Sums of random variables from distributions with infinite variance may look normally distributed to the naked eye, but nevertheless still have infinite variance.

The trouble is project time length definitely does _not_ come from a well behaved finite variance distribution!

...same as any other feature, with a priority higher than some lower than other features.

Now that's really insightful.

Although I would also add that it is one of the buggier and more unstable features, since it is highly coupled to a large number of other features and bug fixes.

Yip. You guys had it tough... and were tough. Those who weren't tough enough died.

And now you have created a world view where being tough and succeeding is all that matters.... small wonder that the 2nd generation is a trifle stressed even in the midst of seeming plenty. I dare say if conditions get that tough again they'd either "harden the fuck you", or die... or fall back on alcoholism and the "gin and valium" of your forgotten peers.

I have no expectation that anything on facebook is private.

Therefore the only things I put on facebook are what is already public knowledge.

As such it's useful.

The private stuff... that's what disposable email accounts are for.

Oh my! Alt-tab shows 4 open windows on my system.

One is emacs and has 43 open buffers, only about half are file edits, the rest are some sort of in emacs application.

The other is terminator a split screen tabbed xterm which currently has a rather low number of 7 tabs open unusally (for me) only one of which has been split 3 ways. (I have a wide screen monitor)

The third is firefox with 3 tabs (unusually low for me) with split browser addon.

The forth is gkrellm with 7 monitoring plugins running.

Submit Good Quality bug reports. Bug Reports are 10 a penny. Submit Good ones.

• Be exact about versions of the software and related software (distro, kernel etc.)
• Produce the smallest possible test case. NEVER say "it just happens when I do something with this 10000 line document I can't let your see."
• Be responsive in answering queries in the issue tracker for that issue. Try out patches and workarounds suggested and give feedback.
• Report the problem to the correct forum. Understand which is the correct forum. Understand the differences between distros, distro versions and original developer. Try work out if it's a packaging problem or a software problem.
• Try the latest version from the original developer. If that fixes the problem, reports this in the distros issue tracker as well.
• RTFM.
• Report bugs in The Fine Manual, preferably along with a suggested rewording.
• Test and Report bugs in Beta releases. Critical bugs reported then will get fixed before release. Bugs reported after release will probably only get fixed in the next release.

She can't break out the knife and do surgery at home....

Just don't piss her off Mr Bobbit.

The Gnome team is working with several university neurology departments to develop a patch for human nature that fixes this problem. It will be included in Gnome 4.

Don't you mean "Genome 4"?

Just imagine a drive-by printer return via truck mounted Trebuchet.

Oh the Geekiness!

Now you know what to do with a Trebuchet.

...why did we ever move away from statically linked binaries?

I waded through the replies with a fist full of mod points hoping to mod the cluefull up... but there weren't any!

The internet and especially all the Linux nodes on the internet are designed from the ground up to have a static IP addresses and IP names and be their own DNS and own Mail smarthost and web server and ....

Between the control freaks, the clueless, and the bean counters in Microsoft and the ISP's we have an internet with...

• an artificial scarcity of ip numbers and ip names that the ISP's can rort a fortune out of their users for a service that costs them less to provide than the cost of billing their customers for it.
• the vast majority of machines being dumb emasculated drones begging for content from the big media industries.
• an a tightly controlled web where peer to peer traffic is being squeezed out.

IPv6 will _never_ be allowed into the current mix.

AC said.. Last I checked we only had man eating birds, and the odd man eating Maori.

Yup,...it'd be a pretty Odd man that eats a Maori. Pretty tough buggers those. :-) A bit of a step up from Pit Bull I tell you!

...so you can't do your own RF development work...

So how do you know this even works? And you have already filed for a patent. No wonder you use to work for Microsoft.... you are really going about this arse about face!

Understand the market (who will buy it, what are you competing with, how much money will it save them, what are the laws)

Make it.

Make it testable.

Make it work.

Make it manufacturable.

Take out unit cost.

Start producing it....

Start marketing it, and if you have time patent it.