Well - actually not. Why limit projects to current businesses. You might hit a few singles/doubles here - but if you really want your people swinging for the fences, let them dream and create completely new business oportunities for the company.
Go see how Post-it-Notes were created... I guess you can say 3M was in the glue/adhesive business, but really - a completely new business for them (I believe it is even "material" to their earnings)
Well, I agree with the first, but pray to god every day that the second is true (However I will agrue it IS true in interpreted languages)
Now why is this ? Simple lets make a bastard case - you have 10K of code and 10M of comments. Obviously if you don't have to read the comments off of the disk - it will take less time (and one of the limitations in performance I have seen in compilation is raw disk speed). Now in interpreted languages - the whole source file is read - leading to longer startup costs ( but after the interpretation - similar code should be generated leading to similar execution speed)
Because with the use of the web - the tax company has copies of my tax records. If I install the application on my hard drive my tax records stay on my hard drive until I submit them to the IRS - so it is only me and the IRS that has them (with the postal service in the middle).
PS if you file online - you have an electronic company in the middle that is not controled by myself - or the government... I always use the.37 stamp.
People pointing out that you could write a web server in x lines of perl ( usually in the low 2 digits ) and people talking about the smallest embedded web server (including the networking stack) in the low double digit K bytes (as in 12 - 19 K bytes)
Can you even boot a modern OS with less than 1 MB ram these days ?
Recently I started to think that maybe all failed projects are due to the delays inevitably imposed by the senior management who requires many policies/protocols/documents/approvals/discussions before signing off the budget.
So I worked on a project that spent 8 months getting through "project approval" on an 18 month scedule. Of course by the time it was approved, they still wanted it to be delivered in 18 months (from the start date) so we now had 10 months on an 18 month schedule.
Long story short - we delivered in 13 months, and were blamed for being late... Nothing like marketting and management not taking any blame for taking 8 months to approve the beginning of the project
Got to love all of the talk about skimming, kickbacks, "free" hardware, etc. in this topic. You would think working with the government would be simple and straight forward... Provide good service at a fair value - wait, the good guy here always finishes last to the guy with the $600 golden hammer
Well, just to go back to the post - it was the FOSS Software that sucked, and the proprietary software that rocked. Hmmmm... maybe as long as the developer has incentives (usually money - I hear drugs and prostitutes work in some circles) the features keep coming.
So I worked on a very early ITU based ISDN Video confernce system. The ITU protocols went through about 20-40 round trips to hang up a connection (as each layer would gracefully shutdown) when the user pushed the "hangup button". It took like 30 seconds to do all of the processing.
In one of our "performance" meetings the question came out - why can't we just yank the ISDN connection out from under the app and let it shut itself down... I mean it had to survive a cable unplug anyway - so there wouldn't be any MORE bugs exposed.
Long story short - we did the hack, and left a "compatability" flag in for dealing with conformance.
Moral of the story is that sometimes there is a reason for a hack - many times there aren't.
I know this is a niche thing and that there is nothing out there that even comes close to
Insert excellent software that does just what you want , but surely something along the lines of (or simpler than) Insert Open source project here
So, what is wrong with people doing a good job and creating value, getting a little bit of that value back so they can pay rent ?
From the article (read yesterday in the dead tree edition), one poor woman was required to type 8 passwords to log into the things that she needed to log into. Each password a combination of letters and numbers, and each having to change every 3 months. So that is 32 passwords a year.
Frankly if my work was so dumb - I'd write them down too - or come up with a script that would do all of the logging in after the initial password. This is an IT staff problem, not a user problem... Please, one password is enough
I remember WAY back in the Day - CA decided to give away free copies of their financial management software Simply Money.
This was the first time that I ran across free software that I thought I paid too much money for. It was horible. Since then - I was working for a company that was aquired by CA. Everyone in the Lab I worked for was dying to get out - even went so far as to place bets on who would end up at the bottom of the R&R chart to guarantee a buyout package, rather than leaving CA with nothing.
And even restarting apache on port 80 doesn't "Require" root - it just requires root privs for a single operation that can be isolated and controlled.
Root access should almost never be used unless actively administering the machine. Other than that, control should not be used - or issolated to things that certain people can be proxied for (ie. restarting apache)
Having said that - I am not all to certain why you would need to restart apache either.
Now, lets get down to what you might need.
A change management system that will allow you to move your test environment to a production environment
Other than those things - what else do you need on the production machine ?
What should happen, if there was fraud, is to invalidate the election and schedule another one.
Ok, I would like for you to point out an election where there wasn't ANY fraud. I won't limit you to this century - go back - way back. Heck don't even limit yourself to the USA - pick a random country (Ok - I might be willing to give you the election of the pope, but that is hardly a general election). Interestingly enough - most of the fraud happens either way before the machine, or way after it (it is much easier to do that). Want to talk about kids in 2000 voting multiple times because the poll workers lost control of the balloting site ? Want to talk about fraudulant voter registrations pretty much everywhere ? Want to talk about the Daily political machine (where even the dead got up to vote for the democrat).
Yes there is fraud - but interestingly enough, most of the time, there is the same level of fraud from all sides of the election - therefor it balances out.
I'd still consider that a trivial problem. Things don't start getting interesting until you are dealing with Staff Years to develop them. Anything under that and you can actually keep the full design in your head
He said.
A year from now no one will remember that it was a year late.
A year from now they will remember that it was completely useless - and never buy from you again.
This was business software so it had a slightly longer lifetime - but the principle still applies - if you have a reputation for bad software - it will follow you forever.
Nope - no servers allowed... so basically Verizon is continuing to be a WSP, not an ISP. I really wish more providers would just let me do what the heck I wanted to do with my connection - why should they care - just throw a QoS penalty on any traffic over xbits/sec that they don't want me to really use
But I wouldn't consider development/testing to be done without the help subsystem (RoboHelp - nroff depending on your OS) or the Installer (./config, Wise, installshield) written. In fact those would be two subsystems that I would think were critical to even get it into testing (how did you/your testers install the darned thing in the first place)
Frankly (and thankfully) I've never hand to deal with these issues... If you are a small shop, look into the tool chains that are used to develop the systems that you need - and use them
Realize about 1/2 of that income is in tax free bonds, but still, 600K on 2.5M is a pretty low taxrate. Me on the otherhand, about 30K on 120K.
Neither of these numbers account for social security (add another 9K for both) Medicare/aid, state/local taxes.
Anyone see anyway that the "rich" that Kerry so much wants to soak will ever pay their fair share of taxes vs. us poor working folk having to pay an ever increasing portion of our income ? I have often wondered why so many couples need both parents working. I wonder what the effects of taxes have done. 50 years ago - tax burdens on the "middle class" were relatively low, allowing a single earner to make the money. Now with taxes coming close to 40% - both partners have to work, causing tax rates to go even higher to cover things like daycare, extra cars/clothes/dining out. Oh well
So if you were to vote for the Nazis or the Stalinists - who would you vote for... Frankly - I'd vote Libebertarian myself.
The lesser of two evils is still a corprate whore who's policies will take money out of middle america and use it to enrich upper crust america.
Look at the percentage tax that the Kerry family pays... A full 10% less than mine - if he believes in his cause so much, why isn't he writing an extra payment for the taxes he THINKS he should pay to the government instead of paying accountants to shield his Income from taxes
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Well - actually not. Why limit projects to current businesses. You might hit a few singles/doubles here - but if you really want your people swinging for the fences, let them dream and create completely new business oportunities for the company.
Go see how Post-it-Notes were created... I guess you can say 3M was in the glue/adhesive business, but really - a completely new business for them (I believe it is even "material" to their earnings)
Now why is this ? Simple lets make a bastard case - you have 10K of code and 10M of comments. Obviously if you don't have to read the comments off of the disk - it will take less time (and one of the limitations in performance I have seen in compilation is raw disk speed). Now in interpreted languages - the whole source file is read - leading to longer startup costs ( but after the interpretation - similar code should be generated leading to similar execution speed)
PS if you file online - you have an electronic company in the middle that is not controled by myself - or the government... I always use the .37 stamp.
Can you even boot a modern OS with less than 1 MB ram these days ?
So I worked on a project that spent 8 months getting through "project approval" on an 18 month scedule. Of course by the time it was approved, they still wanted it to be delivered in 18 months (from the start date) so we now had 10 months on an 18 month schedule.
Long story short - we delivered in 13 months, and were blamed for being late... Nothing like marketting and management not taking any blame for taking 8 months to approve the beginning of the project
Got to love all of the talk about skimming, kickbacks, "free" hardware, etc. in this topic. You would think working with the government would be simple and straight forward... Provide good service at a fair value - wait, the good guy here always finishes last to the guy with the $600 golden hammer
Well, just to go back to the post - it was the FOSS Software that sucked, and the proprietary software that rocked. Hmmmm... maybe as long as the developer has incentives (usually money - I hear drugs and prostitutes work in some circles) the features keep coming.
In one of our "performance" meetings the question came out - why can't we just yank the ISDN connection out from under the app and let it shut itself down... I mean it had to survive a cable unplug anyway - so there wouldn't be any MORE bugs exposed.
Long story short - we did the hack, and left a "compatability" flag in for dealing with conformance.
Moral of the story is that sometimes there is a reason for a hack - many times there aren't.
Just wondering
If you really, REALLY care about security - you make it transparent and simple... Frankly 8 distinct passwords, OUCH
Frankly if my work was so dumb - I'd write them down too - or come up with a script that would do all of the logging in after the initial password. This is an IT staff problem, not a user problem... Please, one password is enough
I don't know what is worse - that you went to Windows, or you had no idea how the heck to go to windows.
This was the first time that I ran across free software that I thought I paid too much money for. It was horible. Since then - I was working for a company that was aquired by CA. Everyone in the Lab I worked for was dying to get out - even went so far as to place bets on who would end up at the bottom of the R&R chart to guarantee a buyout package, rather than leaving CA with nothing.
Root access should almost never be used unless actively administering the machine. Other than that, control should not be used - or issolated to things that certain people can be proxied for (ie. restarting apache)
Having said that - I am not all to certain why you would need to restart apache either.
Now, lets get down to what you might need.
A change management system that will allow you to move your test environment to a production environment
Other than those things - what else do you need on the production machine ?
So there should be plenty of material for 5 or 6 more movies
Ok, I would like for you to point out an election where there wasn't ANY fraud. I won't limit you to this century - go back - way back. Heck don't even limit yourself to the USA - pick a random country (Ok - I might be willing to give you the election of the pope, but that is hardly a general election). Interestingly enough - most of the fraud happens either way before the machine, or way after it (it is much easier to do that). Want to talk about kids in 2000 voting multiple times because the poll workers lost control of the balloting site ? Want to talk about fraudulant voter registrations pretty much everywhere ? Want to talk about the Daily political machine (where even the dead got up to vote for the democrat).
Yes there is fraud - but interestingly enough, most of the time, there is the same level of fraud from all sides of the election - therefor it balances out.
I'd still consider that a trivial problem. Things don't start getting interesting until you are dealing with Staff Years to develop them. Anything under that and you can actually keep the full design in your head
I'll give you several reasons for running my own SMTP server (and hence needing inbound SMTP)
Download mail in the background - then pop/imap it off at my 100Mbit LAN connection speed
Run my own spam filtering - enough said
Using my own e-mail address that can follow me
No mailbox size limits (ok - I might have to buy a new Raid 5 system to host the terrabyte of mail)
Why the heck should a transit service for IP packets care what the traffic in those packets are. They shouldn't even be looking at them
A year from now no one will remember that it was a year late.
A year from now they will remember that it was completely useless - and never buy from you again.
This was business software so it had a slightly longer lifetime - but the principle still applies - if you have a reputation for bad software - it will follow you forever.
Nope - no servers allowed... so basically Verizon is continuing to be a WSP, not an ISP. I really wish more providers would just let me do what the heck I wanted to do with my connection - why should they care - just throw a QoS penalty on any traffic over xbits/sec that they don't want me to really use
Frankly (and thankfully) I've never hand to deal with these issues... If you are a small shop, look into the tool chains that are used to develop the systems that you need - and use them
I am sure global warming is going to cause this.
Somehow it is causing the Sun to heat up and not create the cold sunspots
Realize about 1/2 of that income is in tax free bonds, but still, 600K on 2.5M is a pretty low taxrate. Me on the otherhand, about 30K on 120K.
Neither of these numbers account for social security (add another 9K for both) Medicare/aid, state/local taxes.
Anyone see anyway that the "rich" that Kerry so much wants to soak will ever pay their fair share of taxes vs. us poor working folk having to pay an ever increasing portion of our income ? I have often wondered why so many couples need both parents working. I wonder what the effects of taxes have done. 50 years ago - tax burdens on the "middle class" were relatively low, allowing a single earner to make the money. Now with taxes coming close to 40% - both partners have to work, causing tax rates to go even higher to cover things like daycare, extra cars/clothes/dining out. Oh well
The lesser of two evils is still a corprate whore who's policies will take money out of middle america and use it to enrich upper crust america.
Look at the percentage tax that the Kerry family pays... A full 10% less than mine - if he believes in his cause so much, why isn't he writing an extra payment for the taxes he THINKS he should pay to the government instead of paying accountants to shield his Income from taxes
Register to vote and vote against the Skull & Bones man