I think they need two channels... one in original Japanese + subtitles, and one in crummy dubbed format. Otherwise there's gonna be riots and killing in the streets, meteors will fall from the sky, Linux will finally replace Windows on the desktop, and other crazy stuff. Mostly by my hand.
I've never heard of MVP, but the book makes mention of a very classic pattern: MVC (Model-View-Controller). MVC is actually heavily used in Java web development as an architecture for developing the front tier. Generally, when you hit the site, a master Controller uses CGI parameters or the request URI or both to dispatch to a sub-Controller which handles that specific type of request. The Controller is responsible for collecting data into a Model, which is basically one or more Java objects, and putting that into a request object (or session). Model objects are generally relatively dumb data-containing objects, sometimes called JDO (Java Data Objects) or JavaBeans. JDO are more focused on getting stuff out of a persistant store. The Controller then hands that Model off to a View, which is generally a JSP (or ASP, or whatever). The idea is that, given a different parameter, the Controller could hand that same model off to a different View - say you wanted to generate a page for a wireless device, just dispatch to the wireless View.
This pattern is more of an architectural design pattern, whereas this book focuses mainly on object model design patterns. But the MVC model is actually used heavily today. Check out Struts, which is quickly becoming a standard framework for web application development.
MFC also has some MVC in it, but they call their Model a "Document", and their Controller an "Application." Check out MSDN.
I think it's hardly facetious to be criticizing VCs for doing what the market demanded of them at the time, since they are chartered with making money for their investors, not making Silicon Valley a nice place to live.
In that case, I think we obviously need to charter some folks to make Silicon Valley a nice place to live. Screw the investors! I just want to be happy!
Say you had some JavaScript code embedded inside, or referenced from, an HTML page - and this JavaScript code did some "DHTML" stuff... it might rewrite parts of the page, move absolutely positioned elements around, make elements visible/invisible... but it was written just for IE. Dan Steinman talks about how to do certain DHTML things in both IE and Netscape 4, which are VERY different in this regard.
But, say you had this code that worked on IE and you wanted to "port" it to Mozilla. Even though the information on his site does not really cover that, I was just saying that it's fairly easy to do, you just have to follow the ECMAScript standard, which both IE and Mozilla support, and stay away from IE-specific DHTML features.
I then was citing an example of the document.all collection, which is IE specific. You can instead use the DOM method document.getElementById() to do the exact same thing - and it works in both browsers.
Another example I recently discovered was element.innerText - it doesn't work in Mozilla. So you have to use (as far as I can tell) element.innerHtml which works in both browsers, and just make sure that your text is HTML entity-encoded properly.
I learned most of my DHTML by playing with Dan Steinman's Dynamic Duo tutorial. He doesn't really support Mozilla yet, but you can *generally* convert IE DHTML javascript into Mozilla pretty easily by using a couple ECMAScript methods instead of IE specific collections (like document.all). I got ramped up very quickly in a short amount of time using Dan's tutorial.
I don't agree with your assertion that tech people don't know sound business strategy and business/sales do. I think it's completely random whether someone has good business sense (actual good business sense), except they probably need to be pretty smart.
I've worked for two dot-com startups since I graduated. One founded by Marketing-type managers, the other founded by a Finance-type CEO. Neither situation worked out very well. They made the same mistakes that you outlined, because it was the thing to do! Given any choice between a long-term plan and the short-term plan, they took the short-term... every time! I wasn't impressed with 3 of the 4 Harvard MBAs that ran my first company. So they don't have a good track record in my book.
Who founds/is in charge of a company has a big effect on what the emphasis is at that company. The marketing people focused on visual design of the product, trade shows, giveaways, tshirts/vests/mugs, info sheets and the web site. The finance people focused on the bottom line, getting the most out of their money, working people as hard as they could, and then getting rid of them when they were burnt-out, firing the "bottom 10%". In both cases, the engineering team was very weak, and there was little focus on building things properly for robustness/speed/maintainablility. And their products suffered for it.
I DO agree that you need someone with business sense at the helm, or close to it. I think a business-savvy techincial guy is the best kind of person to have in charge of a tech company. A tech-savvy business/sales guy is less effective, and a non-tech-savvy business/sales guy is the pits to work for. Ideally, you'd have someone who knows how to run each department of the company efficiently for that department, or is down-to-earth enough to let people who know how to do it do their job.
That's Snack Attack, and I played a bunch of it in first grade, because I was the only one in school (including the teachers) who could get it to run...
i might think there is only one door into the server room snce thats what the architects told me, but unless i go and look, how do i know for sure?
Well, how can you know anything for sure, really? I mean, all your senses could be being decieved. You could be a brain in a tank. You could be a computer simulation. You could be God. Until you get this sorted out, I think the whole question of whether the server room has two doors is moot.
BTW: the lack of respect for students' opinions is why I suggested getting a few other teachers' opinions. Don't know how much of a difference that would make, but it would have to be a positive one.
I don't want to be too cynical, but I always found that teachers would never say anything bad about any other teacher to or in front of students. Even though I think most teachers have good intentions, and might even sympathize, I doubt any would speak out against another teacher publicly.
I noticed in High School that having parents complain about a teacher is really powerful, and can get things done (even if the parents are out of their minds). Having a student complain, though, is generally worthless.
Hey, man... this MOVIE is, like, totally INTRAGALACTIC, man.
Wild space creatures with three arms and two heads don't always speak with a British accent, you know. The ape-man Arthur is British, through and through. But, if any character in this world should be, you know, an OUT-there Americano-type, it's Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy, man! Loud, abrasive, selfish, AND charismatic. Yeah, Bruce Campbell fits, baby!
Pleas no Robin williams in it... this movie can onluy be good if people are serious in it.
I wouldn't say Robin was right for this part, but, believe it or not, he's actually an accomplished dramatic actor. Watch Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting, or One-Hour Photo, PLEASE, and stop typecasting the poor guy as Mork from Ork.:) Yes, he's done some terrible movies, and played some of the goofiest roles, but it's not all he's done.
Please, do not put Matthew Lillard anywhere near this movie. What, were you impressed with his performance in Hackers? Next you'll want Jennifer Love Hewitt as Trillian, Jamie Kennedy as Ford Prefect, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Arthur Dent. That's just wrong and bad.
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Sorry if that came of combatative, I just really dislike the whole Matthew Lillard/Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer/Teeny-Bopper Get Laid Movie crowd of actors.
Have you ever seen anyone as whiny, morose, aloof, and sarcastic as Charles Grodin?
I can't even picture how they would make Marvin look... He was a plastic joke in the TV series, but I guess that's kind of what you would expect from the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" So he needs to be depressingly goofy and "user-friendly," yet futuristic.
I think Howard Stern is the rockstar comedian that I couldn't place. I think he would be a good over-the-top Zaphod B. - better than Brad Pitt. Brad is a good nutball, but Zaphod's not a nutball, he's just a boozing, womanizing, charismatic bastard... Stern is perfect.
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I think they need two channels... one in original Japanese + subtitles, and one in crummy dubbed format. Otherwise there's gonna be riots and killing in the streets, meteors will fall from the sky, Linux will finally replace Windows on the desktop, and other crazy stuff. Mostly by my hand.
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I've never heard of MVP, but the book makes mention of a very classic pattern: MVC (Model-View-Controller). MVC is actually heavily used in Java web development as an architecture for developing the front tier. Generally, when you hit the site, a master Controller uses CGI parameters or the request URI or both to dispatch to a sub-Controller which handles that specific type of request. The Controller is responsible for collecting data into a Model, which is basically one or more Java objects, and putting that into a request object (or session). Model objects are generally relatively dumb data-containing objects, sometimes called JDO (Java Data Objects) or JavaBeans. JDO are more focused on getting stuff out of a persistant store. The Controller then hands that Model off to a View, which is generally a JSP (or ASP, or whatever). The idea is that, given a different parameter, the Controller could hand that same model off to a different View - say you wanted to generate a page for a wireless device, just dispatch to the wireless View.
This pattern is more of an architectural design pattern, whereas this book focuses mainly on object model design patterns. But the MVC model is actually used heavily today. Check out Struts, which is quickly becoming a standard framework for web application development.
MFC also has some MVC in it, but they call their Model a "Document", and their Controller an "Application." Check out MSDN.
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So you decided to choose a risky profession like Engineering, but were smart enough to keep a safety net as an Artist?!
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*Anhhhhhhhh* Wrong!
(what is the accepted onomonopia for that sound?)
I think it's *Bzzzt*, even though if you were to really try to reproduce it with your mouth it would come out more of an *Annnnnnhhh*.
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I think it's hardly facetious to be criticizing VCs for doing what the market demanded of them at the time, since they are chartered with making money for their investors, not making Silicon Valley a nice place to live.
In that case, I think we obviously need to charter some folks to make Silicon Valley a nice place to live. Screw the investors! I just want to be happy!
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Whhhhhaaaaatttt???
Err, okay what I meant was:
Say you had some JavaScript code embedded inside, or referenced from, an HTML page - and this JavaScript code did some "DHTML" stuff... it might rewrite parts of the page, move absolutely positioned elements around, make elements visible/invisible... but it was written just for IE. Dan Steinman talks about how to do certain DHTML things in both IE and Netscape 4, which are VERY different in this regard.
But, say you had this code that worked on IE and you wanted to "port" it to Mozilla. Even though the information on his site does not really cover that, I was just saying that it's fairly easy to do, you just have to follow the ECMAScript standard, which both IE and Mozilla support, and stay away from IE-specific DHTML features.
I then was citing an example of the document.all collection, which is IE specific. You can instead use the DOM method document.getElementById() to do the exact same thing - and it works in both browsers.
Another example I recently discovered was element.innerText - it doesn't work in Mozilla. So you have to use (as far as I can tell) element.innerHtml which works in both browsers, and just make sure that your text is HTML entity-encoded properly.
Sorry if that wasn't clear!
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I learned most of my DHTML by playing with Dan Steinman's Dynamic Duo tutorial. He doesn't really support Mozilla yet, but you can *generally* convert IE DHTML javascript into Mozilla pretty easily by using a couple ECMAScript methods instead of IE specific collections (like document.all). I got ramped up very quickly in a short amount of time using Dan's tutorial.
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Hmm... He wouldn't know if there were bugs he missed regardless of whether he found any bugs during his audit or not!
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Ok, then, what's an Interrobang?!
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I don't agree with your assertion that tech people don't know sound business strategy and business/sales do. I think it's completely random whether someone has good business sense (actual good business sense), except they probably need to be pretty smart.
I've worked for two dot-com startups since I graduated. One founded by Marketing-type managers, the other founded by a Finance-type CEO. Neither situation worked out very well. They made the same mistakes that you outlined, because it was the thing to do! Given any choice between a long-term plan and the short-term plan, they took the short-term... every time! I wasn't impressed with 3 of the 4 Harvard MBAs that ran my first company. So they don't have a good track record in my book.
Who founds/is in charge of a company has a big effect on what the emphasis is at that company. The marketing people focused on visual design of the product, trade shows, giveaways, tshirts/vests/mugs, info sheets and the web site. The finance people focused on the bottom line, getting the most out of their money, working people as hard as they could, and then getting rid of them when they were burnt-out, firing the "bottom 10%". In both cases, the engineering team was very weak, and there was little focus on building things properly for robustness/speed/maintainablility. And their products suffered for it.
I DO agree that you need someone with business sense at the helm, or close to it. I think a business-savvy techincial guy is the best kind of person to have in charge of a tech company. A tech-savvy business/sales guy is less effective, and a non-tech-savvy business/sales guy is the pits to work for. Ideally, you'd have someone who knows how to run each department of the company efficiently for that department, or is down-to-earth enough to let people who know how to do it do their job.
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That's Snack Attack, and I played a bunch of it in first grade, because I was the only one in school (including the teachers) who could get it to run...
-DG
Idiot.
danm U!!!!11111111111
ur a basrted!~!@!~`11
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He's probably more hungup on being called an idiot than anything else. I would be.
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i might think there is only one door into the server room snce thats what the architects told me, but unless i go and look, how do i know for sure?
Well, how can you know anything for sure, really? I mean, all your senses could be being decieved. You could be a brain in a tank. You could be a computer simulation. You could be God. Until you get this sorted out, I think the whole question of whether the server room has two doors is moot.
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Hmm, I thought that was what NT was....
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BTW: the lack of respect for students' opinions is why I suggested getting a few other teachers' opinions. Don't know how much of a difference that would make, but it would have to be a positive one.
I don't want to be too cynical, but I always found that teachers would never say anything bad about any other teacher to or in front of students. Even though I think most teachers have good intentions, and might even sympathize, I doubt any would speak out against another teacher publicly.
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I noticed in High School that having parents complain about a teacher is really powerful, and can get things done (even if the parents are out of their minds). Having a student complain, though, is generally worthless.
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You've utterly convinced me! He's the best real, living person to enact the role of this fictional character!
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Heh, yeah, Stern IS hateable in so many ways... the same ways that Zaphod is such a bastard.
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Hey, man... this MOVIE is, like, totally INTRAGALACTIC, man.
Wild space creatures with three arms and two heads don't always speak with a British accent, you know. The ape-man Arthur is British, through and through. But, if any character in this world should be, you know, an OUT-there Americano-type, it's Zaphod Beeblebrox, President of the Galaxy, man! Loud, abrasive, selfish, AND charismatic. Yeah, Bruce Campbell fits, baby!
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Pleas no Robin williams in it... this movie can onluy be good if people are serious in it.
:) Yes, he's done some terrible movies, and played some of the goofiest roles, but it's not all he's done.
I wouldn't say Robin was right for this part, but, believe it or not, he's actually an accomplished dramatic actor. Watch Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting, or One-Hour Photo, PLEASE, and stop typecasting the poor guy as Mork from Ork.
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Please, do not put Matthew Lillard anywhere near this movie. What, were you impressed with his performance in Hackers? Next you'll want Jennifer Love Hewitt as Trillian, Jamie Kennedy as Ford Prefect, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Arthur Dent. That's just wrong and bad.
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Sorry if that came of combatative, I just really dislike the whole Matthew Lillard/Scream/I Know What You Did Last Summer/Teeny-Bopper Get Laid Movie crowd of actors.
Have you ever seen anyone as whiny, morose, aloof, and sarcastic as Charles Grodin?
I can't even picture how they would make Marvin look... He was a plastic joke in the TV series, but I guess that's kind of what you would expect from the Marketing Division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with!" So he needs to be depressingly goofy and "user-friendly," yet futuristic.
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I think Howard Stern is the rockstar comedian that I couldn't place. I think he would be a good over-the-top Zaphod B. - better than Brad Pitt. Brad is a good nutball, but Zaphod's not a nutball, he's just a boozing, womanizing, charismatic bastard... Stern is perfect.
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It's "swutting," man... Belgium.
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