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  • Why can't the IT industry deliver large, faultless projects quickly as in other industries?

    - by MainMa
    After watching National Geographic's MegaStructures series, I was surprised how fast large projects are completed. Once the preliminary work (design, specifications, etc.) is done on paper, the realization itself of huge projects take just a few years or sometimes a few months. For example, Airbus A380 "formally launched on Dec. 19, 2000", and "in the Early March, 2005", the aircraft was already tested. The same goes for huge oil tankers, skyscrapers, etc. Comparing this to the delays in software industry, I can't help wondering why most IT projects are so slow, or more precisely, why they cannot be as fast and faultless, at the same scale, given enough people? Projects such as the Airbus A380 present both: Major unforeseen risks: while this is not the first aircraft built, it still pushes the limits if the technology and things which worked well for smaller airliners may not work for the larger one due to physical constraints; in the same way, new technologies are used which were not used yet, because for example they were not available in 1969 when Boeing 747 was done. Risks related to human resources and management in general: people quitting in the middle of the project, inability to reach a person because she's on vacation, ordinary human errors, etc. With those risks, people still achieve projects like those large airliners in a very short period of time, and despite the delivery delays, those projects are still hugely successful and of a high quality. When it comes to software development, the projects are hardly as large and complicated as an airliner (both technically and in terms of management), and have slightly less unforeseen risks from the real world. Still, most IT projects are slow and late, and adding more developers to the project is not a solution (going from a team of ten developer to two thousand will sometimes allow to deliver the project faster, sometimes not, and sometimes will only harm the project and increase the risk of not finishing it at all). Those which are still delivered may often contain a lot of bugs, requiring consecutive service packs and regular updates (imagine "installing updates" on every Airbus A380 twice per week to patch the bugs in the original product and prevent the aircraft from crashing). How can such differences be explained? Is it due exclusively to the fact that software development industry is too young to be able to manage thousands of people on a single project in order to deliver large scale, nearly faultless products very fast?

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  • Basics of Machine Learning

    - by user1263514
    I am going through Machine Learning algorithms since a week. And there are some doubts that I have in my mind regarding ML. Here are some of the basic questions that I need answers for What are the basic criterias for selecting any Clustering Algorithm? What are the factors affecting the Performance of any Algorithm and any ways to improve them? Please give me some idea as to how do I cope up with these basic questions.

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  • Selecting The Right Employee Management System

    Employees form the core asset of any company and the main factors in determining a company?s success or growth. This makes it very important to invest in effective and well planned employee managemen... [Author: Alan Smith - Computers and Internet - June 04, 2010]

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  • Yet another frustum culling question

    - by Christian Frantz
    This one is kinda specific. If I'm to implement frustum culling in my game, that means each one of my cubes would need a bounding sphere. My first question is can I make the sphere so close to the edge of the cube that its still easily clickable for destroying and building? Frustum culling is easily done in XNA as I've recently learned, I just need to figure out where to place the code for the culling. I'm guessing in my method that draws all my cubes but I could be wrong. My camera class currently implements a bounding frustum which is in the update method like so frustum.Matrix = (view * proj); Simple enough, as I can call that when I have a camera object in my class. This works for now, as I only have a camera in my main game class. The problem comes when I decide to move my camera to my player class, but I can worry about that later. ContainmentType CurrentContainmentType = ContainmentType.Disjoint; CurrentContainmentType = CamerasFrustrum.Contains(cubes.CollisionSphere); Can it really be as easy as adding those two lines to my foreach loop in my draw method? Or am I missing something bigger here? UPDATE: I have added the lines to my draw methods and it works great!! So great infact that just moving a little bit removes the whole map. Many factors could of caused this, so I'll try to break it down. cubeBoundingSphere = new BoundingSphere(cubePosition, 0.5f); This is in my cube constructor. cubePosition is stored in an array, The vertices that define my cube are factors of 1 ie: (1,0,1) so the radius should be .5. I least I think it should. The spheres are created every time a cube is created of course. ContainmentType CurrentContainmentType = ContainmentType.Disjoint; foreach (Cube block in cube.cubes) { CurrentContainmentType = cam.frustum.Contains(cube.cubeBoundingSphere); ///more code here if (CurrentContainmentType != ContainmentType.Disjoint) { cube.Draw(effect); } Within my draw method. Now I know this works because the map disappears, its just working wrong. Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

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  • Use Business VoIP Service To Maximize Your Profits

    The very basic principle for each and Every business concern is to generate or to maximize their profits. There are a several factors which show the accurate results of the company whether it is maki... [Author: Dennis Smith - Computers and Internet - May 17, 2010]

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  • Hospital fined $1m for Patient Data Breach

    - by martin.abrahams
    As an illustration of the potential cost of accidental breaches, the US Dept of Health and Human Services recently fined a hospital $1m for losing documents relating to some of its patients. Allegedly, the documents were left on the subway by a hospital employee. For incidents in the UK, several local government bodies have been fined between £60k and £100k. Evidently, the watchdogs are taking an increasingly firm position.

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  • How to Use the Google Keyword Tool to Pimp Your Web Page

    For all the search engines, and maybe especially for Google, topical relevance is everything. The words on your webpage will get ranked for relevance on one or more topics or categories. There are probably 100 or more other factors that go into a Google ranking, most of which we will never know, but the major ranking factor has to be the words on your page and their proximity to each other.

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  • Website Building Prices - Money Getting Out Or Money Getting In?

    You are probably thinking of website building prices which are the contributing factors why you are still hesitating to have that website created for your business. If you are in this mindset of thinking of the costs rather than the benefits, you are probably missing out the big picture which more simply said could be the pay back that a website can give you once you have one that is operational.

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  • Connect Digest : 2012-07-06

    - by AaronBertrand
    I've filed a few Connect items recently that I think are important. In #752210 , I complain that the documentation for DDL triggers suggests that they can prevent certain DDL from being run, which is not the case at all. http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/752210/doc-ddl-trigger-topic-suggests-that-rollbacks-run-before-action In #745796 , I complain that scripting datetime data in Management Studio yields output that contains a binary representation instead of a human-readable...(read more)

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  • How to Promote Your Business With the Best SEO Services

    When you are about to hire an outsourcing company for SEO services, you should always choose a business provider who will be of your business level and share similar caliber as your company. This is because; having a business partner with the same caliber will allow the two companies to work mutually with each other with the same dedication levels and work ethics. These qualities are foremost factors you should keep in mind if you want to reap the fruits of success in your SEO business.

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  • Mod_Rewrite - Remove Query String From URLs

    There are plenty of tutorials and articles showing how to use the apache mod_rewrite module to tidy up messy URLs can create nice, human readable, search engine friendly URLs. No problem there and if that is what you are looking for you wont find that here.

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  • Quicker Loading of Your Website Ensures Improved SE Rankings

    Now that Google has released news regarding the inclusion of website's speed as one of the factors responsible for website search engine ranking, it is obvious that most website owners would get want delve into matter, a bit more deep. According to the statement, it is clear that the websites having lower loading speed would have less probability of making their way to the search engine result pages than those that load up faster.

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  • Be Lucrative Using Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

    Another way to make money online is through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This technique influences different search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and Live. This is usually done to help generate traffic into their websites equating to potential profit. The SEO technique has helped many into their success online. There are many contributing factors that influence your ranking in Google, but I will not discuss that here as there are far too many to rank.

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  • DBCC CHECKDB Fails Displaying 8914 Error

    MS SQL Server database user might encounter database corruption issues due to improper system shutdown, metadata structure damage, human mistake, and virus infection. In most situations of database c... [Author: Mark Willium - Computers and Internet - May 14, 2010]

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  • The Importance of Quality Original Content For Your Website SEO

    Webmasters and SEO experts have been quite contradicting themselves, trying to weigh things over whether quality content does matter or if does not. There are a lot who always emphasize that quality content should be the top priority. Put content that is readable to both the human eyes as well as to the eyes of the search engines.

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  • Display system information

    - by Robottinosino
    I would like output akin to that of OSX's system_profiler (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/system_profiler.8.html) On Ubuntu, I have to string a few utilities togeter: uname -a, lshw, ifconfig, etc... and then extract the list of installed software packages... Is there a single, simple facade to getting human readable system info from the CLI?

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  • Avoiding background and main menu reloads (white flash) when users navigate my site?

    - by gus
    Not a major problem, but I would like to understand more about how some websites can serve different pages to a navigating user, such that the browser doesn't visibly pass through a blank white page. Whereas some sites cause the browser to display the white page for up to a few seconds. I can imagine this is partly due to network latency, but are there any other factors? Can I cause the background image / color not to flash white?

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  • M2M Solutions: The Move to Value Creation and the Internet of Things

    - by Javier Puerta
    There's a new Oracle-sponsored report available around big data, specifically machine to machine data (there will probably be more growth in m2m data than human-generated stuff like social media). Forbes published an article, Big Data Set to Explode as 40 Billion New Devices Connect to Internet, which references the report. Login to Download the M2M Solutions Report Good reading!

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