I guess the extra 700 kph helps (cruising speed of the cargo lifter is 90kph say it can go flat out at 130?) The article says the transport would be flying at near the speed of sound (say 835 kph for the Globemaster III).
Not sure how much difference the additional velocity would make but it must help a bit.
If this is such a daft waste of money, as many posters have suggested, why don't the US government just let the EU waste their cash?
The fact they are concerned suggests it makes good strategic sense for the EU to do it.
Right now the US could destroy the European economies overnight (no flights, no shipping, damaged land freight and no military).
This has nothing to do with intentions, I cannot see the USA and Europe falling out an time soon, but capabilities. Any government that made itself permanently vulnerable in that way would be failing in its primary task of protecting its citizens.
We don't hang out much at the weekend 'cos we all live a long way from work.
We do beers two or three times a week (if we have a 'pass' from the spouse). We go out for an evening with spouses once in a while. We go go-carting once in a while.
I don't expect or plan for any backstabbing from any of the guys, never have and its never happened to me or anyone around me.
I don't know the word but I think it is illegal there. IIRC there is a law against jaywalking and the punishment (inflicted on the spot) is to have to stand with the traffic cop until he feels you've wasted enough time that you've missed the apointment that was so urgent that you had to take an illegal shortcut.
It is easy to say 'Oh they weren't really doing XP then' but it is hard to see how any project doing even half of the XP practices could develop something 'that never worked once', and did it for long enough for people to quit because of it. At the very least I would have expected the customer to 'can it after the second iteration.
It sounds more like they were using the AEP method.
If the Euros want to cripple themselves with over taxation, fine. Its a trivial market compared to the US anyway. After a few years their technology will have fallen behind the US's as their legislation cripples innovation and their best people go to the US where the real money is.
Then US companies can set their own terms and sell them whatever they like.
In Arthur Hailey's Slide Rule (very good book) he describes being a 'computer' on the R100 airship project (the one that worked to spec and didn't crash). There were a lot of protocols and procedures for the computing team to do a lot of complex maths in parallel with error checking etc.
Does anyone know where to start looking for the manual for a comuting hall?
Java doesn't let you use primitives (int, short, etc) as classes without wrapping them yourself (lots of overhead).... C# does.
So what? syntactical sugar, nothing more.
Not really. It is one of the main reasons the class library is such a mess (all those tests for primitives).
...
Java doesn't have property-handlers (eg. write functions that are treated as member variables - eg: a.setName("MyName") would become: a.Name = "MyName" - but it would still go through a function. These are great for encapsulation. C# has it - Java doesn't.
Syntactical sugar. I'd rather the code explicitly tell me that a function is or isn't being called. When i can't instantly look at a line of code and go "that's not calling a function" (which in C#'s case, i can't), then i won't trust the code.
No, its a better model. Why should you care how the class is implementing its features?
Agreed with the rest though.
Tom
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All true except for one thing.
Long hours won't save the project. Almost all deathmarch projects fail, mostly they never ship at all, the rest mostly crash and burn on the first maintenance release.
PHBs recruit youngsters because they are cheap, and don't understand how badly they are being abused. Its all driven by fear, the PHBs don't know what to do and are afraid of failure so they employ the only 'management' technique they understand - 'Work Harder!' (but they cannot measure that very easily so they translate it to 'work longer!').
Its the only technique they know because thats how they were managedd when they were young buck programmers. Then they got older and moved up into management.
Hiring young, inexperienced developers into roles requiring experience turns your development effort into a lottery. You may strike lucky and get one of the few guys who 'get it' straight off (I'm sure all slashdot readers fall into this category;-) but how often?
You could hold this up as an exemplar on how to write code when you have a stable, well specified requirement and lots of resources.
Most development teams don't live in that world and never will. Business users don't change their requirements because they are capricious, their requirements change, they just do, that's life.
I'm not saying that many (any?) development shops get it right but you have to apply an appropriate process for your circumstances.
That said a lot of what they do: team orientation, no-blame culture, focus on process improvement, focus on quality and fixing at source, will always help.
In The Peacemaker they disarmed the device by levering off one of the explosive panels around the core with a pocket knife. Still went off and they got a heavy radiation dose but NY was left intact.
The problem is it means I have to learn python if I want to fix/modify the tools. The great thing about XUnit (for example) is that there is an implementation for each language (even VB). That means that I, as a programmer in a language can fix/extend the tool without shifting gears.
Mandated language may be great for 'them', its just not so good for 'us'. (I know its already the case with make, e-macs etc).
Anyway, if we use one language shouldn't it be e-lisp? I mean, everyone uses emacs don't they?;-)
There will never be a single document standard. SGML has been around for 15+ years. It has tool support (from hard core publishing tools to WP 8), it is a true standard, it has government and industry support (from the engineering people who really care about documentation).
Why don't we use it? Because the software industry has NIH syndrome gone mad. Why use an existing standard format when you can roll your own format and maybe it'll become the new standard, you'll control it and make a fortune!
In a given environment one organism/organization will tend to exploit and dominate a particular niche. Positive feedback loops lead to 1 organism/organisation per niche.
The trick is to put the negative feedback in without having the government breathing down your neck all the time.
I believe formula 1 bosses were looking at something like this so that the car sponsorship logos would be added on digitally, broadcaster by broadcaster.
That way they could bypass national anti-smoking regulations and each team could sell more space per car.
Surely your kind of group will benefit most from Open Source. You don't have to worry about cheats so you can get all the benefits Open Source debugging without having to worry about people exploiting it.
The primitive types have a massive impact on Java's library design, robustness and program clarity. Java could have been developed to be almost as fast without them and would have been a lot better for it IMHO. Have a look at: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document 2712 for a good take on the issue.
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I guess the extra 700 kph helps (cruising speed of the cargo lifter is 90kph say it can go flat out at 130?) The article says the transport would be flying at near the speed of sound (say 835 kph for the Globemaster III).
Not sure how much difference the additional velocity would make but it must help a bit.
If this is such a daft waste of money, as many posters have suggested, why don't the US government just let the EU waste their cash?
The fact they are concerned suggests it makes good strategic sense for the EU to do it.
Right now the US could destroy the European economies overnight (no flights, no shipping, damaged land freight and no military).
This has nothing to do with intentions, I cannot see the USA and Europe falling out an time soon, but capabilities. Any government that made itself permanently vulnerable in that way would be failing in its primary task of protecting its citizens.
We don't hang out much at the weekend 'cos we all live a long way from work.
We do beers two or three times a week (if we have a 'pass' from the spouse). We go out for an evening with spouses once in a while. We go go-carting once in a while.
I don't expect or plan for any backstabbing from any of the guys, never have and its never happened to me or anyone around me.
Of course this isn't the USA so YMMV.
Where do you think they are flying from?
Please read the article properly. This is a nanotechnology. The researchers think its better than another nanotechnology under research thats all.
It supports plugins?
I don't know the word but I think it is illegal there. IIRC there is a law against jaywalking and the punishment (inflicted on the spot) is to have to stand with the traffic cop until he feels you've wasted enough time that you've missed the apointment that was so urgent that you had to take an illegal shortcut.
They have. have a look at The DaVinci Project
AEP
It is easy to say 'Oh they weren't really doing XP then' but it is hard to see how any project doing even half of the XP practices could develop something 'that never worked once', and did it for long enough for people to quit because of it. At the very least I would have expected the customer to 'can it after the second iteration.
It sounds more like they were using the AEP method.
Its a, sadly, common phenomenon.
If the Euros want to cripple themselves with over taxation, fine. Its a trivial market compared to the US anyway. After a few years their technology will have fallen behind the US's as their legislation cripples innovation and their best people go to the US where the real money is.
Then US companies can set their own terms and sell them whatever they like.
In Arthur Hailey's Slide Rule (very good book) he describes being a 'computer' on the R100 airship project (the one that worked to spec and didn't crash). There were a lot of protocols and procedures for the computing team to do a lot of complex maths in parallel with error checking etc.
Does anyone know where to start looking for the manual for a comuting hall?
Rgds.
Tom
Ah yes, but it doesn't catch the public imagination like a supposed third world country going to the Moon!
"My God, they'll be colonising it next, it'll be full before the US gets back there!"
Danger Will Robertson! Danger! Danger!
;-)
Tom
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Java doesn't let you use primitives (int, short, etc) as classes without wrapping them yourself (lots of overhead). ... C# does.
So what? syntactical sugar, nothing more.
Not really. It is one of the main reasons the class library is such a mess (all those tests for primitives).
...
Java doesn't have property-handlers (eg. write functions that are treated as member variables - eg: a.setName("MyName") would become: a.Name = "MyName" - but it would still go through a function. These are great for encapsulation. C# has it - Java doesn't.
Syntactical sugar. I'd rather the code explicitly tell me that a function is or isn't being called. When i can't instantly look at a line of code and go "that's not calling a function" (which in C#'s case, i can't), then i won't trust the code.
No, its a better model. Why should you care how the class is implementing its features?
Agreed with the rest though.
Tom
All true except for one thing.
;-) but how often?
Long hours won't save the project. Almost all deathmarch projects fail, mostly they never ship at all, the rest mostly crash and burn on the first maintenance release.
PHBs recruit youngsters because they are cheap, and don't understand how badly they are being abused. Its all driven by fear, the PHBs don't know what to do and are afraid of failure so they employ the only 'management' technique they understand - 'Work Harder!' (but they cannot measure that very easily so they translate it to 'work longer!').
Its the only technique they know because thats how they were managedd when they were young buck programmers. Then they got older and moved up into management.
Hiring young, inexperienced developers into roles requiring experience turns your development effort into a lottery. You may strike lucky and get one of the few guys who 'get it' straight off (I'm sure all slashdot readers fall into this category
Rgds.
Tom
You could hold this up as an exemplar on how to write code when you have a stable, well specified requirement and lots of resources.
Most development teams don't live in that world and never will. Business users don't change their requirements because they are capricious, their requirements change, they just do, that's life.
I'm not saying that many (any?) development shops get it right but you have to apply an appropriate process for your circumstances.
That said a lot of what they do: team orientation, no-blame culture, focus on process improvement, focus on quality and fixing at source, will always help.
Tom
In The Peacemaker they disarmed the device by levering off one of the explosive panels around the core with a pocket knife. Still went off and they got a heavy radiation dose but NY was left intact.
Generally underappreciated movie IMHO.
Tom
The problem is it means I have to learn python if I want to fix/modify the tools. The great thing about XUnit (for example) is that there is an implementation for each language (even VB). That means that I, as a programmer in a language can fix/extend the tool without shifting gears.
;-)
Mandated language may be great for 'them', its just not so good for 'us'. (I know its already the case with make, e-macs etc).
Anyway, if we use one language shouldn't it be e-lisp? I mean, everyone uses emacs don't they?
Tom
There will never be a single document standard. SGML has been around for 15+ years. It has tool support (from hard core publishing tools to WP 8), it is a true standard, it has government and industry support (from the engineering people who really care about documentation).
Why don't we use it? Because the software industry has NIH syndrome gone mad. Why use an existing standard format when you can roll your own format and maybe it'll become the new standard, you'll control it and make a fortune!
Tom
In a given environment one organism/organization will tend to exploit and dominate a particular niche. Positive feedback loops lead to 1 organism/organisation per niche.
The trick is to put the negative feedback in without having the government breathing down your neck all the time.
Tom
I believe formula 1 bosses were looking at something like this so that the car sponsorship logos would be added on digitally, broadcaster by broadcaster.
That way they could bypass national anti-smoking regulations and each team could sell more space per car.
Tom
Now there's my kind of geek!
see
http://www.newmedianews.com/022897/ts_hedy.html
if you don't know what she invented.
Tom
Surely your kind of group will benefit most from Open Source. You don't have to worry about cheats so you can get all the benefits Open Source debugging without having to worry about people exploiting it.
Rgds.
Tom
If they are just looking over your shoulder then you are not pair programming. During a pair programming session both developers are fully engaged.
Tom
The primitive types have a massive impact on Java's library design, robustness and program clarity. Java could have been developed to be almost as fast without them and would have been a lot better for it IMHO. Have a look at: http://www7.software.ibm.com/vad.nsf/Data/Document 2712 for a good take on the issue.
Tom