I love this post, it actually reflects the problem from a project management perspective.
If you do not have detailed requirements, estimating becomes an estimate-of-an-estimate!
If you cannot break down the task, you really don't know what you're doing - irrespective of level of personal experience.
If you are going to use a RAD methodology that speaks to rapid prototyping, you still need detailed requirements to get something started.
THE REAL problem a wise customer should recognize, and a deliberate methodology will likely raise, is WHAT'S the REAL TIME to GATHER REQUIREMENTS going to be? Development time becomes a more precise estimate based upon requirements definition time.
Realistically, isn't it a bit naive that the government doesn't have the ability to gather these fields of data on Theo from any other means, including a phone book?
The info == currency nonsense breaks down when you look at the personal information being collected.
Signing the NDA is another matter and has covenants that restrict use/distribution, which I would think is the meat of a sound objection to HIFN's practices on this matter.
Why not see if you can find a local guru to link up a T-1 in "town" and put up a small dish/tower to serve a few of you folks with some high speed via wireless. It won't be a money machine, but if you find perhaps 10 people paying the same $75, you should be able to cover the T-1 and hardware within the first year.
NOT portable, very good potential quality.
You're falling into the classic trap of trying to manage the spiraling cost pinch on your efforts because you are viewed as a "Cost Center". What you need to be doing is making careful ROI decisions and working with the Executive Management of the company.
What you need is to show that money invested in your operations has a positive effect/ROI/benefit on the company such that your area is looked as a potential place to INVEST funds.
Let's face it, if you can demonstrate that you are worth 10% annual growth to the company (sales, services, lower errors, increased productivity, etc) then you shouldn't have to fight the discussion about CUTTING YOUR COSTS. Instead the C-Level Execs will be thinking about ways to INVEST in your IT area to PROMOTE growth in the company.
Your post is tongue-in-cheek, but honestly having tried to uncork the lingo of HDTV hardware hacking, you really do run into a lot of acronyms that take you nowhere if you can't find the glossary. Techies would benefit from remembering that their docs need to speak to someone who's learning the skill being describe, not proofing it.
For business related death I have prepared extensive documentation on servers, passwords, accounts, banking relationships, etc. and have filed that in my bank lock-box. I have informed my attorney whom I wish to have handle those affairs in my absence (a trusted friend/partner). The attorney has that on record in my will. The asset disposal itself is a normal course of handling the estate, but telling Amazon, PayPal, Authorize.net, and others who have my finanicals to shut off my account is no small effort. Finding the trusted friend is not trivial either.
Another IDG anal-ysis pulled from their M$ lined anal orifi.
Anybody feel like sponsoring a study I'm going to do on Linux' monetary benefits over Windows?
I promise I'll rig the results to favor linux.
You probably are an idiot if you do not realize that 1) your analogy is utterly meaningless, and that 2) AOL took steps that were unauthorized and uncommunicated by the owner of the computer and licensee of the software on that computer.
Leaving your back door open would be a conscious, informed decision based upon your intimate knowledge of the proper use of, settings available for, and current status of that door. You would also leave it unlocked if you knew that the local locksmith, in his personal discretion didn't pop by while you were at work and changed the locks or moved the hings to open inwardly instead of outwardly. The door doesn't function as you expected and you don't know about the change nor who did it nor when. The locksmith wouldn't know if you were handicapped either and REQUIRED the door to open outwardly.
It is possible that such software changes - maybe not specifically this one - could also invalidate another product's license!
This goes without even adressing the extremely inappropriate and probably illegal adjustment of your computer's settings by a service provider.
"This comparison revealed a few examples of line-by-line copying, but did not determine whether the code was owned by SCO or in the public domain."
If Comparator were run against the appropriate *BSD (AT&T public source, right?) I wonder how many of offending script segments would be taken as not SCO's/SysV.
Sun's on the ropes as a business and they're switching from hardware to software?? Maybe?? I like the new features, but they've got a hill to climb to convince me to make a commitment to the product while their business is struggling.
OK, so let me get this straight. It's a Federal crime to release a virus that penetrates personal and business networks, uses almost all the bandwidth of some ISPs, and snarls the Internet for days. BUT, its perfectly fine to traipse into a computer, inventory that machine, and attempt to hold that computer owner liable for damages from your unauthorized intrusion?
The incredibly two-faced hypocricy of how computer intrusion laws are written AND ENFORCED makes me want to change professions.
Isn't somebody in the Defense Department actually taking a strong look at this crap? I don't care if you use SCO, just avoid Microsoft with my Country's Defense systems.
I'm starting to wonder if the Terminator's SkyNet was a Microsoft product?!
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I love this post, it actually reflects the problem from a project management perspective.
If you do not have detailed requirements, estimating becomes an estimate-of-an-estimate!
If you cannot break down the task, you really don't know what you're doing - irrespective of level of personal experience.
If you are going to use a RAD methodology that speaks to rapid prototyping, you still need detailed requirements to get something started.
THE REAL problem a wise customer should recognize, and a deliberate methodology will likely raise, is WHAT'S the REAL TIME to GATHER REQUIREMENTS going to be? Development time becomes a more precise estimate based upon requirements definition time.
Realistically, isn't it a bit naive that the government doesn't have the ability to gather these fields of data on Theo from any other means, including a phone book?
The info == currency nonsense breaks down when you look at the personal information being collected.
Signing the NDA is another matter and has covenants that restrict use/distribution, which I would think is the meat of a sound objection to HIFN's practices on this matter.
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Why not see if you can find a local guru to link up a T-1 in "town" and put up a small dish/tower to serve a few of you folks with some high speed via wireless. It won't be a money machine, but if you find perhaps 10 people paying the same $75, you should be able to cover the T-1 and hardware within the first year. NOT portable, very good potential quality.
You're falling into the classic trap of trying to manage the spiraling cost pinch on your efforts because you are viewed as a "Cost Center". What you need to be doing is making careful ROI decisions and working with the Executive Management of the company.
What you need is to show that money invested in your operations has a positive effect/ROI/benefit on the company such that your area is looked as a potential place to INVEST funds.
Let's face it, if you can demonstrate that you are worth 10% annual growth to the company (sales, services, lower errors, increased productivity, etc) then you shouldn't have to fight the discussion about CUTTING YOUR COSTS. Instead the C-Level Execs will be thinking about ways to INVEST in your IT area to PROMOTE growth in the company.
Your post is tongue-in-cheek, but honestly having tried to uncork the lingo of HDTV hardware hacking, you really do run into a lot of acronyms that take you nowhere if you can't find the glossary. Techies would benefit from remembering that their docs need to speak to someone who's learning the skill being describe, not proofing it.
For business related death I have prepared extensive documentation on servers, passwords, accounts, banking relationships, etc. and have filed that in my bank lock-box. I have informed my attorney whom I wish to have handle those affairs in my absence (a trusted friend/partner). The attorney has that on record in my will. The asset disposal itself is a normal course of handling the estate, but telling Amazon, PayPal, Authorize.net, and others who have my finanicals to shut off my account is no small effort. Finding the trusted friend is not trivial either.
Another IDG anal-ysis pulled from their M$ lined anal orifi. Anybody feel like sponsoring a study I'm going to do on Linux' monetary benefits over Windows? I promise I'll rig the results to favor linux.
"We provide the service you consumers cried out for, BUT IT's GONNA COST YA!! He He He He Heehhhhh"
You probably are an idiot if you do not realize that 1) your analogy is utterly meaningless, and that 2) AOL took steps that were unauthorized and uncommunicated by the owner of the computer and licensee of the software on that computer. Leaving your back door open would be a conscious, informed decision based upon your intimate knowledge of the proper use of, settings available for, and current status of that door. You would also leave it unlocked if you knew that the local locksmith, in his personal discretion didn't pop by while you were at work and changed the locks or moved the hings to open inwardly instead of outwardly. The door doesn't function as you expected and you don't know about the change nor who did it nor when. The locksmith wouldn't know if you were handicapped either and REQUIRED the door to open outwardly. It is possible that such software changes - maybe not specifically this one - could also invalidate another product's license! This goes without even adressing the extremely inappropriate and probably illegal adjustment of your computer's settings by a service provider.
pump and dump is illegal, Darl's $$ would be headed to the SEC
"This comparison revealed a few examples of line-by-line copying, but did not determine whether the code was owned by SCO or in the public domain."
If Comparator were run against the appropriate *BSD (AT&T public source, right?) I wonder how many of offending script segments would be taken as not SCO's/SysV.
Disappointing for ./, this isn't news or interesting.
Sun's on the ropes as a business and they're switching from hardware to software?? Maybe?? I like the new features, but they've got a hill to climb to convince me to make a commitment to the product while their business is struggling.
OK, so let me get this straight. It's a Federal crime to release a virus that penetrates personal and business networks, uses almost all the bandwidth of some ISPs, and snarls the Internet for days. BUT, its perfectly fine to traipse into a computer, inventory that machine, and attempt to hold that computer owner liable for damages from your unauthorized intrusion? The incredibly two-faced hypocricy of how computer intrusion laws are written AND ENFORCED makes me want to change professions.
Isn't somebody in the Defense Department actually taking a strong look at this crap? I don't care if you use SCO, just avoid Microsoft with my Country's Defense systems.
I'm starting to wonder if the Terminator's SkyNet was a Microsoft product?!