Yea, because NOBODY has tried that before...

Just imagine how much less national debt we would have if Jedi had to pay taxes.

A 5 star general? We haven't had one of those since the Korean War. Security bugs in the PR office happy-hour scheduling system must be a big deal!

And then you guys raised taxes quite a bit to pay for reconstructing Eastern Germany - and haven't gotten around to lowering those taxes yet. Absorbing all of that is what killed your economy.

That's not to say it's bad you guys did it - it was good and necessary to do. I just mean to say that Germany is a special case.

JonKatz.. oh those were the days!

But I agree, sections like that would be quite useful.

Since you have never seen his code and know nothing about its application, it would seem you carry around the "refactor it!" hammer.

You may benefit by taking a look at Joel Spolsky's opinion of that particular hammer.

I presume you have alternators between the exercise wheels and the jumper cables? Otherwise it wouldn't do much...

Which broker?

That's a feature! :-p

In that case go to bed early, next to a window facing north. Wait 4 months. Wake up in sunlight.

Dreamhost, in addition to being cheap and fairly reliable, provides subversion access. It's quite nice.

This is a statewide system that needs to be deployed on all 26 UW campuses, administration and UW-Extension (which has an office in each of Wisconsin's 72 counties). It handles all types of employees from student LTEs to professors to staff to administration, all of their benefits through the state retirement fund and the state employees healthcare plan (which itself is fairly complex). It has to deal with union and non-union employees and their different pay structures, special deals for certain faculty, etc. It's a complex system that is specific to the State of Wisconsin, so no, there is no off the shelf solution.

On top of all that, much of the cost is in deployment and training of all the people who have to use the thing.

As I understand it, they've totally scrapped the old system and are starting over from scratch using PeopleSoft - which they should have done from the beginning rather than trying to roll their own solution.

So yeah the title is misleading; it's a $12 million system. And that includes deployment across 24 campuses statewide, training costs, etc.

Wisconsin passed similar legislation about 3 years ago after a couple communities built successful networks. TWC's lobbying dollars were well spent...

hey cts, are you ever going to finish that film?