* Sixty-four percent (64%) of survey participants found the transition to Agile confusing, hard, or slow. Twenty-eight percent (28%) report success with Agile. - I'd like to see the number for success in waterfall.
* Overwhelmingly, 40% of participants that use Agile did not identify a benefit. - How is 40% overwhelming? I though overwhelming meant much larger than a simple majority. What about the other 60%?
I just caught a local PBS show in which someone from NASA (I didn't catch his name, as I came into the program right after his introduction) shared the following bit of bad news that comes with the new Federal Budget:
"The Shuttle is 30 years old. We've been flying this machine for thirty years. Over the last year and a half, we've been transitioning to a new Constellation program and developing a new launch vehicle as well as the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to take us back to the moon. That's the goal.
When that shuttle retires, there's going to be a serious change in workforce.
What are we going to do with all the engineers that were performing sustaining engineering on that shuttle program?
The idea was to take them and move them over into the part of the Constellation program that develops the Altair, which is a Lunar Lander going back to the moon.
Today, when President Obama rolled out his detail budget on space, he pulled the Altair and pushed it out three to five years.
So that's a real concern.
If you had asked me this morning at 8:00 if there was going to be a problem with the space industry with engineers and moving forward, I would have said no. This afternoon we've got a real concern about that and how we're going to fill the gap with those employees.
And we've still got time. We've got a couple of years to try to convince the present Obama administration to continue to go back to the moon."
...because Sebastapol was on the cutting edge of WiFi and community wireless not too long ago. Home to O'Reilly & Associates as well WiFi guru, Rob Flickenger, this was the site of many of the first long-haul WiFi links and other rooftop tech. It's a shame that a community that was once on the forefront of wireless coolness is now putting on the brakes over something like this...
I did a double take on the book's title when I saw this, as I have that exact same title in my library at a little over arm's reach. As it was printed in 1996 and doesn't make any mention of an edition number, I'm guessing that it must be the first edition. It speaks well of a (non-collegiate) technical book to have been around a decade. (I'm also relieved that/. isn't quite as behind as I thought at first glance...)
I'm tough on books - especially paperbacks. I just finished Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - 1K+ pages. I bought the book in Houston, it flew to Rio de Janeiro.br with me, got some sand and Atlantic Ocean water on it, was read while living in two different apartments, survived a caipirinha spill or two,spent a lot of time in the pool, was dropped or knocked off the nightstand several times, and is *still* in pretty good shape. ~And~ a.br cutie wrote her email address on the front cover.
Consider subjecting an eBook reader to this kind of trip... If it being stolen or lost wasn't enough of a concern to keep it state side, then just plain old non-durability would have.
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Anne Rice had some interaction with her fans a while ago on amazon.com over her then newly released book, Blood Canticle.
They stopped putting them out there shortly after some of the gang moved. I'll have to go back through and listen to the archives - it will be interesting to revisit what was exciting and new around that time...
My favorite tech radio shows is Technology Bytes on 90.1 KPFT in Houston, Texas.
Yeah - Microcenter was one of the first Houston retailers to carry the full offering of commercial linux products. Everything from games to books to magazines, they had it all. No surprise that they are taking the plunge on this as well.
The one thing that always annoyed me about them was the fact that they ask your name and mailing info each time you buy something there. So, whenever I paid with cash, I would give the name Linux Torvalds. To this day, I still get their weekly mailer in my mailbox addressed to Linus...
I was in Austin last week for the second largest music festival in the US, South by Southwest (sxsw). RFID tags were embedded in the wrist bands that fesitval goers had to wear for the duration of the multi-day event. Most venues I went to scanned these (checking for counterfeit wristbands) using equipment that has the ability to store the info on the RFID tag to upload into a database. With plans to link personal information such as birthdate (for 21+ verification to purchase alcohol at events) and the ability to add money and use the wristband as a sxsw debit card, I see many privacy issues on the horizon for future sxsw goers. Approximately 7,000
Does anyone know if there are any adverse effects of having no metal shielding on your box? I haven't seen anything other than a few warnings associated with clear cases. Here's an example of a warning from the pcmods.com site:
WARNING: This product is meant for education purposes only. It is unknown how much protection it provides EMR (electromagnetic radiation), if it provides any protection at all.
This warning trails all of their clear case descriptions... Anyone have any definitive info on this?
The wireless group in Houston is building even smaller boxes that are capable of doing everything that this box does. A HOWTO is being assembled here. They are using the Soekris Net4501 in combination with the DWL-520 802.11b PCI card to run Linux and push HostAP and NoCatAuth. The Soekris comes with 3 NICs and no moving parts!
The Turtle Beach AudioTron has been tempting me for quite some time. I've looked at many other component systems and this seems to be the most solid in terms of support, build quality, and ease of use.
If you don't want to have to run a patch cable to it, simply use a wireless bridge like the LinkSys WET11 or get a wireless ethernet converter to tie it into your SAMBA server.
With SBC I am paying $159/Month for 6Mbit down / 384k up aDSL line. This is with 5 static IPs and a very loose AUP. I'd like to see what AT&T Broadband's Terms of Service look like for this new service level, but I don't think that the price is bad at all...
Slashdot Mirror
...or just disable auto-join.
Keep an eye out for DEFCON 21 t-shirts in your local coffee shops this next week...
...otherwise I'd never be able to get it home in my Lamborghini.
"There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch."
~Nigel Powers~
Key in 5,318,008, turn the calculator upside down, then smile with fifth grade satisfaction.
From the TFA:
* Sixty-four percent (64%) of survey participants found the transition to Agile confusing, hard, or slow. Twenty-eight percent (28%) report success with Agile.
- I'd like to see the number for success in waterfall.
* Overwhelmingly, 40% of participants that use Agile did not identify a benefit.
- How is 40% overwhelming? I though overwhelming meant much larger than a simple majority. What about the other 60%?
' ... although I'm not sure a middle-aged suburbanite dad should don purple tights and cape to become a crime-fighter!"
You're correct; you'll be wanting ultraviolet pants for this job...
Limor Fried is also known as Lady Ada, not Jeri Ellsworth.
http://lifehacker.com/5481197/macgyver-of-the-day-limor-ladyada-fried
Not even the fail whale was working...
I just caught a local PBS show in which someone from NASA (I didn't catch his name, as I came into the program right after his
introduction) shared the following bit of bad news that comes with the new Federal Budget:
"The Shuttle is 30 years old. We've been flying this machine for thirty years. Over the last year and a half, we've been transitioning to a new Constellation program and developing a new launch vehicle as well as the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle to take us back to the moon. That's the goal.
When that shuttle retires, there's going to be a serious change in workforce.
What are we going to do with all the engineers that were performing sustaining engineering on that shuttle program?
The idea was to take them and move them over into the part of the Constellation program that develops the Altair, which is a Lunar Lander going back to the moon.
Today, when President Obama rolled out his detail budget on space, he pulled the Altair and pushed it out three to five years.
So that's a real concern.
If you had asked me this morning at 8:00 if there was going to be a problem with the space industry with engineers and moving forward, I would have said no. This afternoon we've got a real concern
about that and how we're going to fill the gap with those employees.
And we've still got time. We've got a couple of years to try to convince the present Obama administration to continue to go back to the moon."
...because Sebastapol was on the cutting edge of WiFi and community wireless not too long ago. Home to O'Reilly & Associates as well WiFi guru, Rob Flickenger, this was the site of many of the first long-haul WiFi links and other rooftop tech. It's a shame that a community that was once on the forefront of wireless coolness is now putting on the brakes over something like this...
I did a double take on the book's title when I saw this, as I have that exact same title in my library at a little over arm's reach. As it was printed in 1996 and doesn't make any mention of an edition number, I'm guessing that it must be the first edition. It speaks well of a (non-collegiate) technical book to have been around a decade. (I'm also relieved that /. isn't quite as behind as I thought at first glance...)
I'm tough on books - especially paperbacks. I just finished Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged - 1K+ pages. I bought the book in Houston, it flew to Rio de Janeiro .br with me, got some sand and Atlantic Ocean water on it, was read while living in two different apartments, survived a caipirinha spill or two,spent a lot of time in the pool, was dropped or knocked off the nightstand several times, and is *still* in pretty good shape. ~And~ a .br cutie wrote her email address on the front cover.
Consider subjecting an eBook reader to this kind of trip... If it being stolen or lost wasn't enough of a concern to keep it state side, then just plain old non-durability would have.
Anne Rice had some interaction with her fans a while ago on amazon.com over her then newly released book, Blood Canticle.
Link Here
Anyone know of any other instances when the author posted to amazon.com to defend his/her own work?
...MyKEA?
They did.
It was called Geeks in Space.
They stopped putting them out there shortly after some of the gang moved. I'll have to go back through and listen to the archives - it will be interesting to revisit what was exciting and new around that time...
My favorite tech radio shows is Technology Bytes on 90.1 KPFT in Houston, Texas.
Yeah - Microcenter was one of the first Houston retailers to carry the full offering of commercial linux products. Everything from games to books to magazines, they had it all. No surprise that they are taking the plunge on this as well.
The one thing that always annoyed me about them was the fact that they ask your name and mailing info each time you buy something there. So, whenever I paid with cash, I would give the name Linux Torvalds. To this day, I still get their weekly mailer in my mailbox addressed to Linus...
I wound up hanging out with Will the first night of Linucon and really want to know one thing - where's his write-up of his Austin Adventure?!?!?
I was in Austin last week for the second largest music festival in the US, South by Southwest (sxsw). RFID tags were embedded in the wrist bands that fesitval goers had to wear for the duration of the multi-day event. Most venues I went to scanned these (checking for counterfeit wristbands) using equipment that has the ability to store the info on the RFID tag to upload into a database. With plans to link personal information such as birthdate (for 21+ verification to purchase alcohol at events) and the ability to add money and use the wristband as a sxsw debit card, I see many privacy issues on the horizon for future sxsw goers. Approximately 7,000
WARNING: This product is meant for education purposes only. It is unknown how much protection it provides EMR (electromagnetic radiation), if it provides any protection at all.
This warning trails all of their clear case descriptions... Anyone have any definitive info on this?
She's been pushing for a diamond for a little while now - I wonder if she'll be upset if she gets it in chip form rather than the traditional ring?
Sorry about the URL for the HowTo. The correct URL is http://www.photonsphere.com/article.php?sid=186.
The wireless group in Houston is building even smaller boxes that are capable of doing everything that this box does. A HOWTO is being assembled here. They are using the Soekris Net4501 in combination with the DWL-520 802.11b PCI card to run Linux and push HostAP and NoCatAuth. The Soekris comes with 3 NICs and no moving parts!
The Turtle Beach AudioTron has been tempting me for quite some time. I've looked at many other component systems and this seems to be the most solid in terms of support, build quality, and ease of use.
If you don't want to have to run a patch cable to it, simply use a wireless bridge like the LinkSys WET11 or get a wireless ethernet converter to tie it into your SAMBA server.
With SBC I am paying $159/Month for 6Mbit down / 384k up aDSL line. This is with 5 static IPs and a very loose AUP. I'd like to see what AT&T Broadband's Terms of Service look like for this new service level, but I don't think that the price is bad at all...
The Original Houston Chronicle Story
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