Rather than putting 10,000 brains on one project, you put one brain each on 10,000
project.
This is actually part of what makes Open Source software great. Open Source software still works by the processes of natural selection, where there are many upstarts and few successes.
Yes, there are dozens of window managers, dozens of bulletin boards, dozens of text editors, dozens of whatever available worldwide. However, only the ones backed with real vision, commitment, and some luck have become good enough to earn loyal developers and users. That's why we have software like Mozilla, Emacs, KDE, GNOME, Open Office, GIMP, XFree86, Linux, LaTeX, Perl, etc. The other software packages whose names have been forgotten will simply become idle (this accounts for most of what is listed at freshmeat).
I very much like this weeding process of software. It keeps down the level of trash in the long run; we just need to allow nature to take its course. Keep in mind just how young software is, in general. Compare the last 50 to 60 years of software to the time it took for Man to go from thatched huts to modern houses. Right now, I'd say software is still in the log cabin era.
Not really. When I want to install a new package under Linux, Solaris, etc., the package installer says "Hey, you don't have X, Y, and Z. Package Q needs these." I, then, install X, Y, and Z, and go back to install Q, which now has no complaints.
Windows apps that use MSHTML would be no different (they just ask for MSHTML, which could be an optional package on the Windows CD-ROM). There is simply no reason to statically link everything; even the package dependency mess in UNIX hasn't caused this.
I'll second that. On the surface, the Simpsons appears to be a washed-up trash sitcom like any other. However, why is it that nearly every episode has something totally unexpected that only heightens my respect for the writers? Just tonight, I saw Troy McClure in "Planet of the Apes", and it was as if Mel Brooks was on staff for the episode!
While I'm not ready to rank Matt Groening among the great masters of classical music, he did invent one of the most ingenious and long-running series in television history. One quality that the Simpsons does share with good classical music is that it doesn't seem to get old. Most episodes just don't get less funny in time. If that isn't a testament to the quality of the Simpsons, I don't know what is.
I would venture to guess that this is true of any certification (and not just Microsoft)
I have been preparing for Sun Solaris certification (two tests), and I think it would be difficult to pass these tests without some amount of real experience. The main reason is that they test a subset of general UNIX skills plus some of the Solaris SPARC-specific nuances, such as the firmware commands and DiskSuite RAID.
In general, I think people who pass certain tests just by reading a book are drawing a lot from other experience--unless they are lucky enough to have a true photographic memory, which is rare.
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Rather than putting 10,000 brains on one project, you put one brain each on 10,000
project.
This is actually part of what makes Open Source software great. Open Source software still works by the processes of natural selection, where there are many upstarts and few successes.
Yes, there are dozens of window managers, dozens of bulletin boards, dozens of text editors, dozens of whatever available worldwide. However, only the ones backed with real vision, commitment, and some luck have become good enough to earn loyal developers and users. That's why we have software like Mozilla, Emacs, KDE, GNOME, Open Office, GIMP, XFree86, Linux, LaTeX, Perl, etc. The other software packages whose names have been forgotten will simply become idle (this accounts for most of what is listed at freshmeat).
I very much like this weeding process of software. It keeps down the level of trash in the long run; we just need to allow nature to take its course. Keep in mind just how young software is, in general. Compare the last 50 to 60 years of software to the time it took for Man to go from thatched huts to modern houses. Right now, I'd say software is still in the log cabin era.
Not really. When I want to install a new package under Linux, Solaris, etc., the package installer says "Hey, you don't have X, Y, and Z. Package Q needs these." I, then, install X, Y, and Z, and go back to install Q, which now has no complaints.
Windows apps that use MSHTML would be no different (they just ask for MSHTML, which could be an optional package on the Windows CD-ROM). There is simply no reason to statically link everything; even the package dependency mess in UNIX hasn't caused this.
I'll second that. On the surface, the Simpsons appears to be a washed-up trash sitcom like any other. However, why is it that nearly every episode has something totally unexpected that only heightens my respect for the writers? Just tonight, I saw Troy McClure in "Planet of the Apes", and it was as if Mel Brooks was on staff for the episode!
While I'm not ready to rank Matt Groening among the great masters of classical music, he did invent one of the most ingenious and long-running series in television history. One quality that the Simpsons does share with good classical music is that it doesn't seem to get old. Most episodes just don't get less funny in time. If that isn't a testament to the quality of the Simpsons, I don't know what is.
I would venture to guess that this is true of any certification (and not just Microsoft)
I have been preparing for Sun Solaris certification (two tests), and I think it would be difficult to pass these tests without some amount of real experience. The main reason is that they test a subset of general UNIX skills plus some of the Solaris SPARC-specific nuances, such as the firmware commands and DiskSuite RAID.
In general, I think people who pass certain tests just by reading a book are drawing a lot from other experience--unless they are lucky enough to have a true photographic memory, which is rare.