Its pretty common knowledge that NASA invest a lot of time and effort in testing. If I remember correctly they have their own language and everything must run without a single glitch on their simulators for hundreds of hours before its is accepted.
XP is a methodology more suited to commercial environments, particularly web based where the requiremens are often in a state of flux. I would not expect to see NASA telling their coders twice a week that mission requirents have changed and they now need X instead of Y. I dont really see how XP would be particularly beneficial in a stable engineering environment.
Although, despite what you say about domain experts I think a pair programming team of a coder and domain expert would work well. Most of the software problems dont seem to be something breaking but rather someone making a faulty assumption. A domain expert on hand might help cut these down (of course there is the flip side that because space exploration is still pretty new the domain expert is likely to make faulty assumptions)
They dont actually have to prove anything to the Linux community. They just have to convince a judge that the similarities in question do indeed represent a breach of contract for which IBM are liable.
Jon âoeMaddogâ Hall, executive director of Linux International (Nashua, N.H.), a Linux advocacy organization. âoeOr did the code that's in SCO Unix come from a third source? Show me the facts,â he said.
Quick show him the facts before he starts chasing parked cars
Have you ever tried to debug some random piece of crap VB dll or vbscript
Yes I have and its very easy, even when the VB is being called from MSVC its a doddle to debug. If you find debugging VB hard you really need to get out of development and find alternative employment, I suggest McDonalds along with thr rest of the failed dot commers
COM is really just a horrible hack to make people think there is a C++ abi on Windows
Of course it is because we all know that its impossible to write interoperable components in anything other than C++.
Every api seems to have from 9 to 35 arguments. Nobody knows what they are for... its a cut and paste job from MSDN
Total bullshit. Try reading while your are cutting, it might expand your mind a bit. Not everyone finds coding as difficult as you seem to.
The next thing you know you are expected to work out what a fucking idiot has created
Ahh I see now. You are totally clueless so its the fault of the user then.You will go a long way with that attitude .
What has happened to Linux zealotry on/. The actual article title clearly and totally ignores the fact these councils are only doing feasability studies, not actually switching.
UK councils dump Windows for Linux
Most bizaarly then the/. header actually notes this fact that these councils may switch to Linux. What happed to the good old days when/. would report them as having already switched with lots of interesting anecdotes about how shit Windows is and how brilliant Linux is.
I agree with your point but with the away things are at the moment how long will it be before the European Space efforts become a 'threat' to US national security or some such nonsense and we all find ourselves in totally bizaar situation.
The only person who thinks this is a terrible thing to do to a couple of doggies. poor things. Just give them a smack and lock them outside for a couple of hours, theres just no need to send them into space.
Roughly half the book is devoted to the negative effects of patents on scientific research
Kind of hard to justify this sort of claim when you consider how much we have advanced in the last 70-80 years. It might not be a perfect process but it does seem to work.
I think a lot of this stuff is not really intended for the benefit of the soldier, its for their commanders. The trend is towards fewer more sohisticated soldiers which their commanders can micromanage on the battle field with a lot of this technology to utilise resources as fully as possible.
The US military today announced that due to space requirements for all the gadgets on the new battle dress in future all recruits must be at least 7 feet tall and comfortable wearing fatigues that weigh 150lbs
I would like to apologise for the heinous crime of software copying. I promise to mend my ways and return to a good pirate lifestyle of murder, rape and pilage on the high seas
Not any more. We here at the dept of homeland security would like to inform you you have 24hrs to relocate your self to camp delta. You are now classifed as an enemy combatant after your unpatriotic remarks on/.
I think this is a very very clever way of generating even more revenue from a movie, not to mention getting the cash up front to offset production costs.
I would imagine we can expect to see a lot more of this shortly on different movie sets. The sad fact is that a lot of people are prepared to pay for it to get a look at their 'heroes' and what happens on the set.
It will ony be a question of time before the 'acting' extends to the web cam and we can have staged scenes to generate interest in the movie so that the actual production becomes a soap opera in itself.
OMG am I in another dimension?? You actually read the article and are apologising for spelling errors. This cant be the Slashdot I know.... my god its true it is a multiverse.
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If the brick says the buildings about to fall, what can the owners do?
Get on the phone to their brokers and triple their insurance policy
Only if you define life as a red herring
Typical that an Alabama halamtandra is complaining about the Blackberries. I bet if they were Whiteberries it would be a whole different story
Working very hard on the soon to be released AmiZilla Mascot, she is very sexy
I'm almost temped to donate 10K to see just what sort of wild bender someone who finds a green lizard sexy would actually go on.
You mean they took his entire pr0n collection !!
Its pretty common knowledge that NASA invest a lot of time and effort in testing. If I remember correctly they have their own language and everything must run without a single glitch on their simulators for hundreds of hours before its is accepted.
XP is a methodology more suited to commercial environments, particularly web based where the requiremens are often in a state of flux. I would not expect to see NASA telling their coders twice a week that mission requirents have changed and they now need X instead of Y. I dont really see how XP would be particularly beneficial in a stable engineering environment.
Although, despite what you say about domain experts I think a pair programming team of a coder and domain expert would work well. Most of the software problems dont seem to be something breaking but rather someone making a faulty assumption. A domain expert on hand might help cut these down (of course there is the flip side that because space exploration is still pretty new the domain expert is likely to make faulty assumptions)
How do know this difference was not due to OSX being faster then linux ?
They dont actually have to prove anything to the Linux community. They just have to convince a judge that the similarities in question do indeed represent a breach of contract for which IBM are liable.
Jon âoeMaddogâ Hall, executive director of Linux International (Nashua, N.H.), a Linux advocacy organization. âoeOr did the code that's in SCO Unix come from a third source? Show me the facts,â he said.
Quick show him the facts before he starts chasing parked cars
80 Lines out of 10's of thousands. Thats it, looks like IBM are fucked
Have you ever tried to debug some random piece of crap VB dll or vbscript
Yes I have and its very easy, even when the VB is being called from MSVC its a doddle to debug. If you find debugging VB hard you really need to get out of development and find alternative employment, I suggest McDonalds along with thr rest of the failed dot commers
COM is really just a horrible hack to make people think there is a C++ abi on Windows
Of course it is because we all know that its impossible to write interoperable components in anything other than C++.
Every api seems to have from 9 to 35 arguments. Nobody knows what they are for... its a cut and paste job from MSDN
Total bullshit. Try reading while your are cutting, it might expand your mind a bit. Not everyone finds coding as difficult as you seem to.
The next thing you know you are expected to work out what a fucking idiot has created
Ahh I see now. You are totally clueless so its the fault of the user then.You will go a long way with that attitude .
What has happened to Linux zealotry on /. The actual article title clearly and totally ignores the fact these councils are only doing feasability studies, not actually switching.
/. header actually notes this fact that these councils may switch to Linux. What happed to the good old days when /. would report them as having already switched with lots of interesting anecdotes about how shit Windows is and how brilliant Linux is.
UK councils dump Windows for Linux
Most bizaarly then the
I just dont know what the world is coming to
I agree with your point but with the away things are at the moment how long will it be before the European Space efforts become a 'threat' to US national security or some such nonsense and we all find ourselves in totally bizaar situation.
The only person who thinks this is a terrible thing to do to a couple of doggies. poor things. Just give them a smack and lock them outside for a couple of hours, theres just no need to send them into space.
Roughly half the book is devoted to the negative effects of patents on scientific research Kind of hard to justify this sort of claim when you consider how much we have advanced in the last 70-80 years. It might not be a perfect process but it does seem to work.
I think a lot of this stuff is not really intended for the benefit of the soldier, its for their commanders. The trend is towards fewer more sohisticated soldiers which their commanders can micromanage on the battle field with a lot of this technology to utilise resources as fully as possible.
The US military today announced that due to space requirements for all the gadgets on the new battle dress in future all recruits must be at least 7 feet tall and comfortable wearing fatigues that weigh 150lbs
I would like to apologise for the heinous crime of software copying. I promise to mend my ways and return to a good pirate lifestyle of murder, rape and pilage on the high seas
I say this as a US citizen BTW.
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Not any more. We here at the dept of homeland security would like to inform you you have 24hrs to relocate your self to camp delta. You are now classifed as an enemy combatant after your unpatriotic remarks on
Think death star. What sort of self respectng megalomanic would attempt to conquer the universe with independent launch vehicles
It has all the low down on saucers as well
Good shout. Its a pity a lot of people here wont get that.
I told you not to show me this article
I think this is a very very clever way of generating even more revenue from a movie, not to mention getting the cash up front to offset production costs.
I would imagine we can expect to see a lot more of this shortly on different movie sets. The sad fact is that a lot of people are prepared to pay for it to get a look at their 'heroes' and what happens on the set.
It will ony be a question of time before the 'acting' extends to the web cam and we can have staged scenes to generate interest in the movie so that the actual production becomes a soap opera in itself.
OMG am I in another dimension?? You actually read the article and are apologising for spelling errors. This cant be the Slashdot I know.... my god its true it is a multiverse.