I have some beef to pick with the article:
1. It alleges that CMM5 organizations have about 1 defect/KLOC. Having worked and knowing such organizations, I can anecdotally confirm numbers like these are fiction. CMM5 certification has more to do with greasing palms rather than any absolute defect measurement.
2. A defect rate of 0.04bugs/KLOC is not zero bugs/KLOC. The difference is infinite in magnitude if that single bug is -- kills the user.
3. Low defect rates are more often a product of poor testing, not superior development.
...but the article makes it sounds as if it is a bad thing.
Without tech, we would be reduced to killing each other for wealth, power, resources, women, etc. Now that we do have it... oh.. heh... la dee daa...
While the industry has held back the inventory of dvd-audio qualit music, I am surprised a lot of this kind of music (multi-channel, 96kHz/24bit) is not available from non-affliated (i.e. hobbyists, amateurs, i.e. real )artists on the web. Is there a conspiracy to withold this stuff or am I missing something?
More accurately, 2D with shading to give an illusion of lighting induced depth perception. Humans don't have the sensory apparatus to perceive 3D, let alone have devices in mass production to reproduce the effect.
Net, net, the future is now and it is all 2D. Not unless we get assimilated by the right kind of aliens. I, for one, welcome...
It's all true. NYT, as well as the Economist. However, what is not known is the net effect of all these factors on future progress. But as someone living in India can testify the 7% annual growth is reflected in things small and big. Roads happen to be something one encounters daily and seeing them being built to world class standards reinforces the notion that progress is being made, inspite the (presumed) 30% toll of corruption.
As far as corruption goes, here is a recent example. Apparently the only fallout of Volker report is that the Foreign Minister of India got sacked. Now of all the regimes in the world, India is the one willing to clean its house, surely some substantial progress has been made in recent times.
This is not to say that India is not full of corruption from top to the bottom. The point is that the trajectory is in the direction of better transparency and probity in public governance. That got to be good, right?
Something, alas, that is missing in the most powerful nation on the planet.
Talk about the world being a small place. I am an American living right near the IMA and have just been in Bangalore.
The alleged attack on IMA affects me directly (much harder/impossible to go to the golf course there and the nearby FRI where civilians are permitted). Although I can't imagine why any room temprature IQ terrorist would want to attack them. That place is heavily guarded. As much or more so than any US military base I have been to in the US. On special occassions, they have plenty of tanks guarding gates much smaller than themselves.
If you have been to any significant size IT organization in India, you would notice they have slavishly adopted a number of ISO (& other) certification for their processes. Consequently, most of them have a disaster recovery plan so even if their primary center is wiped out, the client assets are protected.
Additionally, large American firms have wisely minimized their risk by distributing their exposure to muliple companies.
Net net -- the apparent targets (Indian military, US clients) of these alleged terrorist had little to worry. I wouldn't even be surprised if the whole thing is fake encounter meant to boost the record of some local police official (after all no logical connection between IMA & Polaris). Nevertheless, in the process, I have been personally inconvinienced.
Insensitive bastards!
Actually, the "mistake" Nehru made was agreeing to UN mediation which eventually led to a ruling for holding a plebiscite. It was conditional on Pakistan withdrawing from the territory it had occupied. Since they didn't oblige, India had a reason not to follow through either. Hence the current impasse.
Shimla agreement came much later (conclusion of Indo-Pak '71 War) where Bhutto and Indira Gandhi hashed out the ceasefire agreement. It basically said that bygones be bygones and the whole matter will be solved by the two parties bilaterally. Indira's "mistake" was not getting more out of Bhutto even though she was the victor in the war. The story Indians are told is that Bhutto literally begged her not to insist on a black&white treaty that made him lose face politically at home. Indira apparently let him go easy since Pakistan already lost Bangladesh as a consequence of the war.
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I have some beef to pick with the article: 1. It alleges that CMM5 organizations have about 1 defect/KLOC. Having worked and knowing such organizations, I can anecdotally confirm numbers like these are fiction. CMM5 certification has more to do with greasing palms rather than any absolute defect measurement. 2. A defect rate of 0.04bugs/KLOC is not zero bugs/KLOC. The difference is infinite in magnitude if that single bug is -- kills the user. 3. Low defect rates are more often a product of poor testing, not superior development.
...but the article makes it sounds as if it is a bad thing. Without tech, we would be reduced to killing each other for wealth, power, resources, women, etc. Now that we do have it... oh.. heh... la dee daa...
While the industry has held back the inventory of dvd-audio qualit music, I am surprised a lot of this kind of music (multi-channel, 96kHz/24bit) is not available from non-affliated (i.e. hobbyists, amateurs, i.e. real )artists on the web. Is there a conspiracy to withold this stuff or am I missing something?
More accurately, 2D with shading to give an illusion of lighting induced depth perception. Humans don't have the sensory apparatus to perceive 3D, let alone have devices in mass production to reproduce the effect. Net, net, the future is now and it is all 2D. Not unless we get assimilated by the right kind of aliens. I, for one, welcome...
It's all true. NYT, as well as the Economist. However, what is not known is the net effect of all these factors on future progress. But as someone living in India can testify the 7% annual growth is reflected in things small and big. Roads happen to be something one encounters daily and seeing them being built to world class standards reinforces the notion that progress is being made, inspite the (presumed) 30% toll of corruption. As far as corruption goes, here is a recent example. Apparently the only fallout of Volker report is that the Foreign Minister of India got sacked. Now of all the regimes in the world, India is the one willing to clean its house, surely some substantial progress has been made in recent times. This is not to say that India is not full of corruption from top to the bottom. The point is that the trajectory is in the direction of better transparency and probity in public governance. That got to be good, right? Something, alas, that is missing in the most powerful nation on the planet.
At the end of the day, it's always the same people paying (universities and scientists pay for it, using public funds).
Doesn't that mean the actual payer(hence the owner) is the public... aka the unwashed masses... i.e. the taxpayers...
Talk about the world being a small place. I am an American living right near the IMA and have just been in Bangalore. The alleged attack on IMA affects me directly (much harder/impossible to go to the golf course there and the nearby FRI where civilians are permitted). Although I can't imagine why any room temprature IQ terrorist would want to attack them. That place is heavily guarded. As much or more so than any US military base I have been to in the US. On special occassions, they have plenty of tanks guarding gates much smaller than themselves. If you have been to any significant size IT organization in India, you would notice they have slavishly adopted a number of ISO (& other) certification for their processes. Consequently, most of them have a disaster recovery plan so even if their primary center is wiped out, the client assets are protected. Additionally, large American firms have wisely minimized their risk by distributing their exposure to muliple companies. Net net -- the apparent targets (Indian military, US clients) of these alleged terrorist had little to worry. I wouldn't even be surprised if the whole thing is fake encounter meant to boost the record of some local police official (after all no logical connection between IMA & Polaris). Nevertheless, in the process, I have been personally inconvinienced. Insensitive bastards!
Actually, the "mistake" Nehru made was agreeing to UN mediation which eventually led to a ruling for holding a plebiscite. It was conditional on Pakistan withdrawing from the territory it had occupied. Since they didn't oblige, India had a reason not to follow through either. Hence the current impasse.
Shimla agreement came much later (conclusion of Indo-Pak '71 War) where Bhutto and Indira Gandhi hashed out the ceasefire agreement. It basically said that bygones be bygones and the whole matter will be solved by the two parties bilaterally. Indira's "mistake" was not getting more out of Bhutto even though she was the victor in the war. The story Indians are told is that Bhutto literally begged her not to insist on a black&white treaty that made him lose face politically at home. Indira apparently let him go easy since Pakistan already lost Bangladesh as a consequence of the war.
Quite Messy.