AerBabe wrote:My excuse is that it's only 2233 local time. What's your excuse for thread zombification?
22:33 is an excuse? For what?
Someone asked about what we all do in another thread, and someone commented about the number of pilots who are in IT. So I thought I'd resurrect this poll.
Lindsayp wrote: Nononono, the phrase is "clock cycle".
Never used "power cycle", never read the Register (except when I check if my troops are in each day), I do still practice binary, octal and hexadecimal though, to show off to the kiddies when they start telling me about how they void their variables in java.
I thought it was 'duty cycle'.
I used to read registers in PDP11s (in Octal, of course) but was brought up on hex (Burroughs). Folk in Computing (as it was called then) used to understand how computers worked and could excercise and 'scope around an ALU to fix it. Haven't used any binary-related noughts and ones skills since IP subnet address masking back in the '80s.
So called IT experts these days are really experts in a particular company's product. Heck, even the 'qualifications' are defined by those companies!
^^^ THIS. Maximum THIS.
Just re-read this thread and liked the above, so thought I'd post.
PaulB wrote:You don't need to work in IT to get that.
Indeed, which is why it should be a separate poll! I would suggest more pilots would know what it meant than the general population. Perhaps.
George - unfortunately Vince isn't on here any more. Though we still talk about MX-5s occasionally. (don't expect you to understand this bit! It's a forum "thing".)
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