That image is older than dirt. It's the traditional "Chad" image.
spauldo
joined 1 year ago
Oh, you know he'll try to find a way to be president for life. And half the media will support it.
Maybe get Krishna to be your wingman? He knew how to party.
With regards to old databases, they were used by tons of small businesses and industrial users. If a flour mill had a system written to track bulk shipments in 1992, you can bet it would still be in use in 2000. Fortune 500 companies run mostly off the shelf software and keep it up to date, but the SCADA system that runs a factory is a different story.
As far as mainframes go, the financial and manufacturing industries still use them. Quite a bit of the infrastructure we rely on even today is written in COBOL. It's easy to miss because the mainframe community is almost completely separate from the rest of the IT world, but it's there and even with IBM's push to get everyone on Java it won't be going away any time soon.
Don't forget you have Y2K38 coming up. Whereas Y2K was all about mainframes and old databases, Y2K38 will be older embedded equipment. Less impact if it goes bad, but there's no way to predict everything it'll affect.
I am so glad I got my basics out of the way before this crap became common. Hopefully upper level math will stay free of this garbage in case I ever go back for my Master's.
I think North Korea is an unpleasant place to be, Taiwan isn't part of the PRC, and Stalin was a murderous dick. Makes me unpopular on Lemmy, but I gotta be me.
Yoopers.
Canada is Shang-Gra-La for Yoopers, that mythical land where hosers eat poutine and speak in the true tongue.
Don't anthropomorphize computers.
They don't like it.
That's why I use it too. Netscape was hopelessly outdated and Internet Explorer didn't run on Linux. Once Mozilla was stable enough to use, I switched. I've never had a reason to change.
Ah yes, all those capitalist nuke plants they built in the Warsaw Pact countries...
The guy appears to be Hispanic, which is considered "white."
Why do you care, anyway?