It seems like it must be some nonsensical knee jerk response for the sake of security or some crap. Seems like a typical blind bureaucratic action or something...
If you spend a few more bucks on your point and shoot, you can get pretty close to the same quality as a DSLR.
I don't think it's really about cost anymore. I think it's about the ridiculous amount of paper every year going to print these things that I, and most other Americans, stick squarely in the trash. No one is seeing the advertising anymore, and most of these things are just tossed, unopened.
Seeing as libreoffice is just a fork of openoffice (they're probably almost identical in code right now), you can probably rely on it just as much as openoffice now, and possibly even more in the future.
Yeah, I love seeing a mid-70's couple being patted down and wanded in the airport. Because, yaknow, my geriatric gramma is definitely the terrorist type.
The TSA is completely ineffective as a security force. How many times has the TSA actually found something that prevented an in-air attack? How many times have their "security protocols" been embarrassed? I'd wager there's a LOT more in the latter department.
If terrorists attacked passenger trains on a regular basis the casualties would be orders of magnitude higher....yet there's almost no security at train stations.
The problem with organizations like the TSA is that they turn into "V for Vendetta." All in the names of "Safety" and "Security." BS, I call it. The last thing the TSA is concerned with is your safety.
I'll take a little more risk over a loss of freedom and a trashed constitution any day.
The point of agile is not to be "flexible." The most successful Agile teams are extremely disciplined and follow very strict guidelines for development. Anyone who has gone through any proper Agile/Scrum training will tell you that if you're not very strict and disciplined, the process can fail just as easily as any other methodology.
The point of agile is to cut the pointless crap out of development, and hand the customer what they ACTUALLY wanted instead of what the documentation and req docs were interpreted as saying. It's iterative so course corrections can come quickly as-needed and you won't hand the customer software at the end that doesn't do what they actually wanted.
It all depends on the level of change as well. Agile, by design, is supposed to have constant product demos throughout the development process. The customers should always know what is being built, and the changes should come in little bits after each demo instead of a massive turnaround near the end.
I've done nothing but proper agile for years now, and even when it's done perfectly a massive about face on a project will kill pretty much anything....agile or not.
Agile tends to avoid game-changing changes at the last minute because the customer can watch the product evolve and can provide proper feedback along the way. It also puts a lot of emphasis on business value vs. wild desire.
Yeah, they weren't practicing agile. They may have called it agile, but that's not how the process is supposed to work. Sometimes estimates are wrong, and that's just a fact of life as a developer. If you were fired because a task took longer than the estimate, they should have fired the project manager instead.
You unintentionally hit on an important point. The moment that politicians start losing "something of value" because of their failure to pass good legislation on net neutrality, is the moment they start pushing said legislation through. The only reason net neutrality hasn't been set in stone is because politicians haven't yet seen the danger of not passing it. When they suddenly can't use some service or access a set of sites they want, their tune will change significantly.
People yammered the same crap 10 years ago when the digital music transition was in its infancy. It would be highly naive to think that books aren't going to end up as digital-only in a couple decades or less.
I can't see that thing filling up in 20 years. More and more books are being only released in digital format. In 10 years time, I'd hope that easily half of all books were digital only, and tens years past that I'd hope that nearly all books were digital. They're probably going to need to start investing in some snazzy super redundant storage servers instead.
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Are you standing up to it in your own country? Yeah, didn't think so.
It seems like it must be some nonsensical knee jerk response for the sake of security or some crap. Seems like a typical blind bureaucratic action or something...
If you spend a few more bucks on your point and shoot, you can get pretty close to the same quality as a DSLR.
precisely. While i agree that measures definitely need to be taken, this one is just asinine.
I don't think it's really about cost anymore. I think it's about the ridiculous amount of paper every year going to print these things that I, and most other Americans, stick squarely in the trash. No one is seeing the advertising anymore, and most of these things are just tossed, unopened.
Not intended != Not suitable.
Seeing as libreoffice is just a fork of openoffice (they're probably almost identical in code right now), you can probably rely on it just as much as openoffice now, and possibly even more in the future.
Yeah, I love seeing a mid-70's couple being patted down and wanded in the airport. Because, yaknow, my geriatric gramma is definitely the terrorist type.
The TSA is completely ineffective as a security force. How many times has the TSA actually found something that prevented an in-air attack? How many times have their "security protocols" been embarrassed? I'd wager there's a LOT more in the latter department.
If terrorists attacked passenger trains on a regular basis the casualties would be orders of magnitude higher....yet there's almost no security at train stations.
The problem with organizations like the TSA is that they turn into "V for Vendetta." All in the names of "Safety" and "Security." BS, I call it. The last thing the TSA is concerned with is your safety.
I'll take a little more risk over a loss of freedom and a trashed constitution any day.
The OP never stated that he was only talking about closed-source software....
Not at all. I just wanted to preempt the MS-specific bashing.
I won't argue with you. I was just stating what was the case. For the record: I'm in agreement with you.
You could always root/jailbreak your android/iphone and disable the kill switch.
If people don't like the platform, they don't have to use it (yet).
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_activates_android_kill_switch_zaps_useless_apps.php
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10010070-37.html
Both Android and the iPhone have kill switches as well.
Google has actually used theirs.
The point of agile is not to be "flexible." The most successful Agile teams are extremely disciplined and follow very strict guidelines for development. Anyone who has gone through any proper Agile/Scrum training will tell you that if you're not very strict and disciplined, the process can fail just as easily as any other methodology.
The point of agile is to cut the pointless crap out of development, and hand the customer what they ACTUALLY wanted instead of what the documentation and req docs were interpreted as saying. It's iterative so course corrections can come quickly as-needed and you won't hand the customer software at the end that doesn't do what they actually wanted.
It all depends on the level of change as well. Agile, by design, is supposed to have constant product demos throughout the development process. The customers should always know what is being built, and the changes should come in little bits after each demo instead of a massive turnaround near the end.
I've done nothing but proper agile for years now, and even when it's done perfectly a massive about face on a project will kill pretty much anything....agile or not.
Agile tends to avoid game-changing changes at the last minute because the customer can watch the product evolve and can provide proper feedback along the way. It also puts a lot of emphasis on business value vs. wild desire.
Yeah, they weren't practicing agile. They may have called it agile, but that's not how the process is supposed to work. Sometimes estimates are wrong, and that's just a fact of life as a developer. If you were fired because a task took longer than the estimate, they should have fired the project manager instead.
I had a radio stolen once. They broke the passenger window, broke some of the door trim, stole the radio, and broke some of the dash trim....
They caused $1k of damage for a cheap $90, 6 year old, after market radio.
You unintentionally hit on an important point. The moment that politicians start losing "something of value" because of their failure to pass good legislation on net neutrality, is the moment they start pushing said legislation through. The only reason net neutrality hasn't been set in stone is because politicians haven't yet seen the danger of not passing it. When they suddenly can't use some service or access a set of sites they want, their tune will change significantly.
Grrr! You have just stolen many-a-geek's thunder, my friend.
If you want to count that as a victory, you go right ahead. ;-)
People yammered the same crap 10 years ago when the digital music transition was in its infancy. It would be highly naive to think that books aren't going to end up as digital-only in a couple decades or less.
EVERY artist started releasing digital copies while ALSO releasing physical media.
People said the same thing about CDs once.
I can't see that thing filling up in 20 years. More and more books are being only released in digital format. In 10 years time, I'd hope that easily half of all books were digital only, and tens years past that I'd hope that nearly all books were digital. They're probably going to need to start investing in some snazzy super redundant storage servers instead.
Yeah, I've heard of ambulance fees and junk like that. That seems to be pretty standard.