Fools + Money = Easily Parted.

-Zeke

http://www.kenner.la.us/mason/bomb.jpg

This BBS has been a great source of links for submitting to www.bluesnews.com lately. I sent him the link for this picture yesterday and he printed it today. Loved his link text... "They set up us the bomb."

I think this is the fourth time I've sent him a Link of the Day that I originally saw linked on this BBS. Thanks, everyone, for great links.

That, my friend is an excellent picture. I & half my office lost it. Best comment: "The Pakistani nuclear weapons delivery system has not quite been perfected."

-Zeke

That bomb pic makes me think of one of my favorite forwards I got.

Before you look at the attached pic, note the guy on the right is trying to disarm a bomb.

Well at least the don't lie...
"This system is at the same time deceptively simple and enormously accurate in the hands of people who know both how to operate it and what they are looking at."

OK, point taken. It just never ceases to amaze me how gullible some people are. Gullibility seems to be proportional to wealth too. I hope I never get too wealthy .

I've seen this believe it not.

Calvin

We have a bank in town that just had some software developed that they claim they will only use in the next few years, so they requested specifically that we write it using only one digit for the year! Of course we used the full year and only display the one digit they need. You all know how that works "We are only going to use this for a year or so.....ok now that that year is over, we need to use it permanently...is this a problem??

ED7

"We are only going to use this for a year or so.....ok now that that year is over, we need to use it permanently...is this a problem??

Not if the invoice for the $100K upgrade is paid in full for the next year...

Yea that would be nice! I have yet to break my first 100K deal...the most our small independant firm has ever been paid for software design is 82K, which is pretty good for a firm as small as ours!

"Not if the invoice for the $100K upgrade is paid in full for the next year..."

Yeah, unless you are working for a military contract. My new job is working on a contract for software used by all branches of the military, each who wants a different feature set. The funniest part is, there is one department paying for the contract, one deciding what it’s supposed to do, and another who actually uses it! This means the requirements are set without a ground in reality (not based on price or usability), and come from at least five simultaneous directions at once. To top it all off, when I started this job a month and a half ago the former programmers had implemented the different functionality for each service with out any type of OOP and finally had to make different code streams. Needless to say I have straightened THAT out. . . Anyway, they make these ludicrous demands and we pretty much have to just follow along because we are under "contract". I would be furious at the whole process if it wasn't so funny all the time.

The guy is probably very clever - he knows there will be enough complete fruitloops out there who will buy this nonsense that he never needs to work hard again.

But it does just make you want to go "WWHHAATTT???!!!!"

It's not NECESSARILY as stupid as it seems. One way to ensure that you never have any rollover problems is to make sure that rollovers happen often. That way, you're going to have to code for them properly, and you're more likely to test them. For systems that only deal with data within a short window, I've often thought that using a single digit for the year would avoid Y2K type problems; once you've got the rollover working, it will pretty much work forever.

Of course, it's also possible that they haven't thought about any of this, and they really are as shortsighted as they seem!

Richard.