You forgot to add... "May contain traces of nuts"...

What shit. I hear this during pre production testing as well. "Don't worry that it is slow, it'll be faster in production."

Know what? If it's slow in build it will be just a slow (or worse) in production. Just look as Vista. I have never seen a speed issue just "ironed" out, it has usually been a complete rewrite of several queries or loops to get the system performing better, even then, until you are running in prod using a full production load of data (ie more than 6 rows of data) your not really sure if you got it.

And as for a system being stable as a rock for a beta? What the fuck? Have you ever tested a beta product of ANY FUCKING VARIETY? You expect (and will unless you are a complete moron) to find several bugs in the system which will fuck your program stability.

Ah the joys of Global Warming discussions. You have been marked +5 because you agree with the masses. I find this annoying now because anyone who does not also see your view are modded trolling. What has happened to science around here? What is the first rule of science? It is an hypothisis until disproven. Nothing about Global Warming is well established, it can't be, it is just a general consensus.

Personally I am not sure that we are the cause for global warming or if it is yet just another natural event (ice ages came and went without the help of man so it is not a theory that we can rule out just because the media says so). I do believe, however, that we should be reducing our footprint (I am not talking just CO2, but also our general waste)