Personally, I prefer BYODs. I couldn't get a SSD into my PC even after I cleared it with IT, and I even bought it for them. It was only after I bought it they changed their mind and refused to either install it, or let me install it. My work PC is 1/3 the speed of my home PC, has 1/10th the disk capacity, and 1/20th the disk speed. Although, they did finally replace my 1280x1024 monitor this year with a 1920x1080 one. If it was a BYOD office, I'd have a much better office PC without their stupid antivirus killing 3 hours every week because it's corporate policy to run it at 12:00 noon instead of 12:00 midnight even though the PC is on 24x7.
Can you bill some for damage with little to no proof? Can you make some go out buy a new system new right after they just got one due to changes in requirements ? What some who is not very technically informed goes and get's the best buy special POS and who fixes that mess?
Can you bill some(one/thing/where?) for damage, with little to no proof? Can you make some(one/thing/where?) go out (and) buy a new system right after they just got one due to changes in requirements? What some(one/thing/where?) who is not very technically informed (I give up, this sentence is just a bunch of random phrases tossed together with no conjunctions).
Atari 2600 Basic Programming.. fun fun... 64 bytes of memory. Quickly moved on to the Atari 800 when it was released, writing in Basic, 6502 Assembler, Pilot (Yay turtle graphics!), and GFA Basic. Then moved on to an Atari 1040ST, again, Basic and Assembler. Then I got my first full time job coding in FoxPro on Unix (Which we had to self-compile) and some Business Basic. We were brainwashed with COBOL, CICS, IBM/360 Assembly, and JCL. When I graduated college, I went to 8086/8 assembler where I stayed for a long time. About the time windows was released I learned C/C++, and then Visual Basic (DOS and windows versions).
Since then, I've learned some Java, PHP, Python, VB.NET, C#, and javascript. I dabbled in forth and a couple others, but never got very far with them. Outside of COBOL, CICS and JCL (What junk), I taught myself everything.
That doesn't count the database stuff.. Dbase, FoxPro, Access, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, and MySQL/MariaDB.
So I hired a bunch of guys to put a roof on my house. They started off great, but after 2 weeks it still wasn't complete, so I went to go up and look. There were nails sticking out all over the place, half of them bent, so I asked the guys what the deal was. Well, they heard of this great new tool called a screwdriver, and they were using it to drive all the nails in.
Needless to say, I gave them all hammers and told them to use it instead. The "new" screwdriver was the wrong tool for the job. 2 weeks later, it still wasn't completed, and I went up to see what the problem was, and there were holes all over the roof where the roofers had missed the nail and put the hammer right through the roof. The guys said this happened quite often, so they had to keep tearing up sections of the roof to replace the wood under the shingles.
And if you don't get the meaning of that... There is no one-size fits all development methodology. Use the best one for the project. And just because you are using the best methodology doesn't mean that incompetence still can't mess things up, regardless. For most of us, this is obvious, but it appears you needed it pointed out to you.
Nah, agile is a tool that works well when dealing with small projects with loosely defined processes that might change rapidly that are usually defined by the end user. Well defined processes, or large projects are usually better served by waterfall at least for the first release that includes the backend and middleware. The front end can then go through many iterative revisions based on user feed back.
Going agile for a well defined large government project was a bad decision whether it ultimately failed or not. Agile is just one tool. You can sometimes use the wrong tool for a project and still get it done, but knowing which is the right tool will always be better.
"If all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like nails"... Quote by someone who understood this.
I think what he means is that he can't use his $2.99 prepaid phone from walmart in his house. Now, he definitely could get satellite internet, and hook up a femtocell using AT&T, but, that isn't worth the cost to him. Of course, he probably could get a T1 run to his house as well, but the $600 outlay, and $250 per month again, isn't worth it to him.
"I can't get" != "I don't the added expense of..."
That probably also includes the lawyers for when a policy holder gets sued by either another insurance company, or an individual. Also, claim expenses, since apparently you can't do math accounts for 15.778% (5240/33210) of revenue (from claims), not 40%.
In any case, they didn't make money on the claims themselves as was stated. If you think that they have too much overhead, that may be a valid argument. Perhaps they could lay off some of their employees to lower it, close down some offices, etc. However, the ease in which I can get a hold of my agent, and the way claims are handled, is exactly why I personally use them. The last thing I want to do when I have a claim to file is to deal with paperwork, and runarounds delaying getting my stuff fixed/repaired and getting back to my life again. You, may choose another company who has less overhead, but more headaches when you have to deal with them for a reduced price. The choice is of course up to you.
I merely picked out one example of one insurance company (in this case, the numbers I gave was for the auto division of state farm), but the claim that they make a ton of profit is pure garbage.
2012 (in millions) Premium Earned $33,210 Paid Claims $21,523 Claim Expenses $5,240 Service & Admin Fees $8,026 --- Underwriting Gain or Loss ($1,579)
So state farm, after paying out the claims, and overhead, lost $1.5 billion dollars in 2012. They made a profit because... "Investment Gain and Other Income" was $3,070, which covered the losses from paying out claims.
Gameboyhippo was correct, and your "theory" is false.
1. How the hell is this going to fare in a real world test where a metropolis of people oversaturates the frequency?
You do realize they said *point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications*, right? How many rural metropolises do you know of?
I'm not sure what "industry" you are in, but I can assure you that the IT and programming sector is far from ruined. Unemployment in our industry is far below the average (slightly under 4%), compared to the 8-9% overall. I haven't met a contractor yet who has been out of work for more than 5 days at a time. When I am between contracts now, I typically don't even start looking until I've been out of my last contract for a couple weeks, just because I know that once I start, I'll be working again that week. In the past few years, I finished a contract, and was hired at my next one in less than 12 hours. The next one, it took 3 days because it was a large corporation. The next round, I looked 3 companies, set up interviews for all 3 the next day, and by the afternoon, I had 4 job offers for me (an old employer heard I was available and put in an offer as well).
If you can't get hired in the IT or programming fields today, you need to take a serious look as to why. More than likely (but not always), your skill set is terrible. And yes, there are a lot of terrible programmers out there, I've interviewed them. Those are the only ones left.
Hmmm... You know that's exactly what is in all government contracts too, right? You can't charge anyone less than what you charge the government for the same thing. Sounds kind of similar.
Re:Three of every eight users still use XP
on
Firefox 21 Arrives
·
· Score: 1
As I understand it, Firefox on Windows XP would have the same problem as Internet Explorer on Windows XP in that it's limited to the codecs that come with the operating system.
A valid concern. That accounts for 3.12% of my users. Add that up with 10.32% of my users who are running IE on XP, and it is still only 13.44%. That number will dwindle away quick enough though. It's been dropping at a fairly quick pace, however. Videos typically aren't absolutely necessary on my site, so if 13% can't see them, and they refuse to either upgrade their browser, or their OS, then that is their choice. It's a large enough chunk that I will leave the current system in place, but I will likely just encode for h.264, and if their browser doesn't support it, then I'll swap out the video tag for a flash player with videojs for now. I'll revisit it in a few months, and any new video going up will be h.264 only.
Even the latest version of GNU/Linux doesn't come with an AVC decoder because of the patent problem. If by "upgrade" you mean switching from GNU/Linux or old Windows to new Windows, you have just turned your site into a pay site if it wasn't before.
True, firefox for linux may not work, but you can always switch to Chrome. I get 0.47% of my traffic from linux, so the few that want to run firefox on it won't be able to view video. Oh well.
I thought Chrome was dropping AVC support as well [chromium.org] due to royalties.
That was 2.5 years ago, and they still haven't dropped it. I suspect they won't, but they could. I'll deal with that (or users can complain to google if they want) when it happens.
Or switch to a competitor's site.
Fortunately, I don't have any competitors worth mentioning, so that's not really a concern at this time, but I realize it might for quite a few web developers out there.
Oh, I agree iTunes is lousy. I hate it. It's the worst media player that I've found, and it's a major reason why when my contract is up, I will not be upgrading to the latest in the iPhone series.
Fortunately, I use Plex for all my mobile media needs, and it works exactly how I want it to. I like XBMC too, but since most of media consumption is via my mobile, I don't have much use for it personally. I just use plex on my phone to send video to my AppleTV.
Re:Three of every eight users still use XP
on
Firefox 21 Arrives
·
· Score: 1
That's great, however, according to my webstats, killing all videos except for h.264 will still cover nearly 100% of my traffic. We don't support IE 8 any longer, so those Windows XP users aren't supported anyway. They only accounted for 10.05% of the web traffic anyway, and while we don't block the site for them, we do have a banner that says their browser isn't supported. Many of those will have an AVC decoder on their system, but not all -- they can upgrade their OS, install Chrome Frame, or switch to another browser.
Not exactly true. You can drop files there yourself too. iTunes will pick up the file and put it into your library. It detects whether the file is a music file, tv show, or movie, then puts it into the library where you'd expect it to. Music files (typically) get moved into My Music\artist\album, tv shows get moved to Tv Shows\Show\Season, and movies get moved to My Movies. I'm not sure about pod casts, eBooks, etc, but I suspect they do the same thing.
Skype messages are sent in the open - like postcards.
And please tell me how to opt out of the spam filtering service on AOL (Which has been doing it for 15+ years?) or some of the other large email providers. Oh wait, you can't completely opt out of many of those either.
Slashdot Mirror
Personally, I prefer BYODs. I couldn't get a SSD into my PC even after I cleared it with IT, and I even bought it for them. It was only after I bought it they changed their mind and refused to either install it, or let me install it. My work PC is 1/3 the speed of my home PC, has 1/10th the disk capacity, and 1/20th the disk speed. Although, they did finally replace my 1280x1024 monitor this year with a 1920x1080 one. If it was a BYOD office, I'd have a much better office PC without their stupid antivirus killing 3 hours every week because it's corporate policy to run it at 12:00 noon instead of 12:00 midnight even though the PC is on 24x7.
That is not english.
what about disasters from BYOD?
What should be capitalized.
Can you bill some for damage with little to no proof? Can you make some go out buy a new system new right after they just got one due to changes in requirements ? What some who is not very technically informed goes and get's the best buy special POS and who fixes that mess?
Can you bill some(one/thing/where?) for damage, with little to no proof? Can you make some(one/thing/where?) go out (and) buy a new system right after they just got one due to changes in requirements? What some(one/thing/where?) who is not very technically informed (I give up, this sentence is just a bunch of random phrases tossed together with no conjunctions).
Atari 2600 Basic Programming.. fun fun... 64 bytes of memory. Quickly moved on to the Atari 800 when it was released, writing in Basic, 6502 Assembler, Pilot (Yay turtle graphics!), and GFA Basic. Then moved on to an Atari 1040ST, again, Basic and Assembler. Then I got my first full time job coding in FoxPro on Unix (Which we had to self-compile) and some Business Basic. We were brainwashed with COBOL, CICS, IBM/360 Assembly, and JCL. When I graduated college, I went to 8086/8 assembler where I stayed for a long time. About the time windows was released I learned C/C++, and then Visual Basic (DOS and windows versions).
Since then, I've learned some Java, PHP, Python, VB.NET, C#, and javascript. I dabbled in forth and a couple others, but never got very far with them. Outside of COBOL, CICS and JCL (What junk), I taught myself everything.
That doesn't count the database stuff.. Dbase, FoxPro, Access, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL, and MySQL/MariaDB.
So I hired a bunch of guys to put a roof on my house. They started off great, but after 2 weeks it still wasn't complete, so I went to go up and look. There were nails sticking out all over the place, half of them bent, so I asked the guys what the deal was. Well, they heard of this great new tool called a screwdriver, and they were using it to drive all the nails in.
Needless to say, I gave them all hammers and told them to use it instead. The "new" screwdriver was the wrong tool for the job. 2 weeks later, it still wasn't completed, and I went up to see what the problem was, and there were holes all over the roof where the roofers had missed the nail and put the hammer right through the roof. The guys said this happened quite often, so they had to keep tearing up sections of the roof to replace the wood under the shingles.
And if you don't get the meaning of that... There is no one-size fits all development methodology. Use the best one for the project. And just because you are using the best methodology doesn't mean that incompetence still can't mess things up, regardless. For most of us, this is obvious, but it appears you needed it pointed out to you.
Nah, agile is a tool that works well when dealing with small projects with loosely defined processes that might change rapidly that are usually defined by the end user. Well defined processes, or large projects are usually better served by waterfall at least for the first release that includes the backend and middleware. The front end can then go through many iterative revisions based on user feed back.
Going agile for a well defined large government project was a bad decision whether it ultimately failed or not. Agile is just one tool. You can sometimes use the wrong tool for a project and still get it done, but knowing which is the right tool will always be better.
"If all you have is a hammer, the whole world looks like nails"... Quote by someone who understood this.
I think what he means is that he can't use his $2.99 prepaid phone from walmart in his house. Now, he definitely could get satellite internet, and hook up a femtocell using AT&T, but, that isn't worth the cost to him. Of course, he probably could get a T1 run to his house as well, but the $600 outlay, and $250 per month again, isn't worth it to him.
"I can't get" != "I don't the added expense of..."
That probably also includes the lawyers for when a policy holder gets sued by either another insurance company, or an individual. Also, claim expenses, since apparently you can't do math accounts for 15.778% (5240/33210) of revenue (from claims), not 40%.
In any case, they didn't make money on the claims themselves as was stated. If you think that they have too much overhead, that may be a valid argument. Perhaps they could lay off some of their employees to lower it, close down some offices, etc. However, the ease in which I can get a hold of my agent, and the way claims are handled, is exactly why I personally use them. The last thing I want to do when I have a claim to file is to deal with paperwork, and runarounds delaying getting my stuff fixed/repaired and getting back to my life again. You, may choose another company who has less overhead, but more headaches when you have to deal with them for a reduced price. The choice is of course up to you.
I merely picked out one example of one insurance company (in this case, the numbers I gave was for the auto division of state farm), but the claim that they make a ton of profit is pure garbage.
Insurance companies have not paid out all dollars taken in for a long time. Investments are not needed for a great many to make huge profits.
Citation please. Here's mine: http://www.statefarm.com/aboutus/_pdf/2012_annual_report.pdf
2012 (in millions)
Premium Earned $33,210
Paid Claims $21,523
Claim Expenses $5,240
Service & Admin Fees $8,026
---
Underwriting Gain or Loss ($1,579)
So state farm, after paying out the claims, and overhead, lost $1.5 billion dollars in 2012. They made a profit because... "Investment Gain and Other Income" was $3,070, which covered the losses from paying out claims.
Gameboyhippo was correct, and your "theory" is false.
1. How the hell is this going to fare in a real world test where a metropolis of people oversaturates the frequency?
You do realize they said *point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications*, right? How many rural metropolises do you know of?
What part of "uncontrolled" did you not understand?
Please, if you have uncontrolled epilepsy, GET THE HELL OFF THE ROAD. Seriously.
I'm not sure what "industry" you are in, but I can assure you that the IT and programming sector is far from ruined. Unemployment in our industry is far below the average (slightly under 4%), compared to the 8-9% overall. I haven't met a contractor yet who has been out of work for more than 5 days at a time. When I am between contracts now, I typically don't even start looking until I've been out of my last contract for a couple weeks, just because I know that once I start, I'll be working again that week. In the past few years, I finished a contract, and was hired at my next one in less than 12 hours. The next one, it took 3 days because it was a large corporation. The next round, I looked 3 companies, set up interviews for all 3 the next day, and by the afternoon, I had 4 job offers for me (an old employer heard I was available and put in an offer as well).
If you can't get hired in the IT or programming fields today, you need to take a serious look as to why. More than likely (but not always), your skill set is terrible. And yes, there are a lot of terrible programmers out there, I've interviewed them. Those are the only ones left.
Hmmm... You know that's exactly what is in all government contracts too, right? You can't charge anyone less than what you charge the government for the same thing. Sounds kind of similar.
As I understand it, Firefox on Windows XP would have the same problem as Internet Explorer on Windows XP in that it's limited to the codecs that come with the operating system.
A valid concern. That accounts for 3.12% of my users. Add that up with 10.32% of my users who are running IE on XP, and it is still only 13.44%. That number will dwindle away quick enough though. It's been dropping at a fairly quick pace, however. Videos typically aren't absolutely necessary on my site, so if 13% can't see them, and they refuse to either upgrade their browser, or their OS, then that is their choice. It's a large enough chunk that I will leave the current system in place, but I will likely just encode for h.264, and if their browser doesn't support it, then I'll swap out the video tag for a flash player with videojs for now. I'll revisit it in a few months, and any new video going up will be h.264 only.
Even the latest version of GNU/Linux doesn't come with an AVC decoder because of the patent problem. If by "upgrade" you mean switching from GNU/Linux or old Windows to new Windows, you have just turned your site into a pay site if it wasn't before.
True, firefox for linux may not work, but you can always switch to Chrome. I get 0.47% of my traffic from linux, so the few that want to run firefox on it won't be able to view video. Oh well.
I thought Chrome was dropping AVC support as well [chromium.org] due to royalties.
That was 2.5 years ago, and they still haven't dropped it. I suspect they won't, but they could. I'll deal with that (or users can complain to google if they want) when it happens.
Or switch to a competitor's site.
Fortunately, I don't have any competitors worth mentioning, so that's not really a concern at this time, but I realize it might for quite a few web developers out there.
Oh, I agree iTunes is lousy. I hate it. It's the worst media player that I've found, and it's a major reason why when my contract is up, I will not be upgrading to the latest in the iPhone series.
Fortunately, I use Plex for all my mobile media needs, and it works exactly how I want it to. I like XBMC too, but since most of media consumption is via my mobile, I don't have much use for it personally. I just use plex on my phone to send video to my AppleTV.
That's great, however, according to my webstats, killing all videos except for h.264 will still cover nearly 100% of my traffic. We don't support IE 8 any longer, so those Windows XP users aren't supported anyway. They only accounted for 10.05% of the web traffic anyway, and while we don't block the site for them, we do have a banner that says their browser isn't supported. Many of those will have an AVC decoder on their system, but not all -- they can upgrade their OS, install Chrome Frame, or switch to another browser.
Not exactly true. You can drop files there yourself too. iTunes will pick up the file and put it into your library. It detects whether the file is a music file, tv show, or movie, then puts it into the library where you'd expect it to. Music files (typically) get moved into My Music\artist\album, tv shows get moved to Tv Shows\Show\Season, and movies get moved to My Movies. I'm not sure about pod casts, eBooks, etc, but I suspect they do the same thing.
Not enough marketshare to care about.
Look for the folder named "Automatically Add to iTunes", then drop a media file into it and see what happens.
Yeah, that doesn't work well either, and requires iTunes to be running anyhow.
And here I thought it was caused by clueless people spouting hot air.
Skype messages are sent in the open - like postcards.
And please tell me how to opt out of the spam filtering service on AOL (Which has been doing it for 15+ years?) or some of the other large email providers. Oh wait, you can't completely opt out of many of those either.
Not according to my website stats, which is all I really care about.
1. Internet Explorer 9.0 18.40%
2. Chrome 26.0.1410.64 13.07%
3. Internet Explorer 8.0 10.79%
4. Safari 6.0 10.13%
5. Internet Explorer 10.0 9.79%
6. Firefox 20.0 7.53%
7. Android Browser 4.0 3.58%
8. Safari (in-app) (not set) 1.51%
9. Firefox 16.0.1 1.50%
10. Internet Explorer 7.0 1.46%
They should just retire the version numbers, and just number them by the date and time they release it.
I'm running Firefox 20130514154005!
The firefox PDF reader is horrible!