COOL!!

I WANT ONE!!

More like HAL

yep see http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/homeinvasion.asp[^]

modified on Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:03 PM

Ok, I was being lazy - found it. :-D

Point me please?!?

OOOOOOOO Vegemite! Makes me think of Marmite. My hubby is British and LOVES Marmite. I happen to think it's disgusting! ;P

Kent, around here we put the't' in - so it's PITA - pronounceable, like the bread, but distinguished by being all caps to indicate the acronym. ;P

I worked in Europe for a while in a group of multi-linguals. For fun, when I got bored, I would ask one to translate something from American to German, then take it to another to translate it from German to French, then French to Arabic, Arabic back to American. It was always amusing and sometimes hilarious - like when you were little and played 'telephone' and compared the original sentence to the ending one after it had been whispered around the room. :laugh: ;)

Jim, you should have my job for a week - then you'd have enough of acronyms to last you a lifetime. It has gotten to the point that I don't attach a meaning to acronym, just to the context it is used in. :laugh:

Whereas I agree that Software development does not belong in the BFA category, I believe it IS as much art as it is discipline. I remember while attending University that we had to diagram out all programs prior to writing code. I believe this discipline helped a lot. It helps sell the idea for a new project - or sell how one would solve a current problem. It also helps to get the concepts across to a team of (especially junior) developers, not to mention keeping track of 'where you are' on a project that has been overcome by creep. Also, there was a required course that spanned the full cirriculum year where we were required to go out into the business world, find a company willing to work with a bunch of students, and solve a problem for them. Our grade was determined by a discussion between the POC at the business and the Prof. There is a certain amount of art to developing code that is maintainable after it has been deployed and you have gone on to other things. The discipline in it is to keep it documented enough for someone that was not in on the development to understand what the original intent was - and/or in documenting what has been done to upgrade/modify it as it matures in use. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (George Carlin)

I started off pursuing a Math degree, which evolved into Computer Science which further evolved to add Computer engineering. My first programming language was Pascal, then went into machine coding and IBM Mainframe (OS/360) with MVS/JCL (showing my age, am I?) For me, the leap to OO was not quite so intuitive. I have self-taught most of the more 'modern' languages and am currently doing most of my 'work' using Python. The only advantage I see in learning in a classroom environment is the person-to-person atmosphere.;) Evelyn - System Engineer/Analyst - Northrop Grumman Corp.

There is a difference between anit-perspirants and deoderants. Although most 'deoderants' on the market today DO contain antiperspirants, it is possible to get a deoderant without an antiperspirant. I use a plain deoderant - no antipirspirant.