Any support on your product beyond the end-of-support date for a product needed to perform this support should be on a best effort basis, never on result commitment basis.
Also consider increasing your hourly rate by 10% for each year beyond the end-of-support date of the products you use - this encourages your client to buy an upgrade to a new version of your product, build with current tools.
Fixed price contract for custom software - so no competitors for that project, and no other clients for that piece of software.
A better argument would be: Delivering a B would hurt our long term reputation.
Works only with managers who think long term (next project and beyond), not short term (next bonus).
It all comes down to managing your manager - this can be much harder than writing level A code
Lazy programmers aren't writing efficient code, they're just relying on Moore's Law to push them through.
Wrong.
It's not about lazy programmers, it's all about calculating managers.
To cite one of my managers during a project review:
Next time you're not going to perfect our code like you did on this project. If we measure software quality on an A to F scale, and if our client is satisfied with quality level C, then stop improving your code once you hit that C level. Going for the A will only increase project cost, but not our revenues..
If they were smart they would put 3-4 floors above ground to help with this problem
That's hardly sufficient to counteract the upward buoyancy of the 65 subterranean levels.
Think about 20-30 levels above groundlevel to get the job done - which is not an option given the laws against highrise buildings mentioned in TFA.
the east of France is also threatened of earthquakes since Basel, a border city in swizerland was once almost completely destroyed in 18..hundred-something
That quake was on october 18th, 1356.
They'll still work just as well as they did the day you bought them if you haven't wrecked them.
Some of the first CD's I bought have become unplayable due to CD rot. Contrary to what the CD manufacturers want you to believe CD's won't last for ever. Nor will DVD's.
They are in fact thinking
Why do you say politicians are thinking, given all the evidence to the contrary?
I'd feel much safer in a current model soyuz than a current model space shuttle
There is no current model space shuttle, only a retired model space shuttle.
"Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like `Psychic Wins Lottery.'" -- Comedian Jay Leno
