Paul Conrad wrote: there should not be any restrictions on the type of weapon used As long as you can still retrieve the necessary pieces to prove it was a drone. I'm thinking Stinger, but that would be for my own sport as there probably wouldn't be enough left to claim reward. :) VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.

jim lahey wrote: Apologies if already posted: No problem, Leslie[^]! ;P "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

jim lahey wrote: "if I can't ask a simple question without the resulting drama and waterworks then there's no chance Hi Jim, if you aak a simple question in a social context where there is no consensual reality, or operational definition of sanity, then, I would postulate, the quantum-mechanics of chance are fractally unpredictable, rather than relativistically unpredictable, and to say you have "no chance," is, quite possibly, to say simultaneously: "there is every chance." That you have some concern, and empathy, for a fellow employee's emotional reaction, is, I think, admirable. And, imho, any employee that cannot respond to non-aggressive appropriate feedback, and questions, directly related to the company's work, without inappropriate emotional reactions, deserves to have their suitability for employment reconsidered. yours, Bill “Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection." Edward Sapir, 1929

jim lahey wrote: We want to be able to interpret expressions defined in Xml files Presumably because this reflects a real business need versus a 'really cool' development idea. jim lahey wrote: and we've got a component that can do a hell of a lot more to boot Which isn't a recommendation. After all Oracle can do a lot more than store a configuration value but one certainly shouldn't choose to use Oracle only to store a configuration value. jim lahey wrote: What objections do you have to using third party stuff? Some Reasons - Often the complexity greatly exceeds the needed use. - The intended use is much more suited to a far simpler solution. This is similar to but not the same as the prior reason. It comes about because the developer finds a library they want to use and then invents a problem to solve with it or rationalizes much more needed functionality for an existing problem. - The license is not compatible with the needs of the business. This often is because some licenses can require that the Application code must be available as source. Another common problem is that that there is no license which means one must have explicit use license from the author to use it. - It isn't available as source and the author(s) support is erratic. One must of course have a policy in place to keep and track license(s). And one should keep an actual copy of the license not just a link. One must also be prepared for the possibility that at some time the license might change.

It depends: having a completely distributed source control system is gold, for me. Which happens also to be blazingly fast, btw. Oh well, whatever.

A similar thing happened to me too, about ten years ago. One recruiter wasn't returning my calls so I just took a different job. A couple of weeks into the job he's talking to my line manager in one call trying to place someone, and his next call was straight to my mobile trying to place me somewhere else, even though I told him straight up that he'd just been speaking to my boss who was sitting less than ten feet from me. My boss at the time, being a something of a 'roid user, went absolutely apeshit. I thought he was going to reach down the line and tear the guy's spine out, Mortal Kombat-style.

I really have fallen in love with the DDD concept. In short this is how we always work out a project. All you need in the beginning is a whiteboard and a marker. 1. Define the domains within the scope of your project 2. Define the components within each domain. 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Give the domains and components GOOD names. 4. AGREE on the CONTRACTS of each component 5. Document your Diagram and Contracts. 6. Split the teams up each dealing with their component(s) and let them create UML diagrams. 7. Let each ULM diagram be coded out by a team that did not create the diagram.

should have done if we'd kept our composure. too distracted by having to hold my guts in from split sides.

I'm not going to ask what kind of meeting, and I don't want elucidation. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

"So whats the program for tonight?" "Something in C#" "I don't like that key" Sorry. So sorry. Sometimes I cannot help myself. :^) Life is too shor

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Maximilien wrote: Shame for what? For the other prisoners. Though I doubt he's going to find the in-mate Bunga-Bunga parties much fun. Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^] -Or- A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

Somebody is going to have to have information to know how to deal with the situation. Obviously if some information is available to those on the groud, then they can control what the flight crew knows. Otherwise what safe option does the fight crew have beside heading out into the ocean for a crash landing to prevent the use of the airplane as a way to deliver poisen gas or some other nasty.

so sorry hear about your experience I have my own to tell too - earlier this year my phone company sent my bill directly to collection agencies. I told the collection agencies to piss off and contact my phone company for the invoice. It wasn't until after five six shop visits + lengthy phone calls + emails (Copied to Consumer Council here in HK) that the phone company finally send me the invoice. The bill total HK150 (i.e. USD25) it was a joke and in final email i sent them I basically said (a) demand USD3000 for time I wasted chasing for a invoice (how ridiculous), and (b) no invoice no money dev

Exactly so; it's lucky (for her) that you are not on two or three weeks vacation. One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.

We've got them too. I have to rely on an in house component that dynamically changes the datasource in a particular GIS file type. You have to give it the path to the file you want to change and a new filename for the changed version. If you pass it two nulls or two empty strings or two strings that have never been anywhere near a valid path or filename, it runs through without a peep. If you pass it a null or empty path and a valid new file name it creates an empty file with the name you gave it. If you feed it with correct parameters it also runs through without making any noise, so every single piece of software that uses this component has to check the paths are valid and that the created file at least isn't empty. I guess it's taking the single responsibility principle a little too far :)

It must be an appendix in the kama sutra... ;P

(sport section) haven't heard about those; only the badminton was reported, and maybe the cyclist (I have to check). They have to change some of the rules for competition to have direct eliminations instead of having a pools, so that they have to win all their matchs to win (badminton, basketball, ... ) so that if two teams from the same country meet in quarters, they have to have one beat the other. (and have random selection at the beginning of the tournaments). Boxing is weird, I can't judge how well a bloke hits another bloke. (organisation) I happened and will happen in all olympics, empty seats, traffic, cost explosion... but in general, nothing MAJOR happened yet in those olympics. Watched code never compiles.

Remember Whitney Houston and "The Star Spangled Banner"? And also that fat woman (totally forgettable star of some TV show) and "The Star Spangled Banner"?

jim lahey wrote: 6 table schema In that case, no discussion, just do the dataset and get on with it. 6 tables aren't worth having a religious war over with your colleagues. jim lahey wrote: I fail to see how... You wouldn't be the first to shoot yourself in the foot with NHibernate in some obscure way, and also not the last. There are many ways in which things can blow up in your face, like inexplicable bad performance, or memory leaks in the NHibernate layer. For an application that are available outside the company I wouldn't risk that for saving a bit of typing (although code generation might alleviate that). Stuck in 1980s is not necessarily good or bad, it's the argument that counts. Newer is not necessarily better. Countless examples: WPF is dead, Silverlight is dead, etc. Wout