Oh lol. I'm working at a government project (4th try on this project) where on iteration 3 they kicked out Ator and Accenture. Adding 20 inexperienced juniors to a team sure pads the bills, but does not really deliver quality software.
There is usually a set of requirements defined as the minimal working set of requirements. If you get a smaller subset to work - good for you, but it's not a working *system* yet.
That doesn't mean you can't separate the components and develop them in an agile manner, by building a working core and then extending the core to meet the minimal working set, all the while making sure the current set of software remains a working set. It just means your first delivery will be a bit late.
When you define your minimal set as "everything", then you're back at a waterfall development scheme. Even then, agile development practices help. And I don't mean the strawman that I see in this topic, I mean real agile stuff. Like the boards with current work, the swarming behaviour, and the philosophy that says that building inventory is a liability, not an asset.
Actually, the latter mindset is probably the most important thing I ever got out of the agile movement. Agile is not "let's add a few tests and drop the documentation". There's a whole set of interlocking mechanisms that make up the method.
The neighbouring countries, mostly. Spain was a bit miffed about the 80 years war that made The Netherlands an independent country. Although that wouldn't have stopped them from buying things they needed nor would it have stopped the Dutch salesmen from selling whatever the customer wanted, including guns and powder to shoot at the Dutch army.
As for the Spanish gold, part of that was "retrieved" by a rather famous Dutch admiral, Piet Heijn. There's a song about it that's still a children's song. And all that because he got ONE lousy spanish shipment of silver bullion.
For contemporary examples of what happens when you can buy everything you need, see the Middle-East.
The same issues are happening with the Dutch transport system. At the moment it's only a hassle with people checking out incorrectly (audible signal sounds) or having two cards in their wallet (a random one gets debited - during checks you may present the wrong one, resulting in a lot of hassle and a fine, and if you're unlucky a trip to the police station).
Thomas Jefferson was wrong, in this case, as several economists argued later. Merchants without a country tend to fare really bad when the merchants that do have ties with the rulers (or are directly in control of) another country make laws banning the first group from doing business in the country of the second group. If the first group of homeless merchants don't have strong ties with rulers somewhere they're up shit creek without a paddle.
While multinationals often have their "head office" in a tax haven for tax reasons, the *real* headquarters is always located in a spot close to political power, where the owners of said company have cultural, personal and financial ties with the people having political power.
Spearfishing is an issue there. Although I'm assuming here that there is a trace to whoever has received email from you in the first place so spearfishing would be risky.
Spam, not so much. I really don't think spammers are going to check public keys before sending out spam. The computational complexity for doing that would raise their mailing cost without increasing profit.
Configuring outlook for encryption is doable. It's doable for techies in Windows mail as well (unless you start using two accounts and don't want to encrypt one of them - the settings are global and unpolished) but I've had a client who wanted encryption and didn't get it working on his client, not even with a manual with screenprints.
As I've said in this discussion before: why not use Lotus Domino? It's been built from the ground up for exactly this. I know it's clunky and expensive but I've worked with a lot of sysadmins that, once they worked with it, never wanted to go back to Exchange/outlook. It's so much less of a hassle once you have the setup working. And secure too.
I know your comment is meant to be funny (and it is), but what I really don't get is why everyone is talking about Outlook (argh) and sharepoint (*shudder*), and not about Lotus Domino. I'm also a bit... confused about why Lotus Domino isn't the default choice for anyone even remotely thinking about secure mail.
Lotus had a place for storing certificates since they were invented. In fact, ALL authorization is done using keys. It's been designed to work with them from the ground up. If the admin manages to remove his ID from the database, he's just as thoroughly holed under the waterline as any user. Inside the company everything can remain encrypted and when going out you can use encryption for everyone you have the certificates for, or make it impossible to send unencrypted mail. Using Lotus there is absolutely no barrier to using encryption (only to using the damn client in the first place - the GUI has issues).
Ofcourse, one can also keep on bolting random software on top of other software, like that factory in Bangladesh: at some point, the foundation can't hold the weight anymore and you're done.
Like infections or broken bones. Before we got around to finding ways of fixing things. Personally, I'm pretty happy with that. The genepool can look after itself - and otherwise I'm hopeful that in a few decades we can clean it up ourselves as much as we like.
I've just done a quick tour on Japanese suicide statistics and it's a pretty mixed bag. Mostly people commit suicide by throwing themselves in front of trains, hanging, jumping off cliffs or overdosing - just as in most other countries, people are looking for a painless end to their sorrows, not a painful and protracted death bed to make a political statement.
Since the railway charges the family with the cost of the delays etc., more people are turning to gassing themselves - with all the risk for the area that involves, especially the ones getting creative with sulfur dioxide in appartment buildings.
If handguns were available over the counter, I'm pretty sure the methods would be replaced.
I couldn't find any statistics on the failed attempts versus successful ones. That might shed some light on the subject. I have the distinct feeling that the absolute numbers of people attempting suicide may not be higher in Japan but that they are more determined or use more lethal methods. This would both support my statement (providing them with guns will increase casualties) and support the countervailing argument (the main issue is committing suicide, not the method itself).
Next: rigorous import controls on 3D printers Next: mandatory insertion of identifiers that can be traced to the owner of a 3D printer Next: 3D printer plastics will become a controlled substance
This gun-printer is a wet dream for any industry that felt (yes: past tense) threatened by 3D printing. The bloody idiot just gave all the enemies of 3D printing a powerful political weapon.
Not really: suicide is often a cry for help, and when people slit their wrists or overdose on sleeping pills, they often get found in time to get them to a hospital. After that, you can try and treat the depression.
Guns make sure no such option is available. And that's why even when the number of suicide attempts may be equal, the availability of guns in one country and not in the other, ensures a noticeable difference in lethality of said suicide attempts. "Successrates" vary between NL and USA: 2% to 2.5% out of all attempts (and there are a lot of attempts: 100.000 in the Netherlands alone each year). A small but noticeable difference with a lot of casualties attached.
Of course, the real issue is suicide, but handing suicidal people better ways of killing themselves does not seem like a good idea.
Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to determine which frequency arrives first, since frequency is the number of wavetops arriving over time. If you have a very small sampling interval in which to determine frequency, your sampled frequency starts to deviate from the real frequency really fast.
I've tried GIMP but I've gone back to Paint.Net for most items. I'm just using it for some pretty simple photo-editing now and then and even there Gimp just isn't worth the hassle. Yes it has more features - but none of them are the features I want.
True, but it also requires a quite large organization. I don't think playing EVE outside a large corp is viable, unless you only trade/mine. And even then, mining with a mining corps means you get much more money faster.
WoW has explicitly toned that down, and I'm not sure it's a good thing. When large guilds were no longer a neccessity, they split up in minor factions and that took away a lot of the game appeal to me. But finding a good corp in EVE is difficult. And if you can only spend some time now and then, it's no longer very much fun to be in. You're basically stuck in hi-sec.
Unfortunately, now I've been playing it since december, it basically boils down to: - spreadsheets in space - shoot red crosses at huge distances
The interesting stuff always happens "somewhere else", or you need to skill up more (I'm at 6 months training time and I still can't fit a battlecruiser for PvP due to skilling issues), or you're not in a big corp/alliance so you get to miss out on all the fun stuff anyway.
Which is why I think a movie would be great: - No need to skill up - No need to spend days and days of pouring over spreadsheets - Great action movies and not just abstract red crosses in the distance - It's much cheaper to go to movie than pay for EVE online
Not really true, if you go back far enough. At least, not in the way modern discrimination and racism works. Otherwise you're going to be hard pressed to explain how Macrinus (a Berber and not even a senator) came to power in Rome in 217. Or why Christian slaves in 1200 could easily be freed when they converted - which would not have been possible if they were enslaved because of their skin.
The whole concept of "race" is a modern construct, easily traced back to the times when slaves were used on plantations. Even the RC church had a lot of reservations against slavery, with a lot of priests and even a big conference about it. In the end, the economic arguments were too hard to resist, and so black folk were demonized as sub-human based on visible differences. But that hasas its basis the goldrush of slavery that needed to be defended ideologically in order to be acceptable to the public. We're still stuck with it, unfortunately, and will probably remain stuck with it for a very long time as racism has always been useful for at least *some* people.
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Well, you can still get most of their old CD's here: http://ebooks.thefifthimperium.com/
Oh lol. I'm working at a government project (4th try on this project) where on iteration 3 they kicked out Ator and Accenture. Adding 20 inexperienced juniors to a team sure pads the bills, but does not really deliver quality software.
There is usually a set of requirements defined as the minimal working set of requirements. If you get a smaller subset to work - good for you, but it's not a working *system* yet.
That doesn't mean you can't separate the components and develop them in an agile manner, by building a working core and then extending the core to meet the minimal working set, all the while making sure the current set of software remains a working set. It just means your first delivery will be a bit late.
When you define your minimal set as "everything", then you're back at a waterfall development scheme. Even then, agile development practices help. And I don't mean the strawman that I see in this topic, I mean real agile stuff. Like the boards with current work, the swarming behaviour, and the philosophy that says that building inventory is a liability, not an asset.
Actually, the latter mindset is probably the most important thing I ever got out of the agile movement. Agile is not "let's add a few tests and drop the documentation". There's a whole set of interlocking mechanisms that make up the method.
The neighbouring countries, mostly. Spain was a bit miffed about the 80 years war that made The Netherlands an independent country. Although that wouldn't have stopped them from buying things they needed nor would it have stopped the Dutch salesmen from selling whatever the customer wanted, including guns and powder to shoot at the Dutch army.
As for the Spanish gold, part of that was "retrieved" by a rather famous Dutch admiral, Piet Heijn. There's a song about it that's still a children's song. And all that because he got ONE lousy spanish shipment of silver bullion.
For contemporary examples of what happens when you can buy everything you need, see the Middle-East.
Puhlease... try to keep your "information" out of this. We're trying to run a fact-free discussion here!
The same issues are happening with the Dutch transport system. At the moment it's only a hassle with people checking out incorrectly (audible signal sounds) or having two cards in their wallet (a random one gets debited - during checks you may present the wrong one, resulting in a lot of hassle and a fine, and if you're unlucky a trip to the police station).
Do wolf spiders eat silverfish? Because if so, I'm starting a wolf spider farm right now.
Thomas Jefferson was wrong, in this case, as several economists argued later. Merchants without a country tend to fare really bad when the merchants that do have ties with the rulers (or are directly in control of) another country make laws banning the first group from doing business in the country of the second group. If the first group of homeless merchants don't have strong ties with rulers somewhere they're up shit creek without a paddle.
While multinationals often have their "head office" in a tax haven for tax reasons, the *real* headquarters is always located in a spot close to political power, where the owners of said company have cultural, personal and financial ties with the people having political power.
Spearfishing is an issue there. Although I'm assuming here that there is a trace to whoever has received email from you in the first place so spearfishing would be risky.
Spam, not so much. I really don't think spammers are going to check public keys before sending out spam. The computational complexity for doing that would raise their mailing cost without increasing profit.
Configuring outlook for encryption is doable. It's doable for techies in Windows mail as well (unless you start using two accounts and don't want to encrypt one of them - the settings are global and unpolished) but I've had a client who wanted encryption and didn't get it working on his client, not even with a manual with screenprints.
As I've said in this discussion before: why not use Lotus Domino? It's been built from the ground up for exactly this. I know it's clunky and expensive but I've worked with a lot of sysadmins that, once they worked with it, never wanted to go back to Exchange/outlook. It's so much less of a hassle once you have the setup working. And secure too.
I know your comment is meant to be funny (and it is), but what I really don't get is why everyone is talking about Outlook (argh) and sharepoint (*shudder*), and not about Lotus Domino. I'm also a bit... confused about why Lotus Domino isn't the default choice for anyone even remotely thinking about secure mail.
Lotus had a place for storing certificates since they were invented. In fact, ALL authorization is done using keys. It's been designed to work with them from the ground up. If the admin manages to remove his ID from the database, he's just as thoroughly holed under the waterline as any user. Inside the company everything can remain encrypted and when going out you can use encryption for everyone you have the certificates for, or make it impossible to send unencrypted mail. Using Lotus there is absolutely no barrier to using encryption (only to using the damn client in the first place - the GUI has issues).
Ofcourse, one can also keep on bolting random software on top of other software, like that factory in Bangladesh: at some point, the foundation can't hold the weight anymore and you're done.
I meant: with genetherapy. Duh.
Like infections or broken bones. Before we got around to finding ways of fixing things. Personally, I'm pretty happy with that. The genepool can look after itself - and otherwise I'm hopeful that in a few decades we can clean it up ourselves as much as we like.
I've just done a quick tour on Japanese suicide statistics and it's a pretty mixed bag. Mostly people commit suicide by throwing themselves in front of trains, hanging, jumping off cliffs or overdosing - just as in most other countries, people are looking for a painless end to their sorrows, not a painful and protracted death bed to make a political statement.
Since the railway charges the family with the cost of the delays etc., more people are turning to gassing themselves - with all the risk for the area that involves, especially the ones getting creative with sulfur dioxide in appartment buildings.
If handguns were available over the counter, I'm pretty sure the methods would be replaced.
I couldn't find any statistics on the failed attempts versus successful ones. That might shed some light on the subject. I have the distinct feeling that the absolute numbers of people attempting suicide may not be higher in Japan but that they are more determined or use more lethal methods. This would both support my statement (providing them with guns will increase casualties) and support the countervailing argument (the main issue is committing suicide, not the method itself).
I doubt that. I think it will go like this:
Next: rigorous import controls on 3D printers
Next: mandatory insertion of identifiers that can be traced to the owner of a 3D printer
Next: 3D printer plastics will become a controlled substance
This gun-printer is a wet dream for any industry that felt (yes: past tense) threatened by 3D printing. The bloody idiot just gave all the enemies of 3D printing a powerful political weapon.
Not really: suicide is often a cry for help, and when people slit their wrists or overdose on sleeping pills, they often get found in time to get them to a hospital. After that, you can try and treat the depression.
Guns make sure no such option is available. And that's why even when the number of suicide attempts may be equal, the availability of guns in one country and not in the other, ensures a noticeable difference in lethality of said suicide attempts. "Successrates" vary between NL and USA: 2% to 2.5% out of all attempts (and there are a lot of attempts: 100.000 in the Netherlands alone each year). A small but noticeable difference with a lot of casualties attached.
Of course, the real issue is suicide, but handing suicidal people better ways of killing themselves does not seem like a good idea.
Unfortunately, it's pretty hard to determine which frequency arrives first, since frequency is the number of wavetops arriving over time. If you have a very small sampling interval in which to determine frequency, your sampled frequency starts to deviate from the real frequency really fast.
So 5 specific years of Apple growth metrics is now the yardstick for all of the worlds companies?
Let's add the next 5 years and then check their average growth over 5 years. Do you think they'll keep it up?
Okay - that's still not really pleasant but at least not as bad as 50$/month. I'd still appreciate a light version for 5$/month though.
I've tried GIMP but I've gone back to Paint.Net for most items. I'm just using it for some pretty simple photo-editing now and then and even there Gimp just isn't worth the hassle. Yes it has more features - but none of them are the features I want.
True, but it also requires a quite large organization. I don't think playing EVE outside a large corp is viable, unless you only trade/mine. And even then, mining with a mining corps means you get much more money faster.
WoW has explicitly toned that down, and I'm not sure it's a good thing. When large guilds were no longer a neccessity, they split up in minor factions and that took away a lot of the game appeal to me. But finding a good corp in EVE is difficult. And if you can only spend some time now and then, it's no longer very much fun to be in. You're basically stuck in hi-sec.
If you're playing EVE without a spreadsheet... you're doing it wrong.
Actually, I think they should integrate Google Docs with EVE. Or even drop the entire GUI and just keep Google Docs as main EVE interface.
Unfortunately, now I've been playing it since december, it basically boils down to:
- spreadsheets in space
- shoot red crosses at huge distances
The interesting stuff always happens "somewhere else", or you need to skill up more (I'm at 6 months training time and I still can't fit a battlecruiser for PvP due to skilling issues), or you're not in a big corp/alliance so you get to miss out on all the fun stuff anyway.
Which is why I think a movie would be great:
- No need to skill up
- No need to spend days and days of pouring over spreadsheets
- Great action movies and not just abstract red crosses in the distance
- It's much cheaper to go to movie than pay for EVE online
Not really true, if you go back far enough. At least, not in the way modern discrimination and racism works. Otherwise you're going to be hard pressed to explain how Macrinus (a Berber and not even a senator) came to power in Rome in 217. Or why Christian slaves in 1200 could easily be freed when they converted - which would not have been possible if they were enslaved because of their skin.
The whole concept of "race" is a modern construct, easily traced back to the times when slaves were used on plantations. Even the RC church had a lot of reservations against slavery, with a lot of priests and even a big conference about it. In the end, the economic arguments were too hard to resist, and so black folk were demonized as sub-human based on visible differences. But that hasas its basis the goldrush of slavery that needed to be defended ideologically in order to be acceptable to the public. We're still stuck with it, unfortunately, and will probably remain stuck with it for a very long time as racism has always been useful for at least *some* people.
It's pretty easy to plan for. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i
They're in use at quite a lot of places, and I know of at least one company that moved software from AS/400 to RS/6000 and then to the i-series.