Not that difficult if your developers work off a bug and feature log. The managers should assign bugs and features to the developers, and over time the daily average of bugs successfully closed, or features accepted for a build per day is a pretty good metric. I don't think it is hard if you have good processes and track everything with a bug and feature log.
I don't think this has as much to do with Android and iOS as it does with the state of software quality in general. The current state of software quality is abysmal, since the shift to scripting languages and web apps as the primary platform about ten years, the science and art of writing robust and reliable software for OO, event driven, asynchronous platforms like iOS or Android has become an almost lost skill. Unfortunately failure modes for these platforms are more dramatic than for web apps, in that you'll likely get a crash rather than 'error on page' message. The situation has been further exacerbated by management's insistence an always hiring the lowest quality developers they can find, outsourcing, H1 B's etc. If you use low quality and inexperienced devs, you'll likely get an unstable and and unreliable application on these types of platforms. This should be a wake up call to the industry in general in that we need to focus and engineering, quality and reliability, and not just minimizing cost.
I doubt it. They are still struggling to get Motoblur finished, I seriously doubt they'd be able to field a consumer grade OS if they can't even get Motoblur out the door. Application and OS layer is not their strong point as a company, they would be better off of they just focused on hardware, Mark
The US Military has been using Atropine auto injectors since the 70's, but there's no requirement for FDA approval. There's also a auto injector of Pam-2 chloride to be used to neutralize the toxicity of the Atropine. The Atropine and Pam-2 chloride injectors are issued in a box of two each that each soldier/sailor/marine carries when at 'MOPP' level anticipating a chemical attack or training for such. Anyone whose been through basic training or who has trained with a combat related unit probably has fond memories of long hours spent in MOPP suites, gas masks, and practice with the fake injectors for training. The only difference I see with this new antidote is that's its FDA approved for civilian use.
Mark
Actually is 'Eastern CA' its not all coast believe it or not, but looks like NV. Those of us in Eastern CA resent being mistaken for NV in the same way people in Wisconsin don't like to be mistaken for Canadien.
It might cause a bit of environmental degredation but not much lives in the Mojave anyway, and the Mojave desert is unbelievably large, bigger than most NE states, so I don't think there much to worry about. We got plenty of unused land in the Mojave, so if we could get some energy out of it, that would great.
M
You forgot to mention that Blackberries have a really good SDK and extended J2ME API's and much optional JSR support where as the I-Phone has no SDK at all. I'll keep my Blackberry until the I-Phone gets an SDK , which could of course be a while.
MM
Seems like there is a wide variety of portable water purifucation system alrady available for back packers etc, most of these are much less expensive. The people who really need this technology don't have ~$400 to spend, especially when you can get a device that will do the same thing (Katydin pumps etc) for around $50. Also you can boil water for even less, or you can use iodine tablets, or household bleach, doesn't taste great, but works. Seems like this device expensively solves a problem that doesn't exist.
I already had this happen, had a brand new Acer from best buy with Vista pre-installed, during a recent business trip to Asia I booted up one day to get the black screen O death. I contacted M$ tech support whom informed me that I'd have to contact Best Buy for resolution, never did get the problem resolved. Eventually just had to nuke it from orbit and istall linux. Paid good money for Vista and got screwed anyway! Friends don't let friends use Vista! It seems a bit odd that the're going to such lengths to prevent piracy on Vista, you can't really buy a laptop without Vista installed these days, and it's the worst OS ever devised, no one in their right mind would want to pirate the pile O' crap. Ony good news is that it was my employers computer, so the're really the ones that got hosed. Never buying another Windows machine again, never paying for any M$ products again, apparantly having a legit license in not enough for them, they want to re-sell you the same software as many times as possible. I sent M$ an email about this, the contents of which are to obscene to quote here.
M
I stand corrected! There are a bunch of hills around there though, Carson Valley is on the East side of the Sierra, and there are a bunch of minor ranges up to 11,000 ft to the E ans SE. Hope they find him OK, but looks grim at this point.
M
The area of Nevada where he is missing is actually rugged and mountainous ( I have some proerties in those parts myself ). Look on Google earth if you don't believe me, the name 'Nevada' means ',mountains. Also area 51 is now where nearby. There's a lot of rugged and inaccessible terrain he could've gone down, unfortunatley, and 5 days is a long time without water, its dry and hot out this time of year. I'd say the situation doesn't look good at this point, but we can always hope for a miracle, best of luck to the SAR and CAP people.
Spent seven months once me ( and a team of US coders) fixing an application WIPRO did for a major US client. There were suppossed to do a Struts application, but instead they wrote essentially a CGI script in Java, biggest mess I've ever seen! They really had no idea what they were doing, code was unbelievably sloppy, so maybe they need to hire some real programmers from the US to get anything done.
M
Well you could always go to a very small grid size and then run your solution on a very big computer! But seriously since there been so much work done in recent years in various fields solving non-linear PDE's you'd think this type of problem has already been dealt with, though perhaps in a different physical context. Maybe just need to find the best analog to your problem in an area that has already been well explored. Hydrodynamicist have been modelling non-linear surface waves recently, so this could be a starting point.
M
I'd disagree with your assertion that PDA's aren't cheap, the Palm Zire retails for around $70. these days. These are robust and durable units, and we have deployed them extensively in the field, the BW screens are perfect for use outdoors. Also with the right software these units are easy to use and synch. We've had good luck on widely deploying the Palm Zire's for data collection, even on a non-profit budget, see http://snowpilot.org/ Just my 2 cents.
Mark
I actually built a PDA application that is used for snow science, the data is collected in the field from various locations world wide on the PDA's and sent to our central DB (MySQL), see http://snowpilot.org/ .
Mark
The supersponic space has been in development for about 20 years. It seems like all these guys have is a new combuster design which has only been tested at Mach 2, and haven't even mentioned the other huge design challenges. Need to be able to construct an ariframe that can tolerate the extreme temperatures and stress of hypersonic flight. There still has been no long duration or full scale od a SCRAM jet, much less an actual vehicle flight. The hypersonic flight problem is quite daunting, and there little is little margin for error. It would be great if it happened, but until I see an actual vehicle test flight, I'll consider it vapor ware.
M
Seems like there will always be demmand to fix broken indian code. Those guys right the most atrocoious cut-and -aste hope-it-compiles with deprecation code, generally explodes when it his production. Anyone who hires sketchy indians to write code is on crack! I've made a number of paychecks fixing this crap, they could have just saved m money by hiring me in the first place.
M
This sound like a great idea! especially for LA which has no local water supply. The water from LA is pumped from the Owen's Valley (where I happen to live). The impact of water pumping from the Ownens Valley has caused massive environmetal degredation for the eastern sierra and the Owens Valley including the complete draining of Owens Lake, and has severely damaged Mono Lake. So anything that would help this problem would be a step in the right direction. Now if we could just stop everyone in LA from washing their SUV's twice a week, we'd be on a roll!
Rumors of the PDA's death are greatly exagerated, they may be replaced by phones and Ipods for some uses, but they have found thier own niche in areas such as collecting scientific data in the field (out of range of WIFI and cell signal). In the field I work in (Snow Science & Avalanche mitigation) , the PDA has revolutionized data collection, and we get more users almost daily, see http://www.snowpilot.org/
Mark
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Not that difficult if your developers work off a bug and feature log. The managers should assign bugs and features to the developers, and over time the daily average of bugs successfully closed, or features accepted for a build per day is a pretty good metric. I don't think it is hard if you have good processes and track everything with a bug and feature log.
Motorola already did this, the Motorola Atrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... did not sell that well, however. M
I don't think this has as much to do with Android and iOS as it does with the state of software quality in general. The current state of software quality is abysmal, since the shift to scripting languages and web apps as the primary platform about ten years, the science and art of writing robust and reliable software for OO, event driven, asynchronous platforms like iOS or Android has become an almost lost skill. Unfortunately failure modes for these platforms are more dramatic than for web apps, in that you'll likely get a crash rather than 'error on page' message. The situation has been further exacerbated by management's insistence an always hiring the lowest quality developers they can find, outsourcing, H1 B's etc. If you use low quality and inexperienced devs, you'll likely get an unstable and and unreliable application on these types of platforms. This should be a wake up call to the industry in general in that we need to focus and engineering, quality and reliability, and not just minimizing cost.
I doubt it. They are still struggling to get Motoblur finished, I seriously doubt they'd be able to field a consumer grade OS if they can't even get Motoblur out the door. Application and OS layer is not their strong point as a company, they would be better off of they just focused on hardware, Mark
The original Doom has already been ported to Android, Android beats I-phone again!
The US Military has been using Atropine auto injectors since the 70's, but there's no requirement for FDA approval. There's also a auto injector of Pam-2 chloride to be used to neutralize the toxicity of the Atropine. The Atropine and Pam-2 chloride injectors are issued in a box of two each that each soldier/sailor/marine carries when at 'MOPP' level anticipating a chemical attack or training for such. Anyone whose been through basic training or who has trained with a combat related unit probably has fond memories of long hours spent in MOPP suites, gas masks, and practice with the fake injectors for training. The only difference I see with this new antidote is that's its FDA approved for civilian use. Mark
1.) Does everything an I-Phone does. 2.) Can be unlocked, works on various networks. 3.) Has an excellent an excellent SDK. Mark
Actually is 'Eastern CA' its not all coast believe it or not, but looks like NV. Those of us in Eastern CA resent being mistaken for NV in the same way people in Wisconsin don't like to be mistaken for Canadien.
It might cause a bit of environmental degredation but not much lives in the Mojave anyway, and the Mojave desert is unbelievably large, bigger than most NE states, so I don't think there much to worry about. We got plenty of unused land in the Mojave, so if we could get some energy out of it, that would great. M
You forgot to mention that Blackberries have a really good SDK and extended J2ME API's and much optional JSR support where as the I-Phone has no SDK at all. I'll keep my Blackberry until the I-Phone gets an SDK , which could of course be a while. MM
Will it have an SDK and or support J2ME?
Seems like there is a wide variety of portable water purifucation system alrady available for back packers etc, most of these are much less expensive. The people who really need this technology don't have ~$400 to spend, especially when you can get a device that will do the same thing (Katydin pumps etc) for around $50. Also you can boil water for even less, or you can use iodine tablets, or household bleach, doesn't taste great, but works. Seems like this device expensively solves a problem that doesn't exist.
I already had this happen, had a brand new Acer from best buy with Vista pre-installed, during a recent business trip to Asia I booted up one day to get the black screen O death. I contacted M$ tech support whom informed me that I'd have to contact Best Buy for resolution, never did get the problem resolved. Eventually just had to nuke it from orbit and istall linux. Paid good money for Vista and got screwed anyway! Friends don't let friends use Vista! It seems a bit odd that the're going to such lengths to prevent piracy on Vista, you can't really buy a laptop without Vista installed these days, and it's the worst OS ever devised, no one in their right mind would want to pirate the pile O' crap. Ony good news is that it was my employers computer, so the're really the ones that got hosed. Never buying another Windows machine again, never paying for any M$ products again, apparantly having a legit license in not enough for them, they want to re-sell you the same software as many times as possible. I sent M$ an email about this, the contents of which are to obscene to quote here. M
I stand corrected! There are a bunch of hills around there though, Carson Valley is on the East side of the Sierra, and there are a bunch of minor ranges up to 11,000 ft to the E ans SE. Hope they find him OK, but looks grim at this point. M
The area of Nevada where he is missing is actually rugged and mountainous ( I have some proerties in those parts myself ). Look on Google earth if you don't believe me, the name 'Nevada' means ',mountains. Also area 51 is now where nearby. There's a lot of rugged and inaccessible terrain he could've gone down, unfortunatley, and 5 days is a long time without water, its dry and hot out this time of year. I'd say the situation doesn't look good at this point, but we can always hope for a miracle, best of luck to the SAR and CAP people.
Spent seven months once me ( and a team of US coders) fixing an application WIPRO did for a major US client. There were suppossed to do a Struts application, but instead they wrote essentially a CGI script in Java, biggest mess I've ever seen! They really had no idea what they were doing, code was unbelievably sloppy, so maybe they need to hire some real programmers from the US to get anything done. M
Well you could always go to a very small grid size and then run your solution on a very big computer! But seriously since there been so much work done in recent years in various fields solving non-linear PDE's you'd think this type of problem has already been dealt with, though perhaps in a different physical context. Maybe just need to find the best analog to your problem in an area that has already been well explored. Hydrodynamicist have been modelling non-linear surface waves recently, so this could be a starting point. M
Wouldn't just be easier to send a life size cardboard cutout of yourself to the office?
I'd disagree with your assertion that PDA's aren't cheap, the Palm Zire retails for around $70. these days. These are robust and durable units, and we have deployed them extensively in the field, the BW screens are perfect for use outdoors. Also with the right software these units are easy to use and synch. We've had good luck on widely deploying the Palm Zire's for data collection, even on a non-profit budget, see http://snowpilot.org/ Just my 2 cents. Mark
I actually built a PDA application that is used for snow science, the data is collected in the field from various locations world wide on the PDA's and sent to our central DB (MySQL), see http://snowpilot.org/ . Mark
The supersponic space has been in development for about 20 years. It seems like all these guys have is a new combuster design which has only been tested at Mach 2, and haven't even mentioned the other huge design challenges. Need to be able to construct an ariframe that can tolerate the extreme temperatures and stress of hypersonic flight. There still has been no long duration or full scale od a SCRAM jet, much less an actual vehicle flight. The hypersonic flight problem is quite daunting, and there little is little margin for error. It would be great if it happened, but until I see an actual vehicle test flight, I'll consider it vapor ware. M
Seems like there will always be demmand to fix broken indian code. Those guys right the most atrocoious cut-and -aste hope-it-compiles with deprecation code, generally explodes when it his production. Anyone who hires sketchy indians to write code is on crack! I've made a number of paychecks fixing this crap, they could have just saved m money by hiring me in the first place. M
This sound like a great idea! especially for LA which has no local water supply. The water from LA is pumped from the Owen's Valley (where I happen to live). The impact of water pumping from the Ownens Valley has caused massive environmetal degredation for the eastern sierra and the Owens Valley including the complete draining of Owens Lake, and has severely damaged Mono Lake. So anything that would help this problem would be a step in the right direction. Now if we could just stop everyone in LA from washing their SUV's twice a week, we'd be on a roll!
Funny, sounds like you plagiarized the coding style guidline from WIPRO or EDS! M
Rumors of the PDA's death are greatly exagerated, they may be replaced by phones and Ipods for some uses, but they have found thier own niche in areas such as collecting scientific data in the field (out of range of WIFI and cell signal). In the field I work in (Snow Science & Avalanche mitigation) , the PDA has revolutionized data collection, and we get more users almost daily, see http://www.snowpilot.org/ Mark