That much money spent on a failed software product? I think releasing it in the public domain would violate a dozen geneva convention regulations. It could be legitimately argued that the code base would constitute a weapon of mass destruction.
No, the only way to effectively handle that steaming pile of...code...is to destroy all copies but one, which you then entomb in a sealed vault miles under the surface of the earth with warnings in every language imaginable.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel so much better about my government violating my 4th amendment rights six ways from sunday as long as the phone companies aren't challenging it, as told by a secret court.
From TFA: The purpose of technical documentation is to take someone who has never seen your project, teach them to be an expert user of it, and support them once they become an expert.
No. Experts in their field shouldn't need to be taught how to understand your system; that's part of being an expert ( or indeed, even a professional ). All documentation should be doing is explaining the sticky bits and providing details and/or examples ( whichever is relevant ).
Just my opinion of course. But having stepped in to countless networks/codebases, I can tell you that I just get annoyed when the documentation gets in the way of the information I need to complete my job.
Has anyone else noticed that damn near EVERY UI project out there is getting a terrible redesign? MS, Google, yahoo all are in the process of fucking up common interfaces for the sake of....well, I really don't know, but they seem to have a goal.
Hell, the last/. redesign kind of fucked things up too, now that I think about it. A lot of common pages were buried several links deeper than they used to be. I can't tell if that was done to increase ad impressions or if the designers are just morons.
Let's not forget your coworkers, and their importance in future employment opportunities. You leave unexpectedly, it's not management that has to put up with the sudden departure issues, it's your coworkers.
These same coworkers in the coming years will be the ones that remember you when time comes to look for new employees at their different jobs.
I was being facetious. The last time a politician managed to surprise me was...multiple decades ago.
I was calling bullshit on WMD before we stepped foot into Iraq the second time. The data was there, it showed the lie for what it was for anyone willing to look for it. But no one cared. The public, who was still enraged by 9/11, was fed a convenient lie that eased their conscious. No one wanted to kick up the truth and anger the public.
You know, at least politicians of yesteryear would *convincingly* lie to us. I really appreciated the time and effort they went to to construct these elaborate castles of "inaccuracies", all in an effort to appease the masses.
These new politicians...I dunno...they don't even *try* anymore. It's like they're too busy screwing us and just phone in the excuses.
While I'm not quite sure how a concerned citizen who exposed an unconstitutional government program at great personal expense is not a patriot, what's of more interest to me what you'd call a political leader who defends unconstitutional government programs.
I'd suggest it's a behavior that's related to cost. The more something cost, perhaps even the more of a luxury item it is, the more likely someone is to be biased.
1) Products with positive comments are more likely to be purchased. 2) People identify themselves by their choices, and no one wants to make a bad choice. Ergo, almost by definition, any choice people make is "the right one". At the very least, people are predisposed to liking what they spent money on.
Remember; When discussing all things retail, it's not how good the product is, but how well it satisfied the need. At least half the time, that need is largely imaginary.
The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred.
Had I read for just a minute longer, I'd have found this. So it would seem I was correct.
Maybe they're so keen to keep the source hidden because it's the NSA and all of their programs?
Speaking of the NSA, anyone else notice a number of stories over the past few days ( here and elsewhere ) that seem designed to throw attention anywhere but the NSA's crap?
Seems to me that the browser should offer visual alert as to which tab is makin' noise, and should give you tweakin' options ( such as mute all tabs but currently focused tab, allow unmuting of tab via right click on tab, ect... ).
It's great that youtube is doing this, don't misunderstand me. But it seems to be making up for the lack of options in the browser.
Windows-R, there's your run box. And RunAs worked fine, every time. In fact, I'd say that it was MORE functional in XP than in later releases. Tell me, can you "RunAs" the Add/Remove Application applet in Vista/7/8? Because you can in XP.
Xp was the easiest windows client to administrate, hands down. Still is, despite the looming EOL.
Interestingly, while Windows 7 WAS better than Vista, it still represented a step back in UI design from XP. I'll give you a quick example; the user login. In XP, you changed the username, entered your password, done. In 7, you click on the "Switch User" button, click on the "Other user" button, then enter your username and password.
We just fell over ourselves loving win7 because we had to deal with vista ( which, in truth, wasn't all that horrible after the service packs. Never quite achieved the performance of 7 though ).
I find myself wondering how much of this ( master keys, passwods, ect.. ) we'd be discussing NOW had it not be for Snowden having the balls ( if not the brains ) to leak what he's leaked.
Note to future leakers: Make sure you work out your living situation BEFORE pissing off one of the largest governments in the world.
I'm not even a developer/programmer, just a lowly network admin, and I know almost dozen languages ( java, c#, c/c++, javascript, bash, perl, ruby, python, php, SQL, vbscript ).
While I'd like to dismiss his claims that most programmers know a single language, I'm forced to accept it as a possibility given the number of apps and their "behavior" that i've had to support.
Oh? You think our schools shouldn't be worrying about money? That they should just hang their hopes on benevolent politicians to see that they have enough to do their jobs? I'm feeling generous, so let's call that "Idealistic".
Harsh reality alert: History would suggest that your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact. When schools pinching pennies STILL can't afford pencils for the kids half way through the year, your idealized society seems...well, hopelessly unrealistic.
Interestingly enough, I doubt it'd be any more expensive than the money dropped on technology.
Granted, it wouldn't be as *neat*. But here's an idea; how about instead of just throwing technology at a school and hoping "Magic Happens", we go back to a low tech teaching solution, with computers only introduced to teach specific skills sets ( like typing, word processing, programming, ect.. )? Is there really a need for computers in the classroom ( beyond the teacher's )?
Apple's glamor was down to the packaging. Think about it: Prior to the ipod, most digital music players were so clunky and painful to use, it just wasn't worth bothering with them. At best, they offered a marginally better user experience than portable CD players.
Then came the ipod, with it's slick user experience. Even with itunes, it was still a hundred times better than any product on the market ( which should say something ). They did the same thing with the iphone, then tablet.
There's really no mystery here. Apple doesn't innovate as much as repackages. And good on them for doing it, because while I don't like their gear, I do appreciate the spur to get real UIs out there.
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That much money spent on a failed software product? I think releasing it in the public domain would violate a dozen geneva convention regulations. It could be legitimately argued that the code base would constitute a weapon of mass destruction.
No, the only way to effectively handle that steaming pile of...code...is to destroy all copies but one, which you then entomb in a sealed vault miles under the surface of the earth with warnings in every language imaginable.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel so much better about my government violating my 4th amendment rights six ways from sunday as long as the phone companies aren't challenging it, as told by a secret court.
Whew!
All kids should have adults looking out for them, helping them grow into successful adults.
This is truly an idea who's time has come.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid_airship
From TFA: The purpose of technical documentation is to take someone who has never seen your project, teach them to be an expert user of it, and support them once they become an expert.
No. Experts in their field shouldn't need to be taught how to understand your system; that's part of being an expert ( or indeed, even a professional ). All documentation should be doing is explaining the sticky bits and providing details and/or examples ( whichever is relevant ).
Just my opinion of course. But having stepped in to countless networks/codebases, I can tell you that I just get annoyed when the documentation gets in the way of the information I need to complete my job.
Has anyone else noticed that damn near EVERY UI project out there is getting a terrible redesign? MS, Google, yahoo all are in the process of fucking up common interfaces for the sake of....well, I really don't know, but they seem to have a goal.
Hell, the last /. redesign kind of fucked things up too, now that I think about it. A lot of common pages were buried several links deeper than they used to be. I can't tell if that was done to increase ad impressions or if the designers are just morons.
I'm just going to file this in the "Deeply suspicious" file, shall I?
But you all try it, let me know how it goes.
But all I think they've cured is the need for research funding for a year or two.
Let's not forget your coworkers, and their importance in future employment opportunities. You leave unexpectedly, it's not management that has to put up with the sudden departure issues, it's your coworkers.
These same coworkers in the coming years will be the ones that remember you when time comes to look for new employees at their different jobs.
I was being facetious. The last time a politician managed to surprise me was...multiple decades ago.
I was calling bullshit on WMD before we stepped foot into Iraq the second time. The data was there, it showed the lie for what it was for anyone willing to look for it. But no one cared. The public, who was still enraged by 9/11, was fed a convenient lie that eased their conscious. No one wanted to kick up the truth and anger the public.
You know, at least politicians of yesteryear would *convincingly* lie to us. I really appreciated the time and effort they went to to construct these elaborate castles of "inaccuracies", all in an effort to appease the masses.
These new politicians...I dunno...they don't even *try* anymore. It's like they're too busy screwing us and just phone in the excuses.
While I'm not quite sure how a concerned citizen who exposed an unconstitutional government program at great personal expense is not a patriot, what's of more interest to me what you'd call a political leader who defends unconstitutional government programs.
I'd suggest it's a behavior that's related to cost. The more something cost, perhaps even the more of a luxury item it is, the more likely someone is to be biased.
My hypothesis:
1) Products with positive comments are more likely to be purchased.
2) People identify themselves by their choices, and no one wants to make a bad choice. Ergo, almost by definition, any choice people make is "the right one". At the very least, people are predisposed to liking what they spent money on.
Remember; When discussing all things retail, it's not how good the product is, but how well it satisfied the need. At least half the time, that need is largely imaginary.
Sure, I could RTFA, but this is more fun.
The unit of the DEA that distributes the information is called the Special Operations Division, or SOD. Two dozen partner agencies comprise the unit, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security. It was created in 1994 to combat Latin American drug cartels and has grown from several dozen employees to several hundred.
Had I read for just a minute longer, I'd have found this. So it would seem I was correct.
Maybe they're so keen to keep the source hidden because it's the NSA and all of their programs?
Speaking of the NSA, anyone else notice a number of stories over the past few days ( here and elsewhere ) that seem designed to throw attention anywhere but the NSA's crap?
Seems to me that the browser should offer visual alert as to which tab is makin' noise, and should give you tweakin' options ( such as mute all tabs but currently focused tab, allow unmuting of tab via right click on tab, ect... ).
It's great that youtube is doing this, don't misunderstand me. But it seems to be making up for the lack of options in the browser.
Windows-R, there's your run box. And RunAs worked fine, every time. In fact, I'd say that it was MORE functional in XP than in later releases. Tell me, can you "RunAs" the Add/Remove Application applet in Vista/7/8? Because you can in XP.
Xp was the easiest windows client to administrate, hands down. Still is, despite the looming EOL.
Interestingly, while Windows 7 WAS better than Vista, it still represented a step back in UI design from XP. I'll give you a quick example; the user login. In XP, you changed the username, entered your password, done. In 7, you click on the "Switch User" button, click on the "Other user" button, then enter your username and password.
We just fell over ourselves loving win7 because we had to deal with vista ( which, in truth, wasn't all that horrible after the service packs. Never quite achieved the performance of 7 though ).
I find myself wondering how much of this ( master keys, passwods, ect.. ) we'd be discussing NOW had it not be for Snowden having the balls ( if not the brains ) to leak what he's leaked.
Note to future leakers: Make sure you work out your living situation BEFORE pissing off one of the largest governments in the world.
I'm not even a developer/programmer, just a lowly network admin, and I know almost dozen languages ( java, c#, c/c++, javascript, bash, perl, ruby, python, php, SQL, vbscript ).
While I'd like to dismiss his claims that most programmers know a single language, I'm forced to accept it as a possibility given the number of apps and their "behavior" that i've had to support.
...or, you know, not.
Christ, what a douchebag.
"Everyone, wait! It's all just 1s and 0s! I'VE SOLVED ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS!"
Oh? You think our schools shouldn't be worrying about money? That they should just hang their hopes on benevolent politicians to see that they have enough to do their jobs? I'm feeling generous, so let's call that "Idealistic".
Harsh reality alert: History would suggest that your unbridled optimism has no basis in fact. When schools pinching pennies STILL can't afford pencils for the kids half way through the year, your idealized society seems...well, hopelessly unrealistic.
Interestingly enough, I doubt it'd be any more expensive than the money dropped on technology.
Granted, it wouldn't be as *neat*. But here's an idea; how about instead of just throwing technology at a school and hoping "Magic Happens", we go back to a low tech teaching solution, with computers only introduced to teach specific skills sets ( like typing, word processing, programming, ect.. )? Is there really a need for computers in the classroom ( beyond the teacher's )?
Apple's glamor was down to the packaging. Think about it: Prior to the ipod, most digital music players were so clunky and painful to use, it just wasn't worth bothering with them. At best, they offered a marginally better user experience than portable CD players.
Then came the ipod, with it's slick user experience. Even with itunes, it was still a hundred times better than any product on the market ( which should say something ). They did the same thing with the iphone, then tablet.
There's really no mystery here. Apple doesn't innovate as much as repackages. And good on them for doing it, because while I don't like their gear, I do appreciate the spur to get real UIs out there.