I got an MSCS from the Naval Postgraduate School when Ada was "required" for all DoD projects, so it was the intro programming language then. I haven't touched it since 1993, so I can't comment on current version of it, but there are still several people at NPS who swear by it, and, as another commenter said, it is an Apple level of fanboy-ism. Anyone who doesn't like Ada just doesn't get it and needs to be preached to. The main argument for Ada is that it contains many mechanism to prevent errors, so that the code produced will be much safer and reliable, and thus should be used in any system where failure causes significant problems, i.e., aircraft, weapons, etc. There was one faculty member at NPS who would send an e-mail any time a military project was held up by software delays and basically say, "Had they used Ada, this wouldn't have happened." No acceptance of the fact that Ada doesn't protect against logical errors, or that since the libraries are much scarcer than other languages, they probably wouldn't have gotten anywhere near completion had they used Ada. Not to mention needing pretty much EVERY Ada programmer on the planet for any project bigger than "Hello World."

Actually, he'd probably be writing more letters to sell.

Actually, you want to drive your ship TO the raindrops.

It gets the salt off without having to use any of your own water, which you never have enough of at sea. Tell the boatswain's mates to put on their swim trunks, grab their brooms, and go to it.

Read everything you can by Joel Spoelsky.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/

You're right.

Whereas responding with snobby comments on /. is the height of self-enlightenment and a fulfilled life..

"Facebook hasn't yet really spent time on monetization. Their primary goal has been quick growth and they have greatly succeeded in that."

Where have I heard that before? Ah, yes, we're back to valuation based upon "eyeballs" or "clicks." How'd that work out last time?

I was in the Navy, and after the Shah fell and Iran became a thorn in the side of the U.S., we stopped calling it the Persian Gulf and started calling it the Arabian Gulf. It's still called that by the Navy and U.S. Government to this day.

As it's bordered roughly on half by Arabian countries and half by Persian (Iran), there's a strong case for either.

I looked on Google Maps and there isn't a name now, although I don't know if that was that way prior to Iran's actions.

Where did you got the information that it was in that Federal Court? Several articles I read referred to the judge as a "magistrate judge," which would not be the case if he were a federal judge. Also, the wiki page you link to has a list of its judges, and "Gary Brown" isn't on it.

IANALE (IANAL either), but I think it being a federal judge would have much more effect in setting a precedent. One of the surest ways to get the Supreme Court to hear a case is to have federal district courts come to different conclusions on the same issue, and knowing the RIAA, it won't stop until it's obvious it can't get anywhere with its tactics.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but please provide more info.

I've got to say, if you don't want kids to see something, I can't think of a better place to put in that in a newspaper.

Probably like most /. readers, he needs the alcohol to get up the nerve to approach the female fly.

One of the nameplates on the boiler said it was "Inexplosible." CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!

Somewhere, Navin Johnson, the inventor of 3D glasses is saying,

"I don't need anything...

except this ashtray...

The ashtray, the remote control, the paddle game, and this magazine, and the chair.

was closer on this than Palin was on Paul Revere.

when I made a model of an atom in 7th grade science and used spheres for electrons.

But it didn't look as good as her's: http://jeaninallhonesty.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-lizzy-made-atom-model.html.

Why? Because this is what happens when security Nazi's or bad administration make it impossible for users to actually use their computers.

I work in the military training game area, and people in that area want to deliver content without having to install thick clients (or preferably, not have to install ANY client) on the machine because doing so is almost impossible because of the requirements to get anything approved and installed. Systems like the Navy Marine Corps Internet (NMCI) don't allow users to do much besides e-mail and browse; to get anything else installed generally takes months, and if it's specialty software it's a minimum of years.

I've always said that if the security types had their way, we'd all be working on machines in a locked room without a network connection, as that is the only way to guarantee security. Security is important, but computers are designed to be USED - any policy that makes that impossible leads to people trying to get around it. Thus, policy and security measures need to take both into account - the answer, "Can't do it, sorry." doesn't cut it.