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Marc Clifton wrote: Blech. The whole concept of Agile was dead on arrival, IMO.
There is great wisdom in your words.
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Please people - instead of bagging others, look within yourselves.
You should, at all times, present the surface appearance of great depth.
And remember, the most important thing is sincerity - if you can fake that, then you've got it made.
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You're doing it wrong!
The way to be successful at agile is to be an "agile coach". They get lots of money for saying 'blah blah blah'.
Being a software developer in agile will not yield any success.
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What is now called "Agile", we used to call "The $%@#$! customers want some changes made to the product you just delivered to specs because they're morons who don't actually know what they want."
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Ah... but now we have processized being stupid.
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It is just the modern name for micromanagement
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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The terminology of agile drives me nuts!
I can't sprint for 10 yards (meters if you don't know what a yard is) let alone 2 weeks at a time!
Hogan
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snorkie wrote: I can't sprint for 10 yards
Another reason why Agile probably works for teams which are going to experience a huge benefit ($,$$$,$$$) in the end, but not for corporate teams where your only benefit is the same whether you're agile or not.
If you knew you'd make $1 million after the sprint you'd probably do it, even if it meant your feet might fall off at the end. What's the motivation for Agile, if you're feet may fall off, but you have no possibility for benefit? 
Answer: none.
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Its sad when the process gets in the way of production and the tools make it difficult to do our job. Management wants to know how fast we are completing the project that having us, the programmers, enter the information into the tools reduces our productivity. Its getting to the point where the (agile) tool is the master and we must bow to it. If management would do what it is supposed to do (manage) and do it the right way (talk to your people), then relying on the tool would be so all encompassing.
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So I'm trying to mount an ISO on Win 8.1 and get the error
Quote: You don't have permission to mount the file.
Hmmm. 1/2 hour later (after re-copying etc.) same issue.
Google takes me here[^]
tl;dr; If you have a removable drive connected you might get this message. The ISO still mounts - it just tells you it won't.
FFS MS SRSLY? This has been around for at least 3 years - you'd think they would fix it; (even if they changed the message to read "You may not have permissions to mount the file - but check - it might have been mounted!) it would save a bunch of people a bunch of time!
And these days, who doesn't have a removable drive attached?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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I use the mounting feature of W8 since release. 
Really fine, but Windows looses the mount on a reboot . But hey - its only Microsoft 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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_Maxxx_ wrote: ISO still mounts - it just tells you it won't.
Crazy. But, with MS, expected.
No, wait. With computers, expected behavior.
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You are right?
Macs are so much better, because they have ONE BUTTON MICE. That way even though you could control the mouse with one hand, you are forced to use two.
That's Steve Jobs way of exerting control over you. "You're holding it wrong!" 
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You're about 20 years out of date - the new touchpad has no buttons at all - and I would gamble on the next mouse being the same
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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_Maxxx_ wrote: about 20 years out of date
I didn't know I was even that progressive.
No buttons? No buttons? Touchpad? That's not even a mouse.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: the next mouse
One of the seashells is the mouse.
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On the Apple external mouse you can click on the right part of the button and it behaves like a "right click". On the mousepad you can just click anywhere with two fingers.
Seems to work fine for me - I use PC's and Macs and find Macs are (after years of complaining about them) faster and easier to use for most things
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: faster and easier to use for most things
Oh, yeah. Then why hasn't microsoft stolen those ideas if they're so good? Yep, I got you on that one and I believe I've proven those are not good ideas, because if they were MS would've bought them out by now.  (sarcasm icon)
EDIT: I'm expecting a plethora of upvotes on this one, people (and developers) so get your clicky fingers going on whatever type of mouse-all device you got over there. Now!
modified 16-Mar-15 8:35am.
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I gave you an upvote for the sarcasm - it's monday after all
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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You obviously need alcohol, of one type[^] or another[^].
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't know how many times I've cursed this laptop because the touchpad is "windows-8 friendly" (swiping in from all directions does the same as swiping in on the monitor), so the touchpad scroll areas that I've become so used to don't exist.
I decided to see if I could regedit the pad to do things the old proper way, so I opened the Synaptics Control Panel applet to pick out some strings to search the registry for. That's standard ops for looking where they don't want you to look. No problem.
Looking for strings that might be almost unique, I tapped the "Multi-Finger" tab (for the first time ever).
Option 2 for "Two Fingers" is "Enable vertical scrolling".
As in "Hey, Stoopid! If ya wanna scroll, use two fingers!"
Head, keyboard. Keyboard, head. I'll fetch some tea and biscuits.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd be tempted to give it just one finger!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Mark_Wallace wrote: As in "Hey, Stoopid! If ya wanna scroll, use two fingers!"
For god's sake never use a Mac, this'd be at the lower end of the trigger scale.
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