Say all you want, that this was mismanaged, bureaucratic, a case of piss-poor consulting decisions, etc... but in my opinion, this is a textbook case of simply not following any sort of software development lifecycle method.... and yeah, I suppose management is part of that, but I simply don't think looking at this as merely a "poorly managed project" gets at the heart of it.
Any technology company needs to adopt and follow some sort of SDLC, and this is an obvious case where this has never been done. Criticising them for bungling this is all well and good, but I feel this article would've been better off talking about the real meat of "why" it failed.
Well, not always -- if the SACD is not hybrid, it won't play in standard redbook CD players. There's usually a sticker on the package that reads "single layer" or "dual layer" SACD... only the dual layer will play standard stereo.
All this said, it's really annoying to have the SACD and DVD-A dual "standards". I am format-agnostic, but a lot more cooler music has been coming out on SACD, like the 30th Anniversary Dark Side of the Moon, and a whole collection of Bob Dylan albums; all of these have been remastered for SACD Stereo or SACD Surround Sound, and the quality is fantastic.
Anyway, my recommendation for a universal player is the Pioneer DV-563A... it's pretty inexpensive, at about $160 in the stores, and can handle both SACD and DVD-A. Just make sure your receiver can take those inputs as well...
Someone else brought this up elsewhere, I think it was the Yahoo! SCOX boards. Personally, I don't think McBride will have grounds to sue SCO/Canopy.
* McBride sued IKON * IKON is based out of Pennsylvania * Pennsylvania is not a "right-to-work" state. * SCOG is based out of Utah * Utah is a right to work state.
According to all I've read, McBride sued IKON for unfair compensation packages. Now,I may be wrong, but I'd bet that such things are affected by the "at-will" employment status in these states. In other words, you can't sue an employer for wrongful termination in these states; I'd almost bet that similar things apply to compensation packages and the like.
In other words - McBride may have gotten away with suing IKON, but I don't know that he'd be so successful with this strategy in a RTWS.
Clarification by others who are more knowledgeable regarding these matters would be appreciated.
I wrote this earlier today -- well, ok, very late last night -- in response to SCO's apparent Capitol Hill diatribe.
Anyone interested in reading it can find it here, complete with the minor grammatical/typing errors that I failed to catch when reading it the first 20 times.
I encourage all of you to do the same thing. No one is quite sure how wide a distribution Darl's letter has gotten, but we can certainly counter them.
It seems not a week goes by without seeing an article regarding offshore outsourcing on Slashdot.
Yeah, I suppose the concept is an important one to a lot of readers here, and probably a real fear. And yes, while I will see the occasional luicid argument, the lot of them here are ill-conceived, and the same old protectionist BS rehashed over and over again. Strangely enough, it smacks very much of the same protectionist Pat Buchanan rhetoric, a figure I don't generally see as particularly savoury to most of the Slashdot crowd.
In the end, however, I am most tired of seeing these articles on Slashdot, because, quite simply, you're not going to get an unbiased view -- the OSDN itself outsources jobs offshore. Realistically, how are you going to expect Slashdot to deliver an opinion that strays much from corporate mindset?
Look, whether you think outsourcing is good or bad, there are better places to beat the dying horse; it's not worth submitting such stories here. A slashdot query for 'outsourcing' returns plenty of results, and while, for the most part, such posts have been made pretty objectively without much commentary by the editors, it's evident that these ideas nonetheless go against the OSDN's corporate outlook.
This brings us to today's posting. I think today's editorial comment of "I don't think the comparasion [sic] to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades. Still interesting piece." is fairly representative of the baby steps that could occur in a website teetering towards corporate influence.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start a firestorm here, and I don't think Hemos meant anything inflammatory either -- if anything, maybe this is an attempt by Hemos to indicate full-disclosure of OSDN's view. I'm just saying, seeing as the OSDN already outsources, I don't think Slashdot is the most level playing field to make such arguments, anymore. Argue Linux vs BSD, vi vs emacs, AMD vs Intel, etc.. but it's hard to be objective when the corp. parent of the website has already show its hand on the newswires.
I was out canoeing earlier this year on the Shenandoah, when we were waved at pretty frantically by some good ole boys, asking for some help. "Dueling Banjos" of course came to mind, and against my better judgement, I paddled on over.
As it stood, they'd hooked an ENORMOUS carp, but their line was stuck on a small, fallen tree in the river, so they asked if I could help them out. I obliged, and sure enough, in the process, I saw the carp. It was, indeed, enormous. at least two feet long. They reeled him in and gave me a few beers for my trouble.
Anyway -- the point of this fish story is that we didn't figure they'd eat it -- carp has been always said to "taste like ass" (or "taste like mud", if you're polite). However, when retelling the story to the old fogey who ran the canoe rental place, he mentioned that this wasn't quite true. Yes, the bottom the carp is pretty gross, but if you measure down about 1 inch on either side of the dorsal, and cut, head to tail, down, along the backbone, that this chunk of meat is fantastic... "better'n trout!", he told us.
He suggested battering and frying it like catfish.
All this aside, they are probably talking about a grass carp in this article.... I had it in Beijing once; Baked and covered with pork and onions... fan-tas-tic.
We don't need no litigation We don't need no spin control No Darl McBride praise in the chatroom Pumpers, leave this stock alone! Hey! Pumpers! Leave this stock alone! All in all it's just another turd in the stall All in all you're just another turd in the stall
We don't need no litigation We don't need no spin control No Darl McBride praise in the chatroom Pumpers, leave this stock alone! Hey! Pumpers! Leave this stock alone! All in all it's just another turd in the stall All in all you're just another turd in the stall
"Wrong! Dump it again!" "If you can't beat the street, how can you have any earnings... How can you have any earnings, if you can't beat the street?" "You! Yes, you behind the bodyguards, stand still laddy!"
No, more likely he means he can't get Adelphia. I am in the same situation -- based on his post, I can estimate that the guy probably lives five or ten minutes away from me... I can relate.
As I linked in an earlier comment, read about the Loudoun situation here.
The jokes about Adelphia usually have some reference to "in the next (three|six) months", because that's what Adelphia always says... and has been saying for at least the past three years. Adelphia, if I recall correctly, has the lowest broadband penetraion of any cablemodem service provider. What's more, when they finally started setting up the infrastructure out here, they started west to east -- meaning they started wiring the rural, cowtown parts of the county long before even approaching the highly populated areas.
Adelphia has a history of fucking up, lying, and planning poorly.and doesn't seem to be slowing down, in this respect.
I live in a suburb of Washington DC, in one of the fastest growing counties (re: population) of the US. Indeed, it is (arguably) the heart of telecommunication networking on the east coast....And yet there is no broadband for many, MANY of the residents in the area, due to a combination of many things, most of which touch on misregulation and poor political decisions.
"Not really that bad"? That "last mile" connectivity isn't at all just chicken coops and cardboard boxes.
Perhaps the most ironic ancedotes of all is the fact that most residents of loudoun county, Virginia -- home to major WorldCom, AOL, Covad operation centres, as well as many other high tech companies -- have little choice with regards to broadband... IF they are lucky enough to have it at all! With DSL unavailable in most areas of the county due to fibre loops, and Adelphia years late on its cablemodem rollout to most of the region, there are tonnes of high-tech employees in the area who are virtually tied to narrowband.
...of course, we all know that for probably a large plurality Slashdot readers, this is an important deciding factor as they've never bothered to leave the house in the first place and get their drivers licences...
... and no, I don't care what you say, just because you've mastered Grand Turismo 3 doesn't mean you've got "M4D DR1V1NG SK1LLZ!@#!#!".
Out here in Loudoun County Virginia -- home of AOL and major WorldCom offices, in addition to a myriad of other high tech companies -- there's very little in terms of broadband. If you are lucky, you can get the crappy Adelphia cable, but that's three years late in some parts, still.
But let me return to the focus of this message -- Verizon. We can't get DSL in much of the county because of fibre loops and because there's simply a lot of fibre underground, instead of copper. Nothing 100% substantiated, but there has been talk that this area was set up as a testbed for Fibre to the Home/Curb (FTTH/FTTC) about 12 years ago, but the experiment was cancelled.
So what has Verizon done? In the past two years, they've gone in and started the experiment all over, instead of using existing infrastructure, in a new part of the county, a new development called Brambleton.
I emailed the author of an article about the Brambleton Project, asking if the things they learned from it meant that the rest of Loudoun would benefit from the 'discoveries'. His response sound suspiciously like a non-response.
I wish I could post a copy of his answer, but the only copy I seem to have anymore is at broadband reports.com -- which seems to be down, currently. You can find it in their Washington-Baltimore forum, however.
I suppose I can post this here, even though the days are a bit wrong... It was written on 28-May, the day Novell first shot holes in SCO's argument. Still as true as ever.
Lady Caldera (to the tune of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna")
Lady Caldera, stock price at your feet. Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet. Who has the money? How you pay the rent? Did you think that UNIX trademark was heaven sent?
Wednesday morning news just like a bombshell. We all watch their stock drop like a rock. Caldera has learned kiss its arsecheeks goodbye. See how they run.
Lady Caldera, IP fakes confess! Wonder how you'll manage to keep up this jest.
See how they run. Lady Caldera, lying in the press, Blackmailing the righteous ones, in your duress.
Wednesday afternoon is never ending. Thursday morning news will be as bad. Thursday night your stocks, they will need mending. See how they run.
Lady Caldera, stock price at your feet. Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet.
Back in 1999, I posted this message to NANAE, about getting spammed by a Jerry Falwell-backed ISP. Well, it has been a long time since 1999, and now I get a lot of messages from various CC-related organisations, most of whom are telling me to vote for various RNC initiatives.
1. First, you obviously know nothing about the Chinese marketplace. 2. They are cracking down on it. When I was in Beijing, I passed a billboard several times that had posted, in BIG letters, something like "BETTER FOLLOW NEW COPYRIGHT PROPERTY LAWS". Wish I'd had a camera at the time(s).
While pretty funny, in an outsider-looking-in sorta way, it's just more evidence of what they're doing to try and limit piracy and IP theft.
"Dragon" is long, not sure what the xin would mean. The only xin I know is "heart", but I haven't heard the rumblings of Sean Connery nearby, so I don't think it'd be "dragonheart", either.
Well, the "communist system with chinese elements" may be closer to good old facism, but I doubt they'd use feudal terms to name products, esp. if they're going to have exposure abroad.
Or have I missed a change in trademark trends?
Chinese culture extends far beyond Communism. Communism did a good job in destroying a fair amount of Chinese culture, but it never came close to giving it the ole KO, nor has any other ruling class. The Mongols or the the communists, you name it... when you're contending with that many people, even if you're the ruling class, you just end up getting diluted in the population.
This said, heaven ("tian") is used all over the place in China, as are plenty of other Taoist, Confucist and Buddhist terms.
And China is pretty much "communist" in name only, anymore. It's still run with an iron fist by a small group of men, but if you've not been there, I encourage you to visit. You'll see capitalism one helluva lot more than you will redistribution of wealth.
Slashdot Mirror
Say all you want, that this was mismanaged, bureaucratic, a case of piss-poor consulting decisions, etc... but in my opinion, this is a textbook case of simply not following any sort of software development lifecycle method.... and yeah, I suppose management is part of that, but I simply don't think looking at this as merely a "poorly managed project" gets at the heart of it.
Any technology company needs to adopt and follow some sort of SDLC, and this is an obvious case where this has never been done. Criticising them for bungling this is all well and good, but I feel this article would've been better off talking about the real meat of "why" it failed.
Neat trick. I wonder if any of these searches will turn up anything fun:
White House
Senate
House of Representatives
CIA
UN
I am sure you can think of more...
Well, not always -- if the SACD is not hybrid, it won't play in standard redbook CD players. There's usually a sticker on the package that reads "single layer" or "dual layer" SACD... only the dual layer will play standard stereo.
All this said, it's really annoying to have the SACD and DVD-A dual "standards". I am format-agnostic, but a lot more cooler music has been coming out on SACD, like the 30th Anniversary Dark Side of the Moon, and a whole collection of Bob Dylan albums; all of these have been remastered for SACD Stereo or SACD Surround Sound, and the quality is fantastic.
Anyway, my recommendation for a universal player is the Pioneer DV-563A... it's pretty inexpensive, at about $160 in the stores, and can handle both SACD and DVD-A. Just make sure your receiver can take those inputs as well...
Someone else brought this up elsewhere, I think it was the Yahoo! SCOX boards. Personally, I don't think McBride will have grounds to sue SCO/Canopy.
* McBride sued IKON
* IKON is based out of Pennsylvania
* Pennsylvania is not a "right-to-work" state.
* SCOG is based out of Utah
* Utah is a right to work state.
According to all I've read, McBride sued IKON for unfair compensation packages. Now,I may be wrong, but I'd bet that such things are affected by the "at-will" employment status in these states. In other words, you can't sue an employer for wrongful termination in these states; I'd almost bet that similar things apply to compensation packages and the like.
In other words - McBride may have gotten away with suing IKON, but I don't know that he'd be so successful with this strategy in a RTWS.
Clarification by others who are more knowledgeable regarding these matters would be appreciated.
No worries, she'll immediately be signed by Pepsi to some fat contract to appear in the next big Super Bowl ad.
The dust on Mars is extremely fine and electrostatically charged. It sticks to the panels
Man, and to think that for five easy payments of $69.99, NASA coulda gotten an Ionic Breeze from Sharper Image to fix that!
I wrote this earlier today -- well, ok, very late last night -- in response to SCO's apparent Capitol Hill diatribe.
Anyone interested in reading it can find it here, complete with the minor grammatical/typing errors that I failed to catch when reading it the first 20 times.
I encourage all of you to do the same thing. No one is quite sure how wide a distribution Darl's letter has gotten, but we can certainly counter them.
It seems not a week goes by without seeing an article regarding offshore outsourcing on Slashdot.
Yeah, I suppose the concept is an important one to a lot of readers here, and probably a real fear. And yes, while I will see the occasional luicid argument, the lot of them here are ill-conceived, and the same old protectionist BS rehashed over and over again. Strangely enough, it smacks very much of the same protectionist Pat Buchanan rhetoric, a figure I don't generally see as particularly savoury to most of the Slashdot crowd.
In the end, however, I am most tired of seeing these articles on Slashdot, because, quite simply, you're not going to get an unbiased view -- the OSDN itself outsources jobs offshore. Realistically, how are you going to expect Slashdot to deliver an opinion that strays much from corporate mindset?
Look, whether you think outsourcing is good or bad, there are better places to beat the dying horse; it's not worth submitting such stories here. A slashdot query for 'outsourcing' returns plenty of results, and while, for the most part, such posts have been made pretty objectively without much commentary by the editors, it's evident that these ideas nonetheless go against the OSDN's corporate outlook.
This brings us to today's posting. I think today's editorial comment of "I don't think the comparasion [sic] to Dot Bombs is entirely accurate - the trend to globalization overall has been going on for decades. Still interesting piece." is fairly representative of the baby steps that could occur in a website teetering towards corporate influence.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start a firestorm here, and I don't think Hemos meant anything inflammatory either -- if anything, maybe this is an attempt by Hemos to indicate full-disclosure of OSDN's view. I'm just saying, seeing as the OSDN already outsources, I don't think Slashdot is the most level playing field to make such arguments, anymore. Argue Linux vs BSD, vi vs emacs, AMD vs Intel, etc.. but it's hard to be objective when the corp. parent of the website has already show its hand on the newswires.
I was out canoeing earlier this year on the Shenandoah, when we were waved at pretty frantically by some good ole boys, asking for some help. "Dueling Banjos" of course came to mind, and against my better judgement, I paddled on over.
As it stood, they'd hooked an ENORMOUS carp, but their line was stuck on a small, fallen tree in the river, so they asked if I could help them out. I obliged, and sure enough, in the process, I saw the carp. It was, indeed, enormous. at least two feet long. They reeled him in and gave me a few beers for my trouble.
Anyway -- the point of this fish story is that we didn't figure they'd eat it -- carp has been always said to "taste like ass" (or "taste like mud", if you're polite). However, when retelling the story to the old fogey who ran the canoe rental place, he mentioned that this wasn't quite true. Yes, the bottom the carp is pretty gross, but if you measure down about 1 inch on either side of the dorsal, and cut, head to tail, down, along the backbone, that this chunk of meat is fantastic... "better'n trout!", he told us.
He suggested battering and frying it like catfish.
All this aside, they are probably talking about a grass carp in this article.... I had it in Beijing once; Baked and covered with pork and onions... fan-tas-tic.
haha - well, there goes the online edition of my local hometown paper... ;).
We don't need no litigation
We don't need no spin control
No Darl McBride praise in the chatroom
Pumpers, leave this stock alone!
Hey! Pumpers! Leave this stock alone!
All in all it's just another turd in the stall
All in all you're just another turd in the stall
We don't need no litigation
We don't need no spin control
No Darl McBride praise in the chatroom
Pumpers, leave this stock alone!
Hey! Pumpers! Leave this stock alone!
All in all it's just another turd in the stall
All in all you're just another turd in the stall
"Wrong! Dump it again!"
"If you can't beat the street, how can you have any earnings...
How can you have any earnings, if you can't beat the street?"
"You! Yes, you behind the bodyguards, stand still laddy!"
No, more likely he means he can't get Adelphia. I am in the same situation -- based on his post, I can estimate that the guy probably lives five or ten minutes away from me... I can relate.
As I linked in an earlier comment, read about the Loudoun situation here.
The jokes about Adelphia usually have some reference to "in the next (three|six) months", because that's what Adelphia always says... and has been saying for at least the past three years. Adelphia, if I recall correctly, has the lowest broadband penetraion of any cablemodem service provider. What's more, when they finally started setting up the infrastructure out here, they started west to east -- meaning they started wiring the rural, cowtown parts of the county long before even approaching the highly populated areas.
Adelphia has a history of fucking up, lying, and planning poorly.and doesn't seem to be slowing down, in this respect.
I live in a suburb of Washington DC, in one of the fastest growing counties (re: population) of the US. Indeed, it is (arguably) the heart of telecommunication networking on the east coast. ...And yet there is no broadband for many, MANY of the residents in the area, due to a combination of many things, most of which touch on misregulation and poor political decisions.
"Not really that bad"? That "last mile" connectivity isn't at all just chicken coops and cardboard boxes.
Perhaps the most ironic ancedotes of all is the fact that most residents of loudoun county, Virginia -- home to major WorldCom, AOL, Covad operation centres, as well as many other high tech companies -- have little choice with regards to broadband... IF they are lucky enough to have it at all! With DSL unavailable in most areas of the county due to fibre loops, and Adelphia years late on its cablemodem rollout to most of the region, there are tonnes of high-tech employees in the area who are virtually tied to narrowband.
Read the (my) Washington Post editorial letter regarding the situation.
#include
Short for "invent_a_load_of_horseshit_lawsuit"
helo IBM
ehehh1!1 j00 R t3h 0wn3d!!11
u will nevar figuor out who t00k u down!!
LEENUX SUX!!
SCO
ps NYEAH!!1
...of course, we all know that for probably a large plurality Slashdot readers, this is an important deciding factor as they've never bothered to leave the house in the first place and get their drivers licences...
... and no, I don't care what you say, just because you've mastered Grand Turismo 3 doesn't mean you've got "M4D DR1V1NG SK1LLZ!@#!#!".
;)
Out here in Loudoun County Virginia -- home of AOL and major WorldCom offices, in addition to a myriad of other high tech companies -- there's very little in terms of broadband. If you are lucky, you can get the crappy Adelphia cable, but that's three years late in some parts, still.
But let me return to the focus of this message -- Verizon. We can't get DSL in much of the county because of fibre loops and because there's simply a lot of fibre underground, instead of copper. Nothing 100% substantiated, but there has been talk that this area was set up as a testbed for Fibre to the Home/Curb (FTTH/FTTC) about 12 years ago, but the experiment was cancelled.
So what has Verizon done? In the past two years, they've gone in and started the experiment all over, instead of using existing infrastructure, in a new part of the county, a new development called Brambleton.
I emailed the author of an article about the Brambleton Project, asking if the things they learned from it meant that the rest of Loudoun would benefit from the 'discoveries'. His response sound suspiciously like a non-response.
I wish I could post a copy of his answer, but the only copy I seem to have anymore is at broadband reports.com -- which seems to be down, currently. You can find it in their Washington-Baltimore forum, however.
I'll be dreading the hour... mostly because they host my shell account, too :P.
I suppose I can post this here, even though the days are a bit wrong... It was written on 28-May, the day Novell first shot holes in SCO's argument. Still as true as ever.
Lady Caldera
(to the tune of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna")
Lady Caldera, stock price at your feet.
Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet.
Who has the money? How you pay the rent?
Did you think that UNIX trademark was heaven sent?
Wednesday morning news just like a bombshell.
We all watch their stock drop like a rock.
Caldera has learned kiss its arsecheeks goodbye.
See how they run.
Lady Caldera, IP fakes confess!
Wonder how you'll manage to keep up this jest.
See how they run.
Lady Caldera, lying in the press,
Blackmailing the righteous ones, in your duress.
Wednesday afternoon is never ending.
Thursday morning news will be as bad.
Thursday night your stocks, they will need mending.
See how they run.
Lady Caldera, stock price at your feet.
Wonder how you'll manage to make ends meet.
..or derivatives thereof.
Back in 1999, I posted this message to NANAE, about getting spammed by a Jerry Falwell-backed ISP. Well, it has been a long time since 1999, and now I get a lot of messages from various CC-related organisations, most of whom are telling me to vote for various RNC initiatives.
Curious.
Oh, we all know that /.'ers never leave the computer anyway... so why not just use a USB toothbrush instead?
1. First, you obviously know nothing about the Chinese marketplace.
2. They are cracking down on it. When I was in Beijing, I passed a billboard several times that had posted, in BIG letters, something like "BETTER FOLLOW NEW COPYRIGHT PROPERTY LAWS". Wish I'd had a camera at the time(s).
While pretty funny, in an outsider-looking-in sorta way, it's just more evidence of what they're doing to try and limit piracy and IP theft.
"Dragon" is long, not sure what the xin would mean. The only xin I know is "heart", but I haven't heard the rumblings of Sean Connery nearby, so I don't think it'd be "dragonheart", either.
Not a very communist name though.
Well, the "communist system with chinese elements" may be closer to good old facism, but I doubt they'd use feudal terms to name products, esp. if they're going to have exposure abroad.
Or have I missed a change in trademark trends?
Chinese culture extends far beyond Communism. Communism did a good job in destroying a fair amount of Chinese culture, but it never came close to giving it the ole KO, nor has any other ruling class. The Mongols or the the communists, you name it... when you're contending with that many people, even if you're the ruling class, you just end up getting diluted in the population.
This said, heaven ("tian") is used all over the place in China, as are plenty of other Taoist, Confucist and Buddhist terms.
And China is pretty much "communist" in name only, anymore. It's still run with an iron fist by a small group of men, but if you've not been there, I encourage you to visit. You'll see capitalism one helluva lot more than you will redistribution of wealth.