If your iPod nano is 1g or 2g you can install Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) and get rid of that Apple firmware too if you want? I have it on my 5.5g iPod, and I play all my music in ogg on it.
My Nexus One has much better battery life than my G1 did. In fact, I have no complaints about the Nexus battery life, while the G1 had trouble lasting all day. Y'all shoulda got an N1 while you had the chance.
Compaq's upper level management's arguments about Itanium's inevitability in the marketplace and economies of scale are a prime example of how you should never let management make decisions of real consequence. I listened to meetings at Compaq where not a single engineer in the crowd agreed with management, but there was nothing they could do. Everyone knew that the game was over simply because a bunch of morons with MBAs thought Intel was unbeatable and they wanted to give up.
We couldn't understand it until much later, when it turned out to be obvious that they wanted to kill Alpha so they could eventually merge with HP. Another move done for purely political reasons, not business or technology reasons.
HP on the other hand, probably knew that Alpha was a decent chip, but figured they could reap the benefits of having Intel taking over most of the Alpha engineers. Tru64 was successfully ported to Itanium, and then promptly killed. Because it wasn't HPs technology, they had no interest. They also killed the TruCluster product for political reasons, and let the technology disappear. It was all a big tragedy.
I was recently at a NYC coffee shop using some WiFi and relaxing on my day off, but checking my work mail with my wholly unhip Dell laptop from work. Out of the 6 people using the WiFi, I was the only person not using an Apple. It made me think that the only reason people buy a Macintosh is to use it in coffee houses.
I don't get it. Are people in your company using Wikipedia so much in their daily work that this would really be useful. Just set up your internal wiki. It is your focal point. Why try and integrate the two beyond just making a link to Wikipedia? Using Mediawiki, you can even use Interwiki links to easily link outside of your internal wiki.
You gotta be kidding right? ODEs is typical for math/physics undergrads, but PDEs is almost always optional for math undergrads and sometimes optional for Physics undergrads. Mathematicians often specialize in areas that have no need for PDEs.
I doubt that any project inside HP on Linux is anything more than a specialized distribution for High Performance Technical Computing. Whatever they put together will NEVER see the light of day on a consumer desktop. If I'm wrong, it would be one of the biggest shocks in my life, after finding out that Compaq was merging with HP.
The Large Hadron Collider is only for one type of Physics. There is plenty of fundamental Physics using optics, condensed matter, synchrotron radiation, nanotechnology. and lots of other fields that have nothing to do with particle Physics and could cause breakthroughs that lead to the next semiconductor.
This is a very sad but inevitable end to a great institution. Companies are too short sighted because of their obligations to shareholders.
It is different than folders/directories. It is better. You don't have to know any hierarchy before tagging something. As you indirectly point out, it can have multiple tags, and really it is a helper to SEARCH. It can help organize things for sure, and I find it more useful, ultimately, because it is not hierarchical. But it is not the same as folders/directories.
It really is more like throwing everything on the floor, except you have a magic tool to grab any item you want, so long as you have the right incantation to retrieve it.
Order? Structure? Hierarchy? How quaint! Don't you realize that no one has any time for that anymore. The new paradigm for the future is EXACTLY to toss everything on the floor and let the glorious God SEARCH order it for you.
The new usability is all about easing the life of the content creator, and letting the computer sort things out. Creating order is boring and hard. The content user is responsible for leveraging SEARCH to find what it needs. Oh, maybe you can throw a category tag on something if you really need to find it again quickly.
This is the whole GMail vs. Outlook argument that I see over and over again. Trees and hierarchy are soooooo old fashioned. This is just a visual extension of the death of the hierarchical structure in our lives.
I know two smart Accenture employees. I know it is hard to believe, but really it is true.
One of them has been a friend of mine for years. But you will never meet him as a consultant anymore. He does work inside the company only now.
Exactly! It was all political why AdvFS was killed for HP-UX. A lot of really good work was thrown away because the HP-UX bureaucracy was too afraid of change and the ServiceGuard engineers were afraid that they would lose control.
If I had to do it all over again, the top on my list would still be a Large University with a strong Technical program AND a good Liberal Arts program.
Some people hate these kinds of places and crave a smaller more personal setting. I liked the diverse opportunities of the Large University. I would stay away from Small Liberal Arts schools if you want a techinical career. Small Technical school would be okay, but you would miss out on diversity. Large Techincal Schools often have reasonably good Liberal Arts educations available as well so it would be second on my list.
It is "Don't Be Evil"
I put it to you Google thinks that that you can BE "not evil" while still DOing things that are evil.
Also, the larger companies get the better they get at self deception. Thus you get things like GE's "We bring good things to life" (like nuclear bombs), ADM's "Supermarket to the World" (while cornering the market on Lysine and jacking up the price), and HP's "Invent" (when they haven't invented anything new since the laser printer).
Only someone willfully ignorant of the facts would think that the New Deal was the cause of the Depression or that the New Deal extended the Depression. The New Deal saved lives. My Grandfather's for one.
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If your iPod nano is 1g or 2g you can install Rockbox (http://www.rockbox.org/) and get rid of that Apple firmware too if you want? I have it on my 5.5g iPod, and I play all my music in ogg on it.
My Nexus One has much better battery life than my G1 did. In fact, I have no complaints about the Nexus battery life, while the G1 had trouble lasting all day. Y'all shoulda got an N1 while you had the chance.
Compaq's upper level management's arguments about Itanium's inevitability in the marketplace and economies of scale are a prime example of how you should never let management make decisions of real consequence. I listened to meetings at Compaq where not a single engineer in the crowd agreed with management, but there was nothing they could do. Everyone knew that the game was over simply because a bunch of morons with MBAs thought Intel was unbeatable and they wanted to give up.
We couldn't understand it until much later, when it turned out to be obvious that they wanted to kill Alpha so they could eventually merge with HP. Another move done for purely political reasons, not business or technology reasons.
HP on the other hand, probably knew that Alpha was a decent chip, but figured they could reap the benefits of having Intel taking over most of the Alpha engineers. Tru64 was successfully ported to Itanium, and then promptly killed. Because it wasn't HPs technology, they had no interest. They also killed the TruCluster product for political reasons, and let the technology disappear. It was all a big tragedy.
I am still using Jaguar on a number of machines.
I was recently at a NYC coffee shop using some WiFi and relaxing on my day off, but checking my work mail with my wholly unhip Dell laptop from work. Out of the 6 people using the WiFi, I was the only person not using an Apple. It made me think that the only reason people buy a Macintosh is to use it in coffee houses.
Does anyone use PRIMOS anymore? My engineering school had a couple of PRIME machines in the mid 80s. Can any of them be still in operation?
I don't get it. Are people in your company using Wikipedia so much in their daily work that this would really be useful. Just set up your internal wiki. It is your focal point. Why try and integrate the two beyond just making a link to Wikipedia? Using Mediawiki, you can even use Interwiki links to easily link outside of your internal wiki.
You win another argument that no one ever took the other side on. Liberals all know what O'Reilly and Hannity are.
We all know what the blond chick is for too. And it ain't her amazing insight into foreign affairs.
You gotta be kidding right? ODEs is typical for math/physics undergrads, but PDEs is almost always optional for math undergrads and sometimes optional for Physics undergrads. Mathematicians often specialize in areas that have no need for PDEs.
And I thought you were talking about the brown sauce. :-)
I like to call it a "First order approximation of the truth." Or if I'm being snarky, A "Zeroth order approximation of the truth."
I doubt that any project inside HP on Linux is anything more than a specialized distribution for High Performance Technical Computing. Whatever they put together will NEVER see the light of day on a consumer desktop. If I'm wrong, it would be one of the biggest shocks in my life, after finding out that Compaq was merging with HP.
The Large Hadron Collider is only for one type of Physics. There is plenty of fundamental Physics using optics, condensed matter, synchrotron radiation, nanotechnology. and lots of other fields that have nothing to do with particle Physics and could cause breakthroughs that lead to the next semiconductor.
This is a very sad but inevitable end to a great institution. Companies are too short sighted because of their obligations to shareholders.
It is different than folders/directories. It is better. You don't have to know any hierarchy before tagging something. As you indirectly point out, it can have multiple tags, and really it is a helper to SEARCH. It can help organize things for sure, and I find it more useful, ultimately, because it is not hierarchical. But it is not the same as folders/directories.
It really is more like throwing everything on the floor, except you have a magic tool to grab any item you want, so long as you have the right incantation to retrieve it.
Order? Structure? Hierarchy? How quaint! Don't you realize that no one has any time for that anymore. The new paradigm for the future is EXACTLY to toss everything on the floor and let the glorious God SEARCH order it for you.
The new usability is all about easing the life of the content creator, and letting the computer sort things out. Creating order is boring and hard. The content user is responsible for leveraging SEARCH to find what it needs. Oh, maybe you can throw a category tag on something if you really need to find it again quickly.
This is the whole GMail vs. Outlook argument that I see over and over again. Trees and hierarchy are soooooo old fashioned. This is just a visual extension of the death of the hierarchical structure in our lives.
I know two smart Accenture employees. I know it is hard to believe, but really it is true. One of them has been a friend of mine for years. But you will never meet him as a consultant anymore. He does work inside the company only now.
Exactly! It was all political why AdvFS was killed for HP-UX. A lot of really good work was thrown away because the HP-UX bureaucracy was too afraid of change and the ServiceGuard engineers were afraid that they would lose control.
"Brain Brain. What is Brain?" Soon, we will all be intellectual children like the Star Trek episode.
Nah, McCain is a Fortran 4 man.
If I had to do it all over again, the top on my list would still be a Large University with a strong Technical program AND a good Liberal Arts program. Some people hate these kinds of places and crave a smaller more personal setting. I liked the diverse opportunities of the Large University. I would stay away from Small Liberal Arts schools if you want a techinical career. Small Technical school would be okay, but you would miss out on diversity. Large Techincal Schools often have reasonably good Liberal Arts educations available as well so it would be second on my list.
Plus, mozilla languished for at least 2 to 3 years after the source was released before it became a really viable alternative.
It is "Don't Be Evil" I put it to you Google thinks that that you can BE "not evil" while still DOing things that are evil. Also, the larger companies get the better they get at self deception. Thus you get things like GE's "We bring good things to life" (like nuclear bombs), ADM's "Supermarket to the World" (while cornering the market on Lysine and jacking up the price), and HP's "Invent" (when they haven't invented anything new since the laser printer).
...and Ms. Pac Man and Defender on Xmame. Does that count?
I absolutely loved this movie!! It was filled with drama and twists. And Billy is a Tool!
Only someone willfully ignorant of the facts would think that the New Deal was the cause of the Depression or that the New Deal extended the Depression. The New Deal saved lives. My Grandfather's for one.