I found this deeply disturbing, and I apologize in advance for exposing you to it. However, as I hold each of you inthe highest regard, I felt I would be remise in not being utterly candid regarding these matters.
Again, my apologies in advance to those disturbed by this:
this is really old. In college, where random stuff like this spreads faster than cerveloguy’s comments against newbies, we saw this years ago. I was estatic when i saw quiznos (sp?) adapted it.
When I was first exposed to this information, I didn;t appreciate the full weight and significance of it.
I still don’t know that I understand the specifics, and this clearly asks more questions than it answers, but I am hoping it will lead to a greater understanding at some point.
Specifically, my questions are:
What are these things?
Who are the parties originally responsible for this?
What was the inspiration for this?
Who are the actual performers?
Who recognized the significance and power of this?
When you were in school, “cool” was probably a program that told you how many sodas were left in the soda machine downstairs. ;p Don’t feel old if that’s true. They still write that code, it’s just that now they do it in the real-time systems course. And it’s front end is a web app instead of a green screen output.
BTW, thanks for the advice on the Arione. I picked one up two weeks ago.