[quote user="Weng"][quote user="TDWTF123"]A Geo Metro is transverse engined. A big block won't fit transversely, whether you change the trans or not.[/quote] Son, in my crowd of deranged car enthusiasts, that ain't no problem. It'd require entirely too much attention with the sawzall and probably a variety of ...

I never understood why they claimed the PC industry was dying. I mean, I get it when they say, "The PC industry is dying because Smartphones and Tablets!" Ok, sure, I have both a Smartphone, which I love, and a Tablet, with which I have a somewhat more rocky relationship. Tablets have their places, of course, and when it's used as ...

[quote user="Lorne Kates"][quote user="snoofle"]buy a whole $hitload of hardware[/quote]  How much $ does a hitload of hardware cost these days? [/quote] Depends on who the hit was on.

You were reading an article written by Remmy and clicked something, didn't you?

[quote user="morbiuswilters"]Do you not have a mechanical engineer on staff to tell him he's an idiot?[/quote] Well... here's the thing. I work at a company that does a lot of work for the government, in specific, the military. So we have a lot of ex-military folks around. Most of them are awesome, lots of character, great work ...

[quote user="Cassidy"]Cue to get QA to raise a ticket and kick it back to the BA/PM with a note of "$QA has identified an issue; development shall pause and I shall resume playing Q3TA until I receive notification that the specs are correct and I am designing/building the right system" [/quote] Pretty much what happened. The ...

[quote user="Cassidy"]Me: Don't the specs get Quality Assured (and preferably signed off) before design and implementation? CodeNinja: Yes, but by Product Managers and the Customer, not QA. So they have been QA'd to some degree, just not by the QA dept (the customer has provided assurances that it's what they want). And ...

[quote user="Cassidy"][quote user="edgsousa"]QA: No! This is wrong. Spec is wrong. System architects are wrong.[/quote] [quote user="CodeNinja"]Same here. I just wish we could get them to screw up and put it in writing that they don't read the requirements... [/quote]  Don't the specs get Quality ...

[quote user="edgsousa"]Oh lord, looks like my company:)  QA: THIS IS WRRROONG!  Me: What? Spec says it is this way. QA: No! This is wrong. Spec is wrong. System architects are wrong. [/quote] Same here. I just wish we could get them to screw up and put it in writing that they don't read the requirements... of course, ...

[quote user="boomzilla"][quote user="Algorythmics"] misogynists [/quote] Does this even have meaning anymore? Like most -phobe words, it's overused and seems to mean, "disagrees with me." [quote user="Algorythmics"]Issues like this can't be resolved with the angry swing of a hammer. ...