Yes, I am aware of that. Your missing my point. I wasn't trying to iterate over everything that a test plan will cover.
Writing a test plan doesn't ensure you have met any of your requirements or than even if your requirements are worth a crap to start with.
The point being writing a test plan does not mean you have a good plan on how to verify your product (from unit test through deployment and maintainance). That is what's important. If you want write a test plan which references to requirements, great. Usually required for any contracts anyway.
But it's the plan that is important, not the document. I haven't see a checklist item yet for a good plan/bad plan. And I've seen many really bad test plans go by which fulfilled their process checkmark.
> However if you're likely to have millions of people depending on your code, which will > alwso be modified by other people, then you had better have a good process as well.
A good process means nothing. Understanding why a process wants you to do something is what's important. Checklists are bad. Making sure the right things get done is what is important. Writing a test plan isn't important. Making sure you have good test coverage is important.
I have been writing code professionally for over 20 years now. I have been at a handful of different companies, and gone through a few handfuls of various processes (2167a was the first one I had to use coming out of school). I've worked on very large projects and very small projects.
For small to the small side of medium projects, it comes down to the people working on the project, period.... In my experience, a standardized process doesn't effect the success of a project either way. If you have a good project lead, and good people, you will have a "process" or a somewhat standard way to do things. It doesn't have to be documented in a formal document. But it will be there even if you don't realize it.
Large projects are a mess. You need a standardize process as painful as it is. One that allows you to integrate early and often. The first thing you need to realize that the % of incompetence rises the larger the project. It's easier to hide in a large project. It's easy to hide in a process that generates a lot of information. You have to identify problem areas in interfaces, and people, early and often..
> How about the real reason, stated right there in TFS. Can you read?
Because we don't believe them? If android were *really* open, it would be developed in the open. An open drop of code after products are already shipping it certainly not in the spirit of open source.
Personally, I think it's more about Google being threatened by amazon.com, their app store, and their likely future tablet.. It's also been reported that google has been threatening tablet/phone makers with using non google services. The reason Google gave, seems the less likely reason to me.
I'm still hoping for a Ubuntu tablet. But Ubuntu doesn't seem to be that open these days either... sigh....
> That being said, making copyright law on that basis is arguably unconstitutional.
Why do you think they are worried about that?:-) They had no problem extending the copyright duration *retroactively* multiple times. The constitution limits the copyright duration. If you allow it to be extended retroactively, you can not enforce that.
It's hard to argue that the Justices don't understand that concept. It seems likely (to me at least) that they did understand they were going against the constitution and didn't care.
As long as they clearly define:
o exactly when customers will be throttled
o exactly how much customers will be throttled
o allow customers to see how much they been throttled for each month
o allow customers to opt out of their contract without penalty if they don't
agree to the change
Seems perfectly reasonable if they did that.... Not holding my breath:-)
I'm getting sick of Assange's promises of all this great information they are "going to leak". He has all of this info on corruption in the US banking system, on rich people evading taxes, and a bunch of other info which will be released if he disappears.
If he has information on illegal dealings, corruption, etc., release it.. Why the threats, why the talk? His current behavior is more like someone trying to shake down folks, not someone trying to uncover the truth.
> RMS wrote the Gnu manifesto 25 years ago, one could argue it all started then
no. before GNU, there was "open source" code;-) From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
"first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD), which was released on March 9, 1978"
I'm sure there was open source code before that too..
My son's Kindle has this problem... I removed the cover the other day and it has not had it sense. I just broke out the multimeter, I was unable to get an electrical path even when scraping the paint on the hooks.
from wikipedia "Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values.[1]"
Hmm, why the hate.. It sounds like he's done some stuff.. What have you done?
The tweet is FUD... He missed the most important part.. How do you install this on a Droid or most other Android devices? You need to root it just like you do to jailbreak a iPhone.
Android devices are far from open.. Don't believe the hype... My hope is for a Ubuntu tablet.. Maybe that will actually be open...
Disagree.. It's because most CDs have one or two good songs and the rest are crap. Studios know this. Why do you think studios moved from singles to records in the first place? To make more money...
disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but not on Linux.. And I know nothing about this... But it seems pretty obvious
The latest RHEL, 5.5, ships with a ancient (2.6.18) and heavily patch linux kernel. That's the kernel RHEL supports commercially. It sounds like Oracle is going to support 2.6.32 on the equivalent distro.. i.e. no need to wait for, or upgrade to RHEL 6.
So what's confusing and troubling? The fact that Oracle is saying a 2.6.32 kernel is better than a heavily patch 2.6.18 kernel?
Nothing is stopping RHEL from doing the same... But I'm sure they would rather have their customers upgrade to RHEL 6..
It's not surprising... A lot of things have been pointing to Microsoft building their own H/W in this space. HP canceling Slate and buying Palm. Dell going with Android. It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to build their own ipod, ipad, and ARM based "netbook" like machines. If true, in the long run, I think this puts more pressure on Dell and HP.
"Anyone who writes code for wealth is a fool. The purpose of writing code is to create something that's valuable to people, because it is what you love. If you can manage to not starve while you do it, more power to you."
Everyone should do what they love, and try not to starve. Hmm, or maybe we should return to reality...:-)
Sure, good for itself, but RHAT is in a much different league.
RedHat's total revenue for the last quarter was $194.3 million
Oracle's total revenue for the last quarter was $6.5 billion.
Before being bought by Oracle, Sun's S/W business did better than Red Hat.. I was just lost in the noise since H/W is such a big component of revenue.
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I've been thinking about getting an e-reader for sometime... But I want something that I can read e-books, pdf's, websites, and e-mail. I read more on websites than books these days.. I checked out the iPad, seems to be really good for this, and some light e-mail composing... But that's about it as far as typing goes... I looked at using a bluetooth keyboard, but it just felt silly. I want a more traditional keyboard mouse once I set the iPad down.
I haven't bought one yet, If it were $100 cheaper I probably would have. Probably smarter to wait for the second generation.
BTW, I wouldn't recommend iBooks for DRM'ed books... If your ipad dies, you can't read your books anymore.. i.e. no reader for Mac/PC.
I like Google and their products. I use them all the time.
But I am concerned about them and every other company which keeps information on me... It's total out of control.
While I don't have a lot of concern on what Google does with the information today.. I do worry about criminals getting a hold of the information (if they haven't, it's just a matter of time). And I do worry that the company Google is today will not be the same as the company Google is tomorrow.
I agree with your assertion that you are replying to FUD... But, in some ways, your reply is FUD too.. While Google may be better than all those other companies today, does that make the data collection they do OK. It's not a question specific to them.
> and they also provide tons of great open source products.
I consider Google to be opensource neutral. They open source very little of their code. I would like to know how much money, as a company, they spend on open source software vs the money spent on all software they write.. I would expect a very low percentage.
i.e. personally I would like to look through the code for the gmail client, maps, reader, jabber client, calendar, etc. None of this is core to their income stream. I believe it would help dramatically improve other websites on the web over time.
What about their e-mail server, IM server, calendar, etc?
I understand why they would keep their search algorithm closed. Their data and how they mine it is where their real value is. It certainly is their prerogative to to keep everything else closed too... But I certainly wouldn't call them open source friendly.
What your missing is that the book is ~ 100% markup... So yes, the retailer takes ~ 50% if they don't offer a discount..
So in your case above, the retailer takes $12.50.. The publisher takes $12.50. The publisher then subtracts the $5 for printing/distribution. Then has $7.50 left to pay for the publishing costs, take a profit, and pay the author.
If there wasn't a printing/distribution cost, the book would list @ $15.00.
I am perfectly fine if they want to charge $15 for an e-book. They will drop the price as time goes on.. If your patient, wait and pay less.. If your not, pay more.
The real cost saving will come if e-book retailers make it easier to publish (ala the apple app store). That will make a lot more content available and drive down prices. It will of course allow a lot more crap in.. But that's where the breakdown in capitalism is.. The artificial throttling of what gets published.
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How much are they willing to compensate me if they lose my data? What, they won't? Don't trust themselves?
Yes, I am aware of that. Your missing my point. I wasn't trying to iterate over
everything that a test plan will cover.
Writing a test plan doesn't ensure you have met any of your requirements or
than even if your requirements are worth a crap to start with.
The point being writing a test plan does not mean you have a good plan on
how to verify your product (from unit test through deployment and maintainance).
That is what's important. If you want write a test plan which references
to requirements, great. Usually required for any contracts anyway.
But it's the plan that is important, not the document. I haven't see a
checklist item yet for a good plan/bad plan. And I've seen many
really bad test plans go by which fulfilled their process checkmark.
> However if you're likely to have millions of people depending on your code, which will
> alwso be modified by other people, then you had better have a good process as well.
A good process means nothing. Understanding why a process wants you to do something
is what's important. Checklists are bad. Making sure the right things get done is what
is important. Writing a test plan isn't important. Making sure you have good test coverage
is important.
I have been writing code professionally for over 20 years now. I have been at a handful of
different companies, and gone through a few handfuls of various processes (2167a was
the first one I had to use coming out of school). I've worked on very large projects and
very small projects.
For small to the small side of medium projects, it comes down to the people
working on the project, period.... In my experience, a standardized process doesn't
effect the success of a project either way. If you have a good project lead, and good people,
you will have a "process" or a somewhat standard way to do things. It doesn't have
to be documented in a formal document. But it will be there even if you don't realize it.
Large projects are a mess. You need a standardize process as painful as it is. One that
allows you to integrate early and often. The first thing you need to realize that the % of
incompetence rises the larger the project. It's easier to hide in a large project. It's easy to
hide in a process that generates a lot of information. You have to identify problem areas
in interfaces, and people, early and often..
> How about the real reason, stated right there in TFS. Can you read?
Because we don't believe them? If android were *really* open,
it would be developed in the open. An open drop of code after products
are already shipping it certainly not in the spirit of open source.
Personally, I think it's more about Google being threatened by amazon.com,
their app store, and their likely future tablet.. It's also been reported that google
has been threatening tablet/phone makers with using non google services. The
reason Google gave, seems the less likely reason to me.
I'm still hoping for a Ubuntu tablet. But Ubuntu doesn't seem to be that open these
days either... sigh....
> That being said, making copyright law on that basis is arguably unconstitutional.
Why do you think they are worried about that? :-) They had no problem extending the copyright
duration *retroactively* multiple times. The constitution limits the copyright duration. If you allow
it to be extended retroactively, you can not enforce that.
It's hard to argue that the Justices don't understand that concept. It seems likely (to me at least)
that they did understand they were going against the constitution and didn't care.
As long as they clearly define:
o exactly when customers will be throttled
o exactly how much customers will be throttled
o allow customers to see how much they been throttled for each month
o allow customers to opt out of their contract without penalty if they don't
agree to the change
Seems perfectly reasonable if they did that.... Not holding my breath :-)
> What's the usability of such energy producing machinery?
It's amazing what you can do with 100+ year old technology... steam engine... generates electricity...
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/molten-salt-solar-plant/
I'm getting sick of Assange's promises of all this great information they are "going to leak". He has all of this info on corruption in the US banking system, on rich people evading taxes, and a bunch of other info which will be released if he disappears.
If he has information on illegal dealings, corruption, etc., release it.. Why the threats, why the talk? His current behavior is more like someone
trying to shake down folks, not someone trying to uncover the truth.
> RMS wrote the Gnu manifesto 25 years ago, one could argue it all started then
no. before GNU, there was "open source" code ;-) From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd
"first Berkeley Software Distribution (1BSD), which was released on March 9, 1978"
I'm sure there was open source code before that too..
My son's Kindle has this problem... I removed the cover the other day and it has not had it sense. I just broke
out the multimeter, I was unable to get an electrical path even when scraping the paint on the hooks.
from wikipedia "Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values.[1]"
Hmm, why the hate.. It sounds like he's done some stuff.. What have you done?
I would much rather have a Ubuntu based ARM netbook than a ChromeOS one. Just because an ARM netbook may be interesting.. Doesn't mean ChromeOS is.
by "root" I mean wait for someone to find a bug in the firmware so a program can be created to re-program the flash.
i.e. see Droid 2. It is not open.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/25/motorola-droid-2-rooted/
The tweet is FUD... He missed the most important part.. How do you install this on a Droid or most other
Android devices? You need to root it just like you do to jailbreak a iPhone.
Android devices are far from open.. Don't believe the hype... My hope is for
a Ubuntu tablet.. Maybe that will actually be open...
Disagree.. It's because most CDs have one or two good songs and the rest are crap. Studios know this. Why do you think studios moved from singles to records in the first place? To make more money...
disclaimer: I work for Oracle, but not on Linux.. And I know nothing about this...
But it seems pretty obvious
The latest RHEL, 5.5, ships with a ancient (2.6.18) and heavily patch linux kernel.
That's the kernel RHEL supports commercially. It sounds like Oracle is going to
support 2.6.32 on the equivalent distro.. i.e. no need to wait for, or upgrade to RHEL 6.
So what's confusing and troubling? The fact that Oracle is saying a 2.6.32 kernel is
better than a heavily patch 2.6.18 kernel?
Nothing is stopping RHEL from doing the same... But I'm sure they would
rather have their customers upgrade to RHEL 6..
your on to something here. Let's all give 100% of the money we make to the government so they can distribute it fairly. /sarcasm
> The new iPod Touch is going to dominate the market. It's better than many point and shoot cameras
ummmm... yeah... No....
From the tech spec...
still photos (960x720) with back camera
They put a crappy camera in there.. Just meant for video. Doesn't make much sense... ;-)
Maybe they're trying to protect the iCamera market in 2011...
It's not surprising... A lot of things have been pointing to Microsoft building their own H/W in this space. HP canceling Slate and buying Palm. Dell going with Android. It makes a lot of sense for Microsoft to build their own ipod, ipad, and ARM based "netbook" like machines. If true, in the long run, I think this puts more pressure on Dell and HP.
Just tried it out. You can enable the menu toolbar, and move the tabs back to the original position.. So yes.
Let me fix that for you...
"Anyone who writes code for wealth is a fool. The purpose of writing code is to create something that's valuable to people, because it is what you love. If you can manage to not starve while you do it, more power to you."
Everyone should do what they love, and try not to starve. Hmm, or maybe we should return to reality... :-)
Sure, good for itself, but RHAT is in a much different league.
RedHat's total revenue for the last quarter was $194.3 million
Oracle's total revenue for the last quarter was $6.5 billion.
Before being bought by Oracle, Sun's S/W business did better than Red Hat..
I was just lost in the noise since H/W is such a big component of revenue.
I've been thinking about getting an e-reader for sometime... But I want something that I can read e-books, pdf's,
websites, and e-mail. I read more on websites than books these days.. I checked out the iPad, seems to be
really good for this, and some light e-mail composing... But that's about it as far as typing goes... I looked at
using a bluetooth keyboard, but it just felt silly. I want a more traditional keyboard mouse once I set the
iPad down.
I haven't bought one yet, If it were $100 cheaper I probably would have. Probably smarter to wait for
the second generation.
BTW, I wouldn't recommend iBooks for DRM'ed books... If your ipad dies, you can't read your books
anymore.. i.e. no reader for Mac/PC.
I like Google and their products. I use them all the time.
But I am concerned about them and every other company which keeps information
on me... It's total out of control.
While I don't have a lot of concern on what Google does with the information today..
I do worry about criminals getting a hold of the information (if they haven't, it's just a
matter of time). And I do worry that the company Google is today will not be the
same as the company Google is tomorrow.
I agree with your assertion that you are replying to FUD... But, in some ways,
your reply is FUD too.. While Google may be better than all those other
companies today, does that make the data collection they do OK. It's not
a question specific to them.
> and they also provide tons of great open source products.
I consider Google to be opensource neutral. They open source very little
of their code. I would like to know how much money, as a company, they
spend on open source software vs the money spent on all software they
write.. I would expect a very low percentage.
i.e. personally I would like to look through the code for the gmail client,
maps, reader, jabber client, calendar, etc. None of this is core to their income
stream. I believe it would help dramatically improve other websites on
the web over time.
What about their e-mail server, IM server, calendar, etc?
I understand why they would keep their search algorithm closed.
Their data and how they mine it is where their real value is.
It certainly is their prerogative to to keep everything else closed
too... But I certainly wouldn't call them open source friendly.
What your missing is that the book is ~ 100% markup... So yes, the retailer takes ~ 50%
if they don't offer a discount..
So in your case above, the retailer takes $12.50.. The publisher takes $12.50. The publisher
then subtracts the $5 for printing/distribution. Then has $7.50 left to pay for the publishing
costs, take a profit, and pay the author.
If there wasn't a printing/distribution cost, the book would list @ $15.00.
I am perfectly fine if they want to charge $15 for an e-book. They will drop the price as time goes
on.. If your patient, wait and pay less.. If your not, pay more.
The real cost saving will come if e-book retailers make it easier to publish (ala the apple app store).
That will make a lot more content available and drive down prices. It will of course allow a lot more
crap in.. But that's where the breakdown in capitalism is.. The artificial throttling of what gets
published.