I don't work for a company that made the mistake of getting involved in that nightmare.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of companies are doing just fine out of it - paid to deliver the wrong thing then paid to deliver what the government should have specified in the first place.
Non technical people are not competent to commission technical work from technical people.
If you (as a government or large company) don't have your own technical people on staff to oversee the process and comprehend or write the specs, you're doomed. The contractors know well how to milk a cash cow, simply by adhering to the specs written by people who don't understand how to write specs.
Sadly this is true, but it shouldn't be. Technical people should have the professionalism to analyse requirements and check that the requirements fit the purpose. Unfortunately the way of the world is that technical people would be quickly shuffled out of the way by sales and marketing if they started to reduce revenue by telling a customer what they really wanted instead of what the spec says.
The script kiddies are wasting time and resources looking for non existent email addresses. Wouldn't it be better to let them get on with it rather than tell them exactly where a whole list of email addresses that they needn't check can be downloaded?
It allows combinations of Latin + Han + Hiragana + Katakana; Latin + Han + Bopomofo; or Latin + Han + Hangul.
There are a lot of equally safe combinations - what about Latin + Devanagari + Tamil? There would be no look-alike characters and it would allow a lot of people to put their name in multiple scripts that are likely to be meaningful to certain audiences (e.g. someone from Tamil Nadu sending an email to people throughout India and internationally). I'm sure that there are many other combinations that wouldn't have "look alike" issues but which would be useful
People on the way to the dentist, or a job interview, or even a first date might get called in. At the same time Muslims take great pains to brutalise and desensitise their kids so they will be less likely to show stress.
Yep AFAIK the tests stop at 165 or around there. Anything above is made up as there is no statistical data that can confirm it.
197 would imply there is someone out there with an IQ of 3 as well.
Some of the tests on young children with age correction can yield this type of figure. I wouldn't be surprised if he was measured with an IQ of 197 at an age of 5 or 6, but it would result in a much lower measurement as an adult.
Ideally it wouldn't matter. If one racial group had a greater number of more intelligent people than another then - so what? After all we have the same situation with things like height, strength, and so on. You might find that Chinese are under-represented in basketball, but a Chinese basketball player who could make the grade would be given exactly the same encouragement and opportunity as anyone else. Same should go for IQ.
A complementary analysis of unrelated kids corroborated this conclusion — strangers with equivalent academic abilities shared genetic similarities.
This could be of real interest, but racism might skew things.
If that's a concern the results tests should "double blind"; that is designed so that the person administering them doesn't see the subject, and the person analysing them doesn't have access to data on the subject's racial background
People are going to be murdered like Diana, only it won't be MI6, it's going to be script kiddies and highway griefers.
Or mass attacks by Muslims - causing death and industry and crippling the infrastructure in one go would be just what Muhammad (may piss be upon him) ordered
Unless there is some killer feature, or the distribution is tailored well to a specific niche, I am quite bored with the "yet another Linux distro" articles
Meanwhile, the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) continue to remain tight lipped about their use of the technology,
perhaps they don't want to admit that they don't know how to work the damned thing. Truncheons and battering rams fine, but computers are a little tricky
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I just hope this isn't a deliberate attempt to spread the virus, remove medical supplies and become martyrs
I can see some organisations trying to register it
I don't work for a company that made the mistake of getting involved in that nightmare.
I'm pretty sure that a lot of companies are doing just fine out of it - paid to deliver the wrong thing then paid to deliver what the government should have specified in the first place.
Non technical people are not competent to commission technical work from technical people.
If you (as a government or large company) don't have your own technical people on staff to oversee the process and comprehend or write the specs, you're doomed. The contractors know well how to milk a cash cow, simply by adhering to the specs written by people who don't understand how to write specs.
Sadly this is true, but it shouldn't be. Technical people should have the professionalism to analyse requirements and check that the requirements fit the purpose. Unfortunately the way of the world is that technical people would be quickly shuffled out of the way by sales and marketing if they started to reduce revenue by telling a customer what they really wanted instead of what the spec says.
For any building of that size and cost, putting a model in a wind-tunnel should be compulsory.
me too!
The script kiddies are wasting time and resources looking for non existent email addresses. Wouldn't it be better to let them get on with it rather than tell them exactly where a whole list of email addresses that they needn't check can be downloaded?
Natalie Portman. Naked, petrified and covered in hot grits.
I wish.Slashdot Bots are much more likely to add linsk to goatse
Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White
Whoa - that's like 125%.
(This is sarcasm BTW)
You must work in accounting!
It allows combinations of Latin + Han + Hiragana + Katakana; Latin + Han + Bopomofo; or Latin + Han + Hangul.
There are a lot of equally safe combinations - what about Latin + Devanagari + Tamil? There would be no look-alike characters and it would allow a lot of people to put their name in multiple scripts that are likely to be meaningful to certain audiences (e.g. someone from Tamil Nadu sending an email to people throughout India and internationally). I'm sure that there are many other combinations that wouldn't have "look alike" issues but which would be useful
People on the way to the dentist, or a job interview, or even a first date might get called in. At the same time Muslims take great pains to brutalise and desensitise their kids so they will be less likely to show stress.
Yep AFAIK the tests stop at 165 or around there. Anything above is made up as there is no statistical data that can confirm it.
197 would imply there is someone out there with an IQ of 3 as well.
Some of the tests on young children with age correction can yield this type of figure. I wouldn't be surprised if he was measured with an IQ of 197 at an age of 5 or 6, but it would result in a much lower measurement as an adult.
Ideally it wouldn't matter. If one racial group had a greater number of more intelligent people than another then - so what? After all we have the same situation with things like height, strength, and so on. You might find that Chinese are under-represented in basketball, but a Chinese basketball player who could make the grade would be given exactly the same encouragement and opportunity as anyone else. Same should go for IQ.
Thank you. Just what I was thinking.
A complementary analysis of unrelated kids corroborated this conclusion — strangers with equivalent academic abilities shared genetic similarities.
This could be of real interest, but racism might skew things.
If that's a concern the results tests should "double blind"; that is designed so that the person administering them doesn't see the subject, and the person analysing them doesn't have access to data on the subject's racial background
People are going to be murdered like Diana, only it won't be MI6, it's going to be script kiddies and highway griefers.
Or mass attacks by Muslims - causing death and industry and crippling the infrastructure in one go would be just what Muhammad (may piss be upon him) ordered
it won't be long before we are forced to install antivirus in our cars : /
Lets hope it doesn't make them run significantly slower ;-)
Seriously, who cares about design? There are plenty of usability issues in GNU/Linux, but none of them have anything to do with design.
I guess they just evolved then
Unless there is some killer feature, or the distribution is tailored well to a specific niche, I am quite bored with the "yet another Linux distro" articles
Meanwhile, the London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) continue to remain tight lipped about their use of the technology,
perhaps they don't want to admit that they don't know how to work the damned thing. Truncheons and battering rams fine, but computers are a little tricky
Some people have principles.
He could be working on an open source project
Here's a suggestion, save your damned text messages and social media updates for when you're not bloody well driving.
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Just identify the wrong decision and they are bond to pick it ;-)
Rome would be so proud .. Of what Londinium has become.
The Romans would even understand the Mayor's ramblings
Isn't that the plot of Dune?
Aka, 113 new names on that list!
Anonymous Coward is appearing so much that s/he will soon be on the most wanted list