"Trying to use "agile" on a hard, tightly-coupled problem with no predefined structural framework, like an optimizing compiler or a database engine, is likely to result in a disaster."
Last time I did visit the CS department, they weren't busy drawing UML diagrams. I mean, a lot of things can't be expressed well with an UML diagram. (So you'll use pseudocode, some "non-standard" diagram, maybe - oh the horror - natural language.)
In my experience the people who are the most fond of UML diagrams are the people who make software for beancounters.
Is it because most people aren't CEOs, the personality traits required to be CEO are so far from the average, that we classify it as abnormal? I mean, they have to make some hard decision and being nice and avoiding conflict could ruin the company.
On the other hand the psychologists who classified them as antisocial are being paid for being nice and understanding.
How come the telegraph isn't being nominated? It was the first time people on different continents started talking to each other in real-time. Or radio for that matter.
Last time I checked you couldn't do a political debate on HAM radio. And I never had a telegraph, nor my parents, nor my grandparents. But i have to admit it's really good for short messages, like declaring war etc.
Countries like China and India can accept massive pirating because their economy has another basis, but if the West allows free distribution of media, then it undermines all that is keeping it afloat.
Actually if the Chinese and Indians don't pay us for intellectual property then how do we get the money to pay for their physical goods? (Yeah, they're lending money to pay it back, great. And when payback time, they will use it to buy companies that'll provide them the technological lead.)
I would have done one of the following in place of Redhat: 1, Get money for listing the software (Hey, I'm advertising you!) 2, Force the producer via contract to not underbid the price in the appstore in different places. (And get appropriate percentage of the sale.)
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it)
RIAA said that if I pirate movies, the producers won't make anymore. So the question is: if I want child porn to be made, should I download the pirated version or not? (What was that thing about the unstoppable artillery bullet?)
What about the power part? real books don't need them!
You have to ask yourself how much energy it takes to produce a book. Certainly they contain quite a bit of energy...
While the link you posted is interesting, the rest of your comment seems to be very misleading: you don't take out the energy that's been put in during manufacturing, you take out that nature has put in it during the growth of a tree. The energy during manufacturing is spent to move around material and align it an orderly fashion, not to increase the chemical energy contained in the ingredients.
"But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."
Wow, if you put stuff about yourself on the web, others might find it? Who would have thought that? Do you have an idea what incognito mode in Chrome is good for? Maybe it doesn't store cookies? ISPs will happy to cooperate authorities if you are doing something nasty; so what's the big deal about that?
The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow.
The pop-up box thing doesn't seem to me a that bad idea, given that your hand-written letters will be much bigger those already on the screen. (But of course I haven't seen it, so I can't be sure.)
The research team believes that Bohr, the man who conducted the first experiments on the subject and won every time when drawing second, was simply much better than his opponent.
As a kid I wanted to be a Nobel Prize winning physicist-cowboy too.
If that approach had been taken with all of the critical components for the machine, the overall cost would have been significantly higher. Unfortunately for a large cutting edge project on a tight budget, you need to take some technical risks.
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Sorry.... lots are because of unrealized expectations."
I've unrealized expectations, and I'm not even woman.
"Trying to use "agile" on a hard, tightly-coupled problem with no predefined structural framework, like an optimizing compiler or a database engine, is likely to result in a disaster."
Last time I did visit the CS department, they weren't busy drawing UML diagrams. I mean, a lot of things can't be expressed well with an UML diagram. (So you'll use pseudocode, some "non-standard" diagram, maybe - oh the horror - natural language.)
In my experience the people who are the most fond of UML diagrams are the people who make software for beancounters.
Is it because most people aren't CEOs, the personality traits required to be CEO are so far from the average, that we classify it as abnormal? I mean, they have to make some hard decision and being nice and avoiding conflict could ruin the company.
On the other hand the psychologists who classified them as antisocial are being paid for being nice and understanding.
The problem is, that there a lot of people who want the problems of their personal lives to be solved by the state.
If you're not part of the old boy network, your gender doesn't really matter.
I mean nepotism is still nepotism.
How come the telegraph isn't being nominated? It was the first time people on different continents started talking to each other in real-time. Or radio for that matter.
Last time I checked you couldn't do a political debate on HAM radio. And I never had a telegraph, nor my parents, nor my grandparents. But i have to admit it's really good for short messages, like declaring war etc.
It's been the scene for the biggest flame-wars in history!
And not to mention cyber-bullying! And kitten huffing!
Countries like China and India can accept massive pirating because their economy has another basis, but if the West allows free distribution of media, then it undermines all that is keeping it afloat.
Actually if the Chinese and Indians don't pay us for intellectual property then how do we get the money to pay for their physical goods? (Yeah, they're lending money to pay it back, great. And when payback time, they will use it to buy companies that'll provide them the technological lead.)
Another thing is, that the mediating should have different price for cheap (targeted to end-users) and enterprisy software.
I would have done one of the following in place of Redhat:
1, Get money for listing the software (Hey, I'm advertising you!)
2, Force the producer via contract to not underbid the price in the appstore in different places. (And get appropriate percentage of the sale.)
Or any kind of linear combination of the two.
if I want child porn not to be made
I fixed it, before the FBI came after me.
It is much more rare that I see stories about the actual pornographers being caught and while the viewers are certainly depraved (and you can argue that by consuming the child porn, they encourage those who make it)
RIAA said that if I pirate movies, the producers won't make anymore. So the question is: if I want child porn to be made, should I download the pirated version or not? (What was that thing about the unstoppable artillery bullet?)
What does that mean for vegetarians?
It means more BRAAAIINZZ!
In an economic sense, what Amazon does is not price fixing, because one title doesn't compete with another, they can't substitute each other.
That's great, but how do I connect it to my TV?
What about the power part? real books don't need them!
You have to ask yourself how much energy it takes to produce a book. Certainly they contain quite a bit of energy...
While the link you posted is interesting, the rest of your comment seems to be very misleading: you don't take out the energy that's been put in during manufacturing, you take out that nature has put in it during the growth of a tree. The energy during manufacturing is spent to move around material and align it an orderly fashion, not to increase the chemical energy contained in the ingredients.
"But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines, including Google, do retain this information for some time. And [...] we're all subject, in the US, to the Patriot Act, and it is possible that that information could be made available to the authorities."
Wow, if you put stuff about yourself on the web, others might find it? Who would have thought that?
Do you have an idea what incognito mode in Chrome is good for? Maybe it doesn't store cookies?
ISPs will happy to cooperate authorities if you are doing something nasty; so what's the big deal about that?
The tablet required a stylus, and he much preferred keyboards to pens and thought our efforts doomed. To guarantee they were, he refused to modify the popular Office applications to work properly with the tablet. So if you wanted to enter a number into a spreadsheet or correct a word in an e-mail message, you had to write it in a special pop-up box, which then transferred the information to Office. Annoying, clumsy and slow.
The pop-up box thing doesn't seem to me a that bad idea, given that your hand-written letters will be much bigger those already on the screen. (But of course I haven't seen it, so I can't be sure.)
It seems I gave you my karma. But at least you're not modded Insightful.
Wait! Wasn't he the guy who stole plutonium from terrorists?
The research team believes that Bohr, the man who conducted the first experiments on the subject and won every time when drawing second, was simply much better than his opponent.
As a kid I wanted to be a Nobel Prize winning physicist-cowboy too.
I did fullscreen (youtube HD 720p, at 1080p there was a glitch rarely) , and it went ok. (dual core, 2.6 Ghz 2MB cache)
But with two cores if one of your programs freezes, you still have a responsive system. (I mean the gui and the task manager.)
If that approach had been taken with all of the critical components for the machine, the overall cost would have been significantly higher. Unfortunately for a large cutting edge project on a tight budget, you need to take some technical risks.
Like creating a black hole? ;)
What if we discover it? Will we create a parallel universe?