In my experience, you're not generalising. You're just stating a fact. :-)

Except the 'fabled' Robin Hood, according to legend, did rob rich people (in fact, some of the earlier references to him just had him robbing people - basically he was a bandit - outlaw). The Sheriff of Nottingham was not the guy he was robbing, but the guy who was after him because he [Robin] was taking from the people/tax collectors. The Sheriff of Nottingham wasn't a tax collector himself.

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/rh/RH%20Exhibit/text.htm

So, at the moment it's a bit like what we see on television! :-)

... of the time I applied for a position in 1996 as a Java programmer. The advert asked for someone with 5+ years commercial experience programming in Java. In my cover letter I pointed out to the company that Java had only been released in 1995, so it would be impossible to find someone with 5+ years experience (unless they had in fact worked at Sun Microsystems on the Java project). They didn't even give me an interview, but wrote back to tell me that I was incorrect as they had in fact found someone with 5+ years of commercial experience programming in Java. Some people just don't fact check. Maybe they are lazy, or maybe they just don't want to know the truth. I would have loved to have sat in at that interview to see what the '5+ years experience' guy had to say.

'Stone the bleeding crows, Frodo mate,' cried Samwise. 'These orcs are comin' at us thicker and faster than blue arsed flies in summer!'

'Strewth!' exclaimed Frodo. 'That ones bigger than me Aunt Nelly's britches.'

'Fair dinkum,' replied Samwise. 'Let's nick off down the pub before someone realises we've seen 'em. Some other mug can handle this mess!'

Would love to Mod you up to a '6' if it was possible.

The earth sucks!

"NP" = "nondeterministic polynomial time." Not Non-polynomial. "P" = "polynomial time" and its problems are a subset of NP.

Or that cognitive decline starts as soon as you are being watched by researchers. :-)

It's a pity. I was still buying their printer paper to print my photos on (when I print photos that is). I did have a Kodak Digital camera at one stage, but switched to Nikon and have never looked back. Up to my second Nikon camera now, and they are wonderful things. But, every photographer I know recommends either Nikon or Canon for anything that is more than just a point and shoot (and my nikon works wonderful even when I'm lazy and just doing a 'point and shoot' thing on 'Auto'). So, they really didn't get a look in at that end of the market. As far as point and shoot cameras go, my old Kodak was expensive, and it is a crowded market, and as some people always point out to me, the cameras in mobile phones are getting to the point of being just as good (in some case better) as point and shoot cameras.