Imagine how complex those systems are. Now imagine building 50 of them at the same time. Now imagine their demographic is 'everyone'. It's substantial more complex then any of those system. Systems that where also fraught with issues on roll out.
" nothing was built in house by Uncle Sam." false. As it happens, the software for the Apollo mission was built entirely in house. At the last minute as well. Last minute being 3 months before launch.
"swap components between shuttles rather than buy replacements," they also bought replacements. In fact the space shuttle was lighter at retirement because a lot of what we replaces was replaced by lighter material, or smaller systems.
" In many situations there was only one working part for the whole fleet because there was no way to buy a replacement." We live in a world were I can take ANY hardware system, and find a manufacturer that can make me a new one. Tooling cost might be high, but it can be done.
" a cash hog." I agree. We fed it a lot of money, and tasty treats came out of it.
WhIch is why Government Software work should be done by in house experts. IF not the whole thing, then the framework and APIs the contractors will use.
Working hard hard is irrelevant if you fail. The goal isn't to work hard, the goal is to get you code working.
"And now I have to do overtime so my taxes can go up and I can not only provide free food but also free health care for some retarded stoner who can't be bothered to go out and find a job or some trailer trash who just had her 16th child living on wellfare" Anyone stupid enough to believes that should GTFO of the tech industry.
If I work for you for 8 hours, do I age 8 hours? yes? Then it's my time I exchanged with in for a service. I can walk the fuck away anytime I want, why? becasue it's MY life and MY time to choose to do what I like.
" It is little different than if you sell me your car, its not yours anymore. This is not an opinion, its a legal fact." no, it's completely fucking different. If it was like a car, I would give you a bottle of time, and you would hand me cash.
" This is not an opinion, its a legal fact." when applied to the car? yes, when applied to working? no.
They can find out if i'm available by calling me, they don't need to track me.
" I'm not sure what's difficult to understand with that." nothing. IT's fine. I am talking about the fact that they track people even on their lunch break not on the premises.
"The boss will probably tease you mercilessly for watching My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, and then move on." Clearly slashdot is too stupid to look at the point and not the example. Let me be clear: Bosses should NOT track you unless you are on company time. That includes on call. Unless you are getting paid for the time waiting to get called. Right now, they can track you 24/7.
I wouldn't work for some who lacks basic reading comprehension.
Notice how I said it's my time that I agreed to use as your employee? It' MY time. You are paying me for MY time. If is was your time then you wouldn't need to pay me, would you?
That's the agreement, I use some of my time to work for you in exchange for some of you're money.
Get it?
A 4th grader could have understood this sentence: " You have agreed to use some of you time as an employee."
MAny have, plus it doesn't help the children in any way. I can make a lead based toy for cheaper, I make millions, close shop reopen under different company name. rinse repeat.
"Compare that to the MILLIONS of children who die every year thanks to government incompetence and corruption." oh? millions? please site something that say the government is killing millions.
" All it takes is a few dead kids and that company will be out of business. " well, if all it take is dead children...
Yes, yes we can all look at the obvious examples. Well done.
What happens when you are on call? can the employer follow you all the time? how about unpaid lunch break? What happens when a boss doesn't like the movie you went to see? or the church you go to?
It assumes the both side can affors equal representation, and that the patnet is reviewed and deterimned by equal parties.
Neither of which is true.
this will hurt inventors.
If they want to do that; then they should have to have a panel of 13 the reviews the patent and give an opinion on who is right. At which point the parties can decide if they want to move on, before lawyers need to be involved.
but it will mka eit harder for smally time inventors to get protestion.
" require the loser in a suit to pay attorney's fees and costs" These fucking groups should get some input form the people this impacts the most: Hint: Not large corporations.
Loser doesn't not mean they where wrong or not infringe against. It could just mean they could afford an attorney.
"All to get me a marginally better display? You should go see a 4k movie one these new sets. Stunning.
"What consumers want is a stable technology, not be be on a constant upgrade treadmill" no true. Look at how many people toss away a fully functional smart phone just becasue new one cane out that doesn't really do anything more then the previous one. 30% of the people using an Apple tablet that does everything they want will be buying the new Tablet.
We see this in EVERY area. Cars, Media, Computers, clothing, and so on. Consumers like having the new thing.
I am talking about the majority, not every consumer or you specifically.
"because there's no market for it." at the current rates, there will be over a million 4k TVs in homes buy the end of next year.
Slashdot Mirror
"agile really means ‘too lazy to do your systems analysis’."
so you no nothing about agile, well done.
Imagine how complex those systems are. Now imagine building 50 of them at the same time.
Now imagine their demographic is 'everyone'.
It's substantial more complex then any of those system. Systems that where also fraught with issues on roll out.
Really not comparable.
" nothing was built in house by Uncle Sam."
false. As it happens, the software for the Apollo mission was built entirely in house.
At the last minute as well. Last minute being 3 months before launch.
"swap components between shuttles rather than buy replacements,"
they also bought replacements. In fact the space shuttle was lighter at retirement because a lot of what we replaces was replaced by lighter material, or smaller systems.
" In many situations there was only one working part for the whole fleet because there was no way to buy a replacement."
We live in a world were I can take ANY hardware system, and find a manufacturer that can make me a new one. Tooling cost might be high, but it can be done.
" a cash hog."
I agree. We fed it a lot of money, and tasty treats came out of it.
True. Which is why a solid architectural framework should be the first thing built.
WhIch is why Government Software work should be done by in house experts. IF not the whole thing, then the framework and APIs the contractors will use.
Solve a lot of problems.,
That's the stupidest thing I have read on /. today.. The good news is I'm sure there will be something else even more stupid.
That's like blaming bush becasue some captain in the Army fucked up an order in Iraq.
Working hard hard is irrelevant if you fail. The goal isn't to work hard, the goal is to get you code working.
"And now I have to do overtime so my taxes can go up and I can not only provide free food but also free health care for some retarded stoner who can't be bothered to go out and find a job or some trailer trash who just had her 16th child living on wellfare"
Anyone stupid enough to believes that should GTFO of the tech industry.
30 minutes more sleeping?
I like my horse, cars? no thank you.
Ah, I see. you're an idiot.
If I work for you for 8 hours, do I age 8 hours? yes? Then it's my time I exchanged with in for a service.
I can walk the fuck away anytime I want, why? becasue it's MY life and MY time to choose to do what I like.
" It is little different than if you sell me your car, its not yours anymore. This is not an opinion, its a legal fact."
no, it's completely fucking different. If it was like a car, I would give you a bottle of time, and you would hand me cash.
" This is not an opinion, its a legal fact."
when applied to the car? yes, when applied to working? no.
They can find out if i'm available by calling me, they don't need to track me.
" I'm not sure what's difficult to understand with that."
nothing. IT's fine. I am talking about the fact that they track people even on their lunch break not on the premises.
"The boss will probably tease you mercilessly for watching My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, and then move on."
Clearly slashdot is too stupid to look at the point and not the example.
Let me be clear:
Bosses should NOT track you unless you are on company time. That includes on call. Unless you are getting paid for the time waiting to get called.
Right now, they can track you 24/7.
I know. I ma saying the boss should be able to track you when they aren't paying you.
That was the point of my example.
They also shouldn't be able to fire you except for cause.
It might have been if it already hadn't been said 127 times.
The plural of datum is data.
The singular of data is datum.
You don't see the flaw their? really?
And who did the security audit of your compilers?
Do you want to live in a world were the boss has the right to fire you becasue you like Star Trek?
Way to miss my point.
I wouldn't work for some who lacks basic reading comprehension.
Notice how I said it's my time that I agreed to use as your employee?
It' MY time. You are paying me for MY time. If is was your time then you wouldn't need to pay me, would you?
That's the agreement, I use some of my time to work for you in exchange for some of you're money.
Get it?
A 4th grader could have understood this sentence:
" You have agreed to use some of you time as an employee."
MAny have, plus it doesn't help the children in any way.
I can make a lead based toy for cheaper, I make millions, close shop reopen under different company name. rinse repeat.
"Compare that to the MILLIONS of children who die every year thanks to government incompetence and corruption."
oh? millions? please site something that say the government is killing millions.
" All it takes is a few dead kids and that company will be out of business. "
well, if all it take is dead children...
Bastard.
No, it's not. It's your time to. You have agreed to use some of you time as an employee. That might giver a right to the boss to track you.
Don't start thinking that the employees aren't also using their limited time to work.
Yes, yes we can all look at the obvious examples. Well done.
What happens when you are on call? can the employer follow you all the time? how about unpaid lunch break?
What happens when a boss doesn't like the movie you went to see? or the church you go to?
It assumes the both side can affors equal representation, and that the patnet is reviewed and deterimned by equal parties.
Neither of which is true.
this will hurt inventors.
If they want to do that; then they should have to have a panel of 13 the reviews the patent and give an opinion on who is right. At which point the parties can decide if they want to move on, before lawyers need to be involved.
but it will mka eit harder for smally time inventors to get protestion.
" require the loser in a suit to pay attorney's fees and costs"
These fucking groups should get some input form the people this impacts the most: Hint: Not large corporations.
Loser doesn't not mean they where wrong or not infringe against. It could just mean they could afford an attorney.
"All to get me a marginally better display?
You should go see a 4k movie one these new sets. Stunning.
"What consumers want is a stable technology, not be be on a constant upgrade treadmill"
no true. Look at how many people toss away a fully functional smart phone just becasue new one cane out that doesn't really do anything more then the previous one. 30% of the people using an Apple tablet that does everything they want will be buying the new Tablet.
We see this in EVERY area. Cars, Media, Computers, clothing, and so on. Consumers like having the new thing.
I am talking about the majority, not every consumer or you specifically.
"because there's no market for it."
at the current rates, there will be over a million 4k TVs in homes buy the end of next year.
For you. You don't see you getting it anytime time soon.
You can already buy movies in 4K.
http://www.imdb.com/list/cTLrg_0aolM/
"The only 1080p content I have that gets displayed on my TV is blu-ray, video games, and digital downloads."
and? What the hell else is their?