This is a serious complaint. The parent could be erroneously moderated as a troll, but the reality is that while a thousand little (and big) functions have been added to cell phones over the last few years, what has been done to improve the quality of the call itself?
For >50 years, developed nations have enjoyed highly-reliable land line phone systems, complete with excellent sound quality (for a phone) and consistent "signal".
I wish phone companies would spend a little more of their time and money making wireless networks as reliable as land lines have been for so long.
Give me a phone that makes and takes calls, doesn't drop calls, and sounds good. THEN talk to me about how it can stream content.
There were several ways you could have asked that question without being utterly disrepectful, and without sounding like you're lashing out at the world.
The people you're talking about are hardworking and dedicated people at the forefront of exploration. If the sequence of their efforts at exploration isn't logical to you, consider the possibility that you lack key information fueling your basic assumptions, and frame your question with that in mind.
Otherwise, it's more difficult for the people who know the answers to cull the question from the troll.
That may well be true for some or even most southern states, but Texas is a donor state, which is to say it sends more money to the federal gov't than it receives.
I would suspect Florida is the same, although I don't know that offhand, and I'm not inclined to go googling for it right now at the office.
Texas and Florida, though, are unusually powerful economies for the typically more agrarian southern states.
These problems are not at all limited to IT projects. I would wager that 95% of ALL projects of ALL kinds are delivered late, or not at all.
And when I say late, I mean the originally conceived due date, not the constantly-amended, only-finalized-when-the-project-is-about-to-ship "ontime" delivery date.
There are four main reasons why projects slip: 1) Feature creep (Bloat) 2) Project procrastination (Parkinson's Law) 3) Overestimation of task-times 4) Multitasking
#1 is obvious. EVERYONE says "why don't we just add this one extra thing...it'll be snap..." Right.
#2 is less obvious. I don't refer to laziness. People are just busy with a million things (read: stupid, pointless meetings that sap productivity) and so they delay working on something until it's more urgent, because someone is screaming for something else right NOW.
#3 is devastating. Everyone involved in a project adds their own little padding to their estimation of the time it will take to do something. They think, "I can probably do it in X hours, but I don't want to be late, so I'll estimate 2X hours."
Since EVERY single person in the project is doing this all along the way (including the project manager), it's impossible for the project not to be delivered late, especially since even these doubled time estimates can't be met because of #2 above ("Oh, I have twice as much time as I need, so I'll do this part later.")
#4, multitasking, is the reason for #3. Since we all have to put up with constant interruptions, like pointless meetings, chatty co-workers, bosses' (yes, plural) questions, and other projects, we are never able to focus and get the really important parts done QUICKLY. The human mind can be a truly immense intelligence, but with so many tasks fragmenting our focus, few people reach their daily potential.
The point? A lot can be done by simply sticking to a plan, scheduling aggressively, and then arranging for everyone to leave your people the f&*# alone, and they'll amaze you with what they're capable of.
However, the typical uppity-up's response is to blame the employees who do the work. It would be much closer to the truth for them to blame themselves, as they dictate the environment that keeps people "multitasking" to death and never achieving their best.
Nope-- Mars '98 was the famous failure of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander- the first from navigation problems, the second from mechanical/software problems. They launched in '98 and arrived in '99.
Regarding the delay of the Marsis boom deployment on Mars Express- it's delayed indefinitely at this time. The MEX engineers are currently planning to be sure it completes its prime mission before risking the deployment.
Phoenix is rather depending on detailed photos sent back from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, set to launch in August, for landing site selection.
It costs too much fuel to slow the spacecraft down sufficiently to allow it enter orbit before landing- it's just not feasible. Phoenix will be entering directly.
I was going to say the exact same thing. I'm glad I scanned the responses first.
The interesting thing about Heinlein's story was that a businessman was willing to buy advertising space on the moon, just so he could maintain its lack of advertisement.
He (and his company's product) would then be hailed as wonderful for being the saviors of the pristine surface of our satellite.
However, you fail to consider the intangible benefits of being able to show investers that you went from $1 billion in debt to no debt whatsoever.
In 1997 Apple was in very bad shape, and investors and consumers were distancing themselves from the potential for losses and orphaned technology.
There is now a great reassurance to people who might buy Apple products that the company is recovered fully, will exist indefinitely, and can be safely counted upon.
Jobs likely expects the benefits to outweigh any loss of financial opportunity here.
2) His character was seen after season four. He came back for an excellent season seven episode.
However, good insightful comments about the writing of his characters. I never quite looked at the inverse relationship of his characters in Star Trek and Stand By Me. Roddenberry really didn't have anything to say with the Wesley character. He seemed to just want him around to be some kind of superior innocence.
I wonder how Gene reacted to the public irritation with his characterization of Mr. Crusher.
Rebates are a company's way of saying, "We don't really care about you, but we want you to think we're giving you a good deal, and we're pretty sure you're too stupid to know the difference."
If they wanted to lower the price of something, they'd just lower the price. Rebates are almost a slap-in-the-face brazen admission that they think you're an idiot.
I got your point, but the assumption you make is that you rely only on yourself for your progress. In my experience, that is rarely the case. You can be as industrious as you want, but if you're waiting for party X's code block, or party Y's installer fixes, before you can properly test or even complete your code, then the success of your project flows not through you, but through your slowest cog.
They were foolishly measuring the wrong things. You can track the progress of a project but you cannot absolutely quantify it.
Managers who don't know any better demand "best-guess" estimates, then use those inherently false estimates to create hard deadlines and make promises to higher-ups. Then they wonder why everything goes to shit.
The recoil mitigator is along the same technological branch as the Heisenburg compensator. The manufacturing process is remarkably simple. All you do is hire a bunch of people to sit on an assembly line and prove "p and not p" over and over, and the mitigators just appear!
Interesting, but you neglect to calculate the time required to get the data onto the tapes and then backk off the tapes. I would bet if you add that time to the bandwidth calculation, you would lose a great deal of the benefit.
...of UT, I think it's reasonable to assume that I'm among the names taken by the bastards.
Unfortunately, I don't have a clue what to do about potential identity theft. I mean, everything uses your SSN. What steps can one take to protect one's identity?
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This is a serious complaint. The parent could be erroneously moderated as a troll, but the reality is that while a thousand little (and big) functions have been added to cell phones over the last few years, what has been done to improve the quality of the call itself?
For >50 years, developed nations have enjoyed highly-reliable land line phone systems, complete with excellent sound quality (for a phone) and consistent "signal".
I wish phone companies would spend a little more of their time and money making wireless networks as reliable as land lines have been for so long.
Give me a phone that makes and takes calls, doesn't drop calls, and sounds good. THEN talk to me about how it can stream content.
Why would I install this toolbar when I have instant search access to google built in to Firefox already?
Obviously the google toolbar offers a few bells and whistles, but I'll never use them. I just want to search.
So, the Google toolbar for IE makes sense, this one not so much.
Am I missing something?
Are those bells and whistles something worth sacrificing half an inch of screen real estate?
There were several ways you could have asked that question without being utterly disrepectful, and without sounding like you're lashing out at the world.
The people you're talking about are hardworking and dedicated people at the forefront of exploration. If the sequence of their efforts at exploration isn't logical to you, consider the possibility that you lack key information fueling your basic assumptions, and frame your question with that in mind.
Otherwise, it's more difficult for the people who know the answers to cull the question from the troll.
That may well be true for some or even most southern states, but Texas is a donor state, which is to say it sends more money to the federal gov't than it receives.
I would suspect Florida is the same, although I don't know that offhand, and I'm not inclined to go googling for it right now at the office.
Texas and Florida, though, are unusually powerful economies for the typically more agrarian southern states.
These problems are not at all limited to IT projects. I would wager that 95% of ALL projects of ALL kinds are delivered late, or not at all.
And when I say late, I mean the originally conceived due date, not the constantly-amended, only-finalized-when-the-project-is-about-to-ship "ontime" delivery date.
There are four main reasons why projects slip:
1) Feature creep (Bloat)
2) Project procrastination (Parkinson's Law)
3) Overestimation of task-times
4) Multitasking
#1 is obvious. EVERYONE says "why don't we just add this one extra thing...it'll be snap..." Right.
#2 is less obvious. I don't refer to laziness. People are just busy with a million things (read: stupid, pointless meetings that sap productivity) and so they delay working on something until it's more urgent, because someone is screaming for something else right NOW.
#3 is devastating. Everyone involved in a project adds their own little padding to their estimation of the time it will take to do something. They think, "I can probably do it in X hours, but I don't want to be late, so I'll estimate 2X hours."
Since EVERY single person in the project is doing this all along the way (including the project manager), it's impossible for the project not to be delivered late, especially since even these doubled time estimates can't be met because of #2 above ("Oh, I have twice as much time as I need, so I'll do this part later.")
#4, multitasking, is the reason for #3. Since we all have to put up with constant interruptions, like pointless meetings, chatty co-workers, bosses' (yes, plural) questions, and other projects, we are never able to focus and get the really important parts done QUICKLY. The human mind can be a truly immense intelligence, but with so many tasks fragmenting our focus, few people reach their daily potential.
The point? A lot can be done by simply sticking to a plan, scheduling aggressively, and then arranging for everyone to leave your people the f&*# alone, and they'll amaze you with what they're capable of.
However, the typical uppity-up's response is to blame the employees who do the work. It would be much closer to the truth for them to blame themselves, as they dictate the environment that keeps people "multitasking" to death and never achieving their best.
Nope-- Mars '98 was the famous failure of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander- the first from navigation problems, the second from mechanical/software problems. They launched in '98 and arrived in '99.
Regarding the delay of the Marsis boom deployment on Mars Express- it's delayed indefinitely at this time. The MEX engineers are currently planning to be sure it completes its prime mission before risking the deployment.
Phoenix is rather depending on detailed photos sent back from the Mars Reconaissance Orbiter, set to launch in August, for landing site selection.
It costs too much fuel to slow the spacecraft down sufficiently to allow it enter orbit before landing- it's just not feasible. Phoenix will be entering directly.
I was going to say the exact same thing. I'm glad I scanned the responses first.
The interesting thing about Heinlein's story was that a businessman was willing to buy advertising space on the moon, just so he could maintain its lack of advertisement.
He (and his company's product) would then be hailed as wonderful for being the saviors of the pristine surface of our satellite.
Cool story.
What you say is true, all else being equal.
However, you fail to consider the intangible benefits of being able to show investers that you went from $1 billion in debt to no debt whatsoever.
In 1997 Apple was in very bad shape, and investors and consumers were distancing themselves from the potential for losses and orphaned technology.
There is now a great reassurance to people who might buy Apple products that the company is recovered fully, will exist indefinitely, and can be safely counted upon.
Jobs likely expects the benefits to outweigh any loss of financial opportunity here.
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Crap! Why isn't this working?
I believe that would be:
brickwall@adobe.com
Not exactly.
1) Wil quit the show, he wasn't canned.
2) His character was seen after season four. He came back for an excellent season seven episode.
However, good insightful comments about the writing of his characters. I never quite looked at the inverse relationship of his characters in Star Trek and Stand By Me. Roddenberry really didn't have anything to say with the Wesley character. He seemed to just want him around to be some kind of superior innocence.
I wonder how Gene reacted to the public irritation with his characterization of Mr. Crusher.
Anyone know? CleverNickName?
You mean to tell me I couldn't see every instance of that joke while browsing at +3?
:P
Shocking!
BTW, does that joke get half as funny each time it's told?
...One-Quarter Life?
Sorry.
Rebates are a company's way of saying, "We don't really care about you, but we want you to think we're giving you a good deal, and we're pretty sure you're too stupid to know the difference."
If they wanted to lower the price of something, they'd just lower the price. Rebates are almost a slap-in-the-face brazen admission that they think you're an idiot.
mcdonalds.iq, yahoo.iq, and amazon.iq
Shall we start the bidding at $1 million each?
I got your point, but the assumption you make is that you rely only on yourself for your progress. In my experience, that is rarely the case. You can be as industrious as you want, but if you're waiting for party X's code block, or party Y's installer fixes, before you can properly test or even complete your code, then the success of your project flows not through you, but through your slowest cog.
I agree that this is both the logical response and the reality of the business world.
However, it's utter bullshit if you're actually trying to get something done. You'll ALWAYS underperform to your longest predictions.
They were foolishly measuring the wrong things. You can track the progress of a project but you cannot absolutely quantify it.
Managers who don't know any better demand "best-guess" estimates, then use those inherently false estimates to create hard deadlines and make promises to higher-ups. Then they wonder why everything goes to shit.
The recoil mitigator is along the same technological branch as the Heisenburg compensator. The manufacturing process is remarkably simple. All you do is hire a bunch of people to sit on an assembly line and prove "p and not p" over and over, and the mitigators just appear!
Well, I listen to music in my head sometimes, which is to say I copied the song into my brain.
Am I stealing?
Interesting, but you neglect to calculate the time required to get the data onto the tapes and then backk off the tapes. I would bet if you add that time to the bandwidth calculation, you would lose a great deal of the benefit.
that March 2nd is Texas Independence day?
Could this be a politically- or culturally-motivated attack?
...of UT, I think it's reasonable to assume that I'm among the names taken by the bastards.
Unfortunately, I don't have a clue what to do about potential identity theft. I mean, everything uses your SSN. What steps can one take to protect one's identity?