Language Barrier

[SpeedFreak]

So I was on the Epcot monorail platform today, and I have a few groups waiting for the next train. Anyway, I was standing in front of the chained off special gate to prevent a certain special group of people from cutting under it... again... but that's an entirely different rant.

Anyway, directly to my left is a group of 6, 4 children and 2 adults, all of which happen to be black. At the gate next to them is a group of about 12 people, who are hispanic and perhaps a Brazilian tour group. From my shaky Spanish, I think they were talking about the monorails they had seen, and said something about Monorail Black. After they start talking about that, I see one of the younger children in that group of 6 pull on his mother's leg and say, "Mommy, the Mexicans are racist, they said 'negro'".:eek:

I got a pretty good laugh out of that. A few minutes after everyone was gone, but a laugh none-the-less.

[kurtisnelson]

So I was on the Epcot monorail platform today, and I have a few groups waiting for the next train. Anyway, I was standing in front of the chained off special gate to prevent a certain special group of people from cutting under it... again... but that's an entirely different rant.Obviously, they knew it was the special cab and knew they belonged in it. Tell 'em next time they are a different kind of special, the type that gets a personal drop-off at pylon 199.

[ktulu]

Obviously, they knew it was the special cab and knew they belonged in it. Tell 'em next time they are a different kind of special, the type that gets a personal drop-off at pylon 199.

That is my favorite stop...

[kurtisnelson]

That is my favorite stop...
No, no, no, 95 would be best for you.

[Doctor McKey]

Found some good translations for "Monorail Black"

01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011

4d 6f 6e 6f 72 61 69 6c 20 42 6c 61 63 6b

TW9ub3JhaWwgQmxhY2s=

77 111 110 111 114 97 105 108 32 66 108 97 99 107

We we start talking like this... we can not offened anyone....

The Doctor

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

binars!!!....OR Borg!

[darph nader]

Found some good translations for "Monorail Black"

01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100001 01101001 01101100 00100000 01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011

4d 6f 6e 6f 72 61 69 6c 20 42 6c 61 63 6b

TW9ub3JhaWwgQmxhY2s=

77 111 110 111 114 97 105 108 32 66 108 97 99 107

We we start talking like this... we can not offened anyone....

The Doctor

WAIT, I know this.How the hell do I know this?

HONEY, bring me another beer.

[Bright Scouter]

Are we talking EBCDIC or ASCII?

[darph nader]

are we talking ebcdic or ascii?

yes!

[Bright Scouter]

I think I still have my old IBM S/360 card around here someplace,,,,

[Fizzgig]

I finally recycled my AS/400 last year. :( I didn't know QSECOFR's password, so I had never plugged it in. It's not like I could hack it. ;)

[dhcalva]

I think I still have my old IBM S/360 card around here someplace,,,,

I can do you one better. At work we still have our old S/360 upstairs! LOL :D:

[hobie16]

I can do you one better. At work we still have our old S/360 upstairs! LOL :D:
Your power bills must be gawd awful. I've still got my IBM mainframe cabinet key.

[dhcalva]

Oh, we don't use it any more. But it's there. :)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

HA, I have a piece of the 8 level paper tape from a teletype used for input.

[hobie16]

HA, I've got a blanket that was used to send smoke signals

[felinefan]

I just love it when you guys try to one-up each other!:D:

I'm waiting for someone to say they have an ancient drum used for sending "local calls".

Anyone remember that one episode of Gilligan's Island where Gilligan is playing a drum, and it attracts the attention of a group of natives on another island?

[Mayonnaise]

I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.

He will tell you very loudly about how it's a travesty that so much is programmed in variations on C these days, because C is for engineers and commercial applications should be in COBOL.

He will also tell you that the internet is supposed to be for science and work only, and therefore should not be filled with games and message boards, and that you shouldn't be allowed to say anything on the internet that you can't say on network television. Oh, and he firmly believes that trolls and other poor internet spellers are foreigners.

8^P

[Syndrome]

I still have disks for my Magnovox Videowriter.

One of my first jobs was data entry on a Wang with those giant "platter" backups. We used to think it was so slick to be able to program it (in BASIC no less) to flash custom messages on the screen and whatnot. Damn, I'm old.

[CBeilby]

I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.

He will tell you very loudly about how it's a travesty that so much is programmed in variations on C these days, because C is for engineers and commercial applications should be in COBOL.

He will also tell you that the internet is supposed to be for science and work only, and therefore should not be filled with games and message boards, and that you shouldn't be allowed to say anything on the internet that you can't say on network television. Oh, and he firmly believes that trolls and other poor internet spellers are foreigners.

8^P

Does he yell at us "da*n kids" to get off his lawn? :D:

[hobie16]

I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.
Is his name Louis Black?

[darph nader]

This is the perfect title for this thread. (turns to wife."Honey,their talking techno-stuff again") :(

[dhcalva]

I have programmed in COBOL myself. :D: That language is English Teacher Approved.

[Cheshire Figment]

And then there was the story Grace Hopper used to tell about being at an international conference and a bunch of them were going to go out for dinner and they did not have a common language, so they held their discussions in COBOL.

[darph nader]

Years ago at the place I worked at,the counterman kept calling this one customer "Mr Bendejo" . the customer was getting a little pissed off when looked at the customers ID over the counterman's shoulder. I whispered in his ear,"It's pronounced "Bejorano". :rolleyes: Dumbass,cracker,whiteboys. :mad:

[Main Streeter]

looked at the customers ID over the counterman's shoulder. I whispered in his ear,"It's pronounced "Bejorano". :rolleyes: Dumbass,cracker,whiteboys. :mad:
Spanish "should" be your first language darph. You never screw up in Spanish. :D: The Baker has taught you well. ;)

[scpergj]

I have programmed in COBOL myself. :D: That language is English Teacher Approved.

I speak COBOL, too...believe it or not, in 2000-2003 at the University of North Florida, it was REQUIRED for an Information Systems/Information Science degree...I had three sememsters of it, including our backbreaker (weed out the weaklings, grasshopper...that which does not kill you makes you stronger!) course, File Structures.

Oh...and I prefer C# or Java. MUCH better for real programming!

[darph nader]

Spanish "should" be your first language darph. You never screw up in Spanish. :D: The Baker has taught you well. ;)

Works for me,"Uno cerveza mas,por favor". :D: :beer:

[Main Streeter]

"Uno cerveza mas,por favor". :D: :beer: Darph, think this should be una cerveza. Aaaah, you know how I dislike correcting you in front of mil. Thanks for dos mil buddy. :yourock:

[Mayonnaise]

Is his name Louis Black?

No. Edward. It's my maternal grandfather. My mom is a developer too. She came in at punch cards back in college. They figured I'd follow but I'm crap at math, so I'm an Animator instead. *Giggle.* I do a little Actionscripting but yeah...

Meanwhile my father is spectacularly bad at computers. He once uninstalled Windows AND DOS from our 486 while trying to install his brand new shiny CD-ROM drive. He did NOT however, format the drive. The computer shop guys were able to re-install it and all our files were still there. We're still not sure how he managed that.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

No. Edward. It's my maternal grandfather. My mom is a developer too. She came in at punch cards back in college. They figured I'd follow but I'm crap at math, so I'm an Animator instead. *Giggle.* I do a little Actionscripting but yeah...

Meanwhile my father is spectacularly bad at computers. He once uninstalled Windows AND DOS from our 486 while trying to install his brand new shiny CD-ROM drive. He did NOT however, format the drive. The computer shop guys were able to re-install it and all our files were still there. We're still not sure how he managed that.

We had one brought into our lab that had that done, turns out they deleted the "windows" folder and the "program files" folder.

easy recovery.