If software specifications are not worth formalizing on paper - it isn't worth creating. You can keep your extreme voodoo. It just formalizes the lazy practices of programmers
I'm guessing that you must be self employed or in academia, as it is the domain of management to demand complex solutions to improperly spec'd problems and, oh yeah, we wanted it yesterday. I see this happen all the time where they want a rundown of what are the risks of re-baselining the hardware of our legacy system, and can we get that by Close Of Business today? Oh yeah, and these are the same people who say "BTW, try to follow our Business Practice Process if you can, never mind that we completely violated it already" Oh yeah, we are a fortune 100 company.
And guess what? I don't gamble. I don't drive too fast, nor sky dive. I don't need drugs to get high. I get my kicks by trying to meet unrealistic deadlines. I love death marches... its the only way to know I'm alive;)
P.S. XProgramming fits right into this real world model.
Now, I have heard of success stories where engineers are now at the vice president level doing just what they want to: architecting systems and solutions.
But I've also heard from a mechanical engineer who has seen his friends who went either into management or into law with patent/IP work "surpass" him (in terms of money!)... (BTW: he's now in law school and clerking) There is some truth to this. And I can't help but be drawn to the idea that computer programmers in the future will be viewed like automechanics: once revered, now looked at as "misfit motorheads" (until you car breaks down!!!)
Personally, I'm getting my masters part-time and I plan on doing this engineering thing 'till I die... however I can view everything as an engineering problem and that includes management. You can take the tinkerer out of the workshop but you can't take the workshop out of the tinkerer.
While hearing a talk given by Sham Chakravorty (one of the founders of Signafore and in the comm field for 30 years this February) last night, he mentioned that while other router companies were putting pretty gui's on their network management interface Cisco was busy making fast and robust routers. (this is a paraphrase... but I inferred that Cisco owned the market becuase they really had the better product)
Just becuase it is easier doesn't mean it is better.
paraphrase "Os is yesterday. Longhorn won't be out for two years and we need this software yesterday. My company has this today"
So you're already behind schedule?
This is just flap for marketing drones. I think his pro-windows stance is actually a good thing for the slashdot community to read, not becuase it will rile up the zealots, but to give them a perspective of how the rest of the world sees them. Lets be honest, his "the os is the moldy basement" analogy doesn't work: with linux (or freeBSD or whatever) We've been remodelling this basement. Check out the pool table and the sauna;)
But this is CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP. I expect this kind of writing from humanities majors who have just read Tony Robbins (or some other new age empowering motivational speaker) not from a man of science and logic.
You sir, have created a fabulous troll, for it transcends the typical crapflood and has reached the realm of the sublime. You have my deepest congratulations.
I voted. But I am in no way fooling myself into thinking that just my vote counts. As you say your vote counts when it is part of a group. This is my segue into political groups and I will extend that into PACs.
Politicians want to get elected. Be it becuase they want to change the world, they didn't get enough attention as kids and so they need this public display, or maybe they just don't want to pay for parking tickets. They need votes.
Groups need things done for them. They need money budgeted for their cause. So they ask/petition the poltician as representatives from a vocal/voting group.
For example, Senator Monihan from NY recently allocated upwards of $20,000 to erect a statute commemrating the Irish potato famine. That part of NY has a a large Irish population. He'll be getting their votes.
I think this is a simple enough example to bring it out to Political Action committees and lobbyists. Industry throws its wieght around by contributing funds and threatening jobs. Lobbyists can contribute funds and threaten the politicians job (no re-election).
however My experience with toshiba was great. I dropped my wifes laptop with the 802.11b card sticking out and that shoved the PCMCIA card slot deep into the casing- I had bought the extended warranty (the laptop is 2 years old) and in under 24 hours I had a new system board. It seems like they have great service to me!
There is no excuse for not reading this. If you wonder "Gee, how much does it limit processor speed?" You should put down your credit card and start researching.
This is labed as a "SmartStep" computer. Do a little research on the net.
FROM Dell's WEbsite: Power management features limit processor speed when running on battery.
You have no legal recourse when they make full disclosure.
These are manufactured in bulk, not like a house. Besides, you wouldn't actually buy your house without a final walkthrough! Your legal recourse would be to not buy the house!
I don't mean to give anyone a hard time but if you are going to spend more than $100 (or 0x64 dollars for that stupid hex guy) you would save a lot of aggrevation by doing some research.
Did you bother to figure out what SmartStep/SpeedStep means?
If you did a modicum of research you would know that you run at a far slower speed in battery mode.
Now Toshiba DOES allow you to fix this setting (in the control panels) but this should not come as a surprise to any educated consumer.
When I was shopping around for a laptop for my wife we came across a darling little Toshiba Portege- and one of the first things mentioned in the CNET review even mentioned "Mobile Pentium III with Intel SpeedStep technology" and went on to explain what SpeedStep meant.
So when my wife types away in class if she can't find an outlet she can expect it to be slow. Easy Solution.
O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?
Think about it- all of your grad school notes (becuase undergrad courses are worthless... 'cept maybe the ones you take in your senior year, unless you take "basket weaving 101" your last semester so you can spend time getting drunk and laid...oh wait, I'm on slashdot...)
kept for posterity- better yet- all of your grad school and PhD stuff in a format you can easily save and print out later. Sounds like a note takers dream for those qualifying exams!
This should be standard issue gift for any friends/relatives going on to higher education. -
Actually, I could justify this for work- frequently I take notebooks worth of notes, just to save 'em off for that one day where I will transcribe everything to a notes file... YEAH RIGHT.
Memepool.com, obscurestore.com, slashdot.com, the list goes on.
How do you use the net? you search for stuff- chances are you will find a place where you agree with what is being said more often than not. And in the meme-propagating world that is the Internet if something is quality it will spread like wildfire.
Instead of being bombarded with big money commercials you get testimonials. You go to the Onion's AV room and you read some reviews, you respect the reviewer, and when s/he later on says "This is the Next big thing" you weight the opinion not on how much hype you have heard about it, but on the integrity of the source.
Its like the zoo.pl stuff at slashdot- you like what someone has to say, you make 'em your friend.
It's what people have been doing for years before there was advertisement.
I guess they only like my skin-tight jeans... which you couldn't fit into, being that you are a computer geek (obviously the reason why you are offended) and therefor you weight 300 lbs.
Slashdot Mirror
And can I live there too?!?!
;)
If software specifications are not worth formalizing on paper - it isn't worth creating. You can keep your extreme voodoo. It just formalizes the lazy practices of programmers
I'm guessing that you must be self employed or in academia, as it is the domain of management to demand complex solutions to improperly spec'd problems and, oh yeah, we wanted it yesterday. I see this happen all the time where they want a rundown of what are the risks of re-baselining the hardware of our legacy system, and can we get that by Close Of Business today? Oh yeah, and these are the same people who say "BTW, try to follow our Business Practice Process if you can, never mind that we completely violated it already"
Oh yeah, we are a fortune 100 company.
And guess what? I don't gamble. I don't drive too fast, nor sky dive. I don't need drugs to get high. I get my kicks by trying to meet unrealistic deadlines. I love death marches... its the only way to know I'm alive
P.S. XProgramming fits right into this real world model.
Now, I have heard of success stories where engineers are now at the vice president level doing just what they want to: architecting systems and solutions.
But I've also heard from a mechanical engineer who has seen his friends who went either into management or into law with patent/IP work "surpass" him (in terms of money!)... (BTW: he's now in law school and clerking)
There is some truth to this. And I can't help but be drawn to the idea that computer programmers in the future will be viewed like automechanics: once revered, now looked at as "misfit motorheads" (until you car breaks down!!!)
Personally, I'm getting my masters part-time and I plan on doing this engineering thing 'till I die... however I can view everything as an engineering problem and that includes management. You can take the tinkerer out of the workshop but you can't take the workshop out of the tinkerer.
While hearing a talk given by Sham Chakravorty (one of the founders of Signafore and in the comm field for 30 years this February) last night, he mentioned that while other router companies were putting pretty gui's on their network management interface Cisco was busy making fast and robust routers.
(this is a paraphrase... but I inferred that Cisco owned the market becuase they really had the better product)
Just becuase it is easier doesn't mean it is better.
paraphrase "Os is yesterday. Longhorn won't be out for two years and we need this software yesterday. My company has this today"
;)
So you're already behind schedule?
This is just flap for marketing drones. I think his pro-windows stance is actually a good thing for the slashdot community to read, not becuase it will rile up the zealots, but to give them a perspective of how the rest of the world sees them.
Lets be honest, his "the os is the moldy basement" analogy doesn't work: with linux (or freeBSD or whatever) We've been remodelling this basement. Check out the pool table and the sauna
But this is CRAP. CRAP CRAP CRAP. I expect this kind of writing from humanities majors who have just read Tony Robbins (or some other new age empowering motivational speaker) not from a man of science and logic.
Hang up your PhD, you don't deserve it.
You sir, have created a fabulous troll, for it transcends the typical crapflood and has reached the realm of the sublime. You have my deepest congratulations.
I voted. But I am in no way fooling myself into thinking that just my vote counts. As you say your vote counts when it is part of a group. This is my segue into political groups and I will extend that into PACs.
Politicians want to get elected. Be it becuase they want to change the world, they didn't get enough attention as kids and so they need this public display, or maybe they just don't want to pay for parking tickets. They need votes.
Groups need things done for them. They need money budgeted for their cause. So they ask/petition the poltician as representatives from a vocal/voting group.
For example, Senator Monihan from NY recently allocated upwards of $20,000 to erect a statute commemrating the Irish potato famine. That part of NY has a a large Irish population. He'll be getting their votes.
I think this is a simple enough example to bring it out to Political Action committees and lobbyists. Industry throws its wieght around by contributing funds and threatening jobs. Lobbyists can contribute funds and threaten the politicians job (no re-election).
It works in the large.
Good sir, you are a genius.
Your post contains the best troll/flamebait I have ever witnessed in my few short years on slashdot.
I don't even care if your post is true or not. You have stirred something in my soul with such force that I am flabbergasted.
I pledge my undying support, king of all trolls.
nah, this applies to Timothy's 1 line rant about his old toshiba (which was a speed step)
My comments on the smart step were labeled "From Dell's website" which states at the bottom "processor speed slower on batteries"
Go to dells website, search for SmartStep.
You get what you deserve.
Dell seems to be no better...
however My experience with toshiba was great. I dropped my wifes laptop with the 802.11b card sticking out and that shoved the PCMCIA card slot deep into the casing- I had bought the extended warranty (the laptop is 2 years old) and in under 24 hours I had a new system board. It seems like they have great service to me!
From Dell's online ordering: Power management features limit processor speed when running on battery.
There is no excuse for not reading this.
If you wonder "Gee, how much does it limit processor speed?" You should put down your credit card and start researching.
This is labed as a "SmartStep" computer.
Do a little research on the net.
FROM Dell's WEbsite:
Power management features limit processor speed when running on battery.
You have no legal recourse when they make full disclosure.
These are manufactured in bulk, not like a house. Besides, you wouldn't actually buy your house without a final walkthrough! Your legal recourse would be to not buy the house!
This is a clear explanation of SpeedStep, it says as clear as day "You 500 mhz chip will operate at 300 mhz speeds"
I don't mean to give anyone a hard time but if you are going to spend more than $100 (or 0x64 dollars for that stupid hex guy) you would save a lot of aggrevation by doing some research.
Did you bother to figure out what SmartStep/SpeedStep means?
If you did a modicum of research you would know that you run at a far slower speed in battery mode.
Now Toshiba DOES allow you to fix this setting (in the control panels) but this should not come as a surprise to any educated consumer.
When I was shopping around for a laptop for my wife we came across a darling little Toshiba Portege- and one of the first things mentioned in the CNET review even mentioned "Mobile Pentium III with Intel SpeedStep technology" and went on to explain what SpeedStep meant.
So when my wife types away in class if she can't find an outlet she can expect it to be slow. Easy Solution.
O.T. P.S.: is it my connect, or is slashdot slow today?
And they might give you a "gentleman's C" when you can't get your goddamn FPU to work! (I hate verilog)
Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, when he said, "I drank what?"
I heard that during the civil war they cut down on these "presumed deaths" by shipping bodies in air tight coffins.
If you weren't dead when you were put in, You were by the time your body arrived home!
"I didn't say stop! I only have 4 words to say,
I LOVE THIS COMPANY!!!!!
I never get tired of ballmer's antics. NEVER.
congrats! You got frist psot!
H00rj!
wait 'till we take to the high seas!!
Arggghh, matey!
Think about it- all of your grad school notes (becuase undergrad courses are worthless... 'cept maybe the ones you take in your senior year, unless you take "basket weaving 101" your last semester so you can spend time getting drunk and laid...oh wait, I'm on slashdot...)
kept for posterity- better yet- all of your grad school and PhD stuff in a format you can easily save and print out later. Sounds like a note takers dream for those qualifying exams!
This should be standard issue gift for any friends/relatives going on to higher education.
-
Actually, I could justify this for work- frequently I take notebooks worth of notes, just to save 'em off for that one day where I will transcribe everything to a notes file... YEAH RIGHT.
This would take the work out of it.
I'm buying 3.
Memepool.com, obscurestore.com, slashdot.com,
the list goes on.
How do you use the net? you search for stuff- chances are you will find a place where you agree with what is being said more often than not. And in the meme-propagating world that is the Internet if something is quality it will spread like wildfire.
Instead of being bombarded with big money commercials you get testimonials. You go to the Onion's AV room and you read some reviews, you respect the reviewer, and when s/he later on says "This is the Next big thing" you weight the opinion not on how much hype you have heard about it, but on the integrity of the source.
Its like the zoo.pl stuff at slashdot- you like what someone has to say, you make 'em your friend.
It's what people have been doing for years before there was advertisement.
Gee, my fans list says "you're wrong"
go figure!
I guess they only like my skin-tight jeans...
which you couldn't fit into, being that you are a computer geek (obviously the reason why you are offended) and therefor you weight 300 lbs.
sucks for, como se dice, YOU!
me too, but I bet your friends only feel tingly in their trigger finger... remember, nobody likes a computer geek! ;)
('cept us other geeks, of course!)
I hate suckaz who anon their criticism.
log in and we'll have a battle royale!
Even if I lose a battle of wits I can still spray you with my cats hyper-active anal glands. You'll be showering for a week.
actually, make that 4 freaks!
But whatever, you're kbielefe.
Hey, thanks for the grammar help!
I suppose its time to crack open a non-cs text book or two! (turning on spell check by default would be nice too...)