If you RTFA, they don't really address Brook's point. They all worked on small projects. Where the mythical man-month applies is in the combined effort on a large, sufficiently complex project. The real breakdown comes in the collaboration and communication.
Besides, in the real engineering world, nobody is going to tolerate the work conditions they describe. The pay better be 10x what I earn now to pack me in a room with sweaty, overweight 40-somethings.
Management hates paying for double the equipment, but for any production environment, it should be the cost of doing business. It minimizes risk and provides hot spares faster than an HP (or whatever) tech shows up. You should get some duplicate hardware for staging.
If you can't do that, then refer to the earlier post - don't fsck up.
A lot of these botnets are cropping up in China. We ended up having to block entire blocks of IP ranges to stop them from probing our website. I wonder how much of this is gov't sponsored?
I think BeyondTV uses similar techniques. It also succeeds about 85% of the time. For example, it gets commercial breaks spot on for "The Big Bang Theory", but misses the mark every time for Jeopardy! I think it has more to do with the local station and how they do commercial breaks.
I would give a strong thumbs up for BeyondTV (by snapstream). I have used it for several years and have not complaints. If you are looking for a DVR solution, look no further. In your requirements though, you elaborate on wanted a media hub, which IMHO is not a DVR. If you are looking to record and view TV, BeyondTV is awesome and much better than tivo. For one thing, they have smartskip which attempts to mark commercial breaks. It isn't perfect, but when it works it is a godsend.
More importantly, beyondtv passes the family test. My tech-n00b wife uses it, as well as my kids, including my 6 year old. With BeyondTV link you can also watch from other computers. That's where it really shines. One kid can be watching a show on the main TV while another has a laptop in the bedroom watching a different show.
You have to pay for the software, but there is no subscription. TV channel updates are reliable and accurate.
No - I don't work for snapstream - I'm just an extremely happy customer.
I don't see the problem. Humans have been preying on other humans since the first family split in two. You can get on as high a horse as you like, but all you're doing is adding hypocrisy and sanctimony to your list of character flaws.
Looks like you are on the high horse. I'm glad you know me so well to build my list of flaws. Thanks.
The wedding industry is absurdly overpriced. They play off emotions and traditions to guilt people into blowing huge amounts of money.
I just completed my wedding this weekend (2nd time around). We wanted to keep it simple and low cost. It's hard though - you have to avoid using the word "wedding". For example, we wanted to order flowers at the local shop. For a simple bride's bouquet they wanted $60. I was quite confused because I had bought many larger bouquets for her in the past and they never cost that much. It's the wedding tax. Suffice to say they did not get our business. Another place wanted $12 for a boutineer. What? $12 for a carnation with a pin through it? Crazy!
The unwashed masses would buy products made of dead baby carcasses.
I've always hated that term. People who refer to "the unwashed masses" always implicitly mean there exists the "enlighted minority", who is very superior, and always agrees with the person making the claim.
Why not just call them "peasants"? It's what you mean.
Yeah, that's what I mean. You must not be related to any trailer trash.
I'm sure it be just like other conflict industries. We will care about it just long enough until our next purchase. The unwashed masses would buy products made of dead baby carcasses.
And above all, the most important factor is people. You need smart people. No amount of clever methodology is going to make mediocre programmers create a great project. And for smart people, SDLC usually stands in the way of what they already know works best.
Well said! In fact, in my 25+ years of programming I have found that methodologies are put in place for PHBs and the talentless. I recall when I took my first programming class the teacher insisted we must write the flowchart first. I found it easier to write the code and reverse engineer the flowchart. To this day I find the formal process to be an anchor weighing down creativity and speed of development.
Remember the days of 300/1200 baud dialup? That Pamela Anderson download would be halfway thru her chest and you would already be done.
And I know I'm dating myself (besides in *that* sense). Not because of the 300 baud reference, but by referring to Pam Anderson as fap-worthy material.
How about those alt.sex.binaries... downloads? You had to pull 5 pieces and know the proper command to stitch them together.
We have a corporate sharepoint site that is supposed to help us share documents and collaborate. In reality, it is a confusing maze of pages with way too much embedded functionality.
The Twilight Zone spawned a lot of great imitators in the 80's and 90's. My favorite was Friday the 13th. They carried the torch for presenting bizarre concepts that stretched your mind. My favorite was a woman from our modern times that gets drawn back in time to the Puritan era. When she lights up a cigarette with a BIC lighter they say she is a witch - "She make fire without flint nor tinder." Great show.
My problem is I have 4 kids aged 6-16 so one game is not enough. I would like to buy one or more guitar hero games, but the pricetag limits me to one. GH songs is a whole other topic. They need to think about it more like an itunes economy.
In my fuzzy math, I say $30 is a better game price. I would buy two $30 games, but instead I am forced to buy one $50 game. They just lost $10.
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Yeah - I knew it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. :-)
You know this discussion will degenerate into how this can be applied to growing a longer penis.
Egads! Can any self-respecting man play with that thing without feeling like a total creep? Is Sony going after the ladies?
If you RTFA, they don't really address Brook's point. They all worked on small projects. Where the mythical man-month applies is in the combined effort on a large, sufficiently complex project. The real breakdown comes in the collaboration and communication.
Besides, in the real engineering world, nobody is going to tolerate the work conditions they describe. The pay better be 10x what I earn now to pack me in a room with sweaty, overweight 40-somethings.
It's a cute college experiment and nothing more.
I was going to say the same thing.
You will read it now and probably not grasp it all. Read it again a year later after you have written a lot of code.
You can also try "Applied Java Patterns", which casts the classic "Design Patterns" (Gamma et al) into the Java mold.
LOL! My thoughts exactly.
Thank you for saying so well what I was thinking.
Management hates paying for double the equipment, but for any production environment, it should be the cost of doing business. It minimizes risk and provides hot spares faster than an HP (or whatever) tech shows up. You should get some duplicate hardware for staging.
If you can't do that, then refer to the earlier post - don't fsck up.
A lot of these botnets are cropping up in China. We ended up having to block entire blocks of IP ranges to stop them from probing our website. I wonder how much of this is gov't sponsored?
WTF?!?!?
I think BeyondTV uses similar techniques. It also succeeds about 85% of the time. For example, it gets commercial breaks spot on for "The Big Bang Theory", but misses the mark every time for Jeopardy! I think it has more to do with the local station and how they do commercial breaks.
I would give a strong thumbs up for BeyondTV (by snapstream). I have used it for several years and have not complaints. If you are looking for a DVR solution, look no further. In your requirements though, you elaborate on wanted a media hub, which IMHO is not a DVR. If you are looking to record and view TV, BeyondTV is awesome and much better than tivo. For one thing, they have smartskip which attempts to mark commercial breaks. It isn't perfect, but when it works it is a godsend.
More importantly, beyondtv passes the family test. My tech-n00b wife uses it, as well as my kids, including my 6 year old. With BeyondTV link you can also watch from other computers. That's where it really shines. One kid can be watching a show on the main TV while another has a laptop in the bedroom watching a different show.
You have to pay for the software, but there is no subscription. TV channel updates are reliable and accurate.
No - I don't work for snapstream - I'm just an extremely happy customer.
I don't see the problem. Humans have been preying on other humans since the first family split in two. You can get on as high a horse as you like, but all you're doing is adding hypocrisy and sanctimony to your list of character flaws.
Looks like you are on the high horse. I'm glad you know me so well to build my list of flaws. Thanks.
The wedding industry is absurdly overpriced. They play off emotions and traditions to guilt people into blowing huge amounts of money.
I just completed my wedding this weekend (2nd time around). We wanted to keep it simple and low cost. It's hard though - you have to avoid using the word "wedding". For example, we wanted to order flowers at the local shop. For a simple bride's bouquet they wanted $60. I was quite confused because I had bought many larger bouquets for her in the past and they never cost that much. It's the wedding tax. Suffice to say they did not get our business. Another place wanted $12 for a boutineer. What? $12 for a carnation with a pin through it? Crazy!
The unwashed masses would buy products made of dead baby carcasses.
I've always hated that term. People who refer to "the unwashed masses" always implicitly mean there exists the "enlighted minority", who is very superior, and always agrees with the person making the claim.
Why not just call them "peasants"? It's what you mean.
Yeah, that's what I mean. You must not be related to any trailer trash.
I'm sure it be just like other conflict industries. We will care about it just long enough until our next purchase. The unwashed masses would buy products made of dead baby carcasses.
And above all, the most important factor is people. You need smart people. No amount of clever methodology is going to make mediocre programmers create a great project. And for smart people, SDLC usually stands in the way of what they already know works best.
Well said! In fact, in my 25+ years of programming I have found that methodologies are put in place for PHBs and the talentless. I recall when I took my first programming class the teacher insisted we must write the flowchart first. I found it easier to write the code and reverse engineer the flowchart. To this day I find the formal process to be an anchor weighing down creativity and speed of development.
Comments are for wimps.
I say they should make a porno, actually. Who doesn't want to do what sex on other planets will be like?
Granted, many of us here on /. don't even know what sex on this planet is like... :)
It brings new meaning to the "mile high club". How about the 36 million mile high club? Now that is an elite membership.
And thank goodness for broadband.
Remember the days of 300/1200 baud dialup? That Pamela Anderson download would be halfway thru her chest and you would already be done.
And I know I'm dating myself (besides in *that* sense). Not because of the 300 baud reference, but by referring to Pam Anderson as fap-worthy material.
How about those alt.sex.binaries... downloads? You had to pull 5 pieces and know the proper command to stitch them together.
Now we have youporn.com
We have a corporate sharepoint site that is supposed to help us share documents and collaborate. In reality, it is a confusing maze of pages with way too much embedded functionality.
In summary, I hate it!
Great! They create the perfect pr0n tool and disable the feature. I'll wait for the haxx0red version from Russia.
The Twilight Zone spawned a lot of great imitators in the 80's and 90's. My favorite was Friday the 13th. They carried the torch for presenting bizarre concepts that stretched your mind. My favorite was a woman from our modern times that gets drawn back in time to the Puritan era. When she lights up a cigarette with a BIC lighter they say she is a witch - "She make fire without flint nor tinder." Great show.
Fresca, my one "vice" is being taxed? They've gone too far!
Fair point.
My problem is I have 4 kids aged 6-16 so one game is not enough. I would like to buy one or more guitar hero games, but the pricetag limits me to one. GH songs is a whole other topic. They need to think about it more like an itunes economy.
In my fuzzy math, I say $30 is a better game price. I would buy two $30 games, but instead I am forced to buy one $50 game. They just lost $10.