Part of the reason for a mythical man month in my opinion is zeno's paradox. Lead Developers create massive amounts of code and then expect the hired help to come along and understand all of their code and as well produce work of their own.
Just as the hired help catchs up in understanding the Lead Developer has already replaced or added more code.
It is the responsibility of the Lead Developer to create and section off as much of their's and others code as possible through API's libs, jars... Create as many Black boxes's as possible.
Take responsibility for your own black box. Of course this is going to break down quickly when someone starts writing broken black boxs.
Then you end up playing the blame game.
Maybe my next mouse will be optical.
All of my bad experiences have been with cheap opticals. All of the opticals I've used have had resolution problems.
My current "Gaming Rig" came with a really cheap optical from Taiwan that for whatever reason would generate random mouse scroll events when playing certain games.
I went back to my old mouse and had no problems since then.
My problem remembering people's names stems from the countless hours playing video games. In video games the characters don't have feelings so it doesn't matter if you remember their name or not. So I tend not to remember their names but what they function/occuption is.
So if someone tells me they are George the CEO of the company I work at. I'll remember that he's the CEO of the company but not his name.
A learjet is a polished piece of equipment. The development costs of a learjet come from the fact that the toilet seats were designed by 3 engineers. Everyone gets their cut from sale of a jet.
Carmack is creating something that is functional first.
Luxury features get added later... a better comparison would be the Wright brothers and their Wright flyer which I'm sure didn't cost them millions or even thousands.
The system is fubar'd,
CEO's who milk the system and break the law should be comparable to treason but get off completely, while pot users and dealers are in jail for minor crimes.
Your a pessimist aren't you?
1) Asteroid impact = global freeze.
The only 'warming' would be around the area of the impact aka instant vaporization.
2) Disease? Your more likely to get a disease from the living.
3) Human beings can surive in space. A little ice age won't hurt us all. =) If that even occurs.
I don't really like the overcrowed planet we live on. I don't like cities, I don't like towns.
I would be willing to live underground or in a sterile self contained enviroment growing hydroponics powered by wind, water, geothermal or even nuclear energy.
As long as I had a computer I would be ok;) hehehe.
Maybe I have a super asteroid killer 1000 in my basement and they don't know about it?
(Bruce Willis downstairs I swear)
Or better yet what If I have a fallout shelter to protect me from the blast, quakes, tidal waves?
It seems very closeminded to assume that no one can do anything about an incoming asteroid.
If you have a weeks noticed maybe you could evacuate a city and save millions of lives?
Perhaps eBay, Amazon and MSFT are all paying this license fee to NCR is because its in their interest to do so. The fee is probably a pittance to an established multinational corperation but a small startup joe shmoe working on his computer in the basement its a fortune, NCR can slap him silly and its in the best interest of all established players for this to happen.
Little guys are not allowed to rock the boat or break their gravy machines.
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Part of the reason for a mythical man month in my opinion is zeno's paradox. Lead Developers create massive amounts of code and then expect the hired help to come along and understand all of their code and as well produce work of their own. Just as the hired help catchs up in understanding the Lead Developer has already replaced or added more code. It is the responsibility of the Lead Developer to create and section off as much of their's and others code as possible through API's libs, jars... Create as many Black boxes's as possible. Take responsibility for your own black box. Of course this is going to break down quickly when someone starts writing broken black boxs. Then you end up playing the blame game.
Maybe he's reaching for his wallet to bribe those Iraqi's.
Oh nevermind there's a conductor in that, he's not artificial other then the fact that he's made out out of wood.
Who do more damage in my opinion before we start executing the script kiddies and bored teenage hackers.
Maybe my next mouse will be optical. All of my bad experiences have been with cheap opticals. All of the opticals I've used have had resolution problems. My current "Gaming Rig" came with a really cheap optical from Taiwan that for whatever reason would generate random mouse scroll events when playing certain games. I went back to my old mouse and had no problems since then.
Yep I certainly prefer my trackball over my optical for gaming. Now if only I could get a wireless trackball!
It's nothing but a joke until someone takes you seriously! Next thing you know you have a group of people called PETA.
My problem remembering people's names stems from the countless hours playing video games. In video games the characters don't have feelings so it doesn't matter if you remember their name or not. So I tend not to remember their names but what they function/occuption is. So if someone tells me they are George the CEO of the company I work at. I'll remember that he's the CEO of the company but not his name.
A learjet is a polished piece of equipment. The development costs of a learjet come from the fact that the toilet seats were designed by 3 engineers. Everyone gets their cut from sale of a jet. Carmack is creating something that is functional first. Luxury features get added later. .. a better comparison would be the Wright brothers and their Wright flyer which I'm sure didn't cost them millions or even thousands.
IMHO, dealing pot is a minor offence. In certain states though you can end up in prison for years just for peddling a little plant.
The system is fubar'd, CEO's who milk the system and break the law should be comparable to treason but get off completely, while pot users and dealers are in jail for minor crimes.
Your a pessimist aren't you? 1) Asteroid impact = global freeze. The only 'warming' would be around the area of the impact aka instant vaporization. 2) Disease? Your more likely to get a disease from the living. 3) Human beings can surive in space. A little ice age won't hurt us all. =) If that even occurs.
I don't really like the overcrowed planet we live on. I don't like cities, I don't like towns. I would be willing to live underground or in a sterile self contained enviroment growing hydroponics powered by wind, water, geothermal or even nuclear energy. As long as I had a computer I would be ok ;) hehehe.
Maybe I have a super asteroid killer 1000 in my basement and they don't know about it? (Bruce Willis downstairs I swear) Or better yet what If I have a fallout shelter to protect me from the blast, quakes, tidal waves? It seems very closeminded to assume that no one can do anything about an incoming asteroid. If you have a weeks noticed maybe you could evacuate a city and save millions of lives?
Perhaps eBay, Amazon and MSFT are all paying this license fee to NCR is because its in their interest to do so. The fee is probably a pittance to an established multinational corperation but a small startup joe shmoe working on his computer in the basement its a fortune, NCR can slap him silly and its in the best interest of all established players for this to happen. Little guys are not allowed to rock the boat or break their gravy machines.