Rumour has it that Windows 9 can only be installed on top of Windows 8 to ensure all users will at least once experience the delight of a gaming console operating system.
Stop growing grains for cattle. That would decrease the amount of grains needed by factor "alot" and therefore decrease the water needed. Stop eating ridiculous amounts of meat. 80 grams is enough for what you need. You will not have a bad life if you do so. Also you will not grow a beard and become a hippy.
"correctness tests to verify you haven't changed the behaviour"
So apart from rewriting, you will also have to write a lot of unit tests. Depending on the complexity and type of code, that will take a lot of time too.
I've rewritten 15 year old Fortran code. It has now some the features that were the reason for the rewrite. That wasn't cheap, but now we have software that can be maintained by a lot more people AND it has unit tests:) But writing those unit tests required diving into the old code to produce (partial) data sets to test with. That required actually understanding the old code very well.
It was a lot of work, but worth it: customer is very satisfied with the result.
Not even that. Frequent upgrades are not bad as long as you know what you get. If it's bug fixes. Please, upgrade me. But breaking plugins (I miss my beloved mouse gestures) and changing the gui every time. That sux.
and I don't regret even one minute of it. Recently I saw a commercial on television at a friends place. The funny part about it was that I got the feeling I should know this guy, because he was presented in a way that suggested he needed no further introduction, but really, I had NO clue at all who that was. My friends were surprised that I didn't know him at all. I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything really. Would your life be incomplete without (for example) Jessica Simpson. Sorry Jessica. I have no idea who you are. I see your name in "news" headlines, but the articles are so easy to click away and forget totally:)
The news can be seen on the internet. YouTube has enough Discovery Channel and such on it.
But the best part is that I'm not bugged any more with those frigging ads every 15 minutes. The worst I've seen so far was watching 3/4 of a movie that was interrupted at that point for "light news and entertainment" (stuff like somebody that is well known, but I really give Jack Shit about bought a new pony) for half an hour.
For the last years, you get to know more and more people that live without television and it's really comforting to see many similar reactions here as well:)
Of course, I spend that extra time that I have now on the internet, but at least it's not interrupted with bullshit any more. I'm not sure internet is any better than television though...
Let's extend that to telephone companies. They will not share information between each other. *check* They're required by law to keep a lot of information about your calls *hmmm* They're required by law to provide that information to the Stasi. *hmmm*
unless you have a very specific reason to help them improve, don't.
I find it pointless to help to improve when you're leaving. Thing you have to say to them to improve have to be said WAY before you even think about leaving. Good ideas are always welcome, so why don't yo share them early on and you even might enjoy the results of your good ideas.
I know that one!!! It The Silent Treatment!!! It's always preceded by "if you don't know by now why I'm leaving you, it's pointless to explain it once again".
I'm just waiting for one of those DIY space thingies to land on my roof. It's instant profit. For me. If I'm not at home, that is. Actually, the mere thought of such a thing landing on my roof scares the #()$*&) out of me. I can't sleep at night. Ah! Profit!!
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More likely a law invented my mattress salesmen.
LOL :)
I've already configured my system to use Curiosity as anonymous proxy. They will never find me.
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...Windows 8.
Rumour has it that Windows 9 can only be installed on top of Windows 8 to ensure all users will at least once experience the delight of a gaming console operating system.
Stop growing grains for cattle. That would decrease the amount of grains needed by factor "alot" and therefore decrease the water needed.
Stop eating ridiculous amounts of meat. 80 grams is enough for what you need. You will not have a bad life if you do so. Also you will not grow a beard and become a hippy.
We're waiting for the clean up of the depleted Uranium bullets and shizzle that was dumped in Irak.
... when you've got something like this to finish companies and ruin economies?
With the group hugs and everything. :D
So happy together, so sweet
Always there to save the world.
I'll drink to that ;)
"correctness tests to verify you haven't changed the behaviour"
So apart from rewriting, you will also have to write a lot of unit tests. Depending on the complexity and type of code, that will take a lot of time too.
I've rewritten 15 year old Fortran code. It has now some the features that were the reason for the rewrite. That wasn't cheap, but now we have software that can be maintained by a lot more people AND it has unit tests :)
But writing those unit tests required diving into the old code to produce (partial) data sets to test with. That required actually understanding the old code very well.
It was a lot of work, but worth it: customer is very satisfied with the result.
Yeah. A phryd y cewch eich cod yn ôl, bydd angen cyfieithu google i ddarllen eich sylwadau ;)
Not even that. Frequent upgrades are not bad as long as you know what you get.
If it's bug fixes. Please, upgrade me.
But breaking plugins (I miss my beloved mouse gestures) and changing the gui every time. That sux.
and I don't regret even one minute of it. Recently I saw a commercial on television at a friends place. The funny part about it was that I got the feeling I should know this guy, because he was presented in a way that suggested he needed no further introduction, but really, I had NO clue at all who that was. My friends were surprised that I didn't know him at all. I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything really. :)
Would your life be incomplete without (for example) Jessica Simpson. Sorry Jessica. I have no idea who you are. I see your name in "news" headlines, but the articles are so easy to click away and forget totally
The news can be seen on the internet. YouTube has enough Discovery Channel and such on it.
But the best part is that I'm not bugged any more with those frigging ads every 15 minutes. The worst I've seen so far was watching 3/4 of a movie that was interrupted at that point for "light news and entertainment" (stuff like somebody that is well known, but I really give Jack Shit about bought a new pony) for half an hour.
For the last years, you get to know more and more people that live without television and it's really comforting to see many similar reactions here as well :)
Of course, I spend that extra time that I have now on the internet, but at least it's not interrupted with bullshit any more.
I'm not sure internet is any better than television though...
Or a soundboard that requires access to my browser history.
But I'm sure they have a good reason for that.
*clicks install*
Let's extend that to telephone companies. They will not share information between each other. *check*
They're required by law to keep a lot of information about your calls *hmmm*
They're required by law to provide that information to the Stasi. *hmmm*
It's not going to work.
Fuck yeah. What's wrong with a bit of noise?
PEOPLE SHOULDN'T COMPLAIN THAT MUCH!!!
I can see the potential a productivity increase by at least 200% already.
*writes memo to management*
I will also recommend to turn on the caps lock by default, because I learned that also gives a better experience.
unless you have a very specific reason to help them improve, don't.
I find it pointless to help to improve when you're leaving. Thing you have to say to them to improve have to be said WAY before you even think about leaving. Good ideas are always welcome, so why don't yo share them early on and you even might enjoy the results of your good ideas.
I know that one!!! It The Silent Treatment!!!
It's always preceded by "if you don't know by now why I'm leaving you, it's pointless to explain it once again".
Come on. Everybody knows it's O'Bamma.
Communists?
I've always hated grammar.
I'm just waiting for one of those DIY space thingies to land on my roof. It's instant profit. For me. If I'm not at home, that is.
Actually, the mere thought of such a thing landing on my roof scares the #()$*&) out of me. I can't sleep at night. Ah! Profit!!
That IPad they show in TFA is SO COOL!!