Here's a only partly contrived example based on something I witnessed once in an order management system: Consider a search service, a datawarehouse server, an LDAP system, and a messaging system that all depend on aspects of a user definition. However, LDAP doesn't give a hoot about any of the others, and the SSO team does their thing in a relative vacuum. They work on LDAP, and have what they think is their own personal attribute in LDAP, let's call it a companyUserId. They've used this ID as a username for a while, and the datawarehouse folks, seeing it, used it in reports 6 months ago. The messaging system, after it was created, in a 100% Agile way, decided to use these usernames as an abstraction for the user. The SSO folks decided that the ID was badly designed, doesn't meet their need for rapid indexing, and convert them all to numbers. Or, the messaging folks decide to allow users to set those usernames to whatever they want, and don't do a uniqueness test. There's so many ways that things can be tested as components and work perfectly well but go to shit in a complex system if there's not a cohesive design in place and it's managed by someone. And before you go "SCRUM will solve all this" no it won't. There were 100s involved in this development effort.
It is a dirty little secret that complex enterprise solution projects fail more than half the time, often to the tune of 8 figures.
Agile won't save you from failure in these cases. Complex enterprise solutions by their nature require significant effort to get even the basic scaffolding up, and by the time they get to a scale where certain classes of problems become evident, you've already sunk quite a bit into the project. This isn't moving GUI widget from the left corner to the middle and something Agile is good at, but changing a data structure that is layered throughout 6 sets of services, for instance, one or two that the modeler may not even be aware of. This is where enterprise and data architects live and earn their pay, or fail and go to management to repeat their failures.
Man, did 1 AC post all 3 in an effort to start a negative diatribe?
I downloaded the installer from GoG, so I can install as many times as I want. The Steam one isn't an installer. So, you have your game directories backed up - yay for you. You're still running from the original install. Pay attention and read the GPP for all that it says. And do try to "install" that backup to a new PC without Steam.
Note, I do have some Steam stuff, but if I can get it on GoG vs Steam, GoG always FTW. Hell, I'll get it on GoG even if I have it on Steam, because then I can make an actual physical copy that is installable whenever and wherever I want.
What does it matter when at the end of the day a suitcase full of cash and a few dozen lobbyists will trump every single anti-monopoly law we have in existence.
You didn't use systemd either : it has step by step execution, debug option which is very verbose, emergency shell, debug shell (on vt9), all of this off the top of my head.
Oh my, I want to step through 3000 steps manually before I get to my program of interest, and I also want to see 1000 lines of spurious crap for things I don't care about.
Besides, systemd is not based on Unix,... that's why portability of systemd to other Unix was thrown away.
That sound you hear is a collective sigh of relief mingled with drives spinning up as new downloads of various Unix flavors start in earnest.
You might want to read their mission statement and the referenced supporting legal points. You'll note "foreign signals" are the only mentioned monitored signals by law. There are no domestic provisions at all. What can I do with my bonus points?
So why don't you write them a prescription for what they *actually* need. I'm guessing you're a certified doctor because you know what they should and shouldn't be on.
I did, and dropping 2 meds out of 19 made this person a whole lot better. Another dropped to just 1 med and has been doing great the past 5 years. Granted, it was me pressuring them to question their doctors and coordinate the total medicinal intake, but the improvements were worth fighting the stubbornly clung to beliefs. In the current system, under Medicare, these folks see as many as 10 different doctors in one case, each one prescribing stuff. It is worth questioning each doctor on the specifics of the prescription and the effects in aggregate with all other meds.
I wonder which generation would demonstrate the most ignorance on the Snowden affair, if you did that?
I'd vote the 60+ age group. Just ask your parents (assuming they're over 60) And I would not be shocked if the ignorance increases exponentially with age past 60, as that group is heavily targeted by political marketeers with some truly ridiculous information.
online connectivity has given the shrill elements of the left an outsized presence.
You made so many good points, until this last sentence. Online connectivity has given the extremists an outsized presence, and is fueling a "with me or against me" culture, where the extremely large majority actually doesn't really give a damn but tends to support one of the 2 artificial poles presented because of some secondary issue they maybe do care about. Hence you get the "Pro-Life/Death Penalty" group on one side, and the "Pro-Choice/Anti-Death Penalty" group on the other. There's no real "Pro-Life/Anti-Death Penalty" or "Pro-Choice/Death Penalty" groups of note, because the polemic stance of the 2 parties prevents it even though those 2 stances may each be larger than the official ones, albeit not as strongly held.
Nixon was involved in a campaign of spying on political rivals and running a ring for breaking and entering, financed by campaign funds, for personal gain.
Your entire premise is wrong - we don't guess, only observe. Guessing is junk science. Observation is "this is not like the others" and then we begin to wonder why.
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It's also why they are trying to kill solar.
Agile doesn't
You could have stopped there, because that sums it up nicely.
Here's a only partly contrived example based on something I witnessed once in an order management system: Consider a search service, a datawarehouse server, an LDAP system, and a messaging system that all depend on aspects of a user definition. However, LDAP doesn't give a hoot about any of the others, and the SSO team does their thing in a relative vacuum. They work on LDAP, and have what they think is their own personal attribute in LDAP, let's call it a companyUserId. They've used this ID as a username for a while, and the datawarehouse folks, seeing it, used it in reports 6 months ago. The messaging system, after it was created, in a 100% Agile way, decided to use these usernames as an abstraction for the user. The SSO folks decided that the ID was badly designed, doesn't meet their need for rapid indexing, and convert them all to numbers. Or, the messaging folks decide to allow users to set those usernames to whatever they want, and don't do a uniqueness test. There's so many ways that things can be tested as components and work perfectly well but go to shit in a complex system if there's not a cohesive design in place and it's managed by someone. And before you go "SCRUM will solve all this" no it won't. There were 100s involved in this development effort.
It is a dirty little secret that complex enterprise solution projects fail more than half the time, often to the tune of 8 figures.
Agile won't save you from failure in these cases. Complex enterprise solutions by their nature require significant effort to get even the basic scaffolding up, and by the time they get to a scale where certain classes of problems become evident, you've already sunk quite a bit into the project. This isn't moving GUI widget from the left corner to the middle and something Agile is good at, but changing a data structure that is layered throughout 6 sets of services, for instance, one or two that the modeler may not even be aware of. This is where enterprise and data architects live and earn their pay, or fail and go to management to repeat their failures.
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Science without religion is science. Religion is blind.
Slick.. :)
So it's highly like the iPhone 6S / 7 will be made with this instead of Gorilla glass?
I was thinking "Wanted'. I like 5th Element better.
Or even "The Thaw", still far better than AvP.
And it's "metre" not "meter" .. another Americansism which is incorrect.
Do you pronounce it "ter" (tar with an e) or "tre" (tree with a short 'e')? My guess is the british just can't spell. ;)
Man, did 1 AC post all 3 in an effort to start a negative diatribe?
I downloaded the installer from GoG, so I can install as many times as I want. The Steam one isn't an installer. So, you have your game directories backed up - yay for you. You're still running from the original install. Pay attention and read the GPP for all that it says. And do try to "install" that backup to a new PC without Steam.
Note, I do have some Steam stuff, but if I can get it on GoG vs Steam, GoG always FTW. Hell, I'll get it on GoG even if I have it on Steam, because then I can make an actual physical copy that is installable whenever and wherever I want.
No Steam, no backups. Try installing that on a new PC without Steam.
Crap, my disk 4 of The Humans won't read....
What does it matter when at the end of the day a suitcase full of cash and a few dozen lobbyists will trump every single anti-monopoly law we have in existence.
So Comcast is buying TWC?
Steam goes away, or changes their policies, or stops supporting this game. Your machine crashes. What then?
To most slashdotters it remains only a theory
Most slashdotters will swear they're only 2 dimensional!
"Educated"?
You didn't use systemd either : it has step by step execution, debug option which is very verbose, emergency shell, debug shell (on vt9), all of this off the top of my head.
Oh my, I want to step through 3000 steps manually before I get to my program of interest, and I also want to see 1000 lines of spurious crap for things I don't care about.
Besides, systemd is not based on Unix, ... that's why portability of systemd to other Unix was thrown away.
That sound you hear is a collective sigh of relief mingled with drives spinning up as new downloads of various Unix flavors start in earnest.
You might want to read their mission statement and the referenced supporting legal points. You'll note "foreign signals" are the only mentioned monitored signals by law. There are no domestic provisions at all. What can I do with my bonus points?
So why don't you write them a prescription for what they *actually* need. I'm guessing you're a certified doctor because you know what they should and shouldn't be on.
I did, and dropping 2 meds out of 19 made this person a whole lot better. Another dropped to just 1 med and has been doing great the past 5 years. Granted, it was me pressuring them to question their doctors and coordinate the total medicinal intake, but the improvements were worth fighting the stubbornly clung to beliefs. In the current system, under Medicare, these folks see as many as 10 different doctors in one case, each one prescribing stuff. It is worth questioning each doctor on the specifics of the prescription and the effects in aggregate with all other meds.
I wonder which generation would demonstrate the most ignorance on the Snowden affair, if you did that?
I'd vote the 60+ age group. Just ask your parents (assuming they're over 60) And I would not be shocked if the ignorance increases exponentially with age past 60, as that group is heavily targeted by political marketeers with some truly ridiculous information.
online connectivity has given the shrill elements of the left an outsized presence.
You made so many good points, until this last sentence. Online connectivity has given the extremists an outsized presence, and is fueling a "with me or against me" culture, where the extremely large majority actually doesn't really give a damn but tends to support one of the 2 artificial poles presented because of some secondary issue they maybe do care about. Hence you get the "Pro-Life/Death Penalty" group on one side, and the "Pro-Choice/Anti-Death Penalty" group on the other. There's no real "Pro-Life/Anti-Death Penalty" or "Pro-Choice/Death Penalty" groups of note, because the polemic stance of the 2 parties prevents it even though those 2 stances may each be larger than the official ones, albeit not as strongly held.
Troll much?
Nixon was involved in a campaign of spying on political rivals and running a ring for breaking and entering, financed by campaign funds, for personal gain.
McCarthy's witch hunts are well documented. Just because there were spies in the State Dept doesn't justify his actions.
begin (again) to guess what we're observing.
Your entire premise is wrong - we don't guess, only observe. Guessing is junk science. Observation is "this is not like the others" and then we begin to wonder why.