Any driverless train I've been on (and that would be many) always have manual control panels at either end, albeit covered and locked. But if someone needs to operate it manually, they can.
Having to worry about who's going to shoot you or mug you doesn't count as living well for those who don't have their heads up their asses. Try coming out for air and see what you've been missing.
PMP just means you know how to pass their certification tests and paid them money to put that beside your name. HR departments are full of lame asses who are too incompetent to find candidates based on their CVs (and how to weed out bullshit CVs) so just hire people who can pass the PMP examine. PMP doesn't mean they can competently manage a project.
Owning the system doesn't mean having to hire or do all the support yourself, nor custom coding it. It means owning it. You know what you bought. You are responsible for what you bought. You manage what you bought. You've done the research on what you bought and bought the right thing. You manage the implementation and documentation of the implementation. You document the expected system behaviour integration points and make sure that's what happens by system and user acceptance testing before you agree to final payment.
You DON'T just fork over $US300,000,000.00 to a vendor and just believe them. Owning the system means being responsible for what is being installed and not abdicating that responsibility onto a vendor who has other motivations. Like the company's bottom line. Even if it had worked, if you don't own your own system you end up buying shit you don't need or is kludgey and hard to modify in the future without said vendor (tightly coupled rather than loosely coupled in design vernacular), that is, they've stuck an umbrella up your ass and opened it so now they're never getting out and you have to rely on them for everything from now on. Brutal charges if you want to sub out one of their sub systems for another. etc etc etc.
This is what happens when a customer doesn't want to own the system they are buying. Like a lot of places they probably had MBAs at the top who took the whole "not our core competency" thing too far. Yet again. Sure hire a vendor or vendors. But Own The Fucking System. Don't just let the vendors do what they want. It is a licence to push out shit with no oversight. I don't know for certain that this was the case here but that would be my guess.
Oracle was hired to implement the system and are of course software vendors. Even if it would mean fitting a square peg to a round hole, they'll try to use an all Oracle solution. This was a big enough project that the project management and architecture teams could have been separate from the software vendors. They almost always should be. Them and systems analysts should have been able to keep things in line if it wasn't all run by Oracle. If the implementation team was independent, I think it more likely they would use the right tools for the job. Blame the PHBs in Oregon for hiring Oracle. This should serve as a cautionary tale (which of course will be ignored).
I didn't see that show. But he started out in engineering. Looking it up on Wikipedia, it looks like he was already working at Boeing when they asked him to do some sketches on Almost Live.
Given their pay, royalties, and their appearance fees at just about any geek convention they wanted to go to (and probably still can for a while)... if they managed their money properly, they're probably set for life. Or would be in terms of what average folks try for.
I think they put Kerri and Tori on for personality reasons. And it worked for a good long while. Grant was probably because they actually needed a real engineer on the show to help build things, so why not put him on the air too. Bill Nye started as a Mechanical Engineer and studied at Cornell. One of his professors was Carl Sagan. He worked at Boeing before.
I thought the NSA said the use of meta data was not too intrusive. That's sarcasm... of course it can be, most on Slashdot knows that. But maybe this is a good wake up for the average person on what accessing meta data can do. The problem would be explaining what shared memory is.:)
And he doesn't have nuclear weapons or expansionist plans. So while he might be working on a totalitarian state very similar to the USSR, no one around him needs to worry. Good to know his daughter will take over after him too. Those tzars! Keep it in the family, that's the royal way. It's all good. Thanks for clarifying that for us.
It doesn't cost anything really to ship software or service support / customer support. If the wages are even a bit lower I would suspect that a lot of those jobs will stay offshore. Some might come back because it is can be more hassle than it is worth resulting in bad product when using offshore programmers. Then again, it is the MBAs that often make the offshoring decisions, so who knows what their tiny little brains will come up with.
Not sure how the Evolution email client is doing. But I think the part of Outlook that most overlook is the Exchange server. That is what keeps all the meetings and other crap synchronized. So it takes more than just the client. I personally don't know of any open source email servers that have the range of Outlook/Exchange (above email itself). If there is something like that, someone let me know. I'd be interested to check it out.
Missed the market shift? No, they pulled a Novell. They got too big for their britches and assumed because they were number one, they could dictate how things should be. They stopped innovating and became relatively stagnant. Meanwhile others went around them and delivered stuff that the market wanted and before they knew it, they weren't number one any more. I call anything like this Novell Syndrome.
In downtown Toronto (city is about 2.5 million, metro around 5.6 million), there are a huge numbers of families and schools. The students there are just as smart as anywhere else in the country. Crime is low. Of that gang crime that is there, it is of the variety imported from the U.S. along with the guns. And most of that is not in the down town.
When you give everyone guns they will find someone to shoot. And if you listen to the NRA, then you know that just isn't true. So your statement can't be true either.
Of the top ten States in terms of strictest gun laws, 7 have the lowest number of gun deaths. Transport of guns across state lines hamper efforts. Most if not all illegal guns in Canada, guns in the hands of criminals, come from America.
Thank goodness you Americans can carry guns so you're safer. We can't carry guns up here and, hey that's funny, I can walk almost anywhere here any time.
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Unless they pass a rule that you still need to know how to drive a car without the computer.
Any driverless train I've been on (and that would be many) always have manual control panels at either end, albeit covered and locked. But if someone needs to operate it manually, they can.
Netbeans is better. It does all that out of the box, without needing so many plugins. [ducks and waits for the fallout]
Having to worry about who's going to shoot you or mug you doesn't count as living well for those who don't have their heads up their asses. Try coming out for air and see what you've been missing.
PMP just means you know how to pass their certification tests and paid them money to put that beside your name. HR departments are full of lame asses who are too incompetent to find candidates based on their CVs (and how to weed out bullshit CVs) so just hire people who can pass the PMP examine. PMP doesn't mean they can competently manage a project.
Owning the system doesn't mean having to hire or do all the support yourself, nor custom coding it. It means owning it. You know what you bought. You are responsible for what you bought. You manage what you bought. You've done the research on what you bought and bought the right thing. You manage the implementation and documentation of the implementation. You document the expected system behaviour integration points and make sure that's what happens by system and user acceptance testing before you agree to final payment.
You DON'T just fork over $US300,000,000.00 to a vendor and just believe them. Owning the system means being responsible for what is being installed and not abdicating that responsibility onto a vendor who has other motivations. Like the company's bottom line. Even if it had worked, if you don't own your own system you end up buying shit you don't need or is kludgey and hard to modify in the future without said vendor (tightly coupled rather than loosely coupled in design vernacular), that is, they've stuck an umbrella up your ass and opened it so now they're never getting out and you have to rely on them for everything from now on. Brutal charges if you want to sub out one of their sub systems for another. etc etc etc.
So you just confirmed my theory.
This is what happens when a customer doesn't want to own the system they are buying. Like a lot of places they probably had MBAs at the top who took the whole "not our core competency" thing too far. Yet again. Sure hire a vendor or vendors. But Own The Fucking System. Don't just let the vendors do what they want. It is a licence to push out shit with no oversight. I don't know for certain that this was the case here but that would be my guess.
Oracle was hired to implement the system and are of course software vendors. Even if it would mean fitting a square peg to a round hole, they'll try to use an all Oracle solution. This was a big enough project that the project management and architecture teams could have been separate from the software vendors. They almost always should be. Them and systems analysts should have been able to keep things in line if it wasn't all run by Oracle. If the implementation team was independent, I think it more likely they would use the right tools for the job. Blame the PHBs in Oregon for hiring Oracle. This should serve as a cautionary tale (which of course will be ignored).
I didn't see that show. But he started out in engineering. Looking it up on Wikipedia, it looks like he was already working at Boeing when they asked him to do some sketches on Almost Live.
Given their pay, royalties, and their appearance fees at just about any geek convention they wanted to go to (and probably still can for a while)... if they managed their money properly, they're probably set for life. Or would be in terms of what average folks try for.
I think they put Kerri and Tori on for personality reasons. And it worked for a good long while. Grant was probably because they actually needed a real engineer on the show to help build things, so why not put him on the air too. Bill Nye started as a Mechanical Engineer and studied at Cornell. One of his professors was Carl Sagan. He worked at Boeing before.
I thought the NSA said the use of meta data was not too intrusive. That's sarcasm... of course it can be, most on Slashdot knows that. But maybe this is a good wake up for the average person on what accessing meta data can do. The problem would be explaining what shared memory is. :)
And he doesn't have nuclear weapons or expansionist plans. So while he might be working on a totalitarian state very similar to the USSR, no one around him needs to worry. Good to know his daughter will take over after him too. Those tzars! Keep it in the family, that's the royal way. It's all good. Thanks for clarifying that for us.
Government granted monopolies. How does this differ in practice to the current industry created cartels?
It doesn't cost anything really to ship software or service support / customer support. If the wages are even a bit lower I would suspect that a lot of those jobs will stay offshore. Some might come back because it is can be more hassle than it is worth resulting in bad product when using offshore programmers. Then again, it is the MBAs that often make the offshoring decisions, so who knows what their tiny little brains will come up with.
How about Chinese factories in Africa... for a twist?
Nutrient pollution causes dead zones.
Are they skinny because they have a tapeworm? If so, it really should work.
Not sure how the Evolution email client is doing. But I think the part of Outlook that most overlook is the Exchange server. That is what keeps all the meetings and other crap synchronized. So it takes more than just the client. I personally don't know of any open source email servers that have the range of Outlook/Exchange (above email itself). If there is something like that, someone let me know. I'd be interested to check it out.
Missed the market shift? No, they pulled a Novell. They got too big for their britches and assumed because they were number one, they could dictate how things should be. They stopped innovating and became relatively stagnant. Meanwhile others went around them and delivered stuff that the market wanted and before they knew it, they weren't number one any more. I call anything like this Novell Syndrome.
1) They still get an out of office reply which likely has an alternate contact person.
2) Don't really need a second point.
In downtown Toronto (city is about 2.5 million, metro around 5.6 million), there are a huge numbers of families and schools. The students there are just as smart as anywhere else in the country. Crime is low. Of that gang crime that is there, it is of the variety imported from the U.S. along with the guns. And most of that is not in the down town.
When you give everyone guns they will find someone to shoot. And if you listen to the NRA, then you know that just isn't true. So your statement can't be true either.
Of the top ten States in terms of strictest gun laws, 7 have the lowest number of gun deaths. Transport of guns across state lines hamper efforts. Most if not all illegal guns in Canada, guns in the hands of criminals, come from America.
Thank goodness you Americans can carry guns so you're safer. We can't carry guns up here and, hey that's funny, I can walk almost anywhere here any time.