How to use a multimeter, how to solder, what electronics bits do and how they all fit together. Start with the basics.

To ensure the edit isn't lost, we handle this by kicking the user back to the form with a message. You could go one step further and get the modified record from the DB, then highlight the field in question and give the user the option to keep/override. You could make it more intelligent by detecting the collision, analysing the difference, then committing if no fields conflict. Depends on the business logic, I guess.

I think the magic words there are "...by comparison."

Or the expense process, if they don't have an app. I have to print out the expense form, fill it in, sign it, scan it, send it to my manager in another country, get him to physically sign it, then get the signed form and the original receipts/invoices to the controller in a third office. I've got several thousand dollars worth of outstanding expenses.. somewhere.

What I find interesting about all of this is that City of * had social areas where villains and heroes could socialize without combat, at least while I was last playing about a year ago.

A clever virus would just up your speed a few mph so you get ticketed frequently.

Maybe it was the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications meeting that Geist was speaking with?
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> Actual damages would not send the message that the industry wants to send, but at the same time, ridiculously high damages seems to have the same effect.
The message being that if you fight back, it'll be much worse for you than if you than if you just give in and settle before the trial.

Yes. If you do not have the form signed in triplicate at your local air authority, please cease.

Have to agree - I came out with my BSc in CS just as the dot-com boom went bust. Did helpdesk for 3 years while I worked on volunteer programming projects and donated web development time to non-profit grops in the area. After taking the risk and moving to another province I landed my first programming job - writing a new ticketing system for a helpdesk.

Maybe it's more of an alternative to stuff like Crystal Reports?
Dump data into google tables, let executives play with it, generate charts, trends, etc.

Or B2B customers could sift through their data which is updated by a core data system.
Data imports could be handled by dumping the data to a google table, then customers and account managers could hash out values/columns before involving a DBA.

Set up in a gravel pit or something, cams all over the place with a PPV feed..