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Thanks, I need that today. 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Cheers, man 
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Sorry to hear that, Jörgen. 
/ravi
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Thanks.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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I joined a company that was in trouble and needed my expertise to pull it back on track. I was well paid and happy for a while but then I realised that 85% of the company's income came from one big client. Uh-oh! I mentioned this to the president, CEO, chairman and owner of the company (yes, he used all those titles) and he said not to worry, they had been a client for nearly 15 years and couldn't move away if they wanted to as we had all their data, blah, blah, blah. I worked 70-80 hour weeks for a few months, cut out some dead wood in the IT team, brought in competent replacements and saved the company. Tada!
Shortly afterwards I was let go. The president, CEO, etc. said it was "nothing personal but they couldn't afford me anymore". He would never admit it as he escorted off me the premises (in as friendly a way as he could considering he had given me no notice and not much severance) but we had lost the 85% client. They had begun to move copies of their data to another vendor a month before I had started and, although it took them over a year and we were up and running well again by that time, they completed the process and pulled out. All my work had really been in vain since they had already decided to move away before I had even started the recovery.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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That sucks.
The situation in my company is almost the opposite.
We had a consultant at our company that smooth-talked our boss (he's quite receptive to bullshitting) into making a new program instead of adjusting an old and quirky but functional program to the needs of our customer.
It was promised to be done in half a year. (no sh*t)
After this half a year was over and they had only finished the design, no one had had a look at the business layer at all. 
I mean, how the f*** can you start with the design before you know what the program needs to do?
The consultant disappeared but it was decided to keep on building this monstrosity as it was to much prestige invested in it.
Anyway, two years later and a quite a few man-years invested the customer pulled the plug on us.
This whole business was only a minor part of the reason though. Pricing was the major problem.
Luckily I had very little involvement in it.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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Great photo. I had read in the Guinness Book of Records, way back in 1976, that the Andromeda Nebula is the farthest object visible to the naked eye. Not sure whether that 'record' still holds.
By the way, your name reminds me of the person who coined the word "Robot". His name was also Karel Capek (apologize for not including the accent symbols). Is this your real name, or is this what you chose?
In fact, at Stanford University, in the Introductory Programming course, called Programming Methodology[^], the first two classes teach "Karel the Robot".
modified 14-Nov-14 12:27pm.
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Amarnath S wrote: By the way, your name reminds me of the person who coined the word "Robot".
It's me, Mark! I just fancied a change of name and, as an ardent Asimov reader and Robot fan, I used the name of the person who coined the word Robot and of whom Asimov said "Capek's play is, in my own opinion, a terribly bad one, but it is immortal for that one word. It contributed the word 'robot' not only to English but, through English, to all the languages in which science fiction is now written."
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frankly, all these space photos are kind of boring now. I get it...the final frontier.
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No one is forcing you to look at them!
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Karel Čapek wrote: No one is forcing you to look at them!
Correct.
However, I do appreciate the photos, just not at ad nauseum.
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Slacker007 wrote: However, I do appreciate the photos, just not at ad nauseum.
Why not look only on hump day?
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A friend of mine at school was watching a playthrough of this game[^] today.
WTF? Really? What were the developers thinking? Were they thinking?
At least it got on the 'Top Ten Weirdest Games List'. It belongs there.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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For the PS2?!?
I could imagine a game like that being made back in the 8-bit console days -- and it might even have been more fun, going by the playthrough I looked at.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As it was released by Sony in 2001 the PS2 seems quite reasonable!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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On a side note it'd be nice to get an answer to the question from anyone here in the Lounge: Is Office standalone 64-bit yet?
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It's not that much different than a game I played as a kid called SimAnt[^]. The objective was to build large ant hills that network together in the backyard of some poor sucker and eventually overtake their house.
Jeremy Falcon
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I remember seeing that game in a demo!!! I forgot exactly what the topic was maybe the topic was about games that are tailored to specific cultures. I am uncertain if it was every released in the US.
But I do agree this is indeed a strange game. 
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
-Douglas MacArthur
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It was released in the US!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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I haven't looked at the game, just the page you link to, but I really don't see how this is so WTF. Mosquitoes are a real plague here in summer though, and maybe some intimacy with the little bastards is required to appreciate the game plot.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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First Regulars will know of my employment woes. I was under the impression this week would not be a good one because a)my Dad had to have surgery on his left eye (for an inherited condition which I may have, JOY!  ) b)had not one but Two interviews face to face, the first was for an ideal post in the middle of nowhere, the second was for a lecture, teaching post (Found that I am not a natural teacher!). c) Had a telephone interview with a company that bought out a company that I have done some work for with my previous employer. Have to go to the JOBCenter+ (or -) on Tuesday,  On the up side my Dad can now see a little bit clearer now. Need ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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It feels a bit weird, voting up a posting like that (showing a preference for human misery?), but it's the only way we can show support.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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