I always felt the the movie "Jaws" was better than the book. The movie left out the stupid affair between Hooper and Brody's wife.
Anyhow, I thought the book Dune was rather simplistic. One thread that Frank Herbert kept on echoing was that people that had a harder life made better troops. Herbert was probably hooked on the idea after Vietnam. The Gulf War Part II showed that training and leadership were more effective, the equipment didn't hurt either, as long as it was used properly.
In the years of programming, I came upon one way to make "if"s of more than one line a little easier to work:
I write the initial "if" statement, duplicate it, and then (in C) insert a "}// " in front of the duplicate "if". This way if you are scolling through the code, you know what the ending "}" is for (also helps in tracking down the extra bracket).
I actually spent 11 years at one company before moving on, and often I had to debug code I wrote 5 to 10 years before. I made sure I documented it well if I could not easily remember what I coded years before and had to figure it out.
The most important thing to remember about documentation is that you may have to go into the code you wrote after someone else has come in and mangled it. I was often ridiculed by contractees for making a point of always initializing variables and making sure that deallocated pointers were set to NULL (had a macro that freed and set to NULL), but after spending haurs and days tracking down bugs that other programmers put in by adding their own bad code, I found it worth while.
in the northeast Bronx is really large and isolated and barely has any lights. I used to pass through it at all hours on foot between college and home back in the early 1980's. Never had any problems, but then there are easier targets than a 6'1" 20-year old distance runner who is just wearing ratty running clothes.
I miss the days when AOL would mail out the floppy disks. All you had to do was reformat them and you had another spare blank disk handy.
I those days the company I was working for stop providing them and required that I work such hours that there were no stores open when I was not working. I appreciated AOL maling to me blank disks for free.
It seems like queers and smokers are the only groups who can still be openly hated these days with no one thinking any worse of you.
You left out atheists. The Boy Scouts of America bans homosexuals and atheists (Girls Scouts BTW, do not care). Last month, a court in NJ ruled in favor of a gay man over Boy Scouts.
Come to think about it, intellectuals, nerds, and the rich can also be hated these days without repercussions.
The guy's name is Timothy R. McVeigh (no relation to the guy who blew up the Alfred Murrah building in Oklahoma City - but it makes it easy to remember the name). He was Chief of the Boat on the SSBN Alabama, the position is the highest NCO position on board. AOL just gave out the information w/o any warrant to the Navy after they asked for it. I believe he was forced to retire after something like 17 or 18 years, just a coupld of years shy of a pension. I believe there were some lawsuits involved and the Navy did end up granting him the pension.
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Actually, Samuel Jackson plays LCDR Robby
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and Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan/Han Solo.
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I always felt the the movie "Jaws" was better than
the book. The movie left out the stupid affair
between Hooper and Brody's wife.
Anyhow, I thought the book Dune was rather
simplistic. One thread that Frank Herbert kept
on echoing was that people that had a harder life
made better troops. Herbert was probably hooked
on the idea after Vietnam. The Gulf War Part II
showed that training and leadership were more
effective, the equipment didn't hurt either, as
long as it was used properly.
Always there are two... A master and an
apprentice.
I spent years running away from bullies, it was excellent training for track and cross country. Distance running is a geek sport.
In the years of programming, I came upon one way to make "if"s of more than one line a little easier to work:
// " in front of the duplicate "if". This way if you are scolling through the code, you know what the ending "}" is for (also helps in tracking down the extra bracket).
I write the initial "if" statement, duplicate it, and then (in C) insert a "}
I actually spent 11 years at one company before moving on, and often I had to debug code I wrote 5 to 10 years before. I made sure I documented it well if I could not easily remember what I coded years before and had to figure it out.
The most important thing to remember about documentation is that you may have to go into the code you wrote after someone else has come in and mangled it. I was often ridiculed by contractees for making a point of always initializing variables and making sure that deallocated pointers were set to NULL (had a macro that freed and set to NULL), but after spending haurs and days tracking down bugs that other programmers put in by adding their own bad code, I found it worth while.
in the northeast Bronx is really large and isolated and barely has any lights. I used to pass through it at all hours on foot between college and home back in the early 1980's. Never had any problems, but then there are easier targets than a 6'1" 20-year old distance runner who is just wearing ratty running clothes.
Back in 1977, "Episode IV" was not in the opening credits. "The Empire Strikes Back" did have "Episode V" in it when it came out back in 1980.
I miss the days when AOL would mail out the floppy disks. All you had to do was reformat them and you had another spare blank disk handy.
I those days the company I was working for stop providing them and required that I work such hours that there were no stores open when I was not working. I appreciated AOL maling to me blank disks for free.
"fader" or "far" in Norwegian.
It seems like queers and smokers are the only groups who can still be openly hated these days with no one thinking any worse of you.
You left out atheists. The Boy Scouts of America bans homosexuals and atheists (Girls Scouts BTW, do not care). Last month, a court in NJ ruled in favor of a gay man over Boy Scouts.
Come to think about it, intellectuals, nerds, and the rich can also be hated these days without repercussions.
The guy's name is Timothy R. McVeigh (no relation to the guy who blew up the Alfred Murrah building in Oklahoma City - but it makes it easy to remember the name). He was Chief of the Boat on the SSBN Alabama, the position is the highest NCO position on board. AOL just gave out the information w/o any warrant to the Navy after they asked for it. I believe he was forced to retire after something like 17 or 18 years, just a coupld of years shy of a pension. I believe there were some lawsuits involved and the Navy did end up granting him the pension.