Not true. There was an actual court case, where that guy successfully sued Winnibago for failing to warn him the cruise control still required him to be behind the wheel to steer the RV.
Yes, there are methodologies and processes available that help with scheduling. A major problem though is that *both* management and line employees often do not buy into these processes, they see them as just getting in the way of the project. And in someways they are right, it does slow you down a bit, but over time you develop the capability to do much more accurate estimates.
For people who don't want the inefficiencies of a heavy weight process methodology like CMM, it's often better to look at more agile methodologies.
I think many companies have trouble deciding between what is more important: 1) getting a product out the door as fast as possible , or 2) being able to more accurately predict when a product will be ready.
I would have to agree. I think a lot of firms do attempt to introduce some process into their organization, only to throw it all out when the deadlines approach.
Mod parent up. While I don't want to see a return to the excesses of the late 90's, I think some blame has to be layed at the feet of management and customers too. Ask for more features, with fewer resources to implement them and guess what slips?
There is a good saying: Fast, Cheap, and Good. Pick two. You can't expect to deliver great software on time with a lack of appropriate resources.
Each year ALL institutions that participate in federal financial aid programs, which is over 90% of them, must respond to the NCES IPEDS data collection. IPEDS is a complete, albeit aggregate, data collection tool but it drills down to such detail that for a small to medium sized instituion it's not difficult to get some good stuff.
But there is a difference, they are asking for SSN's. Which are not of much use in aggregrate statistics, so the only rational explanation is they are looking to develop a databank of each and every college student in the US.
Nope. Most of the time, and generally by default it does. But you can do SOAP over SMTP, and other transports too. SOAP is just the message encoding format, how you deliver the message is up to you, and usually defined in WSDL.
Wrong. The vast majority of software written for the Windows platform is business applications, both shrinkwrap and internal. If you take a random sampling of 100 developers, you will find that most are employed by a non-technology focused business that use software to make their particular business run more efficiently.
And likewise no intelligent person is going to want to move in to a town where a single corporate monopoly maintains a stranglehood on the internet, television, and telephone network.
Unregulated corporate monopolies can be even worse than a government monopoly. At least the government can be held accountable, and voted out.
Uhm, WinForms != WebForms. WinForms is the API in the.NET BCL for creating traditional Win32 fat clients. Perhaps you are thinking of WebForms and ASP.NET.
XAML will be successful, on the Win32 platform. WinForms is going to go away. No one at MSFT is publicly admitting this yet, but there are lots of hints around. Avalon/XAML is going to be the next Win32 GUI API. But until it's well integrated with the Dev Tools, it won't really catch on. Look for XAML to really start catching momentum in 2007/2008.
Whether XAML will be successful on the web, well that is a different story..
7. Get indicted for fraud, once he proves he has the receipts for 1/2 the stuff.
8. Get indicted for lying to a police officer.
9. Sit back and laugh at yourself in jail, for being so stupid.
Personally, I don't see a problem with it either. The NSA is already reknowned for it's ability to secure networks & systems very well. I believe they write many of the books & guidelines that government agencies and companies use to secure their networks. Perhaps we will see an expanded use of SE-Linux?
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Not true. There was an actual court case, where that guy successfully sued Winnibago for failing to warn him the cruise control still required him to be behind the wheel to steer the RV.
I know this particular RFC is meant as a joke. But if this man succeeds in gaining more control over the internet, I would not be surprised to see something along these lines in the future.
Yes, there are methodologies and processes available that help with scheduling. A major problem though is that *both* management and line employees often do not buy into these processes, they see them as just getting in the way of the project. And in someways they are right, it does slow you down a bit, but over time you develop the capability to do much more accurate estimates.
For people who don't want the inefficiencies of a heavy weight process methodology like CMM, it's often better to look at more agile methodologies.
I think many companies have trouble deciding between what is more important: 1) getting a product out the door as fast as possible , or 2) being able to more accurately predict when a product will be ready.
I would have to agree. I think a lot of firms do attempt to introduce some process into their organization, only to throw it all out when the deadlines approach.
Mod parent up. While I don't want to see a return to the excesses of the late 90's, I think some blame has to be layed at the feet of management and customers too. Ask for more features, with fewer resources to implement them and guess what slips?
There is a good saying: Fast, Cheap, and Good. Pick two. You can't expect to deliver great software on time with a lack of appropriate resources.
Read the article, these kids cannot even qualify because they are considered undocumented immigrants.
Each year ALL institutions that participate in federal financial aid programs, which is over 90% of them, must respond to the NCES IPEDS data collection. IPEDS is a complete, albeit aggregate, data collection tool but it drills down to such detail that for a small to medium sized instituion it's not difficult to get some good stuff.
But there is a difference, they are asking for SSN's. Which are not of much use in aggregrate statistics, so the only rational explanation is they are looking to develop a databank of each and every college student in the US.
Nope. Most of the time, and generally by default it does. But you can do SOAP over SMTP, and other transports too. SOAP is just the message encoding format, how you deliver the message is up to you, and usually defined in WSDL.
Good lucking blocking HTTP.
Wrong. The vast majority of software written for the Windows platform is business applications, both shrinkwrap and internal. If you take a random sampling of 100 developers, you will find that most are employed by a non-technology focused business that use software to make their particular business run more efficiently.
Not quite. This would be like if Apache bundled a copy of Real Player or the Google toolbar with every install.
Google is written in Python?? That's news to me. I'd say its more likely they use C & C++ for most of their stuff.
And why should they stop there? Why not have every single website on the internet post a label:
"WARNING: NOT EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET IS TRUE!"
Every programmer worth his/her salt should write source code that is self documenting... Not many do..
Yes, Even dead ones. Over.. and over.. and over again.
And likewise no intelligent person is going to want to move in to a town where a single corporate monopoly maintains a stranglehood on the internet, television, and telephone network.
Unregulated corporate monopolies can be even worse than a government monopoly. At least the government can be held accountable, and voted out.
Uhm, WinForms != WebForms. WinForms is the API in the .NET BCL for creating traditional Win32 fat clients. Perhaps you are thinking of WebForms and ASP.NET.
Next on Slashdot. Super Mario Bros. 2 reviewed!
XAML will be successful, on the Win32 platform. WinForms is going to go away. No one at MSFT is publicly admitting this yet, but there are lots of hints around. Avalon/XAML is going to be the next Win32 GUI API. But until it's well integrated with the Dev Tools, it won't really catch on. Look for XAML to really start catching momentum in 2007/2008.
Whether XAML will be successful on the web, well that is a different story..
Salesforce.com is doing pretty good as an ASP.
What?!?! You mean you didn't short the stock? Like everyone and their grandma did, back when this whole thing came out and their stock was at $10+.
7. Get indicted for fraud, once he proves he has the receipts for 1/2 the stuff.
8. Get indicted for lying to a police officer.
9. Sit back and laugh at yourself in jail, for being so stupid.
Personally, I don't see a problem with it either. The NSA is already reknowned for it's ability to secure networks & systems very well. I believe they write many of the books & guidelines that government agencies and companies use to secure their networks. Perhaps we will see an expanded use of SE-Linux?
And appropriately enough, it's an expensive bar even by Whistler standards. At least there's no cover charge.
No, I didn't notice that sign, as I was going too fast in full tuck mode passing you :)
Inside joke/pun: If you ask me, I think they need a real 'Express Way' that runs parallel to Glacier road, for the fast skiers.