Any _good_ sales or marketing team should be able to turn it around and show that this is actually a good thing and helps in getting more stable production software.
First off, I would love it if people took unit testing more seriously and automated it! In my view that helps greatly for getting robust software. However, not for all tests automating is the answer. Especially when you get to acceptance testing (where we validate, rather than verify) or when you do integration testing for systems that communicate with other systems it is not a silver bullet. Aside from feasibility, as automating is time consuming, there are more drawbacks. Automating all tests means assuming that you can anticipate everything that can be wrong and even anticipate every test that should be done just based on the specs. Exactly the context driven testers (such as James Bach and Michael Bolton) believe you can't, we humans are not 'wired' that way. In fact they even are of the opinion (as am I) that the best testing is done by people that design tests to a great deal as you go while testing as long as these are skilled people that understand how the software should work.
Rigorously testing software via automated tests, please do. But in my view there should always still be people that test and see for themselves. The automated tests can and will miss things that are plain obvious to human testers.
I dont know which part you missed about the white house being all black nowadays, and most position of power including the NASA being too, in a country where 75% of people are non-black.
If Obama would get a white intern, would that make things a bit better?
I have literally never had a complaint with an intel motherboard except when it had onboard ATI graphics — Mach64CT, what a POS, you couldn't even trust it to provide a framebuffer without getting the colors wrong.
server mainboards, who cares about the colors? That includes windows.
I own a Prius, my second one. And I keep seeing people make a lot of fuss about the battery replacement. Really, does anyone have some real data on this? My dealer said he never experienced a customer coming in and asking for it (and they sold a lot of these cars due to the tax benefits in my country). But I realize that a car dealer doesn' t sound too objective.
At this moment I still believe the vast majority of hybrid cars, at least the Prius, will never have a replacement. At most the capacity in the end will be so low that the fuel benefits are nearly negated, but in such old cars you don't invest in replacing the batteries. Simply keep driving it.
Up hill: even my previous Prius (which had a small 1.5 liter engine) was the best car I ever drove in the mountains. The aid of the electric part really makes a difference. And down hill was even better as it breaks 'on the engine' much better than a normal car. I am sure it doesn't get close to a a four wheel drive, but it saying it is terrible up hill seems a myth to me.
It's not a sports car, but at least the current model with the 1.8L engine is not slow either. You can't compare it to cars like BMW or Audi or such cars. But take a test drive once.
What is true in my view is that for long distances, the advantages of the hybrid are nearly gone. I get decent mileage if I drive long distances, but that seems to me has more to do with the design of the car rather than with the hybrid part.
So coming back to my original question, does anyone have some realistic data on battery replacement?
Perhaps NASA can develop a spray paint kind of solution to fully seal the rock. That would probably weigh a lot less to transport to Mars than a structure strong enough to provide proper shelter against dust storms etc. Caves provide less extreme temperatures which might reduce the energy requirements as well.
Why was I buying a $25k car instead of a $8k car again?
Because if you drive 80 miles a day, it may be cheaper to buy a car that uses less gas. Especially if you take into account that it will last you longer, as it is newer, so it will either save you another $8K a few years from now.
It depends on the price of gas (which is high where I live) but driving an old car makes sense if you have low mileage.
ehm, numbers give them headaches. Use graphs and pictures. And the first slide should be some stock photo with smiling young people that are engaged in something completely unrelated.
Oh and if you report on a project, use a traffic light that is green or use smileys...
>> European socialist capitalism vastly expanded to the point where no one has to work unless they want to
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
And why would you ask Soviets and Cuba or Venezuela how European socialist capitalism is going? They don't/didn't have that.
Better ask the Swedes or the Norwegians. Those are much better examples.
I have a tip for you then, you probably don't need to go 'no-carb'.
I stopped eating wheat and dairy for bowel problems. I replaced wheat with spelt (different grain) for bread, cookies, pasta etc. And not only did it for me also solve nose issues as well as the bowel issues, I also lost the 20kg weight I had gained since my early twenties.
I personally believe that in stead of no carb, people should go with the right carbs.
I'm part of one of these younger generations, and I'm honestly not interested in getting involved because I've seen how much of a raging asshole Linuz can be. He's a great maintainer, but he could be honest and give constructive criticism in less condescending ways. I'm not as experienced as he is, but that doesn't give him the right to be a complete dick in public theater.
You've managed to asses that he is 'a raging asshole', but now how to properly spell his name?
Even if there was load testing, in my experience load and stress testing is within the test community not something that is very well developed. Two days ago I spoke about performance testing on a 4 day conference ( http://www.eurostarconferences.com/ ) and my talk was the only one that dealt with performance.
In my view, this fields needs to be better developed. Tests usually focus just on response times, based on usage profiles that are practically fantasy. Monitoring of the systems is minimal, and the queuing model is usually not even known to the testers.
Since 'smart watches' were introduced I've personally believed that they were doing it the wrong way around. I'd rather have a watch that has radio and can do the basics (call/text) and have a mini tablet that tethers with the watch for it's connection.
Now for me for this to become really interesting they'd have to: - waterproof them - partner with the better watch maker brands to make the watches look like 'normal watches' (for texting they could use the divers ring as an input device, just turn to right letter and press) - include car opening remote control (why not) - include a mini Bluetooth receiver that you can 'un-click' from the watch and hold close to your ear to make the calls less ''knight rider calls kitt'
Great for going to the beach. No longer have to worry about your keys, phone when taking a swim. And no longer a need to carry your phone around all the time as it is around your wrist. There are many occasions I'd rather leave my smartphone at home or in my desk as long as I still can be reached
Despite the statement, Gelsinger also said that OpenStack is an important strategic initiative for VMware that it is committed to supporting. VMware will work to ensure its products and services work in cloud environments based on the open source platform. And in that sense, Gelsinger says OpenStack is opening up a whole new opportunity for VMware to penetrate the service provider market, which is he says the company has not focused heavily on in the past. “We’re seeing (OpenStack) as an opportunity to extend our position,” Gelsinger said.
You'll see that, despite the remarks on 'not for the enterprise', he is certainly not laughing at OpenStack. Maybe, just maybe, they may even not fight OpenStack!
Sounds very logical, however my personal (anecdotal) experience does not corroborate that. I went slow carbs kind off accidental. I discovered that eating wheat was the cause of gut problems I had. I stopped (replaced mainly by Spelt, which apparently has a much lower effect on insulin production) and within weeks my clothes were too loose. Now two years later I have the same size in my jeans as I had when I was 18.. (lost about 20 kg)
If you look at the total of carbs I get today, it doesn't differ too much from before. Mostly since I never did eat much processed food or food with white sugar in it. Yet all the 'middle aged' fat is gone.
So while it sounds logical, ' you get the same amount' , the body does not work as a simple math equation. So far the best fitting explanation I've seen is the effect of insulin produced. Not even glycemic index gives you the full picture. Spelt has a high glycemic index. Yet it made the world of difference for me. But from what I've read, it does seem however that you produce less insulin.
I think the biggest mistake made is the idea that you can simply count the calories in food and expect that is all there is to it. We are not petri dishes
- An easy way to install drivers for peripherals. If your printer/scanner/MFC isn't supported out of the box, it's potluck if the manufacturer has produced anything. If they have, then it's potluck how well it works. Compare and contrast with Windows, which has Windows update and besides, nobody is about to produce hardware without Windows drivers..
This is so funny. Been on Linux for years now. And I actually don't need an easy way to install drivers, because I don't have to install them! Everything just works. Been that way since I switched to Ubuntu. Sometimes I have to tick a radio button to let the OS know I do want proprietary drivers, that's all.
Windows needs an easy way to install drivers since: it requires you to install drivers. My Windows 7 install couldn't even read my external hard drive before I dug up drivers somewhere for the USB3 card. And that was after the install of the OS itself which still after all this years takes countless reboots. Felt like the nineties all over again. Since I used to install Windows on machines in the past as my job (OK, long time ago) I think I can say that I am no beginner in that field either.
Wrong is a bit strong, but you can follow the scientific method perfectly and produce undesirable results.
Example: If I have a flat tire on my bicycle and go to a repair shop. They can then sell me a pump and tell me to fill up the tire three times a day with air. Assuming the hole is not too large that will work. And they can proof that filling up with air for small holes will work by randomized double blind tests. It is still stupid advice. You ought to fix the hole.
Effectively western medicine often acts like that repairs shop. We get stuff to fill up something missing, which they could proof randomized double blind will help your symptoms. But fixing the real cause is often much harder to understand and even harder to proof with the strict rules.
The randomized double blind tests are expensive. So they only get someone to pay for it if it will lead to profits. That is a lot easier to achieve for medicine that need to be taken x times a day for a long period than for one time fixes. That's no pharmaceutical conspiracy, it is just plain economics.
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Any _good_ sales or marketing team should be able to turn it around and show that this is actually a good thing and helps in getting more stable production software.
First off, I would love it if people took unit testing more seriously and automated it! In my view that helps greatly for getting robust software. However, not for all tests automating is the answer. Especially when you get to acceptance testing (where we validate, rather than verify) or when you do integration testing for systems that communicate with other systems it is not a silver bullet. Aside from feasibility, as automating is time consuming, there are more drawbacks. Automating all tests means assuming that you can anticipate everything that can be wrong and even anticipate every test that should be done just based on the specs. Exactly the context driven testers (such as James Bach and Michael Bolton) believe you can't, we humans are not 'wired' that way. In fact they even are of the opinion (as am I) that the best testing is done by people that design tests to a great deal as you go while testing as long as these are skilled people that understand how the software should work.
Rigorously testing software via automated tests, please do. But in my view there should always still be people that test and see for themselves. The automated tests can and will miss things that are plain obvious to human testers.
I dont know which part you missed about the white house being all black nowadays, and most position of power including the NASA being too, in a country where 75% of people are non-black.
If Obama would get a white intern, would that make things a bit better?
I have literally never had a complaint with an intel motherboard except when it had onboard ATI graphics — Mach64CT, what a POS, you couldn't even trust it to provide a framebuffer without getting the colors wrong.
server mainboards, who cares about the colors? That includes windows.
I own a Prius, my second one. And I keep seeing people make a lot of fuss about the battery replacement. Really, does anyone have some real data on this? My dealer said he never experienced a customer coming in and asking for it (and they sold a lot of these cars due to the tax benefits in my country). But I realize that a car dealer doesn' t sound too objective.
At this moment I still believe the vast majority of hybrid cars, at least the Prius, will never have a replacement. At most the capacity in the end will be so low that the fuel benefits are nearly negated, but in such old cars you don't invest in replacing the batteries. Simply keep driving it.
Up hill: even my previous Prius (which had a small 1.5 liter engine) was the best car I ever drove in the mountains. The aid of the electric part really makes a difference. And down hill was even better as it breaks 'on the engine' much better than a normal car. I am sure it doesn't get close to a a four wheel drive, but it saying it is terrible up hill seems a myth to me.
It's not a sports car, but at least the current model with the 1.8L engine is not slow either. You can't compare it to cars like BMW or Audi or such cars. But take a test drive once.
What is true in my view is that for long distances, the advantages of the hybrid are nearly gone. I get decent mileage if I drive long distances, but that seems to me has more to do with the design of the car rather than with the hybrid part.
So coming back to my original question, does anyone have some realistic data on battery replacement?
Perhaps NASA can develop a spray paint kind of solution to fully seal the rock. That would probably weigh a lot less to transport to Mars than a structure strong enough to provide proper shelter against dust storms etc. Caves provide less extreme temperatures which might reduce the energy requirements as well.
Why was I buying a $25k car instead of a $8k car again?
Because if you drive 80 miles a day, it may be cheaper to buy a car that uses less gas. Especially if you take into account that it will last you longer, as it is newer, so it will either save you another $8K a few years from now.
It depends on the price of gas (which is high where I live) but driving an old car makes sense if you have low mileage.
ehm, numbers give them headaches. Use graphs and pictures. And the first slide should be some stock photo with smiling young people that are engaged in something completely unrelated.
Oh and if you report on a project, use a traffic light that is green or use smileys...
I'm sure there are a lot of DBA's that would be happy if less people in the company knew SQL...
>> European socialist capitalism vastly expanded to the point where no one has to work unless they want to
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
And why would you ask Soviets and Cuba or Venezuela how European socialist capitalism is going? They don't/didn't have that.
Better ask the Swedes or the Norwegians. Those are much better examples.
I have a tip for you then, you probably don't need to go 'no-carb'.
I stopped eating wheat and dairy for bowel problems. I replaced wheat with spelt (different grain) for bread, cookies, pasta etc. And not only did it for me also solve nose issues as well as the bowel issues, I also lost the 20kg weight I had gained since my early twenties.
I personally believe that in stead of no carb, people should go with the right carbs.
I'm part of one of these younger generations, and I'm honestly not interested in getting involved because I've seen how much of a raging asshole Linuz can be. He's a great maintainer, but he could be honest and give constructive criticism in less condescending ways. I'm not as experienced as he is, but that doesn't give him the right to be a complete dick in public theater.
You've managed to asses that he is 'a raging asshole', but now how to properly spell his name?
Get on my Lawn!
Even if there was load testing, in my experience load and stress testing is within the test community not something that is very well developed. Two days ago I spoke about performance testing on a 4 day conference ( http://www.eurostarconferences.com/ ) and my talk was the only one that dealt with performance.
In my view, this fields needs to be better developed. Tests usually focus just on response times, based on usage profiles that are practically fantasy. Monitoring of the systems is minimal, and the queuing model is usually not even known to the testers.
However, there is one catch: calls are limited to a maximum of five minutes to prevent saturation of lines."
Every married man knows this is not a catch but a feature
Nice :-) I'll be following this
Since 'smart watches' were introduced I've personally believed that they were doing it the wrong way around. I'd rather have a watch that has radio and can do the basics (call/text) and have a mini tablet that tethers with the watch for it's connection.
Now for me for this to become really interesting they'd have to:
- waterproof them
- partner with the better watch maker brands to make the watches look like 'normal watches' (for texting they could use the divers ring as an input device, just turn to right letter and press)
- include car opening remote control (why not)
- include a mini Bluetooth receiver that you can 'un-click' from the watch and hold close to your ear to make the calls less ''knight rider calls kitt'
Great for going to the beach. No longer have to worry about your keys, phone when taking a swim. And no longer a need to carry your phone around all the time as it is around your wrist. There are many occasions I'd rather leave my smartphone at home or in my desk as long as I still can be reached
what more does programming require than typing on a computer?
seriously??
If you read this part of the article:
Despite the statement, Gelsinger also said that OpenStack is an important strategic
initiative for VMware that it is committed to supporting. VMware will work to ensure its products and services work in cloud environments based on the open source platform. And in that sense, Gelsinger says OpenStack is opening up a whole new opportunity for VMware to penetrate the service provider market, which is he says the company has not focused heavily on in the past. “We’re seeing (OpenStack) as an opportunity to extend our position,” Gelsinger said.
You'll see that, despite the remarks on 'not for the enterprise', he is certainly not laughing at OpenStack. Maybe, just maybe, they may even not fight OpenStack!
Sounds very logical, however my personal (anecdotal) experience does not corroborate that.
I went slow carbs kind off accidental. I discovered that eating wheat was the cause of gut problems I had. I stopped (replaced mainly by Spelt, which apparently has a much lower effect on insulin production) and within weeks my clothes were too loose. Now two years later I have the same size in my jeans as I had when I was 18.. (lost about 20 kg)
If you look at the total of carbs I get today, it doesn't differ too much from before. Mostly since I never did eat much processed food or food with white sugar in it. Yet all the 'middle aged' fat is gone.
So while it sounds logical, ' you get the same amount' , the body does not work as a simple math equation. So far the best fitting explanation I've seen is the effect of insulin produced. Not even glycemic index gives you the full picture. Spelt has a high glycemic index. Yet it made the world of difference for me. But from what I've read, it does seem however that you produce less insulin.
I think the biggest mistake made is the idea that you can simply count the calories in food and expect that is all there is to it. We are not petri dishes
The company announced that it could 'see the writing on the wall'
They were however not able to read it.....
Ah, a Microsoft toilet. That explains it.
Okay fine, just can we please not make paperclip jokes now...
That's stupid, everyone knows it grows in the pacific ocean
- An easy way to install drivers for peripherals. If your printer/scanner/MFC isn't supported out of the box, it's potluck if the manufacturer has produced anything. If they have, then it's potluck how well it works. Compare and contrast with Windows, which has Windows update and besides, nobody is about to produce hardware without Windows drivers. .
This is so funny. Been on Linux for years now. And I actually don't need an easy way to install drivers, because I don't have to install them! Everything just works. Been that way since I switched to Ubuntu. Sometimes I have to tick a radio button to let the OS know I do want proprietary drivers, that's all.
Windows needs an easy way to install drivers since: it requires you to install drivers. My Windows 7 install couldn't even read my external hard drive before I dug up drivers somewhere for the USB3 card. And that was after the install of the OS itself which still after all this years takes countless reboots. Felt like the nineties all over again.
Since I used to install Windows on machines in the past as my job (OK, long time ago) I think I can say that I am no beginner in that field either.
Wrong is a bit strong, but you can follow the scientific method perfectly and produce undesirable results.
Example: If I have a flat tire on my bicycle and go to a repair shop. They can then sell me a pump and tell me to fill up the tire three times a day with air. Assuming the hole is not too large that will work. And they can proof that filling up with air for small holes will work by randomized double blind tests.
It is still stupid advice. You ought to fix the hole.
Effectively western medicine often acts like that repairs shop. We get stuff to fill up something missing, which they could proof randomized double blind will help your symptoms. But fixing the real cause is often much harder to understand and even harder to proof with the strict rules.
The randomized double blind tests are expensive. So they only get someone to pay for it if it will lead to profits. That is a lot easier to achieve for medicine that need to be taken x times a day for a long period than for one time fixes.
That's no pharmaceutical conspiracy, it is just plain economics.