I was pondering the acronyms of daily use....
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Daily google thoughtful interlude... Because of Christopher Duncan's messages about 64bit and 32bit I was going through another thoughtful phase.... PAE, AWE, EM64T... I know, bad to think where I work. I cannot live and breath without daily acronyms. A project can't get funded without an Acronym at least 3 letters long. I was trying to think back to when this first began. Acronyms were already widely accepted when I started work. IBM the best known. When I came here, nothing existed without acronyms.... how did we do this? Why did we do this? I googled.... :) 1965: COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA = "Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station" ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC = "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command." you can sure understand why you'd prefer an acronym to that mouthful.... Today: C4ISR = "Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" We now return you to your regularly scheduled program with Christopher pondering to 64bit or not to 64bit.... "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous 32bit limits or to take RAM against a sea of applications...."
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
DoD loves acronyms! My favorite was SFIR, a device used in the Peacekeeper missile guidance unit. I think it stood for "Specific Force Integrator - Rate" but no one was really sure and we all just called it the "siffer." When we learned that the contractor just used the equivalent unit from Minuteman, the SFIR was from then on known as the "Same F'ing Instrument, Renamed." :)
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
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Daily google thoughtful interlude... Because of Christopher Duncan's messages about 64bit and 32bit I was going through another thoughtful phase.... PAE, AWE, EM64T... I know, bad to think where I work. I cannot live and breath without daily acronyms. A project can't get funded without an Acronym at least 3 letters long. I was trying to think back to when this first began. Acronyms were already widely accepted when I started work. IBM the best known. When I came here, nothing existed without acronyms.... how did we do this? Why did we do this? I googled.... :) 1965: COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA = "Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station" ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC = "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command." you can sure understand why you'd prefer an acronym to that mouthful.... Today: C4ISR = "Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" We now return you to your regularly scheduled program with Christopher pondering to 64bit or not to 64bit.... "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous 32bit limits or to take RAM against a sea of applications...."
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
El Corazon wrote:
1965: COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA = "Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station" ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC = "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."
This isn't really any better today: spawarsyscenlant-nola = Space Warfare Systems Center Atlantic - New Orleans, Louisiana :doh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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El Corazon wrote:
1965: COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA = "Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station" ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC = "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command."
This isn't really any better today: spawarsyscenlant-nola = Space Warfare Systems Center Atlantic - New Orleans, Louisiana :doh:
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
spawarsyscenlant-nola = Space Warfare Systems Center Atlantic - New Orleans, Louisiana
well.... Louisiana, 'nuff said. *ducks* hey, we got HEL next door. would you rather trade? ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Code page? Conditional proof? Constraint programming?
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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Dan Neely wrote:
spawarsyscenlant-nola = Space Warfare Systems Center Atlantic - New Orleans, Louisiana
well.... Louisiana, 'nuff said. *ducks* hey, we got HEL next door. would you rather trade? ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Code page? Conditional proof? Constraint programming?
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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peterchen wrote:
Christopher Duncan will post until we all chip in a dollar, and buy him his dream computer.
Hell!! if that is all it takes!!?? I'll take on Christian's post count for my dream computer.... :) I dream much bigger than Christopher Duncan.
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
Clearly, you've not been exposed to my altered states. :-D
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Christopher Duncan will post until we all chip in a dollar, and buy him his dream computer.
Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v server.5! :-D And my bank account number is... :doh: No, wait...
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Apparently he spent on his money on his Corvette and the insurance for it.
Insurance? :omg:
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
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Clearly, you've not been exposed to my altered states. :-D
Christopher Duncan
www.PracticalUSA.com
Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes
Copywriting ServicesChristopher Duncan wrote:
Clearly, you've not been exposed to my altered states.
Nor you mine. :)
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Code page? Conditional proof? Constraint programming?
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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Daily google thoughtful interlude... Because of Christopher Duncan's messages about 64bit and 32bit I was going through another thoughtful phase.... PAE, AWE, EM64T... I know, bad to think where I work. I cannot live and breath without daily acronyms. A project can't get funded without an Acronym at least 3 letters long. I was trying to think back to when this first began. Acronyms were already widely accepted when I started work. IBM the best known. When I came here, nothing existed without acronyms.... how did we do this? Why did we do this? I googled.... :) 1965: COMNAVSEACOMBATSYSENGSTA = "Commander, Naval Sea Systems Combat Engineering Station" ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC = "Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command." you can sure understand why you'd prefer an acronym to that mouthful.... Today: C4ISR = "Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance" We now return you to your regularly scheduled program with Christopher pondering to 64bit or not to 64bit.... "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous 32bit limits or to take RAM against a sea of applications...."
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
The use of TLA's has become FUBAR. Marc