The differences between drug dealers and software developers...

[crelf]

Drug dealers: Refer to their clients as "users".

Software developers: Refer to their clients as "users".

Drug dealers: "The first one's free!"

Software developers: "Download a free trial version..."

Drug dealers: Usually have important overseas connections (to help move the stuff).

Software developers: Usually have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code).

Drug dealers: Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock," "Dime bag," "E".

Software developers: Strange jargon: "SCSI," "RTFM," "LabVIEW," "ISDN".

Drug dealers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.

Software developers: Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.

Drug dealers: Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent mixes.

Software developers: Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, faster machines.

Drug dealers: Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.

Software developers: Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists.

Drug dealers: Their product causes unhealthy addictions.

Software developers: DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. WoW...

Drug dealers: Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.

Software developers: Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!

[Mike Ashe]

I had to send that one on to my brother in law who is now a software manager (next time you need to work in suppliers and managers, then throw in a comparison of cartels and consortiums...).

Okay, fess up time, did you write that from scratch or find, or find & modify? Your rating depends on the answer: a find is three stars, find & mod is four and baked from scratch is five...

Anyway, it was a hoot!

[crelf]

Okay, fess up time, did you write that from scratch or find, or find & modify?

I think I'm going to have to go for 1/2 - I did mod it, but only to replace "JAVA" with "LabVIEW"