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  1. Re:he's right on Getting Accurate Specifications for Software? · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you can't, don't or won't understand the needs of your customers, you'll never meet their needs. You're the guy that gives the rest of us a bad name, and the reason why people assume it's the computers fault.

  2. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    Certainly, they can and do bring up additional cases, but with good process, they will either not be boundary cases, or will be boundary cases that have been anticipated in System or QA testing/eval.

  3. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    If something happens during user acceptance that wasn't done during internal QA, you've got a broken process, IMO.

    QA should be doing things beyond the specified user acceptance evaluation, obviously, but system test, and QA should both culminate with the expected user acceptance behaviours.

  4. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    You aren't familiar with requirements specifications, coding standards, or any other aspects of professional programming, what do you do for a living?

  5. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    The customer is happy. Thats why we write software. If the customer gets what he wants or needs, then the project is successful.

  6. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    If coding standardization and maintainability isn't in the spec, then you're wasting your time even using a spec.

  7. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    Time and maintainability(coding standardization, interfaces, variable defs etc) is part of the spec, therefore programmer 4 is clearly NOT the best programmer. Programmer 3 appears to be the best choice for a team lead(he has "people skills"), and the other 2 are likely equivilant.

  8. Re:We have a winner! on Paying for Better Math and Science Teachers · · Score: 1

    The program doesn't crash, and meets the requirements spec as approved by the customer and validated by the test team.

  9. Re:first post on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1

    Note the "usually" its possible for it to "bug" your entire FS

  10. Re:Pronunciation? on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because Requiem in pace is so very different in meaning from rest in peace

  11. Re:first post on Define - /etc? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it can mean that , although cd / usually works.

  12. Re:Boca 14.4 modem Combo SoundBlaster Clone ISA on Finding an Innovation SSI 2001 Soundcard? · · Score: 1

    Was that the one with the gimp borked IDE channel that would only work with the stock CD drive, and only then if it was still in the PB?

    But the drive would/will work on any standard IDE controller?

  13. Free Speech?? on Google Ads Are a Free Speech Issue · · Score: 1

    Seems to me it would have been association, not speech, but I am not a Constitutional lawyer.

  14. Re:I would not want to be him. on Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight · · Score: 1

    From a Cannon if we're lucky. From an internal weapons bay on an F22 if we're really lucky.

  15. Re:Protecting our interests... on DRM Causes Piracy · · Score: 1

    Actually, the major mstake we make, as a country, is assuming we have the right to interfere in the internal affairs of other nations. This is usually done to protect our "interests",
    Except, that is the definition of national sovereignty. Protecting your interests at the expenses of other national powers. Don't like it. Go to war. That is how Nation-states hve been managing their affairs for thousands of years, and nothing will change it.
  16. Re:Shitstorm on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1

    No, I just want to be aware. I can do that with feedback... MY SO for example give me feedback, but other people are less willing to provide feedback, so I remain unaware of my behaviours.

  17. Re:This is not good! on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1

    They don't function in society, they function in computers.

    IDIOT.

  18. Re:Shitstorm on Possible Cure For Autism · · Score: 1

    I suspect, that functional autistics, and Aspergers, Don't wish to be normal, but merely wish to be in control... I've been(in the past) diagnosed with AD(H)D, and observe the symptoms in myself, as well as have others comment on them. I Don't want my brain to stop working the way it works. I would like to be able to control... sometimes ... some of the things that my brain does to me. For example I have certain nervous tics, that I'm not fully aware of performing that cause distress, disgust and offense to others. I'd like to be able to stop that.

  19. Re:I beta tested, so I have a few things to say on Lord of the Rings Online Impressions · · Score: 1

    I play everquest, and I KNOW that I'll never consume all the content available, and that I'll never be "the best" But why would I play a game where there's nothing beyond the next hill? If someone who knew nothing of chess beyond basic movements had a 15% chance of beating one of the top Grandmasters, what would be the point of studying and learning and playing the game. If everyone is equal, just play solitare. I want a skill based time based improvement based game, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

    and if you think 16 hours a week is alot, keep track of how much time you spend driving around and eating.

  20. Re:I beta tested, so I have a few things to say on Lord of the Rings Online Impressions · · Score: 1

    As a time limited player who likes to progress, I find it depressing that there's nothing for me to progress to. No harder content, no gear upgrades, nothing that will make me 2-3 times more powerful than where I started.

    I mean, what's the point. I'm on the trailing end of content, but I know that there's somewhere thats up from here. If there's No up, then why bother?

  21. Re:proof! on Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Thats not to say that there aren't crap cams out there, but they aren't the majority, or even a signifigant percentage of the movies in the channels.

  22. Re:Shrink rate on Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we're talking about digital media which once in the wild can be copied indefinitely.

  23. Re:proof! on Canadian Movie Piracy Claims Mostly Fiction? · · Score: 1

    WRONG!

    Most *watchable* cams are recorded by employees in empty theatres.

  24. Re:Cue spoiler t-shirts. on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Release Date Announced · · Score: 1

    I expect to purchase the book before 0100 the day it goes on sale, to get a couple hours sleep, and finish the book by noon.

  25. Re:Stock price... on SCO Admits They Might Just Not Win - Maybe · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM could have bought them any time they wanted. They haven't because they're going to kill them, burn them, stomp the ashes, salt the earth, burn the salted earth, burn the salty earthy ashes, stomp that out, pour gasoline around, burn the remaining mess, and then piss on it to put it out.