tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post861108436245035426..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: NOW they tell meZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-87972471199290245812011-01-10T03:54:16.034+11:002011-01-10T03:54:16.034+11:00Criswell Predicts...
"Greetings, my friend. ...<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space_-_Criswell_Predicts.ogv" rel="nofollow">Criswell Predicts</a>...<br /><br />"Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future. You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable. That is why you are here. And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are giving you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimonies of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal. The incidents, the places, my friend we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty, let us reward the innocent."<br /><br />They don't make films like that any more.<br /><br />For which we can all be grateful.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-55526503634051972372011-01-10T03:31:59.306+11:002011-01-10T03:31:59.306+11:00Glory to our Savior
Edward D. Wood, Jr.Glory to our Savior<br /><b>Edward D. Wood, Jr.</b>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03037704048671379868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-74657150842016376322011-01-09T14:01:27.566+11:002011-01-09T14:01:27.566+11:00I'm in a rather unusual and fortunate position...I'm in a rather unusual and fortunate position. I'm about to start a PhD in Melbourne, and I'm doing it out of personal interest (and for fun) - not as a means of enhancing my career prospects. I'll be receiving a tax-free stipend, but I'll be donating all of it to charity. So, for me, the PhD is not a waste of time. And my supervisor is very cool. I feel very fortunate.Robnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-85185605192838018842011-01-09T04:14:28.917+11:002011-01-09T04:14:28.917+11:00a. One of my roomies in college was doing his PhD ...a. One of my roomies in college was doing his PhD in organic chemistry. I remember him saying "Oh rats....I may have discovered something." "Rats" because if results were as expected, you're done, but if you've "discovered" something, you have to go back and check everything to see if you just screwed up.<br /><br />b. The first thing I tell new sales creatures is, when a customer calls and wants to buy something, you ask "what are you doing with it?" All too often, what they want to buy is not ideal, or not even usable, for their intended purpose.Laserlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07410066397664711673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-86472180581208297402011-01-08T14:27:14.336+11:002011-01-08T14:27:14.336+11:00Sounds like a terrific class Zoe! I wish you'd...Sounds like a terrific class Zoe! I wish you'd come teach that stuff in my neck of the woods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-26091529396152449482011-01-08T10:09:43.019+11:002011-01-08T10:09:43.019+11:00Diana - very often neither user nor analyst knows ...Diana - very often neither user nor analyst knows what's required from the start. It helps to identify the stakeholders first, users being the most important and obvious, but there are others too.<br />Who's paying for it, for example. Customers, not just users. e.g. in medical therapeutic devices, the patients.<br /><br />Often the users may want some functionality that's a real bear to implement (but could live without it), yet really require something else that's easy to do, but they think must be impossible.<br /><br />It's also important to figure out what are the real constraints on implementations of a system in terms of human resources, ways of doing things, as well as hardware and software.<br /><br />Finally, things like maintainability, flexibility etc have to be determined, and accurate metrics formed to measure them rather than having weasel-words that can't be tested.<br />When requirements may be constantly evolving, speed of development is also an issue, we may need not a system but a system to develop systems.<br /><br />It may turn out that instead of new h/w and s/w, the goals can be accomplished by re-training in using existing assets in new ways.<br /><br />There's a need for communication - the analyst listening to stakeholders, and then telling them what's possible, what's feasible, what's costly, and making recommendations about options.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-68448687618706526562011-01-08T09:56:33.123+11:002011-01-08T09:56:33.123+11:00Lloyd - so many things only make sense in hindsigh...Lloyd - so many things only make sense in hindsight.<br />I feel your analysis is accurate, very accurate.Zoe Brainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-11039368589209648092011-01-08T07:07:08.461+11:002011-01-08T07:07:08.461+11:00COMP8100 Requirements Elicitation and Analysis Tec...<i>COMP8100 Requirements Elicitation and Analysis Techniques. Or "before we start making a system... what the heck is it supposed to do?"</i><br /><br />Oh, cool! That's part of what I do for a living. I'd be curious how it's being taught. Also how it's being received. <br /><br />So many tech types would rather tell the users what they need rather than listen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-31610730578964585102011-01-08T06:37:48.888+11:002011-01-08T06:37:48.888+11:00Zoe,
In hindsight it's obvious that you were t...Zoe,<br />In hindsight it's obvious that you were trying to be a female concept of an ideal male. The pressures on you and your motivations were a bit different from the usual male ones. It didn't come across as female so much as a bit odd. Certain bits of behaviour were there without their expected accompaniments.<br /><br />Unfortunately a male trying to become what he sees as a female idea of the ideal male and a female trying to become what she sees as a male idea of the ideal female are both making the same mistake. In trying to center themselves around someone else's priorities they both set themselves up for exploitation. And some employers did exploit you.Lloyd Flackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00832519369660328832noreply@blogger.com