This methodology has what is probably the most important feature any methodology can have: a nifty acronym. Sounds highly technical, yet it could also be a tasty lunch item. I shall write a memo to the CTO forthwith!
The real problem is lawn darts. Sure -- a lawn dart or two tucked away in a drawer somewhere may give you a sense of security, but it is a FALSE sense.
Every hour, 645.3 children are killed by lawn darts.
Most lawn darts are never ultimately used in the defense of a home. But they claim thousands of lives every year nevertheless. An angry spouse might turn to a lawn dart in the heat of an argument with tragic consequences. A suicidal teen reaches for the dart instead of reaching out for help.
Worse yet, 67.3% of all lawn darts are stolen from law-abiding homes, ending up on the black market and used against innocent victims, contributing to the dark, rising tide of lawn dart violence.
Stop the madness. Write your congressperson today and demand an end to this scourge.
The fundamental problem with software development is NOT that we're just new to it. The real problem is that the process itself imposes relatively few constraints on the developer. Put another way, there may be hundreds or even thousands of ways to solve a particular problem in software -- not all of them good, obviously, but workable nevertheless. Bridge-building (basically a metaphor for traditional engineering), on the other hand is constrained by basic laws of physics; there are a relatively few ways to build a bridge that will support a reasonable amount of weight.
This lack of constraints peculiar to software development implies a couple of things:
Without the confining limits of real-world physics, software development tends toward increasing complexity since there is less to hold back the addition of new functionality over time (or even in the initial design). This is especially true for commercial software, where nifty features are a firm's bread-and-butter.
The lack of constraints makes it practically difficult to apply the traditional discipline associated with other branches of engineering. In a commercial environment especially, economic pressures tend to favor features and deadlines over stability. This is probably also true to some extent for personal or Open Source development.
Reuse of components can help -- the problem is that a component that doesn't behave EXACTLY the way a given developer wants it to is often discarded in favor of custom code. No electrical engineer would design their own timer circuit when a simple 555 might be adequate. But this kind of thing happens in software development all the time because it's relatively easy to do.
If you buy into my little pet theory, most of the problems associated with software development will likely remain with us for some time to come.
One of the implications of Martin and Russell's theory is that life on our planet, even on other planets or some large moons in our own solar system, might be much more likely than previously assumed.
Extraordinary claims...
Sounds of 165 dB would cause a person's hair to catch fire from the frictional heating caused by air undergoing such intense compression and expansion.
I believe this phenomena has already been well-described in the science documentary "Rock and Roll High School".
For every dollar you spend on engineering, you should spend at least 2 on marketing. I've heard up to 5 mentioned. It depends on the market, of course.
After about 15 years of developing software for various ISVs, I've finally learned that this is indeed the truth. But they're all still dorks.
...you were trying to support the post that said Windows phones home, which I think we all interpreted as some clandestined communication with Redmond for some unknown purpose...
Speak for yourself. I, for one, understood the original post perfectly. The author writes with a brevity and clarity which the entire world would do well to emulate. Plus, I'm pretty sure chicks dig him.
While I am at this very moment wearing a tinfoil hat, it's not the privacy issue that bothers me -- it's the licensing costs. While I'm sure I can bypass WPA with a little research and effort, I'd rather just lose XP altogether. The plan now is to just keep the youngest on 98 until it doesn't work for her anymore. Then I dunno.
Especially now that XP phones home. I suspect that the games are going to eat my lunch, however. I don't think I'd even consider this for my oldest, who plays a lot of the latest and greatest. My youngest, on the other hand, tends to play much older games (like the kind that _require_ you to change the display resolution to 256c mode). I'm fairly sure this will be a problem as well, but I intend to give it a shot anyway within a few weeks, just to see.
Imagine if you're a 12 year old child realizing something is different about yourself (i.e., you have same-sex attractions), and don't feel you can turn to your parents.
The real problem (in this case) here is crappy parenting and crappy parents, not whether or not the government should mandate a kid-safe org. Shitty parents have been with us since time began in will likely remain with us forever. The only real solution in the case you just mentioned is to make sure that parents actually can't censor children's access. Do you think this is really politically feasible?
Ultimately, someone must make descions on a minor child's behalf. Unless someone thinks of a better way, right now our children are stuck with us, for better or worse.
If some wonderful manufacturer ever decided to offer a radio modem board for $20, we could have some interesting combos
Laipac has something close. They offer spread spectrum voice AND data units for around $30.00USD in single-unit quantities. The catch is that you'll need to provide an encoding scheme for the data (as I mentioned earlier, Manchester is easy to implement), and a simple resistor voltage divider (with most microcontrollers) to get the input level down to the expected 1v = 1, 0v = 0.
The devices come in 900mhz and 2.4ghz models. I have a couple on order as we speak.
Geez -- I obviously have a bug up my *ss about this stuff...
At least recently, you could actually get complete GPS units directly from Alltronics (or All Electronics, can't remember which) for something like $15.00 USD. Bought a couple just to have them around. ttl level serial interface. Worth checking into if you just want to goof around.
For a lot of applications you're correct. This probably becomes useful only if the client application "wants" for whatever reason to use IP. As, for an example, and embedded web server (which begs the question: why an embedded web server?).
The units under $20US are generally RF-only. As a rule, you need to implement at the very least some kind of encoding method (manchester or similar) before you can begin to use them (reasonably trivial). These units really aren't "modems". Abacom Technology and Laipac sell some pretty good examples of these units.
There may be higher end units available for $20, but probably not in single-unit quantities.
For those really interested, the OCI units that are used at Arrick can often be found on EBAY for cheap (I use a pair of these myself).
It should be borne in mind that a decent 900mhz radio modem is NOT generally cheaper than the equivalent 802.11b device. The real advantage (in mobile robotics) is that radio modems don't require the associated infrastructure to support an 802.11B device (like a PC, for instance) and can thus be indirectly cheaper.
Having said that, easily microcontroller interfacable 802.11b devices are (at least by rumor) beginning to show up on the market. I have no idea what the cost is tho.
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This methodology has what is probably the most important feature any methodology can have: a nifty acronym. Sounds highly technical, yet it could also be a tasty lunch item. I shall write a memo to the CTO forthwith!
Not bad. Now try it in Japanese...
It was a counterfeit check.
Every hour, 645.3 children are killed by lawn darts.
Most lawn darts are never ultimately used in the defense of a home. But they claim thousands of lives every year nevertheless. An angry spouse might turn to a lawn dart in the heat of an argument with tragic consequences. A suicidal teen reaches for the dart instead of reaching out for help.
Worse yet, 67.3% of all lawn darts are stolen from law-abiding homes, ending up on the black market and used against innocent victims, contributing to the dark, rising tide of lawn dart violence.
Stop the madness. Write your congressperson today and demand an end to this scourge.
I'd really prefer the term "aristocrat". But, if you must...
Keep out the riff-raff -- stick with command line interfaces!
"Bill" would certainly seem to be fond of brevity of reply, wouldn't he? This has got to set some kind of /. record...
This lack of constraints peculiar to software development implies a couple of things:
If you buy into my little pet theory, most of the problems associated with software development will likely remain with us for some time to come.
...and you'll just have to imagine the line breaks...
Process swiftly crash NULL pointers everywhere O -- Electric Fence!
One of the implications of Martin and Russell's theory is that life on our planet, even on other planets or some large moons in our own solar system, might be much more likely than previously assumed. Extraordinary claims...
I believe this phenomena has already been well-described in the science documentary "Rock and Roll High School".
After about 15 years of developing software for various ISVs, I've finally learned that this is indeed the truth. But they're all still dorks.
So Benadryl gives you the munchies?
I doubt it's straight remote control. Maybe some very limited (semi) autonomous behaviour.
Speak for yourself. I, for one, understood the original post perfectly. The author writes with a brevity and clarity which the entire world would do well to emulate. Plus, I'm pretty sure chicks dig him.
While I am at this very moment wearing a tinfoil hat, it's not the privacy issue that bothers me -- it's the licensing costs. While I'm sure I can bypass WPA with a little research and effort, I'd rather just lose XP altogether. The plan now is to just keep the youngest on 98 until it doesn't work for her anymore. Then I dunno.
Or I could also be referring to product activation, which isn't. Will you still be needing supporting links?
Especially now that XP phones home. I suspect that the games are going to eat my lunch, however. I don't think I'd even consider this for my oldest, who plays a lot of the latest and greatest. My youngest, on the other hand, tends to play much older games (like the kind that _require_ you to change the display resolution to 256c mode). I'm fairly sure this will be a problem as well, but I intend to give it a shot anyway within a few weeks, just to see.
The real problem (in this case) here is crappy parenting and crappy parents, not whether or not the government should mandate a kid-safe org. Shitty parents have been with us since time began in will likely remain with us forever. The only real solution in the case you just mentioned is to make sure that parents actually can't censor children's access. Do you think this is really politically feasible?
Ultimately, someone must make descions on a minor child's behalf. Unless someone thinks of a better way, right now our children are stuck with us, for better or worse.
Laipac has something close. They offer spread spectrum voice AND data units for around $30.00USD in single-unit quantities. The catch is that you'll need to provide an encoding scheme for the data (as I mentioned earlier, Manchester is easy to implement), and a simple resistor voltage divider (with most microcontrollers) to get the input level down to the expected 1v = 1, 0v = 0.
The devices come in 900mhz and 2.4ghz models. I have a couple on order as we speak.
Geez -- I obviously have a bug up my *ss about this stuff...
At least recently, you could actually get complete GPS units directly from Alltronics (or All Electronics, can't remember which) for something like $15.00 USD. Bought a couple just to have them around. ttl level serial interface. Worth checking into if you just want to goof around.
For a lot of applications you're correct. This probably becomes useful only if the client application "wants" for whatever reason to use IP. As, for an example, and embedded web server (which begs the question: why an embedded web server?).
There may be higher end units available for $20, but probably not in single-unit quantities.
For those really interested, the OCI units that are used at Arrick can often be found on EBAY for cheap (I use a pair of these myself).
Having said that, easily microcontroller interfacable 802.11b devices are (at least by rumor) beginning to show up on the market. I have no idea what the cost is tho.