Joking aside, it is a problem for someone who has been freshly hired out of school by a company with a poor software engineering discipline, where can they learn good code? Open Source is one possibility, but how do you know what really is worth looking at and what isn't?
In much of central europe, the term engineer is "protected" much like that of "Dr". If I had studied for a diploma in engineering in Germany, I would be entitled to prefix my name with "Dipl. Ing. ". Such a qualification requires about 12 semesters studying at University (6 years) or an equivalent level insitution. It doesn't matter whether the subject is trains, or software - the title is protected.
If you choose MS, you are pretty much locked in to their support. Well, it is a binary. With Linux, or any other FOSS, there is no lock-in so local resources may provide support. Ok, you may have to pay for the support, but if it is local, it is easier to afford than paying a multinational company.
I have also seen the device in person (not as part of Apollo 11, but as a standalone display) and several versions of the PDP-8. Most of the weight with the early 8s is in the PSU, this could be considerably reduced through a direct connection to the busses in the CM or LM. The other main element costing weight was the backplane, which was wire-wrapped, again relatively easy to reduce the weight by going to an alternate design. It should be remembered that th8 was a true general purpose computer whereas the AGS computer was designed specifically for the job.
It would easily fit in the standard Mini, after all, I seem to remember six students fitting in one with the doors closed.
The panel on AGS is just the user interface. The main unit was much larger (see the MIT site for photos). A large part of the weight of systems in those times was the PSU, and this could be somewhat reduced for fitting somewhere with different rails.
A Mini Cooper is about the same size as a Mini but with a much better engine (note, we aren't talking the BMW version here). A friend had the hobby of rebuilding Minis, so I got to know them well and I'm old enough to remember the PDP-8a in the lab at Uni.
The PDP-8s were rack mounted. If you didn't have extra memory, the tape units or the high-speed paper tape reader, then the whole thing was about 4U high.
Didn't one of X-prize teams pick up an old Russian suit for about $10K or so? I understand that it needed some work but it theoretically would be usable.
NASA was using IBM360s in those days. They really had little processing power in real terms (although they were quite good on I/O).
I have no idea what the Prius has as a processor, but a modern laptop would substantially exceed the processing power of the ground installation. Perhaps only if programmed in FORTRAN though (the NASA language of choice at the time).
Not really, and it had an excellent reputation for real-time work. The thing is when NASA were shopping for processors a long time before the landing, the PDP-8 didn't exist in the compact form. By the time of the first landing it certainly did, but it was already too late. The PDP-8 and later the PDP-11 then just swept through the world of real-time computing.
I don't know about the actual body-cost, but a major consulting company such as TCS is already charging large amounts. Employee turnover in the offshore resource centres is at an alltime high (The figures quoted by the companies is at a major disconnect with experience). In real terms, that means that the guy you trained six months ago has gone elsewhere so you have to repeat the process. Salaries as you observe are racheting up as are offshore costs. Having Indians onsite can cost $600/day and even then you can't guarantee that the visas are correct.
Indians do speak English though, which is a major advantage. The Chinese and Russians are improving though. One Russian offshore delivery centre that I know places its recruitment ads in English. I understand that this is common practice.
Culturally, I prefer working with the Eastern-Europeans to the Indians though. They are more likely to indicate that the specs you carefully prepared are not understandable. The Asian mentality means that they will assume that you know what you are doing and your specs are fine and prompltly make a huge bodge of implementation.
The risk can be mitigated and the best is by having a presence at the delivery centre (as you are doing with your pond-hopping).
The thing is that having a good process means having a sufficient level of expetise available and specifications of the right quality. Add that to the $200+ per day that the big offshore companies are charging now and you may not be saving very much.
If the US team seems sloppy, perhaps it is because they don't know how long their jobs will last (a bit distracting).
but appalling engineering management. The company has a lot of graduate entrants. People who may be bright but have never worked at places where projects were properly run and the energy devoted to the right places.
Engineers need structure to work in. There needs to be a good number of senior engineers for all the juniors. The right priorities need to be set and if necessary holding off on new functionality when it can't be delivered at a sufficient quality level. On the other hand it may be the fault of overall management for being too marketing driven.
It isn't an overnight shift. QA shouldn't be a department to itself, quality management should be integrated into the development proces with a total buyin from everyone, even Marketing who must understand that Microsft's image is being dented badly by poorly behaved software. This is why even if Microsoft is doing more than just going through the motions, it will take a long time for the changes to come through the company.
It is much more than, for example, the change when Microsoft finaally realised the importance of the Internet.
I have three sets of bank accounts in three different countries. All work ok with Moz and Firefox. In the early days of one system, they were even quite helpful getting "Netscape" to work.
The picture is used together with a matching daylight one for a Win screensaver called Starsaver available from www.staralliance.com. They show what parts of the earth are in sunlight (using the day photo) and what part is dark. It being the star alliance (one of the largest airline networks) they then show the progress of the various day's flights across the map. You can fastforward a particular day as well.
It is never a good idea to trust a diploma anywhere except as evidence that somebody has passed through the system. Even in former times, people would copy papers and take passages verbatim from textbooks.
Most investment bankers I know are more than a little proficent with mathematics, their perception of probability tends to be that of the seasoned gambler. The management tends to be worse, and until some of the recent regulations came in, you didn't adjust your profits by discounting the risk.
Its not the economists, it is the investment bankers and the analysts. Take away their HP12Cs and what would they turn to for the time/money calculations? This is a very good way of committing financial suicide.
With the way things are going, wouldn't they have problems with a couple of thousands years of prior art in Greece. In more modern times, isn't Greece's national airline named Olympic?
First, I work in an investment bank and have been a capital markets advisor (although never an investment advisor)
The fact that Google were able to bypass so much of the existing IPO infrastructure upset the investment banks. Normally, the banks work on a principle that they can always unload the nut centres on the promise that the customer will get a couple of juicy soft centres next time round. There are many companies that would find an IPO much more difficult so the idea of having some 'sweeteners' around is always useful for them.
If the best looking issuers bypass this mechanism then the banks will have less of a possibility for unloading other shares.
The method of the IPO seriously upset a lot of investment bankers who have a somewhat different approach (give out the choicest morsels amongst themselves). The institutions therefore stayed clear of the IPO. They are now underinvested. If they have any funds that are following tech indicices, they may find they have to buy.
They will buy in, but those who bought at the top won't make a bundle but those who bought in at the bottom may make something. With the usual IPO, those underwriting the issue ensure that the price bottoms out - but this is very expensive.
The usual technique of bulling the market, as you rightly say, doesn't apply here.
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OpSec is easy or at least easier when you have text. There are a lot of digital photos knocking around the net now. The risks are significantly higher with photos because a photo may be of something innocuous but something else may be in the background. Soldiers may try to do the right thing, but many are just kids and don't really think.
The BBC does ro at least did receive some support from the Foreign Office for the BBC World Service (not BBC World, which is commercially funded). This is just Radio and available around much of the world and translated into many languages.
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Joking aside, it is a problem for someone who has been freshly hired out of school by a company with a poor software engineering discipline, where can they learn good code? Open Source is one possibility, but how do you know what really is worth looking at and what isn't?
In much of central europe, the term engineer is "protected" much like that of "Dr". If I had studied for a diploma in engineering in Germany, I would be entitled to prefix my name with "Dipl. Ing. ". Such a qualification requires about 12 semesters studying at University (6 years) or an equivalent level insitution. It doesn't matter whether the subject is trains, or software - the title is protected.
If you choose MS, you are pretty much locked in to their support. Well, it is a binary. With Linux, or any other FOSS, there is no lock-in so local resources may provide support. Ok, you may have to pay for the support, but if it is local, it is easier to afford than paying a multinational company.
It would easily fit in the standard Mini, after all, I seem to remember six students fitting in one with the doors closed.
A Mini Cooper is about the same size as a Mini but with a much better engine (note, we aren't talking the BMW version here). A friend had the hobby of rebuilding Minis, so I got to know them well and I'm old enough to remember the PDP-8a in the lab at Uni.
The PDP-8s were rack mounted. If you didn't have extra memory, the tape units or the high-speed paper tape reader, then the whole thing was about 4U high.
Didn't one of X-prize teams pick up an old Russian suit for about $10K or so? I understand that it needed some work but it theoretically would be usable.
I have no idea what the Prius has as a processor, but a modern laptop would substantially exceed the processing power of the ground installation. Perhaps only if programmed in FORTRAN though (the NASA language of choice at the time).
Not really, and it had an excellent reputation for real-time work. The thing is when NASA were shopping for processors a long time before the landing, the PDP-8 didn't exist in the compact form. By the time of the first landing it certainly did, but it was already too late. The PDP-8 and later the PDP-11 then just swept through the world of real-time computing.
Indians do speak English though, which is a major advantage. The Chinese and Russians are improving though. One Russian offshore delivery centre that I know places its recruitment ads in English. I understand that this is common practice.
Culturally, I prefer working with the Eastern-Europeans to the Indians though. They are more likely to indicate that the specs you carefully prepared are not understandable. The Asian mentality means that they will assume that you know what you are doing and your specs are fine and prompltly make a huge bodge of implementation.
The risk can be mitigated and the best is by having a presence at the delivery centre (as you are doing with your pond-hopping).
If the US team seems sloppy, perhaps it is because they don't know how long their jobs will last (a bit distracting).
Engineers need structure to work in. There needs to be a good number of senior engineers for all the juniors. The right priorities need to be set and if necessary holding off on new functionality when it can't be delivered at a sufficient quality level. On the other hand it may be the fault of overall management for being too marketing driven.
It isn't an overnight shift. QA shouldn't be a department to itself, quality management should be integrated into the development proces with a total buyin from everyone, even Marketing who must understand that Microsft's image is being dented badly by poorly behaved software. This is why even if Microsoft is doing more than just going through the motions, it will take a long time for the changes to come through the company.
It is much more than, for example, the change when Microsoft finaally realised the importance of the Internet.
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I have three sets of bank accounts in three different countries. All work ok with Moz and Firefox. In the early days of one system, they were even quite helpful getting "Netscape" to work.
The picture is used together with a matching daylight one for a Win screensaver called Starsaver available from www.staralliance.com. They show what parts of the earth are in sunlight (using the day photo) and what part is dark. It being the star alliance (one of the largest airline networks) they then show the progress of the various day's flights across the map. You can fastforward a particular day as well.
It is never a good idea to trust a diploma anywhere except as evidence that somebody has passed through the system. Even in former times, people would copy papers and take passages verbatim from textbooks.
Most investment bankers I know are more than a little proficent with mathematics, their perception of probability tends to be that of the seasoned gambler. The management tends to be worse, and until some of the recent regulations came in, you didn't adjust your profits by discounting the risk.
Its not the economists, it is the investment bankers and the analysts. Take away their HP12Cs and what would they turn to for the time/money calculations? This is a very good way of committing financial suicide.
For true geekiness, you need to be able run a webserver on it.
With the way things are going, wouldn't they have problems with a couple of thousands years of prior art in Greece. In more modern times, isn't Greece's national airline named Olympic?
Perhaps I shouldn't have helped out on PGP all those years ago.....
The fact that Google were able to bypass so much of the existing IPO infrastructure upset the investment banks. Normally, the banks work on a principle that they can always unload the nut centres on the promise that the customer will get a couple of juicy soft centres next time round. There are many companies that would find an IPO much more difficult so the idea of having some 'sweeteners' around is always useful for them.
If the best looking issuers bypass this mechanism then the banks will have less of a possibility for unloading other shares.
They will buy in, but those who bought at the top won't make a bundle but those who bought in at the bottom may make something. With the usual IPO, those underwriting the issue ensure that the price bottoms out - but this is very expensive.
The usual technique of bulling the market, as you rightly say, doesn't apply here.
OpSec is easy or at least easier when you have text. There are a lot of digital photos knocking around the net now. The risks are significantly higher with photos because a photo may be of something innocuous but something else may be in the background. Soldiers may try to do the right thing, but many are just kids and don't really think.
The BBC does ro at least did receive some support from the Foreign Office for the BBC World Service (not BBC World, which is commercially funded). This is just Radio and available around much of the world and translated into many languages.