Just take all the vowels out. Oh, hang on a minute...

Nice in theory.

In practice, try that with a company the size of Microsoft and they won't even bother telling you to go pound sand. They'll spin round, walk out and go to the outfit down the street - or on the other side of the world.

Dilbert cartoons are spot-on about a third of the time.

The rest are understatements.

If he tells you he'll have to kill you. Unless he's referring to birds.

Why are you assuming the person fixing it is the one who originally wrote it?

I don't really know why.

Users will say "But it works, we don't want to change waaagh scary" while simultaneously reporting 237 bugs all of which are OMG critical. Management will assume that it's cheaper, because existing stuff is already there so it's wasteful not to use it.

Now it's true that once a load of crufty business rules have built up with 17 levels of nested conditionals it can be risky to try and replicate it for fear of missing some obscure case that's bound to occur at an inconvenient time for a key customer. There's no documentation, of course. Or if there is it's the source code, six revisions behind, pasted into a word document with three screenshots taken as BMPs so the whole thing is 1.5G. This alone can make you say "sod it".

I can't find the correct phrase but maybe it's just a false analogy with physical things. Like reusing wood from an old shed to build a deck possibly is cheaper.

If Microsoft or Miele think I will own a "oven, vacuum cleaner and washing machine" which is connected to the internet they're delusional.

Own it? Are you from the 1980s or something?

It'll be more like "For one simple monthly fee..."

Well bully for you, snowflake.

Did you see the bit where he wrote " general rule"? These things vary widely across industries. Don't they teach you that at DeVry?

i live in an area that is being bombarded with thee ads daily

Verily, you are mistaken. I doth not advertise, forsooth.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Me neither. Probably a Rand Paul supporter who forgot to put in something about Agenda 21, the mark of the beast, or gay marriage before hitting [send].

I owned a Sinclair Spectrum and used to copy tapes using a dual deck and I never, once, had to adjust anything.

One of us was doing it wrong, or one of us is making shit up.

I'm perfectly aware of German's position in science, thank you very much. Your assertion was that German was the common language of trade. Outside a small time frame in the Baltic, that's simply untrue.

Oh, and bullshit on Latin too. Unless by "world" you mean Western Europe and half the Med.

John Galt.

We've already seen a generation of smart appliances

What's with the "we", paleface?

German? When was that?