Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children [...] We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose
You will have to look at each and every photo on each and every SD card to figure that out. It could get nasty... Actually, come to think of it, that could be quite enjoyable as well!
There is a non trivial amount of extra material for making it removable since it had to be in it's own enclosure and such.
Well there is a difference between making it removable and making it user-replaceable. The latter meaning that the battery is reachable by opening the back of the latop with a screwdriver or similar procedure. I wonder which option they've chosen.
What have your experiences been with this problem? Have you found any best practices to avoid digging custom holes you can't climb out of?
What's your perspective here?
Financial
Manpower
Engineering
If you're looking at this from the financial point of view, I'd say that you now have enough experience to plan carefully. Also, the customer should know about and pay for maintenance.
From the manpower point of view, you might need more junior developers who can start with maintenance issues.
If you're just looking for engineering elegance, I'd say that's solved in the maintenance (tail) of the project as well. Be sure to have a senior developer keep track of the big picture in the maintenance phase.
On my last day the director of engineering told me "You realize I can't approve of this." To which I did not reply
Which exactly is the best reply. Bravo, sir. You didn't get into a witty sayings pissing contest which is the best possible outcome in such a situation.
Adobe also offers some DRM with their Adobe Acrobat / Acrobat Reader Suite
For a customer of mine, I called Adobe for a price quote for their Content Server. It's actually a suite of multiple products, of which the topic starter will need to pick several. Price range is in the 10K-20K at the very least. It was pretty difficult to get hold of a rep who knew something about this product by the way.
Not if you have skilled and knowledgeable Information Security officers maintaining the network you reside on.
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. [...] CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time. CATS: Ha ha ha ha.... General Kevin Chilton: Take off every 'Information Security Officer'!! General Kevin Chilton: You know what you doing. General Kevin Chilton: Move 'Information Security Officer'. General Kevin Chilton: For great justice.
What I do in the bedroom? No, really I don't care. I'm not particularly attractive with my balding head and too-large belly, but if someone really wants to watch that [...]
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The Rapid 5020e Electric Stapler 3-Way Stapling with Cassette of 1500 is one brutal mother-insulter. Stripped of its bottom and turned upright, this is the weapon of choice among sysadminning toughs!
they sell it to you for less than list price, and you're a happy customer who hopefully has repeat business based on your positive experience
However, the next time you *will* pay full price or at least closer to it.
Or worse, over full price. A friend of mine asked his regular Dell accountmanager for a quote. When the quote turned out to be over the expected amount, he checked the website, and lo and behold -- the website price was lower:-) Turns out they give you a very low first price, then sometimes try to errrr... make up for that:-)
Sorry to reply to self, but this topic got me because of the whole start-your-business stuff.
In the past two years, I've started my own business. I've learned that I can do only one thing at a time: either sales or coding. Not both.
For me it turned out that I'm not bad at sales. I hardly touch code anymore because I just don't have the time; I have to keep the 'pipe' filled with new things. But I'm OK with that.
Write a business plan in which you: - Have 20K available for a lawsuit (number pulled out of air) - Have enough reserve to survive the time while you write said product
Also, consulting a lawyer will cost money but it's a good idea because that investment alone will weed out the talkers. Everyone dreams of starting a company some day. So your friends/teammates of course love to talk about it. But will they be there when plans get serious? Or will their spouse have objections? Or maybe there are financial obstacles for them? Asking for $200 for discussion with a lawyer will do a first round of weeding out the not-really-serious people.
Well, you're right in that even a separate test user isn't really necessary. However there are some wins: - upgraded but not checked-in libraries become visible - configuration files which were edited and then forgotten reveal themselves - other stuff
And on any Unixy system it's not necessary to log off, just open a shell and do a "su testuser" (su = switch user).
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Like a lot of my colleagues and all of my three children [...] We have also have run into some instances where it wasn't clear whose SD card was whose
You will have to look at each and every photo on each and every SD card to figure that out. It could get nasty... Actually, come to think of it, that could be quite enjoyable as well!
There is a non trivial amount of extra material for making it removable since it had to be in it's own enclosure and such.
Well there is a difference between making it removable and making it user-replaceable. The latter meaning that the battery is reachable by opening the back of the latop with a screwdriver or similar procedure. I wonder which option they've chosen.
Obligatory xkcd reference.
... the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, ...
You've just described every job I ever had.
The constant factor here is you, not the jobs you had.
What have your experiences been with this problem? Have you found any best practices to avoid digging custom holes you can't climb out of?
What's your perspective here?
If you're looking at this from the financial point of view, I'd say that you now have enough experience to plan carefully. Also, the customer should know about and pay for maintenance.
From the manpower point of view, you might need more junior developers who can start with maintenance issues.
If you're just looking for engineering elegance, I'd say that's solved in the maintenance (tail) of the project as well. Be sure to have a senior developer keep track of the big picture in the maintenance phase.
On my last day the director of engineering told me "You realize I can't approve of this." To which I did not reply
Which exactly is the best reply. Bravo, sir. You didn't get into a witty sayings pissing contest which is the best possible outcome in such a situation.
Adobe also offers some DRM with their Adobe Acrobat / Acrobat Reader Suite
For a customer of mine, I called Adobe for a price quote for their Content Server. It's actually a suite of multiple products, of which the topic starter will need to pick several. Price range is in the 10K-20K at the very least. It was pretty difficult to get hold of a rep who knew something about this product by the way.
Meh... Same thing could be said about Oracle or Microsoft. Answer is; it depends.
u cn save ink n papr 2 !
What?
Your mother.
Why not?
This is to prevent unfit users from not using one of the other browsae.
for everyone's sake, I hope that's a fucking typo.
No it's not a typo, there are many wordae like that.
I just turned over my lenovo mouse to check, and blinded myself with the laser
Guns don't kill people, laser mice blind people. Or something.
If you think that guy looks like Wil Wheaton, then I'm looking like Mother Theresa.
Not if you have skilled and knowledgeable Information Security officers maintaining the network you reside on.
In A.D. 2101 ....
War was beginning.
[...]
CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time.
CATS: Ha ha ha ha
General Kevin Chilton: Take off every 'Information Security Officer'!!
General Kevin Chilton: You know what you doing.
General Kevin Chilton: Move 'Information Security Officer'.
General Kevin Chilton: For great justice.
What I do in the bedroom? No, really I don't care. I'm not particularly attractive with my balding head and too-large belly, but if someone really wants to watch that [...]
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
The Rapid 5020e Electric Stapler 3-Way Stapling with Cassette of 1500 is one brutal mother-insulter. Stripped of its bottom and turned upright, this is the weapon of choice among sysadminning toughs!
I generally ask for payment [...] Install/Fix Vista: A keg of beer, blow and hookers
In fact, forget about Vista and the beer.
they made this to run the desktop effects
not crysis
If so then why would they demo Crysis?
Because Windows 7 will use Crysis as the default startup theme. Duh.
they sell it to you for less than list price, and you're a happy customer who hopefully has repeat business based on your positive experience
However, the next time you *will* pay full price or at least closer to it.
Or worse, over full price. A friend of mine asked his regular Dell accountmanager for a quote. When the quote turned out to be over the expected amount, he checked the website, and lo and behold -- the website price was lower :-) Turns out they give you a very low first price, then sometimes try to errrr... make up for that :-)
There are a few games for OS X designed for
[...]
I'm sure there are Linux equivalents.
There aren't but I'm sure his two-year-old can whip up a quick shellscript which does just that!
Sorry to reply to self, but this topic got me because of the whole start-your-business stuff.
In the past two years, I've started my own business. I've learned that I can do only one thing at a time: either sales or coding. Not both.
For me it turned out that I'm not bad at sales. I hardly touch code anymore because I just don't have the time; I have to keep the 'pipe' filled with new things. But I'm OK with that.
Question is: are you OK with that as well?
Why not assume the worst situation?
Write a business plan in which you:
- Have 20K available for a lawsuit (number pulled out of air)
- Have enough reserve to survive the time while you write said product
Also, consulting a lawyer will cost money but it's a good idea because that investment alone will weed out the talkers. Everyone dreams of starting a company some day. So your friends/teammates of course love to talk about it. But will they be there when plans get serious? Or will their spouse have objections? Or maybe there are financial obstacles for them? Asking for $200 for discussion with a lawyer will do a first round of weeding out the not-really-serious people.
Sure, it's -4.15 Edsels.
That's rounding it off a bit generous, don't you think?
I have a law that's named Piper-Heidsieck. It's not a mathematical law, it's more of a breakfast thing :-)
Well, you're right in that even a separate test user isn't really necessary. However there are some wins:
- upgraded but not checked-in libraries become visible
- configuration files which were edited and then forgotten reveal themselves
- other stuff
And on any Unixy system it's not necessary to log off, just open a shell and do a "su testuser" (su = switch user).