hopscotch on ipad is aimed at teaching kids to program visually

pff no one mentions teh grand daddy - TECO
where line noise is an executable!

They aren't designed to be failures as such, just inadequate enough that people will upgrade for new features (no matter how irrelevant) and to keep the supplier receiving support payments, and training fees.

You know like most big software out there...

Come on it took ages for perl4 to die... This is normal.

She would never pass the credit check would be the main reason.

Our american IT director had a hell of a job getting a UK phone as no one would give him a contract, he went prepaid in the end.

I don't what planet you've been on, but reinstalling windows from scratch has been standard practice since win95 for anytime windows shits its panties

Yes - but we should not have to any of this.

All this was forced by the google+ BS, and should never have happened period.

I thought this was well known, just unofficial.

Hell, it even made a Tom Clancy novel!

It sounds like a lovely idea but unfortunately I once spent a week in hospital and learnt to sleep with lights blazing...

subtitles, and multiple/alternate streams

Because I trust those companies less than idiots like ubisoft?

You will have to major rewriting whether you want to or not. You will not cover every base out of the gate. Your users will do stuff and break stuff that you will never think of at this stage. Hell you may come up with a clever way to implement a feature - but that may only occur several months after the users have been exposed to the product.

It is just a fact of life. No plan is perfect, no software is perfect, and nothing ever survives the userbase intact.

Your resignation letter only has to say the minimum - Nixon's resignation letter, is the best example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_of_Resignation_of_Richard_M._Nixon,_1974.jpg

I've used the same basic letter when I've quit in the past. You may get hauled into a meeting to find out why, but you don't have to tell them anything other than you quit (if they want you to work a notice period you'll find out)

A heavy reader - does more than 30 minutes a day - that would be a light reader...

I read 2-4 hours per day if I can afford the time (zero otherwise). I charge my kindle every couple of weeks if reading heavily on it, then again i'm doing 50/50 kindle to paper..

I have a smart 3dtv, I bought that model because it was the cheapest way to get an LCD/LED backlit TV with enough HDMI sockets for my gear.

All the cheap non-smart/non-3d TV on the market in my price range and target screen size maxed out at 2 HDMI sockets, moving up to a smart TV gained me an extra HDMI and 3D... Moving up a model again gained another HDMI...

I use none of the smart tv features - my dvr does them better...