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Ehhh. It's no worse than the windows networking trouble shooters, if anything it's better since a reboot might fix something.
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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Wife : "Honey, Please go to supermarket and get 1 bottle of milk. If they have bananas, bring 6."
He came back with 6 bottles of milk.
Wife : "Why the hell did you buy 6 bottles of milk ?"
He said "Because they had bananas".
He still doesn't understand why she scolded him !!!
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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David Bowie really likes that joke. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well.. is that some sort of sick joke?
Why did she scold him!
Still can't understand....  
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Ha ha, odd ways of communicating
finally I got it, so I am sharing it to make you happier
"...If they have bananas, get 6 ... "
he should ask, but politely: "bananas or bottles???"
So, I spoiled a joke, sorry
Cheers
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The old ones are the best.
Unfortunately, this one is the exception to the rule...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Old one, but I still don't get it.
I assume they had bananas. So he bought 6 bottles of milk.
Where's the problem?
Maybe she should had phrased her needs in c# code.
Kitty at my foot and I waAAAant to touch it...
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virang_21 wrote:
He still doesn't understand why she scolded him !!!
It's because he forgot the eggs.
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dammn it! eggs, bananas or bottles ?
it gets really complex like a software project
we need an UML model for this ...
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Developer wives do know precision is required.
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That joke's so old it actually predates computers having been told about all kinds of positivist philosophers, literal Bible readers, etc. There was probably a version of it in the original draft of one of the gospels aimed at mocking Pharisees but it was already so old that it didn't make the final cut!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Damn it. $10 worth of tickets and only one of the numbers matched. 
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Which one? Maybe if we combine our tickets we won something. I got 27.
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And I have another one, now we just need 4 more and we're in the money!
New version: WinHeist Version Tequila, the nigh time, snuffly, sneezing, how the hell did I end up on the bathroom floor medicine.
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Hah, I checked my numbers yesterday...$20 of quick picks got me 2 numbers!...a disproportionate amount of low numbers in the winning sequence. That's random for you!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I dreamt I dwelt in marbled hall
with vassals and serfs at my side
after winning the Power Ball
And then I had to wake up!! Oh for Pete's sake! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
modified 14-Jan-16 18:35pm.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Oh for Pete's sake!
What did Pete have to do with it?
New version: WinHeist Version Tequila, the nigh time, snuffly, sneezing, how the hell did I end up on the bathroom floor medicine.
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Pete's the safe he bought to store the money. He was hoping to salt Peter with the winnings.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Just got a message from EBay saying ...
Quote: It's been more than a year since you last updated your personal info.
Keeping your personal information up to date can help better protect your account.
The reason I haven't is because I haven't used the account in the last decade but it made me wonder whether they're right. I mean, if there is outdated information on there, say expired credit cards or addresses where I no longer live, surely that means that should EBay ever be hacked the info won't be of any actual use. Whereas if I keep everything bang up to date ... 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Giving anyone any of your personal information makes it less secure.
And I agree with you; out-dated information is probably the way to go.
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I got one too. I guess they want your latest (working) email or phone so that they can tell you your account was hacked and credit card number stolen. 
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email providers and the likes to the same thing, I also always wonder why giving more information is considered more secure. (and since no one ever convinced me, I never do  )
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Have any of you participated in Focus groups? I have, once, and it was odd.
It got me thinking though. We talk to a lot of companies and it's disturbing that they are in our industry yet they don't understand us. A lovely, intelligent, witty person from an unnamed extremely Large Company I met with yesterday freely admitted that she just doesn't get (and will never get) developers. I wasn't offended. Not too much, anyway.
So I thoughts to myself: I thought, what if we brought together a bunch of developers and worked and did some translation work. ie we take, for instance, a message, an ad, some product launch rhetoric - something that's typically illogical, poorly worded and misses the point - and we have a focus group discuss how to present this in a sane, sensible, logical way that normal people (i.e. us) can understand and relate to.
If there are enough people interested I'll start a group, post the link, and you lot can join up. I'll hunt around for some marketing-speke we can...discuss.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You may translate it first...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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