We're actually going through the same sort of questions right now where I work. In the process of testing a new piece of software, my small group has been finding defects in a piece of software that has been in our system for more than 4 years. That piece of software also controls our prime interface, the one that is pretty much the reason for our system. My group has decided that the only reason we're finding these bugs is that the the developers didn't do thorough enough testing the first time around. What happens is that someone writes some test cases, then only tests those cases. If the cases work, then the software passes and goes into the system. The problem is that test cases are never thorough enough, and never catch the really obscure bugs (like the ones we're finding).
The trick is to not stick to test cases. Test everything you can possibly test in the time allowed. We've told management a number of times recently that we're trying not to stop until we have it as accurate as we think it can be. We're still under a fairly strict deadline, but they're allowing some slippage in order for us to get it right.
Yah, I found this quote from the article quite peculiar.
"Microsoft wanted to achieve certainty about the road going forward," he said, emphasizing that the company wanted to improve its relationship with antitrust enforcers. "Litigation is not good for an individual or a company," he said.
I wonder what could be implied by "improve its relationship"...
Hey man, don't worry about it too much. I didn't even choose to date until I was 21, and I managed to find the perfect girl for me on my first try. I know what you mean about trying to find the right one, and not bothering to deal with the rest.
Now we've been dating for about 2.5 years, I'm probably gonna propose this summer (that'll be 3 years by then), and maybe get married a year after that.
I work for a large government contractor (GD), and I must say that the comment about hiring non-qualified people is a little off base. I worked for them for 3 summers as an intern, then got hired on full time when I got out of school (my division was still with motorola at that time). The hiring process here is actually fairly strict. They don't hire people who don't know what they're doing, because that just results in a lack of work by that person.
I didn't have clearance when I started (my paperwork is going thru at the moment), but I know my stuff and that made it much easier to get the job.
I have Sprint Broadband. The only service they've dropped is the fixed ION service. We have heard no mention of them dropping the wireless service at all.
OTOH, they did close the service to new subscribers, because they couldn't keep up with the demand (at least in the Phoenix area).
That has to be the most pathetic list of dangerous toys I've ever seen. Who didn't play with G.I. Joe toys and the like when they were kids? Was there some watchdog group then going "Now that toy has a machine gun, it must be dangerous!". Give me a break. Go find something better to do with your time.
Hahah, I know exactly what you mean. I introduced my girlfriend to Final Fantasy IX, and she became engrossed (not addicted) with it because of the storyline. She would often times just sit watching me play (she would play too occasionally) just to see what was going to happen next.
Funny thing is that she's mad because I'm going to get Final Fantasy X when it comes out and she's not going to get to play it until the semester is done at school.
How many more times could they have mentioned "Intel's Pentium 4" in that article? Funniest part, was when I came back to write this response there was a p4 ad running on slashdot (ugh).
Wow, that's amazing considering I walked into my local Fry's over the weekend and got the update package for FREE from the salesman. Get your facts straight.
Bah, I think we had the same system at my school. Except we just sorta reverse-engineered the encryption on the password system. We already knew one of the passwords, all it took was getting the password file and determining how the encryption worked. Turned out to only be a simple ROT- system. How pathetic.
Umm....ok.
I've used Toast since it was in the 3.x versions (and still made by Adaptec), and I've never had any problems with it. In fact, if you can find a better cd recording program for Mac, I'd be damn suprised....
If you want a nice email client (isn't free though, and no source), you should check out Mulberry from Cyrusoft (http://www.cyrusoft.com). It's got great support for IMAP, SMTP, and POP3, among other things. It's also cross-platform for all those out there stuck in Windoze, or using a Mac also.
I also don't know what is wrong with your computer. I have an old beige G3/300 that still runs like a champ. Yes, it needs a new graphics card (let's hope for nVidia drivers soon) and maybe a bigger hard drive (12 gigs just isn't enuf nowadays), but it's still great. I had an Apple monitor that went dead on me, but it was 3 years into it's life and I expected that.
Speaking of monitors, I would never buy one directly from Apple. Yes they're pretty, but they're too damn expensive. $400 for a 17" monitor? You've gotta be kidding me. I bought my current 19" Samsung monitor for $300.
The new monitors aren't just for the G4's last I heard, it's just that they support that new media plug that Apple is putting in all of their hardware. I'm pretty sure they still have VGA plugs.
OS X is getting better and better with each dev release and it gonna be amazing when it's released in March. I'm sorry that you still like RedHat...
Ok, so if Apple goes under, don't all of the clone makers as well. Remember, Apple is the one creating the system software for all of these machines. There wouldn't be much point of making clones for an operating system that doesn't exist (at the time, Linux/PPC wasn't that viable of an alternative).
If you look really carefully, you can see the Start bar at the bottom of the screen. The reason it looks like a Macintosh window is the title bar, but that's not a close button in the upperleft corner. It's the icon from netscape/IE. It definitely is a windows machine it was captured from.
The funny part is that you believed that. It was a complete rumor started by some jackass who thought it would make him cool. I always wonder why people do that. Tim
Our university is connected to the internet through a link provided by GoodNet. GoodNet took it upon themselves a few days ago to just disable all access to Napster's servers without notifying anyone. My university is for the most part ok with Napster and got it turned back on, but the question is why didn't GoodNet notify anyone. Real good way to lose some customers if you ask me...
During the time I was looking for scholarships for college (around 1995), I came across an offer from the NSA. The "scholarship" would pay for you to go to school, but stipulated that you would have to work (paid position) for the NSA during summer vacation and for 5 years after you graduated from college. It was for computer science and electrical engineering majors. I seem to remember that someone I know at school told me that they came across something similar from the CIA as well. I don't know if these scholarships are offered anymore, but they are a good thing if you didn't mind moving to DC during your vacations, and provided you don't mind working for the US gov't.
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We're actually going through the same sort of questions right now where I work. In the process of testing a new piece of software, my small group has been finding defects in a piece of software that has been in our system for more than 4 years. That piece of software also controls our prime interface, the one that is pretty much the reason for our system. My group has decided that the only reason we're finding these bugs is that the the developers didn't do thorough enough testing the first time around. What happens is that someone writes some test cases, then only tests those cases. If the cases work, then the software passes and goes into the system. The problem is that test cases are never thorough enough, and never catch the really obscure bugs (like the ones we're finding).
The trick is to not stick to test cases. Test everything you can possibly test in the time allowed. We've told management a number of times recently that we're trying not to stop until we have it as accurate as we think it can be. We're still under a fairly strict deadline, but they're allowing some slippage in order for us to get it right.
Considering less than 10 percent of the roughly 27,000 CDs released annually make money (according to the RIAA)...
It might also be that most of the music that the RIAA puts out is crap, but that's just my opinion.
Yah, I found this quote from the article quite peculiar.
"Microsoft wanted to achieve certainty about the road going forward," he said, emphasizing that the company wanted to improve its relationship with antitrust enforcers. "Litigation is not good for an individual or a company," he said.
I wonder what could be implied by "improve its relationship"...
no, that would be iForceXP.
Nah, she knows what this nick is, since I use it everywhere. She just doesn't read slashdot nearly as often as I do.
Hey man, don't worry about it too much. I didn't even choose to date until I was 21, and I managed to find the perfect girl for me on my first try. I know what you mean about trying to find the right one, and not bothering to deal with the rest.
Now we've been dating for about 2.5 years, I'm probably gonna propose this summer (that'll be 3 years by then), and maybe get married a year after that.
I work for a large government contractor (GD), and I must say that the comment about hiring non-qualified people is a little off base. I worked for them for 3 summers as an intern, then got hired on full time when I got out of school (my division was still with motorola at that time). The hiring process here is actually fairly strict. They don't hire people who don't know what they're doing, because that just results in a lack of work by that person.
I didn't have clearance when I started (my paperwork is going thru at the moment), but I know my stuff and that made it much easier to get the job.
I have Sprint Broadband. The only service they've dropped is the fixed ION service. We have heard no mention of them dropping the wireless service at all.
OTOH, they did close the service to new subscribers, because they couldn't keep up with the demand (at least in the Phoenix area).
Brings a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death" doesn't it?
That has to be the most pathetic list of dangerous toys I've ever seen. Who didn't play with G.I. Joe toys and the like when they were kids? Was there some watchdog group then going "Now that toy has a machine gun, it must be dangerous!". Give me a break. Go find something better to do with your time.
Hahah, I know exactly what you mean. I introduced my girlfriend to Final Fantasy IX, and she became engrossed (not addicted) with it because of the storyline. She would often times just sit watching me play (she would play too occasionally) just to see what was going to happen next.
Funny thing is that she's mad because I'm going to get Final Fantasy X when it comes out and she's not going to get to play it until the semester is done at school.
How many more times could they have mentioned "Intel's Pentium 4" in that article? Funniest part, was when I came back to write this response there was a p4 ad running on slashdot (ugh).
Umm, dude, look on the Toshiba page and realize that this is a 1.8" drive. Thank you, have a nice day.
Tim
Wow, that's amazing considering I walked into my local Fry's over the weekend and got the update package for FREE from the salesman. Get your facts straight.
I actually pictured a large number of people sitting in the street with computers...
Tim
Bah, I think we had the same system at my school. Except we just sorta reverse-engineered the encryption on the password system. We already knew one of the passwords, all it took was getting the password file and determining how the encryption worked. Turned out to only be a simple ROT- system. How pathetic.
Umm....ok. I've used Toast since it was in the 3.x versions (and still made by Adaptec), and I've never had any problems with it. In fact, if you can find a better cd recording program for Mac, I'd be damn suprised....
If you want a nice email client (isn't free though, and no source), you should check out Mulberry from Cyrusoft (http://www.cyrusoft.com). It's got great support for IMAP, SMTP, and POP3, among other things. It's also cross-platform for all those out there stuck in Windoze, or using a Mac also.
I also don't know what is wrong with your computer. I have an old beige G3/300 that still runs like a champ. Yes, it needs a new graphics card (let's hope for nVidia drivers soon) and maybe a bigger hard drive (12 gigs just isn't enuf nowadays), but it's still great. I had an Apple monitor that went dead on me, but it was 3 years into it's life and I expected that. Speaking of monitors, I would never buy one directly from Apple. Yes they're pretty, but they're too damn expensive. $400 for a 17" monitor? You've gotta be kidding me. I bought my current 19" Samsung monitor for $300. The new monitors aren't just for the G4's last I heard, it's just that they support that new media plug that Apple is putting in all of their hardware. I'm pretty sure they still have VGA plugs. OS X is getting better and better with each dev release and it gonna be amazing when it's released in March. I'm sorry that you still like RedHat...
Ok, so if Apple goes under, don't all of the clone makers as well. Remember, Apple is the one creating the system software for all of these machines. There wouldn't be much point of making clones for an operating system that doesn't exist (at the time, Linux/PPC wasn't that viable of an alternative).
If you look really carefully, you can see the Start bar at the bottom of the screen. The reason it looks like a Macintosh window is the title bar, but that's not a close button in the upperleft corner. It's the icon from netscape/IE. It definitely is a windows machine it was captured from.
gah, definitely should have used preview on that one.
The funny part is that you believed that. It was a complete rumor started by some jackass who thought it would make him cool. I always wonder why people do that. Tim
Our university is connected to the internet through a link provided by GoodNet. GoodNet took it upon themselves a few days ago to just disable all access to Napster's servers without notifying anyone. My university is for the most part ok with Napster and got it turned back on, but the question is why didn't GoodNet notify anyone. Real good way to lose some customers if you ask me...
During the time I was looking for scholarships for college (around 1995), I came across an offer from the NSA. The "scholarship" would pay for you to go to school, but stipulated that you would have to work (paid position) for the NSA during summer vacation and for 5 years after you graduated from college. It was for computer science and electrical engineering majors. I seem to remember that someone I know at school told me that they came across something similar from the CIA as well. I don't know if these scholarships are offered anymore, but they are a good thing if you didn't mind moving to DC during your vacations, and provided you don't mind working for the US gov't.