I have been trying to find the reference again, but I am not able to find it. Definitely will post it when I find it. I will ask in Pandas Thumb. That is the watering hole for many field biologists.
All these Agile techniques are fundamentally based on the assumption the work can be broken down into smaller and smaller units, and these small work units can be completed by any available resource. When this assumption is valid, Agile can work. Some simple web projects, data base projects and GUI projects come to my mind. Agile has proven to be enormously successful in production tooling and manufacturing. (Not the IT of manufacturing, the actual nuts and bolts assembly of cars etc).
But when the work involves specialists, when specialists are short in supply, the backlog is going to build on one or two team members. And the others won't be able to plunge in to give a hand even if they are not loaded. You can deploy the silver card all you want, and draw every resource from the entire company. But if the crisis is a class 3 error reported by a nuclear power plant in one of the simulations used to design the peak load on a hydraulic pump, and only two guys in the whole company have the PhD in CFD to understand the k-epsilon turbulence modeling code written ages ago.... It is not going to help. Even in the most highly venerated Toyota, uses Agile only for production tooling, not for their R&D divisions.
The only good thing I like about Agile, is that it forces the managers to actually look at the amount of resources that are available. Done correctly, it can help avoid feature creep, and reduce the amount of vaporware promised by the sales department to close the deals.
Until someone develops some AI to mine all this data for the weakest members of that herd. That's how lions hunt. They don't go looking for one particular zebra. They just spot the one who stands out as being just a bit slower than the rest.
All the lions need is really a marker for a particular zebra. The whole idea of black and white pattern of Zebra is to confuse the lions about where one Zebra ends and another Zebra begins in the visual field of the lions. So the lions keep chasing the entire herd till one of the tire or stumble. Then they focus on that zebra.
But when the researchers tagged zebras with collars or markers they found the marked zebra gets killed within a week, often within two days. No amount of washing off, no amount of cleaning and grooming would allow a zebra that has been sprayed with marker paint, even if it was with invisible ultraviolet dye marker, to blend with the herd. If the lions can focus on one zebra in the herd, no matter how healthy and strong it is, they can bring it down. They take turns to chase it and they chase it till it tires so much it falls behind.
It actually proves your point even more strongly. Unless you can blend as good as a zebra blends with a herd, you will be hunted down by the lions. Herd is not a protection.
Actually, prior art only refers to prior patents (why wouldn't you have patented it, if you really invented it??) and in any case, the new rule is "first to file", not "first to invent", so prior art will no longer even have zero relevance.
I am very sure no one has file a patent for cooking food with fire. So that is patentable under the, "not first to invent, but first to file" rule?
Then they will patent this too. I am sure, right now an East Texas is lawyer is cutting and pasting your posting into a patent application, as I type this.
It would be awfully convenient if the value of pi is 3, instead of that stupid never ending decimal 3.141592654... So hope they will change it too. May be with retrospective effect so that I could go back to my grade school and have my math grade changed. "Mrs McGuillacady, the answer you marked wrong is correct now. So you owe me a passing grade".
I am totally surprised by this discussion in slashdot. Almost everyone agrees this Blurry DVD is superior to regular DVD. Come on how can something called Blurry DVD be superior to regular DVD? On top of that most of these devices are out sourced to China where they don't even know how to spell Blurry. I have seen so many units marked Blueray.
All that talk about not being evil is all fine and dandy. But how come Android does not have a decent off line map application? They say Google maps works fine in iPad/iPhone. But in Android, if you don't have a data plan, it simply does not work [*]
GPS is free. In fact first few phones with GPS were totally offline operations with the maps cached locally not forcing a data plan. But pretty quickly the carriers and hand set makers colluded to make it non workable and they all peddle dataplans at various levels. That Google is also aiding and abetting these nickel and diming makes me mad. Mind you, I have been as anti-Microsoft and as fanboi-yi Google as anyone in slashdot. I am not really looking for turn by turn navigation etc. Simply get directions while on WiFi, cache all the intervening map tiles, fuel stops, restaurants, hotels along the way. Just locate me on the map with GPS. That is all I ask for. But you can't get it in Android without a data plan. Some app called MapDroyd is rated to be the best for offline GPS on Android. It does not work well.
So people contributing to crowd sourced maps should demand that Google release a decent working version of offline google maps for Android, on par with iOS versions.
[*] Yes, there are many reasons to have an Android phone without a data plan. WiFi calling helps you avoid international roaming charges. WiFi connection painlessly syncs your calender, to do list and contacts with gmail. Android forces the handset makers to use standard USB chargers. You can get a low end Android with these benefits for about the same price as a well equipped non smart phone. Of course, high end Android might not make sense without a data plan.
. 'Our question to Facebook is this — why wait until regulators force your hand on privacy? Act now for the greater good of all.'"
Why lose all that oodles of money that they could make by selling access to the users' personal data to dataminer? Facebook is not a charity. It is there to make money. It has to make money at some blistering pace, even if it is sustainable for just a short duration. Long enough for the founders and sugar daddy venture capitalists to dump stock and realize the gains. Then... well, who cares what happens then.
Come on. Bible does not talk about American Exceptionalism, nor our inherent right to bomb any nation into oblivion, not even why He buried our oil under their sand. Still we know these are all true.
It is not clear from the link if it is going to have a warm water bidet. No dear, Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, adding a T junction at the gate vale and hand shower is definitely not acceptable. Seats with integrated bidet costs only 700$. But it too does not implement the warm water delivery correctly. If some one makes an electric heater with a thermostat, with the temp sensor in the outlet, and the nozzles pointed down till out put water reaches the correct temp in the integrated bidet-seat, there is a killing to be made in the America serving the East/South Asian population.
Most people are familiar with the out dated ancient technology used by most computer users. The username + password system. Basically any one can know your username. But only you know the password. That is the basic idea of protection in this system. Cyber security experts are nearly unanimous in saying this does not provide for adequate security. So the new system has been founded on a fantastic new paradigm
It completely dispenses with the password. It is your responsibility to protect your username. If anyone from Nigeria to Nantucket know your identification code, it means they are authorized to do any financial transaction on your behalf. This breakthrough technology makes it possible for the people creating new and exciting contracts under 409 clause to not only draw money from your bank, but also from your brokerage account, and also change your network log in id and to rearrange your netflix queue and use ftp to open your garage doors Imagine! The New possibilities!
Most windows non-corporate users do not upgrade. They use the machine as it came out of the box. It accumulates crud, toolbars, mangled registry due to partially installed and uninstalled code, may be viruses too and eventually becomes unusable. They would throw the whole machine in garbage and buy a shiny new machine and start over.
Among the corporate customers, people who are still clinging to XP are doing so to get their brain dead intra corporation applications that needs IE6. In an earlier era they bought the kool-aid "IE is going to be the front end for all corporate application". So they developed inventory control systems or customer relations database on IE6. Now the original contractors who developed it are gone. The developers are gone. Mostly the original owners are also gone. The company has been sold and bought couple of times. These guys will never upgrade as long as they need IE6.
Corporate customers not needing IE6, usually work in mixed systems, and they dont upgrade old machines. They just buy newer machines with whatever is the latest. Many of them are going to virtualized solutions and they might never ever upgrade.
Well, they told the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission that IE is integral part of Windows. Then they worked hard to intermingle to code so much that that statement would become true. Now they are stuck with the spaghetti code that can not be cleanly unraveled.
You have any numbers to back up the claims like expenditures are twice the revenues?
Govt collected 1.1 Trillion in individual income taxes, another 0.7 trillion in social security and medicare taxes. Corporate income tax was hardly 0.4 trillion dollars. The 0.5 trillion dollar current year deficit is mostly due to the wars. So what do we do? Cut education, arts, infrastructure and give six thousand dollars to 80 year old geezers and ask them to buy private health insurance with that.
Where are the bond vigilantes? If the currency is going to collapse, people like George Soros would short dollar like anything to make a killing. They are all shorting the yen and euro.
Less than six percent is shown to be spent on interest on borrowing. Not an undue burden, not something we need obsess with till we climb out of the recession.
Remember, Regan borrowed 450 billion dollars, at 10% interest rate. It was just after Carter era inflation. Obama was borrowing at 2% and 2.5% when the economy was at the bottom. He could borrow easily three to four times what Regan borrowed at the same interest load. Given the growth in the size of the economy and the deficit is not as big as the Republicans and Tea partiers make it out to be. Also they are not really deficit hawks, they blew up the deficit every time they had their hand in the till.
We are able to do this because, USA is still the world's reserve currency, one bond that has never ever defaulted. If tea partiers manage to spook the world about the credit rating of US Treasury Bonds, US would become a third world country. The Tea party crowd does not care. All they want is their in charge so that all the government expenses,never mind the deficits, happen according to their political objectives.
The record labels are stuck with a business model that is fast losing ground and along with that their market valuation is plunging. In a decade, forget Google, you or I can buy it with the nickels and dimes we find in sofa cushions. Already serious people have dumped the stock, and it is owned by the lawyer groups and the music equivalents of patent trolls. They are already dreaming, they would be able to sue Google and force it buy it from them.
Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Ayn Rand collected a total of $11,002 in Social Security payments.
Now you know why Republicans keep advocating for low taxes but not for no taxes. They want to be able to say in the future while living on government dole, "yeah, but back in 1993 I paid 2 whole dollars and 32 red cents in taxes, buddy. I have earned what is comin' to me. It is them welfare queens who are the leeches of the society."
That much stress on "natively" does not make sense. Looks like they are fighting some kind of rearguard/flankguard action with VMWare, rather than with Firefox or Chrome.
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I have been trying to find the reference again, but I am not able to find it. Definitely will post it when I find it. I will ask in Pandas Thumb. That is the watering hole for many field biologists.
But when the work involves specialists, when specialists are short in supply, the backlog is going to build on one or two team members. And the others won't be able to plunge in to give a hand even if they are not loaded. You can deploy the silver card all you want, and draw every resource from the entire company. But if the crisis is a class 3 error reported by a nuclear power plant in one of the simulations used to design the peak load on a hydraulic pump, and only two guys in the whole company have the PhD in CFD to understand the k-epsilon turbulence modeling code written ages ago.... It is not going to help. Even in the most highly venerated Toyota, uses Agile only for production tooling, not for their R&D divisions.
The only good thing I like about Agile, is that it forces the managers to actually look at the amount of resources that are available. Done correctly, it can help avoid feature creep, and reduce the amount of vaporware promised by the sales department to close the deals.
Until someone develops some AI to mine all this data for the weakest members of that herd. That's how lions hunt. They don't go looking for one particular zebra. They just spot the one who stands out as being just a bit slower than the rest.
All the lions need is really a marker for a particular zebra. The whole idea of black and white pattern of Zebra is to confuse the lions about where one Zebra ends and another Zebra begins in the visual field of the lions. So the lions keep chasing the entire herd till one of the tire or stumble. Then they focus on that zebra.
But when the researchers tagged zebras with collars or markers they found the marked zebra gets killed within a week, often within two days. No amount of washing off, no amount of cleaning and grooming would allow a zebra that has been sprayed with marker paint, even if it was with invisible ultraviolet dye marker, to blend with the herd. If the lions can focus on one zebra in the herd, no matter how healthy and strong it is, they can bring it down. They take turns to chase it and they chase it till it tires so much it falls behind.
It actually proves your point even more strongly. Unless you can blend as good as a zebra blends with a herd, you will be hunted down by the lions. Herd is not a protection.
We should do that. Take the position taken by these trolls to extreme lengths to show what a farce it is.
Then you should patent that process too and prohibit anyone from using it. :-)
Actually, prior art only refers to prior patents (why wouldn't you have patented it, if you really invented it??) and in any case, the new rule is "first to file", not "first to invent", so prior art will no longer even have zero relevance.
I am very sure no one has file a patent for cooking food with fire. So that is patentable under the, "not first to invent, but first to file" rule?
Then they will patent this too. I am sure, right now an East Texas is lawyer is cutting and pasting your posting into a patent application, as I type this.
It would be awfully convenient if the value of pi is 3, instead of that stupid never ending decimal 3.141592654... So hope they will change it too. May be with retrospective effect so that I could go back to my grade school and have my math grade changed. "Mrs McGuillacady, the answer you marked wrong is correct now. So you owe me a passing grade".
Like if it refuses to index sites in East Texas would the other businesses there sit up and clean up the mess there?
I am totally surprised by this discussion in slashdot. Almost everyone agrees this Blurry DVD is superior to regular DVD. Come on how can something called Blurry DVD be superior to regular DVD? On top of that most of these devices are out sourced to China where they don't even know how to spell Blurry. I have seen so many units marked Blueray.
GPS is free. In fact first few phones with GPS were totally offline operations with the maps cached locally not forcing a data plan. But pretty quickly the carriers and hand set makers colluded to make it non workable and they all peddle dataplans at various levels. That Google is also aiding and abetting these nickel and diming makes me mad. Mind you, I have been as anti-Microsoft and as fanboi-yi Google as anyone in slashdot. I am not really looking for turn by turn navigation etc. Simply get directions while on WiFi, cache all the intervening map tiles, fuel stops, restaurants, hotels along the way. Just locate me on the map with GPS. That is all I ask for. But you can't get it in Android without a data plan. Some app called MapDroyd is rated to be the best for offline GPS on Android. It does not work well.
So people contributing to crowd sourced maps should demand that Google release a decent working version of offline google maps for Android, on par with iOS versions.
[*] Yes, there are many reasons to have an Android phone without a data plan. WiFi calling helps you avoid international roaming charges. WiFi connection painlessly syncs your calender, to do list and contacts with gmail. Android forces the handset makers to use standard USB chargers. You can get a low end Android with these benefits for about the same price as a well equipped non smart phone. Of course, high end Android might not make sense without a data plan.
. 'Our question to Facebook is this — why wait until regulators force your hand on privacy? Act now for the greater good of all.'"
Why lose all that oodles of money that they could make by selling access to the users' personal data to dataminer? Facebook is not a charity. It is there to make money. It has to make money at some blistering pace, even if it is sustainable for just a short duration. Long enough for the founders and sugar daddy venture capitalists to dump stock and realize the gains. Then... well, who cares what happens then.
Come on. Bible does not talk about American Exceptionalism, nor our inherent right to bomb any nation into oblivion, not even why He buried our oil under their sand. Still we know these are all true.
It is not clear from the link if it is going to have a warm water bidet. No dear, Indian/Pakistani/Bangladeshi, adding a T junction at the gate vale and hand shower is definitely not acceptable. Seats with integrated bidet costs only 700$. But it too does not implement the warm water delivery correctly. If some one makes an electric heater with a thermostat, with the temp sensor in the outlet, and the nozzles pointed down till out put water reaches the correct temp in the integrated bidet-seat, there is a killing to be made in the America serving the East/South Asian population.
It completely dispenses with the password. It is your responsibility to protect your username. If anyone from Nigeria to Nantucket know your identification code, it means they are authorized to do any financial transaction on your behalf. This breakthrough technology makes it possible for the people creating new and exciting contracts under 409 clause to not only draw money from your bank, but also from your brokerage account, and also change your network log in id and to rearrange your netflix queue and use ftp to open your garage doors Imagine! The New possibilities!
You jerk!. Why I called you a jerk?
Among the corporate customers, people who are still clinging to XP are doing so to get their brain dead intra corporation applications that needs IE6. In an earlier era they bought the kool-aid "IE is going to be the front end for all corporate application". So they developed inventory control systems or customer relations database on IE6. Now the original contractors who developed it are gone. The developers are gone. Mostly the original owners are also gone. The company has been sold and bought couple of times. These guys will never upgrade as long as they need IE6.
Corporate customers not needing IE6, usually work in mixed systems, and they dont upgrade old machines. They just buy newer machines with whatever is the latest. Many of them are going to virtualized solutions and they might never ever upgrade.
Well, they told the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission that IE is integral part of Windows. Then they worked hard to intermingle to code so much that that statement would become true. Now they are stuck with the spaghetti code that can not be cleanly unraveled.
Govt collected 1.1 Trillion in individual income taxes, another 0.7 trillion in social security and medicare taxes. Corporate income tax was hardly 0.4 trillion dollars. The 0.5 trillion dollar current year deficit is mostly due to the wars. So what do we do? Cut education, arts, infrastructure and give six thousand dollars to 80 year old geezers and ask them to buy private health insurance with that.
Where are the bond vigilantes? If the currency is going to collapse, people like George Soros would short dollar like anything to make a killing. They are all shorting the yen and euro.
Remember, Regan borrowed 450 billion dollars, at 10% interest rate. It was just after Carter era inflation. Obama was borrowing at 2% and 2.5% when the economy was at the bottom. He could borrow easily three to four times what Regan borrowed at the same interest load. Given the growth in the size of the economy and the deficit is not as big as the Republicans and Tea partiers make it out to be. Also they are not really deficit hawks, they blew up the deficit every time they had their hand in the till.
We are able to do this because, USA is still the world's reserve currency, one bond that has never ever defaulted. If tea partiers manage to spook the world about the credit rating of US Treasury Bonds, US would become a third world country. The Tea party crowd does not care. All they want is their in charge so that all the government expenses,never mind the deficits, happen according to their political objectives.
The record labels are stuck with a business model that is fast losing ground and along with that their market valuation is plunging. In a decade, forget Google, you or I can buy it with the nickels and dimes we find in sofa cushions. Already serious people have dumped the stock, and it is owned by the lawyer groups and the music equivalents of patent trolls. They are already dreaming, they would be able to sue Google and force it buy it from them.
Between December 1974 and her death in March 1982, Ayn Rand collected a total of $11,002 in Social Security payments.
Now you know why Republicans keep advocating for low taxes but not for no taxes. They want to be able to say in the future while living on government dole, "yeah, but back in 1993 I paid 2 whole dollars and 32 red cents in taxes, buddy. I have earned what is comin' to me. It is them welfare queens who are the leeches of the society."
... the Trojan wears you.
That much stress on "natively" does not make sense. Looks like they are fighting some kind of rearguard/flankguard action with VMWare, rather than with Firefox or Chrome.
OMG, OMG. So who found this thing? John Galt?