Holiday

Although Youngman's jest suggests that the list of holidays for a non-believer would necessarily be the "empty set", many non-believers honor various holidays and "holy" days, and those of one faith often honor holidays of other faiths. See Hacker ethic. Referring to the original meaning of the term, Henny Youngman included this joke among his vast catalog of one-liners:. The issue of software patents is very controversial, since while patents protect the ideas of "inventors", they are widely believed to hinder software development. Christopher Columbus, who has arrived in the New World just moments earlier, tells a Native American that he wants to cash a check... See Software auditing, Software quality, Software testing, and Software reliability. One example of this fact is revealed by the assumption inherent in this bit of dialogue from the 1961 musical-comedy album, Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America, Volume One. Software reliability considers the errors, faults, and failures related to the creation and operation of software.

Some holidays that were once widely celebrated are less so today, for various reasons. Kinds of software by operation: computer program as executable, source code or script, configuration. Some are designed to promote a cause, others recognize historical events not recognized officially, and others are "funny" holidays are generally intended as humorous distractions and excuses to share laughs among friends. Each instruction causes the computer to carry out an operation -- moving data, carrying out a computation, or altering the flow of instructions. These are holidays celebrated by various groups and individuals. This involves passing instructions from the application software, through the system software, to the hardware which ultimately receives the instruction as machine code. Other secular holidays not observed internationally:. Computers operate by executing the computer program.

Many other days are marked to celebrate events or people, but are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given. Once the software is loaded, the computer is able to operate the software. They are:. Computer software has to be "loaded" into the computer's storage (also known as memory and RAM). With the winter holidays, come various different greetings appropriate for each holiday or the entire season. Look back to Computer software. In some Christian countries, the end of the festive season is considered to be after the feast of Epiphany, although this has only symbolic value. See also: Software architecture.

Usually, this festive period begins near the end of November and ends with New Year's Day on January 1, reflecting traditional pagan celebrations of the period around the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere. People who use modern general purpose computers (as opposed to embedded systems, analog computers, supercomputers, etc.) usually see three layers of software performing a variety of tasks: platform, application, and user software. Except in North America, the phrases "holiday season" and "holiday period" usually mean the summer months when most people take their annual holiday ("vacation" in North American English), and phrases such as the "festive period" are used to describe the period around Christmas and New Year. Users often see things differently than programmers. In many Western countries, the winter holiday season is a period of time surrounding Christmas. Depending on operating system, a program can be called by another program, by a human being, and can call another program. The Catholic fiestas patronales are celebrated in each place's patron saint's day, according to the Calendar of saints. Thus, programs can include standard routines that are common to many programs, extracted from the libraries, but libraries can also include stand-alone programs.

In the order of the Wheel of the Year:. Software libraries can include software components used by stand-alone programs, but which cannot be executed on their own. Well-known consecutive holidays include:. Software program is usually the directly executable part of a software. In late 1990s, the Japanese government passed a law that increased the likelihood of consecutive holidays by moving holidays from fixed days to a relative position in a month, such as the second Monday. Practical computer systems divide software into three major classes: system software, application software and programming software, although the distinction is somewhat arbitrary, and often blurred. They tend to be considered a good chance to take short trips. Therefore, software may be considered an interface between hardware, data, and/or (other) software.

Consecutive holidays are a string of holidays taken together without working days in between. The output of a particular piece of executed software may be the input for another executed piece of software. "Legal holiday" is not a term used outside the United States. For example, (system) configuration information may also be considered input, although not necessarily considered data (and certainly not applications data). "Public Holiday" is the term used in Australia and "Bank Holiday" in the UK, although some industries in the UK work through Bank Holidays. However, data is not the only possible output or input. Public holidays can be either religious, in which case they reflect the dominant religion in a country, or secular, in which case they are usually political or historical in character. Data has generally been considered as either the output or input of executed software.

A public holiday or legal holiday is a holiday endorsed by the state. As computational science becomes increasingly complex, the distinction between software and data becomes less precise. . Software has historically been considered an intermediary between electronic hardware and data, which latter the hardware processes according to the sequence of instructions defined by the software.
. High-level languages are compiled or interpreted into machine language. A holiday can also be a special day on which school and/or offices are closed, such as Labor Day. It is generally written in 'high-level languages' that are easier and more efficient for humans to use (closer to natural language) than machine language.

In Canada and the United States, a Holiday is a day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity. Software is an ordered sequence of instructions for changing the state of the computer hardware in a particular sequence to obtain a particular result. However, some Canadians (especially those of English or Irish decent) will use both the terms vacation and holiday interchangeably when referring to a trip away from home or time off work. A machine language consists of groups of binary values signifying processor instructions and data, which change the state of the computer from its preceding state. "I'm going on holiday to Malta next week"), the North American equivalent being "vacation". At the lowest level, software consists of a machine language specific to an individual processor, and an operating system, which is a master control program for that computer. In most of the English-speaking world a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g. In computers, software is loaded into RAM and executed in the central processing unit.

The word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day. Computer software is so called in contrast to computer hardware, which is the physical substrate required to store and execute (or run) the software. Based on the words holy and day -, holidays originally represented special religious days. . The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. The concept of software was first proposed by Alan Turing in an essay. Native: "Columbus Day!". In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data.

Columbus: "Oh? Why?". Tukey in 1957. Banks closed.". The term "software" was first used in this sense by John W. Native: "You out of luck today. The term is roughly synonymous with computer program but is more generic in scope. Tax Freedom Day (calculated by dividing the tally of all taxes collected in each year by a tally of all income, and applying it to the calendar). Computer software (or simply software) is that part of a computer system that consists of encoded information (or computer instructions), as opposed to the physical computer equipment (hardware) which is used to store and process this information.

Sinkie Day (The Day After Thanksgiving). Flying Spaghetti Monsterism Holy Day (every Friday). Blame Someone Else Day (first Friday the 13th of the year). Christmahanukwanzakah (the holiday season in general, a holiday made out of a marketing campaign invented by Virgin Mobile during the 2004 holiday season.).

Festivus (23 December). Mole Day (23 October). Brick Day (15 October). October Fool's Day (1 October) (Southern Hemisphere version of April Fool's Day).

Ask a Stupid Question Day (28 September). International Talk Like a Pirate Day (19 September). National Underwear Day (11 August). National Talk In Elevators Day (last Friday of July).

Pi Approximation Day (22 July). Evoloterra (20 July celebrates the first manned Moon Landing). X-Day (5 July in the Church of the SubGenius). Bloomsday (16 June based on James Joyce's novel Ulysses).

No Pants Day (first Friday of May). 24-hour Comics Day (24 April). Towel Day (25 May) (a tribute to the late Douglas Adams). International Cannabis Day (20 April).

Pi Day (14 March). International Dadaism Month (4 February, 1 April, 28 March, 15 July, 2 August, 7 August, 16 August, 26 August, 18 September, 22 September, 1 October, 17 October, 26 October). Wintereenmas (25 January through 31 January). Paper Hat Day (4 January).

Holidays originating in ancient Latvia. Sweetest Day (third Saturday in October, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the United States). Queen's Day (30 March in the Netherlands). Pioneer Day (24 July in Utah, United States).

Patriot's Day (third Monday in April in Massachusetts and Maine, United States). Mother-in-Law's Day (fourth Sunday in October, where?). Martin Luther King Day (third Monday in January in the United States). Loyalty Day (1 May in the United States).

Lee-Jackson-King Day (20 January) Combined holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1984 to 2000. Independence day (observed by many different countries at different dates). Labour Day (Many European countries celebrate Labour Day on May 1). Labor Day (a United States federal holiday that takes place on the first Monday of September).

Groundhog Day (2 February in United States and Canada). Grandparent's Day (Sunday after September Labor Day - proclaimed in the United States by Jimmy Carter in 1978). Flag Day (14 June in the United States). Boxing Day (26 December in the Commonwealth of Nations).

International Women's Day (8th of March, particularly in Eastern European Countries). United Nations holidays. Halloween (31 October). Father's Day (third Sunday in June; 19 March, others; 8 August, Republic of China).

World Ocean Day (8 June). Mother's Day (second Sunday in May in North America, fourth Sunday in Lent in UK). Labour Day, Worker's Day or May Day (1 May, most countries - United States and Canada are prominent exceptions). Earth Day (22 April).

April Fool's Day (1 April). Astronomy Day (date varies depending on cycle of Moon). Leap Day (29 February, every four years). Valentine's Day (14 February).

Perihelion (3-6 January, depending on year and location). Happy Winter. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Solstice.

Happy New Year. Happy Kwanzaa. Joyous Yule. Happy Holiday(s).

Season's Greetings. Happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas (sometimes referenced in Spanish or French as Feliz Navidad and Joyeux Noel). Preceded by New Year's Eve on 31 December, which is celebrated with festivities in anticipation of New Year's Day.

New Year's Day - (1 January) — Holiday observing the first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. In many European countries it is also a holiday, called St Stephen's Day or the second day of Christmas. Boxing Day (26 December) — Holiday observed in many Commonwealth countries on 26 December. It was created in 1966.

Kwanzaa (USA) - (26 December - 1 January) — Holiday observance held from December 26 to January 1 honoring African-American heritage, primarily in the United States. Christmas is also celebrated as a secular gift-giving holiday; other observances include the decoration of trees and houses. Christmas Day - (25 December) — Christian holiday commemorating the traditional birth-date of Jesus. Hanukkah - (26 Kislev - 2/3 Tevet - almost always in December) — Jewish holiday celebrating the defeat of Seleucid forces who had tried to prevent Israel from practising Judaism, and also celebrating the miracle of the Menorah lights burning for eight days with only enough (olive) oil for one day.

It is celebrated by many as a secular holiday, and marks the beginning of the American "holiday season". It is traditionally celebrated with a meal shared among friends and family in which turkey is eaten. Thanksgiving - (fourth Thursday in November in USA, second Monday in October in Canada) — Holiday generally observed as an expression of gratitude, traditionally to God, for the autumn harvest. Birth of Bahá'u'lláh.

Birth of the Báb. Martyrdom of the Báb. Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh. Declaration of the Báb.

12th Day of Ridvan. 9th Day of Ridvan. 1st Day of Ridván. Naw Ruz (Bahá'í New Year).

Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Tu Bishvat (New year of the trees). Tisha B'Av. Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles).

Shavuot (Pentecost). Rosh Hashanah (New Year). Purim (Based on the events in the Biblical book of Esther). Passover.

Lag Ba'omer. Hanukkah (also: Chanukah; the Festival of Lights). Ramadan. Festival of Muharram.

Eid ul-Adha, Greater Bairam. Eid ul-Fitr, Lesser Bairam