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It's like louder-pseudo-prog-rock.
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[quote user="TheCPUWizard"][quote user="JayTangentially reminds me: When I lived on Long Island (an island just off New York City), at one point the government announced that they were working on an evacuation plan in case of natural disaster, war, etc. My father found this hysterically funny. "We can't get people off Long Island who are commuting to work every morning," he said. "How do they think they're going to get EVERYONE off the island?"[/quote]
Agreed about the evacuation plans [and they were for the Shoram Nuclear Power plant, not for natural disaster]. but you are backwards in your geography....
Manhattan (one of the 5 boroughs of NYC] is a small island off the coast of Long Island, as is Staten Island [another borough]. Brooklyn and Queens [two more boroughs] are geographically on Long Island (but not politically) and the final borough The Bronx - only one to properly start with "Tee")is actually on the mainland.[/quote]
Recently I commented to a friend that "I grew up on an island." Then it suddenly hit me that this surely conjures up an image of pristine beaches and palm trees and hula girls. That's not exactly what Long Island is like. At least, where I lived, it was pretty much one big suburb.
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As the author of that book, I'd just like to thank you all for bringing that ad to everyone's attention again. Maybe it will generate a few sales. Practically a free re-run of the ad.
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That stupid Java programmer screwed it up, though. All integer variables are supposed to start with I, J, K, L, M, or N.
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PS on the ad for my database book:
We thought of using the "scan from a photo taken on a wooden table" meme. But Irish Girl was way more fun. There was that grueling couple of days of searching through photos of Irish girls trying to find a suitable model for the ad, but we all must make sacrifices for the good of the company.
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If you were going to Anglicize it, wouldn't you say that the singular is "alumnus" and the plural is "alumnuses"?
Reminds me of the college professor who was mugged. He reported it to the police, and the policeman said, "So you were attacked by a hoodlum?" He replied, "Actually I was attacked by TWO hoodla."
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I'd probably even slink slink my bink-bink, know what I'm sayin'?
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And if so... maybe it is time to feature her again... or one of the runners up...
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EDIT: It's pretty sad that I agree with zunesis on something.
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What else do I talk about? Seems like you don't disagree with me on anything!
We're two peas in a pod.
Or two cocks in the same pussy, however you want to say it, we're BROS!
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Whatever happened to "You Don't Have To Be Old To Be Wise"?
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I was already here when the new Irish girl arrived tho. She's okay, but didn't cause as much a commotion as the first one.
Supposing the book is any good, you're welcome. Well, whenever you fell you need to sacrifice yourself like that again, I'm available and willing to help. :)Admin
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You accusing him of deserving the name Coketothorpe or something? Careful, that's close to slander ...
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That's an insult to Kermit and no mistake.
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Hmm ... only if IMPLICIT ALL is declared up top. FORTRAN-77 (and maybe earlier versions, dunno) relaxes that limitation, although many departments insisted on the tradition being maintained. Even now it gives me a warm cosy nostalgic feeling to know by the start letter what sort of variable you're dealing with.
I also worked in a department where all common variables (that's "globals" to you kiddies) had to begin with C, K or Q: K for integers, C for reals and Q for characters, logicals and double precisions.
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Musically, Metallica Ride through Justice were writing prog-rock songs based a the typically, clunky verse/preverse/chorus structure with a solo or two in the middle. Albums by Slayer, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer and Bathory (the founders of death/black metal) used more ad-hoc structuring to their compositions or least didn't use them in such predictable ways (standard steady verse, build-up, sing-a-long chorus). The music of these bands was noticeably and admittedly punk-influenced, which resulted in it being superficially simpler while allowing a more abstract perspective on writing music that doesn't have them caught up on getting played on the radio.
Conceptually, they were still stuck in the mentality of the speed metal era - one of being Righteous. The later development in the genre, death metal, was no longer concerned with righteousness. It didn't see good and bad as Metallica seemed to frame things from a human perspective. Later developments in metal saw war, for instance, from a more neutral perspective, or as something that can't be righteously protested, or even glorified it. You'll see those elements in the music of the aforementioned bands in the early 80's, before MoP.
In fact, many of the developments I described were already coming about when Metallica got started - even Mayhem was around in the early 80's, so I don't know if they were ever that significant in the evolution of the music. Not trying to be mean, I think they have some good songs. But it's like when people say Pantera "saved metal". They weren't any more developed than metallica and it was years later and the music had gotten even farther by then. Now they're saying the same thing about -core bands (saving metal) that are no more developed than the music from decades ago. If you look through lesser-known bands, you can see what's been done and that we can do better now.
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God is real, unless declared integer.
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It's so heart-warming to see that there are still people willing to help a guy out when he's faced with a difficult job.
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Now i know why Nasa lost contact whit the robot, the garbage collector was running. This must be the causa of wheel wreck also.
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These pumps and valves apparently live in flatland.
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create ALL the variables!