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Soho - Hippychick

I guess that tells you what's important to them, eh?

Now gather all of those last posts, throw them into AI and see if you can make a song!!! 😂

42 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

In senior science in high school, we went on a field trip to the local (Fayetteville) water treatment facility.
Let's just say I have to be pretty darn thirsty to drink tap water.

Yeah... Whatever.

All they needed was a dead duck to complete the scene!

5 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

On AI- so we have fake guitars, fake bass, fake drums and fake singers. Just need to create a fake buyer?

 

We already had fake management and fake groupies, ya? 😂

I totally forgot that I have Reason 11...  I've got a 40" 4k TV as a monitor that can rotate to portrait mode which, as I recall, would have been a big deal with Reason before with their virtual rack.  No idea if it still is!  Someday I'll get around to installing it on my new computer and check it out. 🙂

Is that bass player using an Alembic??! 🤣

1 hour ago, pwal³ said:

once the forum server ai kicks in, it will be able to distinguish between **** swearing and proper swearing, a bit like banksy is proper art but drunk teen tagging is **** art, and hopefully spamming also 👍

But, by then, it will probably only be AI bots talking to each other anyway! 😂

42 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

"expletive-laden outburst"

One of those got me booted from the Air Force.

The fact that not 1 but 2 first sergeants were present might have been a factor.

You would have probably been promoted if you had been in the Marines... 😁

Suzanne Vega - Luka

Well, getting old beats the currently known alternative! 😂

1 hour ago, Xoo said:

Is it sad I didn't need to google it? 🙂

Nerd! 🤓

2 hours ago, Wookiee said:

@Matt Rayner due to the spam we have recently been experiencing you unfortunately used a banned word. As I see you managed to post refrazed.

Yes.  You're not allowed to say ****, ****, *******, ****, ***, ************, *****, **** or Worcestershire here. 😜

On 9/28/2020 at 7:57 PM, Doc H said:

Probably closer to real beer than Bud Light or Coors Light though! 😂

Good job guys!  Nice of you to pull Daryk back into the forum too. 😁

I can imagine the picture of the "band" that goes with this song having Ed wearing a t-shirt that says "More of ME in the mix!" 🤣

C.  The answer is always C.

What the **** is he jabbering about? 🤔

10 hours ago, pwal³ said:

They'd probably still be together if that was Yoko's POV... 😆

3 hours ago, Tim Smith said:

Well when I typed that I partially knew it was wishful thinking. I really liked ACID.

60's child? 😁

1 hour ago, 57Gregy said:

Why isn't there a 'groan' emoji?

Something like this?

17 minutes ago, TW5011 said:

This may not sound like a difficult thing, but it usually is much more complicated than it seems.  Buying a company's apps and taking over the code is often an immense amount of work, to the point that it would be quicker to write it from scratch than to learn what they did and update it.  There are exceptions, of course, because some programmers use good coding technique and document what they're doing.  But in my experience, it's usually really difficult.

BTW, I've worked at a couple of companies where I wrote custom code for their apps.  One of them was a billion-dollar IT company that had bought some other companies.  I know several programming languages, but one program we inherited was in a language I'd never seen before, with lines like this:

RTVDTAARA DTAARA(*LDA (1 10)) RTNVAR(&PNAM)

and there was no documentation whatsoever.  It was not fun, nor efficient at all.  Looking up the terms, it's not too difficult to figure out what it's doing, but deciphering why they did it can be quite elusive.  And when there are tens of thousands of lines of code that isn't organized well or documented, you can spend years on it, and by then it's falling behind the competition (and probably incompatible with another Apple operating system upgrade).

I suspect many corporate leaders don't understand this, so when companies like MAGIX or InMusic buy other companies, they probably suspect they can just put people to work on it and upgrades happen, while not bothering to keep the original developers (because it's cheaper to hire entry-level programmers).  This is probably the main reason some companies become a graveyard of companies they have bought.

Ironically, I used to have documentation for that language!  It's RPG (Report Program Generator).  One of the IBM languages that slightly predates COBOL.  The last time I had to do anything in it was way back in 1984!

I think that line is retrieving data from a specific location and putting it into a variable (&PNAM).

Two things I haven't used in over 20 years...  A drill press and a bench press! 😂

1 hour ago, Xoo said:

Nothing because it was in the "gap" between Gregorian and Julian calendars?

Good job!

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