I've heard this before and every time it was about letting the software bypass some business rule important to an external process.

Well yeah of course I could let you add a negative Debit for an Asset but your accounting department will come at you with sharpened coffee mug or something.

Well, I guess the other time I hear "this software is too good" usually comes from sales and it makes my skin crawl every time.

My wallet is going on a record label blocking blitz

Life sure is funny sometimes.

I find them all the time in bars... broken

Which is a shame, I've seen some great looking pinball games just sitting there with a jammed component.

I read this article in Andy Rooney's voice (though I'm quite sure it would work in Seinfeld's as well)

"and another thing, just WHO ARE these ALIENS anyway?"

I think I need a time out

*fumbles with 12 oz soda can because it's too much*

Sounds like a double bill for The Monster That Challenged The World

I'm pretty sure when you die the license agreement you have between Apple or Amazon (or whoever) is ended and ownership ceases.

Anyone actually read that thing?

Thanks to banning violent comics in the 50s there was no violence in the 60s.

Absolutely no seducing your innocents allowed.

"Just settle down out there, you'll get your $20"
~Cave Johnson

Dear Lord... the creature's power comes from electricity | radiation | tachyons | nanobots | god particles!

Don't worry, what with the Cyber War waging you'll be given the option to join a crack eCommando unit; "The Dirty 0xC"

One of the recommendations I made was enlargement which some libraries are sometimes capable of doing at request or are members of partnerships with institutions/groups that provide materials for the visually impaired. If a book does not yet exist in large print form they can make them (at a cost of materials usually).

I live in Canada, so I was helped through the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), I'm sure there must be a regional equivalent where you live, get in contact with them and they should be able to give you more options.

Machines have been around for ages that you can use to read a book on a large screen with different levels of magnification, it has a tray that you can move around easily and it has a small CCD camera hooked up to a TV screen.

When I was in school in the 80s I used a VisualTech CCD magnifier, in fact they're still around: http://www.visual-techconnection.com/cctvs1.htm

However since most of us have computers these days it's hard to justify having such a bulky device around for books.

So what are the options:
1. Get eBooks and zoom in to your hearts content
(problem: not all books are available in eBook form)
2. Get large print copy of the book you want to read
(problem: same as above, enlargement might be impractical or unavailable [your library mileage may vary])
3. Get a stand alone magnifier device for yer book readin'
(compatible with most books and sidesteps copyright issues)

I can see how people think that computer + webcam + tray = book reader, so I'm interested to see if anyone out there in candyland has found a good setup for this.

But yes, this is a thing that visually impaired people have to deal with that so far only seems to have been solved by a handful of companies.

Stop giving them tons of media attention and "high scores".

Stop giving other crazy people incentives of guaranteed posthumous fame.

I ask because in the last 5 years I've been using various flavours of Eclipse and Visual Studio and both of them come with document formatting features that you can template.

The only thing I ask people if they plan on formatting a document during a change is to do it either before or after their change so I can review the differences more easily in source control revision history.

Oh and to answer the question, yes, I've found if the team can adhere to vaguely common style they can navigate their way through our entire codebase without getting lost in one individual's style preference.

Obviously YMMV in this regard.

I dunno I had beat about 5 bosses and the game went kaput, so I was havin' a great ol time until I hit the wall without any safety net.

Even a password like the classic NES days would have been worth it, even for something short with infinite continues.