You can actually over-plan something, and by the time you've developed it and the users have made you change it, the plan is no good.
Absolutely.
And quite a few companies these days make people spend a boatload of time reporting on what they're doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems the big thing for the last ten years or so is have everyone do spend work hours doing Weekly Update Reports, Daily Metrics Summaries, Monthly Milestone Wrap Ups, etc etc etc.
And then they wonder "where did the time go" and "why stuff isn't getting done".
Add to everything you just said that programming, by and large, is a solitary sport, and a lot of this "management fad of the week" shit comes into sharp focus as nothing more than new and innovative ways to waste everyone's time by talking about what they're doing rather than actually doing it.
"Having a single major risk factor increased mortality rates slightly, but the study found that those who report multiple risk factors are significantly more likely to die early."
Wow, how insightful.
In other news, scientists found that being shot in the chest once increased mortality rates slightly, but those who are shot in the chest multiple times "are significantly more likely to die early."
For fighters, I think the F-16 and F-22 are well-regarded by their pilots; and the F-18 is beast on the Navy/Marine side.
There's only one fighter plane thatll be my honey-bunny shnookielumps forever and ever, and that's the F-15 Strike Eagle, the greatest airborne weapons platform ever created. Be still mah heart!
For everything else, there's the A-10, also known as the "make-them-shit-their-pants-in-fear" plane.
"...The $2 billion B-2 Spirit, introduced a decade later, had stealth technology so delicate that it could not go into the rain."
I know someone who works with the B-2 Spirit bombers, and he confirms this. If it's more than a drizzle, they don't fly them (they won't even take them out of the hangar). Thank goodness our enemies would never attack us while it's raining.
And don't even get me started on the F-35, also known as the "Little Plane That Can't". Can't fly, can't dogfight, can't turn, and can't land. Can't start the engine or takeoff if it's too hot or too cold, can't fly in the rain, can't shoot its gun twice in a row without jamming. As someone in the know once said, "It's like a $148 million garbage disposal for money." And that's the budget model, the Navy version (the F-35C) costs a staggering $337 million each.
The Soundblaster was the first audio card I ever bought, and it was amazing for its time. I think it was about $100, and that was in 1990 or thereabouts if I recall correctly.
I disagree, that's a bad analogy. It's more like the schoolyard bully getting to the line before you (without any elbowing or bad behavior at all, but maybe he can run faster), grabbing up all the desserts, and selling them to you at an inflated price. You should have gotten to the line faster.
But that's just it...you can be in line before them, and their massive, tidal-wave hammering of the site with their botnet means you still lose out.
Saying, "You should have gotten to the line faster" is like saying "You should have bought those tickets before anyone else could", or possibly, "You should have run your own botnet to make sure you had a fighting chance."
By only charging $50 when they could have charged $200 and still sold out they know that some of their younger or at least less wealthy fans will be able to have a chance to come see. Bots negate this and put the rapacious capitalism back into place
Exactly. The people doing this are the ones ruining it for everyone else.
What the bots (read: the people running the bots) do is not much different than a schoolyard bully elbowing his way into the lunch line ahead of you to grab the last couple of desserts that you wanted, and then offering to sell them to you at an inflated price.
Is it legal? Mmmmmm...maybe. Possibly. The fact is that I'm not really sure whether or not it's legal...but I know it's wrong in the greater scheme of things.
Ah, but you *can* see hte bullet in flight as it moves away from you if you are the shooter
If you shoot at someone across the room (or at "Stormtrooper" distance, let's say), no fucking way will you see the bullet coming or going. And neither will they.
Of all the people shot at close range not a one of them has ever said, "Yo, I could see the bullet comin' at me!"
You might want to have a look at server market share. You might find that you're missing what's really going on.
I might be, but that doesn't negate what I'm observing on a daily basis one bit.
The fact is that Microsoft is experiencing a huge, HUGE fucking demand for their Azure stuff and their cloud services. HUGE. I'm not kidding, I sit in meetings where they're talking about how fast they can buy huge tracts of land and lease big-ass buildings to turn into secure server farms in order to meet the current demand. They can't build out the physical spaces fast enough to keep up.
Whatever is going on, they're getting a huge fucking piece of it, okay? I personally don't give two shits for Azure, but someone out there sure does and that's a fact, like it or not. Good or bad, the Azure stuff has become very, very popular (and very, very lucrative).
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." Not in a distant future,
So, timescale aside....it's an energy weapon used by a civilization with technology far, far in advance of our own, that fires a payload that moves slower than a carefully-sized lead pellet being forced down a steel tube by the power of expanding gases?
This is a civilization that casually travels the stars, blows up entire fucking planets, and harnesses energy forces beyond our wildest comprehension, and yet their weapon of choice fires a colorful plasma blob that you could practically outrun on a bicycle?
As someone who is peripherally involved with MS data centers I can tell you that the whole Azure/cloud thing is booming like mad. It's insane.
They literally cannot build data centers fast enough so what they're doing is buying and/or leasing buildings, gutting them, rebuilding them and hardening them to keep up with demand. And they're still not keeping up, there's a huge pent up backlog of demand and capacity that is growing like crazy. They literally can't keep up with the need for secured server space that meets their requirements.
Sure. When your system is hacked into because you misconfigured something because it was so fucking confusing that even Linus couldn't set it up correctly and you lose your job... that'll show big mean Microsoft.
Yes...thank goodness Microsoft servers are impervious to hacking or misconfiguration.
Modern handgun ammo as would be used in military (9mm, 45acp) is usually 800ish to 1300ish feet/sec, depending on caliber and exact load. Some new stuff (5.7x28, 22 TCM) drives a small light bullet at super high velocities - 1700+fps.
Exactly....and you can't damn sure can't see the bullet as it travels across the room, whereas somehow you can see these fancy fucking laser-plasma-whatever weapons shooting their blobs of energy as if they were taking a leisurely stroll in the park.
Those are blasters, not lasers. If you can see a discreet glob of energy fly fast through the air, it's not made of photons, it's giving off photons as a side-effect.
So this advanced energy weapon fires a "discreet glob of energy" that moves slower than a 20th-century handgun bullet?
Your human target is 50 feet away and barely moving and yet SOMEHOW all of your crack Stormtroopers miss with a weapon that shoots at the speed of light.
A gigantic weapons platform (the Deathstar) with virtually NO point defense, virtually NO fighter screen, and practically no close-in, anti-attacker weapon mount points. WTF??
Yeah, seeing my name on a Facebook shaming ad would definitely make me pay....NOT!
I'd call up, cancel my service, and also let them know that I'll be posting my own version of Facebook shaming ads, featuring them and their toxic, anti-customer attitude. And I bet mine would get waaaaaaaaaaaay more visibility than theirs would.
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"The problem is rain erosion they do not fly training missions in the rain"
and
"There is no issue flying in the rain"
Obviously, there IS an issue "flying in the rain". That's why "they do not fly training missions in the rain".
You can actually over-plan something, and by the time you've developed it and the users have made you change it, the plan is no good.
Absolutely.
And quite a few companies these days make people spend a boatload of time reporting on what they're doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems the big thing for the last ten years or so is have everyone do spend work hours doing Weekly Update Reports, Daily Metrics Summaries, Monthly Milestone Wrap Ups, etc etc etc.
And then they wonder "where did the time go" and "why stuff isn't getting done".
Bingo, and very well said.
Add to everything you just said that programming, by and large, is a solitary sport, and a lot of this "management fad of the week" shit comes into sharp focus as nothing more than new and innovative ways to waste everyone's time by talking about what they're doing rather than actually doing it.
"Having a single major risk factor increased mortality rates slightly, but the study found that those who report multiple risk factors are significantly more likely to die early."
Wow, how insightful.
In other news, scientists found that being shot in the chest once increased mortality rates slightly, but those who are shot in the chest multiple times "are significantly more likely to die early."
The problem is rain erosion they do not fly training missions in the rain as it is very costly to make repairs. There is no issue flying in the rain.
Those two statements contradict each other.
"The problem is rain erosion they do not fly training missions in the rain"
and
"There is no issue flying in the rain"
You mention an issue and then immediately claim it's not an issue. Hello? Do you ever read what you write?
For fighters, I think the F-16 and F-22 are well-regarded by their pilots; and the F-18 is beast on the Navy/Marine side.
There's only one fighter plane thatll be my honey-bunny shnookielumps forever and ever, and that's the F-15 Strike Eagle, the greatest airborne weapons platform ever created. Be still mah heart!
For everything else, there's the A-10, also known as the "make-them-shit-their-pants-in-fear" plane.
"...The $2 billion B-2 Spirit, introduced a decade later, had stealth technology so delicate that it could not go into the rain."
I know someone who works with the B-2 Spirit bombers, and he confirms this. If it's more than a drizzle, they don't fly them (they won't even take them out of the hangar). Thank goodness our enemies would never attack us while it's raining.
And don't even get me started on the F-35, also known as the "Little Plane That Can't". Can't fly, can't dogfight, can't turn, and can't land. Can't start the engine or takeoff if it's too hot or too cold, can't fly in the rain, can't shoot its gun twice in a row without jamming. As someone in the know once said, "It's like a $148 million garbage disposal for money." And that's the budget model, the Navy version (the F-35C) costs a staggering $337 million each.
The Soundblaster was the first audio card I ever bought, and it was amazing for its time. I think it was about $100, and that was in 1990 or thereabouts if I recall correctly.
That defines a pacifist civilization in my book. One which puts more effort into Space travel than in weapons development.
Maybe, but it sounds like an extreme rationalization to me.
Of all the things I want to do, this isn't one of them. Not even close.
If other people want this then more power to them, but as for me? Meh.
I disagree, that's a bad analogy. It's more like the schoolyard bully getting to the line before you (without any elbowing or bad behavior at all, but maybe he can run faster), grabbing up all the desserts, and selling them to you at an inflated price. You should have gotten to the line faster.
But that's just it...you can be in line before them, and their massive, tidal-wave hammering of the site with their botnet means you still lose out.
Saying, "You should have gotten to the line faster" is like saying "You should have bought those tickets before anyone else could", or possibly, "You should have run your own botnet to make sure you had a fighting chance."
By only charging $50 when they could have charged $200 and still sold out they know that some of their younger or at least less wealthy fans will be able to have a chance to come see. Bots negate this and put the rapacious capitalism back into place
Exactly. The people doing this are the ones ruining it for everyone else.
What the bots (read: the people running the bots) do is not much different than a schoolyard bully elbowing his way into the lunch line ahead of you to grab the last couple of desserts that you wanted, and then offering to sell them to you at an inflated price.
Is it legal? Mmmmmm...maybe. Possibly. The fact is that I'm not really sure whether or not it's legal...but I know it's wrong in the greater scheme of things.
Ah, but you *can* see hte bullet in flight as it moves away from you if you are the shooter
If you shoot at someone across the room (or at "Stormtrooper" distance, let's say), no fucking way will you see the bullet coming or going. And neither will they.
Of all the people shot at close range not a one of them has ever said, "Yo, I could see the bullet comin' at me!"
You might want to have a look at server market share. You might find that you're missing what's really going on.
I might be, but that doesn't negate what I'm observing on a daily basis one bit.
The fact is that Microsoft is experiencing a huge, HUGE fucking demand for their Azure stuff and their cloud services. HUGE. I'm not kidding, I sit in meetings where they're talking about how fast they can buy huge tracts of land and lease big-ass buildings to turn into secure server farms in order to meet the current demand. They can't build out the physical spaces fast enough to keep up.
Whatever is going on, they're getting a huge fucking piece of it, okay? I personally don't give two shits for Azure, but someone out there sure does and that's a fact, like it or not. Good or bad, the Azure stuff has become very, very popular (and very, very lucrative).
"A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." Not in a distant future,
So, timescale aside....it's an energy weapon used by a civilization with technology far, far in advance of our own, that fires a payload that moves slower than a carefully-sized lead pellet being forced down a steel tube by the power of expanding gases?
This is a civilization that casually travels the stars, blows up entire fucking planets, and harnesses energy forces beyond our wildest comprehension, and yet their weapon of choice fires a colorful plasma blob that you could practically outrun on a bicycle?
As someone who is peripherally involved with MS data centers I can tell you that the whole Azure/cloud thing is booming like mad. It's insane.
They literally cannot build data centers fast enough so what they're doing is buying and/or leasing buildings, gutting them, rebuilding them and hardening them to keep up with demand. And they're still not keeping up, there's a huge pent up backlog of demand and capacity that is growing like crazy. They literally can't keep up with the need for secured server space that meets their requirements.
Sure. When your system is hacked into because you misconfigured something because it was so fucking confusing that even Linus couldn't set it up correctly and you lose your job ... that'll show big mean Microsoft.
Yes...thank goodness Microsoft servers are impervious to hacking or misconfiguration.
From one old guy to another, I'm glad we can both have some fun with it. :-)
Us oldsters have all the fun, because we've tried everything and we can remember what was good versus what caused a sucking chest wound.
Modern handgun ammo as would be used in military (9mm, 45acp) is usually 800ish to 1300ish feet/sec, depending on caliber and exact load. Some new stuff (5.7x28, 22 TCM) drives a small light bullet at super high velocities - 1700+fps.
Exactly....and you can't damn sure can't see the bullet as it travels across the room, whereas somehow you can see these fancy fucking laser-plasma-whatever weapons shooting their blobs of energy as if they were taking a leisurely stroll in the park.
Those are blasters, not lasers. If you can see a discreet glob of energy fly fast through the air, it's not made of photons, it's giving off photons as a side-effect.
So this advanced energy weapon fires a "discreet glob of energy" that moves slower than a 20th-century handgun bullet?
I think the Mythbusters did some measurements on an episode and determined that blasters fire travels slower than light. And they tried to dodge it.
So....it's an energy weapon that fires a payload that moves slower than a 20th century handgun bullet?
I'm looking at you, Star Wars.
Your human target is 50 feet away and barely moving and yet SOMEHOW all of your crack Stormtroopers miss with a weapon that shoots at the speed of light.
A gigantic weapons platform (the Deathstar) with virtually NO point defense, virtually NO fighter screen, and practically no close-in, anti-attacker weapon mount points. WTF??
It was horrible. I laughed. Oh did I laugh. I am, of course, a wee bit sorry for the resultant mayhem.
Lol, it's like committing a heinous crime for which there is no penalty and that you can't be held responsible for.. :)
Yeah, seeing my name on a Facebook shaming ad would definitely make me pay....NOT!
I'd call up, cancel my service, and also let them know that I'll be posting my own version of Facebook shaming ads, featuring them and their toxic, anti-customer attitude. And I bet mine would get waaaaaaaaaaaay more visibility than theirs would.
My insightful commentary on this is, "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"