Yes, everything had to be built to be used in conjunction with the shuttle and then the total number of shuttle fights has been curtailed so much. This has really put many space programs in an impossible situation.
Nope, as NASA has become a bunch of scared old folks basically. Every mission they do has to follow a set of safety standards, among them the fact that the shuttle has to have the option of evacuating to the international space station. Hubble's orbit makes this impossible, thus no direct resque missions.
Well, there are defences, All coming down to control.
You should have probably implemented some sort of moderation system and if the situation gets bad a registration system.
In short, some sort of control, be it by the community or by picked moderators.
Having read the article have to say that most of what is said is correct and unfortunately true.
The only part that I really disagree with is the first point
1. Most software fails because it is designed to fail
By the quite long experience the real reason why projects fail is much simpler: STUPIDITY
Be that stupidity of those who defined the project, stupidity by those implementing, stupidity by the management, stupidity by the client, stupidity by subcontractors, stupidity by equipment providers, stupidity by...
A few comments on the valid points: + Linux took off mainly because of shitty x86 platform support and pricing from Sun and other UNIX vendors
This is very much true, the status of the UNIX:es for so long was what gave space for Linux to grow to what it is now.
+ Solaris is a technically superior Unix kernel to Linux and always has been
Traditionally been, very true, technically superior now is more depatable, but in any case today the differences are more that one is better at one thing and other at other.
One of the real weaknesses of Solaris is made very clear even in SUN:s own marketing where they say say that Solaris is guaranteed to run on over 275 Systems. That is, the driver support is still quite limited.
I mean, even Linux is very limited in driver support and one has to be carefull in buying hardware, but Solaris is way behind.
On the other hand features like Dtrace are things that Solaris is ahead in.
Actually this might help in reducing spam if properly implemented.
As atleast all the "real" revices are programmabel, you just give a voice menu that a human can easily select past.
"You have called the residence of (insert name), the calls here are subject to licence agreemennt, Press 1 to accept the lisence, press 2 to listen to the lisence or hang up."
On 1 it connects.
on 2 it says something like "This is a legal agreement between you, the caller and (insert name), the called party. if you are trying to sell a product or a service, you must provide full company and personal details and to present the product truthfully. You will be billed 20 Dollars a minute for the call. Any lie or omission of fact on your part will result in a 500 dollar fee for for each such instance. By continuing this call you are accepting these conditions. if you do not jave the authority to accept contracts by phone, hang up now." And then continue about everything else you can think of..
Thus everyone can just press 1 to continue and the phone will ring as normal, but try getting a spam to do that.. and all the telemarketeers are promising to pay you 20 dollars a minute to listen to them..:)
Well, our quite Small( less than 250 employees) but international(18 countries) company is allready circumventing the POTS systems a lot. We actually have soft PBX in all our locations and thus allow us to talk within the organisation without charges. Also the callout rules use a combination of local calling from nearest office and VOIP terminations.
Recently we embarked on a trial project to connect directly to some of the people we do a lot of business with. We sent out an inquiry about 2 months ago to around 100-120 companies and if I am correct(not directly involved with day to day on this) allready few (way below 10) dial rules go directly to some other company's PBXs bypassing the POTS.
Well, our quite Small(
Recently we embarked on a trial project to connect directly to some of the people we do a lot of business with. We sent out an inquiry about 2 months ago to around 100-120 companies and if I am correct(not directly involved with day to day on this) allready few (10) dial rules go directly to some other company's PBXs bypassing the POTS.
oh, I do remeber lotus 1-2-3
But in order to ot make my post too long, I left out things that happened before that.
By the time lotus had stopped developping (for all practical purposes) and then excel was in strong shape, that is when this thing happened.
ofcourse we could go back to times before lotus too.. (uuh digging memory.. memory recall failied.. page lost... multiplan?):)
Actually excel was the original engine that got microsoft office to it's dominant position. It was (and probably is) the best spreadsheet around.
I remeber back when people still bought their office apps separately and Excel was the superior thing.
It was then that microsoft started pushing the office concept with the pricing where you could get the whole office package for about one and half times the excel price, thus people started going for it, though usually word was seen as not so good solution, but a "good enough" one.
it is not about only instant gratification. It is how you use your time. I happen to enjoy games, but I do not have the time to play full time like some people seem to. Since too many of these online games seem to ge catering to the "allways logged in" crowd, I do not think I would advance in a speed I found fast enough, because they have to build it for "slow" advancement. My solution is to not play them, but if I did play, I might be intrested in some "reasonably" priced things to help me along, as they would help my enjoyment. It is basically the same reason I pay a maid to clean the house instead of doing it myself.
ofcourse, in every case I had to think instead of putting the question directly to google. For example the easy query resulting in correct answer for first question is "1904 gundal ship" nothing fancier needed..
Well, when I learned history theexact dates ans such were not my forte. I did actually answer an essay that composed a full test with only one year.. and that wrong. But still got 5+ of 6 points for the proper analysis of how the events went and what they caused. I think such thing is much more important that trivia type questions as given above.
Funny how google seems to be my first thought for finding these..
And true enough quickly looking at the first section I was able to find answers to 9 withing few minutes... The last one would require probably few more minutes..
In a way it is strange how much information is searchable... and how the action of searching the web has taken over. Back when younger we were supposed to LEARN the history...:)
Allready the quite low efficiency of traditional solar cells makes their use in many applications too cumbersome, so the fact that these are flexible is not likely to help with the lower efficiency as the surface area will start to get very big.
well the problem is that in some cases the inforamtion could be quite well protected by permissions on the PC, but a process running with system rights could access it and if it had a hole...
I would think there might or might not be paralells in that to the linux thing. Once upon a time there were big expesive unix computers, today replaced by commonity hardware in most cases, but still hanging on in others. So maybe in future: Once upon the time there was Cisco, today replaced by commonity hardware in most cases, but still hanging on...
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Yes, everything had to be built to be used in conjunction with the shuttle and then the total number of shuttle fights has been curtailed so much. This has really put many space programs in an impossible situation.
The number of people who died in pioneering flight are extremly many, compared to those dying of space flight.
Unfortunately to advance something you have to take risks, calculated ones, but risks nevertheless.
NASA as organisation is not currently capable of that.
Thus the materials are so much heavier than corresponding would be today an so on.
The Way NASA has been trying to keep this program alive by more clue is likely to end in further embarassments.
Too bad there is not enough focus to do great things, instead NASA has just become another CYA organisation.
Nope, as NASA has become a bunch of scared old folks basically. Every mission they do has to follow a set of safety standards, among them the fact that the shuttle has to have the option of evacuating to the international space station. Hubble's orbit makes this impossible, thus no direct resque missions.
Well, there are defences, All coming down to control. You should have probably implemented some sort of moderation system and if the situation gets bad a registration system. In short, some sort of control, be it by the community or by picked moderators.
well, in many cases people have these things called maintenance agreemenents or volume licensing. These usually involve yearly payments of some sort.
well, microsoft gives nice driving instructions for Europeans atleast: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/24/msn_drivin g_instructions/
The only part that I really disagree with is the first point 1. Most software fails because it is designed to fail
By the quite long experience the real reason why projects fail is much simpler: STUPIDITY
Be that stupidity of those who defined the project, stupidity by those implementing, stupidity by the management, stupidity by the client, stupidity by subcontractors, stupidity by equipment providers, stupidity by...
I am sure you get the point.
A few comments on the valid points:
+ Linux took off mainly because of shitty x86 platform support and pricing from Sun and other UNIX vendors
This is very much true, the status of the UNIX:es for so long was what gave space for Linux to grow to what it is now.
+ Solaris is a technically superior Unix kernel to Linux and always has been
Traditionally been, very true, technically superior now is more depatable, but in any case today the differences are more that one is better at one thing and other at other.
One of the real weaknesses of Solaris is made very clear even in SUN:s own marketing where they say say that Solaris is guaranteed to run on over 275 Systems. That is, the driver support is still quite limited.
I mean, even Linux is very limited in driver support and one has to be carefull in buying hardware, but Solaris is way behind.
On the other hand features like Dtrace are things that Solaris is ahead in.
As atleast all the "real" revices are programmabel, you just give a voice menu that a human can easily select past.
"You have called the residence of (insert name), the calls here are subject to licence agreemennt, Press 1 to accept the lisence, press 2 to listen to the lisence or hang up."
On 1 it connects.
on 2 it says something like "This is a legal agreement between you, the caller and (insert name), the called party. if you are trying to sell a product or a service, you must provide full company and personal details and to present the product truthfully. You will be billed 20 Dollars a minute for the call. Any lie or omission of fact on your part will result in a 500 dollar fee for for each such instance. By continuing this call you are accepting these conditions. if you do not jave the authority to accept contracts by phone, hang up now." And then continue about everything else you can think of..
Thus everyone can just press 1 to continue and the phone will ring as normal, but try getting a spam to do that.. and all the telemarketeers are promising to pay you 20 dollars a minute to listen to them.. :)
Well, our quite Small( less than 250 employees) but international(18 countries) company is allready circumventing the POTS systems a lot. We actually have soft PBX in all our locations and thus allow us to talk within the organisation without charges. Also the callout rules use a combination of local calling from nearest office and VOIP terminations.
Recently we embarked on a trial project to connect directly to some of the people we do a lot of business with. We sent out an inquiry about 2 months ago to around 100-120 companies and if I am correct(not directly involved with day to day on this) allready few (way below 10) dial rules go directly to some other company's PBXs bypassing the POTS.
Well, our quite Small( Recently we embarked on a trial project to connect directly to some of the people we do a lot of business with. We sent out an inquiry about 2 months ago to around 100-120 companies and if I am correct(not directly involved with day to day on this) allready few (10) dial rules go directly to some other company's PBXs bypassing the POTS.
and taking your cell phone to a movie theater could get you a long jail term in California.
oh, I do remeber lotus 1-2-3 But in order to ot make my post too long, I left out things that happened before that. By the time lotus had stopped developping (for all practical purposes) and then excel was in strong shape, that is when this thing happened. ofcourse we could go back to times before lotus too.. (uuh digging memory.. memory recall failied.. page lost... multiplan?) :)
I remeber back when people still bought their office apps separately and Excel was the superior thing.
It was then that microsoft started pushing the office concept with the pricing where you could get the whole office package for about one and half times the excel price, thus people started going for it, though usually word was seen as not so good solution, but a "good enough" one.
it is not about only instant gratification. It is how you use your time. I happen to enjoy games, but I do not have the time to play full time like some people seem to. Since too many of these online games seem to ge catering to the "allways logged in" crowd, I do not think I would advance in a speed I found fast enough, because they have to build it for "slow" advancement. My solution is to not play them, but if I did play, I might be intrested in some "reasonably" priced things to help me along, as they would help my enjoyment. It is basically the same reason I pay a maid to clean the house instead of doing it myself.
As in current society the "quick answers" type thing is seen as more valuable than actual understand in WAY too many cases.
ofcourse, in every case I had to think instead of putting the question directly to google. For example the easy query resulting in correct answer for first question is "1904 gundal ship" nothing fancier needed..
Correct.. the right answer is "the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle" or same thing said in some other way.
Well, when I learned history theexact dates ans such were not my forte. I did actually answer an essay that composed a full test with only one year.. and that wrong. But still got 5+ of 6 points for the proper analysis of how the events went and what they caused. I think such thing is much more important that trivia type questions as given above.
And true enough quickly looking at the first section I was able to find answers to 9 withing few minutes... The last one would require probably few more minutes..
In a way it is strange how much information is searchable... and how the action of searching the web has taken over. Back when younger we were supposed to LEARN the history...:)
Allready the quite low efficiency of traditional solar cells makes their use in many applications too cumbersome, so the fact that these are flexible is not likely to help with the lower efficiency as the surface area will start to get very big.
well the problem is that in some cases the inforamtion could be quite well protected by permissions on the PC, but a process running with system rights could access it and if it had a hole...
yes, but that is what people said about high end computers too.. and yet today most "supercomputers" today are clusters of close to normal computers.
I would think there might or might not be paralells in that to the linux thing. Once upon a time there were big expesive unix computers, today replaced by commonity hardware in most cases, but still hanging on in others. So maybe in future: Once upon the time there was Cisco, today replaced by commonity hardware in most cases, but still hanging on...