I'm an ACM member and don't have access. Looks like I would have to shell out another $99 per year in addition to my membership fee for the digital library.
but jeezuz, how hard is it to grasp the fact that a large number of the eyeballs viewing your "news" arrive at your web site via a link on Google news?
The president of the internet division of the newspaper conglomerate I work for actually said this in response to a manager suggesting working more closely with Google to improve SEO:
"We don't want users to search for our site. We need to focus on the users who are on our site and make it easier for them to find the content they want via our internal search."
Yeah. We don't want silly new readers. And we don't want readers to be able to find us on search engines. They should just know to come here and when they're here, they'll then learn how to use a search engine - our search engine. I bet our search algorithms are totally better than google's.
Until I got to the end, I thought you were referring to the newspaper conglomerate I work for. It is awful how top heavy our organization is, they slashed benefits and pay, cut talented people (one of my friends was a person let go and HR said these group of people were chosen because the company is less liable for cutting them than cutting some of the more ineffective people because many of them are older) and are still refusing to concede that the internet is their most viable business option.
I work in the internet division of this company and we're about the only branch that isn't losing money; but due to their practices, there is only half the staff today there was two years ago. I look forward to them either seeing the light or utterly failing.
I'm just slightly concerned that all the work that has been put into the GPL by FSF (of which I'm a member thus a bit biased) and others will be overshadowed - at least in the mainstream - by Microsoft's step into open source. I support organizations' forays into FOSS, but I'm concerned that Microsoft is trying to eventually be perceived as the leader of FOSS development.
And maybe I'm paranoid.
I suggest installing Ubuntu (or some derivation) and go to System-->Preferences-->Session and add a new startup item like, say, Firefox. Have Firefox defaulted to opening the sites she likes to go to. Also, auto-login her user.
I basically have this setup at work where I turn on my Ubuntu machine, go pour a cup of coffee, and when I get back Firefox is open and my mail client is open.
I use Thunderbird at work on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine. Of all the mail clients I've tried on Ubuntu, this has worked out best for me for my specific needs which is basically hooking up to the corporate Exchange server. I wish it had a calendar (perhaps there is some sort of plugin or I'm missing something?) but I just use my Google calendar and have that displayed via my desktop date/clock bar.
This sounds more like trying to bump off your crazy Uncle but keeping him on life support. Just in case...
I simply feel that users should be able to get rid of it and if they choose so in the future, they can simply download it again. What is there to gain fro it remaining on the system?
He says that deselecting it for use allows users to re-enable it without need for additional media but I don't see the problem considering most adopters of the technology will likely have an always-on internet connection.
I'm not completely sold on using SSD for development (yet) as well because of the write-cycle problem but do think that the consumer SSD device in the near future will eliminate the write wear.
If you must use a solid state device, I'd suggest getting one that is much larger than the projected development size and has better write cycle/wear numbers to help alleviate any premature data loss.
I primarily use SSD's for backups.
Any Apple Developers on a MacBook Air out there?
Perhaps Semacode wasn't the first people to do this (and provide a toolkit) but I remember having a conversation with friends nearly 2 years ago about this technology and the copyright on the Semacode site is from 2002.
I guess at least there's a major backer in the technology but if I know Microsoft, they'll likely patent their encoding and force it on the world as the standard.
When the Large Hadron Collider smashes those particles we won't have to worry about the moon - it'll be packed in nice and tightly with us in the beautiful black hole.:p
Oh its totally not Microsoft's fault! I mean, doesn't everyone have access to the source so we can learn from it and create better software and drivers?
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I'm an ACM member and don't have access. Looks like I would have to shell out another $99 per year in addition to my membership fee for the digital library.
but jeezuz, how hard is it to grasp the fact that a large number of the eyeballs viewing your "news" arrive at your web site via a link on Google news?
The president of the internet division of the newspaper conglomerate I work for actually said this in response to a manager suggesting working more closely with Google to improve SEO: "We don't want users to search for our site. We need to focus on the users who are on our site and make it easier for them to find the content they want via our internal search." Yeah. We don't want silly new readers. And we don't want readers to be able to find us on search engines. They should just know to come here and when they're here, they'll then learn how to use a search engine - our search engine. I bet our search algorithms are totally better than google's.
Until I got to the end, I thought you were referring to the newspaper conglomerate I work for. It is awful how top heavy our organization is, they slashed benefits and pay, cut talented people (one of my friends was a person let go and HR said these group of people were chosen because the company is less liable for cutting them than cutting some of the more ineffective people because many of them are older) and are still refusing to concede that the internet is their most viable business option. I work in the internet division of this company and we're about the only branch that isn't losing money; but due to their practices, there is only half the staff today there was two years ago. I look forward to them either seeing the light or utterly failing.
I'm just slightly concerned that all the work that has been put into the GPL by FSF (of which I'm a member thus a bit biased) and others will be overshadowed - at least in the mainstream - by Microsoft's step into open source. I support organizations' forays into FOSS, but I'm concerned that Microsoft is trying to eventually be perceived as the leader of FOSS development. And maybe I'm paranoid.
I suggest installing Ubuntu (or some derivation) and go to System-->Preferences-->Session and add a new startup item like, say, Firefox. Have Firefox defaulted to opening the sites she likes to go to. Also, auto-login her user. I basically have this setup at work where I turn on my Ubuntu machine, go pour a cup of coffee, and when I get back Firefox is open and my mail client is open.
Does lusting after all their space make me a peta-phile?
Do research on other companies who have deployed FOSS enterprise-wide. The company I currently work switched gears from a proprietary language based sites to one in Drupal. http://www.jacksonville.com/ now is ranked #4 for best newspaper site http://www.jacksonville.com/business/2009-02-09/story/jacksonvillecom_ranked_no_4_among_nations_top_newspaper_sites Using Drupal has allowed us to package a highly configurable product that we can rapidly deploy to our other business units. I suggest looking for other similar situations.
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I just checked and it is indeed IMAP.
I use Thunderbird at work on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine. Of all the mail clients I've tried on Ubuntu, this has worked out best for me for my specific needs which is basically hooking up to the corporate Exchange server. I wish it had a calendar (perhaps there is some sort of plugin or I'm missing something?) but I just use my Google calendar and have that displayed via my desktop date/clock bar.
This sounds more like trying to bump off your crazy Uncle but keeping him on life support. Just in case... I simply feel that users should be able to get rid of it and if they choose so in the future, they can simply download it again. What is there to gain fro it remaining on the system? He says that deselecting it for use allows users to re-enable it without need for additional media but I don't see the problem considering most adopters of the technology will likely have an always-on internet connection.
I'm not completely sold on using SSD for development (yet) as well because of the write-cycle problem but do think that the consumer SSD device in the near future will eliminate the write wear. If you must use a solid state device, I'd suggest getting one that is much larger than the projected development size and has better write cycle/wear numbers to help alleviate any premature data loss. I primarily use SSD's for backups. Any Apple Developers on a MacBook Air out there?
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Zomgz but those don't come with the bitten-apple and pre-packaged eliteness.
Perhaps Semacode wasn't the first people to do this (and provide a toolkit) but I remember having a conversation with friends nearly 2 years ago about this technology and the copyright on the Semacode site is from 2002. I guess at least there's a major backer in the technology but if I know Microsoft, they'll likely patent their encoding and force it on the world as the standard.
My comment beckons the ignorance of some regarding science - beliefs that come from bad movies and no education.
When the Large Hadron Collider smashes those particles we won't have to worry about the moon - it'll be packed in nice and tightly with us in the beautiful black hole. :p
Oh its totally not Microsoft's fault! I mean, doesn't everyone have access to the source so we can learn from it and create better software and drivers?