I remember the local delicacy when I lived in a town in Kent in England for a while.
Imagine a small pack of Cheese and Onion potato chips (crisps as they are called locally)...
Imagine a pickled egg from a jar of pickled eggs...
Imagine opening the pack of chips, throwing a pickled egg in the bag, holding the bag closed in one hand and proceeding to squish the egg and chips between your fingers for a minute to get the whole thing nice and mushy...
Get yourself two of those cards and max the cash out of one. After three weeks pay it out from the other. Three weeks later pay the second one out from the first (which was paid back in full from the second earlier). Rinse and repeat.
As long as you don't mess up and keep the cycle going you will have the first lot of cash forever without charge.
This, by the way, is why they charge you straight away when you withdraw cash. To stop people doing this.
The problem is that people see some kind of pattern they recognise in the initial requirement and immediately decide there is an abstraction to be made.
An abstraction is a pattern you find in something that exists, not a pattern you decide on for something you are going to do.
Write it to do what it is supposed to do, and then look for abstractions.
Adding Microsoft to the SCO mix would make no difference whatsoever.
IBM's legal team make Microsoft's look like first year law students. IBM's lawyers held the DoJ at bay for DECADES. Not even Microsoft are prepared to mess with IBM. The moment IBM called SCO's bluff SCO knew they were dead.
And if Microsoft could buy them with a month's revenue imagine what IBM could do. They are a little bit bigger than Microsoft you know...
I just think it's funny that IBM were everybody's worst enemy in the 70's and 80's, and now they are usually the ones doing the right thing by the industry.
... I'm the only person who always plays it in Vegas mode with a one card draw? That's the only way to play if you ask me. I actually won three games in a row a couple of weeks back.
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Actually nowdays in the US marketers are more into psychology than direct comparison. They phrase their ads so people read something into their statements which they aren't actually saying.
They make statements like:
'No other xxx is more effective' 'No other xxx is stronger' 'No other xxx is better at...' 'Even xxx isn't better than...'
But if you actually think about what they are saying with those statements, they are not saying that their own product is better than any other product.
They are actually saying that they are *all* just as effective/strong/whatever as each other.
People just read into statements phrased that way that they are saying their product is better than the others.
Listen to how they compare stuff these days in ads and you will see what I mean, and probably be astonished at how many ads do this.
A. NASA doesn't need to spend ANY money fighting this. They have every right to just hand over the documents being requested. For free. I will even donate a couple of bucks to help with the USPS postage cost.
B. You think that an ACTUAL alien landing (if it happened) doesn't relate to 'real' science?
'Three different options: Truth, Justice and the American way...'
Extreme Programming = 1. User department has some idea of what they want. 2. Users sit down with you and give feedback while you develop the system for them. 3. Regression tests are created early to ensure that changes don't break anything. 4. Another developer works with you to help eliminate coding errors, etc. 5. Users get exactly what they *really* wanted since they were there driving the development and evolution of it.
Non-Extreme Programming = 1. User department has some idea of what they want. 2. Business Analyst manages to interpret 80% of this and puts it in a Requirement spec. 3. Systems Analyst manages to interpret 80% of the Requirements spec and puts it in a Functional spec. 4. Coders manage to produce 80% of the features they sort of understood in the Functional spec. 5. The users test something not at all resembling what they expected, but they are happy to *finally* get something to look at. 6. Users end up with an incomplete, out of date piece of junk that is nothing like they *really* were hoping for in the first place.
I bought the game and played it a bunch, but once the free month expired I didn't subscribe. There was just NOTHING interesting to do.
The problem with Galaxies is that it is NOT a game. It is a 'simulation' of the Star Wars universe, but unfortunately you get to simulate the life of the most bored person in the galaxy...
Robbie was the robot in the movie 'Forbidden Planet' (though he did make an appearance in Lost in Space, and featured regularly in the Banana Splits on TV).
But any robot that can reproduce endless quantities of booze is a friend of mine!
I know a financial institution which ran a job to increase mortgage rates by 0.5 percent. They knew the rates in use, so the job selected all of the mortgages for a given rate and increased them by the aforesaid 0.5 percent. The job started with the lowest used rate and then repeated the process for each of the the next higher rates in use.
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I'll take cheap and quality any day!
Well, as they say:
20% of the system takes 80% of the time.
The other 80% percent of the system takes the other 80% of the time...
Buy an M5 and have a man's car, not one of those girly M3's. 8) But want a real car? Drive a 911. There is no substitute. Really.
I remember the local delicacy when I lived in a town in Kent in England for a while.
Imagine a small pack of Cheese and Onion potato chips (crisps as they are called locally)...
Imagine a pickled egg from a jar of pickled eggs...
Imagine opening the pack of chips, throwing a pickled egg in the bag, holding the bag closed in one hand and proceeding to squish the egg and chips between your fingers for a minute to get the whole thing nice and mushy...
Now reopen the bag and enjoy!
... those crumbs in the keyboard are not from 'cookies and crackers'. Think dandruff, scabs, dried snot...
They're people!
Keyboard crumbs are made from people!
Hubble is earthbound too.
Just very slowly.
(Think about it...)
If that's true then you can make free money.
Get yourself two of those cards and max the cash out of one. After three weeks pay it out from the other. Three weeks later pay the second one out from the first (which was paid back in full from the second earlier). Rinse and repeat.
As long as you don't mess up and keep the cycle going you will have the first lot of cash forever without charge.
This, by the way, is why they charge you straight away when you withdraw cash. To stop people doing this.
Ditto.
I know MS thinks of themselves as 'The Law', but just when were they given the right to decide what is legal and what isn't?
The problem is that people see some kind of pattern they recognise in the initial requirement and immediately decide there is an abstraction to be made.
An abstraction is a pattern you find in something that exists, not a pattern you decide on for something you are going to do.
Write it to do what it is supposed to do, and then look for abstractions.
Adding Microsoft to the SCO mix would make no difference whatsoever.
IBM's legal team make Microsoft's look like first year law students. IBM's lawyers held the DoJ at bay for DECADES. Not even Microsoft are prepared to mess with IBM. The moment IBM called SCO's bluff SCO knew they were dead.
And if Microsoft could buy them with a month's revenue imagine what IBM could do. They are a little bit bigger than Microsoft you know...
I just think it's funny that IBM were everybody's worst enemy in the 70's and 80's, and now they are usually the ones doing the right thing by the industry.
Ah yes.
...to do as you are told!
America. The land of the free...
A 12" off-axis Newt sounds nice!
Did you find the plans somewhere or is it your own design?
I occasionally toy with the idea of building a scope, either a larger aperture MakNewt than the one I have, or an off-axis.
Damn. You've got me thinking about it now!
... I'm the only person who always plays it in Vegas mode with a one card draw? That's the only way to play if you ask me. I actually won three games in a row a couple of weeks back.
Actually nowdays in the US marketers are more into psychology than direct comparison. They phrase their ads so people read something into their statements which they aren't actually saying.
They make statements like:
'No other xxx is more effective'
'No other xxx is stronger'
'No other xxx is better at...'
'Even xxx isn't better than...'
But if you actually think about what they are saying with those statements, they are not saying that their own product is better than any other product.
They are actually saying that they are *all* just as effective/strong/whatever as each other.
People just read into statements phrased that way that they are saying their product is better than the others.
Listen to how they compare stuff these days in ads and you will see what I mean, and probably be astonished at how many ads do this.
Rectennas? Didn't Cartman have one of those?
What are you talking about?
A. NASA doesn't need to spend ANY money fighting this. They have every right to just hand over the documents being requested. For free. I will even donate a couple of bucks to help with the USPS postage cost.
B. You think that an ACTUAL alien landing (if it happened) doesn't relate to 'real' science?
'Three different options: Truth, Justice and the American way...'
I can't wait until The Running Man becomes the official state sport!
'Three different options: Truth, Justice and the American way...'
Which means Mississippioids can count higher than 24 now right?
'Three different options: Truth, Justice and the American way...'
Extreme Programming =
1. User department has some idea of what they want.
2. Users sit down with you and give feedback while you develop the system for them.
3. Regression tests are created early to ensure that changes don't break anything.
4. Another developer works with you to help eliminate coding errors, etc.
5. Users get exactly what they *really* wanted since they were there driving the development and evolution of it.
Non-Extreme Programming =
1. User department has some idea of what they want.
2. Business Analyst manages to interpret 80% of this and puts it in a Requirement spec.
3. Systems Analyst manages to interpret 80% of the Requirements spec and puts it in a Functional spec.
4. Coders manage to produce 80% of the features they sort of understood in the Functional spec.
5. The users test something not at all resembling what they expected, but they are happy to *finally* get something to look at.
6. Users end up with an incomplete, out of date piece of junk that is nothing like they *really* were hoping for in the first place.
I bought the game and played it a bunch, but once the free month expired I didn't subscribe. There was just NOTHING interesting to do.
The problem with Galaxies is that it is NOT a game. It is a 'simulation' of the Star Wars universe, but unfortunately you get to simulate the life of the most bored person in the galaxy...
Err...
Robbie was the robot in the movie 'Forbidden Planet' (though he did make an appearance in Lost in Space, and featured regularly in the Banana Splits on TV).
But any robot that can reproduce endless quantities of booze is a friend of mine!
I know a financial institution which ran a job to increase mortgage rates by 0.5 percent. They knew the rates in use, so the job selected all of the mortgages for a given rate and increased them by the aforesaid 0.5 percent. The job started with the lowest used rate and then repeated the process for each of the the next higher rates in use.
See the problem?