It is impossible to pick and choose parts of Scrum or other agile methodology without understanding 120% all the interactions between those parts. The most quoted example is write a test for the feature before writing code for the feature - if that thing is cut from Scrum, the project is doomed to fail because it make all other parts of Scrum be based on unreliable, untestable, unquantifiable foundation.
I have written a thesis about this problem - almost all project that "used agile development" methods and then failed, were trying to cut too many corners and modified a developed methodology breaking it in the process.
It is like this - even a 5 year old can use a microwave, but you should be very, very certain about your electronics and physics if you go in and start modifying your microwave (to boost power or to reduce the space it takes,...). Same with development methodologies - Scrum is a microwave, don't expect it to work safely if you remove the Faraday cage to save some space on your kitchen table.
su requires you to give a shared password to multiple administrators. With su you can not give a group of people an ability to run a certain command as a different specific user. Sudo is much simpler to the end user - they only need to remember one password. Very much a KISS.
And if any of us would have read the article before posting we would know that a typical one-line fix is right there in the article and has been commited into the kernel mainline yesterday.
I'd rather expect a patch within 4 hours (cutting functionality) and a real fix within 24-48 hours and then I would expect most big distributions to have fixed packages out in less than 5 days (linux kernel takes a while to compile). More rapid distros might even have two fixes - a fast fix within 24 hours and a real fix in less than a week after that.
See you in 10 years when gas is 20$ a gallon. If you continue the trend over the last 10 years (minus the minor dip from the great depression) taht is what the gas price will be in 10 years.
If you connect to the Internet you are an equal peer on it - you can receive and send data. You have the right to set up services just like bbc.co.uk can. If your ISP cuts you connection without a court order (a court that has jurisdiction over you), then it is a violation of net neutrality.
Traffic shaping based on the destination (or source) of the traffic is also a violation of net neutrality, traffic shaping to prioritize some protocols over others is not (unless a phone company reduces the priority of all VoIP traffic to zero).
I've read patents. They do not require any technical specificity, just a wall of legalese of the patent legalese variety. That is one of the reasons patents systems are so broken and useless.
I would assume that once the laser bean gets into the ignition chamber, it gets reflected and concentrates in a multitude of points trough the ignition chamber thus causing a multi-point ignition that would much increase the speed of combustion while not increasing the speed of explosive wave front prorogation.
Patenting knowledge is absurd. Patents are there to allow patenting of novel and non-obvious *devices* that can not be easily reverse-engineered. The society has agreed to grant a limited monopoly on creation of a novel and non-obvious device, if its inventor describes how it is made and how it works to enough detail that anyone skilled in the arts could replicate it. That is a patent.
If a device is simple enough that it can be reverse-engineered once it hits the market, there is no insetive for the society to ever grant a patent on such device.
Nowadays we can reverse-engineer almost anything, thus patents are obsolete, it just remains to change the law to reflect this simple fact of life.
Just make them monitor blood sugar levels after the procedure like the diabetics do. You only need to plan you meals with an accuracy of +- 30 days to not die anyway. Also, if you faint or are very weak, then it is probably wise to eat something. There is plenty of other signals to inform you of not eating enough well before death.
LaTeX describes the document, just like HTML describes it, but with more structure about it. What you see in a web browser is not HTML, it is a *rendering* of HTML. Different browsers render the same HTML differently, for example a mobile browser will skip stuff and reformat other stuff. In the same way there are different LaTeX renderers - some output PDF, some output HTML, some output ODF. It would be much easier to use LaTeX for the source document and then compile a pretty HTML file and a PDF file from it than to craft it in HTML or some other XML variant directly. You can have links in LaTeX that render as normal links in the HTML output. Why stress?
It is very possible to make good and usable FLOSS software - you just need a project leader who knows about usability. I find that reading and understanding Gnome HIG is a great first step.
The 'problem' is that in most cases the main programmers in FLOSS have little knowledge about HIG, while a lot of commercial software is designed by sales people, who know HIG, but have very little knowledge of programming. So the situation is that FLOSS often has great code, but bad interfaces, while commercial software often has good interfaces, but crappy code. In both cases the situation can be improved by having people from the other side join in and contribute. In commercial software that means that the manager hires some good coders, while in FLOSS side it means that users file bugs and sometimes send patches or UI mockups.
It is not an unsolvable problem, it is just an existing problem that takes effort to solve.
There is one country that fits the requirements perfectly and even exceeds them - Netherlands! Most people speak English fluently, a lot of freedom, low crime rates.
Cann't detect any latency by ear, so it is 100 ms for sure. There were bugs in ALSA earlier that caused PA to have significant latency, but with latest kernel, ALSA and PA, the latencies *should* be in single digit miliseconds.
A car chase does not an interesting movie make. The story, plot, characters, development of the characters, camera work, suspense, depth of meaning unsaid, but hinted upon, that is what makes a good movie. That is what you think about later, that is what you discuss with you friends and even strangers. If a movie makes you think, it is a good movie. A movie that permanently changes your view on life is a great movie.
This Solaris was a bit dull and plain. Read the book. Or better yet - another of Lem's books.
Learn Russian - more useful in the long term and you can still enjoy the books as Polish and Russian languages are so close that the Polish-Russian translation is mostly trivial and looses nothing in the process.
All the requirements to hold the office are checked by respective officials (and in this case also by a couple judges) a long time before elections. Any implications against that are an insult of the USA judicial system and its election officials. Very, very anti-American.
Pot on the other hand is less harmful than tobaco or alcohol and would provide a huge influx of new income to the states in addition to cutting costs for the war on drugs. The most pessimistic estimates show that legalising marijuana would bring billions to the federal budget and even more to state budgets, and this is the money that currently is fueling drug cartels and other criminal organisations, including terrorist organizations. The studies from Netherlands show that legalising pot actually decreases the total amount consumed.
Or they could use an actual database. One that is designed for performance. Like MySQL or even Oracle if they are so big. SQLite is not suited for any production deployment. It is a good database for development and, possibly, embedded work, but for anything bigger than an iPhone app you should use a real database in production.
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The thing is that half an hour a day can save a project from slip-ups that can take years to recover from.
It is impossible to pick and choose parts of Scrum or other agile methodology without understanding 120% all the interactions between those parts. The most quoted example is write a test for the feature before writing code for the feature - if that thing is cut from Scrum, the project is doomed to fail because it make all other parts of Scrum be based on unreliable, untestable, unquantifiable foundation.
I have written a thesis about this problem - almost all project that "used agile development" methods and then failed, were trying to cut too many corners and modified a developed methodology breaking it in the process.
It is like this - even a 5 year old can use a microwave, but you should be very, very certain about your electronics and physics if you go in and start modifying your microwave (to boost power or to reduce the space it takes, ...). Same with development methodologies - Scrum is a microwave, don't expect it to work safely if you remove the Faraday cage to save some space on your kitchen table.
su requires you to give a shared password to multiple administrators. With su you can not give a group of people an ability to run a certain command as a different specific user. Sudo is much simpler to the end user - they only need to remember one password. Very much a KISS.
Bank accounts that are mostly managed by Linux servers now.
And if any of us would have read the article before posting we would know that a typical one-line fix is right there in the article and has been commited into the kernel mainline yesterday.
I'd rather expect a patch within 4 hours (cutting functionality) and a real fix within 24-48 hours and then I would expect most big distributions to have fixed packages out in less than 5 days (linux kernel takes a while to compile). More rapid distros might even have two fixes - a fast fix within 24 hours and a real fix in less than a week after that.
See you in 10 years when gas is 20$ a gallon. If you continue the trend over the last 10 years (minus the minor dip from the great depression) taht is what the gas price will be in 10 years.
That is not net neutrality.
If you connect to the Internet you are an equal peer on it - you can receive and send data. You have the right to set up services just like bbc.co.uk can. If your ISP cuts you connection without a court order (a court that has jurisdiction over you), then it is a violation of net neutrality.
Traffic shaping based on the destination (or source) of the traffic is also a violation of net neutrality, traffic shaping to prioritize some protocols over others is not (unless a phone company reduces the priority of all VoIP traffic to zero).
I've read patents. They do not require any technical specificity, just a wall of legalese of the patent legalese variety. That is one of the reasons patents systems are so broken and useless.
I would assume that once the laser bean gets into the ignition chamber, it gets reflected and concentrates in a multitude of points trough the ignition chamber thus causing a multi-point ignition that would much increase the speed of combustion while not increasing the speed of explosive wave front prorogation.
Patenting knowledge is absurd. Patents are there to allow patenting of novel and non-obvious *devices* that can not be easily reverse-engineered. The society has agreed to grant a limited monopoly on creation of a novel and non-obvious device, if its inventor describes how it is made and how it works to enough detail that anyone skilled in the arts could replicate it. That is a patent.
If a device is simple enough that it can be reverse-engineered once it hits the market, there is no insetive for the society to ever grant a patent on such device.
Nowadays we can reverse-engineer almost anything, thus patents are obsolete, it just remains to change the law to reflect this simple fact of life.
Just make them monitor blood sugar levels after the procedure like the diabetics do. You only need to plan you meals with an accuracy of +- 30 days to not die anyway. Also, if you faint or are very weak, then it is probably wise to eat something. There is plenty of other signals to inform you of not eating enough well before death.
$6.5 per gallon of what?
How much does cost a gallon of liquid hydrogen?
I vote for battery technology - much cheaper.
You should be shot for that. Shot to death.
HTML does not render so well if you drop it into an image viewer.
That is why there are LaTeX renderers. Or at least LaTeX->HTML renderers.
LaTeX describes the document, just like HTML describes it, but with more structure about it. What you see in a web browser is not HTML, it is a *rendering* of HTML. Different browsers render the same HTML differently, for example a mobile browser will skip stuff and reformat other stuff. In the same way there are different LaTeX renderers - some output PDF, some output HTML, some output ODF. It would be much easier to use LaTeX for the source document and then compile a pretty HTML file and a PDF file from it than to craft it in HTML or some other XML variant directly. You can have links in LaTeX that render as normal links in the HTML output. Why stress?
Gnome HIG
It is very possible to make good and usable FLOSS software - you just need a project leader who knows about usability. I find that reading and understanding Gnome HIG is a great first step.
The 'problem' is that in most cases the main programmers in FLOSS have little knowledge about HIG, while a lot of commercial software is designed by sales people, who know HIG, but have very little knowledge of programming. So the situation is that FLOSS often has great code, but bad interfaces, while commercial software often has good interfaces, but crappy code. In both cases the situation can be improved by having people from the other side join in and contribute. In commercial software that means that the manager hires some good coders, while in FLOSS side it means that users file bugs and sometimes send patches or UI mockups.
It is not an unsolvable problem, it is just an existing problem that takes effort to solve.
There is one country that fits the requirements perfectly and even exceeds them - Netherlands! Most people speak English fluently, a lot of freedom, low crime rates.
Cann't detect any latency by ear, so it is 100 ms for sure. There were bugs in ALSA earlier that caused PA to have significant latency, but with latest kernel, ALSA and PA, the latencies *should* be in single digit miliseconds.
NILFS - http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7345/
A car chase does not an interesting movie make. The story, plot, characters, development of the characters, camera work, suspense, depth of meaning unsaid, but hinted upon, that is what makes a good movie. That is what you think about later, that is what you discuss with you friends and even strangers. If a movie makes you think, it is a good movie. A movie that permanently changes your view on life is a great movie.
This Solaris was a bit dull and plain. Read the book. Or better yet - another of Lem's books.
Learn Russian - more useful in the long term and you can still enjoy the books as Polish and Russian languages are so close that the Polish-Russian translation is mostly trivial and looses nothing in the process.
All the requirements to hold the office are checked by respective officials (and in this case also by a couple judges) a long time before elections. Any implications against that are an insult of the USA judicial system and its election officials. Very, very anti-American.
Pot on the other hand is less harmful than tobaco or alcohol and would provide a huge influx of new income to the states in addition to cutting costs for the war on drugs. The most pessimistic estimates show that legalising marijuana would bring billions to the federal budget and even more to state budgets, and this is the money that currently is fueling drug cartels and other criminal organisations, including terrorist organizations. The studies from Netherlands show that legalising pot actually decreases the total amount consumed.
Or they could use an actual database. One that is designed for performance. Like MySQL or even Oracle if they are so big. SQLite is not suited for any production deployment. It is a good database for development and, possibly, embedded work, but for anything bigger than an iPhone app you should use a real database in production.