Hmmm. It makes me wonder what old Newt is up to these days. Making public appearances...Talking about the future... Sounds like retirement may not be sitting well with him. He's probably been playing a bunch of Quake and is getting tired of getting Fragged by LPBs. Either that or he's thinking of running for office again.
and it works just like any normal radio. Except you have to wind it up first. You crank it 60 times to wind up the spring, and it's good for about an hour. I'd imagine that a laptop with CPU/hard drive/LCD screen would take a more powerful spring, but it should be do-able.
How hard could it be? All you have to do is move some electrons around.
This happened to the company I work at now. I have no idea what we were bidding on that the French would be interested in. One day we were paid a visit by some spooks (that's a CIA/NSA/OSI reference). They informed us that our company was one that had been targeted by French assets.
It may be mere coincidence, but a few weeks earlier one of the guys who worked here had met a French girl in a bar. She was the standard French girl : beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, etc. She claimed that she was an out of work "nanny" and needed a place to stay. He agreed to let her stay at his place until it was time for her to go back to France. According to him she never asked him about work or anything like that, but it makes you think....
I know it sounds like Pointy-Hair-Boss speak, but if you are going to dedicate yourself to producinr reproducable results you need more than just a tool. If you work on a large project you need a plan that involves periodic merging of branches and advance of a common baseline. Otherwise you end up in just the situiation you describe.
You forgot your trailing curly brace. You will never be able to compile your code without it. You should also change the exit condition to a less than of equal to. Presumably you would want to buy a PDA if the price were less than $80.
It should read : do { sleep(); } until (price = 80);
In fact you might be better off with a while loop. The do loop presupposes that no PDAs currently exist at a price of $80. If you executed your code you might find yourself sleeping needlessly (I wonder if that is my problem). Anyway you should try something like this:
while (price sleep(1); }
P.S. I have assumed that you were meaning $80. you should add some comments to remove confusion over currency type. You may even want to go so far as to define a "LegalTender" object to take care of all monetary conversion.
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Hmmm. It makes me wonder what old Newt is up to these days. Making public appearances...Talking about the future... Sounds like retirement may not be sitting well with him. He's probably been playing a bunch of Quake and is getting tired of getting Fragged by LPBs. Either that or he's thinking of running for office again.
since when is wanting to make money a bad thing?
and it works just like any normal radio. Except you have to wind it up first. You crank it 60 times to wind up the spring, and it's good for about an hour. I'd imagine that a laptop with CPU/hard drive/LCD screen would take a more powerful spring, but it should be do-able.
How hard could it be? All you have to do is move some electrons around.
I think the tag for this article should read
"things are not going so hot for..."
TANG! was invented for the space program.
So was Velcro!
So was Freeze Dried Food!
So was.... well lots of other things.
It may be mere coincidence, but a few weeks earlier one of the guys who worked here had met a French girl in a bar. She was the standard French girl : beautiful, mysterious, flirtatious, etc. She claimed that she was an out of work "nanny" and needed a place to stay. He agreed to let her stay at his place until it was time for her to go back to France. According to him she never asked him about work or anything like that, but it makes you think....
I know it sounds like Pointy-Hair-Boss speak, but if you are going to dedicate yourself to producinr reproducable results you need more than just a tool. If you work on a large project you need a plan that involves periodic merging of branches and advance of a common baseline. Otherwise you end up in just the situiation you describe.
You forgot your trailing curly brace. You
will never be able to compile your code
without it. You should also change the
exit condition to a less than of equal to.
Presumably you would want to buy a PDA if
the price were less than $80.
It should read :
do {
sleep();
} until (price = 80);
In fact you might be better off with a while
loop. The do loop presupposes that no PDAs
currently exist at a price of $80. If you
executed your code you might find yourself
sleeping needlessly (I wonder if that is my
problem). Anyway you should try something like this:
while (price sleep(1);
}
P.S. I have assumed that you were meaning $80.
you should add some comments to remove confusion
over currency type. You may even want to go so
far as to define a "LegalTender" object to take
care of all monetary conversion.