Delivering a 100% perfect product 3 months late? Delivering a 99% perfect product 1 week early?
I've always been a firm believer in the 80-20 rule. (Keep in mind its kind of like the rule of thumb, so it wavers a bit). You can achieve 80% of a programs functionality with 20% of the effort. That's 20% of bugs, which is alot, but in the business side, its only 20% of what it would take to be perfected. Most people agree thats a decent trade off. Thats where you should set the first goal post. Once you reach that goal post, something might have come up. Perhaps you'll want to work on new features that clients have requested. Bam, another 80-20 you can fire off. If there isn't anything else to add, work on reducing those bugs.
Meh, we need a solution to let regular business dev reps to Remote in from home (not the support staff) without a VPN. It'd be nice if it was hosted in a web app so that we don't have to install anything on Client machines. (Something Like Remote Web Workplace).
Windows 7 has DirectAccess or whatever they're calling it, which supposedly allows for this to happen, and it needs IPv6 to run I guess.
In some games you even have to manually type in the address if you want to connect to your friends server.
Either you're playing some older games, which came out when TCP/IP Was just starting to Boom and didn't have any DNS functionality built in - or your friends aren't hosting their server on the web, and thus DNS wouldn't resolve it - or your friends aren't port forwarding properly for that games specific host-finding service to pick it up.
In any case - if you are willing to go through the trouble of communicating an IPv4 Address to join a game, making it an IPv6 address will either be the smallest most miniscule inconvenience that you'll forget after its deployed OR You'll learn to set up servers and DNS in such a way that they will work without you needing to memorize and jot down IP addresses.
On the internet sure, ok....who the fuck going to connect a Windows box to the internet without NAT/Firewall?
If you've never had a problem with NAT, you don't have enough uses for the internet. I used to be a firm believer that NAT was a seemless solution to the problem of not having enough IP's.
Once you try implementing it in the professional world, where you have to worry about not just NAT but NAPT, because you've got Webservers, Print Servers, Email Servers, Backup Servers, File Servers, Application Servers - and then you've got to implement some service such as Remote Desktop from a WebApp (that has to get past the Proxy, no less), so that those who want to work from home can Remote into their PC without a VPN - lets just say that even a small handful of extra IP's would help, and if we COULD get each PC it's own individual IP, it'd be much appreciated.
It's not that it's impossible to do what you want, its just that as things grow, things get more convoluted, and doing such tasks take far more troubleshooting.
It's not going to disappear. i4i has said that certain applications that use XML (Such as Open Office) Do not infringe on their patent. Which means they didn't patent XML, they patented something to do with XML. Which Microsoft used, others do not. Thats why Microsoft is feeling the weight of this and not anyone else.
Since XML was started in '96 by the W3C, and i4i's patent was filed in '98, i4i does not own any of the rights to XML like you are saying.
Yes - Lots of places use XML. However, the chances of it disappearing are even less than the chances of HTML disappearing.
It's quite obvious from Steve Ballmer's Keynotes that he does drugs. Why hasn't anyone made him take a test and make the failure of such test a media blitz?
The reason I have post-its EVERYWHERE is not to actually remind me of anything, it's to give the white plastic a more "off-baige" feel that the basement paint colour had made so comfortable.
Not enough young people are embracing computing, often because they are leery of being branded nerds.
Really? REALLY? You think so? It couldn't be due to the fact that not everyone likes computers, that some would much rather be hanging out at a mall shopping, or seeing the latest movies, or running around in a field doing some sport or another. If you have a computer in the house, and you let your child browse the internet (with some filtering) - they can learn to surf the web by the time they enter grade school. (I know I did). This is a headstart to computer sciences. At first they'll learn about programs. They'll want one program or another after reading about it. But you can't help them install it, then they'll have to learn how to install a program. Or alternatively, they'll have to login to some webservice. They'll learn about usernames and passwords! Then once they've got that under their belt they will be ahead of the curve in computers.
The Guys and Gals that were labelled as Geeks were into computers long before they were labelled as geeks. I don't know of a single person who said "Yeah, I really like computers, but I stopped using it for fear of being a social outcast". You stayed up late to set a high score. You rushed home from school to pickup where you left off. Eventually the games themselves got boring and repetitive, but for whatever reason you LOVED your computer. So you start fiddling around with command prompt. Or you surf the web. One day you get curious as to what exactly DirectX does, so you look it up. If you spent too long on it however, Mom and Dad would tell you to shut it off.
And that is a perfect Segway into my next point - is that it's discouraged behavior. I was learning Visual basic when my Mom told me to stop playing my games and go do something productive. I wish I could have videotaped that part of my life and shown it to her now, shown her how much more productive learning that stuff on my own free will was than Re-Re-studying for a test I knew I could ace. I'm not a parent so I have no weight to these arguements whatsoever, but I think Parenting should be a little more flexible in that regard. Yeah, punish your kids when they do bad, but at least -LET- them make those mistakes. Show them multiple facets of the world, from sports, to arts, to science, and everything in between. Once they have the knowledge, they can choose what they find most entertaining, and persue that. And whatever they learn while persuing their passion will ultimately be a million times more valuable to them than anything you could teach them.
I'm not a father, though one day I might be. The one thing I look forward to is the day when my Child knows more about a subject than I do. Obviously, those lessons are something I can't teach them.
Well I was told it was DOS, it didn't have anything else. Maybe it was just Command Prompt, but there wasn't an inch of windows on it. My dad didn't help at all, I ended up teaching him about it, by the time I was 5 or 6. I knew how to navigate file structures better than he did. It didn't have a CD Rom. It didn't have 3 and a Half inch Floppy. It used an 8 Inch Floppy. I remember we eventually upgraded to a Soundblaster so that we could even -get- sound. (Where yes, -I- was the one who memorized the IRQs)
It is nostalgic to play these old games once again, Even just to tinker with command prompt once again to get things to work just right. But I obviously wasn't old enough to understand the full inner workings. I don't understand why it should be limitted to 640k anymore, why we can't hack together an upgrade for it, and have it run the way it used to.
I just see alot of innovative thinking that happened in the past that seems to have been discarded. Like you said, clearing out TSR's to get more Memory, boot Disks for games, a bunch of other tricks to get the most resources possible to launch an application. All this has been discarded for our ability to brute force with newer and better hardware. What happens when Moore's law reaches it's limit, will these talents be rediscovered?
I used it for a good portion of my childhood, I'd say it counted as an operating system. We had a DOS PC that didn't have Windows or anything on it. We could still install games (Oh Kings Quest...) or perform work (There was a version of Word on there. It was terrible though, it had an all red background, and no spellcheck).
Given that I still have to use DOS on the odd networking Fix (IPconfig, winsock resets) - it seems Odd that I can't use JUST Dos anymore.
I do use Dosbox to run the Old Monkey Island games and The Dig and Full Throttle, as well as the original Duke Nukem and Lemmings.
It does fine, for a spell, but what I was getting at is that alot of games today will specify in the Miniumum requirements: 2 Gigs of Ram for XP, 3 Gigs for Vista, because Vista eats up about of Gig of Ram. If I could free up even a portion of that, todays games would run better and smoother.
I have never had an operating system that I loved more than Windows 95.
If there was one feature I wish I could have back, it is reboot into DOS.
Seriously, if they had included this with Vista, and I could boot my games from DOS, it would have made up for all other deficiencies.
There is a reason why they made you do this in old games. I wasn't actually old enough at the time to know what they were, but if I had to venture a guess now, it might have to do with saving resources (More RAMs for Graphix!).
Since Vista was so bloated, this would have been exactly what I needed. Though I suppose this might have ruined their memory management system or whatever they built in, right?
I agree - sometimes I get called over because of an "Error" - and I just head over right after work. Turns out the Error is Malware, I didn't bring my LiveCD, what can I do? A majority will get by with safe mode scans. There are those particularily nasty ones though, and as you said, boot from CD, or set it up as a slave drive with the proper security measures.
Safe Mode does fine enough for most people. I've been cleaning out viruses for almost a decade now and all it takes is a scan in safe mode and knowing what files to delete. (Temp internet files, any other out of place programs)
There has been one instance where I chose to boot into an antivirus software from a live CD and that was able to clean it out. I would probably use something in the BIOS if I knew of one.
- And of course, no "security" software is ever going to protect you from everything. No one wants pre-emptive protection because it hinders their experience. If you know what you're doing, you won't fall for the cross scripting or phishing. There's a handful of dangerous things that don't actually require anything on your PC to be a danger to you, and those are the ones I educate people about.
As for viruses, trojans, spyware, and the likes - I tried to educate people once. It didn't work. I'm more than happy to remove it for them for a fee. It ain't much but it covers the Heating and Electricity.
Yes. And there were real pre-orders made back in the 90's. There were people SO incredibly excited for this game, it would have been a block buster. Duke Nukem easily could've drawed the crowds for something like the Halo 3 Launch Parties.
-THATS- why its such a big joke. This is by far the biggest and most publicized vapourware product to have ever been called Vapourware.
For the longest time, the joke was "Yeah, that'll happen when Duke Nukem Forever comes out" which was always a faint possibility because the team reportedly was still working on it. Now that we know the Developers have been sacked and the project cancelled, we've had to come up with entirely new jokes. How straining!
Not that I have any riches right now, but one day I might.
So just to beg the question, how much would the rights to Duke Nukem Cost?
I can see alot more than just a video game in 10 years, when Duke's status has all but been tarnished, where he will once again rise to the top of the entertainment industry. I see a new Video game, a completely original blockbuster trilogy, and his face and silly slogans slapped on every lunchbox from here to Taiwan.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind someone milking this franchise for all it's worth. Really, how much more terrible could they make it, and so long as the special effects are there and the uncanny delivery of a few witty lines, this thing will be golden.
Besides, they could have put a blank CD-R in each of the game cases and we all know it would have sold millions world-wide on its debut. They could have broken even with no effort at all.
If you're decent at optimizing a website for Google, you won't have that problem.
Using proper meta tags and a handful of other tricks one can practically Guarantee my customers they'll show up within the first 2 pages if they enter the 2 best words to define their business and the city they are located in.
"Oh you do Hardwood Flooring? In Calgary? I'll build you a site, it'll use paypal to handle orders online. You tell your customers to visit the website to see more flooring patterns, a month after launch you'll be on the front page of a Google Search."
Don't do too much web design myself, but I know experts who do, and this is what they stand by and how they earn the big bucks. If you can come through on getting them up on Google and they can come through on getting their regular customers to visit the website, you both will be very happy. In fact, if I recall Correctly, my peer actually charges extra for Google Optimization. I believe he charges $500 for the first page after a month, $200 for the second page, and if he can't get it on there it's free.
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But even that won't be enough to sustain them, 1 tablet PER CHILD can't condense enough vapour for a town.
This doesn't solve anything really. They have very little water. They have very little food.
I bet a majority of children who recieve a tablet will go to town and sell it so that they might be able to one day buy a goat.
What is efficiency?
Delivering a 100% perfect product 3 months late?
Delivering a 99% perfect product 1 week early?
I've always been a firm believer in the 80-20 rule. (Keep in mind its kind of like the rule of thumb, so it wavers a bit). You can achieve 80% of a programs functionality with 20% of the effort. That's 20% of bugs, which is alot, but in the business side, its only 20% of what it would take to be perfected. Most people agree thats a decent trade off. Thats where you should set the first goal post. Once you reach that goal post, something might have come up. Perhaps you'll want to work on new features that clients have requested. Bam, another 80-20 you can fire off. If there isn't anything else to add, work on reducing those bugs.
Meh, we need a solution to let regular business dev reps to Remote in from home (not the support staff) without a VPN. It'd be nice if it was hosted in a web app so that we don't have to install anything on Client machines. (Something Like Remote Web Workplace).
Windows 7 has DirectAccess or whatever they're calling it, which supposedly allows for this to happen, and it needs IPv6 to run I guess.
In some games you even have to manually type in the address if you want to connect to your friends server.
Either you're playing some older games, which came out when TCP/IP Was just starting to Boom and didn't have any DNS functionality built in - or your friends aren't hosting their server on the web, and thus DNS wouldn't resolve it - or your friends aren't port forwarding properly for that games specific host-finding service to pick it up.
In any case - if you are willing to go through the trouble of communicating an IPv4 Address to join a game, making it an IPv6 address will either be the smallest most miniscule inconvenience that you'll forget after its deployed
OR
You'll learn to set up servers and DNS in such a way that they will work without you needing to memorize and jot down IP addresses.
Either way, its moving forward.
On the internet sure, ok....who the fuck going to connect a Windows box to the internet without NAT/Firewall?
If you've never had a problem with NAT, you don't have enough uses for the internet. I used to be a firm believer that NAT was a seemless solution to the problem of not having enough IP's.
Once you try implementing it in the professional world, where you have to worry about not just NAT but NAPT, because you've got Webservers, Print Servers, Email Servers, Backup Servers, File Servers, Application Servers - and then you've got to implement some service such as Remote Desktop from a WebApp (that has to get past the Proxy, no less), so that those who want to work from home can Remote into their PC without a VPN - lets just say that even a small handful of extra IP's would help, and if we COULD get each PC it's own individual IP, it'd be much appreciated.
It's not that it's impossible to do what you want, its just that as things grow, things get more convoluted, and doing such tasks take far more troubleshooting.
It's not going to disappear. i4i has said that certain applications that use XML (Such as Open Office) Do not infringe on their patent. Which means they didn't patent XML, they patented something to do with XML. Which Microsoft used, others do not. Thats why Microsoft is feeling the weight of this and not anyone else.
Since XML was started in '96 by the W3C, and i4i's patent was filed in '98, i4i does not own any of the rights to XML like you are saying.
Yes - Lots of places use XML. However, the chances of it disappearing are even less than the chances of HTML disappearing.
It's quite obvious from Steve Ballmer's Keynotes that he does drugs. Why hasn't anyone made him take a test and make the failure of such test a media blitz?
The reason I have post-its EVERYWHERE is not to actually remind me of anything, it's to give the white plastic a more "off-baige" feel that the basement paint colour had made so comfortable.
Not enough young people are embracing computing, often because they are leery of being branded nerds.
Really? REALLY? You think so? It couldn't be due to the fact that not everyone likes computers, that some would much rather be hanging out at a mall shopping, or seeing the latest movies, or running around in a field doing some sport or another. If you have a computer in the house, and you let your child browse the internet (with some filtering) - they can learn to surf the web by the time they enter grade school. (I know I did). This is a headstart to computer sciences. At first they'll learn about programs. They'll want one program or another after reading about it. But you can't help them install it, then they'll have to learn how to install a program. Or alternatively, they'll have to login to some webservice. They'll learn about usernames and passwords! Then once they've got that under their belt they will be ahead of the curve in computers.
The Guys and Gals that were labelled as Geeks were into computers long before they were labelled as geeks. I don't know of a single person who said "Yeah, I really like computers, but I stopped using it for fear of being a social outcast". You stayed up late to set a high score. You rushed home from school to pickup where you left off. Eventually the games themselves got boring and repetitive, but for whatever reason you LOVED your computer. So you start fiddling around with command prompt. Or you surf the web. One day you get curious as to what exactly DirectX does, so you look it up. If you spent too long on it however, Mom and Dad would tell you to shut it off.
And that is a perfect Segway into my next point - is that it's discouraged behavior. I was learning Visual basic when my Mom told me to stop playing my games and go do something productive. I wish I could have videotaped that part of my life and shown it to her now, shown her how much more productive learning that stuff on my own free will was than Re-Re-studying for a test I knew I could ace. I'm not a parent so I have no weight to these arguements whatsoever, but I think Parenting should be a little more flexible in that regard. Yeah, punish your kids when they do bad, but at least -LET- them make those mistakes. Show them multiple facets of the world, from sports, to arts, to science, and everything in between. Once they have the knowledge, they can choose what they find most entertaining, and persue that. And whatever they learn while persuing their passion will ultimately be a million times more valuable to them than anything you could teach them.
I'm not a father, though one day I might be. The one thing I look forward to is the day when my Child knows more about a subject than I do. Obviously, those lessons are something I can't teach them.
Well I was told it was DOS, it didn't have anything else. Maybe it was just Command Prompt, but there wasn't an inch of windows on it. My dad didn't help at all, I ended up teaching him about it, by the time I was 5 or 6. I knew how to navigate file structures better than he did. It didn't have a CD Rom. It didn't have 3 and a Half inch Floppy. It used an 8 Inch Floppy. I remember we eventually upgraded to a Soundblaster so that we could even -get- sound. (Where yes, -I- was the one who memorized the IRQs)
It is nostalgic to play these old games once again, Even just to tinker with command prompt once again to get things to work just right. But I obviously wasn't old enough to understand the full inner workings. I don't understand why it should be limitted to 640k anymore, why we can't hack together an upgrade for it, and have it run the way it used to.
I just see alot of innovative thinking that happened in the past that seems to have been discarded. Like you said, clearing out TSR's to get more Memory, boot Disks for games, a bunch of other tricks to get the most resources possible to launch an application. All this has been discarded for our ability to brute force with newer and better hardware. What happens when Moore's law reaches it's limit, will these talents be rediscovered?
Exactly my point. It was not included. It should have been.
I used it for a good portion of my childhood, I'd say it counted as an operating system. We had a DOS PC that didn't have Windows or anything on it. We could still install games (Oh Kings Quest...) or perform work (There was a version of Word on there. It was terrible though, it had an all red background, and no spellcheck).
Given that I still have to use DOS on the odd networking Fix (IPconfig, winsock resets) - it seems Odd that I can't use JUST Dos anymore.
I do use Dosbox to run the Old Monkey Island games and The Dig and Full Throttle, as well as the original Duke Nukem and Lemmings.
It does fine, for a spell, but what I was getting at is that alot of games today will specify in the Miniumum requirements: 2 Gigs of Ram for XP, 3 Gigs for Vista, because Vista eats up about of Gig of Ram. If I could free up even a portion of that, todays games would run better and smoother.
I have never had an operating system that I loved more than Windows 95.
If there was one feature I wish I could have back, it is reboot into DOS.
Seriously, if they had included this with Vista, and I could boot my games from DOS, it would have made up for all other deficiencies.
There is a reason why they made you do this in old games. I wasn't actually old enough at the time to know what they were, but if I had to venture a guess now, it might have to do with saving resources (More RAMs for Graphix!).
Since Vista was so bloated, this would have been exactly what I needed. Though I suppose this might have ruined their memory management system or whatever they built in, right?
I agree - sometimes I get called over because of an "Error" - and I just head over right after work. Turns out the Error is Malware, I didn't bring my LiveCD, what can I do? A majority will get by with safe mode scans. There are those particularily nasty ones though, and as you said, boot from CD, or set it up as a slave drive with the proper security measures.
Safe Mode does fine enough for most people. I've been cleaning out viruses for almost a decade now and all it takes is a scan in safe mode and knowing what files to delete. (Temp internet files, any other out of place programs)
There has been one instance where I chose to boot into an antivirus software from a live CD and that was able to clean it out. I would probably use something in the BIOS if I knew of one.
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And of course, no "security" software is ever going to protect you from everything. No one wants pre-emptive protection because it hinders their experience. If you know what you're doing, you won't fall for the cross scripting or phishing. There's a handful of dangerous things that don't actually require anything on your PC to be a danger to you, and those are the ones I educate people about.
As for viruses, trojans, spyware, and the likes - I tried to educate people once. It didn't work. I'm more than happy to remove it for them for a fee. It ain't much but it covers the Heating and Electricity.
I load up Malware Bytes or Super Anti Spyware or some other reputable Anti-Malware program, boot into safe mode, and do a scan of the whole PC.
Is it I, or anti malware developers, they are sending the message to? Because I certainly don't want to leave an inch of the computer unchecked.
Yes. And there were real pre-orders made back in the 90's. There were people SO incredibly excited for this game, it would have been a block buster. Duke Nukem easily could've drawed the crowds for something like the Halo 3 Launch Parties.
-THATS- why its such a big joke. This is by far the biggest and most publicized vapourware product to have ever been called Vapourware.
For the longest time, the joke was "Yeah, that'll happen when Duke Nukem Forever comes out" which was always a faint possibility because the team reportedly was still working on it. Now that we know the Developers have been sacked and the project cancelled, we've had to come up with entirely new jokes. How straining!
Not that I have any riches right now, but one day I might.
So just to beg the question, how much would the rights to Duke Nukem Cost?
I can see alot more than just a video game in 10 years, when Duke's status has all but been tarnished, where he will once again rise to the top of the entertainment industry. I see a new Video game, a completely original blockbuster trilogy, and his face and silly slogans slapped on every lunchbox from here to Taiwan.
I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind someone milking this franchise for all it's worth. Really, how much more terrible could they make it, and so long as the special effects are there and the uncanny delivery of a few witty lines, this thing will be golden.
Besides, they could have put a blank CD-R in each of the game cases and we all know it would have sold millions world-wide on its debut. They could have broken even with no effort at all.
Well, You know what they say. It's better to have motion captured strippers and lost, than to have never motion captured strippers at all...
That's just what they want you to think.
If you're decent at optimizing a website for Google, you won't have that problem.
Using proper meta tags and a handful of other tricks one can practically Guarantee my customers they'll show up within the first 2 pages if they enter the 2 best words to define their business and the city they are located in.
"Oh you do Hardwood Flooring? In Calgary? I'll build you a site, it'll use paypal to handle orders online. You tell your customers to visit the website to see more flooring patterns, a month after launch you'll be on the front page of a Google Search."
Don't do too much web design myself, but I know experts who do, and this is what they stand by and how they earn the big bucks. If you can come through on getting them up on Google and they can come through on getting their regular customers to visit the website, you both will be very happy. In fact, if I recall Correctly, my peer actually charges extra for Google Optimization. I believe he charges $500 for the first page after a month, $200 for the second page, and if he can't get it on there it's free.
I'm more concerned about all the people who want to do an over the internet Full Physical. I'm not really into that Goatse stuff.
Or if they do, it's just not funny.