Wednesday, September 20, 2006

The silliness of blaming terrorism on anything but militant Islam

Why are the radical Islam nut jobs pissed at us? Because we're not Moslem.
The Pope quotes 13th Century Byzantine emperor in a speech about rationality and religion, pointing out that violence is antithesis of rationality. That as Catholic we belive that our God is a rational God. If we believe in God we must almost be rational people.
What do the Moslems do? They riot. Hmmmm.....
Ted Koppel points out that one of the reasons we may not have been attacked is because under Islamic law, first you must give the infidel a chance to convert. Apparently several leading Islamic clerics disapproved because Osama didn't give us the chance to convert. See first you offer them a chance to convert and then you can kill them.
In every Christian country on the planet, you can be a moslem and no one will care. In every Islamic country, if you are a Christian, you are forbidden to openly practice your religion. The anti-terror war folks call this being open minded.
The anti-terror folks seem to think that all of this because we don't understand them. They're poor, dis-enfranchised, downtrodden. They seem to ignore that many of the terrorists are from the Middle Easts middle class. They're engineers, doctors and lawyers. They're not poor.
The Middle East should be among the richest nations on earth. They invented the number '0', and were at one time the guiding lights of philosophy and technology, while Europe was in it's Dark Ages. Everything they had, they've lost. I wonder if you were to trace the downfall of they're civilation to the rise of Islam, if there would be any correlation?
We're not the only ones with issues with radical Islam. India has had problems with them attacking the Hindus. They created Pakistan as a place for the Islamic people. However, today, if something blows up, it's because of a Moslem. The same in France, and the rest of Europe.
So why do the Democrats believe that this is not a war? Why do they think that we can solve this diplomatically?

Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Argh

So, after looking deeper into Req Pro, and skimming some of the other requirements management tools out there, I'm becoming more and more disgusted at the lack of features in Req Pro.
There is no analysis package available. You can't mark requirement types as global. The integration with Word is not so good, especially if your requirement are in tables inside the document.
The one feature that I thought would be obvious, importing a Rational Rose/RSA model into Req Pro for Use Cases doesn't exist.
I had hoped that Rational considered to be the best of the tool vendors, that this product would not only be better, but harder to beat with one competent programmer and a few hours a day of development time.

Friday, September 01, 2006

Working with Rational Req Pro and their tools

At work we're trying to get Req Pro working. This is a great piece of software for managing requirments. As long as you don't have projects that interconnect. And you don't want to be able to search your entire company's requirements for data mining.
Here we are, in the middle of the IT world getting into the whole data mining, and the IT industry's so called premier tool can't do it. I get so tired of the cobblers children syndrome. We can't build cool software without tools, and if Rational is the best there is.... we're still buildling cottages and not skyscrapers.