Is that you, Buffalo Bill?

My kingdom for some mod points!

Of course, the purpose could be to do something, then you would be screwed.

There are shows on VODO that follow a model like this, where by you donate so they can make the next episode.

We all know what this research means... we are one step closer to creating Inspector Gadget.

You just offended cow pats everywhere.

It's actually because Larry couldn't understand the word "free" in the context of an Oracle product.

If the creators are omnipotent, technically you could have a circular creation, where a creator creates their own creator at a previous point in time with the impetus to create the other creator.

And no one has mentioned Cryptonomicon yet, how disappointing.

Unfortunately no one has invented a vaccine for being an ass-hat. Until someone does, these things will continue.

Either are equally bad from the perspective of a software developer who spends a month trying to work out just exactly what is wrong with their code, especially if something like this occurs on a test machine but not on a development machine.

It's bad enough sharing a lift with 5 or 6 people for 30 seconds, let alone sharing one with 30 people for a week.

Maybe, just maybe, it was the potato chips they thought were bad?

The company I work for has successfully implemented many such systems based on the HP TRIM software (previously Tower software), which seems to do a pretty good job for both paper and electronic records keeping. It doesn't require any custom code to do most things an organisation wants out of the box, which seems to be a key point in its success.

Brass myself? If I have to be covered in molten metals, at least let it be Gold like Viserys.