You might mention this to your friendly local fire inspector. A company having policies in place that could discourage people from evacuating a burning building in an orderly fashion because they're worried it's not "real" sure sounds like the sort of thing they'd be interested in.
Do you have a citation from somewhere showing that Dayton made it into the Chicago Hub route? I noticed a dot where Dayton is on the new charts that came with this latest announcement, but the Strategic Plan still doesn't mention Dayton being on the line...
I have family in both Chicago and Dayton so as you might imagine this is a subject of keen interest!
Here's an article from the State Department's America.gov site that describes the genesis of the interstate system (and the political compromises that made it possible) pretty thoroughly.
... why is nobody screaming at Facebook about this, since they do the exact same thing that Digg was doing?
Seriously -- use the "Share" feature in Facebook to share a URL with your friends. Then click the link to read the shared story. The link will be framed with an obnoxious Facebook bar under a Facebook URL, just like stories shared via Digg were defaced, and with all the negative consequences that were associated with the DiggBar.
And yet while bloggers and SEO experts were up in arms over the DiggBar, I have yet to see a single story calling Facebook to account for this.
So if it's not OK for Digg to do this stuff, why is it ok for Facebook? Why the double standard?
Of course, Google started from a very high level of excellent management. Google's management ability was initially not only in providing an excellent search engine, but also in being able to build the infrastructure necessary to serving billions of queries of a database, each in less than a second.
Those are both signs of a "high level of excellent" engineering, not management. Google has always prized engineering talent and disdained management talent.
You can bet there's going to be lots of people running around saying "Oh, that MySQL isn't the REAL MySQL. [Monty|Drizzle|Percona|etc]'s MySQL is the real MySQL, even if it isn't CALLED MySQL."
Yes, but part of the point of the article is that the brand is under threat. "MySQL" as a brand relies on the word meaning the same thing everywhere you go -- in much the same way that anywhere in the world "McDonald's" means you can get a cheeseburger. Maybe not the world's best cheeseburger, but you know exactly what to expect when you walk through the doors.
The value of the brand is in its promise of consistency. But if "MySQL" fragments into a bunch of different projects with only a tenuous connection to each other -- Sun MySQL, Drizzle, Maria, Percona, etc. -- then the promise is broken. Webhost #1 tells you they have "MySQL" but it's not the same "MySQL" as Webhost #2 has. "MySQL" consultant A won't work with your database, where "MySQL" consultant B will. Result: confusion and brand damage. And all those people who were attracted to MySQL because of the strength of its brand start looking for alternatives.
This is why the question of "which is the REAL MySQL?" is so important -- if a clear answer doesn't emerge, MySQL-as-brand is in big, big trouble.
For those of you who have already discovered Michael 'Rands' Lopp's blog Rands In Repose, I congratulate you, as you are clearly an intelligent audience.
Well, if they really cared about helping users ensure they were downloading genuine patches, they could just post the checksums and a link to one of the 40 million free md5 tools for Windows. But they don't, so they don't.
The thing is that some file hosting is pretty expensive, especially if the demo program is pretty big.
Maybe if publishers had to bear the cost of hosting multi-hundred-megabyte patches themselves instead of shunting it off onto third parties, they'd work harder before release to ensure that their product won't require multi-hundred-megabyte patches...
I would be wary about downloading content like game patches from a torrent site. There is a long history of crackers using altered versions of patches and keygens to spread malware.
This wouldn't be an issue if publishers provided md5 checksums for the patches, so you could confirm it was unmodified. Unfortunately since Windows doesn't come with a tool like md5sum, most game publishers don't seem to think it's useful to provide checksums for their files. Grrr.
No it doesn't. On FF 3.0.7 the page elements fall to the bottom, but you can't do anything with them. On Chrome once they've fallen you can click an element and "throw" it across the window by dragging & then releasing the mouse button.
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Dance clubs get people laid. Not sure you can say the same thing about World of Warcraft.
You might mention this to your friendly local fire inspector. A company having policies in place that could discourage people from evacuating a burning building in an orderly fashion because they're worried it's not "real" sure sounds like the sort of thing they'd be interested in.
O RLY?
No, that would be waiting for the elk to sneak off to have sex with a cute camp counselor in a tight T-shirt...
Do you have a citation from somewhere showing that Dayton made it into the Chicago Hub route? I noticed a dot where Dayton is on the new charts that came with this latest announcement, but the Strategic Plan still doesn't mention Dayton being on the line...
I have family in both Chicago and Dayton so as you might imagine this is a subject of keen interest!
Here's an article from the State Department's America.gov site that describes the genesis of the interstate system (and the political compromises that made it possible) pretty thoroughly.
Being publicly identifiable as a user of Slashdot had already killed any hopes I might have had of being considered cool ;-)
Exactly, I think both are annoying as all get out.
... why is nobody screaming at Facebook about this, since they do the exact same thing that Digg was doing?
Seriously -- use the "Share" feature in Facebook to share a URL with your friends. Then click the link to read the shared story. The link will be framed with an obnoxious Facebook bar under a Facebook URL, just like stories shared via Digg were defaced, and with all the negative consequences that were associated with the DiggBar.
And yet while bloggers and SEO experts were up in arms over the DiggBar, I have yet to see a single story calling Facebook to account for this.
So if it's not OK for Digg to do this stuff, why is it ok for Facebook? Why the double standard?
Those are both signs of a "high level of excellent" engineering, not management. Google has always prized engineering talent and disdained management talent.
There's a saying in the world of user interface design: "The only truly intuitive interface is the nipple. All others are learned."
Two words: pro wrestling.
You misspelled "excrement."
Are you trying to tell us that visiting TGI Friday's is like visiting Auschwitz? Because we already knew that.
You just gave me an idea for a great way to describe the significance of netbooks -- they are the Honda Cub of the PC business.
You can bet there's going to be lots of people running around saying "Oh, that MySQL isn't the REAL MySQL. [Monty|Drizzle|Percona|etc]'s MySQL is the real MySQL, even if it isn't CALLED MySQL."
Yes, but part of the point of the article is that the brand is under threat. "MySQL" as a brand relies on the word meaning the same thing everywhere you go -- in much the same way that anywhere in the world "McDonald's" means you can get a cheeseburger. Maybe not the world's best cheeseburger, but you know exactly what to expect when you walk through the doors.
The value of the brand is in its promise of consistency. But if "MySQL" fragments into a bunch of different projects with only a tenuous connection to each other -- Sun MySQL, Drizzle, Maria, Percona, etc. -- then the promise is broken. Webhost #1 tells you they have "MySQL" but it's not the same "MySQL" as Webhost #2 has. "MySQL" consultant A won't work with your database, where "MySQL" consultant B will. Result: confusion and brand damage. And all those people who were attracted to MySQL because of the strength of its brand start looking for alternatives.
This is why the question of "which is the REAL MySQL?" is so important -- if a clear answer doesn't emerge, MySQL-as-brand is in big, big trouble.
And humble! Don't forget humble!
Well, if they really cared about helping users ensure they were downloading genuine patches, they could just post the checksums and a link to one of the 40 million free md5 tools for Windows. But they don't, so they don't.
Maybe if publishers had to bear the cost of hosting multi-hundred-megabyte patches themselves instead of shunting it off onto third parties, they'd work harder before release to ensure that their product won't require multi-hundred-megabyte patches...
This wouldn't be an issue if publishers provided md5 checksums for the patches, so you could confirm it was unmodified. Unfortunately since Windows doesn't come with a tool like md5sum, most game publishers don't seem to think it's useful to provide checksums for their files. Grrr.
Not necessarily. But if your Roomba waltzes in one day wearing a red dress and high heels... RUN.
No it doesn't. On FF 3.0.7 the page elements fall to the bottom, but you can't do anything with them. On Chrome once they've fallen you can click an element and "throw" it across the window by dragging & then releasing the mouse button.
Aaaaand you have just discovered why they call developing for a closed platform "being locked in the trunk."