Under Windows, installing PG is a no-brainer with the installer.
Its still more work than installing MySQL on Windows, though its not a lot more and its work that shouldn't be a big deal in a production database server.
Since its not a DoD project, and even the DoD doesn't mandate Ada anymore, even in the loose "you must justify not using" sense of "mandate", I'm going to guess "no".
Not true... cost plus is good if you don't want the "lowest bidder" mentality. Although underhanded tactics will inevitably exist, NASA only pays contractors cost plus a FIXED profit for the contractor.
Many of the costs (e.g., labor costs) are profits to people involved in the project (and in many cases, in the decision making relating to how the project gets done), though they aren't part of the "fixed profit" added on to the "costs".
Not true... cost plus is good if you don't want the "lowest bidder" mentality.
Fixed-price contracts (the main alternative to "cost-plus" contracts) don't need to be "lowest bidder" (and cost-plus contracts can be to lowest bidders). The incetive problem cost-plus contracts notionally fix isn't a real problem with fixed-price contracts: that is the notional incentive in fixed-price contracts to cut corners, which is a problem of contractor oversight not fixed-price nature (in a cost-plus contract, the same lack of oversight is more likely to lead to padding costs, but the net result is that the entity contracting for services doesn't get value for its money, the same as in the corner-cutting case). The valid concern cost-plus contracts address is the absence of flexibility to deal with problems that could not reasonably have been anticipated when the contract was let; with proper oversight, cost-plus contracts would be a good way of dealing with this problem. The problem in government contracting (fixed-cost or cost-plus) is with contract oversight.
I'd be interested to know what America Online's Non-Online division does.
I think the network access and advertising components were split sometime in the last year, with talk about Time-Warner planning to sell off the former. If that is correct, my assumption (which may be wrong) would be that the "Online division" that Microsoft would be courting would be the access piece, with AOL's dwindling base of remaining subscribers.
Should America adopt universal health insurance, could we live to see the same kind of individual health regulations imposed on us by the government?
Probably not. Neither could most people in most countries with universal healthcare, which is why most countries with universal healthcare don't impose this kind of regulation.
Eich does not expect Firefox support for JavaScript 2 until at least Version 3.1 of the browser.
That's kind of misleading: What he actually says (from TFA) is "They won't be in Firefox 3. They won't be in probably the 3.1 that we've talked about doing, but they might be in our [nightly] builds, our trunk builds. It'll be like a draft version of the spec, so we might call it JavaScript 1.9 or 1.99. We don't want to get people to confuse it with what becomes the final spec, but we have to be able to test it with real programmers and get usability feedback."
You do realize, don't you, that humans have been managing projects for millenia before IT was a gleam in someone's eye?
You do realize, don't you, that that fact is completely irrelevant to what the driving force is behind modern project management practices is? Yes, people have been managing projects since there have been humans. But for most of that time, "project management", as such, hasn't been a recognized distinct discipline with an associated body of knowledge, both that fairly recent recognition and the techniques associated with the modern field of project management largely came through the IT field, which is one reason that many firms that have distinct project management offices have those located in their IT shops even if IT is a support function and not the firm's main business.
For example, law in the United States uses Black's Law Dictionary [wikipedia.org], falling back to Merriam-Webster for any other words.
Actually, IME (as a law student), Black's is a convenient and useful resource in law because it cites back to original sources. Definitions in law are dependent on the legal context, and ultimately driven by the applicable case law, regulation, statute, Constitutional provisions, etc. Black's links back to those, and is therefore a useful tool (though not, as you seem to suggest, the final word) in finding the applicable definition for the particular context at issue.
(And when definitions of words in common use, rather than technical legal terms, are needed, there isn't a single English-language dictionary resorted to -- I've seen Merriam-Webster, American Heritage, and others cited -- but the pre-eminent one seems to be, as outside of law, the OED.)
Word format documents probably hold 80% of the world's knowledge. Including tons of publicly funded stuff - eg laws, research, etc.
The "system of record" for most, if not all, bodies of law is hardcopy; even the principal electronic format is rarely, if ever,.doc for those. I doubt 1% of the world's knowledge that is somewhere reduced to electronic format is available in Word format, and even less exclusively in that format.
Actually, truth tends to die above the thermocline. It's the folks in the trenches who usually have the best idea as to what's going on.
I would suspect (certainly, in the cases I've seen it seems to be the case) that there is truth on either side of the thermocline that doesn't get to the other that is relevant to the success of the project. Of course, from the perspective of executive leadership that isn't getting the truth about what is going on in the project, the truth they aren't getting is far more important than the truth from their side that isn't crossing the thermocline down into the project group. And, if they realize there is a problem with information going down, they can rectify it without adverse career consequences; the reverse is not nearly as often the case (and even where it is, may be perceived not to be, preventing attempts.)
I have been saying this for years to anyone who would listen. People just seem to think that there is something special about software that makes it immune to normal project management procedures.
Which is odd, given that the "normal project management procedures" are largely derived from IT project management.
I agree that the developer here was leaning more to the "black hat" side of this grey area, and should have credited the screenshots, but derivative works require some source of derivation do they not?
A derivative work without permission is also a copyright violation. To legally create a derivative work of a copyright protected work, you must get permission from the copyright holder.
Maybe calling this "Fair Use" is stretching usage rights and derivative work a bit
Its stretching "fair use" beyond recognition; also creating "derivative work" isn't a right the public has, it is one of the exclusive rights protected by copyright.
but the same can be said of calling this "plagiarism" as it also stretches the point just a bit beyond credulity.
Well, no. Passing off other people's work as your own is plagiarism, irrespective of whether it is also a copyright violation. If credit was given, it might not be plagiarism, but it would still be a copyright violation if permission hadn't been secured. There is nothing stretched about calling this plagiarism or copyright violation.
Royalties, licensing fees and corporate secrecy make creating derivative works too expensive for many artists.
Yes, they do. So what?
The notion of intellectual property now extends well beyond its historical origins and the laws governing IP are being wielded like a sledgehammer.
To the extent that's true, its completely irrelevant to this case; the copyright violations at issue are not recent creations (which would make the "historical origins" part relevant), nor is anyone suggesting they should be subject to any punishments for such violations that would not have been applied before any recent upswing in IP enforcement (which would make your "like a sledgehammer" bit relevant.)
Heck, I use the background images from Bejeweled as wallpaper. Does that make me an IP infringer?
Using an asset from a game you have purchased outside of the game is not infringement, except perhaps if it is prohibited by a somehow-valid rather-restrictive license, which is unlikely.
If I give the wallpaper to the guy in the next office am I then a pirate?
Well, "pirate" isn't a technical term, but, yes, redistributing copyright-protected material without permission of the copyright holder is an infringement, and this doesn't seem anywhere near any of the exceptions (fair use, etc.)
This is simple Fair use IMHO
Commercial use of others copyright-protected work outside of an educational or scientific context and without any apparent attempt to provide commentary seems pretty far outside of "fair use", given the considerations defined in law as determining "fair use". Fair use, as a legal exception to copyright, isn't just "use in any way that seems fair to someone".
Everyone, repeat after me: Project Managers are NOT Managers . They are glorified Excel & chart monkeys that are expected to report to their boss how well it is going without having any authority at all to actually get reliable data, much less influence what happens.
Project managers may or may not be managers, but if they don't have the authority to actually manage their project, then that's the first (and likely a critical) project management failure affecting the project. And if there only skills are as "chart and excel monkeys", then that's another pretty serious failure.
We've all gotten burned on projects that got out of hand, but I often wonder why it happens, over and over. Hubris?
I would say, most often, that it's the opposite. Timidity, instead of hubris. Project managers not wanting to say "no" to people on their team, or not willing to explain the risks and consequences to superiors, and thus letting projects drift and hoping that they will be rescued by good luck, promotion, or at least finding something to blame failure on before the whole thing comes crashing down.
I lived in France from 95-98, and I used the minitel for everything from directory assistance (ie - electronic phone book) to buying train tickets.
Yeah, by 95-98, I'd imagine the Minitel probably seemed pretty lame compared to the WWW. But the Minitel was introduced in the early 1982, and compared to what the US had readily available then, it doesn't look so bad.
Too many times have I had the misfortune to come into contact with someone who thinks that they are infallible and can walk on water simply because they have a degree.
...when, in reality, while there is a correlation between infallibility and water walking, on the one hand, and having a degree, on the other, the latter doesn't cause the former, they just vary together because they share a common cause?
(Otherwise, what does this have to do with the correlation vs. causation issue?)
You obviously have all your "science" education from high school or some engineering college. Only certain fields in physics and chemistry rely on controlled experiments or even have the possibility to do them.
Um, all science relies on controlled experiments. Statistical controls are controls, too.
It is kinda like the internet, but you have to pay per-minute access fees, have slower connections, limited functionality, and have to work through a monopolistic PTT.
As opposed to what the telecoms are pushing for today with metered usage, P2P obstruction, throttling, etc., which is kinda like the internet, but you have to pay per-gigabyte access fees on top of monthly capacity fees, have slower connections except where the other end has paid a premium to be allowed to send you data at full speed, and have to work through a monopolistic telco.
OTOH, when the minitel was first around, what you mostly had in the US was dialup local BBS's, which mostly had eitehr no or non-realtime connections between eachother, or walled-garden services like CompuServe, etc., which were either pay-per minute or had there most attractive features charged that way.
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Living in California's Central Valley, that's a big win: not only do you save on lighting costs, you save on air conditioning costs as well.
Its still more work than installing MySQL on Windows, though its not a lot more and its work that shouldn't be a big deal in a production database server.
Since its not a DoD project, and even the DoD doesn't mandate Ada anymore, even in the loose "you must justify not using" sense of "mandate", I'm going to guess "no".
Many of the costs (e.g., labor costs) are profits to people involved in the project (and in many cases, in the decision making relating to how the project gets done), though they aren't part of the "fixed profit" added on to the "costs".
Fixed-price contracts (the main alternative to "cost-plus" contracts) don't need to be "lowest bidder" (and cost-plus contracts can be to lowest bidders). The incetive problem cost-plus contracts notionally fix isn't a real problem with fixed-price contracts: that is the notional incentive in fixed-price contracts to cut corners, which is a problem of contractor oversight not fixed-price nature (in a cost-plus contract, the same lack of oversight is more likely to lead to padding costs, but the net result is that the entity contracting for services doesn't get value for its money, the same as in the corner-cutting case). The valid concern cost-plus contracts address is the absence of flexibility to deal with problems that could not reasonably have been anticipated when the contract was let; with proper oversight, cost-plus contracts would be a good way of dealing with this problem. The problem in government contracting (fixed-cost or cost-plus) is with contract oversight.
I think the network access and advertising components were split sometime in the last year, with talk about Time-Warner planning to sell off the former. If that is correct, my assumption (which may be wrong) would be that the "Online division" that Microsoft would be courting would be the access piece, with AOL's dwindling base of remaining subscribers.
XML's not really good at being human-readable, either.
About the only thing XML is really good at is "being widely supported by available tools", which is often quite important.
Probably not. Neither could most people in most countries with universal healthcare, which is why most countries with universal healthcare don't impose this kind of regulation.
That's kind of misleading: What he actually says (from TFA) is "They won't be in Firefox 3. They won't be in probably the 3.1 that we've talked about doing, but they might be in our [nightly] builds, our trunk builds. It'll be like a draft version of the spec, so we might call it JavaScript 1.9 or 1.99. We don't want to get people to confuse it with what becomes the final spec, but we have to be able to test it with real programmers and get usability feedback."
Eich says: "Some of these techniques, like HotRuby, actually translate Ruby into JavaScript."
HotRuby implements, in JavaScript, a VM that executes Ruby 1.9 bytecode; it does not translate Ruby into JavaScript.
You do realize, don't you, that that fact is completely irrelevant to what the driving force is behind modern project management practices is? Yes, people have been managing projects since there have been humans. But for most of that time, "project management", as such, hasn't been a recognized distinct discipline with an associated body of knowledge, both that fairly recent recognition and the techniques associated with the modern field of project management largely came through the IT field, which is one reason that many firms that have distinct project management offices have those located in their IT shops even if IT is a support function and not the firm's main business.
Its not, so there is no reason to even consider what comes after this premise.
Actually, IME (as a law student), Black's is a convenient and useful resource in law because it cites back to original sources. Definitions in law are dependent on the legal context, and ultimately driven by the applicable case law, regulation, statute, Constitutional provisions, etc. Black's links back to those, and is therefore a useful tool (though not, as you seem to suggest, the final word) in finding the applicable definition for the particular context at issue.
(And when definitions of words in common use, rather than technical legal terms, are needed, there isn't a single English-language dictionary resorted to -- I've seen Merriam-Webster, American Heritage, and others cited -- but the pre-eminent one seems to be, as outside of law, the OED.)
The "system of record" for most, if not all, bodies of law is hardcopy; even the principal electronic format is rarely, if ever, .doc for those. I doubt 1% of the world's knowledge that is somewhere reduced to electronic format is available in Word format, and even less exclusively in that format.
I would suspect (certainly, in the cases I've seen it seems to be the case) that there is truth on either side of the thermocline that doesn't get to the other that is relevant to the success of the project. Of course, from the perspective of executive leadership that isn't getting the truth about what is going on in the project, the truth they aren't getting is far more important than the truth from their side that isn't crossing the thermocline down into the project group. And, if they realize there is a problem with information going down, they can rectify it without adverse career consequences; the reverse is not nearly as often the case (and even where it is, may be perceived not to be, preventing attempts.)
Which is odd, given that the "normal project management procedures" are largely derived from IT project management.
A derivative work without permission is also a copyright violation. To legally create a derivative work of a copyright protected work, you must get permission from the copyright holder.
Its stretching "fair use" beyond recognition; also creating "derivative work" isn't a right the public has, it is one of the exclusive rights protected by copyright.
Well, no. Passing off other people's work as your own is plagiarism, irrespective of whether it is also a copyright violation. If credit was given, it might not be plagiarism, but it would still be a copyright violation if permission hadn't been secured. There is nothing stretched about calling this plagiarism or copyright violation.
Yes, they do. So what?
To the extent that's true, its completely irrelevant to this case; the copyright violations at issue are not recent creations (which would make the "historical origins" part relevant), nor is anyone suggesting they should be subject to any punishments for such violations that would not have been applied before any recent upswing in IP enforcement (which would make your "like a sledgehammer" bit relevant.)
Using an asset from a game you have purchased outside of the game is not infringement, except perhaps if it is prohibited by a somehow-valid rather-restrictive license, which is unlikely.
Well, "pirate" isn't a technical term, but, yes, redistributing copyright-protected material without permission of the copyright holder is an infringement, and this doesn't seem anywhere near any of the exceptions (fair use, etc.)
Commercial use of others copyright-protected work outside of an educational or scientific context and without any apparent attempt to provide commentary seems pretty far outside of "fair use", given the considerations defined in law as determining "fair use". Fair use, as a legal exception to copyright, isn't just "use in any way that seems fair to someone".
Project managers may or may not be managers, but if they don't have the authority to actually manage their project, then that's the first (and likely a critical) project management failure affecting the project. And if there only skills are as "chart and excel monkeys", then that's another pretty serious failure.
The seem to, I suspect, due to observer bias.
I would say, most often, that it's the opposite. Timidity, instead of hubris. Project managers not wanting to say "no" to people on their team, or not willing to explain the risks and consequences to superiors, and thus letting projects drift and hoping that they will be rescued by good luck, promotion, or at least finding something to blame failure on before the whole thing comes crashing down.
Uh, you are asking why a Communist state would have state regulation of economic behavir?
Yeah, by 95-98, I'd imagine the Minitel probably seemed pretty lame compared to the WWW. But the Minitel was introduced in the early 1982, and compared to what the US had readily available then, it doesn't look so bad.
(Otherwise, what does this have to do with the correlation vs. causation issue?)
Um, all science relies on controlled experiments. Statistical controls are controls, too.
As opposed to what the telecoms are pushing for today with metered usage, P2P obstruction, throttling, etc., which is kinda like the internet, but you have to pay per-gigabyte access fees on top of monthly capacity fees, have slower connections except where the other end has paid a premium to be allowed to send you data at full speed, and have to work through a monopolistic telco.
OTOH, when the minitel was first around, what you mostly had in the US was dialup local BBS's, which mostly had eitehr no or non-realtime connections between eachother, or walled-garden services like CompuServe, etc., which were either pay-per minute or had there most attractive features charged that way.