Not only that, it would be late every week

cause we all know there aren't enough project managers who could coal mine

I think touch screens are kind of dangerous in a car. I know what my dials and buttons do and can control them by feel while watching the road. touch screens not so much

iTunes is only useful for apple people.
So I will complain about it, Netflix works on my TiVo, my PS3, my android phone, my android tablet, my computer, etc.
iTunes only works on my computer, if I have it installed. And since iTunes insists on installing all these extra services that don't do me any good, I don't
have it installed.

because physical media has that whole first sale doctrine which allows the rental of the physical goods, virtual goods not so much.

Next we'll have Sysco offering cloud services... aside from the gassy remains of their food services

That seems somewhat disingenuous to me, almost like purchasing in bad faith if you intend to read and then return the book, for example

There's the implied "so it should work on your machine, so it's broken on your end"

Our multiplayer servers can handle the load on release day

Don't use hard coded values, ever... you're almost halfway there

for example
logfile = c:\logs\log.log

Yeah, that won't work once you move to a different platform for example.

I have hammer, problem is nail

Then there's some undocumented/missed configuration on your machine that doesn't translate to the dev or test server

* I need root access
* This brand new shiny framework/tool/whatever that does the exact same thing as seven other things we already used in previous projects is better than those others.
* I don't need to think about performance
* I can fully test all the use cases myself.

None of these hard coded values will make it into production, we'll rewrite those entire sections and use property values and external variables to define them.

I think it was October last year, right before xmas kicked in