Not to mention the pioneering works of Harlan D. Mills, Edsger Dijkstra, Robert W. Floyd, Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr., C. A. R. Hoare, and Larry LeRoy Constantine.

Six times nine is fifty-four ... learn your times tables for god's sake! Six times seven is forty-two.

The National Security and Patriot Acts have suspended all individual freedoms guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States of America. No more due process, no Habeas Corpus, no right to legal council. You have no protections under the Patriot Act. Let's face it ... you live in a police state. The NSA is spying on you right now. It is an agency of the Department of Defense ... the Pentagon. When United States Military is policing private citizens the Constitution has become absolutely meaningless. Congressional oversight committees have allowed these unconstitutional acts to continue unchecked.

Whenever you hear "In the Interests of National Security" you know it means what is being done violates the Constitution of the United States. You can thank the passage of the National Security and Patriot Acts for the US Government's Xenophobia.

As our individual rights under the U.S. Constitution Bill of Rights continue to be stripped by Federalists our Republic continues to move towards becoming a Police State. The damage that has been done to our Constitution and Bill of Rights beginning with the passage of the National Security Act of 1947 has continued to alienate us from our individual rights with the passages of the subsequent National Security Acts and the enactments of the Patriot Acts. Today American citizens are spied upon by Federal Agencies without due process including the FBI; NSA; DHS; DOD - Defense Intelligence Agency; National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); National Secuity Council; CIA; Secret Service; Director of National Intelligence - DNI; National Counter-terrorism Center - NCC; BATFE (ATF); ICE; and DEA to name the usual suspects.

Great Programmers are those that have honed their skills through decades of dedication to mastering their craft. They continually improve their knowledge fhey need for developing experiise with new technologies to use programming languages as tools to practice their craft. They learn to master new programming language tools to facilitate optimal solutions. Great Programmers are always learning to use the best tools to build the highest quality solutions. Great Programmers improve with age. They say "knowledge is power" but the wisdom to use it wisely is gained from experience over time.

Real Engineers use Graphite! The best I have ever found was the very old Pentel P205 mechanical pencil using C505 Super Hi-Polymer 0.5mm HB Graphite. Characteristics of C505 Super Hi-Polymer 0.5mm HB Graphite: Graphite is an extremely low-friction element mineral which may have durable properties when formulated in the proper polymer. The C505 Super Hi-Polymer 0.5mm HB Graphite is very dark, very thin, and does not blot or smudge when using non-glossy paper. Yet it will erase easily with a soft eraser.

Microsoft can be so obvious when manipulating their customer base. No Windows 7 Service Pack 2 means Microsoft is warning you had better be moving to Windows 8. Microsoft doesn't want another repeat of Windows/XP. Personally I am very happy with Windows 7. My only complaint is the lack of 64-bit software developed for Windows 7. The ratio is still more than 2:1 in favor of 32-bit apps. This means that two out of every three apps are still running in 32-bit mode and not taking advantage of my Intel processor or Windows 7 OS. The reason is the cost to develop apps for 64-bit mode. It is rediculously expensive to purchase proprietary 64-bit development environments for Windows platforms.

Seems like there are a lot of generation-y's out there that are really full of themselves. "There are no stupid questions only stupid (or self-important) people with really dumb answers". First of all LG has promised the Optima V will support Gingerbread - which is Android Release 2.3.6. Contact LG and find out if the update is available, is compatible, and get instructions on how to upgrade your Optima V. "DON'T DO THE UPGRADE YET! If the free version of "Lookout", (you don't need the premium version), is compatible with Android Release 2.2.2 install it on your Optima V. After a successful install it will do a virus scan of all your apps and files. Let it finish the virus scan. You might have some viruses which should be eradicated or quarantined. Next run the Lookout Backup facility to backup your apps, contacts, and files. Now upgrade your Optima V Android to Gingerbread Release 2.3.6. This release is far more stable and may fix most of your problems. Your not done yet! Check your home WiFi router. How old is it? If it is more than two years old you may be experiencing some signal degradation. If it is a lot older than two years old it could be experiencing serious signal degradation. Find out what security protocols your WiFi supports. WPA2-PSK would be the highly recommended but if your WiFi router is well more than two years old you may have to settle for WPA. You can find out what security protocol your WiFi is using by installing WiFi Manager on your Optima V which will scan for all WiFi device signals within range. Know your SSID for your WiFi so you know which one to connect to. Use the Android 2.3.6 Settings Widget (app) and select Wireless and network settings. Then select Wi-Fi settings to choose your access point (Wireless Router). Make sure you choose your home WiFi router SSID. Once your connected under WiFi settings select the SSID you are connected to. You will get a pop up window with Status, Security, Signal Strength, Link Speed, and IP address. Lookout security will always be running. It always starts up on a boot up and does a full virus scan of your cell phone's ROM and SD Card (if applicable) and before loading your resident apps. Lookout will actively scan any app you install or file you download on your Optima V for viruses. You can recover your contacts and files from the Lookout Backup if they get wiped clean during the upgrade. Happy hunting!

As a former skater, skateboarder, cyclist, and rock climber my position is that using helmets for head protection is a must. Even as a skateboarder, protective gloves, knee and elbow pads should always be worn. I also believe cyclists and ATV riders should wear special footwear, knee and shin guards, and protective garments. Even professional motorcyclists know the extreme benefits of wearing protective gear. There is absolutely no excuse for at least wearing head protection. The cranium and skull bones are not adequate protection for the brain and its membranes even when encountering mild impacts. Properly designed helmets can even protect accident victims from serious neck and cervical injuries. Please pursue any or all of the activities I have referred to in my comment. They are not only physically beneficial but also are psychologically beneficial. But please wear the proper protective equipment. You may be exceptional at any of these activities. But it only takes one careless moment or another careless individual to either permanently cripple you or end your life.

Autonomy ... 1) Give me a problem statement 2) Give me the freedom to determine approaches to solving the problem 3) Freedom to design a solution with minimum constraints 4) Freedom to gain access to valuable resources of personnel and technologies to construct the solution with minimal restrictions 5) Freedom to build the team to provide the solution 6) Ensure minimal interference in pursuing the developing of the solution 7) Accountability based on results 8) Support with minimal restrictions

By the way, COBOL has been supporting API interfaces with C/C++ for a couple of decades now.

COBOL has been around for fifty years. It was originally designed as a business programming language to replace IBM's Autocoder & RPG (Report Program Generator language), System 360/Assembler Language,and FORTRAN principally for business applications. Initially designed for batch processing it was quickly adapted for Online Transaction Processing by IBM for its CICS (Customer Information Control System) OLTP environment with CICS 360/Assembler macro level API support and shortly for the more popular CICS Command-Level Programming Interface. Although less efficient than IBM Assembler Language, also known as BAL (Basic Assembly Language), it provided a very favorable medium for developing and maintaining structured programming business solutions. COBOL continued to support numerous API languages including Assembler, FORTRAN, and PL/I. PL/I had been developed to provide an engineering language to replace FORTRAN. Today COBOL is strongly supported by IBM for business application program development with support for batch processing, OLTP, interfaces to IBM IMS DBMS, DB2 RDBMS, WebSphere, Peer-to-Peer and Message Queuing applications, and GUI interfaces and integration for Oracle's Database and Tuxedo OLTP. Online program development can be done with IBM's TSO/E and ISPF environments with fully supported run-time environments. IBM also offers a GUI Application Development Framework and Oracle offers support for COBOL in their Fusion Suite and ADF development tools. IBM COBOL now supports an Object Oriented Programming methodology and interfaces to the JAVA programming language. The only knock I have ever had with COBOL is that it can become extremely verbose. With the advent of structured and function programming constructs and GUI Application Development Frameworks this problem can be minimized while still providing very easily read, maintained, and debugged business applications.

TV's problem is content. Not high-definition TV or 3D TV technology. Content is going to drive HDTV and 3D technologies. Entertainment, news and video gaming are only the tip of the content iceberg. Information and educational content will now have the technologies they need to provide rich and mind expanding experiences to the consumer. Providing a wealth of higher education and information content will revolutionize education, arts and crafts, technology, engineering, health care, manufacturing, construction, transportation, career training, historical reference, skill set training, and various services for our ever growing technological needs.

Everyone seems to be defining High Performance Computing as CISC/RISC chips with multi-core processors utilizing Instruction Level Parallelism and Thread-Level Parallelism with extremely fast multi-level Caching. HPC High Availability computing is a synergy of CISC/RISC chips combined with Application, Integrated Instruction, Facility, Graphic and Cryptography assisted processor technologies supplemented with Integrated Coupling facilities. These processors must share access to large amounts of fast Dynamic Random-Access Memory and be integrated into fast I/O bus architectures for a variety of High Performance connectivity with networking equipment, data storage, and other peripheral devices. All this hardware must work in concert with a variety of firmware, hyper-visors, and operating systems supporting telecommunications, storage management, databases, application run-time environments, application servers, web servers, online transaction servers, redundancy, security, applications, fail-over, backup, recovery, archival, and administration management. IBM has been doing HPC/HA for quite a while now. Hewlett-Packard, Oracle Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Intel, EMC, and Cisco seem to be still chasing the dream.