Way off topic post. What on earth do you think you are trying to say? I certainly cannot make any sense of this post.

And New Zealand does have an army (and an air force) in addition to a navy. All organizations are very small, and are not set up for offensive warfare. They are most often used for humanitarian missions. There is a contingent of the NZ Army SAS active in Afghanistan for several years now.

And, going back to the original posting, the proper term for the navy of NZ is "Royal New Zealand Navy", not "New Zealand Royal Navy". "Royal Navy" is British.

Disagree! "Orthagonal" would be pronounced quite differently from "Orthogonal". But I hope you wouldn't try, because "orthagonal" is not a word.

When I saw this, my first thought was that it looked a lot like suits that sci-fi moviemakers have imagined over the years.

As a US citizen living in a small foreign country subject to the bullying of the US over these kinds of matters, I feel ashamed of what the US is doing. AND it is not funny!

Compilers compile to "object code" or "machine code", not "assembler language". It may be that some simple compilers produce output in assembler language that has to be separately "assembled". And the object code generated by some compilers may have to be interpreted by another program, such as the Java virtual machine.

In American English, one says and writes "oriented". In British English, the word "orientated" is used for the same purpose. Something I had to learn when I left the USA.

Perhaps you cannot remember a time before C++ existed. Object-oriented ideas existed before C++ and some people wanted to use them in their code.

Of course you can write object-oriented code in C. It has been done many times.

An object-oriented language has lots of syntactic help for the purpose, but all languages compile to some type of runtime code structure. If you understand what code gives the object-oriented behavior you want, then you can write it in C.

And yes, the poster who said C was assembler-like likely has never seen an assembler language, I would guess. I do remember writing a C routine once which had an initialized array containing hex representations of machine code to do a particular highly specialized task, and then using some coding wizardry to get the locus of control into that array when needed. Ah, those were the days.

No, I do not recall that incident, but as you tell it, I can visualize the result. That is a good story.

In many different forms of printed material I see today, it seems quite apparent that "editor" means "spell checker program". I rarely see misspelling typos any more, but I see many, many instances of misused words that are correct, well-defined words, just not suitable for the context in which they appear. The odd instances in this article are of that type.

Exactly right! You only have a couple of months, so why spend it all trying to find work? If you don't have something lined up already, then what are your chances?

Yeah, I think Doctor Who is much more accessible to the scifi unaware.

Ever since the 2009 film, I cannot resist referring to Jennifer Morrison as "Kirk's Mommy".

Amen!