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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721

Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.

The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.

Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks, but while I usually enjoy reading mister Johnson's articles that
animated TI advertisement drove me to distraction (destruction?) Is it just
me or is it also difficult for others to concentrate when there is something
jiggling just outside the foveal cone?

Animated? Only if Flash is installed. And if you check the Netscape
'don't run animated gifs' box, things get downright serene.

John
 
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Paul Hovnanian P.E.

Jan 1, 1970
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Winfield said:
http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721

Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.

The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.

Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."

One reason for keeping the actual figures to yourself is to keep some
colleague from 'discovering' the improvements before you are ready to
announce them and grabbing the glory.
Needless to say, they always move on to another project just before some
major setback is discovered that the hidden margin could have covered.
 
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Ralph & Diane Barone

Jan 1, 1970
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Winfield Hill said:
http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721

Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.

The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.

Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

But it's not talking about money, it's talking about S/N ratio...
 
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Gary Richardson

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
Animated? Only if Flash is installed. And if you check the Netscape
'don't run animated gifs' box, things get downright serene.

John

Or use this program: http://www.privoxy.org/ to get rid of banner ads, popup
windows, all sorts of nasty stuff.
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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that animated TI advertisement drove me to distraction
Animated? Only if Flash is installed. And if you check the Netscape
'don't run animated gifs' box, things get downright serene.
John Larkin

or right-click on it and select "Block Images from this Server".
Oh, you don't run Mozilla?
 
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Mark Fergerson

Jan 1, 1970
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Winfield said:
http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721

Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.

The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.

I'm reminded of Star Trek TNG's Geordi reacting in horror
when Scotty tells him to overestimate repair times in order
to look good when repairs are effected "ahead of time".
Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."

"Never tell the Cap'n, laddie!"

Mark L. Fergerson
 
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Garrett Mace

Jan 1, 1970
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JeffM said:
or right-click on it and select "Block Images from this Server".
Oh, you don't run Mozilla?

Or, install the "Click to play" plugin for Mozilla and Firebird. I never see
Flash animations unless I want to, they just show up as a plain white button
with red border. "Remove any object" is pretty neat, too. Right-click,
select "Remove this object" and it's gone, doesn't matter what it is.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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http://www.reed-electronics.com/ednmag/article/CA339721

Sage advice from Howard Johnson, PhD. A been-there-done-that
recommendation about managing specifications and performance
margins in engineering projects: Use two budgets.

The official public budget, plus your secret budget with your
calculated and actual-measured values. The public budget has
intentionally-increased values over your true private budget.
These allow you to discover or create "improvements" as needed
to provide slack for the inevitable degradations uncovered
during development, without requiring painful career-damaging
changes in the product specs.

Best line: "Now, tear out this article and burn it."

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

Sort of sounds like HoJo has the problem that all monthly columnists
eventually run into: deadline coming up, and out of topics. Maybe he
should start running "Howard's Mailbag."

John
 
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