'standard' NDA

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

There is only one reason. Money.

Too much of a pussy to write what your shit for brains thinks?

Whatever, child. You do not know me or anything about me.

Rick C wrote in news:5a9468aa-26be- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

We had a computer and a phone at each desk. One could look up documents and then print them, etc. One's timesheet. phone calls because the firm had hard line phones. EVERY person had a bench or a desk and a phone and a computer. More doc lookups meant that person got a better display.

Makes pretty good sense.

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

You are mumbling, because you actually think you know what I do, much less what I call it.

Secret labs are not permitted any type of recording devices and have lockers at the door to place phones, paper, pencil, calculator. It requires special kaypad access to get in. I am surprised they allowed one to have a wristwatch.

Plenty of work gets done. Otherwise the feds would not have defined what a secret lab is to us, and we would not make use of them.

We had entire conference rooms that were secured and had white noise generators in the ceiling panels inside and outisde the room.

When ten pilots from three allied nations show up for a seminar on using a data terminal, one makes sure they are the only ones receiving the seminar.

You are worse than a child. You reached an adult physical age. Your mental age, however, is even farther behind than I had it pegged at before you spouted this stupid shit. You act like a ten year old child.

No, there are plenty of times when even an excess of money won't get people to do what you want.

Lol! I knew he would pull out the "child" comment. Of course people here don't know what you dream about, but we sure know what you write about and it's the same tired crap every day.

You can't run a lab because that would mean you'd have to manage people. You have such a great way with people they would all flock to work for you. lol Employees would take your crap for about five minutes before telling you to take a hike.

You know this. But you won't admit it out loud.

I seriously doubt you have ever had anything to do with government classifi ed materials. What you describe is pure BS. Fantasy.

I won't continue to discuss this with you since you are in such total denia l. You remind me of a kayaker we call "secret squirrel". He tells all sor ts of people about his work as a secret agent of some sort. Pure BS becaus e anyone who has worked with intelligence communities knows what really hap pens in a black lab.

No pencils, no paper and the men in black wipe your memory before you leave . Great training course.

If you are serious then although it is a bit dated now Pressman's "Software Engineering: a practitioners guide" isn't a bad general introduction. There are some gems in it but you have to skip some boring or irrelevant bits. Back when I was at university huge chunks of Knuth were used and we narrowly missed getting his $2^15 prize for an unreported bug we found. He did send us a nice postcard though.

The problem in software engineering is that there is always some slimy salesman selling the next silver bullet that will solve all problems without any effort and management invariably falls for it again!

That does seem a fairly extreme position - most places have a preferred language that practicals are done in. Although doing them some other way was usually tolerated. A friend turned in a project in assembler.

It does seem a bit odd. Though it was an option in final year physics our linear systems course covered all of the main theory for amplifier stability and closed loop optimal servo behaviour. It was better than the EE course because it explained how and why things work rather than a crib sheet of what is known to work without proper explanation.

Computer science tended to concentrate a lot more on (im)proving the speed of algorithms, design of computing hardware and compilers rather than on linear control systems. They built their own hardware including early token ring based networking and rewrote IBM's TSO/TCAM to work with PDP11's acting as terminal concentrators so they were no slouches.

Incidentally anyone interested in a full scale practical example of the classic fire hose instability will love this one from today's news:

Hopefully activists elsewhere learn from that experience and dump 10 tons of stinky rotten tomato juice on e.g. the Pentagon by aircraft, next time. Woo Hoo!

It's hard to see how any engineer (or politician) can function without some basic instincts for control theory. I see people having crazy ideas of causality all the time. They have no notion of what feedback can do.

Do something. Things get worse. So do more of it.

The day politicians understand what they're screwing with will be a very different world.

NT

You do understand that politicians are created by the voters, no?

It's like a twilight story where the person gets three wishes from the genie and each one turns out poorly because he didn't think it through. Then people want to blame the genie.

So when you badmouth politicians, you are badmouthing yourself.

Get real!

Rick C wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

You must be very stupid to think that engineers do not perform for pay.

Ask Nikola Tesla. He worked for Thomas Edison.

Rick C wrote in news:ee230361-575f- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

You are an abject idiot, almost more presumptuous even than Donald J. Trump.

me

Because they can't work with me otherwise, I suppose. Obviously some folks have trade secrets that are genuinely too valuable to risk, but probably th ose folks can afford full-time senior engineers to work on them.

When people complain about protecting their crown jewels, I say, "So don't tell me about them."

IME the secrets are usually a lot less non-obvious than they suppose, but I 'm professionally not-curious.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

I seem to recall that ended very badly for him, broke and with his greatest projects in ruin. A real nut job by all accounts.

Good example.

And then there are your winning ways with people.

LOL!

John: You asked, I answered. It would be nice to get some feedback.

CH

It's not that simple. Political views & policies are the result of idea development by both politicians and non-politicians, often more than one source & stage of input there.

You should. Blaming me or any one nonpolitician for all politicians' shenanigans is beyond silly.

A major problem generally with politicians is that too often they don't really understand what they're making policies on.

NT

A lot of engineering delivers non-guaranteed results. Look at almost any do mestic electronics for examples.

NT