I would be very interested to have a copy... Can you post the ISO somewhere for us to burn? I have some interested family members too, as I guess otheres here will have too!
If I am right about this, building in "support" for this palladium chip does not mean it is implemented straight away! It means that producers of mainboards now have the *option* to use a paladium chip on their mobo's. Since there will always be a significant market for non-crippled machines, there will allways be mobo's without this 'feature'... That is the beauty of having competitors... as long as there is market for something, it will exist. You just will have to be a bit more picky when choosing your mobo from now on...
Let me tell you straight off: Your problem is not restricted to software development only. I work in mechanical engineering and it is largely the same.
What works for me is to always ask for a solid project plan. If all's well, if there is a project budget, there MUST be a project plan somewhere. If there is not, find another place to work! The project plan is your best friend if you want to keep your PM in line.
A good project plan contains at least: - Outline of the project goals - Project boundaries (what you will NOT be doing) - A project planning with a work breakdown - Milestones with deliverables and delivery dates - Known risks in the project - Backup plans to eliminate the risks - A cost estimation
To use the project plan in your favor do the following (in writing!):
- For every task that does not seem to fit the goals of the project, ask your PM to explain how this contributes - For every task that seems to go beyond the projects' boundaries, ask your PM to explain why this is necessary. - For every activity for which the planning seems inadequate or unrealistic, ask your PM the following questions: HOW did he estimate a planning for this activity? Did he actually TALK to the people who must perform this activity? If not, on WHAT did he base his planning? Ask him to replan AFTER talking to the people performing the activities. - If you see risks to the project that were not mentioned in the project plan (like not testing and such), mention them (of course with a reasonable explanation) and ask your PM to explicitly mention them in the project plan. - Of course, ask him to think of a backup plan for these risks (or deliver it to him yourself).
Ok, the trick to effectively tighten the leash on your PM is to warn him on paper and then, if he doesn't respond harrass him with your remarks during the review meetings of every milestone! If you have valid points, it will reflect badly on him with the management being there and it will teach him to listen to his techies.
It may take time and you may need to do this often, but I must still encounter a situation where this doesn't work if you are pigheaded enough.
And while you're at it, load the CD/CDRW/DVD/DVDRW with the backed-up mp3's in your read-only player, mount it and let them try to delete THAT from your PC:-)
Seems there are a lot of "sane" persons, all making very "sane" decisions lately, without having any idea what the problem is about.
Sad... sounds as sane as letting a security guard (no offence meant) design a bridge spanning a large river and forcing everyone to use it... Has to be safe... he is a _security_ guard after all isn't he?:-)
I see a lot of replies stating that the linux gaming market isn't big enough. Seems to me, if all linux gamelovers reading/. surf to http://www.lokigames.com now and order one of those games, troubles will be over very soon, at least on the short term. The question is: do we find it important enough for this company to survive? Seems to me that since we all cheered them on when they came into the market, stating that this was a very important develpoment for linux desktop market penetration, it is! Now is the time to show that these were not mere empty words, but that we really care for this company to exist and help them through a rough phase in their existence and with it, help linux desktop penetration along too! I myself have bought some games from them and I am really content about them. Personally I'd hate to see them go, so I think I'll hit the online-shop myself now...
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FYI, I already play accelerated video on my xbox using Debian and it runs just fine!!
The first projects that are implementing a jukebox/settopbox especially for the xbox have already started...
I would be very interested to have a copy... Can you post the ISO somewhere for us to burn? I have some interested family members too, as I guess otheres here will have too!
If I am right about this, building in "support" for this palladium chip does not mean it is implemented straight away! It means that producers of mainboards now have the *option* to use a paladium chip on their mobo's. Since there will always be a significant market for non-crippled machines, there will allways be mobo's without this 'feature'... That is the beauty of having competitors... as long as there is market for something, it will exist. You just will have to be a bit more picky when choosing your mobo from now on...
At least that's what I think...
Delgul
Let me tell you straight off: Your problem is not restricted to software development only. I work in mechanical engineering and it is largely the same.
What works for me is to always ask for a solid project plan. If all's well, if there is a project budget, there MUST be a project plan somewhere. If there is not, find another place to work! The project plan is your best friend if you want to keep your PM in line.
A good project plan contains at least:
- Outline of the project goals
- Project boundaries (what you will NOT be doing)
- A project planning with a work breakdown
- Milestones with deliverables and delivery dates
- Known risks in the project
- Backup plans to eliminate the risks
- A cost estimation
To use the project plan in your favor do the following (in writing!):
- For every task that does not seem to fit the goals of the project, ask your PM to explain how this contributes
- For every task that seems to go beyond the projects' boundaries, ask your PM to explain why this is necessary.
- For every activity for which the planning seems inadequate or unrealistic, ask your PM the following questions: HOW did he estimate a planning for this activity? Did he actually TALK to the people who must perform this activity? If not, on WHAT did he base his planning? Ask him to replan AFTER talking to the people performing the activities.
- If you see risks to the project that were not mentioned in the project plan (like not testing and such), mention them (of course with a reasonable explanation) and ask your PM to explicitly mention them in the project plan.
- Of course, ask him to think of a backup plan for these risks (or deliver it to him yourself).
Ok, the trick to effectively tighten the leash on your PM is to warn him on paper and then, if he doesn't respond harrass him with your remarks during the review meetings of every milestone! If you have valid points, it will reflect badly on him with the management being there and it will teach him to listen to his techies.
It may take time and you may need to do this often, but I must still encounter a situation where this doesn't work if you are pigheaded enough.
Hope this helps,
Delgul
I agree fully with you. This is an entirely cost-ineffective way of gathering and transporting energy.
:-)
Then again, it's a h*ll of a cover to get some kind of starwars program in space after all
A good set of backups may be helpful here...
:-)
And while you're at it, load the CD/CDRW/DVD/DVDRW with the backed-up mp3's in your read-only player, mount it and let them try to delete THAT from your PC
Seems there are a lot of "sane" persons, all making very "sane" decisions lately, without having any idea what the problem is about.
:-)
Sad... sounds as sane as letting a security guard (no offence meant) design a bridge spanning a large river and forcing everyone to use it... Has to be safe... he is a _security_ guard after all isn't he?
I see a lot of replies stating that the linux gaming market isn't big enough. Seems to me, if all linux gamelovers reading /. surf to http://www.lokigames.com now and order one of those games, troubles will be over very soon, at least on the short term. The question is: do we find it important enough for this company to survive? Seems to me that since we all cheered them on when they came into the market, stating that this was a very important develpoment for linux desktop market penetration, it is! Now is the time to show that these were not mere empty words, but that we really care for this company to exist and help them through a rough phase in their existence and with it, help linux desktop penetration along too! I myself have bought some games from them and I am really content about them. Personally I'd hate to see them go, so I think I'll hit the online-shop myself now...