I hope he has already specified the punishments fro breaking the gag order. Because he will absolutely need them.

Es ist immer noch jemand an Bord. Das System soll den Schiffsführer ergänzen, nicht ersetzen. Es müssen nämlich eigentlich immer zwei Leute an Bord sein, die das Schiff leiten können. Sonst müsste z.B. das Schiff erst mal vertäut werden, wenn der Schiffsführer mal pinkeln muss.

So kann man sich den zweiten Schiffsführer sparen: Wenn der an Bord mal auf Klo muss, oder sich was zu Essen machen will, springt die Zentrale mit der Fernsteuerung ein. Sollte es dann mal ein Problem geben, muss der Schiffsführer halt mit heruntergelassener Hose auf die Brücke rennen, oder das Schnitzel in der Pfanne brennt an, aber zumindest bleibt die Katastrophe aus.

Not only on Jerboa. Basically all titles are affected, and it is not only the ampersand which is an issue.

The phone market has been a lot like the PC market 20, 30 years ago.

Back then, you actually had an advantage by getting a new machine quite often, as the newer machine was so much better and faster than the model from the year before. It actually made a difference for 99% of the users: The text processing, calculating, or browsing programs ran way better and faster on the current model than on the one or two year older one.

Nowadays, any off-the-shelf PC fulfills the needs of 95% of the users. It runs Windows/Word/Excel (or whatever else they use) fast enough to not be an issue. The only people who still need the bleeding edge stuff are some high-end uses e.g. in engineering, and gamers.

Same with cell phones. Ten years ago, the annual new model actually provided a big leap of abilities and comfort. Nowadays, I'm replacing my 5+ year old model just because the battery is getting close to the end of it's usability.

Just don't make the same mistake as one physics lab did. They made a series of measurements and their results showed that gravity quickly increases in fall, falls slowly over winter, and back to about pre-fall levels very slowly in summer. It took quite a while to figure out the reason of this unexpected result. They turned their equipment inside out to find a mistake to no avail. Then they realized that the university stored coal for the central heating and hot water in the basement under the lab...

Isn't it 3785.41 ml? Or is that yet another different gallon?

Downside: He can't.

Yes.

It was called "Water Carrier". It was a simple labyrinth game that - because I had no way of saving it to a tape, disk, or similar - I had to type in line by line whenever I wanted to play it.

Yes, I'm a bit longer in the business than most of you.

Dartboards, Dartboards!

If I would complain about any new language or environment I'd be dropped in, I'd probably in the loony bin by now.

Tell the team leader that you don't know the language but are willing to learn, read the existing code which will give you a feel for the language, the project, and the local programming style, all in one go, and you should be fine. Imagine the backend was written in PL/I, Prolog, or LISP instead of just another ALGOL dialect ;-)

That is the reason why the guy that led the revolution against to old realms was a high-level bard...