You guys should be familair with the kirun lori express and féja kika se bangles stuff
this is an engineering version from engineeringhumo.com
0001
Have you ever used a computer? 0002 ... for more than 4 hours
continuously? 0003 ... more than 8 hours? 0004 ... more than 16 hours?
0005 ... more than 32 hours?
0006 Have you ever patched paper tape?
0007
Have you ever missed a class while programming? 0008 ... Missed an
examination? 0009 ... Missed a wedding? 0010 ... Missed your own
wedding?
0011 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated? 0012 ... Did it make sense the next day?
0013 Have you ever written a flight simulator?
0014 Have you ever voided the warranty on your equipment?
0015 Ever change the value of 4? 0016 ... Unintentionally? 0017 ... In a language other than Fortran?
0018 Do you use DWIM to make life interesting?
0019 Have you named a computer?
0020 Do you complain when a "feature" you use gets fixed?
0021 Do you eat slime molds? 0022 Do you know how many days old you are?
0023 Have you ever wanted to download pizza?
0024 Have you ever invented a computer joke? 0025 ... Did someone not 'get' it?
0026 Can you recite Jabberwocky? 0027 ... Backwards?
0028 Have you seen "Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land"?
0029 Have you seen "Tron"? 0030 Have you seen "Wargames"?
0031
Do you know what ASCII stands for? 0032 ... EBCDIC? 0033 Can you read
and write ASCII in hex or octal? 0034 Do you know the names of all the
ASCII control codes? 0035 Can you read and write EBCDIC in hex? 0036
Can you convert from EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa? 0037 Do you know
what characters are the same in both ASCII and EBCDIC?
0038 Do you know max int on your system?
0039
Ever define your own numerical type to get better precision? 0040 Can
you name powers of two up to 2**16 in arbitrary order? 0041 ... up to
2**32? 0042 ... up to 2**64? 0043 Can you read a punched card, looking
at the holes? 0044 ... feeling the holes? 0045 Have you ever patched
binary code? 0046 ... While the program was running? 0047 Have you ever
used program overlays? 0048 Have you met any IBM vice-president? 0049
Do you know Dennis, Bill, or Ken? 0050 Have you ever taken a picture of
a CRT? 0051 Have you ever played a videotape on your CRT? 0052a Have
you ever digitized a picture? 0053 Did you ever forget to mount a
scratch monkey? 0054 Have you ever optimized an idle loop? 0055 Did you
ever optimize a bubble sort? 0056 Does your computer talk to you? 0057
Have you ever talked into an acoustic modem? 0058 ... Did it answer?
0059 Can you whistle 300 baud? 0060 ... 2400 baud? 0061 Can you whistle
a telephone number? 0062 Have you witnessed a disk crash? 0063 Have you
made a disk drive "walk"? 0064 Can you build a puffer train? 0065 ...
Do you know what it is? 0066 Can you play music on your line printer?
0067 ... Your disk drive? 0068 ... Your tape drive? 0069 Do you have a
Snoopy calendar? 0070 ... Is it out-of-date? 0071 Do you have a line
printer picture of... 0072 ... the Mona Lisa? 0073 ... the Enterprise?
0074 ... Einstein? 0075 ... Oliver? 0076 Have you ever made a line
printer picture? 0077 Do you know what the following stand for? 0078
... DASD 0079 ... Emacs 0080 ... ITS 0082 ... SNA 0083 ... Spool 0084
... TCP/IP Have you ever used 0085 ... TPU? 0086 ... TECO? 0087.1 .
Friday 23 March 2012
Re-inventing NYSC Scheme
ALMOST after 40 years of its introduction, the National Youth
Service Corps, NYSC, is yearly going through challenges that make
people question its relevance. In the past, the major issue was many
NYSC members not finding places for their secondary assignments after
their discharge from the orientation camps.
More demanding issue of security of corps members have resulted in the calls for the cancellation of the scheme, which in 1973 was meant to re-capture national unity that had been battered by the civil war.
Some critics of the scheme call it a waste. Parties that use corps members as cheap labour will object to this position. None of these positions brought as much pressure to the scheme as the death of some corps members in riots in the North. There were claims that they were targets of the attacks.
Death of other corps members in Boko Haram attacks while on election duties in Suleja, Niger State and in Borno State have led parents to seek exemption for their children or ask that they are re-posted to safer parts of the country.
The appointment of Brig-Gen Nnamdi Okore-Affia as the Director General of the NYSC last October was a time many, riding on the emotions that the deaths of corps members elicited, were calling for the abrogation of the scheme. Okore-Affia wants to use the “data formula” initiative to link all corps members to the national secretariat of the NYSC in case of emergencies. Something that would delight corps members is the proposed training in entrepreneurship.
Far too much emphasis was placed on national integration, an objective that has seen limited success. The new direction is to prepare corps members for future leadership and align their orientation and skills to national priorities.
We support the intention to do a comprehensive reassessment of the current and future scope of the scheme relevant to national goals with a new winning model. The scheme has grown from a few thousand participants to an endeavour that requires annually mobilisation of nearly 300,000 young people.
The new NYSC must constantly search for new national opportunities and needs and deploy the army of young graduates to serve in these areas which are possible future careers in such new areas as entrepreneurs and employers of labour. Those areas abound. A key one is agriculture which has multiple opportunities that could also improve the rural areas where most Nigerians live. It also needs to increase its resource base.
The scheme creates opportunities that will give corps members a competitive start in life while intending corps members will look forward to the experience with zest rather than regard it as a waste of time.
More demanding issue of security of corps members have resulted in the calls for the cancellation of the scheme, which in 1973 was meant to re-capture national unity that had been battered by the civil war.
Some critics of the scheme call it a waste. Parties that use corps members as cheap labour will object to this position. None of these positions brought as much pressure to the scheme as the death of some corps members in riots in the North. There were claims that they were targets of the attacks.
Death of other corps members in Boko Haram attacks while on election duties in Suleja, Niger State and in Borno State have led parents to seek exemption for their children or ask that they are re-posted to safer parts of the country.
The appointment of Brig-Gen Nnamdi Okore-Affia as the Director General of the NYSC last October was a time many, riding on the emotions that the deaths of corps members elicited, were calling for the abrogation of the scheme. Okore-Affia wants to use the “data formula” initiative to link all corps members to the national secretariat of the NYSC in case of emergencies. Something that would delight corps members is the proposed training in entrepreneurship.
Far too much emphasis was placed on national integration, an objective that has seen limited success. The new direction is to prepare corps members for future leadership and align their orientation and skills to national priorities.
We support the intention to do a comprehensive reassessment of the current and future scope of the scheme relevant to national goals with a new winning model. The scheme has grown from a few thousand participants to an endeavour that requires annually mobilisation of nearly 300,000 young people.
The new NYSC must constantly search for new national opportunities and needs and deploy the army of young graduates to serve in these areas which are possible future careers in such new areas as entrepreneurs and employers of labour. Those areas abound. A key one is agriculture which has multiple opportunities that could also improve the rural areas where most Nigerians live. It also needs to increase its resource base.
The scheme creates opportunities that will give corps members a competitive start in life while intending corps members will look forward to the experience with zest rather than regard it as a waste of time.
National Assembly ignores the Constitution
HE National Assembly should be more
reticent when making laws. Its tendency has been to make laws for
their sake or to please the Executive. In the process it ignores the
Constitution. The Central Bank Act 2007, which may soon be a subject of
legal dispute, is a good example.
It became law on 25 May 2007, days to the end of the Obasanjo administration. Its efforts at creating a new Central Bank, succeeded largely in the emergence of an organisation that acquires some powers of the National Assembly.
Section 3 of the CBN Act sets the tune. “In order to facilitate the achievement of its mandate under this Act and the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, and in line with the objectivity of promoting continuity and stability in economic management, the bank shall be an independent body in the discharge of its functions.”
In Section 6 (3a), the Central Bank Act presses further, “The Board shall be responsible for consideration and approval of the annual budget of the bank.” This section is CBN’s explanation for not sending its budget to the National Assembly. After failing in its duties, the Senate wants to waste public funds in a legal pursuit of a matter that the CBN Act settles.
Section 50 of the Act requires CBN to furnish the National Assembly with its annual accounts and financial statements within two months of the close of its financial year. CBN’s 2011 financial year closed on 31 December. Has the National Assembly asked for CBN’s 2011 accounts? Why does the Senate ignore the law it made?
The National Assembly has all powers over Nigeria’s money according to the expansive provisions of Section 80 (4), “No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly.” Public money was used to raise the CBN’s authorised capital to N100 billion from N300 million. What is the fixation with the budget? The Constitution expects full accountability to the National Assembly for use of public funds. CBN, therefore, cannot be exempted as it uses public funds.
Blames are the National Assembly’s. It refuses to activate the powers Section 1 (3) of the Constitution, “If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.” Its tango with CBN is avoidable with the supremacy of the Constitution over all our laws.
The National Assembly’s acceptance of the refusal of 32 other federal agencies to subject themselves to its oversight functions, questions its relevance.
It became law on 25 May 2007, days to the end of the Obasanjo administration. Its efforts at creating a new Central Bank, succeeded largely in the emergence of an organisation that acquires some powers of the National Assembly.
Section 3 of the CBN Act sets the tune. “In order to facilitate the achievement of its mandate under this Act and the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act, and in line with the objectivity of promoting continuity and stability in economic management, the bank shall be an independent body in the discharge of its functions.”
In Section 6 (3a), the Central Bank Act presses further, “The Board shall be responsible for consideration and approval of the annual budget of the bank.” This section is CBN’s explanation for not sending its budget to the National Assembly. After failing in its duties, the Senate wants to waste public funds in a legal pursuit of a matter that the CBN Act settles.
Section 50 of the Act requires CBN to furnish the National Assembly with its annual accounts and financial statements within two months of the close of its financial year. CBN’s 2011 financial year closed on 31 December. Has the National Assembly asked for CBN’s 2011 accounts? Why does the Senate ignore the law it made?
The National Assembly has all powers over Nigeria’s money according to the expansive provisions of Section 80 (4), “No moneys shall be withdrawn from the Consolidated Revenue Fund or any other public fund of the Federation, except in the manner prescribed by the National Assembly.” Public money was used to raise the CBN’s authorised capital to N100 billion from N300 million. What is the fixation with the budget? The Constitution expects full accountability to the National Assembly for use of public funds. CBN, therefore, cannot be exempted as it uses public funds.
Blames are the National Assembly’s. It refuses to activate the powers Section 1 (3) of the Constitution, “If any other law is inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, this Constitution shall prevail, and that other law shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be void.” Its tango with CBN is avoidable with the supremacy of the Constitution over all our laws.
The National Assembly’s acceptance of the refusal of 32 other federal agencies to subject themselves to its oversight functions, questions its relevance.
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