Nope! TFA says that they sent it to an intelligent design expert at Lehigh University who also didn't think it bore any resemblance to either intelligent design or evolution. Suckage from all accounts.
The average used in the defense industry is to assume that one programmer can write 10 (ten) lines per day that are fully documented and debugged!
Kernel and GUI code are usually considered more difficult than that.
I always post this on voting machine articles but here goes. . .
Take a look at 1.020 in the attached nevada gaming regulations:
http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/techstds_05nov17_adopted.pdf
Slot machines are required to withstand 20,000V static shocks at 1 second intervals with no problems whatsoever. They are also required to withstand 27,000 volt static zaps which can cause them to freeze momentarily but must cause no loss of any stored data.
In contrast, when I worked on DDR SDRAM clock buffer chips for PC's, I believe the ESD test was something like 1500 volts.
In short, if voting machines cannot meet the Nevada gaming commission regulations then politicians are at best gambling with our votes.
Ultrasonic transducers can cause chemical changes. I am doing research work in composite materials and there are credible research papers showing a substantial strength increase in epoxy due to ultrasonic treatment. The field of sonochemistry uses the intense localized energy in fluid cavitation to affect chemical changes. The reaction mechanism in epoxy is that the ultrasonic energy causes chemical bonds to break and more free radicals to form increasing the crosslinking of the cured material. It is quite possible that the ultrasonic treatment causes chemical changes in the wine. The question is whether they are the ones you might want. Since wine's flavor comes from organic molecules that break down slightly from free radicals etc during aging, this could very well speed up the process.
When I worked in the semiconductor industry in the late 90's, Excel nearly cost us several hundred grand. It had "helpfully" autocorrected a code in the documentation for a mask used in one of our clock buffer chip products. Had the engineers not caught this mistake in the printout, the fab of the chip would have been botched. The engineers were mad as I recall because they would change the code and Excel would change it back.
If you can't prove what your tool is doing, you don't get to use it is what they taught me in engineering school.
Reminds me of my Chemical Engineering Prof who once said during a lecture, "Let's convert that unit to Pound Moles per degree Rankine, That will make it easier!"
I am wondering if this isn't about avoiding financial penalties built into in No Child Left Behind (No Child Gets Ahead if you ask me) for schools which don't have enough improvement etc. This may be a way to engineer around some idiot feds trying to turn off the money spigot for some schools that are actually trying to improve.
The JPEG standard itself (without EXIF) actually has a has a rarely used comments field. I built a web store management system that used it to caption photographs in the early 90's.
Project 2061 From the American Association for the Advancement of Science laid out the things kids ought to know throughout K-12 back in about 1989. F still equals ma, even in 1989. AN open source physics book could work well or it might initiate time travel back to 1984;) Could be anyone's guess.
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But it's also the name for a reheat kiln in glassblowing.
This argument is bogus. If you want to use linux on a mission critical app that needs support and testing etc you use something like Montevista Linux www.mvista.com or lynxos www.lynuxworks.com.
I've worked with army aviation systems under lynxos and it was a part of the system that generated fewer WTF's than several of the other flavors involved.
I deployed it under the radar scope for a small group at a 3000 person company a year or two ago. I had to build it from source to get around an annoying bug that hadn't been fixed in the release version at the time. It seems like I got it up using their install with a new war because I never managed to align all of the stuff you had to get working. It's a great product once you get it running! It's definitely better than documentum e-room.
Q: "Why is Bob building that 1000ft high radio tower a few miles from LAX?"
A: "He plans on jamming the GPS for all of LA Approach control when he gets it finished in 2017."
Q: "Did he get a building permit for that?"
A: "He was hoping nobody was going to notice either the antenna or the row of 50KW generators on his porch."
FCC Guy (accompanied by FBI, CIA, NSA, an Air Force Special Forces Unit, FAA, US Marshals, and an LA County Building Inspector) in 2017 1 day after Bob turns the jammer on: "Bob, you're under arrest for interfering with air traffic operations, military operations and illegal intelligence gathering."
Bob: "How did you find me?"
FCC Guy, "The fillings in my teeth form diodes that demodulate the signal you're broadcasting. When my fillings got so hot I couldn't bear them, I started wondering what was going on. We would have organized a search but with binoculars from our office window we saw your tower and we found out you didn't have a building permit. It cinched it when NORAD called reporting military radar disruptions all over the west coast."
FAA guy: "We also saw your tower as a blip on our radar scope and identified it as an air navigation hazard, dumbass."
CIA and NSA Guys: "Gitmo and 'No Soup For You'"
Airforce special forces unit then blows up the tower and each man takes a 50KW generator home in case of blackouts.
But the old ultimas 1-9 did this storyline well. They were awesome until the botch on 9 but even then, there were aspects like the user interface for your backpack that were much better than neverwinter nights. It's unfortunate that neverwinter nights 2 wasn't as good as the original.
Why are they not held criminally liable under 18 USC 1028 for aiding and abetting identity theft? The mistake is so unconscionable that I'd think that if anybody has an incident that they should file a criminal complaint against the bank. Making it stick is another story but a creative judge could perhaps ruin somebody's day.
see
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001028----000-.html
It should be remembered that SRI never made a dime of royalties from either the development of the mouse or the development of ARPANET both of which occurred in Doug Engelbart's lab.
The O(n^2) idea is used in the COCOMO model for software development which was one of the first models for predicting the development time of a large system.
The Red hat brief as posted by one of the later posters on this thread is absolutely excellent. Red Hat just calmly goes through the points of law about why patents on abstract ideas should not be allowed.
This is why there are real standards for engineered software like IEC 61508: 8 shelf inches for safety critical systems involving software. Nureg CR6463: 8 more shelf inches for nuclear systems. FAA DO178B 2 shelf inches for avionics.
These standards supply interesting ideas like proving that there will be less than n failures per million hours by documenting a million hours of operation. They use a lot of advanced math and concepts. They do things like require complete fault trees for both the hardware and the software and the interactions between them.
Engineered software is very different from the stuff that various netizens like to say is engineered. . .
Signed,
C. Kellough (EI certification pending board review)
I work at a 2000+ person engineering nonprofit and volunteered for the process committee. We're still working on it and will be for the next year or 2 at getting our development processes to reach CMMI level 3.
My experience has been that document repositories like alfrsco, documentum or e-room are better accepted by management than wikis. I love alfresco personally.
That being said, look at the stuff on the CMMI website at Carnegie Mellon and buy IEEE standard J-STD-12207.0 for software lifecycle workflows.
Ultimately, the only way to make process work is to get total buyin from everybody from the CEO all the way down the the button pushers. You have to convince people that writing down a sane way of doing something and making a social affair of discussing the way you do things regularly is what they ought to be doing. As soon as people see process as a burden rather than a way to get rid of inefficiencies and things that bug them, they won't cooperate.
It also appears that one needs a couple of full-time people to make sure that it's happening and to update the processes. If you don't have people permanently assigned, it rapidly degenerates to an electronic form of the binder full of crap method.
Best of Luck!
ER,
Have you swaped out the hardware upteen times yet. . . Haven't worked GPIB in years and I don't remember how anything works but it sounds like glitchy hardware.
Wow,
What a good comment: I wish I had mod points. My only thought on the matter was that the Swissair incident some years back was caused by a wiring fire caused by the passenger entertainment unit. The disaster was finalized by the fact that the unit was wired through a breaker that controlled some other equipment as well and the crew did not know that that was the breaker needed to turn it off. You'd think everybody would have learned the lesson that the entertainment system shouldn't be anywhere near critical equipment.
Does anybody still use 1553 bus on airplanes?
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Nope! TFA says that they sent it to an intelligent design expert at Lehigh University who also didn't think it bore any resemblance to either intelligent design or evolution. Suckage from all accounts.
The average used in the defense industry is to assume that one programmer can write 10 (ten) lines per day that are fully documented and debugged! Kernel and GUI code are usually considered more difficult than that.
You don't want to do business with people who believe this but you do want to know who they are so that you can short their stock. . .
I always post this on voting machine articles but here goes. . . Take a look at 1.020 in the attached nevada gaming regulations: http://gaming.nv.gov/documents/pdf/techstds_05nov17_adopted.pdf Slot machines are required to withstand 20,000V static shocks at 1 second intervals with no problems whatsoever. They are also required to withstand 27,000 volt static zaps which can cause them to freeze momentarily but must cause no loss of any stored data.
In contrast, when I worked on DDR SDRAM clock buffer chips for PC's, I believe the ESD test was something like 1500 volts.
In short, if voting machines cannot meet the Nevada gaming commission regulations then politicians are at best gambling with our votes.
Ultrasonic transducers can cause chemical changes. I am doing research work in composite materials and there are credible research papers showing a substantial strength increase in epoxy due to ultrasonic treatment. The field of sonochemistry uses the intense localized energy in fluid cavitation to affect chemical changes. The reaction mechanism in epoxy is that the ultrasonic energy causes chemical bonds to break and more free radicals to form increasing the crosslinking of the cured material. It is quite possible that the ultrasonic treatment causes chemical changes in the wine. The question is whether they are the ones you might want. Since wine's flavor comes from organic molecules that break down slightly from free radicals etc during aging, this could very well speed up the process.
When I worked in the semiconductor industry in the late 90's, Excel nearly cost us several hundred grand. It had "helpfully" autocorrected a code in the documentation for a mask used in one of our clock buffer chip products. Had the engineers not caught this mistake in the printout, the fab of the chip would have been botched. The engineers were mad as I recall because they would change the code and Excel would change it back. If you can't prove what your tool is doing, you don't get to use it is what they taught me in engineering school.
Reminds me of my Chemical Engineering Prof who once said during a lecture, "Let's convert that unit to Pound Moles per degree Rankine, That will make it easier!"
I am wondering if this isn't about avoiding financial penalties built into in No Child Left Behind (No Child Gets Ahead if you ask me) for schools which don't have enough improvement etc. This may be a way to engineer around some idiot feds trying to turn off the money spigot for some schools that are actually trying to improve.
The JPEG standard itself (without EXIF) actually has a has a rarely used comments field. I built a web store management system that used it to caption photographs in the early 90's.
Here's the first result. http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/cyberdefense-pr.cfm
Project 2061 From the American Association for the Advancement of Science laid out the things kids ought to know throughout K-12 back in about 1989. F still equals ma, even in 1989. AN open source physics book could work well or it might initiate time travel back to 1984;) Could be anyone's guess.
But it's also the name for a reheat kiln in glassblowing.
I've worked with army aviation systems under lynxos and it was a part of the system that generated fewer WTF's than several of the other flavors involved.
I deployed it under the radar scope for a small group at a 3000 person company a year or two ago. I had to build it from source to get around an annoying bug that hadn't been fixed in the release version at the time. It seems like I got it up using their install with a new war because I never managed to align all of the stuff you had to get working. It's a great product once you get it running! It's definitely better than documentum e-room.
Q: "Why is Bob building that 1000ft high radio tower a few miles from LAX?"
A: "He plans on jamming the GPS for all of LA Approach control when he gets it finished in 2017."
Q: "Did he get a building permit for that?"
A: "He was hoping nobody was going to notice either the antenna or the row of 50KW generators on his porch."
FCC Guy (accompanied by FBI, CIA, NSA, an Air Force Special Forces Unit, FAA, US Marshals, and an LA County Building Inspector) in 2017 1 day after Bob turns the jammer on: "Bob, you're under arrest for interfering with air traffic operations, military operations and illegal intelligence gathering."
Bob: "How did you find me?"
FCC Guy, "The fillings in my teeth form diodes that demodulate the signal you're broadcasting. When my fillings got so hot I couldn't bear them, I started wondering what was going on. We would have organized a search but with binoculars from our office window we saw your tower and we found out you didn't have a building permit. It cinched it when NORAD called reporting military radar disruptions all over the west coast."
FAA guy: "We also saw your tower as a blip on our radar scope and identified it as an air navigation hazard, dumbass."
CIA and NSA Guys: "Gitmo and 'No Soup For You'"
Airforce special forces unit then blows up the tower and each man takes a 50KW generator home in case of blackouts.
Finis
But the old ultimas 1-9 did this storyline well. They were awesome until the botch on 9 but even then, there were aspects like the user interface for your backpack that were much better than neverwinter nights. It's unfortunate that neverwinter nights 2 wasn't as good as the original.
Why are they not held criminally liable under 18 USC 1028 for aiding and abetting identity theft? The mistake is so unconscionable that I'd think that if anybody has an incident that they should file a criminal complaint against the bank. Making it stick is another story but a creative judge could perhaps ruin somebody's day. see http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001028----000-.html
It should be remembered that SRI never made a dime of royalties from either the development of the mouse or the development of ARPANET both of which occurred in Doug Engelbart's lab.
The O(n^2) idea is used in the COCOMO model for software development which was one of the first models for predicting the development time of a large system.
The Red hat brief as posted by one of the later posters on this thread is absolutely excellent. Red Hat just calmly goes through the points of law about why patents on abstract ideas should not be allowed.
This is why there are real standards for engineered software like IEC 61508: 8 shelf inches for safety critical systems involving software. Nureg CR6463: 8 more shelf inches for nuclear systems. FAA DO178B 2 shelf inches for avionics. These standards supply interesting ideas like proving that there will be less than n failures per million hours by documenting a million hours of operation. They use a lot of advanced math and concepts. They do things like require complete fault trees for both the hardware and the software and the interactions between them. Engineered software is very different from the stuff that various netizens like to say is engineered. . . Signed, C. Kellough (EI certification pending board review)
I work at a 2000+ person engineering nonprofit and volunteered for the process committee. We're still working on it and will be for the next year or 2 at getting our development processes to reach CMMI level 3. My experience has been that document repositories like alfrsco, documentum or e-room are better accepted by management than wikis. I love alfresco personally. That being said, look at the stuff on the CMMI website at Carnegie Mellon and buy IEEE standard J-STD-12207.0 for software lifecycle workflows. Ultimately, the only way to make process work is to get total buyin from everybody from the CEO all the way down the the button pushers. You have to convince people that writing down a sane way of doing something and making a social affair of discussing the way you do things regularly is what they ought to be doing. As soon as people see process as a burden rather than a way to get rid of inefficiencies and things that bug them, they won't cooperate. It also appears that one needs a couple of full-time people to make sure that it's happening and to update the processes. If you don't have people permanently assigned, it rapidly degenerates to an electronic form of the binder full of crap method. Best of Luck!
Mucho Appopriate for slashdot: http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/oddio/Final-IFoughtTheTroll.mp3
ER, Have you swaped out the hardware upteen times yet. . . Haven't worked GPIB in years and I don't remember how anything works but it sounds like glitchy hardware.
Wow, What a good comment: I wish I had mod points. My only thought on the matter was that the Swissair incident some years back was caused by a wiring fire caused by the passenger entertainment unit. The disaster was finalized by the fact that the unit was wired through a breaker that controlled some other equipment as well and the crew did not know that that was the breaker needed to turn it off. You'd think everybody would have learned the lesson that the entertainment system shouldn't be anywhere near critical equipment. Does anybody still use 1553 bus on airplanes?