An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, safety and cost. The word engineer is derived from the Latin roots ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness").
Engineers are grounded in applied sciences, and their work in research and development is distinct from the basic research focus of scientists. The work of engineers forms the link between scientific discoveries and their subsequent applications to human needs.
Engineers develop new technological solutions. During the engineering design process, the responsibilities of the engineer may include defining problems, conducting and narrowing research, analyzing criteria, finding and analyzing solutions, and making decisions. Much of an engineer's time is spent on researching, locating, applying, and transferring information. Indeed, research suggests engineers spend 56% of their time engaged in various different information behaviours, including 14% actively searching for information.
A software engineer is an engineer who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software work.
Prior to the mid-1960s, software practitioners called themselves computer programmers or software developers, regardless of their actual jobs. Many people prefer to call themselves software developer and programmer, because most widely agree what these terms mean, while software engineer is still being debated. A prominent computing scientist, E. W. Dijkstra, wrote in a paper that the coining of the term software engineer was not useful since it was an inappropriate analogy, "The existence of the mere term has been the base of a number of extremely shallow—and false—analogies, which just confuse the issue...Computers are such exceptional gadgets that there is good reason to assume that most analogies with other disciplines are too shallow to be of any positive value, are even so shallow that they are only confusing."
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For several years, the Counting Project has been working on a time travel experiments in a secret government facility overseen by the NSA. One month ago, Ally North was the first time traveler to be killed in a time jump gone wrong. Tonight, Ally's boyfriend and fellow scientist, Mitch breaks into the Counting Room after hours and makes an unauthorized and illegal time jump. Security falls short and Mitch escapes without being identified. The small group of engineers and scientists involved in the project are immediately called in and briefed by their supervisor, Plath. One thing is for certain; whoever was able to bypass security and operate the time machine is among the men standing in the room.
Keywords: time-travel
Prepare For No Hair!
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When a prestigious Senator boards a train at Union Station, he is expecting an emblematic, smooth ride. However, his trip is ferociously interrupted when a militia group hijacks the train, taking him and several other passengers as hostages and planting a nuclear bomb somewhere on board. A gallant ATF Agent who happens to be a passenger on the train is the one man who just may be capable of both freeing the hostages and defusing the bomb before time runs out.
Keywords: aikido, atf, atf-agent, bomb, die-hard-scenario, fight, fighting, fistfight, gunfight, hand-to-hand-combat
Never Surrender
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
Keywords: 1910s, 1990s, 2030s, 20th-century, 21st-century, abandoned-theater, activism, activist, airplane, airport
The future is history.
They're Coming.
James Cole: This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy.::Dr. Owen Fletcher: We don't use the term "crazy," Mr. Cole.::James Cole: Well, you've got some real nuts here.
Jeffrey Goines: ...and if you forget one thing, I will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed!
Jeffrey Goines: There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion.
L.J. Washington: I don't really come from outer space.::Jeffrey Goines: Oh. L. J. Washington. He doesn't really come from outer space.::L.J. Washington: Don't mock me my friend. It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well. Are you also divergent, friend?
Jeffrey Goines: Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. Doctor's *discretion*. Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing into the ears of all these poor sane people, infecting them. Wackos everywhere, plague of madness.
Jeffrey Goines: There was this guy, and he was always requesting shows that had already played. Yes. No. You have to tell her before. He couldn't quite grasp the idea that the charge nurse couldn't make it be yesterday. She couldn't turn back time, thank you, Einstein! Now, *he* was nuts! *He* was a fruitcake, Jim!
[James Cole found a spider and knows he's got to take it with him, let's it crawl over his hand while deciding what to do with it]::Jeffrey Goines: You know what crazy is? Crazy is majority rules. Take germs, for example.::James Cole: Germs?::Jeffrey Goines: Uh-huh. In the eighteenth century, no such thing, nada, nothing. No one ever imagined such a thing. No sane person, anyway. Ah! Ah! Along comes this doctor, uh, uh, uh, Semmelweis, Semmelweis. Semmelweis comes along. He's trying to convince people, well, other doctors mainly, that's there's these teeny tiny invisible bad things called germs that get into your body and make you sick. Ah? He's trying to get doctors to wash their hands. What is this guy? Crazy? Teeny, tiny, invisible? What do you call it? Uh-uh, germs? Huh? What? Now, cut to the 20th century. Last week, as a matter of fact, before I got dragged into this hellhole. I go in to order a burger in this fast food joint, and the guy drops it on the floor. Jim, he picks it up, he wipes it off, he hands it to me like it's all OK. "What about the germs?" I say. He says, "I don't believe in germs. Germs is just a plot they made up so they can sell you disinfectants and soaps." Now he's crazy, right? See?::[James Cole finally takes the spider into his mouth, Jeffrey Goines is either too deep into his talk or unimpressed by this and continues his talk as if nothing happened]::Jeffrey Goines: Ah! Ah! There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only popular opinion. You... you... you believe in germs, right?
James Cole: Look at them. They're just asking for it. Maybe the human race deserves to be wiped out.::Jeffrey Goines: Wiping out the human race? That's a great idea. That's great. But more of a long-term thing. I mean, first we have to focus on more immediate goals.
Dr. Kathryn Railly: Cassandra in Greek legend, you recall, was condemned to know the future but to be disbelieved when she foretold it. Hence the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
James Cole: Oh, wouldn't it be great if I *was* crazy? Then the world would be okay.
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Tia and her brother Tony have supernatural powers, can communicate and move things with the power of their mind alone. They arrive on Earth for a visit in Los Angeles. When Tony uses his powers to prevent an accident, he gets into the hands of Dr. Gannon, a ruthless scientist who's constantly striving for power over the world. He puts him a device into the brain that allows him to control Tony's will. Tia gets help from a kids gang to free Tony and save the Earth.
Keywords: alien, aristocrat, bare-chested-male, brainwashing, brother-sister-relationship, captive, carrying-someone, child, child's-point-of-view, child-abuse
Sinister forces from this world against two young space travellers from another.
Dr. Victor Gannon: Where you from?::Tony: Witch Mountain.::Sickle: Sounds like some hick town to me.
Tia: Tony, why are you doing these things? Why are you using your powers against me?
Letha: I've lost all faith in science.
[the security guard is levitating at the ceiling where Tony left him]::Security Guard: Could you get me down please? [Tia lowers him to the floor] Thank you. Now, where are you going?::Tia: We're going in there.::Security Guard: Oh, no. No one goes in there without ID. [Tia levitates him back up to the ceiling]
Letha: Who's that?::Tony: That's my sister, my sister Tia.::Letha: Well this is no time for a family reunion.
Dr. Victor Gannon: They must've flown!::Letha: Well don't *you* try it.
Letha: It's a shame the way they raise kids today.
Tony: Tia, open the gate.::Tia: No, everybody join hands. 1... 2... 3 [the kids energize over the gate]
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Bob Morrison, a successful composer of TV commercial jungles, is unhappy with his his lack of creative freedom in developing the definitive dog-food song. Frustrated, he heads out to Hollywood to score a movie. While in California, he establishes contact with an old girlfriend. Joe Brooks ("You Light Up My Life") co-wrote, produced, directed, scored and starred in the film.
The Most Romantic Love Story of the Year.
Call someone you loved and lost a long time ago and ask them to see a movie. Maybe it's not too late.
The love he had been searching for was the love he left behind.
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Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, she's romanced by Conn White, a handsome mountain climber on his way to Alaska. Home in Monterey, Susan longs to hear from Conn. Two locals also take a shine to her - Hoyt Brecker, a horse wrangler who's the son of a criminal, and Wells Corbett, a sweet guy who lives in his high-society parents' shadow. Jump ahead two years, Susan has a desperate secret that her socially-conscious mother won't let her share. Can Susan find happiness - and what is it really that turns a girl into a woman?
Keywords: baby, baby-boy, based-on-novel, deception, emergency-room, faked-pregnancy, fire, horseback-riding, mountain-climber, pregnancy
She always meant to hold them off. She never could until she met the boy who understood...
Troy and Connie in love again!
Living and dying for no one
Playing god & steering all the bullets
Disregarding vapid is your credit
Never can a leader be believed
Jesus Christ will never be concerned
Bloodless depthless hopeless alive
There is no value - I have no trust
I represent nothing - fuck yourself
There is no common bond
No damage that cannot be done
I have nothing left to feel
Jack off thy public
Dead man no regret
One life all revenge
Engineer
One man all revenge
Another civil war is on our backs
We'll carry out the stresses through our necks
Unknown visuals -- story has no end
Dragging out the lines in the sand
Pointless the supremacy at best