The Waterfall Model stressed rigid functional and design specification of the program(s) to be constructed in advance of any code development. While the this methodology and other early formal tools for Software Engineering were infinitely preferable to the chaos and ad-hoc programming-without-design practices of early systems,

The author of this /. post erroneously completed that last sentence. Appended above should be "it was replaced by a return to those same engineering failures of chaos and ad-hoc programming-without-design practices wrought under the name of Agile".

Pig, meet lipstick. In practice, Agile = cowboy coding; I've never seen it done any other way, even though yes, in theory it *shouldn't* be that way...

Feel free to cry a terabucket of tears if you wish.

What do you mean? An african or european terabucket?

I'm not sure about bats but buildings, cars, and cats kill more birds than wind turbines do. Over one billion birds strike windows in the U.S. every year. What Kills Birds? is a list of what does kill birds. Now that's on a wind power consultant's website so some may consider it biased. But Google returns more sites saying how many birds are killed by wind turbines versus other things that kill birds.

Falcon

Gee, I don't know what has happened in the development world, but it sure sounds like a lot of BS from sales people.

the way I recall is you had the idea, then made a features paper, then made the basic user interface on paper. after that, it was break it down into small parts and try to integrate properly.

by the time you did everything and kept it on paper, the guys that were ready to code could build it out in no time, perspective, most of the coders were in on all the steps, so they could guess-ta-mate how many hours per sheet.

it was a fun time, I guess they don't do it that way anymore.

As to where the numbers I am using come from, check Wikipedia. I have seen similar numbers from other sources, but I was unable to locate that site on this occassion. Additionally, they are consistent with my experience.
No, I never said they get "4 months vacation". If i had it to do over, I would go back and get my teaching certificate along with my bachelors degree. But I don't have it to do over and the cost of getting another 4 year degree is more than I could ever make back. A few years ago I looked into getting my teaching certificate and that is what I was told it would take.

If you have Google Sky Map in your phone, can't use use that?

They're great for presbyopia. If you correct your myopia with contacts, you'll still need them.

I agree that the "do not cheat" is a good rule. However, having ten times mire resources for the AI is only cheating if it is hidden. If you have a starwars-esque setting where you are taking on the huge Empire with only a tenth of their resources, it can make for an interesting challenge.

This gentleman says that his AI is often the goliath in a david vs goliath scenario. I suspect that this makes AI far easier : it doesn't care to waste some resources, its strategy is to be overwhelming...