“The FRT scanner is dependent on the vobs, but those are at EPK, and the link is unstable. I’ll have to dupe them and hack the script to bypass the view check. Once I get it talking to the SCFSims on the LDOMs, we can check the SS7 links. If those are good, we can start the regression.”
[spoiler]
Telecom, preparing to test a customization to a billing system.
“The test software is dependent on a software tracking tool that stores different versions of programs in a directory called ‘vobs’. The first step in the test looks in that directory for specific versions of certain tests. The tracking tool isn’t installed here, though–only in Sweden, and the network connection isn’t good enough to run the tests remotely from there. So, I’m just going to copy the version we need and modify the test software so that it skips that step. Then we can use it to control the simulators we installed on logical domains (one big computer sliced up into a bunch of smaller computers) to make fake phone calls. Those calls will (hopefully) show that we haven’t broken anything.” [/spoiler]And that is why we use jargon.
Syntax can be just as much part of jargon as the words, and legalese is an extreme example of that. As I’ve said before, it’s basically a programming language. In the case of that second quote, though, it looks like the equivalent of some sort of demented recursive filter algorithm coded by a novice who had no clue what he was about. The 400-year-old one was easier to read despite its near-total lack of English.
Did you check in all the files in the solution? I’m getting a build error on the codebehind of one project and a runtime error in another. I think you’re trying to pass a null into an int, so we have to trap it, and we might not have the right refs loaded for that new control.
Was this development blueprinted? I’ll speak with the andys about searching for appropriate user exits, but we’ll need Z fields unless you’d rather we use the classification system.
[spoiler]SAP jargon.
Wait a minute, did this crap come up when we were talking about what the customer needed, or did they forget to mention it? I’ll speak with the analyst-programmers and ask them to find the parts of the code that will be affected and whether there are any pre-made patches for this shit, but we’ll need to add extra fields to the database. Unless you’d like us to use this system for adding extra data which is more standard but for some reason many developers hate, that is.[/spoiler]
Skopos theory indicates that the syntactic structure of the target text should be adapted to the educational level of the expected audience.
[spoiler]Translation.
If we want people to understand this shit, we don’t so much need to “translate” it as do a rewrite, who does this moron think he’s writing for, the Speaker of the House? It’s for high school dropouts![/spoiler]
Regular LC, T to A gradient. Don’t start the gradient until there’s spotting.
[spoiler]Separation/purification of chemicals.
Use a big glass column packed with silica powder (regular liquid chromatography), start by dissolving the mixture in toluene and continue pouring toluene through the column and collecting it in test tubes until putting a drop of the collected toluene on a special sheet of paper and letting it dry produces a glowing spot under ultra-violet light; at that point, start adding acetone to the solvent and use more and more acetone in the solvent as you progress.[/spoiler]
We will circulate bottoms up, pump out to the shoe and flow test. Then pump a weighted pill and trip out on elevators, be prepared to pull the last stands wet. Change out the clean out assembly and make up rotary steerable/LWD bottom hole assembly. Shallow hole test and trip in. Flow test at the shoe, trip in open hole, monitor drag and tag fill. Make up top drive and then ream down to bottom. CBU and drill ahead to TD, logging and taking pressure samples as per G&G instructions. Pump slugs as required.
Many factors contribute to AYP required by NCLB. First, make sure that all SPED students, including LD, MR and ED, are following their IEP or 504 (according to ARD committee) and are being taught in a LRE setting. ELL/LEP students need to be in a BIL or ESL setting. The SSI requires that identified students be labeled as ARI or AMI, so be sure to fill out an SAS for struggling students. GT kids do better in AP courses, leading to raised GPA and higher scores on TAKS and EOC exams. The best learning happens in the ZPD, so differentiation is essential.
Does the COP know that we need to make sure all TCNs are aware that they will actually be paid according to USAID’s HCN scale? This is also important for when we calculate our NICRA.
Top-hole. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how’s-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.
Oh, from my boyfriend’s business - “Hey, wrangle those stingers and get me an apple box and some C-47s! Where’s the taco cart? We need more c-stands unless you want me to Hollywood it. Get me plenty of room tone this time. Let’s get this martini shot and go home!”
PCGS gave my bust half a MS63 and its really MS65PL/DMPL so I’m snapping it and sending it to ANACS
(the Professional Coin Grading Service considered the early Bust Half Dollar I sent them to grade as a Mint State 63 but I feel it is Mint State 65 and a Proof-like or Deep Mirror Proof-like as well. I will remove it from the plastic holder they have sealed it in and submit it to another service such as the American Numismatic Association Certification Service)
Exactly. There is plenty of perfectly good, clear, comprehensible writing in modern legal opinions - judges are encouraged to produce it. This is just bad writing. If you want to see good legal writing, read almost anything by Posner, Scalia, or Kozinski, just to start.
(BTW - does anyone else notice that the best writers on the bench tend to be conservatives? I usually disagree with them, but damn do they know how to write.)
The prodplex failed over to BR and the CPF fenced the DASD.
Uh-oh.. the mainframe broke down and the controller is protecting the data by locking it so the presumably faulty processing doesn’t damage it.
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…We need more c-stands unless you want me to Hollywood it. Get me plenty of room tone this time. Let’s get this martini shot and go home!"
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And slap a jelly on the baby!
Here is a pair of sentences chosen more or less at random from something my wife and I are translating from French. I have to say the original was even more convoluted (and was actually one sentence in the original).
A \emph{diagram scheme} is a triple (I,\Phi,d) made up of two sets I
and \Phi and a function d from \Phi to I\x I. The elements of I are \emph{vertices}, the elements of \Phi are \emph{arrows} of the
diagram and if \phi is an arrow of the diagram, d(\phi) is called
its \emph{direction}, characterized as the \emph{source} and
\emph{target} of the arrow (these are therefore vertices of the scheme).
No shit. But that’s true for all the industries represented in this thread so far as well, so I’m not sure what your point is exactly. You and I both could come up with a ton of jargon that would be utterly inscrutable to outsiders. For instance, and off the top of my head:
[ul]
[li]cy pres doctrine[/li][li]the rule against perpetuities[/li][li]equitable conversion[/li][li]Younger abstention[/li][li]Chevron deference[/li][li]debtor-in-possession[/li][li]shifting executory interests[/li][li]springing executory interests[/li][li]coram nobis[/li][li]trespass to chattels[/li][li]trover[/li][li]replevin[/li][li]writ of fi. fa.[/li][li]nolle prosse[/li][li]aleatory contracts[/li][li]TTTs[/ul][/li]
and so on…
