Library Science was and is a true profession with a true college degree.

So is Hotel Management, now sometimes known as Hospitality and Hotel Management.

Check that, the late 1990s was 85% C++ articles.
The 2000s moved to 85% Microsoft .NET articles.

I'm getting old.

I let my subscription lapse in the late 1990s after three straight years of 85% Microsoft .NET and C++ articles. The world had moved on. Dr. Dobbs' Journal did not.

In case nobody else got the joke, it was "jumping through hoops and pulling teeth" or, alternately, "twisting arms and pulling teeth."

And it had nothing to do with the Church of the SubGenius.

I believe they could have stayed on indefinitely if not for the silly name. We all know why it has that name, but I would never have discovered this magazine unless an adjunct professor in college pointed it out to us in 1990.

There is nothing technically special about the Lena SÃderberg image. It's not colors or gradients or moire patterns. Some people insist there are some notable detail, flat regions, shading, and texture features. It just happens to be one of the more popular early digitized images, nothing more.

Ad hominem attack much? How's that debate strategy working out for you, there?

Nice anecdotes you have there. Win many debates much?

As long as the 64-bit version fully supports Flash on all platforms, I'm all for it. Like it or not, you need to support Flash, 64-bit or not.

I guess Red Hat and CentOS 6.x users are left in the lurch on this one.

In the rest of the civilized world, there's a reason we license livery drivers. That's how you can get a cab ride or black car ride without getting robbed, or worse. Taxi and Livery Commission (TLC): It's a thing.

This is true in the US as well. It's rather rare for trains to be stopped by the weather. Delayed, yes, but cancelled, very seldom.

To say that the same weather that stops airplanes will stop trains is just incorrect.

I think that AmigaVision is HyperCard for the rest of us.

If anything could or should be re-released, it's AmigaVision.
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The engines aren't just developed by the Soviets in the 1960s. These engines were *built* in the 1960s and 1970s. The engine in the first stage is literally 40 years old.

As far as the government is concerned, they would do the same thing they did with Conrail, Lockheed Martin, and Verizon Business (nee WorldCom) when their predecessor companies were ready to close up shop: Underwrite mergers and acquisitions by guaranteeing private sector investors with federal dollars. It usually works.

They learned a bitter lesson when New York Shipbuilding closed and are unlikely to let something like that happen in the cloud industry.