The US has defense agreements with at the very least Taiwan and the Philippines and more distantly Japan. Allowing China to claim the South China Sea would seriously hamper the US' ability to meet the obligations in those treaties. Not to mention that ensuring products produced in that area are able to be shipped through the South China Sea is absolutely essential as is evidenced by the effects of the current chip shortage. If access to TSMC products was suddenly cut off by China it would cause massive issues across the world and especially so in the US.
Apparently you don't understand what the word Suggested means. Do you also report every single classic car that is selling for higher value that it was initially sold for? If not then you're pretty much just being an asshole for no reason.
I'm sorry but the second these words left his mouth obviously indicating his displeasure with the likelihood of Amazon winning the contract he had influenced the outcome.
“I will be asking them to look at it very closely to see what’s going on because I have had very few things where there’s been such complaining,” Trump said. "Not only complaining from the media — or at least asking questions about it from the media — but complaining from different companies like Microsoft and Oracle and IBM. Great companies are complaining about it. So we’re going to take a look at it. We’ll take a very strong look at it. Thank you very much everybody.”
He head already shown at this point that he was an old boys club type of guy that would go after anyone who disagreed and support anyone who kissed his ass, so anyone having a hand in the selection of the winner of the contract that wanted favor with the president would obviously attempt to influence the outcome to not be Amazon.
He should have kept his mouth shut on such a massive pending contract, but it's pretty obvious by now that keeping his mouth shut isn't something he's physically capable of doing.
Now instead of having started on a crucial service that is needed by our military we're looking at likely further years of delays. All because the president was butthurt over some mean words in a newspaper.
And what do you know I've gotten random items shipped to me that I never ordered from at least three of these brands, so they were using that method to boost their stats too.
It's a very real threat and possibility thus an absolutely appropriate question to be asking. There are numerous documented instances of espionage performed by Chinese nationals while operating within the US educational system.
+1 to your third point especially. I'll even add that Agile development can be a big bonus in any market that has the potential for rapidly changing needs. Even if you don't lose out to your faster competition you may still end up releasing to a market that's no longer looking for the solution that you "perfected". Agile development allowing you to release a functional product as soon as possible, and adding to it as resources allow means you can pivot your development to meet new demands instead of bogging yourself down trying to produce the perfect solution to a problem that continues to evolve.
Exactly. When I first learned about Agile development they clearly stated there is no "Agile process". It is simply having only the minimum amount of actual documented/enforced practices needed to ensure smooth development. Is your team struggling to finish tasks because they're not communicating enough? Have a morning check-in where anyone who is having an issue can state their issue, someone else can chime in that they can/know how to assist, and they can discuss it afterwards. Team being overwhelmed by requests for new/unplanned work? Set up a task tracking system and prioritize your tasks ensuring things get done in the order they need to be with none forgotten. Software development doesn't look the same anywhere you go. What works for one team/customer/environment won't necessarily work for any other. Agile is adapting the process to the people. Alternatives like CMMI do the opposite by forcing the people to adapt to the process.
The number one issue I've encountered in my area is companies that say they use Scrumm when they really don't. Scrumm is a very specific, defined process, and as they clearly state in their "handbook" if you're not following the process exactly as it's described then you aren't doing Scrumm. Period.
The 3900X was one of the highest-end consumer Zen2 CPUs. If I'm remembering correctly only the 3950X was above it without jumping up to the Threadripper line of CPUs.
Really? So no one ever is going to take a quick glance at their phone, not see the truck start to pull out, and do the exact same thing this Model 3 did? No one? I can say with 100% certainty that this exact same thing has happened at least once in history to a normal driver who simply got distracted.
