (noun) Eminem's little brother.

  • (cs) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Where is BobX?
    frits:
    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB.

    It's there, it's just mislabeled as ColdFusion...

    Where's F#? (not that I care, just curious)

  • (cs) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB.
    I'm not too sure about the involvement of VB. I think C# is mostly the result of a coupling between Java and C++, which makes for quite an incestous offspring. Furthering the hillfolk-like realtionships is the subsequent mating of C# and Java in each new generation of the Java programming language.
  • (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    Bob:
    Where is BobX?
    frits:
    Looks like C-Pound was the result of an unholy tryst between Java and (TRWTFI) VB.

    It's there, it's just mislabeled as ColdFusion...

    Where's F#? (not that I care, just curious)

    It should be under Ocaml. Actually, a lot of MLs are missing.

    I don't see Erlang anywhere either.

  • Robb (unregistered)

    I think my car could use an Oxygen bar. Shots are still 1.5ozs?

  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    And yeah, I vaguely recall having heard somewhere (possibly it was here?) that absolutely anything that has a legitimate "top secret" tag on it is by law required to be treated as though it actually was, just in case. Which means it would be an excellent prank, running around sticking it on things at random at the public section of your local CIA headquarters. Until they shoot you.

    In Cliff Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg, he describes the experience of finding some TOP SECRET and CLASSIFIED rubber stamps during a brief visit to CIA headquarters. He stamped them on some blank pieces of paper because he thought they looked cool, and then got hassled at length by the CIA's security people when he tried to take the papers out of the building.

  • Mark (unregistered)

    According to the full chart C-sharp, PHP and Ruby are dead-end languages...

  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    According to the full chart C-sharp, PHP and Ruby are dead-end languages...

    You read that wrong: it's actually because they have achieved perfection.

    dry heaves and throws up a little in his mouth

  • (cs)

    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.

  • kastein (unregistered)

    that chip is a network service processor. Have fun building anything with it, soldering ballgrid array packages is not for mere mortals... best left to an IR reflow machine.

    I'd love to know where I can get some of those top secret stickers or stamps. I would put them on entire reams of blank paper in case I ever got raided by the FBI.

  • Utoxin (unregistered)

    The NSP chip is a 'Network Storage Processor'. Commonly used in NAS devices to help speed up file sharing. :)

  • kastein (unregistered)

    doh, unregistered and can't edit post!

    double doh, network STORAGE processor not network service processor!

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.
    Who cares?
  • (cs) in reply to boog
    boog (defective copy):
    frits:
    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

  • My $.02 (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    boog (defective copy):
    frits:
    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search. Or make their own trip to the effing link without the need to embed it in an enormous image?

    Oh, wait. I guess I've been trolled.

  • (cs) in reply to My $.02
    My $.02:
    boog:
    boog (defective copy):
    frits:
    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search. Or make their own trip to the effing link without the need to embed it in an enormous image?

    Oh, wait. I guess I've been trolled.

    Google doesn't really have a lot on the chip. However, unbeknownst to me, someone did beat me to the information: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Assortment-of-Awesomeness.aspx#348340(I scanned right by it).

    The large image was posted by a different, unregistered, "frits" (maybe you perhaps?). In case you couldn't tell, I don't care about being "trolled" or not, and unless you're a teenager, neither should you. Go away and grow up.

  • (cs) in reply to My $.02
    My $.02:
    boog:
    boog (defective copy):
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search. Or make their own trip to the effing link without the need to embed it in an enormous image?
    By saying "who cares?" You're suggesting that apathy insinuates initiative? That's funny; I could swear those words were opposites.

  • My $.02 (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    My $.02:
    boog:
    boog (defective copy):
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search. Or make their own trip to the effing link without the need to embed it in an enormous image?
    By saying "who cares?" You're suggesting that apathy insinuates initiative? That's funny; I could swear those words were opposites.
    You must not know what apathy means. Or you don't know what "Who cares?" means.

  • My $.02 (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    My $.02:
    boog:
    boog (defective copy):
    frits:
    The infraNT IT1008 is an 8 channel SATA chip for interfacing computers to mass memory storage. The device is apparently used by these guys: http://www.readynas.com/.
    Who cares?
    People who RTFA, these guys, Derek Glover, and apparently Alex, since he prompted frits' explanation by saying "not sure what it is exactly".

    Oh wait, you were being rhetorical. Totally missed that.

    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search. Or make their own trip to the effing link without the need to embed it in an enormous image?

    Oh, wait. I guess I've been trolled.

    Google doesn't really have a lot on the chip. However, unbeknownst to me, someone did beat me to the information: http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Assortment-of-Awesomeness.aspx#348340(I scanned right by it).

    The large image was posted by a different, unregistered, "frits" (maybe you perhaps?). In case you couldn't tell, I don't care about being "trolled" or not, and unless you're a teenager, neither should you.

    I care about the comments or I would not read them. Therefore I care about boneheads (not you, apparently, sorry) polluting them with garbage. WTH is this all about?
    frits:
    [color=white]Go away and grow up.[/color
  • (cs) in reply to My $.02
    My $.02:
    frits:
    Go away and grow up.

    Who was it again that coined the phrase "never argue with a fool, etc., etc."?

    Go away OR grow up. Is that better?

  • (cs) in reply to My $.02
    My $.02:
    boog:
    My $.02:
    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search...
    By saying "who cares?" You're suggesting that apathy insinuates initiative? That's funny; I could swear those words were opposites.
    You must not know what apathy means. Or you don't know what "Who cares?" means.
    Say that's an interesting conclusion you arrived at there. It was certainly very creative, even if completely irrational. Let me sum up for you what I was actually saying:

    Given: "who cares?" = apathy "blah blah do their own Google search blah" = initiative

    You suggested: "who cares?" = "blah blah do their own Google search blah"

    Which would imply: apathy = initiative

    My response: "ERROR: does not compute"

  • Derek G (unregistered)

    Woo, my stuff got posted! Loving the mug, and I've gotten some fun comments on the stickers.

    Yes, the Infrant NSP chip used to be the core of the ReadyNAS products, replaced by Intel stuff later.

    Alex, can you get a pic of the back of the 'Oxygen Bar' thing, I believe it had some Engrish stuff on it which was weird, which is why I saved it for you :)

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    My $.02:
    frits:
    Go away and grow up.

    Who was it again that coined the phrase "never argue with a fool, etc., etc."?

    Go away OR grow up. Is that better?

    I wonder, which is the fool?

    Both, now.

  • My $.02 (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    My $.02:
    boog:
    My $.02:
    Or maybe he was insinuating that ANYBODY that did care could do their own Google search...
    By saying "who cares?" You're suggesting that apathy insinuates initiative? That's funny; I could swear those words were opposites.
    You must not know what apathy means. Or you don't know what "Who cares?" means.
    Say that's an interesting conclusion you arrived at there. It was certainly very creative, even if completely irrational. Let me sum up for you what I was actually saying:

    Given: "who cares?" = apathy "blah blah do their own Google search blah" = initiative

    You suggested: "who cares?" = "blah blah do their own Google search blah"

    Which would imply: apathy = initiative

    My response: "ERROR: does not compute"

    Who cares? = apathy Who cares = pathy (pathos, caring)

    Get it now?

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Where are Snobol? And Cryptk?

  • Mike D. (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    that chip is a network service processor. Have fun building anything with it, soldering ballgrid array packages is not for mere mortals... best left to an IR reflow machine.
    I've got a friend who solders those with a skillet. The trick is to put all the reflow-needing parts on one side.

    That said, the multi-layer PCBs needed to use those chips aren't cheap in small quantities.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark
    Mark:
    According to the full chart C-sharp, PHP and Ruby are dead-end languages...

    And APL emerged spontaneously from the primordial ooze. Which you'll get no argument out of me about.

    So where's Rexx?

  • (cs)

    I don't see Forth on that chart!

  • Jonathan Wilson (unregistered)

    What I want to know is where on the language chart Brainf**k should go.

  • n00B (unregistered) in reply to Mike D.
    Mike D.:
    Wow, several bugs in that chart. The ones I'm seeing:
    • Java was based on C, not C++. The language creators were very clear about this.
    • Python coming from Perl? Python is more related to C or C++. It shares almost no syntax with Perl.
    • I think PL/1 is supposed to be on there around BCPL.

    Though it has MUMPS. Bravo.

    Must have missed LabView in there, too....

  • n00B (unregistered) in reply to Design Pattern
    Design Pattern:
    Java also has borrowed a lot from Smalltalk (single inheritance, VM, garbage collection).

    In what way is Scheme based on Smalltalk?

    From the diagram it appears it's closer to Smalltalk than to Lisp. In fact it is a prominent member of the Lisp-family.

    I think the location in the diagram is more chosen based on where the arrows could fit, rather than on what lingos it's closest to...

    I actually thought it (Scheme) was a direct descendant/dialect of Lisp

  • Ich bin nicht aus den Europe (unregistered) in reply to spivonious
    spivonious:
    Hatr:
    Mmmm.... Remoulade.... Must dig out recipe... ahh, here it is:
    Lærebog i Huslig Økonomi:
    Remoulade: Lav en mayonnaise, kom hakket syltet agurk el. asie og persille i. Smag til med karry og sennep. Kan forfines med flødeskum.

    Go Go Gadget Internet! "Textbook in the Domestic economy" Remoulade: make a mayonnaise, minced cucumber el sat. asie and parsley in Taste to curry with. and mustard. Can become more refined with cream foam.

    There you go...I always thought remoulade was basically a mix of mayonnaise and Sauerkraut (and for the record that it actually tasted pretty good). Sounds like I might hab been off the mark a smidgeon

  • (cs)

    The Evolution of Programming languages, if you bother to read the intro on it's page, notably posted in 2006, tells us:

    Both the selection of what constitutes a “major” programming language and which languages influenced which were determined by Wikipedia and are limited in their accuracy by the articles there on the various languages.

    Explains why some links seem odd, while some languages aren't listed.

    No open wide for the airplane -- VROOOOM - SMACK

    Seriously kids with ADD, smack em.

  • Simon (unregistered)

    Remoulade is absolutely fantastic with french fries, sausages, hot dogs and/or most types of fried fish. I have no idea why someone would put in whipped cream though...:S

    (Flødeskum = whipped cream, not "cream foam" btw)

  • Mario (unregistered) in reply to Ich bin nicht aus den Europe

    Sauerkraut isn't always a solution :-)

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