Another interesting option is Macadamian Technologies. They specialize in this sort of work. If you have ever worked on WINE, you will see they have done quite a bit of work on it. And there customer list is pretty impressive as well.
These examples you provided do not illustrate why specs are useless. The post illustrates why the waterfall methodology of developing software is crap.
If you had of released the software in several milestones each one of these issues would have been noticed by the customer, and you could have resolved them much cheaper. agree, no spec is 100% correct, people make mistakes, hell the market place could change. This is why the Agile methodologies preach releasing software incrementally, in small iterations.
Oh come on. The American military is a bunch of cowboys.
I am not even talking about American milatary providing close air support. That is at least understandable. I am talking about the murder of Canadian soldiers who were minding their own damn business, doing their own damn training when two American Nation Air Guard pilots decided to get one last shot at the "enemy".
Time and time again, Americans have shot up their allies, shot up civilians, hell even shelled a hotel full of reporters. It has to stop, and they must be held accountable.
Wouldn't matter if an American soldier/pilot/whatever was aiming it.
Seriously, the American military has a big problem with friendly fire. Just ask the Canadians, British or whomever else the Americans have ever gone to war/battle with.
And I am not even counting the friendly fire incidents that have happened in response the Americans providing close air support to their allies.
I am talking about the Canadians killed why doing a training exercise, the British killed when their tank was mistaken for the enemy etc.
Anyway, it's late and I am ranting. At least these incidents would be non-lethal.
The other 95% were using Microsoft Office. So that answers why they were having so much trouble with StarOffice. They weren't. They were having trouble working with everybody else using Microsoft Office. Actually they said it was harder and more expensive to administer.
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place. 99.99% of people who use word processors don't get past the part where you hit keys and watch text appear on the screen. Oh yeah, and open and save documents. That's all they ever do. And you know the software/hardware requirements of these police better then they do? How do you know what they do?
Why aren't they using a system like this? Because some idiot somewhere equates more-expensive with easier-to-use. It's the oldest story in IT, and it's always a tragedy.
This post will be modded off-topic like the other posts the refute you, so I don't really know why I bothered. I knew when I saw this article that the slashbots would be bashing the police department. But boy oh boy if they switched their word processor from offce to star office....you wouldn't be posting your nonsense.
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/1200xl/ 600.html
You could play games, write code etc. Really really cool!
Ahh, the good ol'days playing BC's Quest for Tires, Miner 49er and other classixs.
Another interesting option is Macadamian Technologies. They specialize in this sort of work. If you have ever worked on WINE, you will see they have done quite a bit of work on it. And there customer list is pretty impressive as well.
These examples you provided do not illustrate why specs are useless. The post illustrates why the waterfall methodology of developing software is crap.
If you had of released the software in several milestones each one of these issues would have been noticed by the customer, and you could have resolved them much cheaper. agree, no spec is 100% correct, people make mistakes, hell the market place could change. This is why the Agile methodologies preach releasing software incrementally, in small iterations.
Right.....cause no one wants a stupid artificial hand to be attached.
:D
Well actually, it might make for some interesting parties!
Some Guy: Hey, my name's Billy-Bob, put'er there partner!
You: Whoa, careful there, that's my dumb hand.
Uhmmm I am not sure I would trust someone's figures when they can't even get the right answer from subtracting 2000 from 2005! :)
I do agree that the traffic is much higher now!
This is just great, this is just what these people need. Free WIFI for a couple of days
Actually this is a clever PR stunt by T-Mobile, it is not like anyone actually has electricity to use these hotspots.
These victims need water, food, clothing and shelter. And of course money to rebuild, why not donate a couple days of revenue instead of free WIFI?
Ahhh The Hip. Great band!
Too bad there is no -1 "Putting a tune in my head for the next 30 minutes" mod.
Oh come on. The American military is a bunch of cowboys.
I am not even talking about American milatary providing close air support. That is at least understandable. I am talking about the murder of Canadian soldiers who were minding their own damn business, doing their own damn training when two American Nation Air Guard pilots decided to get one last shot at the "enemy".
Time and time again, Americans have shot up their allies, shot up civilians, hell even shelled a hotel full of reporters. It has to stop, and they must be held accountable.
Wouldn't matter if an American soldier/pilot/whatever was aiming it.
Seriously, the American military has a big problem with friendly fire. Just ask the Canadians, British or whomever else the Americans have ever gone to war/battle with.
And I am not even counting the friendly fire incidents that have happened in response the Americans providing close air support to their allies.
I am talking about the Canadians killed why doing a training exercise, the British killed when their tank was mistaken for the enemy etc.
Anyway, it's late and I am ranting. At least these incidents would be non-lethal.
Haha!
To paraphrase "The comic book guy"
Worst. Thief. Ever!
Seriously though, after going through all that effort to track the guy down, they should have sent his contact info to the local police departement.
Perhaps more interesting then software, which "neutral third-party testing lab"?
Perhaps even more interesting, what is a "neutral third-party testing lab".
Most of these neutral labs are only as neutral as the people paying them are....
The other 95% were using Microsoft Office. So that answers why they were having so much trouble with StarOffice. They weren't. They were having trouble working with everybody else using Microsoft Office.
Actually they said it was harder and more expensive to administer.
You know, it's crazy giving cops tools like Microsoft Office or StarOffice in the first place. 99.99% of people who use word processors don't get past the part where you hit keys and watch text appear on the screen. Oh yeah, and open and save documents. That's all they ever do.
And you know the software/hardware requirements of these police better then they do? How do you know what they do?
Why aren't they using a system like this? Because some idiot somewhere equates more-expensive with easier-to-use. It's the oldest story in IT, and it's always a tragedy.
This post will be modded off-topic like the other posts the refute you, so I don't really know why I bothered. I knew when I saw this article that the slashbots would be bashing the police department. But boy oh boy if they switched their word processor from offce to star office....you wouldn't be posting your nonsense.
I read that NSF at the start, and research at the end, and pondered what exactly were you researching at that porn site! ;)
I originally parsed NSF as not safe for work!
WINE rules, I just ran Bryce4 under WINE and it was almost flawless.