Facebook keeps showing me a person I might know and the only, ONLY, place I have ever seen the name before is in my Ancestry DNA match list. Never emailed. No common friends. We don't have a common ancestor in our trees yet and are about 5th cousins. The person lives in a different country, though I have visited the city and checked into places on FB.
I am just a technical guy, not the one writing business requirements, doing project management or signing off.
My point was, it is a general problem with how large technical projects are done and most "fail" because of the exact same reasons. This is not intended to start a discussion on techniques/methodologies.
I'm not trying to defend, it's just an observation.
Of course governments should be better at spending public money, but how can they be better when most organizations follow the same patterns and practices.
For the record, I don't work with or for any organization involved with that project.
I use the built-in 5.1 with speakers positioned for HTPC (and it's good enough - most action movies have too much noise anyway ) and a USB device for PC speakers next to the monitor.
I saw a comment about the Dewey system not being useful if everything is filed under one topic, and that makes sense.
The organization may come out of your tags. For example, my tags include fiction and non-fiction. Maybe this means using putting fiction on the left side of the room, non on the right. Within that, the tags may represent grouping on different shelves. Kinda like your local bookstore.
First, I am paying. I pay the cable company (not just for delivery services). The cable company pays network per subscriber and so on.
Second. I never demanded free content, not that I mind it. I am willing to pay for it, advertising free, but I am not given an option for method of payment.
Have your opinion, but don't bash MS just because.
They have acted no differently than any other company does to protect market share and profits.
I assume that none of the MS bashers holds any MS stock (check your retirement plan portfolio)?
I am a developer that works mainly the MS technologies and I have run everything from CP/M to Unix and almost every MS OS from it's initial beta (95-XP). There have been so few OS related problems, that I can not even remember what they might have been.
XP has been on my main system for years and I only turn off or reboot every few months (excluding sleep mode), mostly due to bad software installs or hardware failures.
It has never, ever, crashed, even though I regularly run SQL Server, IIS,.net and other development tools at the same time.
I have used Unix systems. I had a multi-user system in my basement in the early 80s. The *nix trend does nothing for me.
I have little actual time on a Mac, but I acknowledge and respect Apple's tech and innovations.
I love IE. Firefox? I have not installed a non-IE based browser since Netscape 3. Not to say that I have not used it on other's PCs.
Sure Windows could be better. No question. Sure the monopoly seems unfair. But isn't this one of the ultimate goals of any corporation? And could you imagine a corporate office where you can't run an application in the next cubicle because the OS is incompatible?
For the record, I have no MS affiliation in any way.
I am browsing in the bookstore. I see a really cute girl pick up a book that I have read. So I walk over and say, "If you like that book, I think you will like this one".
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I guess I'll have to hit pause and mute to answer the phone or have a bathroom break.
Facebook keeps showing me a person I might know and the only, ONLY, place I have ever seen the name before is in my Ancestry DNA match list. Never emailed. No common friends. We don't have a common ancestor in our trees yet and are about 5th cousins. The person lives in a different country, though I have visited the city and checked into places on FB.
abandonment
I am just a technical guy, not the one writing business requirements, doing project management or signing off.
My point was, it is a general problem with how large technical projects are done and most "fail" because of the exact same reasons. This is not intended to start a discussion on techniques/methodologies.
I'm not trying to defend, it's just an observation.
Of course governments should be better at spending public money, but how can they be better when most organizations follow the same patterns and practices.
For the record, I don't work with or for any organization involved with that project.
between that and most private sector projects?
Except for technical companies, almost every large project during my 30 year IT career had the same issues and reasons for failing.
developer's B bug only existed because of developer's A bug? Who fixes B's?
I use the built-in 5.1 with speakers positioned for HTPC (and it's good enough - most action movies have too much noise anyway ) and a USB device for PC speakers next to the monitor.
At the bottom of...well, everything.
I think it's time for Google to change the finance.google favicon from an upward trend chart.
Have the astronauts take the President's abstinence education.
I agree. Use librarything.com to track them.
Grouping them is up to you.
I saw a comment about the Dewey system not being useful if everything is filed under one topic, and that makes sense.
The organization may come out of your tags. For example, my tags include fiction and non-fiction. Maybe this means using putting fiction on the left side of the room, non on the right. Within that, the tags may represent grouping on different shelves. Kinda like your local bookstore.
First, I am paying. I pay the cable company (not just for delivery services). The cable company pays network per subscriber and so on.
Second. I never demanded free content, not that I mind it. I am willing to pay for it, advertising free, but I am not given an option for method of payment.
Have your opinion, but don't bash MS just because.
.net and other development tools at the same time.
They have acted no differently than any other company does to protect market share and profits.
I assume that none of the MS bashers holds any MS stock (check your retirement plan portfolio)?
I am a developer that works mainly the MS technologies and I have run everything from CP/M to Unix and almost every MS OS from it's initial beta (95-XP). There have been so few OS related problems, that I can not even remember what they might have been.
XP has been on my main system for years and I only turn off or reboot every few months (excluding sleep mode), mostly due to bad software installs or hardware failures.
It has never, ever, crashed, even though I regularly run SQL Server, IIS,
I have used Unix systems. I had a multi-user system in my basement in the early 80s. The *nix trend does nothing for me.
I have little actual time on a Mac, but I acknowledge and respect Apple's tech and innovations.
I love IE. Firefox? I have not installed a non-IE based browser since Netscape 3. Not to say that I have not used it on other's PCs.
Sure Windows could be better. No question. Sure the monopoly seems unfair. But isn't this one of the ultimate goals of any corporation? And could you imagine a corporate office where you can't run an application in the next cubicle because the OS is incompatible?
For the record, I have no MS affiliation in any way.
My meet-cute-girl-in-bookstore process...
I am browsing in the bookstore. I see a really cute girl pick up a book that I have read. So I walk over and say, "If you like that book, I think you will like this one".
Would the agent also run on my Pocket PC, the PC at my parents, girlfiends, work, at the kiosk at the mall?
I have found that buying a complete system is generally, I repeat, generally, cheaper. I have not figured out why as there are labour costs involved.
The advantage of build your own, IF you are comfortable doing so, is that you pick the parts.
I just did some quick comparisons of the Canadian compaines mentioned above and the best is one that is not, PCCanada.com
Yes, operator overloading is not supported, nor is it required.
Multiple inheritance can be done using interfaces; the better way.
AGC is there if you don't use pointers and why would you?