Bah, the biggest thing in golf is learning to get out of your own way. You learn the proper mechanics of a swing, practice until it becomes second nature and then learn to never think about it again (until it breaks anyhow).
The greatest golfer ever used wooden clubs, didn't play virtually any practice rounds, and his accomplishments have yet to be equalled. No further evidence is needed for me to know that golf is about the golfer, not about his clubs.
If you chose to implement it that way, then yes it would. Dunno about the NetBSD implementation, but real commercial ones know the difference between Cr U and D and handle each differently allowing for file versioning and deletion versioning in the backups.
The single largest limiting factor in achieving a sub 4 second 0-60 is your transmission, specifically first gear. If you can't hit 60 in first, you can't hit 60 under 4 seconds. Most of those cars you mentioned as being sub 4 second are also notorious for their overly tall 1st gear.
Yeah, especially since those were Xbox games and this is Xbox360, with PGR3 being the only of those represented as yet on the new platform. Oh well, what do you expect from Zonk?
How is this insightful? You don't do mile long runs with 2" PVC, you do it with 18" concrete at a minimum. Even more, that pricing is for 20' lengths of which you'd need over 200 to make your hypothetical 1 mile run. Doing any real runs (which'd total a lot more than a mile) would get you some significant volume discounts.
Besides which, infrastructure is a 1 time cost. Say it costs $10k/mile to lay the pipe and it lasts 10 years without maintenance (a pretty reasonable estimate I'd say). That means you get to amortize that cost over the 10 years of operation, dropping your cost to $1k/mile. Obviously with more economies of scale it keeps getting cheaper.
The real cost in water purification is in fact the purification (especially when you get beyond just bio filtering and into removing heavy metals and the like). This purification really does benefit from economies of scale.
I'm not saying Kamen doesn't have a useful device (maybe) but rather that your arguments aren't helping it.
I think its pretty much out to discriminate by requiring an applicant be a lifeform, let alone one based upon carbon. Come on, this is a progressive America damnit.
Somewhat OT, but with regards to Spaniards, the only one I've ever worked with was indistinguishable from a WASP in terms of appearance. Then of course he opened his mouth and his Castillian accent made it inconceivable to anyone who heard him that he wasn't Spanish (except the stupid people who thought he was gay).
Don't take this the wrong way, but that seriously sounded like you took a metric fuckton of stupid pills before writing it. Nobody thinks bad spelling is "cool", "hip", "chic" or "more real". Nobody also expects perfection, but if running something through spellcheck would've fixed the problems then come on.
Perhaps you've not considered it in a different light: Not everyone who reads Slashdot speaks/reads fluent English. They're struggling at the best of times to glean meaning from the summary, and you're advocating putting more roadblocks up for them?
Sure, sure there's a "study" which claims the order of the letters in the middle doesn't hinder comprehending the word intended, but I've yet to see any actual study of whether this holds true for people in a language that isn't their first/second/third/etc.
Your job as editor is to make the stories/summaries as accessible as possible for your readership. This is why you fix bad linking, remove cruft from submissions, etc. This is the same reason that a quick once over of the spelling and grammer (preferably automated since we're all human) would be a plus. Hell, why not link the preview button to aspell so the submitter can fix it themselves? I bet most of them would, and the ones who don't you can flag in your view of the queue as lazy bastards and know you need to give them a polish anyhow.
I'm guessing you meant overestimating? If so, then prove us wrong. How about a counter on the front page showing the size of the submission queue? For those of us who are up late at night, we might see the queue being horribly empty and use that as motivation to send in some cool links we've been sitting on.
Part of the reason you get so few "good" submissions is that editorial policy has ended up creating an image of slashdot as the place your link WON'T get posted not the place it might. I don't know that the editors actually understand the sort of awe most readers have of the person who gets a submission accepted, particularly amongst the folks who don't login, don't post, but read/. multiple times a day.
In general, I trust the editors of/. because I have years of experience with the site telling me that CmdrTaco, Hemos and some of the other long time editors are trustworthy. However just because I'll take your word for it that the queue is full of crap and devoid of quality doesn't mean that some empirical evidence wouldn't make me much happier believing it.
I applaud the man for his record regarding the USA PATRIOT act, it was an abomination then and remains one now. He's done a lot more good work with regards to civil liberties and the like. However the McCain-Feingold bill was an abomination, and he seems pretty inclined to continue on in that vein under the banner of "fixing" politics.
Further, I think this distinction between "money" and "speech" in the political process is both duplicitous and absurd. Campaign contribution limitations I can stomach, if only barely, but restrictions on when, where and by whom advertisements can be run is just absurd.
Hasn't anybody noticed that the more we regulate campaign finance, the worse the politicians we get in office are? Anybody ever thought perhaps its because you can't actually run for office anymore unless you're annointed by the financial powers that be?
Your attitude is exactly what the feminist movement needs in order to succeed. Equality means everybody is judged by the same standard, not that we modify standards to allow everyone to succeed, and its nice to see people getting it.
I disagree though that this means its time to stop fighting for equality, because there are still plenty of people and places actively discriminating on criteria such as gender, rather than criteria like ability to do the job. Its just that people need to clarify what they're fighting for.
I stand by my sentiment though that its tough for a white male in the US to really understand why the fight must go on, and why its going to lead some folks astray. This is all the more reason for those of us in that demographic to work actively to understand the issues being faced by those around us, and to be sympathetic to the real causes underlying the sometimes mistaken actions.
And all of this makes me sad because the program is so important to the Linux desktop.
Is it though? I agree that an office suite is utterly vital to the viability of Linux as a desktop platform. However I think that interim solutions are also certainly there (CrossOver Office is quite stable, and while not directly open source it's a viable hybrid).
It really bothers me to see people keep focusing on OOo as if it were the holy grail of the Linux desktop, instead of one of many possible roads towards a fully functional office suite. When I need productivity apps on my linux desktop at work, I don't immediately fire up MS Office or OOo, but usually something from KOffice. Yes, there are times I can't because I know the featureset I need isn't there but when that isn't the case I do launch it, because it offers a much nicer user experience under KDE.
My point with this? OOo is quite possibly a dead end, and having wildly visible open source evangelists shouting its name from the hilltops doesn't seem to be parting the Red Sea to open a path to the Office Suite Holy Land. Perhaps instead if they started exhorting the hordes to understand the limitations of KOffice, or AbiWord, or Gnumeric, or any other genuine F/OSS productivity app whenever possible, to submit real bug reports and real feature requests then perhaps a real road forward might just show itself.
Honestly, this might even be the spark that ignites the fire that saves OOo. Remember when KDE was the only really functional desktop environment under X11? Remember how everyone with a real belief in F/OSS screamed about the restrictive licensing of Qt? Notice how now we've got two highly evolved, and several up and coming, desktop environments one of which was massively relicensed to be more in line with the needs of its user community? Lets stop beating dead horses and start finding solutions. We've done it before, and we can sure as hell do it again.
Part of the supposed credo of the F/OSS movement is that its always a meritocracy, and OOo just doesn't win under that system. Lets stop propping it up like a South American puppet state, stop explaining away its flaws, stop making ourselves look blind to reality with our zealotry. Also, for damn sure, lets stop nitpicking articles and missing the point.
Because men haven't had to fight for equality the way women have. When you're a group without power, you begin to see everything around you as impediments to achieving an equal share of the power. Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong.
Look at the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, various GLBTG groups, and the list goes on. Since each of the groups represented by these organizations is in some way put upon by society at large, they begin to lash out at any suggestion of further putting upon of their members. While many times this is legitimate, at times they end up hitting the wrong mark.
I'm saddened by the absurd cries of double standard and so forth from the predominantly male audience, instead of them trying to find actual counterexamples. I'm also saddened by all of the women who fail to notice that they are in fact making progress, perhaps not at the pace they'd like, but progress none the less. 20 years ago Lara Croft would never have been a lead character in a game. Maybe she's overrepresented in the mammary department, but she's still a smart, strong female character who sucked male gamers into expanding their world view ever so slightly. The movie went even further, since Angelina Jolie did a great job of further enhancing the perception of mental acuity (I'm serious, believe it or not), as well as her physical prowess.
The tide is ever so slowly turning, and I think we'll see some rapid acceleration as gaming becomes more and more mainstream. The reason is that as more and more money becomes available in the gaming market, more and more game developers will be drawn into the industry, and that means an inevitable explosion of new ideas. We're already seeing paradigm changing games, some of them involving strong female characters, some involving non-traditional roles for male characters.
Ultimately, its important that people keep up the fight for feminine equality, because its a sea-change moment for modern society when we really recognize that gender doesn't in any way lend itself to being used as a blanket discriminator. Its also important for these women to step back and reflect from time to time upon the progress they've made, and to publicly recognize that things are getting better. Without that reflection its tough for those of us supporting them to continue doing so, because we begin to fear that they've lost touch.
The last time a bell got broken up, the stockholders made out like bandits. They got stock, iirc, in all of the subsequently formed companies, all of which shot up in value. Pretty neat trick actually, since it had a wealth creating effect.
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This has always been my problem with the Internet. Supposedly the best technology wins, but in reality the good enough and already here technology tends to win. Occasionally we get gems like HTTP, but more often we get crap like SMTP.
I agree completely that management is the root cause of the issue, though I don't think engineering and manufacturing types are blameless. Management's job is always to maximize profit, and the engineering types must support this. The way that they've done this however is questionable, in that the engineers have become too trusting of technology and ultra-precise calculations, despite mounting evidence that they're wrong a lot of the time. Engineers need to begin getting realistic about how little material we can use to build a car, or support a building. Its a tough cycle to break, and it'll need support from both management and engineering.
I'm always leery of claiming that everything wrong with anything can be blamed on a subset of the people involved in producing whatever that thing is. There are plenty of examples of decently managed companies turning out crap products due to shoddy engineering. Perhaps management pressure influenced it, however rarely is management standing over the engineers shoulder telling him "Make it shittier, make it shittier!".
We've still got a lot to offer the world market, the fact that trade with most countries is in fact bilateral proves this. Everybody ignores the fact that we tolerate absurd tariffs in many other countries that prevent us from really competing in the world trade arena. We're more than happy to bring Chinese goods here, but we refuse to insist on equal access to their markets.
We've got a lot of raw materials to offer the world, coal especially, however thats not a road forward for our economy (as I think you agree). I'm always disturbed to hear people talk about the fall of the American manufacturing economy, despite the fact that a ton of small and medium business are still manufacturing in America and selling on the world market. We need government to be more supportive of these small business, and stop being so supportive of the mega-corps who're siphoning money out of the economy to buy $50K shower curtains.
I'm actually a big fan of the idea of allowing companies to write off 100% of their research and developement budgets on their taxes, in exchange for shortening patent durations to under 5 years. I think this would serve as quite a jumpstart to small innovative shops, the sort who create jobs and wealth.
Part of the reason these educational backgrounds, and by extension the professions holders of those degrees get into, don't get respect is they don't demand it. Public perception of software engineers is pretty low right now for good reasons. The average joe looks at several things to draw his generally correct conclusion that engineers are useless in this country. First is the generally atrocious quality of engineered goods he buys from sources in the US. Cars, electronics, just about everything made in the US has serious flaws in ease of use and quality of construction. Second they look at the dot-com bubble and see it as being caused largely by the engineers. Sure its not a correct belief, but its hard to argue when examples like dogpoo.com get tossed around.
Western Europe looks at their engineers and see quality products being created to satisfy real consumer demands. Its easy for a German to be proud of their engineers, they've got high speed rail lines, well designed and produced automobiles, they contribute heavily to the success of Airbus. Same goes for the Asian countries, they all have tangible results that indicate high quality engineering.
The US government contributes a lot to this problem as well with legislation that stifles innovation and invention, and that benefits large corporations. Big companies don't create jobs, and they especially don't create the jobs of the future, something we desperately need. We've lost our way in the US, and we desperately need a loud, vocal public debate to refocus the country on regaining our leadership role in the world economy.
While in some regards teaching an AP class is easier, there are also unique challenges to it. Many teachers wish for the day they have a room full of smart kids who love to learn, until they land in front of that class and struggle to hold the interest and respect of those students.
Teaching anybody anything is challenging, but teaching highly intelligent and highly motivated students is a special sort of challenge. By offering incentives we get teachers who may not have considered taking on this challenge to consider doing so, and in the process we'll discover some real gems of teachers who'll turn out higher quality AP-educated students.
I think the focus on PhDs is unfortunate, we need to be graduating more bachelors in engineering and science disciplines. We're already a world leader in fundamental research, we need the folks who can take fundamental breakthroughs and turn them into innovative products. Those transformations are what create wealth, and by extension jobs.
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Thats why I buy technology books instead. If I want a technical reference I use the internet, but if instead I want a book that explains the concepts and assumptions of a specific technology, and then walks through some use cases where the technology makes sense versus some where it doesn't, then it won't go out of date until that whole technology does.
I've gotten a tremendous benefit from reading books like this on SANs, performance optimization, various wireless technologies, SIP, etc. All techs that have been around for years, show no signs of disappearing, and none of the books talked about how to implement them using a specific vendor solution, but instead talked about how to evaluate the overall environment and determine if the technology was right.
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Bah, the biggest thing in golf is learning to get out of your own way. You learn the proper mechanics of a swing, practice until it becomes second nature and then learn to never think about it again (until it breaks anyhow).
The greatest golfer ever used wooden clubs, didn't play virtually any practice rounds, and his accomplishments have yet to be equalled. No further evidence is needed for me to know that golf is about the golfer, not about his clubs.
If you chose to implement it that way, then yes it would. Dunno about the NetBSD implementation, but real commercial ones know the difference between Cr U and D and handle each differently allowing for file versioning and deletion versioning in the backups.
The single largest limiting factor in achieving a sub 4 second 0-60 is your transmission, specifically first gear. If you can't hit 60 in first, you can't hit 60 under 4 seconds. Most of those cars you mentioned as being sub 4 second are also notorious for their overly tall 1st gear.
Yes, I know. Sad isn't it? btw, long time no see.
Yeah, especially since those were Xbox games and this is Xbox360, with PGR3 being the only of those represented as yet on the new platform. Oh well, what do you expect from Zonk?
How is this insightful? You don't do mile long runs with 2" PVC, you do it with 18" concrete at a minimum. Even more, that pricing is for 20' lengths of which you'd need over 200 to make your hypothetical 1 mile run. Doing any real runs (which'd total a lot more than a mile) would get you some significant volume discounts.
Besides which, infrastructure is a 1 time cost. Say it costs $10k/mile to lay the pipe and it lasts 10 years without maintenance (a pretty reasonable estimate I'd say). That means you get to amortize that cost over the 10 years of operation, dropping your cost to $1k/mile. Obviously with more economies of scale it keeps getting cheaper.
The real cost in water purification is in fact the purification (especially when you get beyond just bio filtering and into removing heavy metals and the like). This purification really does benefit from economies of scale.
I'm not saying Kamen doesn't have a useful device (maybe) but rather that your arguments aren't helping it.
I think its pretty much out to discriminate by requiring an applicant be a lifeform, let alone one based upon carbon. Come on, this is a progressive America damnit.
Somewhat OT, but with regards to Spaniards, the only one I've ever worked with was indistinguishable from a WASP in terms of appearance. Then of course he opened his mouth and his Castillian accent made it inconceivable to anyone who heard him that he wasn't Spanish (except the stupid people who thought he was gay).
Don't take this the wrong way, but that seriously sounded like you took a metric fuckton of stupid pills before writing it. Nobody thinks bad spelling is "cool", "hip", "chic" or "more real". Nobody also expects perfection, but if running something through spellcheck would've fixed the problems then come on.
Perhaps you've not considered it in a different light: Not everyone who reads Slashdot speaks/reads fluent English. They're struggling at the best of times to glean meaning from the summary, and you're advocating putting more roadblocks up for them?
Sure, sure there's a "study" which claims the order of the letters in the middle doesn't hinder comprehending the word intended, but I've yet to see any actual study of whether this holds true for people in a language that isn't their first/second/third/etc.
Your job as editor is to make the stories/summaries as accessible as possible for your readership. This is why you fix bad linking, remove cruft from submissions, etc. This is the same reason that a quick once over of the spelling and grammer (preferably automated since we're all human) would be a plus. Hell, why not link the preview button to aspell so the submitter can fix it themselves? I bet most of them would, and the ones who don't you can flag in your view of the queue as lazy bastards and know you need to give them a polish anyhow.
I'm guessing you meant overestimating? If so, then prove us wrong. How about a counter on the front page showing the size of the submission queue? For those of us who are up late at night, we might see the queue being horribly empty and use that as motivation to send in some cool links we've been sitting on.
/. multiple times a day.
/. because I have years of experience with the site telling me that CmdrTaco, Hemos and some of the other long time editors are trustworthy. However just because I'll take your word for it that the queue is full of crap and devoid of quality doesn't mean that some empirical evidence wouldn't make me much happier believing it.
Part of the reason you get so few "good" submissions is that editorial policy has ended up creating an image of slashdot as the place your link WON'T get posted not the place it might. I don't know that the editors actually understand the sort of awe most readers have of the person who gets a submission accepted, particularly amongst the folks who don't login, don't post, but read
In general, I trust the editors of
I applaud the man for his record regarding the USA PATRIOT act, it was an abomination then and remains one now. He's done a lot more good work with regards to civil liberties and the like. However the McCain-Feingold bill was an abomination, and he seems pretty inclined to continue on in that vein under the banner of "fixing" politics.
Further, I think this distinction between "money" and "speech" in the political process is both duplicitous and absurd. Campaign contribution limitations I can stomach, if only barely, but restrictions on when, where and by whom advertisements can be run is just absurd.
Hasn't anybody noticed that the more we regulate campaign finance, the worse the politicians we get in office are? Anybody ever thought perhaps its because you can't actually run for office anymore unless you're annointed by the financial powers that be?
Russ "Free speech for everything except politics" Feingold? This is the example you hold up? Good lord man.
Especially since DOA is THE button mashing fighter for Xbox and DOA4 for 360 comes out in a week.
Your attitude is exactly what the feminist movement needs in order to succeed. Equality means everybody is judged by the same standard, not that we modify standards to allow everyone to succeed, and its nice to see people getting it.
I disagree though that this means its time to stop fighting for equality, because there are still plenty of people and places actively discriminating on criteria such as gender, rather than criteria like ability to do the job. Its just that people need to clarify what they're fighting for.
I stand by my sentiment though that its tough for a white male in the US to really understand why the fight must go on, and why its going to lead some folks astray. This is all the more reason for those of us in that demographic to work actively to understand the issues being faced by those around us, and to be sympathetic to the real causes underlying the sometimes mistaken actions.
It really bothers me to see people keep focusing on OOo as if it were the holy grail of the Linux desktop, instead of one of many possible roads towards a fully functional office suite. When I need productivity apps on my linux desktop at work, I don't immediately fire up MS Office or OOo, but usually something from KOffice. Yes, there are times I can't because I know the featureset I need isn't there but when that isn't the case I do launch it, because it offers a much nicer user experience under KDE.
My point with this? OOo is quite possibly a dead end, and having wildly visible open source evangelists shouting its name from the hilltops doesn't seem to be parting the Red Sea to open a path to the Office Suite Holy Land. Perhaps instead if they started exhorting the hordes to understand the limitations of KOffice, or AbiWord, or Gnumeric, or any other genuine F/OSS productivity app whenever possible, to submit real bug reports and real feature requests then perhaps a real road forward might just show itself.
Honestly, this might even be the spark that ignites the fire that saves OOo. Remember when KDE was the only really functional desktop environment under X11? Remember how everyone with a real belief in F/OSS screamed about the restrictive licensing of Qt? Notice how now we've got two highly evolved, and several up and coming, desktop environments one of which was massively relicensed to be more in line with the needs of its user community? Lets stop beating dead horses and start finding solutions. We've done it before, and we can sure as hell do it again.
Part of the supposed credo of the F/OSS movement is that its always a meritocracy, and OOo just doesn't win under that system. Lets stop propping it up like a South American puppet state, stop explaining away its flaws, stop making ourselves look blind to reality with our zealotry. Also, for damn sure, lets stop nitpicking articles and missing the point.
Look at the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League, various GLBTG groups, and the list goes on. Since each of the groups represented by these organizations is in some way put upon by society at large, they begin to lash out at any suggestion of further putting upon of their members. While many times this is legitimate, at times they end up hitting the wrong mark.
I'm saddened by the absurd cries of double standard and so forth from the predominantly male audience, instead of them trying to find actual counterexamples. I'm also saddened by all of the women who fail to notice that they are in fact making progress, perhaps not at the pace they'd like, but progress none the less. 20 years ago Lara Croft would never have been a lead character in a game. Maybe she's overrepresented in the mammary department, but she's still a smart, strong female character who sucked male gamers into expanding their world view ever so slightly. The movie went even further, since Angelina Jolie did a great job of further enhancing the perception of mental acuity (I'm serious, believe it or not), as well as her physical prowess.
The tide is ever so slowly turning, and I think we'll see some rapid acceleration as gaming becomes more and more mainstream. The reason is that as more and more money becomes available in the gaming market, more and more game developers will be drawn into the industry, and that means an inevitable explosion of new ideas. We're already seeing paradigm changing games, some of them involving strong female characters, some involving non-traditional roles for male characters.
Ultimately, its important that people keep up the fight for feminine equality, because its a sea-change moment for modern society when we really recognize that gender doesn't in any way lend itself to being used as a blanket discriminator. Its also important for these women to step back and reflect from time to time upon the progress they've made, and to publicly recognize that things are getting better. Without that reflection its tough for those of us supporting them to continue doing so, because we begin to fear that they've lost touch.
The last time a bell got broken up, the stockholders made out like bandits. They got stock, iirc, in all of the subsequently formed companies, all of which shot up in value. Pretty neat trick actually, since it had a wealth creating effect.
This has always been my problem with the Internet. Supposedly the best technology wins, but in reality the good enough and already here technology tends to win. Occasionally we get gems like HTTP, but more often we get crap like SMTP.
Uhm, you forgot Sybase as a highly scalable RDBMS.
I'm always leery of claiming that everything wrong with anything can be blamed on a subset of the people involved in producing whatever that thing is. There are plenty of examples of decently managed companies turning out crap products due to shoddy engineering. Perhaps management pressure influenced it, however rarely is management standing over the engineers shoulder telling him "Make it shittier, make it shittier!".
We've still got a lot to offer the world market, the fact that trade with most countries is in fact bilateral proves this. Everybody ignores the fact that we tolerate absurd tariffs in many other countries that prevent us from really competing in the world trade arena. We're more than happy to bring Chinese goods here, but we refuse to insist on equal access to their markets.
We've got a lot of raw materials to offer the world, coal especially, however thats not a road forward for our economy (as I think you agree). I'm always disturbed to hear people talk about the fall of the American manufacturing economy, despite the fact that a ton of small and medium business are still manufacturing in America and selling on the world market. We need government to be more supportive of these small business, and stop being so supportive of the mega-corps who're siphoning money out of the economy to buy $50K shower curtains.
I'm actually a big fan of the idea of allowing companies to write off 100% of their research and developement budgets on their taxes, in exchange for shortening patent durations to under 5 years. I think this would serve as quite a jumpstart to small innovative shops, the sort who create jobs and wealth.
Western Europe looks at their engineers and see quality products being created to satisfy real consumer demands. Its easy for a German to be proud of their engineers, they've got high speed rail lines, well designed and produced automobiles, they contribute heavily to the success of Airbus. Same goes for the Asian countries, they all have tangible results that indicate high quality engineering.
The US government contributes a lot to this problem as well with legislation that stifles innovation and invention, and that benefits large corporations. Big companies don't create jobs, and they especially don't create the jobs of the future, something we desperately need. We've lost our way in the US, and we desperately need a loud, vocal public debate to refocus the country on regaining our leadership role in the world economy.
Yes, but we all know that the more paper they consumed, the more trees got planted. Surely somewhere this violates law conservation of energy?
Teaching anybody anything is challenging, but teaching highly intelligent and highly motivated students is a special sort of challenge. By offering incentives we get teachers who may not have considered taking on this challenge to consider doing so, and in the process we'll discover some real gems of teachers who'll turn out higher quality AP-educated students.
I think the focus on PhDs is unfortunate, we need to be graduating more bachelors in engineering and science disciplines. We're already a world leader in fundamental research, we need the folks who can take fundamental breakthroughs and turn them into innovative products. Those transformations are what create wealth, and by extension jobs.
Thats why I buy technology books instead. If I want a technical reference I use the internet, but if instead I want a book that explains the concepts and assumptions of a specific technology, and then walks through some use cases where the technology makes sense versus some where it doesn't, then it won't go out of date until that whole technology does. I've gotten a tremendous benefit from reading books like this on SANs, performance optimization, various wireless technologies, SIP, etc. All techs that have been around for years, show no signs of disappearing, and none of the books talked about how to implement them using a specific vendor solution, but instead talked about how to evaluate the overall environment and determine if the technology was right.
How about www.ifitwerentforusyoudbemuslim.fr? Or www.becauseofusyourfooddoesntsuck.fr? Perhaps www.muchofyourartcamefromus.fr? Moron.