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obligatory Dilbert 3[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The thing to do is try to find the idiotic blog/message-board that gave him the idea, and use lots of terms from that page.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My former Bitch Supervisor From Helltm had asked two of us to come up with recommendations for server hardware. I thought the whole exercise was a waste of time (it was), but my partner took it seriously and at the end even added my name to the recommendation even though I had not really contributed anything.
We were both scratching our heads trying to make sense of her response.
I felt the need to immortalize it by adding a cartoon that seemed to explain it, here[^]
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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Reminds me of someone who once told me, "Our users aren't asking us to improve our internal processes, fix bugs or improve our code. When they start asking for that, you can work on it."
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JackDingler wrote: Reminds me of someone who once told me, "Our users aren't asking us to improve our internal processes, fix bugs or improve our code. When they start asking for that, you can work on it."
Oh you got that right. We had shipped our product with over 150 known bugs. When we were told about the new features to be added, I asked if we were going to fix any of the known issues. I was told, only if they get in the way of the new features.
The CEO went off to a conference to tell about the new features. It seemed they met him at the door with a baseball bat. They made it clear that they didn't care how many features it had if it didn't work.
We were told to stop development and launch a full force bug hunt. Management still tried to muck things up. They had us put together a list of all the known bugs so they could be presented to a non-technical committee who was to decide which bugs to fix and in what order.
We were then told to do an analysis on the bugs in regards to impact and time to fix. I asked if we could fix the bug if it was found while doing the research. I was told, no, just make a note of it and you can fix it when you get approval.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I've seen each of those issues, just not all at the same time. 
With the system I was working on, the users were telling me that they wanted the bugs fixed and workflow changed, but my manager didn't hear it, so it didn't happen.
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My personal all-time favorite is from a former boss (not a bad guy, really - he just wanted to be techie). He referred to ASCII as "asskey two", thinking the "II" was a Roman numeral implying 2.
(when he did so I used to jab him back, suggesting we use "ebsi dick 99" [EBCDIC]) ... yeah, this was a few years back
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One of our IBM customers use to refer to "flippy-flop" disks.
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To be fair, 'flippies' were something we actually used for a time....
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Don't forget the "Twiggy" drives on the Apple Lisa. Floppy disks with I/O slots cut on opposite sides so they could have two read/write heads to improve throughput.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I never saw those drives. But I never saw an Apple Lisa either, outside of magazines...
I do remember coming across a floppy drive that had two heads on each side of the armature.
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"The problem was a software issue in having run the mission for many years past its design lifetime," A'Hearn told Spaceflight Now. "This basically caused an overflow in the on-board time, which in turn caused a continuous cycle of rebooting the on-board computer."
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Marc
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This makes your sig even more meaningful.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: This makes your sig even more meaningful.
Marc
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It's all explained perfectly in the commentary provided by Babu below the article. He makes everything clear and logical...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: It's all explained perfectly in the commentary provided by Babu below the article. He makes everything clear and logical...
I think I found my next guru. 
Marc
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Yup, me too! I think I'll get all of my Science information from Creationist Law students in the future; maybe I can get elected to Congress. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Marc Clifton wrote: for many years past its design lifetime,"
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. This is something that was created knowing that it would fail at some point. The fact that it lasted this long is nice, however lamenting the fact that it could have lasted longer is meaningless since if they wanted that they should have paid for that. But they didn't.
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Have they tried turning it off and on again?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Have they tried turning it off and on again?
Ironically, I think they're trying that, but since the antennas are no longer pointing at earth (the computer is apparently constantly rebooting now) they can't get a command to it. It actually amazes me how much they can do to reconfigure a spacecraft once it's launched (assuming they can talk to the thing.) For example, to get communication satellites in orbit faster, the firmware / software that operates the satellite (besides the basic stuff) is often still in development while the satellite is delivered to the launch vehicle, which of course can take months.
Marc
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This is something I was thinking about the other week, and been reminded of by the Breaking Bad thread below.
When I was but a lad we had 3 channels in the UK, then a fourth was added. (I'm either old, young, or the same age as you - I know).
This continued until a 5th was added when I was in my 20s.
Several years later we finally had some sort of cable offering.
Nowadays with several hundred TV channels, the ability to easily record programs or series and watch them back whenever, the ability to download hundreds or thousands of films and shows from all over the world.
I think my viewing habits are less varied now that I have all this choice than when there was none.
I seek out things I know I like, I take less chance, I find fewer 'new' things to watch.
I think it was better when you had to watch what was on, whatever it was.
What say you?
Smug hippies who are so much better now they have got rid of their TV altogether are welcome to make that point too if they must.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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We have a TV but only watch DVD's as their is no inbound TV signal set up. I do watch the news online and buy on DVD or download everything else.
I guess that has narrowed our viewing habbit but with the girls it has meant I have kept the house Hannah 'Yo Slutty-Slut-Slut' Montana / Justine Bieber / Lord Gaga / Wand Erection free. So there is an up side.
speramus in juniperus
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When I was young I had one channel BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) which then changed to SSVC.
BFBS what a mix of all the current UK Channels, it wasn't till I returned to the UK did they introduce channel 5. But when SKY came around all I thought was there is the same amount of crap that there was across the 4 / 5 terrestrial channels.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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ChrisElston wrote: Smug hippies who are so much better now they have got rid of their TV altogether are welcome to make that point too if they must.
Consider my point made. 
Marc
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