This must be new. Because back when I was flying the restrictions applied to all planes, even private ones, even private ones I was flying by myself, alone.
As I said earlier, I used to work on the systems that are in use today. I am an industry expert. Yes the odds are against you causing a problem.
But it CAN happen.
The worst place for it to happen is when you're in the weather, flying on instruments, and the plane already has some kind of problem. Then you're going to crash and die. Or burn to death in the wreckage.
You can quote your own ancedotal evidence, but again, I used to test those systems for a living. I'd rather not put a million to one chance against the lives of a plane full of people, or myself.
I have't read the most recent version of the honor system, but if it's the same as what they proposed last month, well, it's going to make things worse.
The have to institute the dishonor part of the system for it to work well. Otherwise they're just encouraging a new form of ganking. And as all ratings are FOR LIFE (remember, if you stop playing a character it does not go away!), the people who rise to the top of the system first, will always be at the top, even for a long time after when they stop playing, paying, or even living.
Personally I wouldn't use it. And if I was on a plan with you, and you were using it, I'd report you. Yes the odds of it causing the aircraft to crash are small, but do you really want to take that chance?
Anything that transmits has a chance of interferring with the signals the plane's navigation equipment receive. As the quality of a lot of consumer electronics isn't very high, the possibility that some unit may be broadcasting some horrendous noise on an off frequency is realistic.
Last of all, with these new fly by wire aircraft (and one company in particular has had major mishaps because thier code stinks), do you really want to do anything that might introduce a spurious signal into a system that can't deal with it?
I'd sure rather not.
(PS I used to test aircraft systems for a major aerospace company, my observations here are based on real life work experiences).
In the late 80's (Flight Test Engineer). A lot of the guys who worked on the LEM and where there during the accident were still around. Some sat next to me. I got to hear some really great stories about what happened, and the things they had to do.
My favorite was that they (Grumman) got everyone who had anything to do with the program rounded up, put in a large room, and then they put an armed guard at the door. You could leave to go to the bathroom, that was it. They all stayed in there working on solutions and answering questions until Apollo landed, and apparently noone even complained.(Try that these days!)
Also it was a tradition at Grumman to point to the LEM and what it did, and how well it was made. It set a very high standard that we were all expected to live up to, and were often reminded of.
There is no more corrupt organization on earth currently than the UN. Supporting genocide, peacekeepers raping young girls and boys, the oil for food scam.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. How come no one mentions all those documents kofi had his aid spend NINE months shredding before starting the investigation?
The UN must go. It is a complete failure, it promotes and supports the worst despots in history and kofi is no better than one himself. Time to try and build something that beleives in freedom and human rights. Not murder, rape, and robbery.
It's Congress as well. No one wants to spend money on space, well no politicians. Not when that money can be better used to buy votes (Pork!) Until private industry gets involved NASA will just continue to get worse.
Any fool can post on Wiki (And often does). To be a researcher for the Encyclopedia Brittanica or World Book Encyclopedia takes credentials, and even then they just don't let you stick anything in it, they have editors and reviewers.
Comparing Wiki to those things show that you really have no clue at all about references, encyclopedia, or other research texts. Yes mistakes can happen in them, but not to the high level you get on Wiki. It's pretty obvious to me you've never done any serious research or scientific work in your life.
I don't trust most movie critics because honestly most wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them on the butt. And just because you're writing someone's biography it doesn't mean you understand them, or even -Like- them!
The proof will be in the pudding. We will all just have to see it and make up our own minds. Taking the word of someone who's life is so boring that he spends all of his time writing about other people's isn't what I would call a good bet.
Really? WHY? It's not factual, often more farcicle. Wiki is based on consensus and not facts, and reality (nor the facts) change because a large number or people believe something is so.
Going to Wiki is a waste of time, I honestly can't understand why people do it.
And if you weren't such a Bush hater you would have realized that this isn't really a good April Fool's joke.
Now something like: 'Bush offers to be among first lunar/mars colonists if Congress agrees to fund it', could have been spun into a much funnier joke that both sides could have gotten a laugh out of.
Yes, they were there, one of the few decent countries that helped out without being asked. And without putting conditions on who got the money.
Nice to see someone got it right!!
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Wow, someone else on Slashdot who knows what Quality is and understands it!! I think that makes like 4 of us.
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It's pretty obvious that your company wasn't a level 3 and wasn't applying CMM properly. If you're spending 'vast amounts of time' in peer review, you have a problem with peer review.
A CMM Level 3 company will out perform, on cost and schedule a company that is not CMM, every time.
Yes I know this from personal experience.
So you didn't know what you were doing then...
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If you follow the CMM, your company will improve it's software and product production. If you are having problems following it, then you really don't understand it.
Or Software Development either.
It's not an easy process, you can't instill it overnite, it takes months and years to get up to say Level 3.
I've been saying this for decades, even here on Slashdot.
Nice to see this guy has finally gotten it!
The problem is, the price benefits of Quality are well hidden with today's accounting methods, while the price is glaringly obvious to those Harvard grads who never learned how to program but run the company.
Last hired, First fired! It's the official slogan of QA departments everywhere.
He Stole it, that's illegal and he deserves to go to jail. Most 'honest person'? Makes me wonder what kind of people he's met, honest people do not steal million dollar software!
Again, he stole it, he's a criminal! If it was your TV or car would you all be gushing about how good this guy is? No, you'd be looking for some rope...
I've seen this a lot. More in software and internet appliance companies, but some of the big boys do it too. Remember those stories about entire testing departments being sent out to see a movie so the testing could be pencil whipped by the sales people in their absence?
In short it comes down to most places not caring about quality, and most customers not caring either. If more places sued companies for not delivering on their promises, this would go away fairly quickly. But I'm not going to hold my breath, the MicroSoft 'good enough for the average Joe' model made them (deservedly) rich. So every Marketing and CEO 'genius' thinks they can do it too (but they don't know their market as well as MS does).
So they lie, cheat, and skimp on testing and quality, and too many customers let them get away with it. I can name a half dozen major software products that are complete crap and do this (but I won't cause I don't want to get sued myself!!), yet they still sell Millions, if not Billions of dollars worth of product every year.
So I don't blame the companies, I blame the consumers. The market rules after all...
The bit about publishing though is BS, I used to work in the medical field. That's just his ego coming out cause he wants to get famous for what he did.
She is not the first to survive it, others have survived it as well (two that I know of, one was in India I beleive). In both cases however they'd have been better off dead due to tremendous brain damage. The big problem with rabies is the swelling of the brain.
Why? For pointing out what everyone else is missing? All these idiots here keep going on about the tax angle. If it was about taxes, they'd check odometers, DUH!
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And then tell me that google is following that ridiculous corporate motto.
Anytime anyone puts up a motto saying 'do no evil', well you have to wonder why. And 'do no evil' to who? Certainly not us the users!
This must be new. Because back when I was flying the restrictions applied to all planes, even private ones, even private ones I was flying by myself, alone.
As I said earlier, I used to work on the systems that are in use today. I am an industry expert. Yes the odds are against you causing a problem.
But it CAN happen.
The worst place for it to happen is when you're in the weather, flying on instruments, and the plane already has some kind of problem. Then you're going to crash and die. Or burn to death in the wreckage.
You can quote your own ancedotal evidence, but again, I used to test those systems for a living. I'd rather not put a million to one chance against the lives of a plane full of people, or myself.
Wow, there's a name from the past.
Yup, they did :-)
I have't read the most recent version of the honor system, but if it's the same as what they proposed last month, well, it's going to make things worse.
The have to institute the dishonor part of the system for it to work well. Otherwise they're just encouraging a new form of ganking. And as all ratings are FOR LIFE (remember, if you stop playing a character it does not go away!), the people who rise to the top of the system first, will always be at the top, even for a long time after when they stop playing, paying, or even living.
Personally I wouldn't use it. And if I was on a plan with you, and you were using it, I'd report you. Yes the odds of it causing the aircraft to crash are small, but do you really want to take that chance?
Anything that transmits has a chance of interferring with the signals the plane's navigation equipment receive. As the quality of a lot of consumer electronics isn't very high, the possibility that some unit may be broadcasting some horrendous noise on an off frequency is realistic.
Last of all, with these new fly by wire aircraft (and one company in particular has had major mishaps because thier code stinks), do you really want to do anything that might introduce a spurious signal into a system that can't deal with it?
I'd sure rather not.
(PS I used to test aircraft systems for a major aerospace company, my observations here are based on real life work experiences).
In the late 80's (Flight Test Engineer). A lot of the guys who worked on the LEM and where there during the accident were still around. Some sat next to me. I got to hear some really great stories about what happened, and the things they had to do.
My favorite was that they (Grumman) got everyone who had anything to do with the program rounded up, put in a large room, and then they put an armed guard at the door. You could leave to go to the bathroom, that was it. They all stayed in there working on solutions and answering questions until Apollo landed, and apparently noone even complained.(Try that these days!)
Also it was a tradition at Grumman to point to the LEM and what it did, and how well it was made. It set a very high standard that we were all expected to live up to, and were often reminded of.
Or are you just a UN employee?
There is no more corrupt organization on earth currently than the UN. Supporting genocide, peacekeepers raping young girls and boys, the oil for food scam.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. How come no one mentions all those documents kofi had his aid spend NINE months shredding before starting the investigation?
The UN must go. It is a complete failure, it promotes and supports the worst despots in history and kofi is no better than one himself. Time to try and build something that beleives in freedom and human rights. Not murder, rape, and robbery.
It's Congress as well. No one wants to spend money on space, well no politicians. Not when that money can be better used to buy votes (Pork!) Until private industry gets involved NASA will just continue to get worse.
No.
Any fool can post on Wiki (And often does). To be a researcher for the Encyclopedia Brittanica or World Book Encyclopedia takes credentials, and even then they just don't let you stick anything in it, they have editors and reviewers.
Comparing Wiki to those things show that you really have no clue at all about references, encyclopedia, or other research texts. Yes mistakes can happen in them, but not to the high level you get on Wiki. It's pretty obvious to me you've never done any serious research or scientific work in your life.
If it's consensous it's NOT SCIENCE.
I don't trust most movie critics because honestly most wouldn't know a good movie if it bit them on the butt. And just because you're writing someone's biography it doesn't mean you understand them, or even -Like- them!
The proof will be in the pudding. We will all just have to see it and make up our own minds. Taking the word of someone who's life is so boring that he spends all of his time writing about other people's isn't what I would call a good bet.
Really? WHY? It's not factual, often more farcicle. Wiki is based on consensus and not facts, and reality (nor the facts) change because a large number or people believe something is so.
Going to Wiki is a waste of time, I honestly can't understand why people do it.
And if you weren't such a Bush hater you would have realized that this isn't really a good April Fool's joke.
Now something like: 'Bush offers to be among first lunar/mars colonists if Congress agrees to fund it', could have been spun into a much funnier joke that both sides could have gotten a laugh out of.
Yes, they were there, one of the few decent countries that helped out without being asked. And without putting conditions on who got the money.
Wow, someone else on Slashdot who knows what Quality is and understands it!! I think that makes like 4 of us.
It's pretty obvious that your company wasn't a level 3 and wasn't applying CMM properly. If you're spending 'vast amounts of time' in peer review, you have a problem with peer review.
A CMM Level 3 company will out perform, on cost and schedule a company that is not CMM, every time.
Yes I know this from personal experience.
If you follow the CMM, your company will improve it's software and product production. If you are having problems following it, then you really don't understand it.
Or Software Development either.
It's not an easy process, you can't instill it overnite, it takes months and years to get up to say Level 3.
But it works, everytime.
I've been saying this for decades, even here on Slashdot.
Nice to see this guy has finally gotten it!
The problem is, the price benefits of Quality are well hidden with today's accounting methods, while the price is glaringly obvious to those Harvard grads who never learned how to program but run the company.
Last hired, First fired! It's the official slogan of QA departments everywhere.
He's taking money away from Apple. If I steal some money out of your wallet, you still have money left right?
Same thing.
He Stole it, that's illegal and he deserves to go to jail. Most 'honest person'? Makes me wonder what kind of people he's met, honest people do not steal million dollar software!
Again, he stole it, he's a criminal! If it was your TV or car would you all be gushing about how good this guy is? No, you'd be looking for some rope...
I've seen this a lot. More in software and internet appliance companies, but some of the big boys do it too. Remember those stories about entire testing departments being sent out to see a movie so the testing could be pencil whipped by the sales people in their absence?
In short it comes down to most places not caring about quality, and most customers not caring either. If more places sued companies for not delivering on their promises, this would go away fairly quickly. But I'm not going to hold my breath, the MicroSoft 'good enough for the average Joe' model made them (deservedly) rich. So every Marketing and CEO 'genius' thinks they can do it too (but they don't know their market as well as MS does).
So they lie, cheat, and skimp on testing and quality, and too many customers let them get away with it. I can name a half dozen major software products that are complete crap and do this (but I won't cause I don't want to get sued myself!!), yet they still sell Millions, if not Billions of dollars worth of product every year.
So I don't blame the companies, I blame the consumers. The market rules after all...
Good find, very informative.
:-)
The bit about publishing though is BS, I used to work in the medical field. That's just his ego coming out cause he wants to get famous for what he did.
Of course personally I think he deserves to...
She is not the first to survive it, others have survived it as well (two that I know of, one was in India I beleive). In both cases however they'd have been better off dead due to tremendous brain damage. The big problem with rabies is the swelling of the brain.
Why? For pointing out what everyone else is missing? All these idiots here keep going on about the tax angle. If it was about taxes, they'd check odometers, DUH!