On Wednesday 18 May 2011 11:25, singhals ([email protected]) opined: > Wes Groleau wrote: >> On 05-18-2011 09:52, singhals wrote: >>> Ian Goddard wrote: >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> It's so common here I forgot about it. Many places have french names, >>>>> and >>>>> major places have german, english, spanish names. >>>> >>>> That's a common source of problems. People take requirements for >>>> granted& fail to mention them and then complain that they weren't >>>> provided. >>>> >>> >>> Variation #2 of the above: people fail to mention requirements, >>> misunderstand the question when asked about them, and so respond >>> incorrectly, and THEN complain ... >>> (viz: the suit who was asked "will the salary ever change?" and said >>> NO, forgetting the company gives an annual raise ...) >> >> Or the requirement is "It has to provide everything the old one did, >> including all the stuff we've never used but won't admit we don't need." >> >> "And by the way, it has to look and feel like the old one, too" >> > > Oh, yeah, /that/ one. (g) > > Cheryl <rant> It has nothing to do with the original topic, but reading the above brought to mind some of _my_ pet peeves, large among 'em those sites which will recognize every browser known to man, but only if they're on a windows and/or mac/os box. Or those who don't understand that Firefox and Seamonkey are different branches of the same (mozilla) development tree and piss and moan about an "unrecognized" browser (seamonkey) while merrily serving pages to that very same browser. Yeah, yeah, I _know_, 'tis a windows/mac world out there and those of us who've chosen to eschew either/both have only ourselves to blame - but, dammit, a browser is still a browser, notwithstanding the o/s it's running on. If the page being served will display correctly in, e.g, firefox over there, it likely will display equally correctly in firefox over here. Sheesh! </rant> -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine