Poncho Pattern instructions; Wild Things software

I don't see it as any different than someone who comes in here asking what machine to buy for their wife for Christmas to surprise her and people popping in to tell him to not buy her a machine and surprise her but to insist that she go try them out and select her own machine.

And this is Usenet and I suppose that people *do* have to add their two cents' worth, because that's what Usenet is about -- the sharing of information from multiple viewpoints. And I think that even minority views are important, so I have no problem with disagreeing with someone, but that doesn't mean that I am going to keep my mouth closed and say nothing if I disagree with someone. But again, that's what Usenet is all about.

Aw, shucks, thank you! You're not so bad yourself! Have some more chocolate. ;-)

Yaaa... I remembered that after discovering for this last pattern that I now need to lower the breast darts a little bit to match them up the physical reality.

*sob On the other hand, without knowing how to do this I would no longer be able to wear things with "beast darts." So there, cruel world!

I told a friend that time is streamlining me from the top down. We only THINK aerodynamic has to do with front-to-back like cars, but REALLY in human terms the single most continual directional force is GRAVITY.

Xena

Oh goody, give me a few more years and I'll be a missile.......a couple more mammograms and I'll have the darned side fins too!!

Val

Send the mop! Where was the coffee warning???

Just did a quick rundown in numbers.....

There are 25 core programmers at the company my DH (used to) work at, averaging $105K salary per year. There are 75 other employees, including documenting, customer support, & sales (I'm leaving board members out), averaging $35K salary per year. That means that just for payroll, the programmers get $2,625,000 per year, and the other get $2,625,000 per year (the same! wow! that's bizarre). But add up how much more the company pays for rent/insurance/furniture/etc for all those 75 other employees, and it's easy to see that that is the more expensive part of the company. Heck, most programmers are good to go with nothing but an upgraded computer, and a vending machine stocked with some high-caffeine beverage;o)

Is that true that WG only has ONE programmer? That's pretty hard to believe....who is QA, then? I assume there would have to someone else there to check for bugs, or something...

It's a three-person operation, and they have volunteer beta testers. Two of the three people might be programmers, but that's the total number of people in the company.

Many of the pattern software companies are relatively small. I guess it's because of the subject. Let's face it-in the beginning, all the software was either office apps or games catering to the male segment of the population and sewing apps were looked at as "cute" but not profitable.

Thank goodness someone didn't listen!