Steve Pitts

Steve Pitts

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Reply to Psychic Powers in Literature in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tamren" reply="4" id="2051461"]Anne McCaffrey's pegasus series is predated by its prequels The Rowan, Damia and a few other books in that series. Tower and the Hive comes much later in the story line. [/quote]I think we can probably thank the marketroids for the confusion, but the Damia books came to be lumped together as 'Tower and the Hive series' (with the original definite article missed off) around about the fourth book (Lyon's Pride) and rather confusingly finished with

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

Not really sure why mothers-in-law should attract such opprobrium - I am quite fond of mine, and it is generally worth remembering that your wife may well turn out very much like her mother. For Politics I prefer McCarthy's Law Of Intelligence: Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important. [quote who="Tailsgirl" reply="25" id="1959479"]What goes up, must come down.<br

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

Personally I always thought that Murphy was a pragmatist. [quote who="jicorrila" reply="12" id="1956092"]Don't force it: get a larger hammer[/quote] This is one of my favourite sayings and is known as 'Blaauw's Law' in my canon. Jones' Law: The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on. Peers' Law: The solution to a problem changes the problem.

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of Law Of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage > Jenning's Corollary: The chance of the bread falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

Mencken's Law: There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. Allen's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions.

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

O'Toole's Law: Murphy was an optimist Sod's Law: The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended and to the need for success

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart (also known as Simon's Law after Paul Simon who recorded a song containing this sentiment) Wolf's Law (An Optimistic View Of A Pessimistic World): It isn't that things will necessarily go wrong (Murphy's Law), but rather that they will take so much more time and effort than you think, if they are not to.

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

If a great deal of time has been expended seeking the answer to a problem with the only result being failure, the answer will be immediately obvious to the first unqualified person Murphy's Law Of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure

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Reply to Murphy's Laws in Community Stardock Forums

A couple more of Murphy's Laws (as the thread starter noted, there are dozens of them): If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will go wrong first will be the one that will do the most damage If you play with something long enough, you will surely break it [quote who="Jafo" reply="12" id="1937037"]Those that can't, teach.[/quote] Not really anything to do with Murphy, but the follow on to the above is 'those that ca

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Reply to We are NOT YET A Secular Nation in Religion JoeUser Forums

The most common Polls show that over 90 Percent of the country Believes in God Ah, but which one (and isn't that the point of the separation of Church and State)??

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The Long And The Short Of It in Software Development JoeUser Forums

I recently had the need to convert a Windows path, to be precise the name of an install directory extracted from the registry keys for a piece of game software, from its short name (aka 8.3) format to the long filename form that you'd see in Windows Explorer. I expected to just call a Windows API routine and be done with it, but strangely I couldn't find one just vari

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Active RACF database details in Misc JoeUser Forums

This is a really simple starter for ten, and was the 'failing memory' issue mentioned in the intro article. The command to list the active RACF database is not totally intuitive, although I'm sure that anyone that administers RACF on a regular basis (which I don't) would have no problem remembering it. Just issue: RVARY with no parameters (obv

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To Blog or not to Blog?? in Welcome JoeUser Forums

I'm really not sure where this is going to go, but after discussions in the office today about failing memories and technical information that is never to hand when you need to use it, I thought I'd start a Blog as a publicly-accessible means of documenting various bits of information that might otherwise disappear off the face of the planet (or the part of it

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