Until it's not. Perhaps the best solution is to use both. That is, automate but have a human operator as backup. That way when the automation goes off the rails (either figuratively or literally), there's a human there saying "that's not quite right" and can resume the reins. Automation should allow for a higher system-to-human ratio, so it's not a complete loss.

In this case, the "gels" were employing a heuristic to know when to do something (in this case, turn on the air ventilation system). It was assumed that it was something meaningful to the action (i.e. something to do with the recipients of the ventilation), but it was something arbitrary (i.e. the way the clock looked). So, unless you have insight into what the heuristic is, you won't know when it's going to have the expected behavior and when it isn't. Even if it seemingly has the expected behavior for a long time.

When you earnestly believe that you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your effort, there's no end to what you can't do.

http://www.despair.com/incompetence.html

Which is not to say that you're not skilled. But management trying to solve the problem of falling behind by saying "work more hours" is futile.

'The communication becomes so deep that you don't even use words anymore,' says Facebook programmer , cosignatory to the Agile Manifesto, and inventor of Extreme Programming Kent Beck.

Fixed that for you

Take a look at turning on sticky keys for the duration of your recovery. I'm assuming that you're on Windows, but Linux for sure and Mac probably has the same feature (just maybe called something different). Also, take the opportunity to think more and type less. Maybe you'll achieve code enlightenment, which is nice. Good luck on the recovery and do whatever your orthopedist says.

Given that they're giving it away to anyone who has pre-ordered, I'd say yes unless they really want to give out a crap ton of them.

My point is that in this case, the software vendor in question is marketing to clients who would have a hard time justifying the licensing cost of even SQL Server Standard Edition. So, stepping into the vendor's shoes, I ask what are my clients likely to pay for and "Express" is the answer. Plus, it's likely able to keep up with the demands of any restaurant out there given even moderately decent hardware.

If I were writing a POS system for anybody smaller than Hardees/Carl's Jr, I'd be using SQL Express. There aren't a lot of sweet options for HA there. At the end of the day, what does your vendor suggest/support? I'd go with that.

Oh... I see what you did there. You used a "$" instead of the "S" in Microsoft's commonly used abbreviation. Because they're a company that tries to make money. Clever.

I think the point that s/he was trying to make is that most people assume that college athletics makes their money (or at least the lion's share) from ticket sales when the reality is that they make their money by and large from donations with ticket sales comprising a small portion of revenue. That said, I think colleges should stop viewing their athletic programs as an end unto themselves and as a means to an end, namely to generate revenue for the college at large. After all colleges are still ostensibly academic institutions.

They prefer to be called "lesbians" now, you insensitive clod!

No, the Jordan Effect is the result of him dying w/o finishing the series. Unless we're talking about two different things. But what I'm talking about is not starting a series until it's finished for fear that it might remain unfinished.

I've been in this situation before. When it happens and there's one PM in charge of all the projects I'm working on, I sit down with them and say "There are n things on my list. Rank them 1 to n." If they say everything is a 1, I tell them that they had their chance and the order is now up to me and arbitrary. If it's multiple PMs, I set up a meeting with them to expose the problem. It usually resolves itself there, but if it doesn't, see the one PM strategy.

I haven't started the "Song of Ice and Fire" series yet as a result of this and the Jordan Effect (as coined by grandparent poster). Which is too bad because I hear it's phenomenal.

It obviously "Player Character".