In retail, this 2-website approach could have a non-sinister approach.
Often, the online and brick-and-mortar operations are seperate, and ran by different divisions (sometimes the online operation is outsourced to a different company). These divisions may set prices independently.
Thus, the second website is just one that reflects in-store pricing. At a large retailer that I worked at a couple years ago, our websites had different prices and this caused much confusion.
DISCLAIMER: I've worked in retail (IT); previously for Musicland, and now for Trans World Entertainment.
This is what lead engineers, or architects (responsibilities and titles vary by team) are for.
There should be a chief, and he should listen to the opinions of the entire team. Then, using his expertise, wisdom and the input of the team, he/she should make the decision.
In fact, a good architect or lead should have a good instinct for this... it will be highly dependent upon the system architecture, team makeup, etc. If the pieces are easily seperable (say, a c# GUI app that communicates to a ruby-on-rails web service), and most developers on the team know both languages, maybe multiple languages work. On the other hand, if only one or two programmers know ruby (or c#), or you're talking about one app that uses both languages, the situation gets murkier.
I've served as a lead dev / manager for teams in both scenarios. In the past, I developed a large system based on Delphi combined with C++ (several applications), and recently a whole system with C# (again, multiple applications and components). I can say that both are doable, but each was approach was tailored to the requirements of the system.
I know people here tend to dislike MS products, but MapPoint is really great. It supports a pretty large font size, and you can easily change map types (terrain, road, etc.).
It's a fairly involved application (I use it for geographic sales data analysis, for example), but with the help of an adult, maybe you might be able to make it work.
It's fairly adjustable, so hopefully you can find a high-contrast set of colors that work for your friend.
If you know someone with an MSDN subscription, have them download it for you so that you can try it out.
I'm also a 9100 owner, and I have noticed no problems. This article is pretty harsh on Dell, but overall I've loved this beast of a machine.
However, I'm running XP PRO, and the article said the problems are only with XP HOME.
I also like the new wireless stability enhancements & the new wireless network selection screen. SO MUCH better than the shitty old one.
PS - if you're having fan problems w/ the 9100 (like it stays on all the time until reboot, despite beeing cool), install the A03 bios update. Fixes this issue right up...
"The US Government is spending $53,000,000 over the next 5 years to make sure everybody knows that this is a real note"...you have to spend money to make money.
They are notorious for waitlisting people... but they don't do it based on where they think the person will go. They have a very numeric "scorecard" that takes into account test scores, racial profile, sex, socio-economic profile, high school grades, difficulty of high school, quality of essay, etc.
In the end, they take the top chuck, accept them, and waitlist the middle chunk. People from the middle chuck they accept based upon how many non-acceptance notifications they had from the accepted group.
One thing you can do, though, is call up UM and ask to talk to the person that is reviewing your application. This person can have *serious pull* in getting you accepted if you are on the waitlist. They can add something like 20% to your numeric score... my roomate freshman year was one of the waitlisted people, and he did this... he got in with no problem.
Actually, until VS.NET came out, I would have said that Delphi/Kylix's intellisense was far superior to VC6 and everything else on the market. As of Visual Studio.NET, however, MS has made a comeback in the Easy-To-Use IDE race, and is on par w/ delphi.
They're *selling* it. They're only giving away an "Open" version. The open version can't be used to create commercial apps, and doesn't contain all of the components that make delphi development so easy and efficient. I use delphi at work (I've got it open now, actually), and I've tried the Open version of Kylix before at home... it's way watered down compared to the pro/enterprise versions of delphi/kylix. Still a really useful tool for simple, quick, and fast apps.
It's not a bad business model, considering most people doing non-comercial development won't pay a hefty price for a professional development environment anyways.
Once news of this scandal broke out on Wall Street, the atomic number of Strontium (NASDAQ: SR) plumeted from a healthy 38 to a pitiful, yet brightly burning 12.
Um, if Knuth weren't cited in like EVERY algorithms book EVER, then you might have a point. However, I think he's quite modest, given that he has influenced so many brilliant people.
And TAOCS is hardly arrogant... and Knuth is hardly "eccentric". Nerdy, yes, but not eccentric. He lives quite a normal teacher's life, besides doing stuff like celebrating his binary birthdays (like his recent 1000000th) by getting together with other CS gurus (Sedgewick, etc).
Serial can be made to be faster, because you don't run into delay skew (when the parallel bits are sent across the wire and don't end up at the other end at the same time), and therefore don't have to be syncronized (for the most part). Also, the fact that serial connections don't have to worry as much about cross interference from closely placed cables lets you run at higher transfer rates.
the on-again, off-again McNealy Linux relationship.
Well, maybe if Scott picked up his socks once in a while, and his drunk friends stopped showing up at all hours of the night, our relationship would be a little more long-term.
Err.. then you didn't read my original post... I *had* to do a fresh install... all of my system dlls and exe's were toasted... I couldn't even log in, the few times I got it to boot without crashing.
Since I still had all of my data in tact (and it was on backups anyways), I could have attempted to repair the system by placing the disk in another machine and replacing the executables, but that's a huge pain in the ass, and I can't afford the time it would take to do that.
I guess I should have been more clear in my original post... I think that this was a particularly potent virus because it's the first virus to ever make me reformat my box. Past viruses on our network didn't really affect me, but this one toasted all of my executables.
I (and the rest of my company) didn't lose any real data, just exe's. It was just a real pain in the ass to clean up, because many machines were inoperable after we got done cleaning.
Yes, I realize any platform could be infected by a virus. I merely meant that in this instance, another platform was the only defense that would have worked.
Real programmers don't need viruses to format ther hard disk
Actually, this doesn't really help much. A newly built machine is just as easy to infect as an older machine, unless the user of the older machine hasn't kept up with updates.
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In retail, this 2-website approach could have a non-sinister approach.
Often, the online and brick-and-mortar operations are seperate, and ran by different divisions (sometimes the online operation is outsourced to a different company). These divisions may set prices independently.
Thus, the second website is just one that reflects in-store pricing. At a large retailer that I worked at a couple years ago, our websites had different prices and this caused much confusion.
DISCLAIMER: I've worked in retail (IT); previously for Musicland, and now for Trans World Entertainment.
This is what lead engineers, or architects (responsibilities and titles vary by team) are for.
There should be a chief, and he should listen to the opinions of the entire team. Then, using his expertise, wisdom and the input of the team, he/she should make the decision.
In fact, a good architect or lead should have a good instinct for this... it will be highly dependent upon the system architecture, team makeup, etc. If the pieces are easily seperable (say, a c# GUI app that communicates to a ruby-on-rails web service), and most developers on the team know both languages, maybe multiple languages work. On the other hand, if only one or two programmers know ruby (or c#), or you're talking about one app that uses both languages, the situation gets murkier.
I've served as a lead dev / manager for teams in both scenarios. In the past, I developed a large system based on Delphi combined with C++ (several applications), and recently a whole system with C# (again, multiple applications and components). I can say that both are doable, but each was approach was tailored to the requirements of the system.
That this made me a little sad?
I know people here tend to dislike MS products, but MapPoint is really great. It supports a pretty large font size, and you can easily change map types (terrain, road, etc.).
It's a fairly involved application (I use it for geographic sales data analysis, for example), but with the help of an adult, maybe you might be able to make it work.
It's fairly adjustable, so hopefully you can find a high-contrast set of colors that work for your friend.
If you know someone with an MSDN subscription, have them download it for you so that you can try it out.
Good luck to you.
I'm also a 9100 owner, and I have noticed no problems. This article is pretty harsh on Dell, but overall I've loved this beast of a machine.
However, I'm running XP PRO, and the article said the problems are only with XP HOME.
I also like the new wireless stability enhancements & the new wireless network selection screen. SO MUCH better than the shitty old one.
PS - if you're having fan problems w/ the 9100 (like it stays on all the time until reboot, despite beeing cool), install the A03 bios update. Fixes this issue right up...
mike
"The US Government is spending $53,000,000 over the next 5 years to make sure everybody knows that this is a real note" ...you have to spend money to make money.
We get our holiday bonuses after the holidays, because it takes forever to get anything aproved through our parent company.
:)
Nothin' like a christmas bonus in late January
I'm definately not complaining though... I count myself as lucky to be getting anything.
No, the point is to send some lawyer's kid to college.
The 12 million is in US dollars, so you figure it's 54.5k per employee...
Corel probably had a pretty good cost/salary, say 60% of an employee's salary. That would put them at ~ 33k/year average.
Not horrible, but no CEOs...
some nerdy guy named Gilliam Wates. Hmmm...
I go to UM Ann Arbor...
They are notorious for waitlisting people... but they don't do it based on where they think the person will go. They have a very numeric "scorecard" that takes into account test scores, racial profile, sex, socio-economic profile, high school grades, difficulty of high school, quality of essay, etc.
In the end, they take the top chuck, accept them, and waitlist the middle chunk. People from the middle chuck they accept based upon how many non-acceptance notifications they had from the accepted group.
One thing you can do, though, is call up UM and ask to talk to the person that is reviewing your application. This person can have *serious pull* in getting you accepted if you are on the waitlist. They can add something like 20% to your numeric score... my roomate freshman year was one of the waitlisted people, and he did this... he got in with no problem.
Yes, I believe it does have intellisense.
Actually, until VS.NET came out, I would have said that Delphi/Kylix's intellisense was far superior to VC6 and everything else on the market. As of Visual Studio.NET, however, MS has made a comeback in the Easy-To-Use IDE race, and is on par w/ delphi.
They're *selling* it. They're only giving away an "Open" version. The open version can't be used to create commercial apps, and doesn't contain all of the components that make delphi development so easy and efficient. I use delphi at work (I've got it open now, actually), and I've tried the Open version of Kylix before at home... it's way watered down compared to the pro/enterprise versions of delphi/kylix. Still a really useful tool for simple, quick, and fast apps.
It's not a bad business model, considering most people doing non-comercial development won't pay a hefty price for a professional development environment anyways.
$14,400/hr ???
At that rate, the only person this guy could be is my lawyer.
while microsoft is going to support COM, they do want it to fade away in favor of .net components...
.net equivalents of generic COM interfaces.
There are
Honestly, though, I think there is just too much invested in COM by various companies to get away from it, at least within the next 10 years.
Will be at least 2TB. (1TB min install) :)
Once news of this scandal broke out on Wall Street, the atomic number of Strontium (NASDAQ: SR) plumeted from a healthy 38 to a pitiful, yet brightly burning 12.
Mmm...so you're assuming that everybody has a Windows machine?
Well, everyone can download Wine (if it's not included in their Linux distro)
an argument I had with fellow nerds when I was like 12 years old.
Um, if Knuth weren't cited in like EVERY algorithms book EVER, then you might have a point. However, I think he's quite modest, given that he has influenced so many brilliant people.
... and Knuth is hardly "eccentric". Nerdy, yes, but not eccentric. He lives quite a normal teacher's life, besides doing stuff like celebrating his binary birthdays (like his recent 1000000th) by getting together with other CS gurus (Sedgewick, etc).
And TAOCS is hardly arrogant
Serial can be made to be faster, because you don't run into delay skew (when the parallel bits are sent across the wire and don't end up at the other end at the same time), and therefore don't have to be syncronized (for the most part). Also, the fact that serial connections don't have to worry as much about cross interference from closely placed cables lets you run at higher transfer rates.
:)
Hope this helps
Ah, yes, the obligitory MS vs. The World post.
the on-again, off-again McNealy Linux relationship.
Well, maybe if Scott picked up his socks once in a while, and his drunk friends stopped showing up at all hours of the night, our relationship would be a little more long-term.
Sincerely,
Linux
Err.. then you didn't read my original post... I *had* to do a fresh install... all of my system dlls and exe's were toasted... I couldn't even log in, the few times I got it to boot without crashing.
Since I still had all of my data in tact (and it was on backups anyways), I could have attempted to repair the system by placing the disk in another machine and replacing the executables, but that's a huge pain in the ass, and I can't afford the time it would take to do that.
I guess I should have been more clear in my original post... I think that this was a particularly potent virus because it's the first virus to ever make me reformat my box. Past viruses on our network didn't really affect me, but this one toasted all of my executables.
I (and the rest of my company) didn't lose any real data, just exe's. It was just a real pain in the ass to clean up, because many machines were inoperable after we got done cleaning.
Yes, I realize any platform could be infected by a virus. I merely meant that in this instance, another platform was the only defense that would have worked.
Real programmers don't need viruses to format ther hard disk
Actually, this doesn't really help much. A newly built machine is just as easy to infect as an older machine, unless the user of the older machine hasn't kept up with updates.