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Annie Lennox - Into The West[^]
An oldie this week, for those who stick around for the credits in movies.
Into The West, performed by Annie Lennox, best known for her work with Eurythmics, is from Lord of the Rings: Return of the King.
This may just be one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
The theme of the music is heard in other scenes of the movie as well.
The lyrics are about Frodo leaving Middle Earth, but generic enough to make it about other things you may hear in it.
It's an old favorite that YouTube recommended to me because of another (new) song I listened to.
And from there it went straight back into my playlist.
I'm not crying, you're crying!
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I've bought movie soundtracks before and in most cases ended up rather disappointed. But I've paid a premium for one of the LotR soundtrack sets and to this day I'd say it's the only one I'd buy all over again.
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Yeah, it's amazing.
I also love the Tarantino soundtracks, but those are mostly classic rock songs.
And in that category I also love Donnie Darko and Trainspotting (the latter being a lot of 90's electronic).
Most soundtracks have one or two tracks that are amazing (usually the intro and the end credits) and everything in between is filler.
Some of my favorite soundtracks include Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain (a.k.a. Amelie), some Ghibli movies (Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle come to mind), some Disney stuff (especially Beauty and the Beast), Secret of N.I.M.H. (by Don Bluth), Air Doll[^], Le Roi et l'Oiseau[^] and of course some epic Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer and James Horner soundtracks.
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Account I throw back in face is fiendish (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Got it, but don't want to answer as I have no ideas for Monday
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Diabolical ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Account I throw back in face is fiendish (10)
Account = AC A C
I throw = I LOB
I throw back = BOL I BOLI
Face = DIAL DI AL
Fiendish = DIABOLICAL
or
Account = AC
I throw = I LOB
Account I throw = AC I LOB
Account I throw back = BOL I CA BOLICA
Face = DIAL DIA L
(I'd guessed the 1st method, but the 2nd one looks better; both work)
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Well done. You are the real hero today I think. 
I got the answer but I had no idea of the solution. Surely it has to be your second solution though, as the first doesn't have any identifier to throw that "AC" around like that (e.g. no "contains", etc.).
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just wow.
And people have complained about ones that I've set. 
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Is the right answer!
You are up Monday!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm sure this has certainly been discussed before, but I just had to rant—or show how stupid I am.
Today during a conversation about a query I was working on that involved some scanned business documents the conversation somehow turned to an open source system we have implemented to help retire old mainframe systems written in the late 70s and early 80s. These systems were later converted to a language that was pathetic attempt to get COBOL to compile to .NET, this was about 20 years ago. Sorry...rabbit.
The conversation centered around that if your current business model is failing, you need to change your business model and that was the reason the open source system was brought in. And how the company should have just fallen in line and changed how they do business instead of demanding the open source system be modified to support how business is currently handled.
Now I may be a moron, but I always assumed that software was there to support the business model and the company. I never thought a new system was going to save a company all by itself. To me that just sounds to much like saying if a restaurant is failing, even though it's in a good local, you need to move and build a bigger, more expensive restaurant thinking that will increase business and fix everything. But then don't do anything to improve the quality of the food, service or atmosphere. It might work for a while, but eventually you'll be right back where you were with little or no customers.
Do I have any clue what I'm talking about or have my brains fallen out of my ears?
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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I have seen a software project rescue a business exactly once. Lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice. My $0.02
I'd have to agree with you.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Z.C.M. wrote: Now I may be a moron, but I always assumed that software was there to support the business model and the company. I never thought a new system was going to save a company all by itself. To me that just sounds to much like saying if a restaurant is failing, even though it's in a good local, you need to move and build a bigger, more expensive restaurant thinking that will increase business and fix everything. But then don't do anything to improve the quality of the food, service or atmosphere. It might work for a while, but eventually you'll be right back where you were with little or no customers.
Exactly
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Both could be true. If a business model works but the software that supports it is causing problems then change the software. If the software improves things then sometimes the business model may need to evolve to match the new way of doing things.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: If the software improves things then sometimes the business model may need to evolve to match the new way of doing things.
possible, but not common
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: but not common
Who can say?
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I have to still see it in that way.
Changing business model usually brings a change of mind, if people is not willing to change it doesn't matter which kind of tool you give them.
I think it is easier (and in what I have seen in my life tend to confirm it) to change the tools once the new mindset is there, than to change the mindset due to new tools.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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^This. The software supports the business model but if it ends up transcending the business model take advantage of that. Facebook is the monster it is today because of this.
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Z.C.M. wrote: I never thought a new system was going to save a company all by itself.
Getting management to change their business model is like waiting for pigs to grow wings so they can fly. From what I've seen over the years, this is what management usually does instead:
1. Replaces existing software with new software that makes all sorts of buzzword bingo claims.
2. Replaces in-house developers with outsourcing because after all, the in-house developers are the cause of the problem.
3. Upper management replaces middle-management, because it's their fault.
4. Expensive consultants are hired to tell upper management what they are doing wrong. Lots of charts, diagrams, and useless time consuming meetings are the result.
I could go on, but those are the top 4.
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You forgot to mention that step 4 results in the same things that the people in step 2 were telling them for free 
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Modern edition:
5. Execs take a large bonus.
6. Declare bankruptcy. 
Seriously, I think the successful firms are the ones who can adopt their business model to the times (and a look ahead). Especially so in this environment.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I agree with what Richard said, the truth is often in the middle. I deal with a lot of companies that have a model that works\they think it works but they are often strangled by their software that either won't give them the flexibility they need, or it involves a lot of effort (manual or otherwise) to get the results they need. You can then come in, listen to their requirements and give them something that allows their model to really work as they want, and often that leads to "leap frogging" where a good flexible solution allows them to do even more than what they did previously opening up new ways of working.
As a developer there is no better feeling that being sat in a room of managers and have them say "This software can do that?" as they look at each other in amazement, thinking of the possibilities.
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Z.C.M. wrote: I always assumed that software was there to support the business model and the company
That sounds reasonable to me. Before there was software there were people, whose job it was to support the company and its current business model.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Although software might often be able to improve a business' processes, I think it's unlikely to improve a business' model.
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