{"id":3439192,"date":"2006-02-28T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/2006\/02\/28\/Hardware-and-Software\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T03:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T03:37:00","slug":"Hardware-and-Software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/su.blog.bunty.tv\/?p=3439192","title":{"rendered":"Hardware and Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='sustuff'>Stumbleupon <a href='http:\/\/horsewithnobunty.stumbleupon.com\/review\/3439192\/'>Review<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\t\t<b>Hardware and Software<br \/>\n\t\t\tBook Eight<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\t\t   Thus spake the master programmer:<\/p>\n<p>\t<i>     &#8220;Without the wind, the grass does not move.<br \/>\n\t       Without software, hardware is useless.&#8221;<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n\t\t\t\t  8.1<\/p>\n<p>A novice asked the master: &#8220;I perceive that one computer company is<br \/>\nmuch larger than all others.  It towers above its competition like a<br \/>\ngiant among dwarfs.  Any one of its divisions could comprise an entire<br \/>\nbusiness.  Why is this so?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The master replied, &#8220;Why do you ask such foolish questions?  That<br \/>\ncompany is large because it is so large.  If it only made hardware,<br \/>\nnobody would buy it.  If it only maintained systems, people would treat<br \/>\nit like a servant.  But because it combines all of these things, people<br \/>\nthink it one of the gods!  By not seeking to strive, it conquers<br \/>\nwithout effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t  8.2<\/p>\n<p>A master programmer passed a novice programmer one day.  The master<br \/>\nnoted the novice&#8217;s preoccupation with a hand-held computer game.<br \/>\n&#8220;Excuse me&#8221;, he said, &#8220;may I examine it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The novice bolted to attention and handed the device to the master. &#8220;I<br \/>\nsee that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium,<br \/>\nand Hard&#8221;, said the master.  &#8220;Yet every such device has another level<br \/>\nof play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be<br \/>\nconquered by the human.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pray, great master,&#8221; implored the novice, &#8220;how does one find this<br \/>\nmysterious setting?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it under foot.<br \/>\nAnd suddenly the novice was enlightened.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t  8.3<\/p>\n<p>There was once a programmer who worked upon microprocessors.  &#8220;Look at<br \/>\nhow well off I am here,&#8221; he said to a mainframe programmer who came to<br \/>\nvisit, &#8220;I have my own operating system and file storage device. I do<br \/>\nnot have to share my resources with anyone.  The software is<br \/>\nself-consistent and easy-to-use.  Why do you not quit your present job<br \/>\nand join me here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The mainframe programmer then began to describe his system to his<br \/>\nfriend, saying: &#8220;The mainframe sits like an ancient sage meditating in<br \/>\nthe midst of the data center.  Its disk drives lie end-to-end like a<br \/>\ngreat ocean of machinery.  The software is a multi-faceted as a diamond<br \/>\nand as convoluted as a primeval jungle.  The programs, each unique,<br \/>\nmove through the system like a swift-flowing river.  That is why I am<br \/>\nhappy where I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The microcomputer programmer, upon hearing this, fell silent.  But the<br \/>\ntwo programmers remained friends until the end of their days.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t  8.4<\/p>\n<p>Hardware met Software on the road to Changtse.  Software said: &#8220;You are<br \/>\nthe Yin and I am the Yang.  If we travel together we will become famous<br \/>\nand earn vast sums of money.&#8221;  And so the pair set forth together,<br \/>\nthinking to conquer the world.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, they met Firmware, who was dressed in tattered rags, and<br \/>\nhobbled along propped on a thorny stick.  Firmware said to them: &#8220;The<br \/>\nTao lies beyond Yin and Yang.  It is silent and still as a pool of<br \/>\nwater. It does not seek fame, therefore nobody knows its presence.  It<br \/>\ndoes not seeks fortune, for it is complete within itself.  It exists<br \/>\nbeyond space and time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Software and Hardware, ashamed, returned to their homes.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbleupon Review Hardware and Software Book Eight Thus spake the master programmer: &#8220;Without the wind, the grass does not move. 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