This is a problem that the software industry faces. A level of perfection is expected that doesn't exist in any other industry.

The hourly vs. deliverable is likely the biggest conflict he is facing. I have found that virtually 100% of the time customers want hourly if the project is done early and by deliverable if it runs late. This problem gets way worse when the customer is another contractor sub-contracting out their own work. The fact that he didn't mention whether his rates are hourly or by deliverable implies that he is playing this game.

Comparing house contractors to software contractors isn't really fair. The reason is the every house is filled with uncountable numbers of 'bugs'. One of the primary skills of housing contractors is to make flaws look like they are 'supposed to be that way'.

So, in other words, it is available to you, but you don't want to pay the price of getting it.

I don't have any arguments against pertussis vaccines. My point is to the sub-thread where people lump all vaccines together. The pro-vaccine "nut-jobs" can be just as irrational as the anti-vaccine "nut-jobs". If you read through these threads, most people are not arguing that the pertussis vaccine is a good idea. They are arguing that all vaccines are a inherently a good idea by virtue of being a vaccine.

To repeat, I do not have an argument against the pertussis vaccine. My child has had it. My second child will have it as soon as it comes up to his vaccination schedule, and both I and my wife have had it. Yeah pertussis vaccination!

The chicken pox vaccine happens to be a good example of a bad vaccine. Really, it isn't even the vaccine that is bad. It is the way it is administered. Since it only offers temporary protection, it's use to prevent children from getting chicken pox is likely to produce more suffering and death than it solves by pushing the disease out of the childhood stage and into adulthood where it is 10x more dangerous. Of course, your argument that it can prevent shingles is true. But, the same protection against shingles can be gained by giving the vaccine to people after they have gained natural immunity. It can also be given to people who have not had chicken pox when they become adults, since this is the time that chicken pox increases in deadliness by 10x.

It is sad that your sister died of the disease, but it is still less dangerous than a home cooked meal. Someone's sister has also died of drinking too much water. That doesn't mean that drinking water is a serous threat. Your sister was a tragic edge case. Chicken pox IS something to be taken lightly. That doesn't make your loss less tragic, but it also doesn't make it a serous threat to the general population either.

Rainbow 100! Man I hated that machine. Not because it was a bad machine. It was actually pretty good. I hated it because it was 95% IBM PC compatible. This meant that 30-40% of IBM software would run on it. Too much to ignore, but a constant disappointment when things failed.

The funny thing about that site is that a bunch of the things that it claims made (past tense. It was from a decade ago) are things that are common now in many pieces of software that people rave about the UI.

Notes is not single platform. It has native clients for OSX, Linux, and Windows. The server runs on z/OS, Windows, Linux, and perhaps a few other platforms that I don't pay attention to.

Notes still is awesome. IBM has been really good for Notes from a technical standpoint and a nightmare from a marketing standpoint. Notes was, as you said, way ahead of it's time. I would say decades. Unfortunately, it had some structural problems. This isn't a jab at Notes. Most software from the 90's had structural problems. IBM has spent a lot of time cleaning those problems up. Notes was great for it's day, and it is great for today.

The big problem that IBM has created for Notes is that they have not gotten the word out that there have been 8 version released since they bought Lotus. Notes/Domino isn't on v4 anymore.

What version are you talking about? Version 2 from 1995?

The UK is an interesting example. The UK does not do the chicken pox vaccine as a standard vaccination for everyone (or at least didn't until recently). That puts your whole region in the "stupid parents" category.

Putting a bunch of statements in the form of a question is one of the ways people like you tell your lies. Your lies start with playing the "even one death is totally unacceptable" when referring to a disease with a vaccine, but dismissing the far more dangerous and avoidable activities that you and every other person does on a daily basis.

The number of pre-vaccine deaths due to chicken pox was ~100 a year. Post vaccine it is ~50. So, at best we are looking at reducing the death rate by 50 people a year. Sure, you can trot out those 50 individuals and play on people's sympathies, but that is the same kind of trickery that is used for things like the TSA. With your example of cars? You are wrong. If the auto industry found a way to reduce the death toll from cars by 50 people a year, they wouldn't even bother.

Another big way that people like you like to lie is to lump all vaccines into a single entity. You will argue that someone should get the flu vaccine because small pox is bad and has been eradicated by vaccination.

A third is the name calling. Accepting at worst ~50 deaths a year (most likely a reduction in deaths) isn't any more callous than you are for not donating the majority of your income to feed the starving in third world countries. If you lived an austere life and just shifted your entertainment budget to feeding the starving, you could easily save 50 people a year. Your choice to let people die because you would rather spend your money on entertainment is far more callous than my acceptance that 50 people MIGHT die if nobody gets a particular vaccine.

There are more lies told than can be listed here, and new ones are created every day, but there are three for you to chew on.

Large harm, like less harmful than home cooked meals? There has been a largely successful campaign to convince people that chicken pox is a scourge that is a real threat. It isn't. Death rates from chicken pox, pre-vaccination, were less than a quarter of those caused by home cooking. A child getting chicken pox was one tenth as likely to die than one who played high school football, and it was only slightly more dangerous than riding a bus to school.

The only way to rationalize chicken pox as a real danger is to apply a completely different set of standard than that applied to all your other activities.

What basic features does it lack? And I don't mean, what features does a decade old version lack.