One of the original ideas behind Jabber was that it could unite the various IM systems together under the banner of a common protocol via the use of the transport mechanism. It seems unfortunate to me how that never really took off and instead that same work has been replicated on the client side so many times with Gaim, Trillian, Adium, etc.
I think the best way to survive a bad boss is to get a new job. Life seems too short to spend it under the thumb of an incompetent ruler - that is, assuming you care about getting stuff done and being productive.
This is great news! I love seeing space success stories out in the public eye. Perhaps such missions will be an inspiration to the next generation of potential explorers. There's just something cool about space...
When I sit down to play a game, that's what I want to do - play. I get sick of waiting for some weak story or lame plot to unfold in front of me. For me, it isn't about that. It's about blowing stuff up or solving puzzles. I don't need a whole convoluted back-story to enjoy myself.
I don't understand what the harm is when product releases sneak out - especially given the huge amount of hype it tends to generate. The only thing I can think of is that it might help for companies to manage expectations as leaked info often sounds better than what actually gets released. On the flip side, though, you can't buy the kind of loyalty that is evident when you have a whole community built up around the hype of products that aren't even released yet!
Bantown claims to have figured out a way to subvert that test, and to have even released a free, open-source program that others could use to do the same.
I like how it was pointed out that this little program is "open-source" almost as if that's a bad thing.
Benchmarks tend to show extremes which are useful for hype. Seeing a 10-20% increase in everyday things doesn't sound too bad to me. Not as much as I'd like to have seen, of course, but it's a good start IMO.
Did I miss something or did that article have basically no content? It didn't outline the actual problem - it just said there was one and, boy, it was sure terrible! It seems unlikely to me that Apple would try to destroy RSS as they've spent a considerable effort in building Safari into a nice and simple RSS reader. I think they know how to do it. Perhaps it's just a case of that feature having been rushed into iPhoto with an upcoming patch that might clean things up a bit. That is, assuming it's actually got a serious problem to begin with. Hard to tell.
You need to watch more James Bond movies.. Everyone knows you can get a little hand-held device which reads your finger prints and then electronically displays them on a little screen which all finger print readers can read. Just get yourself one of those, have it read your prints, and then carry it around with you in your pocket! As a bonus: when you're bored at work you can go around using a print dusting kit and grab the prints of everyone else in the office, too, and snoop around in high security areas that you don't normally have access to during the night. Duh!
I wonder how many of these billions is the cost of hunting script kiddies when the money would be better spent hiring someone who knows a thing or two about security and preventing an attack from happening in the first place.
All the RPG geeks I know of knew nothing about euro-style board games until I brought Settlers around. The rest of my computer geek friends had no idea, either. And certainly the rest of my non-gamer/non-geek family didn't even know there were other games except for the ones on the shelves at Wal-mart. It really is a sad state of affairs... The only reason I even know about these games myself is my accidental discovery of the board game geeks site online one day...
There's thousands of board games out there that most people (at least in the US) have never heard of that are far and beyond the standard Monopoly knockoffs. I recommend Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne as good entry points into this world, but there's many to choose from and a large, helpful community to interact with.
I appreciate your concern, but my previous comment was intended as a joke. If you had clicked on the link I provided I would hope it would have been obvious. No harm done, though. Just FYI.
What you really should be learning is the up-coming trend of Transport Oriented Languages. They're all the rage at leading universities and businesses as the paradigm is an exciting new way to streamline your development synergies! (Note: Previous sentence is not true.)
My plan to get hired by Google:
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Unfortunately I think my languages are just too powerful for Google, really. I'm not sure they can handle them. That must be why they haven't called me yet...
Offtopic? How so? I see no reason to get the new XBox 360 and the shortage press they keep getting just confuses me. Why does anyone really care? There's almost nothing compelling about it as far as I can tell. Perhaps I'm just not gamer-enough.
Interesting. Yeah, I understand what you mean about designing with quality in mind as a goal. Wikipedia certainly doesn't handle that aspect of things. There's plenty of room in the world for both approaches, I think. The real beef that the "genuine" encylopedians likely have about Wikipedia is that it's free and open to the masses. It's very hard to compete with something like that, so I suspect they feel very threatened by all of the Wikipedia press of late. There's always going to be people who want that built in quality guarantee that Britanica can provide - but perhaps the real question is: are there enough people like that to keep their institution alive in the coming future?
That is kind of interesting, but how different is the Britannica model from Wikipedia, anyway? I think they both fundamentally rely upon peer review and the "many eyes" approach. Wikipedia as the serious advantage of having a heck of a lot more eyes available with the power to fix what they see as broken. Sure, some aren't going to be subject experts, but then any given expert in any given field is always going to have personal biases and beliefs that don't quite mesh with actual facts, too, so I'm not sure there's a difference in the end. Wikipedia is a brute-force parallel approach while I would perhaps classify Britannica is a brute-force serial approach.
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One of the original ideas behind Jabber was that it could unite the various IM systems together under the banner of a common protocol via the use of the transport mechanism. It seems unfortunate to me how that never really took off and instead that same work has been replicated on the client side so many times with Gaim, Trillian, Adium, etc.
I think the best way to survive a bad boss is to get a new job. Life seems too short to spend it under the thumb of an incompetent ruler - that is, assuming you care about getting stuff done and being productive.
This is great news! I love seeing space success stories out in the public eye. Perhaps such missions will be an inspiration to the next generation of potential explorers. There's just something cool about space...
When I sit down to play a game, that's what I want to do - play. I get sick of waiting for some weak story or lame plot to unfold in front of me. For me, it isn't about that. It's about blowing stuff up or solving puzzles. I don't need a whole convoluted back-story to enjoy myself.
I don't understand what the harm is when product releases sneak out - especially given the huge amount of hype it tends to generate. The only thing I can think of is that it might help for companies to manage expectations as leaked info often sounds better than what actually gets released. On the flip side, though, you can't buy the kind of loyalty that is evident when you have a whole community built up around the hype of products that aren't even released yet!
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Bantown claims to have figured out a way to subvert that test, and to have even released a free, open-source program that others could use to do the same.
I like how it was pointed out that this little program is "open-source" almost as if that's a bad thing.
Benchmarks tend to show extremes which are useful for hype. Seeing a 10-20% increase in everyday things doesn't sound too bad to me. Not as much as I'd like to have seen, of course, but it's a good start IMO.
Did I miss something or did that article have basically no content? It didn't outline the actual problem - it just said there was one and, boy, it was sure terrible! It seems unlikely to me that Apple would try to destroy RSS as they've spent a considerable effort in building Safari into a nice and simple RSS reader. I think they know how to do it. Perhaps it's just a case of that feature having been rushed into iPhoto with an upcoming patch that might clean things up a bit. That is, assuming it's actually got a serious problem to begin with. Hard to tell.
You need to watch more James Bond movies.. Everyone knows you can get a little hand-held device which reads your finger prints and then electronically displays them on a little screen which all finger print readers can read. Just get yourself one of those, have it read your prints, and then carry it around with you in your pocket! As a bonus: when you're bored at work you can go around using a print dusting kit and grab the prints of everyone else in the office, too, and snoop around in high security areas that you don't normally have access to during the night. Duh!
I wonder how many of these billions is the cost of hunting script kiddies when the money would be better spent hiring someone who knows a thing or two about security and preventing an attack from happening in the first place.
Mmm.. harder to read than Perl... Now you're speaking my language(s)!
That's exactly what a CEO *should* be, IMO.
Could this possibly be the result of Apple pressuring? I can't imagine they wanted that sticker all over their future machines...
All the RPG geeks I know of knew nothing about euro-style board games until I brought Settlers around. The rest of my computer geek friends had no idea, either. And certainly the rest of my non-gamer/non-geek family didn't even know there were other games except for the ones on the shelves at Wal-mart. It really is a sad state of affairs... The only reason I even know about these games myself is my accidental discovery of the board game geeks site online one day...
There's thousands of board games out there that most people (at least in the US) have never heard of that are far and beyond the standard Monopoly knockoffs. I recommend Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne as good entry points into this world, but there's many to choose from and a large, helpful community to interact with.
To quote the late, great, Douglas Adams: I'd rather be happy than right any day.
I appreciate your concern, but my previous comment was intended as a joke. If you had clicked on the link I provided I would hope it would have been obvious. No harm done, though. Just FYI.
What you really should be learning is the up-coming trend of Transport Oriented Languages. They're all the rage at leading universities and businesses as the paradigm is an exciting new way to streamline your development synergies! (Note: Previous sentence is not true.)
Step 1) Develop several important and useful programming languages.
Step 2) ????
Step 3) Profit!
Unfortunately I think my languages are just too powerful for Google, really. I'm not sure they can handle them. That must be why they haven't called me yet...
Well that makes sense... I've never known any girls named David, either.
Offtopic? How so? I see no reason to get the new XBox 360 and the shortage press they keep getting just confuses me. Why does anyone really care? There's almost nothing compelling about it as far as I can tell. Perhaps I'm just not gamer-enough.
Why would I want one at all?
We're amusing ourselves to death.
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Didn't something like that happen to the Romans?
Interesting. Yeah, I understand what you mean about designing with quality in mind as a goal. Wikipedia certainly doesn't handle that aspect of things. There's plenty of room in the world for both approaches, I think. The real beef that the "genuine" encylopedians likely have about Wikipedia is that it's free and open to the masses. It's very hard to compete with something like that, so I suspect they feel very threatened by all of the Wikipedia press of late. There's always going to be people who want that built in quality guarantee that Britanica can provide - but perhaps the real question is: are there enough people like that to keep their institution alive in the coming future?
That is kind of interesting, but how different is the Britannica model from Wikipedia, anyway? I think they both fundamentally rely upon peer review and the "many eyes" approach. Wikipedia as the serious advantage of having a heck of a lot more eyes available with the power to fix what they see as broken. Sure, some aren't going to be subject experts, but then any given expert in any given field is always going to have personal biases and beliefs that don't quite mesh with actual facts, too, so I'm not sure there's a difference in the end. Wikipedia is a brute-force parallel approach while I would perhaps classify Britannica is a brute-force serial approach.