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Annealing. Means grossly different things in different disciplines, unfortunately there is getting to be an uncomfortable amount crossover between botany, robotics, metallurgy, biophysics, simulation programming, and probably others.

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Those are much more Paul Allen's contribution to society, than Bills. PA is a totally amoral snake oil salesman.

sure that DOS was a whole lot reliable than it's competitors (notably CP/M), and got it a large enough market share that he could play the usual monopolist tricks.

I am not so thrilled with scripting and CLI. If i found i was using a CLI program enough i would write a tcl/tk wrapper around it.

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And i'll up your anti by adding its use in transportation (flow) and soil mechanics / geotechnical engineering.

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I have copies of the console and graphics compilers, but I've never used 'em--I haven't done much programming since I got 'em.

I wrote a mechanical simulator for a roller screw design, but that was in QuickBasic.

I can certainly think of a few. I saw a psychological study where a random group was put in a situation where they had to organize themselves to face a crisis. They invariably chose the best liars as leaders, as tested separately prior to the experiment. Wonky-types wound up as advisers, whose input was selectively employed by the liars, who in turn took credit, mostly.

May I add "image"? The word presumably means "likeness". According to the dictionary, it is from latin "imago", imitation, copy; a representation, a thing VERY MUCH LIKE another. So, on that basis, the computer industry has a bunch of LIARS; they produce software that does _something_ to a source (usually a hard drive,but could be a selected set of files) and makes a smaller-sized set _representing_ the original, and slaps the FALSE label of "image" to that result. "ISO" is used as an extension for such files, and the FALSE TERM "image" is applied.