Actually, bugs/design flaws caught during the design phase cost far less
than those discovered during the build.
Doug
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> However, the "best bugs" are introduced during programming, but much
> earlier. Catching bugs at the earliest possible time is expensive, but
> the ROI is immense and outweighs the cost by several orders of
> magnitude. Of course, any manager who was reading this dropped out at
> the word "exp
or meters?", or "should we check if the old
guidance system will work okay in the new rocket?"
- Klaus
>> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100
>> From: k...@stock-consulting.com
>> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: Obama II
>>
>> > I kn
This plays into some recent conversations about "efficiency" vs "resilience."
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:06:16 +0100
> From: k...@stock-consulting.com
> To: brin-l@mccmedia.com
> Subject: Re: Obama II
>
> > I know as a fact that the Defense Depart
> I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
> would require that all programming for applications they used would have to
> be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that
> automatically eliminated bugs.
AFAIK, the Ada compiler can detect many programmer mista
Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> Further, as a Mormon, Romney doesn't quite pass the WASP test so he
> basically had to tack hard right to build up his conservative cred to get
> the party nomination.
>
Ugh. Mormons have taken control of the Internet (by Facebook). I'm
glad they didn't take control of the USA
>I didn't realize how unclear it is whether Reagan and other top officials
regarded it as a bluff or
>not, until I poked around a bit just now. Easy to see how they might have
started off serious, then
>decided to re-write history and say it was all a bluff. I have some
up-close and personal e
I recall Carl Sagan despairing that Reagan believed it. The amount of money and
resources that went into live tests would suggest there was faith at the top,
regardless of what those 'lower' in the chain of command might have thought.
At the time SW was being promoted, it gave all the appearanc
I didn't realize how unclear it is whether Reagan and other top officials
regarded it as a bluff or not, until I poked around a bit just now. Easy
to see how they might have started off serious, then decided to re-write
history and say it was all a bluff. I have some up-close and personal
experie
On 11/11/2012 6:00 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
...
Well, I also read that parts of it simply failedreporting 0 votes from a
long list on election day. The part that targeted voting lists to cull
those who haven't voted for attention can be made modular.
I don't think it was just a software fai
On Star Wars, it worked as a bluff, but I don't think Reagan was bluffing.
I think he believed. I know as a fact that the Defense Department said they
would require that all programming for applications they used would have to
be done in Ada (I think within 5 years) because Ada was a compiler that
Star Wars had a critical difference. It didn't need to work because it was
all a giant bluff. Romney had little or nothing to gain by bluffing.
Back to the facts. The Romney team said the software was running 20-30
minutes behind. And pointed out that, as you suggest, there was no real way
to test
Nick wrote
>Sounded like a classic scalability problem.
I would guess otherwise. This would be an interesting geekish debate to
have. My guess is that its akin to the problem with Star Wars software,
which was assumed to work first time untested. From what I read, their
software did not lend
Sounded like a classic scalability problem.
I'm looking forward to our company telling our election software story. Had
been super secret.
Nick
On Sunday, November 11, 2012, David Hobby wrote:
> On a related note, I've been reading about problems with the Romney
> campaign's software to organiz
On a related note, I've been reading about problems with the Romney
campaign's software to organize election day get-out-the-vote efforts.
My first reaction was "Sabotage?", but now I'm betting that incompetence
is the more likely explanation. See:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2012/pres
>Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans "chose" the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in the Republican primaries to make him win.
A big part of Romney's appeal was that as a tremendously successful
businessman, he was afforde
>In terms of the popular vote, as of now Obama has 61,174,297 votes, while
Romney has 58,172,063 votes A >difference of 3,002,234, so a fair margin and
decisively winning the popular vote for Obama.
The difference is going to be slighly above 2.5% and slightly above the Bush
margin over Kerry, bu
On Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:17:25 -0200, ALBERTO VIEIRA FERREIRA MONTEIRO
wrote:
So... What about Obama's reelection?
Here in Brazil, we had the impression that the Republicans "chose" the
worst possible candidate, someone they put there to lose. Or maybe the
Democrats voted in the Republican primar
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So... What about Obama's reelection?
>Here in Br
On 5 Nov 2008 at 10:58, Curtis Burisch wrote:
> Andrew Crystall wrote:
>
> >> > It seems to me that the free market does a poor job in this regard;
> >>
> >> It seems to me the government does a poor job in this regard. I don't
> >> want a bunch of politicians deciding which drugs to spend my
Andrew Crystall wrote:
>> > It seems to me that the free market does a poor job in this regard;
>>
>> It seems to me the government does a poor job in this regard. I don't
>> want a bunch of politicians deciding which drugs to spend my money on.
>> I'm perfectly capable of deciding for myself.
On 4 Nov 2008 at 7:42, John Williams wrote:
> > It seems to me that the free market does a poor job in this regard;
>
> It seems to me the government does a poor job in this regard. I don't
> want a bunch of politicians deciding which drugs to spend my money on.
> I'm perfectly capable of decidi
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What if there were government incentives/grants to develop the pharms?
I don't want them doing that with my money!
> It seems to me that the free market does a poor job in this regard;
It seems to me the government does
On 3 Nov 2008 at 21:48, Doug Pensinger wrote:
> John Williams wrote:
>
> > Drug development is an industry with high fixed costs. Once those fixed,
> > or sunk, costs have been committed, the drugs are sold for the price that
> > the market will bear. According to the expert who wrote the article
John Williams wrote:
> Drug development is an industry with high fixed costs. Once those fixed,
> or sunk, costs have been committed, the drugs are sold for the price that
> the market will bear. According to the expert who wrote the article, the
> more socialized markets settle on a lower price t
Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> So the claim here is that Americans are almost solely subsidizing the drug
> development costs for the entire rest of the world?
That is an odd way to phrase it. I would have paraphrased part of the article
as,
"Americans are subsidizing drug development costs f
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:48 PM, John Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/30/obama-drug-medicine-oped-cx_ch_1031hooper.html
>
>
> As I wrote in the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: "What complicates
> the picture is socialized medicine, which exists in a
On 31 Oct 2008 at 12:48, John Williams wrote:
> http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/10/30/obama-drug-medicine-oped-cx_ch_1031hooper.html
>
> Obama And The 'Drug Killer'
> Charles Hooper 10.31.08, 12:00 AM ET
No, that's just a good argument for compulsory publishing of all drug
studies (a very g
Dan M wrote:
>
>
> But, as you noted elsewhere, your general position is against the broad
> middle of the viewpoint of the US. That sort of viewpoint is not
> unwelcome
> here. I think it is safe to say that folks who see a lot of
> reasonableness
> in mainstream Republican ideas do not post m
it's all relative, dan. i notice a lot of sf fans are pragmatic, and
independent. we don't necessarily hew to dogmatic party lines.
jm
It's true that Sci-Fi fans are not randomly sampled from the general
population. But, I have two distributions that I was considering when
I made my statement:
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>
> This reminded me that I'm both an Obama delegate and, probably, the one
> who has
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