Most companies find (the ones that actually DO it rather than pay lip service to it) that designing a project PREVENTS the "patches on patches".
Another thing that many people say they do (but rarely do) is actually have meetings that accomplish REAL goals rather than perceived ones. I have been in "design" meetings that were merely CYA meetings - nothing was designed and it was all a waste of time. On the other hand, I have been in meetings that I was invited to (but really had no business being in) that actually SOLVED problems a) BEFORE they happened or b) reworked the nature of the beast so that it was not nearly so intractable design.
Communication. Not just CYA, but actually TALKING and LISTENING (you wouldn't believe the number of software engineers that just will talk and talk and never hear a damn thing).
Making it a death penalty to break someones locks helps too...
I was one of the noisy beta testers.
We were a loud lot. We bitched. We moaned. We groaned. We probably made the Apple Engineers angry. Whatever they provided (and they were ever so nice in responding) we would demand more. An Apple logo that DID something.
We are STILL ticked that there is no Windowshade (why?!?). Fortunately, someone has managed to create a wonderful hack (oh, geez, do the search YOURSELF)...
Is it cool? Hell, yes! Is it slick? Makes OS 9 look like your grandfathers car. Is it fool-proof, well, no. But neither is OS 9.2.
What I hear when people say "we want it the same" is that they never consider that it might, just MIGHT be better. I have heard people cry out "OS 8.0 isn't like 7.0 it must be the end of civilization!!!!" and yet it wasn't. Compared to what we started with in 1984, this looks GOOD.
To be honest, it is faster, easier, and less error-prone than OS 9. For those "old school Mac admins", well, learning something new is not a bad thing.
Hmmm... I have used Macs from everything to the "specific" task of writing code to the "specific" task of designing my ranch to the "specific" task of keeping the books to the specific task of running a server to the "specific" task of...
I've been running OS X on a 450 Mhz G3 and have been perfectly pleased with the response. Do I want a spiffier system? All the time, but it works and works quite well, thank you very much.
Perhaps you wish to remain stuck in the past (everytime I "drop back" to 9.2 I remember what a PITA it really is). Life is better at X.
Let us say I develop Widget(R) at Three-Initial Corporation. Since it takes a key to get in the building (plus retinal scans, a urine test, and a quick, but painful body-cavity search), who is to know that it is "finished"?
Next, using my HIGHLY encrypted network, I ship it to DupIt Corporation in Taiwan. Boom. Product. But how do they determine I did it?
Let me see... all these years I wanted a larger sceen and faster machine. NOW, for a higher price, I can get a SLOWER machine and a SMALLER screen...
This is progress?!?!
It is only a "good thing" if in fact the use of nuclear weapons is feasible. We have proved that they are not. In fact, no other nation, other than the United States has ever detonated nuclear devices in another country as a WMD. And those were kiloton devices (as opposed to the MEGA ton devices we now have built up).
Any paper that attempts to rationalize the use of a device that has unpredictable consequences (do they assume that 0% will be duds? I bet they do! Hmmm... how nasty is a dirty bomb? Oh, yeah, pretty nasty!). Nukes go FAR beyond the target. However, the military doesn't really consider cleanup. That is "not their problem".
If you kill more people does that mean you win? At what point will we sacrifice our humanity to be winners?
Hell, I thought Ray Gun was scary, but Bush and Team got him beat...
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"You can throw away something..."
Perhaps we can put some of the dead-head managers on satellites (let us call them the sat-Elite - they don't know how to spell, so no one will know the difference). We can make them PAY to be one of these sat-Elitists, thereby enriching NASA and taking out useless human flotsam at the same time...
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That would make my new e-mail address you-f**king-b*****d-dont-you-come-around-here-agai n-you-c**k-s****r-exclamationpoint-exclamationpoin t.
Somehow I just can't see telling Mom my new e-mail address...
Most companies find (the ones that actually DO it rather than pay lip service to it) that designing a project PREVENTS the "patches on patches".
Another thing that many people say they do (but rarely do) is actually have meetings that accomplish REAL goals rather than perceived ones. I have been in "design" meetings that were merely CYA meetings - nothing was designed and it was all a waste of time. On the other hand, I have been in meetings that I was invited to (but really had no business being in) that actually SOLVED problems a) BEFORE they happened or b) reworked the nature of the beast so that it was not nearly so intractable design.
Communication. Not just CYA, but actually TALKING and LISTENING (you wouldn't believe the number of software engineers that just will talk and talk and never hear a damn thing).
Making it a death penalty to break someones locks helps too...
I was one of the noisy beta testers. We were a loud lot. We bitched. We moaned. We groaned. We probably made the Apple Engineers angry. Whatever they provided (and they were ever so nice in responding) we would demand more. An Apple logo that DID something. We are STILL ticked that there is no Windowshade (why?!?). Fortunately, someone has managed to create a wonderful hack (oh, geez, do the search YOURSELF)... Is it cool? Hell, yes! Is it slick? Makes OS 9 look like your grandfathers car. Is it fool-proof, well, no. But neither is OS 9.2. What I hear when people say "we want it the same" is that they never consider that it might, just MIGHT be better. I have heard people cry out "OS 8.0 isn't like 7.0 it must be the end of civilization!!!!" and yet it wasn't. Compared to what we started with in 1984, this looks GOOD. To be honest, it is faster, easier, and less error-prone than OS 9. For those "old school Mac admins", well, learning something new is not a bad thing.
Hmmm... I've got an old 30 Mhz 68000 that I would be willing to part with, oooh, $10,000... or is that too much?
Hmmm... I have used Macs from everything to the "specific" task of writing code to the "specific" task of designing my ranch to the "specific" task of keeping the books to the specific task of running a server to the "specific" task of... I've been running OS X on a 450 Mhz G3 and have been perfectly pleased with the response. Do I want a spiffier system? All the time, but it works and works quite well, thank you very much. Perhaps you wish to remain stuck in the past (everytime I "drop back" to 9.2 I remember what a PITA it really is). Life is better at X.
Perhaps it is for our war against one-eye soldiers?
Hmmmm... Didn't Disney do that for the Army during WWII? [smirk]
Killing a dragon with an eggshell containing Jalepeno juice...
I can see it now. The war on terroism as the FBI searches out the last remnant of the "GPL Conspirators"...[sigh]
Makes as much sense as Dr. Spud patenting a genome [makes a disgusted face]. Besides, they were a HELL of a lot more fun to read [grin].
Affordable?!?! Hell, I just want the bleeders to be COMPATIBLE!
Rather than listen to the consumer, they have the software do it for them...
Next, using my HIGHLY encrypted network, I ship it to DupIt Corporation in Taiwan. Boom. Product. But how do they determine I did it?
Sounds like a law that can't be enforced to me!
Farmers actually USE the digital world (John Deere sells tractors with GPS, etc.). How do you think we keep up with prices?
Let me see... all these years I wanted a larger sceen and faster machine. NOW, for a higher price, I can get a SLOWER machine and a SMALLER screen... This is progress?!?!
It is only a "good thing" if in fact the use of nuclear weapons is feasible. We have proved that they are not. In fact, no other nation, other than the United States has ever detonated nuclear devices in another country as a WMD. And those were kiloton devices (as opposed to the MEGA ton devices we now have built up).
Any paper that attempts to rationalize the use of a device that has unpredictable consequences (do they assume that 0% will be duds? I bet they do! Hmmm... how nasty is a dirty bomb? Oh, yeah, pretty nasty!). Nukes go FAR beyond the target. However, the military doesn't really consider cleanup. That is "not their problem".
If you kill more people does that mean you win? At what point will we sacrifice our humanity to be winners?
Hell, I thought Ray Gun was scary, but Bush and Team got him beat...
"You can throw away something..."
Perhaps we can put some of the dead-head managers on satellites (let us call them the sat-Elite - they don't know how to spell, so no one will know the difference). We can make them PAY to be one of these sat-Elitists, thereby enriching NASA and taking out useless human flotsam at the same time...
Or not.