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Unfortunately this is a typical government contract. (No matter which party is in charge.)
I worked for a government contractor that would bid the lowest they could, but still get beat out. Then the winner would put through for more money with in a year. Once it was after one month!
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Agreed on a typical government contract. Just the priceless picture of an "angry" POTUS and Sebelious der in headlights.
Us Americans get "penalty taxed" if we don't have coverage, but we cannot sign up for anything.
still chuckling
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You'd need those companies to stick to the original offer they made. If they can't do it with that: They have to complete it at their own expense or a give a full refund to the government. 
Problems here:
1. this would need the government to stop changing the specs all the time.
2. Someone with the power to influence the decision knows someone else in some company that will profit from giving project x to company y.
So not going to happen 
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Haha, nice choice of video.
From all that I've heard (the very little that is - I'm 1/2 a world away), I reckon you could liken the launch to the Apollo 1 accident. <sarcasm>I mean, who could have foreseen that?</sarcasm>
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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Everyone in the chain of command *new* they were in trouble. Wait until the Project Managers start blowing the whistles.
Most of us have been in the business a long time. I suspect there are a few application architects that were yelling their heads off but were told to shut up and shovel.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: I suspect there are a few application architects that were yelling their heads off but were told to shut up and shovel.
Just the discussion we were having the other night about the building in London that melts cars. Surely plenty(some? one?) of the low-level grunts foresaw the impending trouble.
Who'd have thought a building-size concave mirror would be a bad idea?  "I'm an architect! They must have built it wrong"
"Science adjusts its views based on what's observed. Faith is the denial of observation, so that belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin
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The problem is that THIS is true.
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Still no idea what it's from but I have discovered how it got to my desk. My son was walking in the lounge room when it stuck to his foot. Didn't think to look for what it was from.
Just, I think I'll stick this on Dad's desk.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It's probably a half-eaten gummy-bear egg, then.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or possibly an NSA bugging device...I've heard they are looking for Australian subversives who can brew their own beer...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I've heard they are looking for Australian subversives who can brew their own beer...
I've heard of Australians who can brew their own beer by subversiving their feet in a bowl of water.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I've heard of Australians who can brew their own beer Budweiser by subversiving their feet in a bowl of water.
FTFY!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Careful. Britons and Australians wouldn't wash their a... donkeys with that stuff.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: It's probably a half-eaten gummy-bear egg, then.
Nah, he 17 in a couple of months and bigger than Maunder. Pizzas and chocolate bars are more likely.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Searching for the number of possible GUIDs (answering questions in the forum section) I struggled over this amusing SO Thread where they are seriously discussing how the non-unique nature of a GUID can be proofed.
Enjoy[^]
Edit -> Here is my answer to the said question (can you think of a creative one yourself?):
Quote: A Guid is 128 bit. Therefore you would have to generate 2^128 + 1 GUIDs to encounter a single GUID twice.
A thread on StackOverflow.com[^] says that you would need about 10790283070806014188970 years to encounter a single GUID twice, assuming your program does nothing else than creating GUIDs and runs at a processor speed of 1 GhZ, without any interruption by CPU power eaten by other programs or the operating system itself.
As you probably can think now, encountering the same GUID twice would be very bad luck and can safely considered as being unrealistic.
People becoming wiser in order to notice the stupid things they did back in the young days. This doesn't mean that they really stop doing those things. Wise people still do stupid things, only on purpose.
modified 22-Oct-13 7:30am.
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I have always argued (mostly unsuccessfully) that any system that aims to be reliable cannot depend on the uniqueness of GUIDs.
There is no problem that they solve that cannot also be solved in a way that is guaranteed to be reliable (although the solution may be more complex)
Sure, it may not happen, but it can happen.
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Yep, I always work on the principal that a GUID may be duplicated so I add Ticks since the Epoch or something like that to my GUIDs because Ticks should only ever increase. The chances of getting the exact same ticks in milliseconds AND a duplicate GUID are not gunna happen!
you're welcome 
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You don't need to add a surrogate key containing a “tick”, because GUIDs already have such a field.
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Adding it where?
Guids aren't always "increasing". so adding an increasing value to a random value doesn't mean you won't get a duplicated outcome.
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Marco Bertschi wrote: A Guid is 128 bit. Therefore you would have to generate at most 2^128 + 1 GUIDs to encounter a single GUID twice.
I thought developers were supposed to be logical!
Your statement screams "Does not compute, Will Robinson!" at me!
The minimum, of course, is two.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Or, of coutrse he could have said
Marco Bertschi wrote: A Guid is 128 bit. Therefore you would have to generate 2^128 + 1 GUIDs to guarantee encountering a single GUID twice.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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While you smart arses are arguing the toss I've just seen another duplicate GUID pass by. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Did it include the characters S, S, N, N, L, L, L, I, I, E, E, E, and E?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm sure our dearly departed forum friend Leslie would confirm that. 
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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You sure?
They are a lot like snowflakes: if you look at the fine detail they aren't the same.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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