No, I've never heard a surgeon say 'you can keep this in the freezer afterwards' just before he sawed my leg off. I've never heard a doctor say 'it's just a mild case of cancer' to lighten me up. This is a special case - democracy is what it's all about. The works for a firm who make voting machines, for goodness sake!
Democracy is a serious thing; without it we'd be like Iraq. Go on, have a good laugh while you sell off democracy to the cheapest, shoddiest supplier who laughs in your face with a stupid.sig. Next thing you know, they'll be putting ads for political parties on the damn things, and it'll be too late to change it. And you'll still be saying 'it's no big deal!'.
It shows the dude up - he looks like a bonehead, and you don't want boneheads implementing systems that provide democracy. This is a serious issue, and the public expect due diligence and professionalism from the vendor, not lash it up quick solutions. Anyboby can create quick and dirty business solutions, and if a business system fails, so what, who cares if you loose a bag of nails. But this is democracy we are talking about, and we expect pucker systems, like you have in power plants and planes, not "lash it up" programs!
This is going in my project mis-management slides for future courses on how not to do systems engineering!
".. lack of concern over the practice provide products which do not exist and then attempting to build these on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations.
"This begs the question" does not mean what you think it means. See http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/begs.html
It actually means a logically flawed argument.
That's right - Americans have the least time off of any industrial nation. Two weeks is normal. I get five week in the UK, and I have hard done by because the Germans have 6 weeks, and a bunch more stat hols.
I used to work as a quality manager in a software house. The owner had no computer and could not read emails. He had his secretary print them out for him. Lack of even basic computer knowledge meant that it was impossible to discuss version control, product management or test/release processes etc. It was sad. He thought it was great and boasted about it. But the customer suffered from the bad quality releases, and the poor performance. My view: these guys have to get up to date somehow, and if they can't, business should sack them for the sake of the shareholders, and hire me instead.
We used a bank of six monitors, two rows of three, one on top of the other, for planning satellite manoeuvres back in the 80's. We needed that many because X hadn't been invented and we needed several screens at the same time. It was _much_ better than using a Windows box because no screens overlapped. The problem was that each "work station" had 6 keyboards as well, so you had to be careful to type into the right one!
The other solution was to use an IBM 3270 screen on the 370 mainframe. Those screens could be operated in split screen mode. You could split the screen into several horizontal sections, giving you tiled windows. This predated Windows by about 10 years.
But all things are not equal. Most goods incurr a shipping charge. Even those bought locally, unless they are locally produced, have to be carried to the consumer. They delivered to the shop, and then to his house, sometimes by car.
Large scale eCommerce shops might have local distribution sites almost as close as the local shops, and there might be no car journey involved, so it is not a simple tradeoff.
I have been informed that markets are irrational. It is hard or impossible to know what something is really worth; it is worth what you can get for it in the market place. So if you can get a lot for something, or a little, what would you plump for? And if the market pays it, then that is what it is worth. There are no standards here, and very little fairness, I'm afaid, although it is complicated when you calculate the cost of goodwill, reputation and things like that.
Yes, China wants to see the code either because it needs to know the security implications, or to steal it. If China wants to know the security implications, it would want to compile the code and compare the binaries to make sure there is nothing in the binary version that they haven't seen source for. And they would need compliable code if they want to steal it, for obvious reasons.
More generally, hacker now means breaking in, causing damage, snooping etc. The earliest reference I know in this context is the 'Hacker's Handbook', a best seller around 1983, which explained how to get passwords, break into sites, demodulate scrambled signals and so.
I have seen various reports over the years of people trying to pin down 'cracker' as the term for this, and 'hacker' for systems programming in C, but this distinction is not in _general_ usage nowadays.
If it takes to long to find out that global warming is to blame, we will all fry. All we want is to make the pople who pollute the air the most to pay to extract the pollution they make, or stop making it. That's only a fair deal for clean people. And as Americans are the dirtiest, they should pay the most.
A lot of dammed blokes in the UK have huge 4x4 and one kid to drive the 100m to school as well. Judging by the plates, they are mostly on purchase plans. The economy is fueled by debt these days, because there isn't enough money. So consumers have to get loans to create thier share of air pollution.
Why are you so optimistic? Our lives are short, yet you talk on a geological timescale. I only need the planet to hold out for another few centuries, yet already, air pollution has caused the hottest summer in the UK ever recorded, i.e. over centuries of recorded data. Billions of tons on CO2 in our (very thin) atmosphere will screw this planet up _very soon_. You will have no control over it. We have already lost control. And we can't stop running it downhill.
Hottest summer in recorded history in the UK. One of the longest droughts. The world is so tiny, the atmosphere so thin and yet some people don't get the message. Air pollution will only stop when the consumers who drive the SUVs die off because of its effects.
If anything that can go wrong does go wrong, this may be due to chance. It seems unlikely, though, given the usual outcome of our feeble attempts to improve the world. Straight odds could not leave the world as buggered up as it is. The other possiblility is that another force, or 'supreme being' is at work, interfering with our honest efforts. I suspect this is the case, because Murphy's law (or Sod's law) is a _REAL_ thing; of that I am certain.
TeleVision means transmitting pictures via radio waves, so the Scottish invented it. The US lays claim to this because it made a refinement to the original invention, and when this is questioned, we get the flakey 'as we know it' response! But now we are going to flat screens, without a cathode ray tube, it'll be a Scottish invention again! Ha!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. Mega in a decimal context means 1000000, or 10 to the 6. Mega in a binary context means 100000000000000000000, or 2 to the 20. It's just the way it is.
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That's what I thought, and he called me a grammer nazi!
Oh, grammar nazi please!
No, I've never heard a surgeon say 'you can keep this in the freezer afterwards' just before he sawed my leg off. I've never heard a doctor say 'it's just a mild case of cancer' to lighten me up. This is a special case - democracy is what it's all about. The works for a firm who make voting machines, for goodness sake!
Democracy is a serious thing; without it we'd be like Iraq. Go on, have a good laugh while you sell off democracy to the cheapest, shoddiest supplier who laughs in your face with a stupid .sig. Next thing you know, they'll be putting ads for political parties on the damn things, and it'll be too late to change it. And you'll still be saying 'it's no big deal!'.
It shows the dude up - he looks like a bonehead, and you don't want boneheads implementing systems that provide democracy. This is a serious issue, and the public expect due diligence and professionalism from the vendor, not lash it up quick solutions. Anyboby can create quick and dirty business solutions, and if a business system fails, so what, who cares if you loose a bag of nails. But this is democracy we are talking about, and we expect pucker systems, like you have in power plants and planes, not "lash it up" programs!
This is going in my project mis-management slides for future courses on how not to do systems engineering! ".. lack of concern over the practice provide products which do not exist and then attempting to build these on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations.
"This begs the question" does not mean what you think it means. See http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/begs.html It actually means a logically flawed argument.
I thought it was about weasels.
There is only one thing worse than a weasel, and that's the yellow bellied weasel
That's right - Americans have the least time off of any industrial nation. Two weeks is normal. I get five week in the UK, and I have hard done by because the Germans have 6 weeks, and a bunch more stat hols.
I used to work as a quality manager in a software house. The owner had no computer and could not read emails. He had his secretary print them out for him. Lack of even basic computer knowledge meant that it was impossible to discuss version control, product management or test/release processes etc. It was sad. He thought it was great and boasted about it. But the customer suffered from the bad quality releases, and the poor performance. My view: these guys have to get up to date somehow, and if they can't, business should sack them for the sake of the shareholders, and hire me instead.
We used a bank of six monitors, two rows of three, one on top of the other, for planning satellite manoeuvres back in the 80's. We needed that many because X hadn't been invented and we needed several screens at the same time. It was _much_ better than using a Windows box because no screens overlapped. The problem was that each "work station" had 6 keyboards as well, so you had to be careful to type into the right one! The other solution was to use an IBM 3270 screen on the 370 mainframe. Those screens could be operated in split screen mode. You could split the screen into several horizontal sections, giving you tiled windows. This predated Windows by about 10 years.
But all things are not equal. Most goods incurr a shipping charge. Even those bought locally, unless they are locally produced, have to be carried to the consumer. They delivered to the shop, and then to his house, sometimes by car. Large scale eCommerce shops might have local distribution sites almost as close as the local shops, and there might be no car journey involved, so it is not a simple tradeoff.
I have been informed that markets are irrational. It is hard or impossible to know what something is really worth; it is worth what you can get for it in the market place. So if you can get a lot for something, or a little, what would you plump for? And if the market pays it, then that is what it is worth. There are no standards here, and very little fairness, I'm afaid, although it is complicated when you calculate the cost of goodwill, reputation and things like that.
Yes, China wants to see the code either because it needs to know the security implications, or to steal it. If China wants to know the security implications, it would want to compile the code and compare the binaries to make sure there is nothing in the binary version that they haven't seen source for. And they would need compliable code if they want to steal it, for obvious reasons.
More generally, hacker now means breaking in, causing damage, snooping etc. The earliest reference I know in this context is the 'Hacker's Handbook', a best seller around 1983, which explained how to get passwords, break into sites, demodulate scrambled signals and so. I have seen various reports over the years of people trying to pin down 'cracker' as the term for this, and 'hacker' for systems programming in C, but this distinction is not in _general_ usage nowadays.
If it takes to long to find out that global warming is to blame, we will all fry. All we want is to make the pople who pollute the air the most to pay to extract the pollution they make, or stop making it. That's only a fair deal for clean people. And as Americans are the dirtiest, they should pay the most.
It is very good news that oil will run out soon. But the bad news is that there is still lots of coal around, and that will burn next.
A lot of dammed blokes in the UK have huge 4x4 and one kid to drive the 100m to school as well. Judging by the plates, they are mostly on purchase plans. The economy is fueled by debt these days, because there isn't enough money. So consumers have to get loans to create thier share of air pollution.
It is beyond out control anyway, because of political inertia.
Why are you so optimistic? Our lives are short, yet you talk on a geological timescale. I only need the planet to hold out for another few centuries, yet already, air pollution has caused the hottest summer in the UK ever recorded, i.e. over centuries of recorded data. Billions of tons on CO2 in our (very thin) atmosphere will screw this planet up _very soon_. You will have no control over it. We have already lost control. And we can't stop running it downhill.
Hottest summer in recorded history in the UK. One of the longest droughts. The world is so tiny, the atmosphere so thin and yet some people don't get the message. Air pollution will only stop when the consumers who drive the SUVs die off because of its effects.
If anything that can go wrong does go wrong, this may be due to chance. It seems unlikely, though, given the usual outcome of our feeble attempts to improve the world. Straight odds could not leave the world as buggered up as it is. The other possiblility is that another force, or 'supreme being' is at work, interfering with our honest efforts. I suspect this is the case, because Murphy's law (or Sod's law) is a _REAL_ thing; of that I am certain.
TeleVision means transmitting pictures via radio waves, so the Scottish invented it. The US lays claim to this because it made a refinement to the original invention, and when this is questioned, we get the flakey 'as we know it' response! But now we are going to flat screens, without a cathode ray tube, it'll be a Scottish invention again! Ha!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't. Mega in a decimal context means 1000000, or 10 to the 6. Mega in a binary context means 100000000000000000000, or 2 to the 20. It's just the way it is.