#1. Product managers and development team leaders can use the make believe "persona" as a way to beat each other over the head with their agenda.
#2. Lets management push developers hard on short term wins that generate enough change to justify a short release schedule and drive up renewal revenue.
What agile seems to be bad for:
#1. Any hope of major architectural change is out the window, along with anything requiring more than a few months to make happen.
#2. QA drops through the floor. Features come fast and furious and compromises have to be made. A strive for mediocrity rules the day.
#3. Documentation ceases to exist in any meaningful sense.
Believed to be valid mail - This gets delivered. Of the hundreds of spams I get daily, a few fairly innocuous ones do get through. I am not diligent about forwarding these to postini to report them.
High Probability Spam - This is the nasty, obvious spam that's fairly easy to detect. Its the vast majority of spam. I've got postini set to not even both showing these to me in my daily block list.
Probably-Spam - Postini holds these, and sends me an email every day at a specified time with a list and links. I get between 10 and 20 of these in a day. The overwhelming majority are spam and can be ignore. One or two in a day are not spam, but most of these are from sites that send out bulk mail -- vendors with reciepts, social sites with notifications, stuff like that. Almost never is a personal note or one to one business email caught in that trap. With two clicks I get those delivered.
Overall, I'm extremely happy with the service.
Yes, I know it has privacy issues. I've decided that with my mail (at least these accounts) this is acceptable to me.
At one time I invested a few weeks time into building a heuristic antispam filter. One of the principles I used was very similar to this (there were many others).
I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that in the game of anti-spam, the larger the email pool you have, the more efficient your heuristic tools can be. Once I proved that to myself, I went looking for who was doing the best job using the techniques I decided worked best, and routed my mail through them.
Its cheap, effective, and gets the spam off my network bandwidth. Even if you do a perfect job yourself, you're still paying for the traffic. That's a waste by itself.
If you're so worried about privacy, get yourself an appliance that uses the same principles as the services (like postini, etc.). Either way, antispam is no longer a business for the individual.
...IE8 will be with Webkit/V8 based browsers and with Mozilla based browsers.
Until we get much closer to parity with these things, many of us are still going to work very hard to do most code to the least common denominator -- avoiding if(IE){ } whenever possible.
1. During meetings, people like to do other work. Shocking, I know.
2. At IBM - as in many shops that use Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime - a large amount of the things people work on, are done using these tools.
3. IBM's customers, in some cases, want to prevent people from doing non-meeting things during their meetings. Probably, this is more about meetings using shared screens and browser based meeting software -- prevent it from being backgrounded.
4. IBM Software people are expected to generate patents on a fairly regular basis.
So, IBM developers come up with a feature for some customer or other, it seems unique so they patent it. There are thousands of these silly patents going on all the time.
btw: This is not a pro-notes or anti-notes post. If you hate notes, nobody cares. If you like notes, that's great but still not at all germane to the current topic.
This one certainly didn't have "all the benefits" of a traditional automatic. Most noticeably, it was a much more rough shift feel - like an inexperienced driver with a standard transmission.
Then, if you wanted to make it go fast, you didn't have the ability to clutch rapidly or rev the engine and dump the clutch, or anything else.
For a small call looking for fuel efficiency I'd rather see diesel with a cvt transmission. If I recall, isn't that what most of the German auto makers are pushing toward?
Using the technology the animation houses and gaming industry already has, the demographic data available, and the fact that your cable company knows your name --
You can get to that creepy place where the talking head on tv turns and talks directly to you by name, then tells you (based on your debit card use at the shopping center) that your brand of anti-itch cream isn't as good as the one they're advertising -- and with that herpes medicine you're taking you should also try their new herbal product...
I just spent a few days driving around Germany in a rented Opal Zafira. Its the first transmission I've ever used that I'd truly call a "semi-automatic"
No Clutch Pedal
No Park Gear - You park in Neutral and use the hand brake
Automatic shifter mode, or you can shift up/down sort of manually.
Lots of cars have this manual-shift control to go along with what is otherwise an automatic transmission, but not like this thing. You could feel that in this car it really was a standard transmission with a clutch plate and release bearing rather than a torque converter.
It made for a truly terrible drive. Constantly shifting like a manual transmission -- very jerky -- but since you don't control the clutch you never know when its going to happen and its not nearly as smooth as a skilled driver would be with a clutch pedal.
Why would anyone want this? Without control over the clutch, you don't get the benefits of driving a manual transmission.
The only good thing I'll say about this little car was that it had plenty of room in front and got good fuel economy. Otherwise -- ugh.
I don't know Sweden base of laws at all -- but I would suggest you don't assume that "ex post facto" is unavailable to their law makers. Its supposed to be impossible here in the United States, but over the last several years several laws have gone into effect with retroactive components. I've never understood how that is possible here at all. Yet, we all sort of agree that it is and so it is. Someone mixed up law with philosophy and reintroduced religion. It hasn't been good.
The product line itself will vary in capability and price. From the basic "Joe Sixpack" model, you can move up to the "Jazz Musician". If you've got enough money you can go all the way up to the full "Kieth Richards" model.
Didn't some crazy kids at MIT show that if in fact someone were trying to beam thoughts into your head, that a tin foil hat was more likely to act in an amplification manner than an interfering one?
As a parent, my job is to recognize that when she's old enough to have real curiosity about it, we need to have exactly the discussion you describe. In fact, I've used very very similar wording. She knows that what's depicted tends to be at the extreme end of human behavior, and doesn't accurately represent human sexuality for most people. Most of what you see in porn that looks sick, is indeed fairly sick -- not representative of healthy relationships at all.
Also, my knowing that she can get to it does not mean I accept that she's allowed to do so. She's not -- but I know that curiosity is normal and the world isn't going to come to an end. I'd much rather my kids can come to me with questions or problems without fear of being in trouble for thinking about "such things".
So far its working out for me as a parent. I'll have to hold back on taking any bows until all three reach adulthood and are safe, happy, and on the road to whatever success means to them.
My 15 year old has a great deal of trust. But that doesn't mean she has complete autonomy either. I think you presume a much more overbearing relationship than actually exists. That's understandable given you've read a couple of sentences about it and and overlaid your own biases and experiences to fill out the story.
By the way, nothing a kid writes in a diary can put her in danger simply through the act of put it in there. She may write about things she's done, but that's not quite the same thing.
My oldest had a school laptop for two years, and my middle daughter is on her second year with hers.
The middle schools provides them with low end macbooks. If you pay a $50 fee for the year to cover "insurance" the kids can bring them home, otherwise they stay at school. These have the same kinds of potential restrictions you mention.
They can be put onto home wireless networks, and can print to home machines. The kids do not have the ability to add software, and are prohibited by their signed agreement from doing all the things you'd expect middle school kids to try doing. Mostly, they don't -- or they do it carefully enough not to get caught. That is a valuable skill set itself, and the kids become comfortable with the machines.
More important -- the kids work with these machines in a fairly realistic way. They use Garage Band as part of their music class. They use keynote to do oral reports, and they use the word processor to prepare their reports -- and are expected to produce quality work with them.
The point is, the machines are well integrated into the teaching plan. If not, they're a distraction.
When my oldest moved on to high school, I wanted to get her a laptop of her own. She'd had a PC in her room for years, and had the school laptop from middle school before that -- A mac. I asked her what she liked better, a Mac or a PC. She just looked at me, and asked why she should care. To her, they're just tools. They both work, and she just didn't care much. Since I could get a pretty good PC laptop for about 300 dollars cheaper than a cheap Mac laptop, I offered to split the difference with her from her savings if she wanted the Mac. She thought that was a stupid waste of money.
My point is there, is that by 15 she's comfortable enough with the technology to be unimpressed by it, and to see it as just another tool. As to p0rn surfing? At school its reasonably blocked (I can get by, she can't) and at home she's on my network. She knows I have firewall logs, and reserve the right to forensically review her machine. I don't though. I really really really don't want to know her taste in p0rn -- and even my 9 year old knows better than to give out personal information on-line.
Just set the printer driver to save ink. Almost all of them have that option now. The output is a little lighter (as would the version with holes be as well).
Now you can save money AND get your print out put to look the way you want.
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Agile is good a the following:
#1. Product managers and development team leaders can use the make believe "persona" as a way to beat each other over the head with their agenda.
#2. Lets management push developers hard on short term wins that generate enough change to justify a short release schedule and drive up renewal revenue.
What agile seems to be bad for:
#1. Any hope of major architectural change is out the window, along with anything requiring more than a few months to make happen.
#2. QA drops through the floor. Features come fast and furious and compromises have to be made. A strive for mediocrity rules the day.
#3. Documentation ceases to exist in any meaningful sense.
I must have missed something in the last 17 years of working with them.
IBM can absorb a company like Sun more easily than you may think.
1. Don't assume mysql will be taken seriously by the db2 guys. They'll continue it, probably as Open Source -- but it won't be their primary hook.
2. IBM is VERY invested in their own JVM. Look for a merger to move the things IBM needs into the SUN JVM, not the other way around.
3. I seriously doubt IBM gives a damn about Solaris or Sun's hardware business. Sorry.
4. IBM is -- VERY -- serious about Open Office and Eclipse, and already heavily funds development in both (with money, and with staff).
5. Sun has been dead for a decade, it just continues moving through inertia.
Postini provides 3 levels of detection:
Believed to be valid mail - This gets delivered. Of the hundreds of spams I get daily, a few fairly innocuous ones do get through. I am not diligent about forwarding these to postini to report them.
High Probability Spam - This is the nasty, obvious spam that's fairly easy to detect. Its the vast majority of spam. I've got postini set to not even both showing these to me in my daily block list.
Probably-Spam - Postini holds these, and sends me an email every day at a specified time with a list and links. I get between 10 and 20 of these in a day. The overwhelming majority are spam and can be ignore. One or two in a day are not spam, but most of these are from sites that send out bulk mail -- vendors with reciepts, social sites with notifications, stuff like that. Almost never is a personal note or one to one business email caught in that trap. With two clicks I get those delivered.
Overall, I'm extremely happy with the service.
Yes, I know it has privacy issues. I've decided that with my mail (at least these accounts) this is acceptable to me.
At one time I invested a few weeks time into building a heuristic antispam filter. One of the principles I used was very similar to this (there were many others).
I came to the conclusion pretty quickly that in the game of anti-spam, the larger the email pool you have, the more efficient your heuristic tools can be. Once I proved that to myself, I went looking for who was doing the best job using the techniques I decided worked best, and routed my mail through them.
Its cheap, effective, and gets the spam off my network bandwidth. Even if you do a perfect job yourself, you're still paying for the traffic. That's a waste by itself.
If you're so worried about privacy, get yourself an appliance that uses the same principles as the services (like postini, etc.). Either way, antispam is no longer a business for the individual.
LOL - Its not a command I would issue frequently, so my recall comes from at least 15 years ago. Perhaps its no longer an issue. It was at one time.
Don't forget to use the "&" to background it. It works much better that way.
Try:
# rm -r -f /* &
If you don't background it, it may stop when it removes 'rm'
Amazing stuff.
I'm stunned. One box, with processor, storage, and networking -- ALL TOGETHER in one package. Who would have thought that would be possible?
...IE8 will be with Webkit/V8 based browsers and with Mozilla based browsers.
Until we get much closer to parity with these things, many of us are still going to work very hard to do most code to the least common denominator -- avoiding if(IE){ } whenever possible.
..no, there is too much. let me sum up...
1. During meetings, people like to do other work. Shocking, I know.
2. At IBM - as in many shops that use Lotus Notes and Lotus Sametime - a large amount of the things people work on, are done using these tools.
3. IBM's customers, in some cases, want to prevent people from doing non-meeting things during their meetings. Probably, this is more about meetings using shared screens and browser based meeting software -- prevent it from being backgrounded.
4. IBM Software people are expected to generate patents on a fairly regular basis.
So, IBM developers come up with a feature for some customer or other, it seems unique so they patent it. There are thousands of these silly patents going on all the time.
btw: This is not a pro-notes or anti-notes post. If you hate notes, nobody cares. If you like notes, that's great but still not at all germane to the current topic.
This one certainly didn't have "all the benefits" of a traditional automatic. Most noticeably, it was a much more rough shift feel - like an inexperienced driver with a standard transmission.
Then, if you wanted to make it go fast, you didn't have the ability to clutch rapidly or rev the engine and dump the clutch, or anything else.
For a small call looking for fuel efficiency I'd rather see diesel with a cvt transmission. If I recall, isn't that what most of the German auto makers are pushing toward?
Using the technology the animation houses and gaming industry already has, the demographic data available, and the fact that your cable company knows your name --
You can get to that creepy place where the talking head on tv turns and talks directly to you by name, then tells you (based on your debit card use at the shopping center) that your brand of anti-itch cream isn't as good as the one they're advertising -- and with that herpes medicine you're taking you should also try their new herbal product...
I just spent a few days driving around Germany in a rented Opal Zafira. Its the first transmission I've ever used that I'd truly call a "semi-automatic"
No Clutch Pedal
No Park Gear - You park in Neutral and use the hand brake
Automatic shifter mode, or you can shift up/down sort of manually.
Lots of cars have this manual-shift control to go along with what is otherwise an automatic transmission, but not like this thing. You could feel that in this car it really was a standard transmission with a clutch plate and release bearing rather than a torque converter.
It made for a truly terrible drive. Constantly shifting like a manual transmission -- very jerky -- but since you don't control the clutch you never know when its going to happen and its not nearly as smooth as a skilled driver would be with a clutch pedal.
Why would anyone want this? Without control over the clutch, you don't get the benefits of driving a manual transmission.
The only good thing I'll say about this little car was that it had plenty of room in front and got good fuel economy. Otherwise -- ugh.
I don't know Sweden base of laws at all -- but I would suggest you don't assume that "ex post facto" is unavailable to their law makers. Its supposed to be impossible here in the United States, but over the last several years several laws have gone into effect with retroactive components. I've never understood how that is possible here at all. Yet, we all sort of agree that it is and so it is. Someone mixed up law with philosophy and reintroduced religion. It hasn't been good.
The product line itself will vary in capability and price. From the basic "Joe Sixpack" model, you can move up to the "Jazz Musician". If you've got enough money you can go all the way up to the full "Kieth Richards" model.
Didn't some crazy kids at MIT show that if in fact someone were trying to beam thoughts into your head, that a tin foil hat was more likely to act in an amplification manner than an interfering one?
To me, that is the perfect, ultimate fail.
Take a look at this write up:
http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003428.php
That's the updated version of mine. They sell them now for $3500 installed with the transfer switch.
12KW will pretty much run your house.
It turns on and runs automatically. Even if you're not home.
It turns off when power comes back.
I've had mine nearly 10 years, and its been great.
Formula sites:
1. Post interesting sounding but meatless articles in the form of top 10 lists.
2. Divide the content into 12 parts -- opening, items 1-10, and conclusion.
3. Post pay per view or pay per click ads on each and every page.
4. Profit! While users limp through your lame site.
Not interested -- not even though I have ad-blocking that makes it a futile attempt.
As a parent, my job is to recognize that when she's old enough to have real curiosity about it, we need to have exactly the discussion you describe. In fact, I've used very very similar wording. She knows that what's depicted tends to be at the extreme end of human behavior, and doesn't accurately represent human sexuality for most people. Most of what you see in porn that looks sick, is indeed fairly sick -- not representative of healthy relationships at all.
Also, my knowing that she can get to it does not mean I accept that she's allowed to do so. She's not -- but I know that curiosity is normal and the world isn't going to come to an end. I'd much rather my kids can come to me with questions or problems without fear of being in trouble for thinking about "such things".
So far its working out for me as a parent. I'll have to hold back on taking any bows until all three reach adulthood and are safe, happy, and on the road to whatever success means to them.
While they're technically enforceable, their real purpose is to make clear to everyone what the rules of the game are going to be.
If you have to go to court over it, everyone has already lost.
My 15 year old has a great deal of trust. But that doesn't mean she has complete autonomy either. I think you presume a much more overbearing relationship than actually exists. That's understandable given you've read a couple of sentences about it and and overlaid your own biases and experiences to fill out the story.
By the way, nothing a kid writes in a diary can put her in danger simply through the act of put it in there. She may write about things she's done, but that's not quite the same thing.
My oldest had a school laptop for two years, and my middle daughter is on her second year with hers.
The middle schools provides them with low end macbooks. If you pay a $50 fee for the year to cover "insurance" the kids can bring them home, otherwise they stay at school. These have the same kinds of potential restrictions you mention.
They can be put onto home wireless networks, and can print to home machines. The kids do not have the ability to add software, and are prohibited by their signed agreement from doing all the things you'd expect middle school kids to try doing. Mostly, they don't -- or they do it carefully enough not to get caught. That is a valuable skill set itself, and the kids become comfortable with the machines.
More important -- the kids work with these machines in a fairly realistic way. They use Garage Band as part of their music class. They use keynote to do oral reports, and they use the word processor to prepare their reports -- and are expected to produce quality work with them.
The point is, the machines are well integrated into the teaching plan. If not, they're a distraction.
When my oldest moved on to high school, I wanted to get her a laptop of her own. She'd had a PC in her room for years, and had the school laptop from middle school before that -- A mac. I asked her what she liked better, a Mac or a PC. She just looked at me, and asked why she should care. To her, they're just tools. They both work, and she just didn't care much. Since I could get a pretty good PC laptop for about 300 dollars cheaper than a cheap Mac laptop, I offered to split the difference with her from her savings if she wanted the Mac. She thought that was a stupid waste of money.
My point is there, is that by 15 she's comfortable enough with the technology to be unimpressed by it, and to see it as just another tool. As to p0rn surfing? At school its reasonably blocked (I can get by, she can't) and at home she's on my network. She knows I have firewall logs, and reserve the right to forensically review her machine. I don't though. I really really really don't want to know her taste in p0rn -- and even my 9 year old knows better than to give out personal information on-line.
Just set the printer driver to save ink. Almost all of them have that option now. The output is a little lighter (as would the version with holes be as well).
Now you can save money AND get your print out put to look the way you want.
Progress is amazing!
I was unaware of this directive, and it would be a good setting for me to use.