I've read the proposal twice. They don't describe what they want to store at all. And I don't see a reference to another document either. How can anyone make an informed proposal without knowing anything about the data!!

Are you KIDDING me? The SAME people forcing me to use IE6 want me to use OSS??

My co-worker brought in an original 1957 IRS 1040 form with tax tables. The top rate in the tax table was 91% for income over $300,000.

I see that ONE end of the cable is the NSA's, but I wonder where the other one goes....

My friend is a university chemistry professor. Last night she said a student asked her "where is the absolute value key on my calculator?"

Students lack a lot more than common sense.

I'm 46 and I'm a casual runner. For years I had intermittent knee and hip pain during and after a 4-6 mile run. I finally broke down and spent more money ($90-$110) on good quality running shoes. The pain is gone. I can run 6 miles regularly with nothing but plain old muscle pain. I can tell when it is time to buy new shoes too. After a couple of hundred miles and the shoes lose their cushion, I can feel it when I run.

First we assume a spherical network....

I just got my sales reports for february (my first month) and I have one return. My app sells for $2.99 and I get $2.10 per sale. I was debited $2.10 not $2.99 on this statement so maybe this is not in effect.

I've been actively developing simple apps for the past few months. The submission process has been straightforward and acceptable. Nothing has taken longer than a week. Critical questions (banking, etc) have been answered in one day.

Would I like it to be faster? Sure. But right now I'm satisfied.

When I was first hired as a budding DoD programmer a long time ago, one of the first things I asked is "where is our library of stuff that has been developed locally?"

I might as well have asked "where is my +3 mace?" because we didn't have that either.

I'm glad this is finally happening.

I get two as well. One is a big regional paper and one is a tiny paper covering just two local towns. I read the comics and op/ed page in the big paper. I get nothing more out of it. All the "big" stories are old news because I've read them all online.

I do read the little local paper cover to cover and I always learn something new. I get full police reports ("mary and jimmys son was arrested again"), planning and zoning ("the wilburs got denied a permit to turn their garage into a rental apt...hah!"), legal ads, editorials about local politics, etc. I get way more out of the little one and I couldn't care less if projo.com dies.

I would have expected MS to write a new app like that in 100% managed code. I assumed that the Mono project would allow me to run most managed code, maybe with some effort (but not 2 years by two major software houses)

If so, then I would have expected it to "just run" under Mono.

One of my assumptions is wrong.

Yeah, I know..... a lot....

What I mean is, if I look up in the sky, how big of a patch of the sky does this picture cover? The size of the full moon? Bigger? Smaller than a grain of sand at arms length?