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Roger Wright's blood is equal parts scotch and electricity.
Roger Wright taught Chuck Norris the roundhouse kick.
Roger Wright is the only thing that keeps the grid running stably.
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My inherent modesty inclines me to deny all of the above, but my well-known regard for strict veracity requires me to admit the truth of these claims.
And who let out that my middle initial is A?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Uh oh, someone better buy carrots.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Uh oh, someone better buy carrots.
Got your back buddy!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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If I hear you say, "trust me, it's a carrot", I'm out of here.
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It's on a stick so we're all safe.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
modified 17-Aug-14 2:24am.
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Doctor of Chocolate[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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One thing that I found funny and attractive was:
Candidates wishing to study chocolate need to apply by 29 August.
Its my Birthday!
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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"The challenge is to stop chocolate melting in warm climates by studying the "fundamentals of heat-stable chocolate"."
M & M's aren't good enough anymore?
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
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Just buy Cadbury's crap sold in India.
I left it on the seat of a car with the sun shining directly on the chocolate and the windows rolled up at 12 noon in summer.
It was more solid than a rock and stayed that way.
The thing ought not to be called chocolate.... Depleted uranium, maybe!
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I guess you haven't experience Cadbury's Dairy milk silk
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
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Last years ‘Intel Perceptual Computing Competition’ only awarded ½ of the 1 Million dollar price pool even though they received an alleged ‘overwhelming number of entries’. This year there is another scam, I mean competition going by the name Intel Real Sense Competition.
Since there is so much emphasis put on the 1 million dollar price pool, does it constitute a scam if only ½ the money gets awarded?
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I'd happily enter a scam competition if the scam was limited to giving me half a million bucks, as opposed to one million bucks, if I won
Just sayin'
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You mean splitting 1/2 a million with all the winners.
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Link?
I'm more than happy to talk to Intel directly about this and get an answer. My experience with them (both professionally and personally) has been that they do the right thing. I'd be interested to hear the full story on this.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You want to be careful throwing allegations around like that. I'd like to see what your evidence is that this is the case. In all my dealings with Intel, they have been nothing but honest and fair.
If Intel were found to be breaking competition rules, they would face hefty fines. Competition rules have legal status as they comprise legal and binding contracts.
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To be clear, I am not saying they are breaking competition rules. In the fine print, it describes a scoring system which provides their out.
The evidence is in the list of last year’s winners. Add up the total prize money awarded to all the winners. It’s under half of what’s advertised. Heck, two of the four 75,000 dollar prizes were not awarded to anyone.
https://software.intel.com/sites/campaigns/perceptualshowcase/winners.htm
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If two of the prizes were not awarded, then it could well mean that there were no candidates who posted suitable entries.
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Indeed: as competitions here have demonstrated, an "overwhelming number of entries" does not equate to "a lot of good ones"...
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Pioneering wrote: even though they received an alleged ‘overwhelming number of entries’.
"Quantity" is not an indicator of "Quality": you have to sift a lot of rubbish to find a little gold.
It is quite possible that none of the entries for a particular category were considered worthwhile, so no prizes were awarded.
Would you expect a prize to be given to a wrong answer in a multiple choice quiz?
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Rant ensues...A great way to end the week...a dozen or so change requests from customers who use one of our systems to create an order file to a major vendor. Said vendor has upgraded their software and now require a change in the structure of the order files. The big change it seems is...wait for it! the addition of subtotal columns! WTF! they forgot how to add? Now I must go and revive another legacy app that has served us well for over 8 years untouched!
Rant over...
The fix would only take a few minutes if I don't upgrade it...hmmm
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: The fix would only take a few minutes if I don't upgrade it
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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kmoorevs wrote: they forgot how to add? Yep.[^]
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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kmoorevs wrote: a dozen or so change requests from customers ... Now I must go and revive another legacy app that has served us well for over 8 years untouched!
Hopefully the support contract takes the cost of this into account.
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A biological analogy ? [^]
The discovery of this novel form of inter-organism communication shows that this is happening a lot more than any one has previously realized," Westwood said in a recent release. "Now that we have found that they are sharing all this information, the next question is, 'What exactly are they telling each other?'"
What they found is that like any true vampire, the dodder has a "silver tongue," sweet-talking its victim into lowering its defenses. Product Manager: "When we ship this golden master, I'm going to catch-up on doing your annual review, and I gotta tell ya' you are definitely going to get more stock."
Programmer sotto voce: "oh yeah, oh yeah."
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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