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Experiments with baboons have proved that higher primates can perform software testing, traverse complex menus, and code simple XML schemas.
Read all about it hereQuote:
"Humans and higher primates share approximately 97% of their DNA in common.
Recent research in primate programming suggests computing
is a task that most higher primates can easily
perform. Visual Basic 6.0™ was
the preferred IDE for the majority
of experiment primate subjects."
Then companies would start to hire these primates to do the work.. It would be cheaper, just give them bananas everyday..
Ain't that something.
Are you kidding? Chimps, Orangutans and Gorillas are all endangered species. They cost a whole lot more than expendable humans.Quote:
Originally posted by Max Payne
Then companies would start to hire these primates to do the work.. It would be cheaper, just give them bananas everyday..
Ain't that something.
Wonderful, first the programming jobs went to 3rd world countries, now they're going to the circus, what next???
Squirrels are extremely intelligent and plentiful. I'd like to suggest using squirrels as programmers.Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Wonderful, first the programming jobs went to 3rd world countries, now they're going to the circus, what next???
You'd have to be nuts...
Welcome to our newest member, cheetah
Great, another D*mn competitor :rolleyes: :mad:
what about dolphins?? Besides problems with water-proof hardware.
There is an easy solution for that: use dry water
If CEO's could get away with it, they would do it.
CEO's greatest dream has already come true. Its called cheap offshore outsourcing. I hope their jobs get outsourced one day too.Quote:
Originally posted by mburke
If CEO's could get away with it, they would do it.
I think the way we are going, people would sell anything and do anything for money. It makes me sick to my stomach what they think they can get away with. Nothing wrong with hard work and making money but when you backstab people and step all over them, then thats pretty much as low as pimping yourself for money.
I would happily outsource parts of my job :D (having a very rough two weeks :/)
I'll take it, I'll even accept a quater of what you earn and finish the job quicker because I keep my standards low. And you can go and join the unemployment line. :mad:Quote:
Originally posted by Yves M
I would happily outsource parts of my job :D (having a very rough two weeks :/)
Sorry Yves, you know how I feel about this scam. We discussed it in a seperate thread.
HR: Programmers are a dime a dozen.Quote:
Originally posted by Deniz
I'll take it, I'll even accept a quater of what you earn and finish the job quicker because I keep my standards low. And you can go and join the unemployment line. :mad:
Sorry Yves, you know how I feel about this scam. We discussed it in a seperate thread.
PR: If that is a firm offer, I'll take it.
Put an infinite number of monkeys in a room with a infinate number of typewriters, and you will eventually get shakespear.
Put 10 monkeys in a room with 1 computer and a copy of Visual Studio, and you can have Windows Media Player in 10 minutes.
Put a few thousand monkeys all over the world with internet access and you can have CodeGuru.com in 3.25 minutes :D
Outsourcing is not turning out to be the paradise the outsourcers promised it would be.Quote:
Originally posted by Deniz
CEO's greatest dream has already come true. Its called cheap offshore outsourcing. I hope their jobs get outsourced one day too.
I think the way we are going, people would sell anything and do anything for money. It makes me sick to my stomach what they think they can get away with. Nothing wrong with hard work and making money but when you backstab people and step all over them, then thats pretty much as low as pimping yourself for money.
Labor cost go down, but every other cost associated with the project goes up. And there are more production problems, which are more costly to fix in production than in development. So word is getting around. Hopefully this trend will die out
Sorry buddy, I somehow doubt that it will "die out", most of those sky high costs are coming down rapidly too. Also, there is hope, it's called insourcing, yes, it actually creates jobs in the rich wester countries that are exporting jobs at the same time to the dirt poor countries click here.Quote:
Originally posted by mburke
Outsourcing is not turning out to be the paradise the outsourcers promised it would be.
Labor cost go down, but every other cost associated with the project goes up. And there are more production problems, which are more costly to fix in production than in development. So word is getting around. Hopefully this trend will die out
As one who is on both sides of the out-sourcing issue [I run an independant consulting firm that is US based], my opinion on the issue varies on a day to day basis.
On the whole, I think that the pendulum is swinging back from the extreme of "lets outsource everything possible to the lowest (international) bidder" to looking at the cost/benefit tradeoffs on a much more granular level.
I am currently involved in a large (Microsoft .NET based) web oriented application. The client company has divided various parts to different sources with different skill sets. As the firm responsible for the overall architecture [and back-end implementation] I get to see how each of the companies are performing.
So far it seems to work well, although I suffer from long days [Germany wants me at 5:00AM, Australia at 11:00PM]. The real proof will be in late June when we migrate all of the parts to the pre-production environment.
It's almost been one month....Quote:
Originally posted by TheCPUWizard
The real proof will be in late June when we migrate all of the parts to the pre-production environment.
How's it looking so far? Or is it still too early to tell?
What I don't understand is: How did The Onion miss this story???Quote:
Originally posted by Deniz
Experiments with baboons have proved that higher primates can perform software testing, traverse complex menus, and code simple XML schemas.
Read all about it here
Frog (any any other interested parties)...
We have been doing some early integration tests. There are a few issues, but not significantly more than when dealing with a local in-house team.
One of the items we did need to address after the project was started was related to the fact that the various teams had different native languages (although all spoke fluent english). Still the influence of each native tongue had an impact on variable naming conventions, etc.
Although I had dealt with this before [indeed I have worked with programs where all comments and variable names were in a different language], this was the first large project where we had to bounce between areas of code each with a different influence. Things worked, but I did get a few migrane headaches!
For those of you who have seen my other posts [in other threads/forums] on the importance of a documented design paradigm, there should be little suprise.
The portion I am looking forward to is when the two UI graphics teams portions come together!
I always knew a monkey could write VB.
Not sure what all you guys are so worried about. Advances in AI and robotics makes this an irrelevant conversation. So look forward to going fishing everyday or fighting in the resistance.
/Humans...they so crazy...
Oh yeah ... Put a few hundred emus 'n' monkeys or people from bayern in front of an X86 which have no clue about compatibility, error handling, small source and you'll get Windows Longhorn in 2 w33ks :DQuote:
Originally posted by sargon
Put an infinite number of monkeys in a room with a infinate number of typewriters, and you will eventually get shakespear.
Put 10 monkeys in a room with 1 computer and a copy of Visual Studio, and you can have Windows Media Player in 10 minutes.
Put a few thousand monkeys all over the world with internet access and you can have CodeGuru.com in 3.25 minutes :D
Thats crazy ...
Maybe the "man" who designed VB.NET was a monkey (or one who lives in bayern) :D
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Nice to see that you like your northern neighbors NoHero :D
I could hug them :D ... really ... that was just a joke ;)Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Nice to see that you like your northern neighbors NoHero :D
Yeh, I know that the Bayern are a huggable bunch. And they're all squishy since they're always full of beer. Speaking of which gotta go... :)
you shoulda went 6 hours ago ....Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Yeh, I know that the Bayern are a huggable bunch. And they're all squishy since they're always full of beer. Speaking of which gotta go... :)
Yeh, I should have, good thing the cleaning lady comes in and cleans up my room from time to time, she'll take care of this :) .
french? maid? sexy? the possibilities are endless...Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Yeh, I should have, good thing the cleaning lady comes in and cleans up my room from time to time, she'll take care of this :) .
Yes and with their dialect ... so cute :D ... but mine is worse ... And they always think the become german soccer champions ... :D ...Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Yeh, I know that the Bayern are a huggable bunch. And they're all squishy since they're always full of beer. Speaking of which gotta go... :)
You got a cleaning woman?? ... me too ... so-called mom :D (joke)
well that just blows the sexy french maid outfit on so many levels :pQuote:
Originally posted by NoHero
You got a cleaning woman?? ... me too ... so-called mom :D (joke)
Yeh NoHero, my mommy does cleaning for me as well(how does she get those spaghetti sauce stains out of my t-shirts :confused: ?).
And Mick, if you think that the possibilities are endless with this maid, well then I guess you're really into 50 year old little indian maids :) , have fun fantasizing ;) .
gish...now I have to surf massive prOn to get that image out of my mind...Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
And Mick, if you think that the possibilities are endless with this maid, well then I guess you're really into 50 year old little indian maids :) , have fun fantasizing ;) .
/thanks
Want some good urls? ;)
not really ;) I got that out of my system on BBS's and newsgroups when I was a little puppy (12). I'd rather kill kittens with the real thing...or near too it.Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
Want some good urls? ;)
/AI and robotics...they will save the kitten killing day!!!
And those areas would be what??????
Psssst..... PM me with the answer ;) :D
Then I can send that to MacNamarararama(I think that's his last name :) ) to put him on the right track.
what areas? You want all the prOn you can handle, then setup your newsgroups and have them download yer prON...who needs HTTP?Quote:
Originally posted by ats007spdou
And those areas would be what??????
Psssst..... PM me with the answer ;) :D
alt.binaries
I could ask my friend Fabian ... He has about 50 GB pr0n ... :rolleyes: ... he could open his ftp server for you ...Quote:
Originally posted by Mick
gish...now I have to surf massive prOn to get that image out of my mind...
/thanks
another thing: look at this picture:
http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/images...7_image001.jpg
from left to right: ats007spdou, Andreas Masur, Me and Mick (the monkey in front of the laptop) :D ;)
well at least I'm not flinging poo in the picture...yet...Quote:
Originally posted by NoHero
another thing: look at this picture:
http://forums.codeguru.com/
from left to right: ats007spdou, Andreas Masur, Me and Mick (the monkey in front of the laptop) :D ;)
Good grief, I need to shave :eek: !!!
more like a NAIR bath...Quote:
Originally posted by YourSurrogateGod
Good grief, I need to shave :eek: !!!
Heh, yeh.......Quote:
Originally posted by Mick
more like a NAIR bath...
I hope everyone likes my new screen name.
well now I can just say YSG...Quote:
Originally posted by YourSurrogateGod
Heh, yeh.......
I hope everyone likes my new screen name.
Yes, Mick, yes you can :)
cool me too ... But know I have useless information about what your old name meant ... ;) ... then I think I can post it ...Quote:
Originally posted by Mick
well now I can just say YSG...
Don't, if you want me to do it, then I will. There are alot of parts that can misinterpreted by others, not good.Quote:
Originally posted by NoHero
cool me too ... But know I have useless information about what your old name meant ... ;) ... then I think I can post it ...