OK, they do mention someone's name and employer in the next paragraph. By your standards, that probably means he managed the study, and it was precise, accurate, and auditable.
Pay me and I'll supply you with a study that says eating donuts will make you lose weight. You've shown us your requirements; let's talk price.;)
Execution by torture, you say? Good that you're not in charge of anything!
We Americans (U.S. Citizens--sorry, eh?) just loooove to declare "war" on things.
How about a war on overreaction of an impotent legislature.
We have here a crime (since 2004-01-01) that causes, at most, annoyance.
It's very politically correct these days to hate spam. But, frankly, it's the kind of hatred that's reserved for rude drivers, cell-phone wielding restaraunt patrons and the like.
Plenty of examples have already been posted about the little old lady with the virus-infected computer or the kid with the lemonade stand. I'll not pile on here.
Who among us has asked "we the people" to throw somebody in prison for being a pain in the ass?
Dontcha think that's a little harsh?
Death penalty for parking violations and all that.
It's the responsiblity of "we, the people" to create justifiable penalties for offences, and then enforce them.
The excuse "it's too hard to catch these guys" does not justify cutting the balls off of the poor bastard we do nab.
Society at large (we call "the law") has to follow some rules, too. No unreasonable search and seizure. No cruel or unusual punishment. No taking of life, liberty, or property without due process.
"War on" [drugs, terror, drunk driving], and now spam seems, however, to absolve "we, the people" from restrictions against abuse of the individual.
If the "standard" package gets the job done, leave it alone.
I know there is temptation to make things a little bit better, but support after you're gone is the issue.
The genius who designs a system that only (s)he can maintain is a poor engineer.
Find out what your customer's (the prof sounds like the customer in this context) requirements truly are. Is good enough good enough for the prof? If you give him what he wants and he finds out next week that it could have all been optimized to perform.5% better, will he be pissed? Functionality? Optimization?Robustness? Maintainability? Look & Feel? Thorough documentation? Easy transfer of support (to the next slave^H^H^H^H^H student?
Meet those requirements with the minimum customization.
Document the system. This may be a nightmare if the system has already been "tweaked" by the previous maintainers. If that's the case, it's even MORE important to simplify and document.
Provide recovery tools--as simple as a set of drive backup images, or as complex as a set of scripts that rebuild the system from source. At a minimum, supply a system administrator's manual.
Building a system for a customer to use is a completely different endeavor from elaborately tweaking your own box so it is just exactly the way you like it.
Where's my D&D folders in KMail?
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Wasn't I supposed to get D&D support in kmail?
I want drag-n-drop folder support, or give me my money back!!
Seriously, though--kde is fantastic! I love it; it's convenient and pretty. When I need CLI, it's there, too. When my wife wants to use the linux box instead of her W** lapotp, she has no problem.
I broke into Engineering from retail sales, with a degree in astrophysics. I do a lot of startups, testing for controls equipt mfrs, healthcare software development--that sorta stuff.
Everything I've learned in order to become a well-paid engineer with very happy clients was taught to me by electricians, toolmakers, millwrights, other engineers, and machine operators.
I don't possess any arcane knowledge, except what I picked up. I'm not any smarter than any of these people.
The one difference I've been able to identify so far is that the Engineer takes responsibility.
If you go into the plant and get stuff done--and stand up for the hit when it doesn't get done, then you're 90% there.
The rest is just engineering. And, frankly, engineering is not that hard. It's just thousands and thousands of details.
"Only one fermion of a given type is allowed to be in a specific quantum state. A quantum state is a discrete level that can be labeled. The labeling gives information about the spatial characteristics (e.g. the orbit) and the spin of the particle. Two electrons can exist in the same quantum orbital, but only if they have different spin states. No two electrons of the same spin can occupy the same orbital state. "
That's why this is interesting.
yeah, I've got a degree in it. But engineering pays better.
Just google for "Pauli Exclusion Principle" and Fermion.
Most OSS is developed with the idea that the user is responsible for some effort and learning.
I find The GIMP (and other OSS packages) to be much more powerful and much more flexible than their commerical counterparts.
I also find The GIMP (and other OSS packages) to involve more learning curve than their commercial counterparts. More quirky, too.
For me, the power, flexibility and price are worth the learning curve. Besides, I like to learn!
Monday, I was speaking with a friend that created our website for the company we work for. He was complaining that MSPaint was a horrible tool for editing web graphics, but the company wouldn't pay for adoobie pornoshop. I demonstrated The GIMP (windows version) for him, gave him a copy of the executable, and invited him to use it.
The description I used was "Free, Powerful, and kinda hokey." I believe that's accurate for most OSS.
No, I didn't give him a copy of the source. So, I guess I'm in violation of GPL. If he wants it, he knows where to get it.
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If you present a baseless study, it's on you to support it.
You seem insistent on contributing glib comments to this discussion. I will give you a gift in gratitude for your contribution to the community today.
You may have the last word. Say what you like, and you may rest assured in the delusion that you are making sense.
OK, they do mention someone's name and employer in the next paragraph. By your standards, that probably means he managed the study, and it was precise, accurate, and auditable.
Pay me and I'll supply you with a study that says eating donuts will make you lose weight. You've shown us your requirements; let's talk price.
Execution by torture, you say? Good that you're not in charge of anything!
How about a war on overreaction of an impotent legislature.
We have here a crime (since 2004-01-01) that causes, at most, annoyance.
It's very politically correct these days to hate spam. But, frankly, it's the kind of hatred that's reserved for rude drivers, cell-phone wielding restaraunt patrons and the like.
Plenty of examples have already been posted about the little old lady with the virus-infected computer or the kid with the lemonade stand. I'll not pile on here.
Who among us has asked "we the people" to throw somebody in prison for being a pain in the ass?
Dontcha think that's a little harsh?
Death penalty for parking violations and all that.
It's the responsiblity of "we, the people" to create justifiable penalties for offences, and then enforce them.
The excuse "it's too hard to catch these guys" does not justify cutting the balls off of the poor bastard we do nab.
Society at large (we call "the law") has to follow some rules, too. No unreasonable search and seizure. No cruel or unusual punishment. No taking of life, liberty, or property without due process.
"War on" [drugs, terror, drunk driving], and now spam seems, however, to absolve "we, the people" from restrictions against abuse of the individual.
Omniscience (the protocol)
Omnipotence (OR1-OR5)
Omnibenevolence (FR1, 2, 5-9)
The existence of evil ("bad buy", "evil-doer")
Therefore, the RFC has defined g-d, and does not exist.
Still won't get you laid.
And everything looks like a nail.
He was last seen saving the world with Jake Stonebender and the rest of the gang from Callahan's.
I know there is temptation to make things a little bit better, but support after you're gone is the issue.
The genius who designs a system that only (s)he can maintain is a poor engineer.
Find out what your customer's (the prof sounds like the customer in this context) requirements truly are. Is good enough good enough for the prof? If you give him what he wants and he finds out next week that it could have all been optimized to perform
Meet those requirements with the minimum customization.
Document the system. This may be a nightmare if the system has already been "tweaked" by the previous maintainers. If that's the case, it's even MORE important to simplify and document.
Provide recovery tools--as simple as a set of drive backup images, or as complex as a set of scripts that rebuild the system from source. At a minimum, supply a system administrator's manual.
Building a system for a customer to use is a completely different endeavor from elaborately tweaking your own box so it is just exactly the way you like it.
10 points for whoever replies with the movie reference.
Either way, no loss if it fails!
Guess so.
I want drag-n-drop folder support, or give me my money back!!
Seriously, though--kde is fantastic! I love it; it's convenient and pretty. When I need CLI, it's there, too. When my wife wants to use the linux box instead of her W** lapotp, she has no problem.
GREAT JOB, KDE TEAM!!
You know, something like:
Go to a website where the source code is kept.
Note that the source code has been up for a while and there are message boards for the users to post comments. Or maybe mailing lists.
Talk to some of the more experienced users and see if they have had a look at the code. Or maybe just used it for a while and have an opinion on it.
Decide which of those users to trust.
Download the source code.
Build the executable.
Log in as a specially priveledged user
Start up a tracking program that watches everything that's being installed.
Install the software.
If it doesn't do what you want--or if it do what you doesn't want ;) use the same tracking program to remove exactly what you just installed.
Hmmm...If only there were such an OS.
I bet people that used it wouldn't have any spyware.
Evidence? We don't need no steenking evidence!
Yeah, it's those damned commie pinko hippie linux users.
I think the BBC has "sexed-up" this story to gain some readership.
Hmmmm...so, ya think that scientist there gets to keep the patent?
Everything I've learned in order to become a well-paid engineer with very happy clients was taught to me by electricians, toolmakers, millwrights, other engineers, and machine operators.
I don't possess any arcane knowledge, except what I picked up. I'm not any smarter than any of these people.
The one difference I've been able to identify so far is that the Engineer takes responsibility.
If you go into the plant and get stuff done--and stand up for the hit when it doesn't get done, then you're 90% there.
The rest is just engineering. And, frankly, engineering is not that hard. It's just thousands and thousands of details.
"Only one fermion of a given type is allowed to be in a specific quantum state. A quantum state is a discrete level that can be labeled. The labeling gives information about the spatial characteristics (e.g. the orbit) and the spin of the particle. Two electrons can exist in the same quantum orbital, but only if they have different spin states. No two electrons of the same spin can occupy the same orbital state. "
That's why this is interesting.
yeah, I've got a degree in it. But engineering pays better.
Just google for "Pauli Exclusion Principle" and Fermion.
When he stepped out of the Capricorn One module to snap the pic?
I find The GIMP (and other OSS packages) to be much more powerful and much more flexible than their commerical counterparts.
I also find The GIMP (and other OSS packages) to involve more learning curve than their commercial counterparts. More quirky, too.
For me, the power, flexibility and price are worth the learning curve. Besides, I like to learn!
Monday, I was speaking with a friend that created our website for the company we work for. He was complaining that MSPaint was a horrible tool for editing web graphics, but the company wouldn't pay for adoobie pornoshop. I demonstrated The GIMP (windows version) for him, gave him a copy of the executable, and invited him to use it.
The description I used was "Free, Powerful, and kinda hokey." I believe that's accurate for most OSS.
No, I didn't give him a copy of the source. So, I guess I'm in violation of GPL. If he wants it, he knows where to get it.
They asked me to rewrite a piece of production software, so I did. Done, let's move on.
A year later, they asked me to rework it.
Done, let's move on.
3 years later, I was still working on the software--adding functions, changing screens, etc.
I left the company, and hired on with a consulting firm.
2 Years later, they call me back to help with a validation of...you guessed it!
5 Years after that, they called my boss. We're halfway through a rewrite, and we need help. Hello...who do we have that can do this? Yup.
After I die, these fuckers are going to hold a seance and ask my ghost to rewrite this app!
So, when does SCO sue them?
The wart came off. My friend was not hurt.
His mother was NOT amused.
YHBT YHL HAND
But what is that in F?
I dare you to try pouring some of it on your jeans (while wearing them