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It's a very short Sci-Fi story. (< 1000 words)
I don't want to say anything about it until it's published as I don't want to give any spoilers!
I just write when the fancy takes me - in this case I thought of the opening line to a novel about 12 years ago (maybe even longer) - one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Maxxx wrote: one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
Whatever works is best. I know that I have days where I don't want to write but I sit down and just do it. Sometimes that produces crap and I toss it on the shelf but other times after 10 or 15 minutes I really start clicking.
Regardless, congrats on soon being published!
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Awesomeness! 
/ravi
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So you didn't actually sell the story - you gave it away! Congratulations!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Yeah, well, if you want to be pedantic!
It's for my fans 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Sounds like West coast pugilist sect, discordant to Americans. (13)
edit: CALLITHUMPIAN. I think the solution is pretty straightforward. Intriguing to find a word with three distinct meanings in different cultures (UK, US, Aus). See here[^]
Back tomorrow, I guess.
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 29-Aug-17 7:26am.
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Rule #1: We never talk about it?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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ummm. Not sure how to respond to that. Could be construed as being in the right direction. Or not.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And that's always a great motivation to make the impossible possible.
In the news we have this today: Consumers more demanding, less forgiving when it comes to performance[^]
Excellent. I always hoped for that, because expectations never had anything to do with reality. This way a lot of suboptimal stuff had to go the way of the dinosaurs and make way for something more practical.
We still have not recovered yet fom falling back to the days of the old mainframes about 25 years ago. Suddently all the junk that had proven itself to be ineffective, like interpreters or said mainframes, was back again.
Demanding users with higher expectations sent all this to the museum once, they may do it again. Why did that take so long?
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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I wonder what the average access speeds were between the surveys? Site speed and bandwidth didn't matter all that much when people were on dial up. As access speed increases, response times become the bottleneck. I also think competition drives stuff more than user expectations.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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theoldfool wrote: I also think competition drives stuff more than user expectations.
I see that as two sides of the same coin. Expectations and how well they are met fuel the competition.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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from Apica, a performance monitoring and testing company.
Forest, trees...
Whereas in the past organizations would spend months or even years perfecting a release full of new features, continuous delivery allows teams to make incremental changes to software and send them live as each improvement is made.
Underlying this is a shift in "consumer." Back in the mainframe days, the consumer was other businesses, and everything moved at a slow pedantic rate, where data was often sent by courier carrying mag tapes from one company to another (I think it was the famous Feynman with the story of the mysterious case of the mag tape losing its data, he realized it was the 3rd rail on the subway that was demagnetizing the tapes, I could be wrong about the story being associated to Feynman.)
Now, the consumer is a different animal, and the expectations of the consumer has been largely created by marketing, so of course when reality sets in, the consumer is not very forgiving.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now, the consumer is a different animal, and the expectations of the consumer has been largely created by marketing
And to be honest... shame on them (companies / marketing people). I feel no mercy in this.
They invest a huge amount to get people buying their product. Some of them should invest at least a part in making their product capable of what they advertise too.
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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I find that a lot of companies seem to take the sell it first, build it later approach to systems development 
Then, two years later, the executives are scratching their collective heads on why their people cannot deliver on the promises they made.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Foothill wrote: Then, two years later,
hehehe I like your optimism
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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I have a friend that works for the government; one of the applications is used by police officers to check license plates. Our home town (myself and my friend), has the backup site for the application.
When he would travel to see his parents, he would be asked to be the courier for the tapes to be loaded at the backup site... and paid for his time and travel to do so.
He was a government employee and his father was a police officer, so he had a vested interest in getting in done.
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Marc Clifton wrote: where data was often sent by courier carrying mag tapes from one company to another
There used to be a great word for that, especially if it was done inhouse because the network was slower: Turnschuhnetzwerk (sports shoe network)
And let's not forget the pleasure of working with IBM token ring terminals. 
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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Change that "or" to an "and".
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Absolutely certain. The whole world is under constant surveillance from space down to the level of reading number plates. Nothing can go undetected. Take MH370 for example...
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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True and wrong at the same time. Thank god we still can't read any license place anywhere at any time. There are not enough satellites for that and we still have to position one to look over the area that we want to observe. Fortunarely a missile launch is easier to detect than a car with its license plate and by now enough sats from from several intersted parties will be pointed at North Korea.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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CodeWraith wrote: we still can't read any license place anywhere at any time
I am sure you are wrong. I cannot count the number of times I have watched a TV show or movie where they are looking at grainy surveillance video and one of the people says "Can you enhance the image?" After a few seconds of processing, voila - a face or license plate that was in the background is clear as a bell. 
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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That may be - slightly - fictional exaggeration.
I'm sure an episode of NCIS or CSI (Herself watches them and believes every word but I can;t tell teh difference) had an enhancement of a picture get a licence plate on a car behind the camera man from the reflection in someones eye... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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