re: #105 Olsonist

EECS from UC Berkeley.

you have hereby volunteered as victim

this happened jest now

WARNING - ONLY MAKES SENSE TO NERDS

so this feller call me up from texas, n he sez ah got this program here runs the videos on mah sign, an i wud like to hook up a GPS to it so’s the videos change laik when i go into another county, see?

me “hmmm - so, do you have the source code?”

him “thah whut?”

so, here follows a lecture on the difference between source code - what he ain’t got - and object code (machine code, executable, .exe) - what he do got

see, he thut that you could jest reprogram that .exe poor feller, so i had to set him straight

him “so, ok, yer sayin i got to get aholt of this here source code, or else ah’m hosed - raight?”

“you got it”