Well, no one needs a conspiracy theory alert, since the Bush Administration is enacting a big old Soviet-style Big Brother operation before the enthusiastic public’s eyes. Still it makes me feel even more creepy—did anyone else notice this?—that the acronym for John Poindexter’s new spookocracy is IAO.
Bear with me. I know they were going to name it something, and it could’ve ended up with just any initials, but IAO was the name of the Gnostic deity roughly based on the God of Israel. Gnosticism (roughly sketched, since there was and is no single essence of Gnosticism) identifies human salvation with knowledge (Greek gnosis). Of all the names of all the divinities in all the world, the name that winds up attached to the secret police agency that the highly-literate John Poindexter just happens to chair belongs to a deity who signifies the confluence of knowledge and power.
Canadian friends: can we get a discount for a mass emigration?
Posted by AKMA at November 16, 2002 03:13 PM | TrackBackfnord
Posted by: Will Cox at November 18, 2002 03:53 PMOkay, now I'm officially creeped out.
Posted by: Naomi Chana at November 18, 2002 04:54 PMDude! I love this site. You are my new major league hero. Where have you been all my life and blah blah blah.
(I'm not kidding)
Miasma
Posted by: Miasma at November 19, 2002 12:20 AMhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap5.htm
http://www.voidstar.com/module.php?mod=blog&name=jbond&date=1037318399
Posted by: BillSeitz at November 20, 2002 11:53 AMhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/aba/chap5.htm
http://www.voidstar.com/module.php?mod=blog&name=jbond&date=1037318399
Posted by: BillSeitz at November 20, 2002 11:53 AMThat gives us a pretty good starting point to understand a lot more about variables, and that's what we'll be examining next lesson. Those new variable types I promised last lesson will finally make an appearance, and we'll examine a few concepts that we'll use to organize our data into more meaningful structures, a sort of precursor to the objects that Cocoa works with. And we'll delve a little bit more into the fun things we can do by looking at those ever-present bits in a few new ways.
Posted by: Matthew at January 13, 2004 08:47 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: George at January 13, 2004 08:48 AMBut some variables are immortal. These variables are declared outside of blocks, outside of functions. Since they don't have a block to exist in they are called global variables (as opposed to local variables), because they exist in all blocks, everywhere, and they never go out of scope. Although powerful, these kinds of variables are generally frowned upon because they encourage bad program design.
Posted by: Lucas at January 13, 2004 08:49 AM