Go learn about Scrum/XP/etc that's what (I and a lot of people) to be the realistic approach for sw pm today, stay away from RUP/Waterfall
I would have to disagree with you there. While Scrum and XP are very much on the rise due to the whole "agile" buzzwordyness, RUP and Waterfall are still very much used today by a majority of companies. Neither of those are actually bad processes, it's usually how they're implemented or managed. A bad implementation of Scrum can kick you in the nuts just as much as a bad implementation of Waterfall.
It's all about how you manage your process and improve it to cut out the bits you don't need. This is the case for all development processes. Take Kanban* as example, where Agile can be used on a Waterfall process. Continual improvement.
In very bad style, replying to my own post, but the PSP ties in nicely with the Team Software Process (TSP).
You will probably see many people here advocating agile, but you can use many of the things in both PSP and TSP in Agile. Just as long as you remember that having no process is worse than having a bad one. At least when you have a bad process, you can impove it.
Most users wouldn't actually see this as a problem. Certainly the people I know that aren't much into computers are very happy once their MSN and browser with facebook and hotmail is running.
According to the definition a recession is "two consecutive quarters of decline in economic activity as measured by a decrease in GDP". So they needed 6 months to compile the data from those 6 months?
Larry Wall (b. September 27, 1954), programmer, linguist, author, is most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.
Beyond his technical skills, Wall is known for his wit and often ironic sense of humor, which he displays in the comments to his source code or on Usenet. For example: "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
Larry Wall is a trained linguist, and has used this training in the design of Perl. He is the co-author of Programming Perl (often referred to as the Camel Book), which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers. He has edited the Perl Cookbook. His books were published by O'Reilly.
Wall's Christian faith has informed some of the terminology of Perl, such as the name itself, a biblical reference to the "Pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46). Similar references are the function names bless and confess and the organization of his talks into categories such as apocalypse and exegesis. Wall has also alluded to his faith when he has spoken at conferences, including a rather straightforward statement of his beliefs at the August, 1997 Perl Conference and a discussion of Pilgrim's Progress at the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in June, 2000.
Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl and serves as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project. His role in Perl is best conveyed by the so-called 2 Rules, taken from the official Perl documentation:
1. Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he has final veto power on the core functionality.
2. Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date,regardless of whether he previously invoked Rule 1.
Got that? Larry is always right, even when he was wrong.
The next largest known prime, as of today, is 225964951 1 (this number is 7,816,230 digits long); it is the 42nd known Mersenne prime. M25964951 was found on February 18, 2005 by Martin Nowak, a member of a collaborative effort known as GIMPS.
The third largest known prime is 224036583 1 (this number is 7,235,733 digits long); it is the 41st known Mersenne prime. M24036583 was found on May 15, 2004 by Josh Findley (member of GIMPS) and it was announced in late May 2004.
The fourth largest known prime is 220996011 1 (this number is 6,320,430 digits long); it is the 40th known Mersenne prime. M20996011 was found on November 17, 2003 by Michael Shafer (and GIMPS) and announced in early December 2003.
Historically, the largest known prime has almost always been a Mersenne prime since the dawn of electronic computers, because there exists a particularly fast primality test for numbers of this form, the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes.
The largest known prime that is not a Mersenne prime is 27653 × 29167433 + 1 (2,759,677 digits). This is also the fifth largest known prime of any form. It was found by the Seventeen or Bust project and it brings them one step closer to solving the Sierpinski problem.
Some of the largest primes not known to have any particular form (that is, no simple formula such as that of Mersenne primes) have been found by taking a piece of semi-random binary data, converting it to a number n, multiplying it by 256k for some positive integer k, and searching for possible primes within the interval [256kn + 1, 256k(n + 1) 1].
Recording industry executives found to be more likely to spew bull shit, and to commission reports on supporting their bull shit. 'Not only do recording industry executives harm artists, but it also points to an erosion of respect for people that threatens Canada's economy and values at the core of our society,' said Jim Henson, president of the Canadian Intellectual Artist Association, which commissioned the polls."
These large sizes are all good and well, but 120GB is a lot of data to lose. In these mobile application areas, how does the reliability stack up? Can it withstand some battering, or does it fail first time you drop your laptop?
This deserves to succeed. Slow travel along long distances is a pain in the butt. If they can make it consume about 3/4th of the fuel that Concorde needed, that it'll probably already make a profit.
The techonology is already there, they just need to optimise it. This is a great collaboration of the two frontiers of technology, Europe and Japan.
This will probably get modded down by those American Boeing supporters, who have made nothing but new versions of 40 year old aircraft.
Well, mod me down for this if you like, but why on earth do we need more Instant Messaging programs? I mean there's already ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, MSN, AIM, and probably a shedload of others.
Why would this being a Google product make it any better than those out there? And who will convert the masses which just use MSN because Microsoft supplies it along with Windows?
One more thing: it's all fun and games until you suck a whale into the input pipe! But seriously, if you pump up nutrient-rich soup from the deep, in a few years your pipe is going to be so clogged up with marine critters that your flow rate is going to tend towards zero...
Slashdot Mirror
Infringement of copyright doesn't fall under criminal law. It falls under database law, which is a civil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright,_Designs_and_Patents_Act_1988
It isn't stealing, as stealing means something was taken. In the case of downloading, it's copied not removed from the source.
Taking a CD from a shop is stealing and a criminal act. Downloading a CD is infringement of copyright and therefore a civil matter.
All your analogies involve removing a physical item and that constitutes theft.
It's not stealing though, it's breach of contract.
Go learn about Scrum/XP/etc that's what (I and a lot of people) to be the realistic approach for sw pm today, stay away from RUP/Waterfall
I would have to disagree with you there. While Scrum and XP are very much on the rise due to the whole "agile" buzzwordyness, RUP and Waterfall are still very much used today by a majority of companies. Neither of those are actually bad processes, it's usually how they're implemented or managed. A bad implementation of Scrum can kick you in the nuts just as much as a bad implementation of Waterfall.
It's all about how you manage your process and improve it to cut out the bits you don't need. This is the case for all development processes. Take Kanban* as example, where Agile can be used on a Waterfall process. Continual improvement.
*: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/kanban-for-software
In very bad style, replying to my own post, but the PSP ties in nicely with the Team Software Process (TSP).
You will probably see many people here advocating agile, but you can use many of the things in both PSP and TSP in Agile. Just as long as you remember that having no process is worse than having a bad one. At least when you have a bad process, you can impove it.
Something that may be of interest to you is the Personal Software Process, see http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/books/process/psp-self-improvement.html
I bet Schmidt over at Google already knew exactly what was going to happen.
Wouldn't surprise me.
Search query report from clients *.oracle.com:
"Sun"
"Acquisition"
"Sun site:finance.yahoo.com"
Most users wouldn't actually see this as a problem. Certainly the people I know that aren't much into computers are very happy once their MSN and browser with facebook and hotmail is running.
According to the definition a recession is "two consecutive quarters of decline in economic activity as measured by a decrease in GDP". So they needed 6 months to compile the data from those 6 months?
They don't do it by default as it's more prone to errors in the installation. However, OpenSuSE 11.0 does enable the 32 bit emulation for Firefox.
Larry Wall (b. September 27, 1954), programmer, linguist, author, is most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.
Wall is the author of the rn Usenet software and the nearly universally used patch. He has won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software Foundation's award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998.
Beyond his technical skills, Wall is known for his wit and often ironic sense of humor, which he displays in the comments to his source code or on Usenet. For example: "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
Larry Wall is a trained linguist, and has used this training in the design of Perl. He is the co-author of Programming Perl (often referred to as the Camel Book), which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers. He has edited the Perl Cookbook. His books were published by O'Reilly.
Wall's Christian faith has informed some of the terminology of Perl, such as the name itself, a biblical reference to the "Pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46). Similar references are the function names bless and confess and the organization of his talks into categories such as apocalypse and exegesis. Wall has also alluded to his faith when he has spoken at conferences, including a rather straightforward statement of his beliefs at the August, 1997 Perl Conference and a discussion of Pilgrim's Progress at the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in June, 2000.
Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl and serves as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project. His role in Perl is best conveyed by the so-called 2 Rules, taken from the official Perl documentation:
1. Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he has final veto power on the core functionality.
2. Larry is allowed to change his mind about any matter at a later date,regardless of whether he previously invoked Rule 1.
Got that? Larry is always right, even when he was wrong.
Larry's personal home page
Larry Wall wiki quotes
The next largest known prime, as of today, is 225964951 1 (this number is 7,816,230 digits long); it is the 42nd known Mersenne prime. M25964951 was found on February 18, 2005 by Martin Nowak, a member of a collaborative effort known as GIMPS.
The third largest known prime is 224036583 1 (this number is 7,235,733 digits long); it is the 41st known Mersenne prime. M24036583 was found on May 15, 2004 by Josh Findley (member of GIMPS) and it was announced in late May 2004.
The fourth largest known prime is 220996011 1 (this number is 6,320,430 digits long); it is the 40th known Mersenne prime. M20996011 was found on November 17, 2003 by Michael Shafer (and GIMPS) and announced in early December 2003.
Historically, the largest known prime has almost always been a Mersenne prime since the dawn of electronic computers, because there exists a particularly fast primality test for numbers of this form, the Lucas-Lehmer test for Mersenne primes.
The largest known prime that is not a Mersenne prime is 27653 × 29167433 + 1 (2,759,677 digits). This is also the fifth largest known prime of any form. It was found by the Seventeen or Bust project and it brings them one step closer to solving the Sierpinski problem.
Some of the largest primes not known to have any particular form (that is, no simple formula such as that of Mersenne primes) have been found by taking a piece of semi-random binary data, converting it to a number n, multiplying it by 256k for some positive integer k, and searching for possible primes within the interval [256kn + 1, 256k(n + 1) 1].
Is that all? It'll be real news when it's 42 million.
I doubt they'll be posting ads for adblock however.
You obviously never have owned a Toyota.
Recording industry executives found to be more likely to spew bull shit, and to commission reports on supporting their bull shit.
'Not only do recording industry executives harm artists, but it also points to an erosion of respect for people that threatens Canada's economy and values at the core of our society,' said Jim Henson, president of the Canadian Intellectual Artist Association, which commissioned the polls."
These large sizes are all good and well, but 120GB is a lot of data to lose. In these mobile application areas, how does the reliability stack up? Can it withstand some battering, or does it fail first time you drop your laptop?
This deserves to succeed. Slow travel along long distances is a pain in the butt. If they can make it consume about 3/4th of the fuel that Concorde needed, that it'll probably already make a profit.
The techonology is already there, they just need to optimise it. This is a great collaboration of the two frontiers of technology, Europe and Japan.
This will probably get modded down by those American Boeing supporters, who have made nothing but new versions of 40 year old aircraft.
Well, mod me down for this if you like, but why on earth do we need more Instant Messaging programs? I mean there's already ICQ, Yahoo, Jabber, MSN, AIM, and probably a shedload of others.
Why would this being a Google product make it any better than those out there? And who will convert the masses which just use MSN because Microsoft supplies it along with Windows?
You're the one who is being lazy, it's 56.22641509433962264150943396226415094339622641509 433962264150943396\
22641509433962264150943396226 415094339622641509433 962264150943396226\
41509433962264150943396226415 094339622641509433962 264150943396226415\
09433962264150943396226415094 339622641509433962264 150943396226415094\
33962264150943396226415094339 622641509433962264150 943396226415094339\
62264150943396226415094339622 641509433962264150943 396226415094339622\
64150943396226415094339622641 509433962264150943396 226415094339622641\
50943396226415094339622641509 433962264150943396226 415094339622641509\
43396226415094339622641509433 962264150943396226415 094339622641509433\
96226415094339622641509433962 264150943396226415094 339622641509433962\
26415094339622641509433962264 150943396226415094339 622641509433962264\
15094339622641509433962264150 943396226415094339622 641509433962264150\
94339622641509433962264150943 396226415094339622641 509433962264150943\
39622641509433962264150943396 226415094339622641509 433962264150943396\
22641509433962264150943396226 415094339622641509433 962264150943396226\
41509433962264150943396226415 094339622641509433962 264150943396226415\
09433962264150943396226415094 339622641509433962264 150943396226415094\
33962264150943396226415094339 622641509433962264150 943396226415094339\
62264150943396226415094339622 641509433962264150943 396226415094339622\
64150943396226415094339622641 509433962264150943396 226415094339622641\
50943396226415094339622641509 433962264150943396226 415094339622641509\
43396226415094339622641509433 962264150943396226415 094339622641509433\
96226415094339622641509433962 264150943396226415094 339622641509433962\
26415094339622641509433962264 150943396226415094339 622641509433962264\
15094339622641509433962264150 943396226415094339622 641509433962264150\
94339622641509433962264150943 396226415094339622641 509433962264150943\
39622641509433962264150943396 226415094339622641509 433962264150943396\
22641509433962264150943396226 415094339622641509433 962264150943396226\
41509433962264150943396226415 094339622641509433962 264150943396226415\
09433962264150943396226415094 339622641509433962264 150943396226415094\
33962264150943396226415094339 622641509433962264150 943396226415094339\
62264150943396226415094339622 641509433962264150943 396226415094339622\
64150943396226415094339622641 509433962264150943396 226415094339622641\
50943396226415094339622641509 433962264150943396226 415094339622641509\
43396226415094339622641509433 962264150943396226415 094339622641509433\
96226415094339622641509433962 264150943396226415094 339622641509433962\
26415094339622641509433962264 150943396226415094339 622641509433962264\
15094339622641509433962264150 943396226415094339622 641509433962264150\
94339622641509433962264150943 396226415094339622641 509433962264150943\
39622641509433962264150943396 226415094339622641509 433962264150943396\
22641509433962264150943396226 415094339622641509433 962264150943396226\
41509433962264150943396226415 094339622641509433962 264150943396226415\
09433962264150943396226415094 339622641509433962264 150943396226415094\
33962264150943396226415094339 6226415094
Or at the very least that it should be, and will be as soon as they find oil there.
This will probably get modded down. Hint to mods: it's funny, laugh.
Clearly they forgot about the white mice and dolphins.
One more thing: it's all fun and games until you suck a whale into the input pipe! But seriously, if you pump up nutrient-rich soup from the deep, in a few years your pipe is going to be so clogged up with marine critters that your flow rate is going to tend towards zero...
Sounds like the perfect place for a Sushi bar.
Deep Throat is arguably better, and what about New Wave Hookers?