Here is a textbook case of applying the Capability Immaturity Model. My suspicion is the US Marshals Service is Level 0, but for the paranoid among us, Level -2 seems reasonable.
According to CMU-SEI data, over 70% of all software organizations are at Level 1 (Chaotic) of the Capability Maturity Model. In reality many may lie below the merely chaotic, but no lower levels exist in the CMM.
This article defines and describes lower maturity levels and their associated Kounter Productive Attitudes (KPAs). Of course in the SEI's CMM, KPA stands for Key Process Area.
The 4 levels of Immaturity:
Level 0: Negligent (Indifference) - Failure to allow successful development process to succeed. All problems are perceived to be technical problems. Managerial and quality assurance activities are deemed to be overhead and superfluous to the task of the software development process.
Level -1: Obstructive (Counter Productive) - Counter productive processes are imposed. Processes are rigidly defined and adherence to the form is stressed. Ritualistic ceremonies abound. Collective management precludes assigning responsibility. Status quo "über alles" (more important than anything else).
Level -2: Contemptuous (Arrogance) - Disregard for good software engineering institutionalized. Complete schism between software development activities and software process improvement activities. Complete lack of a training program.
Level -3: Undermining (Sabotage) - Total neglect of own charter, conscious discrediting of peer organization's software process improvement efforts. Rewarding failure and poor performance.
I was the "Down" in Downsized, I was the "Out" in Outsourced. That made me down and out.
I wanted to be the "Laid" in Laid Off but but my wife gave me "The Look".
I was pleased to see a choice at my polling station of mark sense optical scan ballots or touch screen machines. The paper ballot line was non-existent, and the ballot took very little time to fill in. Kind of like an SAT for housewives and working stiffs. The scanner was attended and the lady working it said it would scan "any way but sideways".
That's progress!
I for one will buy the first iPod-clone that supports Vorbis. Rockbox (GPL) supports Ogg/Vorbis and many other codecs on a number of platforms. I have thouosands of hours of Ogg music on my iPod running Rockbox. Never use the Apple software, it's not useful to me. I don't miss iTunes.
So what's preventing you from freeing yourself from proprietary software? Certainly not the hardware.
Rivendell aims to be a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with the facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is being developed under the GNU Public License.
The whole thing makes me think of an old David Crosby song from "If I could only remember my name".
I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand
What are their names
And on what streets do they live
I'd like to ride right over
This afternoon and give
Them a piece of my mind
About peace for mankind
Peace is not an awful lot to ask
"If you believe that you have been hacked, you may want to contact your legal counsel or law enforcement about your legal options.
"
It seems to me that the Department of Justice was already contacted about the monopoly practices that have led to this colossal failure of security. Net result: no change.
Perhaps the option of taking your business elsewhere will be more effective. If the US government gets the message they will start using opensource solutions for infrastructure the way many other nations have begun.
In the script, A Malfunction (task@hand.invalid) wrote:
' Second regex for matching common EULA terms. We insist on at least one match
' in each group to increase accuracy.
Set term2 = New RegExp
term1.Pattern = "(reverse-?\s*engineer|dis-?assemble|de-?compile|a s-?\s*is)"
term1.Global = True
term1.IgnoreCase = True
Perhaps what was meant was:
' Second regex for matching common EULA terms. We insist on at least one match
' in each group to increase accuracy.
Set term2 = New RegExp
term2.Pattern = "(reverse-?\s*engineer|dis-?assemble|de-?compile|a s-?\s*is)"
term2.Global = True
term2.IgnoreCase = True
You can always use the gimp to write your
email as a.png file and display that.
email harvesting software doesn't
do character recognition on images (yet).
An excellent example of complex mathematical algorithms implemented
with an object model is the quantlib project. Financial modelling is
a kind of engineering, although usually more rewarding monetarily than
electrical engineering.
From their front page:
The QuantLib project is aimed at providing a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance. QuantLib is a free/open source
library for modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life.
QuantLib is written in C++ with a clean object model, and is then
exported to different languages such as Python and Ruby. Bindings
to other languages (including Java), and porting to Excel/Gnumeric,
Matlab/Octave, S-PLUS/R, COM/CORBA/SOAP architectures, FpML, are planned
for the near future.
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· Score: 5, Funny
vi{m}? has 5 modes:
Beep mode: everything you type rings the bell
Disappearing text mode: everything you type vanishes
Flash mode: everything you type makes the screen blink, scroll, and erase
Escape mode: everything you type needs an ESC
colon mode: all your text shows up at the bottom of the screen after a:
Emacs has 5 modes:
ESC
Meta
Alt
Control
Shift
In all modes everything you type requires the depressing of more than one of the above keys
in addition to a very-long-and-verbose-definition-that-you-look-up- regularly
after 22 years of vi, I think hjkl instead of
left down up right.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand, but a democracy divided against itself cannot do further damage. Always vote for the minorities.
According to CMU-SEI data, over 70% of all software organizations are at Level 1 (Chaotic) of the Capability Maturity Model. In reality many may lie below the merely chaotic, but no lower levels exist in the CMM.
This article defines and describes lower maturity levels and their associated Kounter Productive Attitudes (KPAs). Of course in the SEI's CMM, KPA stands for Key Process Area.
The 4 levels of Immaturity:
If they were, I suspect the electromagnetic pulse would be reduced by the shielding. Controlling emissions also controls ingression. See Emission Equipment Selection Process for an overview of how NATO buys hardware.
I was the "Down" in Downsized, I was the "Out" in Outsourced. That made me down and out.
I wanted to be the "Laid" in Laid Off but but my wife gave me "The Look".
And 9 MBA's can make a baby in one month. 'Course when it grows up all it can do is tell pretty lies and bankrupt the country.
I was pleased to see a choice at my polling station of mark sense optical scan ballots or touch screen machines. The paper ballot line was non-existent, and the ballot took very little time to fill in. Kind of like an SAT for housewives and working stiffs. The scanner was attended and the lady working it said it would scan "any way but sideways". That's progress!
cd "\Documents and Settings\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\"
rmdir "#SharedObjects"
ln -s nul "#SharedObjects"
Oh you are running windows!? Works for me in cygwin bash.
"Turn around, go back down, back the way you came. Can't you see that flash of fire, ten time brighter than the day?"
Hamilton Camp
So what's preventing you from freeing yourself from proprietary software? Certainly not the hardware.
I don't vote, it only encourages them.
I'm addicted to oxygen. The withdrawal symptoms are fatal, but interesting if you readminister O2 before termination. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoerotic_asphyxiati on
"Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies." - Linus Torvalds
How can you tell if a geek is extroverted?
He stares at your shoes.
Rivendell aims to be a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with the facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is being developed under the GNU Public License.
apologies to M. Night Shyamalan. ~
There are some things a rat won't do. For everything else there's HATCH, JAMES & DODGE, P.C.
How can you tell if an engineer is an extrovert? He stares at your shoes!
Audio tracks You!
Wait...
"If you believe that you have been hacked, you may want to contact your legal counsel or law enforcement about your legal options. "
It seems to me that the Department of Justice was already contacted about the monopoly practices that have led to this colossal failure of security. Net result: no change.
Perhaps the option of taking your business elsewhere will be more effective. If the US government gets the message they will start using opensource solutions for infrastructure the way many other nations have begun.NTSC - 'Never The Same Color'
You can always use the gimp to write your email as a .png file and display that.
email harvesting software doesn't do character recognition on images (yet).
An excellent example of complex mathematical algorithms implemented with an object model is the quantlib project. Financial modelling is a kind of engineering, although usually more rewarding monetarily than electrical engineering.
From their front page:
The QuantLib project is aimed at providing a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance. QuantLib is a free/open source library for modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life.
QuantLib is written in C++ with a clean object model, and is then exported to different languages such as Python and Ruby. Bindings to other languages (including Java), and porting to Excel/Gnumeric, Matlab/Octave, S-PLUS/R, COM/CORBA/SOAP architectures, FpML, are planned for the near future.
vi{m}? has 5 modes:
Beep mode: everything you type rings the bell
Disappearing text mode: everything you type vanishes
Flash mode: everything you type makes the screen blink, scroll, and erase
Escape mode: everything you type needs an ESC
colon mode: all your text shows up at the bottom of the screen after a :
Emacs has 5 modes:
ESC
Meta
Alt
Control
Shift- regularly
In all modes everything you type requires the depressing of more than one of the above keys
in addition to a very-long-and-verbose-definition-that-you-look-up
after 22 years of vi, I think hjkl instead of
left down up right.