The first book on the subject was titled "The mythical man-month"!!!
The same way the waterfall model had always been a counter- example.
"discovering" that those models are worse than your current faddish methodology is like finding that your new "locomotion revolution" beats square wheels.
I have a nicely packaged answer for you: Rob Ford. Corruption is not a Quebec thing, they are just doing their cleanup in public. Transparency at it's finest.
I guess nobody read the requirements for that design to be feasible. It clearly states it needs a battery 1000x more powerful than the best available today. This means an energy density 20x that of gasoline. Unobtainium hydride batteries to the rescue!
If the register malfunctions and the retailer stops the transaction, it's OK. If the register malfunctions and the retailer still makes the sale, that's the retailer's problem.
A sale is a contract which binds BOTH parties. And EULA's are subject to the law of the land, which says: if a contract is non-negociable, it has to be interpreted has widely as possible in favor of the party who did not draft it.
The Brick is known in Canada for deceptive business practices, so the consumer protection agencies have taken to the media to inform that customers do NOT have to give the money back.
The retailer advertised those prices, and tries to trick the customer into cancelling the sale to wiggle out of the sales. That's a tactic known as bait-and-switch, and it's illegal.
I assume your team is the developer pool for the company. If not, my comment is not usable.
Learn to use the forces piling onto you to achieve. If Bob in accounting is the client for whatever you are currently working on and Jim in sales asks for something, forward the request for pushing back Bob's feature to Bob. Then watch Bob and Jim wrestle on your behest. Why does this work? Because people unconsciously know you are a finite resource. You are not tasked to choose what the company's priorities are, so let management choose the priority of each request.
Oh, and ALWAYS make an estimate of the work needed for development include the testing and some meetings. Meetings are like gravity: you can't escape them all the time.
The problem with Detroit is decades of crap product. Did you buy Detroit lately? You get better cars from KIA than GM! Korean Imitation Automobile! Not hard to beat that...
That means they are right and you are played for a sucker. If you want something , fight for it. Of course, fighting alone is less effective, but you can try!
I know of a system that did PKE right: Lotus Notes. There was a nice checkbox to make it sign every mail you sent, every user had a keypair, you could verify both sender and content with a click. You could even prohibit printing ou copying an individual email. It is universally despised.
Luckily, there are many sane jurisdictions in the world where if an annex is not present at sign-up, it is not considered part of the contract, even if mentioned/refered to in it.
I even know a place where if a part of the contract is too difficult to read (ex.: low-contrast writing on the back of the paper, 6-point typeface, etc.) that part is null and void. An untested theory includes convoluted language in that rule.
I'd like to point out the following: 1) iPhones are avaliable for almost nothing down (with contract) and an iPod touch can be ordered new for 200$ 2) DLSR's are even cheaper with no need to have a contract 3) bitcoin is bullshit.
I'm currently moving in that direction, and I will probably get a Guruplug. Same low-power processor, a little more memory, same USB connectivity to a HDD, but with Wifi. I will stuff it in a closet somewhere so if a burglar comes around I will not lose my backups. Plus, there are two interesting distros avaliable offering DLNA and "personnal cloud" functionnality: Tonido and an open-source one.
last time I built a PC for gaming, the video card alone cost more than the PS2 I bought after dropping Grand Theft Auto 3 in it and being forced to reduce detail and textures to min to make it work.
I highly doubt that a PC *can* be built to handle console-style games for 3 years after it's purchase. Video cards have a useful gaming life of about 6 months to a year after launch. In contrast, consoles have at least 5 good years after launch and then stagnate for a while before games are not made for it anymore.
When attacks on the US like The September 11 attacks and the thwarted Shoe Bomber attack during President Bush's administration, he got emergency legislation to institute all these domestic spying powers in place.
Pathetic "attack": some mentally retarded moron tries to *light up C4 with a match.* No even a threat since C4 does not detonate this way by design.
When thwarted attacks like the Underwear bomber (Northwest Flight 253 incident) occurred or the Major Nadal Hassan shootings occured, the current president got blamed for failing to keep America safe.
Same quality of "attack": no chance of working. Not even drunken-redneck-quality planning or execution.
I can't believe these are viewed as terror attacks by anybody. Of course it is convenient to the expansion of the national security administration, so I understand they are excellent excuses to get their hands in your pants. Which is why I have been actively avoiding US airport connexions for a year.
Debt to GDP is like comparing what you owe Vs your income. If 100% debt to income was the bankrupcy limit, most people would become eligible by buying a car. What is important is Debt service Vs gov't budget aka payment Vs income. As long as the government has enough money coming in to pay it's interest and capital, it's still OK.
Still, it's always better to owe less (or nothing at all). Perpetual war is a costly venture, and the US decided to finance by credit instead of keeping it to avaliable funds.
I am quite surprised that you are refuting my thesis by refering to a text that says exactly the same as me. Currency is not a means of storage of value or measure of value (I assume that those are the mysterious "2nd and 3rd meanings" you talk about). Storage of value is the same as having a defered exchange. For example: "I give you one pound of meat today for an iPod in a year" is the same as "I am selling you this meat for X simoleons and next year I buy an iPod for X simoleons". Measure of value is iffy at best, for the exact reason I described in my original post: the value of things fluctuates for many reasons and for no reason at all (aka whim or fashion).
Also, I cannot fathom why you would bring Zimbabwe hyper-inflation in a discussion about value and money. In fact, I am surprised a gold bug like you did not bring up the Weimar republic instead. It is self-evident that bad actors, be they governments or corporations, can ruin a whole economy. But Zimbabwe was never a credible government anyway.
Backing a currency on gold, at best, makes the operation of printing money more tedious because a government has to find more of the stuff before, and at worst strangles an expanding economy because value is created but gold cannot be. The only applicable patch would be deflation: since a finite amount of gold represents an expanding economy, everything must keep being "worth less" in gold for everything to balance. And since gold-backed currencies have worked by the principle of "fractional reserves" for a long time, they were a sham anyway.
As for a unique currency resolving poverty, I present you the perfect counter-argument: Rome, Medieval Europe and Renaissance Europe were full of poor people, even as currency was made of real commodities (mostly metals) and was directly convertible in useful objects in your smithy's backyard.
That's a common myth: gold-backed currency has "real value" and fiat currency has no "real value". The thing is: money serves as an exchange medium of value. Since the usefulness (or value) of gold (or just about anything else physical) depends on many factors, the only sane option is fiat.
Here is an example: how much of your work is one ounce of gold worth? The most certain amount could be construed by the work you would have to spend to mine and smelt it. Possibly as much as gold is worth to you *right now*. You may be inclined to offer less work next year to get an ounce of gold; maybe none at all since you have no need for it at the time. Ergo: gold has no fixed, intrinsic value. This can be extended to anything: iron, oil, grain, meat, pretty shells, etc.
Whatever serves as currency, including bits, serves as an exchange medium for value; it's form is not important.
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The first book on the subject was titled "The mythical man-month"!!!
The same way the waterfall model had always been a counter- example.
"discovering" that those models are worse than your current faddish methodology is like finding that your new "locomotion revolution" beats square wheels.
Get off my lawn.
Soooo...you read all that and not the article? They made a config with all privacy options used.
This should mark the Godwin point for this thread, but your post is too informative for that. Congrats, you have found an exception to the law!
I have a nicely packaged answer for you: Rob Ford. Corruption is not a Quebec thing, they are just doing their cleanup in public. Transparency at it's finest.
I guess nobody read the requirements for that design to be feasible. It clearly states it needs a battery 1000x more powerful than the best available today. This means an energy density 20x that of gasoline.
Unobtainium hydride batteries to the rescue!
If the register malfunctions and the retailer stops the transaction, it's OK. If the register malfunctions and the retailer still makes the sale, that's the retailer's problem.
A sale is a contract which binds BOTH parties. And EULA's are subject to the law of the land, which says: if a contract is non-negociable, it has to be interpreted has widely as possible in favor of the party who did not draft it.
The Brick is known in Canada for deceptive business practices, so the consumer protection agencies have taken to the media to inform that customers do NOT have to give the money back.
The retailer advertised those prices, and tries to trick the customer into cancelling the sale to wiggle out of the sales. That's a tactic known as bait-and-switch, and it's illegal.
I assume your team is the developer pool for the company. If not, my comment is not usable.
Learn to use the forces piling onto you to achieve. If Bob in accounting is the client for whatever you are currently working on and Jim in sales asks for something, forward the request for pushing back Bob's feature to Bob. Then watch Bob and Jim wrestle on your behest.
Why does this work? Because people unconsciously know you are a finite resource. You are not tasked to choose what the company's priorities are, so let management choose the priority of each request.
Oh, and ALWAYS make an estimate of the work needed for development include the testing and some meetings. Meetings are like gravity: you can't escape them all the time.
+5: Full of win !
The problem with Detroit is decades of crap product. Did you buy Detroit lately? You get better cars from KIA than GM! Korean Imitation Automobile! Not hard to beat that...
That means they are right and you are played for a sucker. If you want something , fight for it. Of course, fighting alone is less effective, but you can try!
LOL. I've heard that one so much, and in so many industries and yet, surprise! Humans are still necessary.
I know of a system that did PKE right: Lotus Notes. There was a nice checkbox to make it sign every mail you sent, every user had a keypair, you could verify both sender and content with a click. You could even prohibit printing ou copying an individual email.
It is universally despised.
Only problem is: Wifi does not do 21km links, more like 100 feet. Except if you have ultra-directional, amplified emitter-receivers at both ends.
I am not sure I encountered a TOS lately that does not incorporate this language. Even my cellular service has that!
Not that it could stand in court, mind you, but I am sure that I will only get dinged enough that I am not willing to pay a lawyer to make it right.
Luckily, there are many sane jurisdictions in the world where if an annex is not present at sign-up, it is not considered part of the contract, even if mentioned/refered to in it.
I even know a place where if a part of the contract is too difficult to read (ex.: low-contrast writing on the back of the paper, 6-point typeface, etc.) that part is null and void. An untested theory includes convoluted language in that rule.
I'd like to point out the following:
1) iPhones are avaliable for almost nothing down (with contract) and an iPod touch can be ordered new for 200$
2) DLSR's are even cheaper with no need to have a contract
3) bitcoin is bullshit.
Revenge of the nerds 3 ? ewwwww. At least it was better than Revenge of the nerds IV! *shudders*
I'm currently moving in that direction, and I will probably get a Guruplug. Same low-power processor, a little more memory, same USB connectivity to a HDD, but with Wifi. I will stuff it in a closet somewhere so if a burglar comes around I will not lose my backups. Plus, there are two interesting distros avaliable offering DLNA and "personnal cloud" functionnality: Tonido and an open-source one.
Ahem, a time capsule of the last 5 years of the century would be more like it.
First half of the nineties = Wolfenstein, Doom (barely), 386-486 class machines, no 3D accelerators, Adlib or Soundblaster, mouse optional.
last time I built a PC for gaming, the video card alone cost more than the PS2 I bought after dropping Grand Theft Auto 3 in it and being forced to reduce detail and textures to min to make it work.
I highly doubt that a PC *can* be built to handle console-style games for 3 years after it's purchase. Video cards have a useful gaming life of about 6 months to a year after launch. In contrast, consoles have at least 5 good years after launch and then stagnate for a while before games are not made for it anymore.
Money talks and says: buy a console to play.
When attacks on the US like The September 11 attacks and the thwarted Shoe Bomber attack during President Bush's administration, he got emergency legislation to institute all these domestic spying powers in place.
Pathetic "attack": some mentally retarded moron tries to *light up C4 with a match.* No even a threat since C4 does not detonate this way by design.
When thwarted attacks like the Underwear bomber (Northwest Flight 253 incident) occurred or the Major Nadal Hassan shootings occured, the current president got blamed for failing to keep America safe.
Same quality of "attack": no chance of working. Not even drunken-redneck-quality planning or execution.
I can't believe these are viewed as terror attacks by anybody. Of course it is convenient to the expansion of the national security administration, so I understand they are excellent excuses to get their hands in your pants. Which is why I have been actively avoiding US airport connexions for a year.
Debt to GDP is like comparing what you owe Vs your income. If 100% debt to income was the bankrupcy limit, most people would become eligible by buying a car. What is important is Debt service Vs gov't budget aka payment Vs income. As long as the government has enough money coming in to pay it's interest and capital, it's still OK.
Still, it's always better to owe less (or nothing at all). Perpetual war is a costly venture, and the US decided to finance by credit instead of keeping it to avaliable funds.
I am quite surprised that you are refuting my thesis by refering to a text that says exactly the same as me. Currency is not a means of storage of value or measure of value (I assume that those are the mysterious "2nd and 3rd meanings" you talk about). Storage of value is the same as having a defered exchange. For example: "I give you one pound of meat today for an iPod in a year" is the same as "I am selling you this meat for X simoleons and next year I buy an iPod for X simoleons". Measure of value is iffy at best, for the exact reason I described in my original post: the value of things fluctuates for many reasons and for no reason at all (aka whim or fashion).
Also, I cannot fathom why you would bring Zimbabwe hyper-inflation in a discussion about value and money. In fact, I am surprised a gold bug like you did not bring up the Weimar republic instead. It is self-evident that bad actors, be they governments or corporations, can ruin a whole economy. But Zimbabwe was never a credible government anyway.
Backing a currency on gold, at best, makes the operation of printing money more tedious because a government has to find more of the stuff before, and at worst strangles an expanding economy because value is created but gold cannot be. The only applicable patch would be deflation: since a finite amount of gold represents an expanding economy, everything must keep being "worth less" in gold for everything to balance. And since gold-backed currencies have worked by the principle of "fractional reserves" for a long time, they were a sham anyway.
As for a unique currency resolving poverty, I present you the perfect counter-argument: Rome, Medieval Europe and Renaissance Europe were full of poor people, even as currency was made of real commodities (mostly metals) and was directly convertible in useful objects in your smithy's backyard.
That's a common myth: gold-backed currency has "real value" and fiat currency has no "real value". The thing is: money serves as an exchange medium of value. Since the usefulness (or value) of gold (or just about anything else physical) depends on many factors, the only sane option is fiat.
Here is an example: how much of your work is one ounce of gold worth? The most certain amount could be construed by the work you would have to spend to mine and smelt it. Possibly as much as gold is worth to you *right now*. You may be inclined to offer less work next year to get an ounce of gold; maybe none at all since you have no need for it at the time. Ergo: gold has no fixed, intrinsic value. This can be extended to anything: iron, oil, grain, meat, pretty shells, etc.
Whatever serves as currency, including bits, serves as an exchange medium for value; it's form is not important.