If programmers are so stupid that looking at their code elicits comments that they need to write code correctly, then they need more than a code review. They need supervision.
Other than that, you people have way more time on your hands than I do.
People usually blame it on the government for nearly all projects to fail spectacularly to the tune of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Not occasionally fail, one software development disaster after another.
To the degree that the same huge software vendors fail over and over and the government still does business as usual with them, yes, the government is to blame.
Since the Pacific is a very tectonically active ocean, it's also possible that it's being pushed up from lower in the Earth's crust. That's what I would guess, but I could be wrong.
This isn't even news. It's several days old. It's like an editor is dipping into the Wayback machine to post something for July 4 weekend readers to have something to complain about.
Anyone complaining about Amazon reviews has too much time on their hands. Yes, you can see the comments of the professional reviewers. They are identified and mostly are middle of the road summaries. They don't pump it up and they don't warn you away. I skip over the usually lengthy professional reviews, they are worthless.
People provide great reviews, pro and con, on Amazon. I count on it to get the real scoop. I have rarely been mislead by it. It's the best out there, as I google for info and Amazon usually has the best reviews on it.
We can avoid the possibility of terrorists trying to destroy a free and open society, by eliminating the free and open element - therefore removing attractiveness as a target.
Actually terrorists are trying to destroy an infidel (non-Muslim) society. They could care less if it's free and open or not. They use the free and open against us as they sneak around for that matter.
I was reading yesterday that there's a lot of cross signaling of growth factors between neurons and their surrounding glial cells such as myelin sheath Schwann cells.
I wouldn't expect very normal neuron development without the surrounding glial infrastructure they both induce and are influenced by.
But this is great progress, especially being able to avoid a step where bodily rejection takes place.
This is screwed up, dumbed down, horrible to read layout. Please just leave the old alone. I already was in a classic mode on it.
Scroll rolls under your stupid title bar also. I have to pull the page down some after a scroll to read what went under your stupid title bar. I encounter that more and more, I stay off sites that can't do fundamental things like display in a readable format and scroll. This fails.
It's up to you. If you think you'll get more Facebook type posters then maybe that's what you want. Classic slashdot was fine. It wasn't broken. This is.
By that argument, you don't actually own your house, because if you stop paying property taxes, the government will take it away from you.
No, that would be more akin to having a domain taken away because it infringes on a trademark.
The internet stuff is leased, just as you can rent a home. You can lose it by not paying, or have it ended if the owner wants to sell it for example.
It's not complicated. Buying versus leasing. The internet stuff (IP addresses, domain names, email addresses) are leased. You pay an annual lease fee.
Just because you can have something you own legally taken from you (eminent domain, for example), doesn't mean it wan't owned by you.
With leasing you never owned it, you rented it. When you sell an internet domain, you are selling the right to lease to someone else. If they don't maintain the lease, they lose it.
I am not in any of these businesses, but this is pretty straightforward.
The level of spam did fall off a cliff, but what replaced it is the most aggressive posting spam efforts I've seen. And no, this has little to do with American household PC's. It is a very widespread Ukranian controlled botnet based on the range of IP addresses coming from Ukraine.
Of course most everywhere else in the world as well, but from US IP addresses they are mostly server range addresses. (in other words, very little consumer broadband addresses involved and instead proxy addresses, server host companies, etc.)
This is a focused effort, almost all the spam are links to allegedly buy deals too good to be true, etc. I assume the sites download malware and also try to get credit card info to make a purchase.
There are some amazing locations on earth these latest attempts are coming from to get around blocks, even saw a Cuban IP address, Macedonia, and some other locations I haven't got hit with spam registrations from before. This is a very widespread botnet.
These large consulting firms like SAIC suck all the oxygen out of the room in overhead and are prime contractors for one mega software disaster after another. If I were contracting a project like this out I would want to see a working system of anything remotely resembling the project up and running with test data.
If the consultancy can't demonstrate a running project of similar scope, complexity, and scaling, then it is a mistake to choose them to do your project. If they can demonstrate it, then a shell of the system minus proprietary screen details and business logic should be put in place and source provided, and a clean build done with the source code, as a condition of startng the project and initial payments.
As far as I can tell, this sort of start is rarely done and these large consulting forms drain the entire budget with non-technical people before ever starting, minus purchases for new hardware which is always cited as a major project achievement but consists of nothing more than buying computers and hardware and setting them up.
In addition, I think it's a major mistake to start out a project as "web based" or before that "client server". As we programmers know, it should be interface independent. I know that sounds naive and theoretical, but we know that the complexity is in the business logic and developing a system that computes what the business needs, even if sometimes we don't all figure that out until we take a pass at it and compare test results with the users and realize that the users missed something or we misinterpreted something or usually both. In any event, iterating through test cycles fleshes that out.
That is most important and has little to do with the interface in some respects. Of course the interface can be a major source of misinterpretation but it shouldn't be in the beginning. The development should be with data passed with message queues, sockets, and the like initially and the interface only enough to fill in and display in/out data structures, result set arrays, etc.
A shell template of the process, which admittedly even at that minimal level is a large and important endeavor, needs to be developed with specific calculation procedures to be filled in later, a large 80-80 dump system if you will speaking old school. This fleshes out so much need and clarifies specifications that have nothing to do with whether it's "web based" that all that should be solid, and then the calculations firmed up and solid test results attained, before anything is done on interface screens, in this case web pages.
I wrote a back end for a full featured jobs site for a consulting firm in 2000 on the AS/400 iseries and quite frankly I tested all the API calls with 5250 screens via data queues (message queues) before calling from web pages. I wrote the complete back end in three months and we did the entire jobs site in a little more than that, about four months, just two people. Web pages were delivered in a few milliseconds, performance was very good.
Now I didn't have anything to do with the business end of it and it was only up a year or so before the consulting company and business partners parted ways, but it worked very well and in my opinion had just about all the features of the job boards at the time, but that's not the entire point here. The point is the backend server was oriented to our planned web pages in some respect but developing it and getting it right exposes any problems early on until it produces output to specifications.
After that, interfaces can be as complex and helpful as one wants to make them but they don't make a system complex because it is "web based". Of course the backend has to be written stateless with that in mind, providing whatever methodology to restore state as needed for each transaction.
With all of this, I would structure contracts to meet objectives in that order at certain time / cost milestones before authorizing next phase. If we did that, we would not necessarily make all these huge software projects
Do we actually have the Russian version somewhere? Russian doesn't confuse the two senses of "free" the same way that English does. The "free" in "free speech" is "svoboda"; in "free beer" it's "besplatnoye". So which adjective did he use to say "free software"?
(Not that I'd trust his speech to be especially honest, y'know.;-)
The Russian text was in the link. The translation was free software, I was joking about them already using free as in beer software (as in pirated software).
oooh, sorry, it's in Cyrillic so I can't straight out compare to your words.
None of this could have happened without deregulation of the telephone system. We wouldn't be having this conversation right now if we still have a government monopoly in telephone systems.
It was an AT&T rule. It was a lawsuit against AT&T that allowed third party equipment to be connected to AT&T's monopoly network, while they were still a monopoly.
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all right. Three of whom were selected by the majority of them people who live in your area.
I am not lucky enough to have people who's views I respect represent me either, but nevertheless they choose to borrow the SS funds each year.
And then SS would buy treasuries with the funds anyway, so I see no reason for your complaint.
the government will have to start repaying its debt to the system out of other Federal receipts and new debt.
It's 2T of 14T debt. You have a problem with the huge debt, that's understandable. Don't blame it on who the money is being borrowed from.
They don't realize all those taxes are spent immediately, rather than being saved for the future.
The SS funds are borrowed. That is a choice of Congress, three of whom represent you.
If programmers are so stupid that looking at their code elicits comments that they need to write code correctly, then they need more than a code review. They need supervision.
Other than that, you people have way more time on your hands than I do.
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People usually blame it on the government for nearly all projects to fail spectacularly to the tune of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Not occasionally fail, one software development disaster after another.
To the degree that the same huge software vendors fail over and over and the government still does business as usual with them, yes, the government is to blame.
The deposits are from vents over the duration. Not sure what's disputable about that.
Since the Pacific is a very tectonically active ocean, it's also possible that it's being pushed up from lower in the Earth's crust. That's what I would guess, but I could be wrong.
You aren't.
But I do see a lot of people who claim that Tea Party is insane who themselves foam at the mouth at the first opportunity.
oh, like teabaggers don't foam at the mouth. bloody hell.
This isn't even news. It's several days old. It's like an editor is dipping into the Wayback machine to post something for July 4 weekend readers to have something to complain about.
Anyone complaining about Amazon reviews has too much time on their hands. Yes, you can see the comments of the professional reviewers. They are identified and mostly are middle of the road summaries. They don't pump it up and they don't warn you away. I skip over the usually lengthy professional reviews, they are worthless.
People provide great reviews, pro and con, on Amazon. I count on it to get the real scoop. I have rarely been mislead by it. It's the best out there, as I google for info and Amazon usually has the best reviews on it.
We can avoid the possibility of terrorists trying to destroy a free and open society, by eliminating the free and open element - therefore removing attractiveness as a target.
Actually terrorists are trying to destroy an infidel (non-Muslim) society. They could care less if it's free and open or not. They use the free and open against us as they sneak around for that matter.
The summary only mentioning adding four proteins is really misleading then.
Unless they mean the extra unsuppressed genes from I take it real neuron cells expresses for among other things those additional proteins.
yeah, sounds like it. Thanks for the info.
I was reading yesterday that there's a lot of cross signaling of growth factors between neurons and their surrounding glial cells such as myelin sheath Schwann cells.
I wouldn't expect very normal neuron development without the surrounding glial infrastructure they both induce and are influenced by.
But this is great progress, especially being able to avoid a step where bodily rejection takes place.
our galaxy is warped 'like the cap from a freshly-opened beer bottle.'"
because the cap of a beer bottle after it's been drained unwarps and returns to its unopened shape?
or given it's the Milky Way, like the cap of a freshly-opened milk bottle?
thanks, will give that a try.
This is screwed up, dumbed down, horrible to read layout. Please just leave the old alone. I already was in a classic mode on it.
Scroll rolls under your stupid title bar also. I have to pull the page down some after a scroll to read what went under your stupid title bar. I encounter that more and more, I stay off sites that can't do fundamental things like display in a readable format and scroll. This fails.
It's up to you. If you think you'll get more Facebook type posters then maybe that's what you want. Classic slashdot was fine. It wasn't broken. This is.
rd
By that argument, you don't actually own your house, because if you stop paying property taxes, the government will take it away from you.
No, that would be more akin to having a domain taken away because it infringes on a trademark.
The internet stuff is leased, just as you can rent a home. You can lose it by not paying, or have it ended if the owner wants to sell it for example.
It's not complicated. Buying versus leasing. The internet stuff (IP addresses, domain names, email addresses) are leased. You pay an annual lease fee.
Just because you can have something you own legally taken from you (eminent domain, for example), doesn't mean it wan't owned by you.
With leasing you never owned it, you rented it. When you sell an internet domain, you are selling the right to lease to someone else. If they don't maintain the lease, they lose it.
I am not in any of these businesses, but this is pretty straightforward.
rd
The level of spam did fall off a cliff, but what replaced it is the most aggressive posting spam efforts I've seen. And no, this has little to do with American household PC's. It is a very widespread Ukranian controlled botnet based on the range of IP addresses coming from Ukraine.
Of course most everywhere else in the world as well, but from US IP addresses they are mostly server range addresses. (in other words, very little consumer broadband addresses involved and instead proxy addresses, server host companies, etc.)
This is a focused effort, almost all the spam are links to allegedly buy deals too good to be true, etc. I assume the sites download malware and also try to get credit card info to make a purchase.
There are some amazing locations on earth these latest attempts are coming from to get around blocks, even saw a Cuban IP address, Macedonia, and some other locations I haven't got hit with spam registrations from before. This is a very widespread botnet.
rd
These large consulting firms like SAIC suck all the oxygen out of the room in overhead and are prime contractors for one mega software disaster after another. If I were contracting a project like this out I would want to see a working system of anything remotely resembling the project up and running with test data.
If the consultancy can't demonstrate a running project of similar scope, complexity, and scaling, then it is a mistake to choose them to do your project. If they can demonstrate it, then a shell of the system minus proprietary screen details and business logic should be put in place and source provided, and a clean build done with the source code, as a condition of startng the project and initial payments.
As far as I can tell, this sort of start is rarely done and these large consulting forms drain the entire budget with non-technical people before ever starting, minus purchases for new hardware which is always cited as a major project achievement but consists of nothing more than buying computers and hardware and setting them up.
In addition, I think it's a major mistake to start out a project as "web based" or before that "client server". As we programmers know, it should be interface independent. I know that sounds naive and theoretical, but we know that the complexity is in the business logic and developing a system that computes what the business needs, even if sometimes we don't all figure that out until we take a pass at it and compare test results with the users and realize that the users missed something or we misinterpreted something or usually both. In any event, iterating through test cycles fleshes that out.
That is most important and has little to do with the interface in some respects. Of course the interface can be a major source of misinterpretation but it shouldn't be in the beginning. The development should be with data passed with message queues, sockets, and the like initially and the interface only enough to fill in and display in/out data structures, result set arrays, etc.
A shell template of the process, which admittedly even at that minimal level is a large and important endeavor, needs to be developed with specific calculation procedures to be filled in later, a large 80-80 dump system if you will speaking old school. This fleshes out so much need and clarifies specifications that have nothing to do with whether it's "web based" that all that should be solid, and then the calculations firmed up and solid test results attained, before anything is done on interface screens, in this case web pages.
I wrote a back end for a full featured jobs site for a consulting firm in 2000 on the AS/400 iseries and quite frankly I tested all the API calls with 5250 screens via data queues (message queues) before calling from web pages. I wrote the complete back end in three months and we did the entire jobs site in a little more than that, about four months, just two people. Web pages were delivered in a few milliseconds, performance was very good.
Now I didn't have anything to do with the business end of it and it was only up a year or so before the consulting company and business partners parted ways, but it worked very well and in my opinion had just about all the features of the job boards at the time, but that's not the entire point here. The point is the backend server was oriented to our planned web pages in some respect but developing it and getting it right exposes any problems early on until it produces output to specifications.
After that, interfaces can be as complex and helpful as one wants to make them but they don't make a system complex because it is "web based". Of course the backend has to be written stateless with that in mind, providing whatever methodology to restore state as needed for each transaction.
With all of this, I would structure contracts to meet objectives in that order at certain time / cost milestones before authorizing next phase. If we did that, we would not necessarily make all these huge software projects
Do we actually have the Russian version somewhere? Russian doesn't confuse the two senses of "free" the same way that English does. The "free" in "free speech" is "svoboda"; in "free beer" it's "besplatnoye". So which adjective did he use to say "free software"?
(Not that I'd trust his speech to be especially honest, y'know. ;-)
The Russian text was in the link. The translation was free software, I was joking about them already using free as in beer software (as in pirated software).
oooh, sorry, it's in Cyrillic so I can't straight out compare to your words.
They already use free as in beer.
Pirated Windows?
yeah
I believe "Satellite-Based Laser Surveys Woodpeckers From Space" would have been a more suitable - albeit less provocative - headline.
actually, Satellite-Based Laser Surveys Suitable Habitat for Woodpeckers From Space
Did Putin really say "GNU/Linux" or just Linux?
Putin's order didn't even say Linux. Says free software. Free as in speech. They already use free as in beer.
None of this could have happened without deregulation of the telephone system. We wouldn't be having this conversation right now if we still have a government monopoly in telephone systems.
It was an AT&T rule. It was a lawsuit against AT&T that allowed third party equipment to be connected to AT&T's monopoly network, while they were still a monopoly.