Soldiers are only in the Army. As this will likely be used by members of all services, warfighter is more correct.

Never refer to a Marine as a "soldier" - it doesn't go over well.

Forget the Monty Python, let's have some good old AMERICAN movie humor:

Four, five, whatever it takes.

Can we just get to the part of the movie where Jamie Lee Curtis dances? I wonder if any of the NSA geeks knows how to fly a Harrier?

Not an auspicious date in Japanese military history.

If patrons don't have to be sober to have their car drive them home, bar tabs will rise significantly. At least mine will.

Academics with degrees in software engineering describing how to write code is like a horny virgin describing how to have sex:

They've thought about it an awful lot, have lots of "great" ideas on how to make it better, and maybe have even been nearby a few times when someone else was doing it .

But they have never done it themselves and the thought of actually DOING it scares the crap out of them.

You really shouldn't say that without removing your sunglasses as you do.

It hasn't been Jimmy's fault for a long time... Now it's generally Utley's fault.

And he blew it by focusing on the stupid moral implications in his publications!!!

Someone would have made a analogy of sports stars moving from one team to its hated rival for a pot of $$$.

However, being /., no one thought about sports.

Her complaint is only relevant if avant cellists were making considerably more money under the previous system.

I'm old enough to remember record stores, even independent ones, and I don't remember an "Avant Cello" section.

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/