Take billions from society and your evil, give 10% of it back and your an angel.

Whats wrong with young people today, cant even hold a grudge, getofmylawn.

Ive been tempted to try this, i remember early gnome as being really responsive... so how is it on new hardware as far as latency goes (app startup etc) ?

I have stuff on their servers and mine is blank too.

I am disapoint ?

I dont know berkleyDB, can you explain the reasonaing behing concluding that "site configuration" changes are part fo the program.

Does it not have seperate config files or something... maybe you could submit a patch ?

If he had bad motives he wouldnt have disclosed it in the first place.

If microsoft are too dumb to monitor popular outside forums where faults in their products are discussed then they deserve a black eye, doesnt matter who gives it to them.

My doctor says its ok for me to argue with myself, as long as i win the argument.

Dude, its, like, totally real, man.
The photon is chillin with the physicists at an event in the parallel university after it went through teh wormhole.

Can i have my grant money now ?

gigadays, WTF !!!

ISO have just announced that you are wrong, its not gigadays, its gigidays.

Yes please, we blame it on the cows and not the people.

Now we just have to kill all the cows and livestock, then i can use all my fossil fuels until I have none left.

Because what we really need in this debate is more excusses.

"The hardest part of solving a problem is understanding it" - ?

The reason its hard to estimate development time is because programming involves design, design is a creative task.

Nobody can predict how long it takes to be creative, its a universal unknown. Creative workers (such as graphic artists) often estimate the design phase by giving themselves a hard limit and then just choosing the best idea they could come up with.

Most programmers dont even acknowledge their work is a creative expression, so they are bad at estimating what a reasonable "hard limit" might be. But even so, im not sure the same method of 'choosing the best idea within a given time limit' is suitable to programming. Some things just have to meet certain objective benchmarks or there is no point continuing.

Best idea i can come up with is to allocate your self "design time" first, which wont be long enough. Then you should be able to get a reasonable estimate of implementation time.

Well, I could care less about this those who couldnt care more, and couldnt care less about those who care more.

SO THERE !

If people with guns are not allowed to use their comon sense then the world if f*cked. (talking about TSA incase your stupid)

If your customers respect you and the work you do then they will go out of their way to help you.

Treat your customers like your friends.

When a notable portion of the worlds people unite for the same cause, telling the various leaders that YES, WE DO CARE, they are doing something significant.

The difference between rich and poor, is that to poor people money is a means of survival, to rich people its a reward to make them feel important. (IMO)

Perhaps given your experience you can understand that ?

When rich people want to take back, or give less to society i feel its because they want their contributions to be recognised and not taken for granted. The best way to respond to that is to do everything possible to make sure that money IS spent wisely. If government basically just gave high income earners a refund because government isnt using it properly it would indicate the government is totally incompetent.

I dont think its unfair to take more from people who use money as an ego trip.