You create a table with many rows...all exceptions to the rules. Let the users configure it.
Out of control users is no excuse. And if things like that ARE the problem, then each and every issue that caused a delay, extra coding, etc. should be well documented.
This whole thing seems like a combination of a House or Horrors, Al Capone gangsters, and the Keystone Cops.
Prediction: Solar power may become cheaper than nuclear and fossil power within five years.
Prediction: Enviromentalists wil find any number of objections to Solar Cells within 4 years and file numerous lawsuits against planned solar cell power generation facilities.
Who said anything about hard coding? All that kind of stuff is in the maintenance tables. Each organizational group sets their own parameters and the software acts accordingly.
The number of people it serves is unrelated to IT effort. The only impact it has is on the number of servers and databases the data has to be hosted on. The actual software is the same...1000 or 50,000.
THREE QUARTERS of a BILLION DOLLARS. That's a staff of 100 people at $100,000 each for 75 years.
I did a T&A system all by myself in 6 months for a company of 10,000 in 16 divisions making only $40k a year (this was 15 years ago).
The problem is that the defenders of AGW are saying we should cut back on CO2 emissions through a complex scheme of geo-political government control of people's activities. In effect, creating a world government:
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or.one invented for the purpose."
Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: "The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or.one invented for the purpose."
Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: "The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
So now we know why the cost if education keeps outpacing inflation by double digits. Because idiot administrators have no interest in education, rather, they wan to build giant monuments to themselves.
I look forward to the day that major university after major university goes bankrupt due to their profligate spending on crap like this.
People in IT are programmers who face consequences....
When you screw up, many things can happen:
People don't get paid Products don't ship Raw materials don't get purchased Production lines come to a halt Potential customers are not contacted Existing customer issues may not be followed up on Manager don't have the information they need to make good decisions
A bad ERP implementation can literally ruin a company and put people out of work.
Who cares if your fancy galaxy collision simulation is wrong or if you switch a top quark for a bottom quark? People will find the error and you'll look like an idiot, but so the fuck what?
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You create a table with many rows...all exceptions to the rules. Let the users configure it.
Out of control users is no excuse. And if things like that ARE the problem, then each and every issue that caused a delay, extra coding, etc. should be well documented.
This whole thing seems like a combination of a House or Horrors, Al Capone gangsters, and the Keystone Cops.
These people are no different than these guys.
Aren't we supposed to be underwater already?
Prediction: Solar power may become cheaper than nuclear and fossil power within five years.
Prediction: Enviromentalists wil find any number of objections to Solar Cells within 4 years and file numerous lawsuits against planned solar cell power generation facilities.
Who said anything about hard coding? All that kind of stuff is in the maintenance tables. Each organizational group sets their own parameters and the software acts accordingly.
Yes, but not a relational data whorehouse...now that would just be creepy.
I got to pick them out...the pimp supplied them.
What size?
The number of people it serves is unrelated to IT effort. The only impact it has is on the number of servers and databases the data has to be hosted on. The actual software is the same...1000 or 50,000.
THREE QUARTERS of a BILLION DOLLARS. That's a staff of 100 people at $100,000 each for 75 years.
I did a T&A system all by myself in 6 months for a company of 10,000 in 16 divisions making only $40k a year (this was 15 years ago).
The whole thing is absolute B.S.
The problem is that the defenders of AGW are saying we should cut back on CO2 emissions through a complex scheme of geo-political government control of people's activities. In effect, creating a world government:
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or.one invented for the purpose."
Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: "The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
Quote by Ottmar Edenhoffer, high level UN-IPCC official: "We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy...Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization...One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore."
Quote by Club of Rome: "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention....and thus the “real enemy, then, is humanity itself....believe humanity requires a common motivation, namely a common adversary in order to realize world government. It does not matter if this common enemy is “a real one or.one invented for the purpose."
Quote by emeritus professor Daniel Botkin: "The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe."
There are no more engineers at NASA.
Just bureaucrats with technical degrees.
So now we know why the cost if education keeps outpacing inflation by double digits. Because idiot administrators have no interest in education, rather, they wan to build giant monuments to themselves.
I look forward to the day that major university after major university goes bankrupt due to their profligate spending on crap like this.
Eighty one million dollars can pay to scan a lot of books.
Probably with enough left over to subsidize Kindles, iPads, etc.
What moron would even think of doing this kind of thing?
Says the Liberal hiding behind the AC post.
Mouth breathing, mother's basement dwelling, introverted, narcissistic losers.
Al Gore and his giant house, Google founders and their giant planes...do as I say, not as I do eh?
People in IT are programmers who face consequences....
When you screw up, many things can happen:
People don't get paid
Products don't ship
Raw materials don't get purchased
Production lines come to a halt
Potential customers are not contacted
Existing customer issues may not be followed up on
Manager don't have the information they need to make good decisions
A bad ERP implementation can literally ruin a company and put people out of work.
Who cares if your fancy galaxy collision simulation is wrong or if you switch a top quark for a bottom quark? People will find the error and you'll look like an idiot, but so the fuck what?
You can bet your ass that your professor didn't take programming in High School.
"result in very spectacular and fiery ending."
Is it irony that you should choose this phraseology to describe the perils of not flying by wire when this was the exact fate of Air France 447?
Sorry..I'm old fashion. Steel cables or worst case, hydraulics. Better yet...both!
Probably an endless stream of cussing towards Airbus and "that damned computer".
The only wires planes should fly by should be steel wires.
Down modded by said mouth breathing, mother's basement dwelling losers.
Why can't someone go all Seal Team 6 on these coder's asses?
I'm sure their Moms could use the basement for something better than hosting these losers.
Well, yes. But I'm sure they didn't have any Principals either.
It's a mob. Bound by no principals except what they happen believe at the moment.
LOL!
I don't know...Stalin and Mao took a pretty good stab at it.