The best tech quote from a movie Apr11 '06
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# (2 of 3): Matthom
23 hours, 41 minutes after the fact. (Wed 12 Apr 2006, 11:47 AM CST)
Good points.
# (3 of 3): Andy
2 days, 4 hours after the fact. (Thu 13 Apr 2006, 5:01 PM CST)
Yeah, company needs change too....some people might spend a lot of time updating the same strings when a company decides to internationlize some of their software...which is a similar idea. Not to knock any line of Office Space though, hands down, my favorite movie, with an unbelievable level of replay value and relevancy.
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No real company would ever do this, but for the purpose of the movie, Office Space, this quote fits right in.
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# (1 of 3): Tim » veryraw.com
7 hours, 27 minutes after the fact. (Tue 11 Apr 2006, 7:33 PM CST)
Remember though, when some of these systems were developed, storage was really expensive. I don’t know if its all storage though. I may have been processing power too. There are any number of things that it could have been. Point is, back then, applicaitons were developed to be lean to utilize limited resources. Now with most languages you don’t even have to declare the size of a variable. Preposterous. That would have never been the case then. Two characters seems small but multiply that times 100,000,000 transactions. Now multiply that by the cost per byte in those days. Seems laughable today, but then it was life.