Sometimes, it just means it's easier to blame the contractor, when in fact the client was completely inept.
Think about the worst requirements you've ever had to deal with. Now imagine 2700 pages of even worse requirements written by CONGRESS. Then throw Obama in the mix, issuing Executive Orders that change the system at every turn.
My "workstation" is a seven year old laptop that I can buy on eBay for $50. I make more than that per hour. I've offered to bring in my own hardware, but - no unapproved hardware on the network. And no admin rights, because, you know, I might break my $50 PC, so if I need to change an environment variable it's a week wait for a helpdesk maggot to show up.
It's just a side effect of senior management not having a clue as to what we do and seeing developers as nothing more than a cost.
I wonder how many people are going to actually install the car-port?
Most people who buy hybrids do it so they can drive solo in the commuter lane, so I expect this car will spend its entire life running off its gasoline backup engine.
This happens often enough that I figure that simple "looks" is far less important to women than it is to men, and that many women are either willing to overlook some aspects of appearance or simply don't care.
My wife and I participated in a couples group that focused on relationship and marriage. At one point, we were asked, "Are you turned on by your partner's looks?"
All the men said, "You bet we are!"
ALL the women said, "not at all."
Us guys were really surprised by this. It's not that they weren't turned on by their husbands, it's that it was other attributes that did it for them.
The men who have figured out that game know how to spot the women with low self esteem. Women with low self esteem need the sex to feel desired to feel good about themselves.
What we need is an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations when they're unattractive, boring, unmannerly, old, poor and/or cheap, have baggage, etc.
Someone already wrote that in Perl. It's called Craigslist.
Last time I was forced to play Comcast's threaten-to-cancel-so-I-can-keep-my-promo-price game, I somehow ended up with a year of HBO. It's the biggest "meh" I've experienced in entertainment. There is never anything on I'm interested in. And it's not even in HD. There's like 800 channels of useless sports in glorious high definition and then HBO in low res.
I have friends 15 miles from Washington D.C. who are on dialup (or Verizon wireless cards) because it's apparently not cost effective to run cable or DSL to their neighborhood. My folks live in Montana. They don't even have good dialup. Forget 56k, they're falling back to 14.4kbps.
I'm in suburban VA. No DSL and my Comcast loop is so saturated that I don't even bother trying to use it at prime time.
After I put in a cat door, my cat started bringing me mice "gifts" every morning. One day, she waited patiently outside my bathroom door with a live mouse in her jaws. As I stepped out of the shower, she bit a hole in its head and dropped the squirming mouse, blood spurting out of its skull, at my feet. Freshest gift ever.
Nice kitty.
I finally locked the cat door when she brought in a bird. Ugh.
I use stuff called Plexus on motorcycle windshields and helmet visors. It cleans, protects, and polishes out scratches and haze. I've never tried it at 200 kts, but it's amazing stuff. Would be interesting to know how it works on an aircraft canopy.
Rain-X I used on the inside of goggles to prevent fogging until I discovered Scott No Fog Cloth. Nothing else works like it.
Notice you can't buy refills anymore? Used to be, you just bought the rubber part and only replaced the rigid part when it was really trashed (basically never). Now stores only sell the whole blade.
I suspect your heat pump has an electric backup whether you know it or not. I had a brand new Trane forced air heat pump installed in my house two weeks ago and it came with a 15kW electric backup heater. So far it doesn't use it even well below freezing, which is a big improvement over heat pumps of 10 - 20 years ago.
My neighbors have a 1 year old heat pump with gas backup and I notice that it's switched to gas when the temps are much below freezing, so gas must be more cost effective than trying to run the heat pump in that cold.
Reminds me of the gun control polls that ask questions like, "Do you support background checks at gun shows?" (which there already are) and then conclude that 85% of the population wants more laws.
But, seriously, even polls run by the liberal media - Obama's lapdogs - aren't showing a lot of support for this. The peak was less than a majority. Just wait until people figure out that healthcare still isn't free.
When I read the access request for any Android app, I end up declining. SD card, network, contacts, and location access, for a kitchen timer? No thanks. That's why I have no apps on my phone and why I miss my Startac.
And I just don't have the time to mess around with custom roms or rooting the phone.
Its good for the grass anyway, natural fertilizer.
No, it isn't. The problem for the grass is the urine. It kills grass and, since dogs like to piss on each other's piss, it leaves whole patches of dead dirt.
My end-unit townhouse was where the whole neighborhood let their dogs defecate. We paid for a garbage can and little bags so the pet owners wouldn't even risk touching any, yet they still left the feces. Unless someone was watching, of course. My Saturday ritual was shoveling everybody's dog shit into a trash can so the stink wouldn't permeate my home. I'd even leave the shovel out in hopes that some considerate dog owner would help out, but no. I'd just find the shovel, handle down, in the can the next day.
I finally sold the house and moved away because of dogs. Well, not because of the dogs. Because of their rude, inconsiderate owners.
I have tinnitus from going to night clubs and frat parties in college. I can't sleep at night without a fan and this chamber would drive me nuts.
Kids: Wear your friggen earplugs. You may look like a dork, but trust me, someday you will wish you had. You know that ringing you hear after leaving a concert? Someday you'll hear that all the time and it never, ever goes away.
However if the atheists are so bad please explain why you have NEVER seen the following headline:
"3 were killed and 4 were wounded when agnostics bombed the agnostics"
That kind of statement is EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
Odds are 99 to 1 that someone in my extended family will go off on a long winded political rant and/or racist screed
Maybe the problem is you.
Really.
I could imagine the typical Slashdotter inciting that kind of conversation with comments about the invisible sky fairy or slaughtering innocent native americans during a gathering of people who might have different opinions about those subjects.
Out in the general public, I find social conservatives and the religious to be way more accepting than the smug angry atheist. The irony.
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
I would have done that in my twenties, but pushing 40 now (ugh) I want nothing to do with my cow-orkers after hours. I'll go to happy hour with the team so I don't look like an unsocial jerk, but otherwise forget it unless there's a charge code to bill my time to.
The rule in my state is, if there's any way you can put your hand on the gun, it either has to be clearly visible or you need a concealed carry license. So if it's in a safe, you can touch the safe, and you have the key, it's a concealed weapon. In theory, if you locked the key in the trunk then the weapon is no longer accessible. But I wouldn't try it.
The gray area is a pickup truck or SUV where there isn't a separate trunk and the only way to transport a gun is inside the passenger compartment. Then put it as far out of reach as possible and hope for the best. That's the main reason I obtained a concealed carry permit - just as a CYA while driving to the range.
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Sometimes, it just means it's easier to blame the contractor, when in fact the client was completely inept.
Think about the worst requirements you've ever had to deal with. Now imagine 2700 pages of even worse requirements written by CONGRESS. Then throw Obama in the mix, issuing Executive Orders that change the system at every turn.
My "workstation" is a seven year old laptop that I can buy on eBay for $50. I make more than that per hour. I've offered to bring in my own hardware, but - no unapproved hardware on the network. And no admin rights, because, you know, I might break my $50 PC, so if I need to change an environment variable it's a week wait for a helpdesk maggot to show up.
It's just a side effect of senior management not having a clue as to what we do and seeing developers as nothing more than a cost.
I wonder how many people are going to actually install the car-port?
Most people who buy hybrids do it so they can drive solo in the commuter lane, so I expect this car will spend its entire life running off its gasoline backup engine.
This happens often enough that I figure that simple "looks" is far less important to women than it is to men, and that many women are either willing to overlook some aspects of appearance or simply don't care.
My wife and I participated in a couples group that focused on relationship and marriage. At one point, we were asked, "Are you turned on by your partner's looks?"
All the men said, "You bet we are!"
ALL the women said, "not at all."
Us guys were really surprised by this. It's not that they weren't turned on by their husbands, it's that it was other attributes that did it for them.
The men who have figured out that game know how to spot the women with low self esteem. Women with low self esteem need the sex to feel desired to feel good about themselves.
What we need is an algorithm to convince people to lower their expectations when they're unattractive, boring, unmannerly, old, poor and/or cheap, have baggage, etc.
Someone already wrote that in Perl. It's called Craigslist.
Last time I was forced to play Comcast's threaten-to-cancel-so-I-can-keep-my-promo-price game, I somehow ended up with a year of HBO. It's the biggest "meh" I've experienced in entertainment. There is never anything on I'm interested in. And it's not even in HD. There's like 800 channels of useless sports in glorious high definition and then HBO in low res.
Pause button? To sit through any of those movies, I either need a fast-forward button or a place to nap.
It was liver.
I have friends 15 miles from Washington D.C. who are on dialup (or Verizon wireless cards) because it's apparently not cost effective to run cable or DSL to their neighborhood. My folks live in Montana. They don't even have good dialup. Forget 56k, they're falling back to 14.4kbps.
I'm in suburban VA. No DSL and my Comcast loop is so saturated that I don't even bother trying to use it at prime time.
After I put in a cat door, my cat started bringing me mice "gifts" every morning. One day, she waited patiently outside my bathroom door with a live mouse in her jaws. As I stepped out of the shower, she bit a hole in its head and dropped the squirming mouse, blood spurting out of its skull, at my feet. Freshest gift ever.
Nice kitty.
I finally locked the cat door when she brought in a bird. Ugh.
I use stuff called Plexus on motorcycle windshields and helmet visors. It cleans, protects, and polishes out scratches and haze. I've never tried it at 200 kts, but it's amazing stuff. Would be interesting to know how it works on an aircraft canopy.
Rain-X I used on the inside of goggles to prevent fogging until I discovered Scott No Fog Cloth. Nothing else works like it.
Notice you can't buy refills anymore? Used to be, you just bought the rubber part and only replaced the rigid part when it was really trashed (basically never). Now stores only sell the whole blade.
Progress!
(on topic, nobody drives a McLaren in the rain.)
I suspect your heat pump has an electric backup whether you know it or not. I had a brand new Trane forced air heat pump installed in my house two weeks ago and it came with a 15kW electric backup heater. So far it doesn't use it even well below freezing, which is a big improvement over heat pumps of 10 - 20 years ago.
My neighbors have a 1 year old heat pump with gas backup and I notice that it's switched to gas when the temps are much below freezing, so gas must be more cost effective than trying to run the heat pump in that cold.
Reminds me of the gun control polls that ask questions like, "Do you support background checks at gun shows?" (which there already are) and then conclude that 85% of the population wants more laws.
But, seriously, even polls run by the liberal media - Obama's lapdogs - aren't showing a lot of support for this. The peak was less than a majority. Just wait until people figure out that healthcare still isn't free.
Thing is, it doesn't take an enormous amount of intelligence to drive. Otherwise we'd have PhD grads driving trucks.
Your PhD grad probably couldn't drive a truck.
When I read the access request for any Android app, I end up declining. SD card, network, contacts, and location access, for a kitchen timer? No thanks. That's why I have no apps on my phone and why I miss my Startac.
And I just don't have the time to mess around with custom roms or rooting the phone.
Its good for the grass anyway, natural fertilizer.
No, it isn't. The problem for the grass is the urine. It kills grass and, since dogs like to piss on each other's piss, it leaves whole patches of dead dirt.
My end-unit townhouse was where the whole neighborhood let their dogs defecate. We paid for a garbage can and little bags so the pet owners wouldn't even risk touching any, yet they still left the feces. Unless someone was watching, of course. My Saturday ritual was shoveling everybody's dog shit into a trash can so the stink wouldn't permeate my home. I'd even leave the shovel out in hopes that some considerate dog owner would help out, but no. I'd just find the shovel, handle down, in the can the next day.
I finally sold the house and moved away because of dogs. Well, not because of the dogs. Because of their rude, inconsiderate owners.
I have tinnitus from going to night clubs and frat parties in college. I can't sleep at night without a fan and this chamber would drive me nuts.
Kids: Wear your friggen earplugs. You may look like a dork, but trust me, someday you will wish you had. You know that ringing you hear after leaving a concert? Someday you'll hear that all the time and it never, ever goes away.
Maybe it's all the waiting lists for their socialized health care.
However if the atheists are so bad please explain why you have NEVER seen the following headline: "3 were killed and 4 were wounded when agnostics bombed the agnostics"
That kind of statement is EXACTLY what I'm talking about.
Odds are 99 to 1 that someone in my extended family will go off on a long winded political rant and/or racist screed
Maybe the problem is you.
Really.
I could imagine the typical Slashdotter inciting that kind of conversation with comments about the invisible sky fairy or slaughtering innocent native americans during a gathering of people who might have different opinions about those subjects.
Out in the general public, I find social conservatives and the religious to be way more accepting than the smug angry atheist. The irony.
If I lived away from family and couldn't justify the travel to visit them for a meal, and if most of my friends were also coworkers, I'd probably spend time with them, like I'd spend time with the off-work anyway.
I would have done that in my twenties, but pushing 40 now (ugh) I want nothing to do with my cow-orkers after hours. I'll go to happy hour with the team so I don't look like an unsocial jerk, but otherwise forget it unless there's a charge code to bill my time to.
The rule in my state is, if there's any way you can put your hand on the gun, it either has to be clearly visible or you need a concealed carry license. So if it's in a safe, you can touch the safe, and you have the key, it's a concealed weapon. In theory, if you locked the key in the trunk then the weapon is no longer accessible. But I wouldn't try it.
The gray area is a pickup truck or SUV where there isn't a separate trunk and the only way to transport a gun is inside the passenger compartment. Then put it as far out of reach as possible and hope for the best. That's the main reason I obtained a concealed carry permit - just as a CYA while driving to the range.
If the compartment was lockable, wouldn't it count as a "gun safe"?
It would be okay if you can't reach it and/or you don't have the key.