Without a shred of evidence, this merely echoes some other newspaper article without investigation. This is no better than an "ask slashdot". The other article apparently says Wii sales declined two months in a row, without saying if other consoles gained. I assume the Halo effect (heh) help Xbox even in Japan, so we should expect to see some spike there, but I'd be more curious to hear about sales from the studios' POV. Are there any Wii titles they were late to put on the platform that have sold better/poorer than expected? Any that outsell the other platforms' version? I suspect this kind of article is mere hope from the harder core gaming crowd, trying to blow the Wii like they had done before launch.
Ok, I'm no moz dev, though I loves me some Firefox, but didn't we learn not to mix our browser and desktop scripting languages before? What is there about this arrangement that would not be screaming for holes to be found and malware to creep across boundaries? It could be very cool, but it could really suck bigtime, too. Where do you want your file system to go today?
They're really several companies with distinct businesses under common ownership. Occasionally the strategy tax must be paid (e.g. no IE for linux, no java/lamp for Visual Studio, no Exchange for *nix, MSN using wmv instead of flash), but I would guess most of the inner businesses want to do what their competitors do. It shouldn't be a surprise when they do, just laughable/sad when they don't.
Just because IE is the default doesn't make MS its default: Google has been making deals with many OEM's (e.g. Dell, the #1) to have its toolbar preinstalled and default to its homepage (no doubt you've seen http://www.google.com/ig/dell). I'd be curious just how many people that is, but throw in the 10-15% from Firefox and I'd bet it's over 50%.
Not that I would care much for some "enhanced" IE shell, but it makes sense for there to be such a market, of course. How do you know who to trust if you're not a geek reading tech news every day? Maybe google should have some kind of techmeme-ish related links to every site in a result.
For that matter, why not see the number of MS domain users who came from a Google search to Slashdot? Doubtless a much higher sample size than the original article. Then you could see browser stats, I suppose. Hopefully no one would be surprised by the Firefox users, Apple/nix users, and whatnot. MS folks are still techies, believe it or not (except the chair throwers).
There should be annual awards at slashdot (the Dotties?), and this should be nominated for worst summary of the year. Gee, 2 popular but utterly unrelated MS bloggers stop blogging at MS, how can I combine that news with a "corporate evil overlord" kind of thing? Hmm, I know! I'll just make stuff up to troll with and ignore the actual news!
Scoble's turned blogging into a decent career and wants to join a startup to do it more. MiniMsft got most of what he wanted to happen (should be a hero at/. for fighting corporate bureacracy with simple tech) and decides to take time off to think about it. This is a good day for geeks. Don't hate them just because they're beautiful, man.
It has a worfklow engine that may be too abstract as a starting place for you, but the OfBiz app itself may already be doing pretty much everything you want anyway. It's java, open source, and been around for years, though not easy to tweak or get stably up and running.
Next will be: the USA really is only for Christians, kings really do have divine rights, and the pope is infallible. Seriously, if the religious lobby there wants to rewrite science to fit their views, why not other subjects?
Yes, indeedy. We can thank Gmail for making dhtml cool again (and I don't mind calling it ajax, either). That pressure allowed the folks at MSN to try something like this. Soon there will be some Google-suggest kinds of things, and start.com will be commercialized one way or another (please not the banner-ad-ification like the MSN home page; the world will be a better place if you just bite the bullet and do text ads). Hadi Partovi is fairly high up in the food chain, and seems to be genuinely interested in doing at least some things that stand out technically from their competitors. Kudos to him, and I hope he wins more of the battles against the status quo (like the political mess their CMS is going through right now).
I also heard that Google may have upped what their Adsense program is paying, presumably thanks to Yahoo starting in on the business. Now if only there was some kind of competing OS to push Windows further. Oh, wait.
I'm downloading the speech now, but if it's anything like this great speech he gave last year, it will be well worth listening to. That one changed my mind about what great things might look like. I've realized the great and wonderful content management system that my group is building is utterly doomed, for example, and I already have a new job in hand. It's all about the sloppiness.
GForge has all of this and is probably exactly what you're looking for. I haven't used it yet, but a couple of friends and I are planning to pretty soon. Also, free (and Free) is good. BYOS(erver), is all.
In a related note, am I the only one who sees eMule suck up virtually all the cpu for like 10-3- second bursts? Then again, I haven't tried it at least 6 months. SOmething to do tonight (at the secret bunker).
You need good stories first, characters just like dad are a much lower priority. Some mathematically oriented books, like the Number Devil, or A Wrinkle in Time, or Flatland will be interesting enough and give some ideas for what working with programmer-style mental modelling is about. Since you'll hopefully be around, though, programming is just about the last thing your kid will need outside references to hear about. She'll actually need the books about firemen and truckdrivers, because I bet the odds are pretty good she won't talk to them everyday.
The main advantage reading has over movies is the amount of time it takes. For fiction especially, this is, depending on quality, an insurmountable quality. The more time you spend with a story, the more you think about it, turning over potential outcomes and imagining the players, places, and reactions. Those aren't advantages for, say, the latest news from Iraq or stock prices or a sporting event, but they certainly are for an epic story (e.g. LoTR or 100 Years of Solitude), complex logic (programming, math, rhetoric), or introspection (religious texts or a teenager reading Catcher in the Rye). The patience required for delayed gratification or subtle thoughts is what is dwindling, not any inherent supriority of communication.
The mass appeal that you give as a positive misses this point also. Having a watercooler conversation over a hit movie is easier than a hit book, but how many movie discussion groups start up (compared to reading groups)? The depth of the experience is mirrored by the depth of the conversation.
This looks suspiciously like the only similarity is the fact that language and music happen in easily recognizable patterns. While this is brain food for questions like 'what is a pattern' or 'what is context', it has nothing special to do with language and music. The research could have pulled practically any 2 forulaic (grammar) based items and pointed out the same similarities. They're just not that exciting of similarities, much less some kind of precursor to communicative convergence.
This doesn't mean that music can't communicate to us in recognizable patterns, simply that those patterns don't necessarily have much to do with language, if anything.
...opportunity. Vivendi seems dedicated to making no new games, but simply sequels and copycat games. The good part of this is that the market for new ideas is that much more open. I hope that some the poor souls in Bellevue can get together and make VU regret their decisions.
Whale flippers taste much better than airplane wings, too! A very useful side benefit for emergency landings. Despite all attempts, though, they do not in fact make very good kites.
It's not worth it to me, since there is a great deal of material Google can find for me fast and free. But I'm a techie, and techies put stuff out on the internet. This would probably be a really valuable service for things like law (already done), medicine (don't know), construction, and similar professional trades and research areas. Some specialized areas that I can think of that are maybes are travel books, field guides, children's picture books. Naturally it comes down to price for value, though.
I solve this by listing what I used at each job in the experience part of the resume, and listing practically everything I've ever used in the skills part. Then it's clear to anyone slightly technical that I don't really know much java, but I have used it before for some particular task. I put it on the list of things I "know" closer to the end. HR folks get buzzword compliance, hiring managers see better what I actually can and can't do. Rating skills never works either, though I seem to remember some of the job sites trying that.
It seems a bit silly to only list the things you know inside and out on your resume. It gives a distorted picture, provides no way for junior programmers to list anything at all, and would leave things like "communication" and "writing/reading specs" off of pretty much everyone's resumes.
...is just going to be a directory of patents? Just swap out any point where there is actual usability advice with the relevant patent number and you're done. Ooh, then you can copyright the directory, just like West law tried.
Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Thor, and the lesser known ones from the psychedilc 70's like the Inhumans, Captain Marvel, and Warlock. Yeah, it's showing my age a bit, but those sort of weird, slightly funny, slightly hippy-twilight zone-philosophical stories featuring a quick trip through some dread dimension would be perfect for games. The plot is simple and the characters flat enough to actually play a game with, yet personal and fantastic enough to be original and involving. The eye candy factor for The Power Cosmic or whatnot, and the bizarre worlds and foes (the planet Eon? Dormammu?), could be pretty cool.
Dang, now I wish I still had some of those comics around right now.
He wasn't trying a command he wasn't familiar with, as I read the article. His father had shown him what it would do. He wanted to show it off. Perfectly understandable, but nonetheless disruptive. At a minimum, it might have made others on the system feel like they did something wrong or that there was an infection or somesuch. This wasn't exactly a controlled experiment nor simply typing in a command to find out what happens. The argument that this is somehow going to make kids afraid to experiment is ludicrous. I guess grabbing the mike for the PA and saying something into it would be something to ignore too?
Yes, the admin who didn't have messaging service turned off made a mistake and this should be part of his/her review. The fact that it was turned on (probably by default) isn't exactly an obscure security hole. Nonetheless, the kid doesn't get all blame thrown off just because he *could* do it. If they leave the doors open at night, any thieves caught don't get off free, either.
If I were a parent there, I would also take issue with the ridiculous suspension meted out.
The kid knew what he was doing was wrong, and his teacher (or in this case principal) should have corrected or punished this in some way. I have no problem with that. It's only hacking in the sense that it's an obscure enough, um, "feature", that it must seem mysterious to the teachers. Regardless, the lesson they are ending up teaching is their own fallibility. The crime, even in their imagined fear of what they thought it was, simply does not merit the punishment. Is this the same treatment they would give someone who grabbed the school PA and did the same thing (a worse act, since it involves a bit of physical trespass, too)?
Slashdot Mirror
Without a shred of evidence, this merely echoes some other newspaper article without investigation. This is no better than an "ask slashdot". The other article apparently says Wii sales declined two months in a row, without saying if other consoles gained. I assume the Halo effect (heh) help Xbox even in Japan, so we should expect to see some spike there, but I'd be more curious to hear about sales from the studios' POV. Are there any Wii titles they were late to put on the platform that have sold better/poorer than expected? Any that outsell the other platforms' version? I suspect this kind of article is mere hope from the harder core gaming crowd, trying to blow the Wii like they had done before launch.
Ok, I'm no moz dev, though I loves me some Firefox, but didn't we learn not to mix our browser and desktop scripting languages before? What is there about this arrangement that would not be screaming for holes to be found and malware to creep across boundaries? It could be very cool, but it could really suck bigtime, too. Where do you want your file system to go today?
They're really several companies with distinct businesses under common ownership. Occasionally the strategy tax must be paid (e.g. no IE for linux, no java/lamp for Visual Studio, no Exchange for *nix, MSN using wmv instead of flash), but I would guess most of the inner businesses want to do what their competitors do. It shouldn't be a surprise when they do, just laughable/sad when they don't.
Just because IE is the default doesn't make MS its default: Google has been making deals with many OEM's (e.g. Dell, the #1) to have its toolbar preinstalled and default to its homepage (no doubt you've seen http://www.google.com/ig/dell). I'd be curious just how many people that is, but throw in the 10-15% from Firefox and I'd bet it's over 50%.
is here: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ANewPrivateBrowserIM eanBrowzarDoesNotWorkAsAdvertised.aspx
Not that I would care much for some "enhanced" IE shell, but it makes sense for there to be such a market, of course. How do you know who to trust if you're not a geek reading tech news every day? Maybe google should have some kind of techmeme-ish related links to every site in a result.
For that matter, why not see the number of MS domain users who came from a Google search to Slashdot? Doubtless a much higher sample size than the original article. Then you could see browser stats, I suppose. Hopefully no one would be surprised by the Firefox users, Apple/nix users, and whatnot. MS folks are still techies, believe it or not (except the chair throwers).
There should be annual awards at slashdot (the Dotties?), and this should be nominated for worst summary of the year. Gee, 2 popular but utterly unrelated MS bloggers stop blogging at MS, how can I combine that news with a "corporate evil overlord" kind of thing? Hmm, I know! I'll just make stuff up to troll with and ignore the actual news!
/. for fighting corporate bureacracy with simple tech) and decides to take time off to think about it. This is a good day for geeks. Don't hate them just because they're beautiful, man.
Scoble's turned blogging into a decent career and wants to join a startup to do it more. MiniMsft got most of what he wanted to happen (should be a hero at
It has a worfklow engine that may be too abstract as a starting place for you, but the OfBiz app itself may already be doing pretty much everything you want anyway. It's java, open source, and been around for years, though not easy to tweak or get stably up and running.
Next will be: the USA really is only for Christians, kings really do have divine rights, and the pope is infallible. Seriously, if the religious lobby there wants to rewrite science to fit their views, why not other subjects?
Yes, indeedy. We can thank Gmail for making dhtml cool again (and I don't mind calling it ajax, either). That pressure allowed the folks at MSN to try something like this. Soon there will be some Google-suggest kinds of things, and start.com will be commercialized one way or another (please not the banner-ad-ification like the MSN home page; the world will be a better place if you just bite the bullet and do text ads). Hadi Partovi is fairly high up in the food chain, and seems to be genuinely interested in doing at least some things that stand out technically from their competitors. Kudos to him, and I hope he wins more of the battles against the status quo (like the political mess their CMS is going through right now).
I also heard that Google may have upped what their Adsense program is paying, presumably thanks to Yahoo starting in on the business. Now if only there was some kind of competing OS to push Windows further. Oh, wait.
I'm downloading the speech now, but if it's anything like this great speech he gave last year, it will be well worth listening to. That one changed my mind about what great things might look like. I've realized the great and wonderful content management system that my group is building is utterly doomed, for example, and I already have a new job in hand. It's all about the sloppiness.
GForge has all of this and is probably exactly what you're looking for. I haven't used it yet, but a couple of friends and I are planning to pretty soon. Also, free (and Free) is good. BYOS(erver), is all.
...in the eAss!
(boo, hiss, back to the secret bunker)
In a related note, am I the only one who sees eMule suck up virtually all the cpu for like 10-3- second bursts? Then again, I haven't tried it at least 6 months. SOmething to do tonight (at the secret bunker).
You need good stories first, characters just like dad are a much lower priority. Some mathematically oriented books, like the Number Devil, or A Wrinkle in Time, or Flatland will be interesting enough and give some ideas for what working with programmer-style mental modelling is about. Since you'll hopefully be around, though, programming is just about the last thing your kid will need outside references to hear about. She'll actually need the books about firemen and truckdrivers, because I bet the odds are pretty good she won't talk to them everyday.
The main advantage reading has over movies is the amount of time it takes. For fiction especially, this is, depending on quality, an insurmountable quality. The more time you spend with a story, the more you think about it, turning over potential outcomes and imagining the players, places, and reactions. Those aren't advantages for, say, the latest news from Iraq or stock prices or a sporting event, but they certainly are for an epic story (e.g. LoTR or 100 Years of Solitude), complex logic (programming, math, rhetoric), or introspection (religious texts or a teenager reading Catcher in the Rye). The patience required for delayed gratification or subtle thoughts is what is dwindling, not any inherent supriority of communication.
The mass appeal that you give as a positive misses this point also. Having a watercooler conversation over a hit movie is easier than a hit book, but how many movie discussion groups start up (compared to reading groups)? The depth of the experience is mirrored by the depth of the conversation.
This looks suspiciously like the only similarity is the fact that language and music happen in easily recognizable patterns. While this is brain food for questions like 'what is a pattern' or 'what is context', it has nothing special to do with language and music. The research could have pulled practically any 2 forulaic (grammar) based items and pointed out the same similarities. They're just not that exciting of similarities, much less some kind of precursor to communicative convergence.
This doesn't mean that music can't communicate to us in recognizable patterns, simply that those patterns don't necessarily have much to do with language, if anything.
...opportunity. Vivendi seems dedicated to making no new games, but simply sequels and copycat games. The good part of this is that the market for new ideas is that much more open. I hope that some the poor souls in Bellevue can get together and make VU regret their decisions.
Whale flippers taste much better than airplane wings, too! A very useful side benefit for emergency landings. Despite all attempts, though, they do not in fact make very good kites.
It's not worth it to me, since there is a great deal of material Google can find for me fast and free. But I'm a techie, and techies put stuff out on the internet. This would probably be a really valuable service for things like law (already done), medicine (don't know), construction, and similar professional trades and research areas. Some specialized areas that I can think of that are maybes are travel books, field guides, children's picture books. Naturally it comes down to price for value, though.
If it has to be, why not something like OpenCMS? It's java-based and quite robust, though not nearly as feature-full as something like Plone.
I solve this by listing what I used at each job in the experience part of the resume, and listing practically everything I've ever used in the skills part. Then it's clear to anyone slightly technical that I don't really know much java, but I have used it before for some particular task. I put it on the list of things I "know" closer to the end. HR folks get buzzword compliance, hiring managers see better what I actually can and can't do. Rating skills never works either, though I seem to remember some of the job sites trying that.
It seems a bit silly to only list the things you know inside and out on your resume. It gives a distorted picture, provides no way for junior programmers to list anything at all, and would leave things like "communication" and "writing/reading specs" off of pretty much everyone's resumes.
...is just going to be a directory of patents? Just swap out any point where there is actual usability advice with the relevant patent number and you're done. Ooh, then you can copyright the directory, just like West law tried.
Silver Surfer, Doctor Strange, Thor, and the lesser known ones from the psychedilc 70's like the Inhumans, Captain Marvel, and Warlock. Yeah, it's showing my age a bit, but those sort of weird, slightly funny, slightly hippy-twilight zone-philosophical stories featuring a quick trip through some dread dimension would be perfect for games. The plot is simple and the characters flat enough to actually play a game with, yet personal and fantastic enough to be original and involving. The eye candy factor for The Power Cosmic or whatnot, and the bizarre worlds and foes (the planet Eon? Dormammu?), could be pretty cool.
Dang, now I wish I still had some of those comics around right now.
He wasn't trying a command he wasn't familiar with, as I read the article. His father had shown him what it would do. He wanted to show it off. Perfectly understandable, but nonetheless disruptive. At a minimum, it might have made others on the system feel like they did something wrong or that there was an infection or somesuch. This wasn't exactly a controlled experiment nor simply typing in a command to find out what happens. The argument that this is somehow going to make kids afraid to experiment is ludicrous. I guess grabbing the mike for the PA and saying something into it would be something to ignore too?
Yes, the admin who didn't have messaging service turned off made a mistake and this should be part of his/her review. The fact that it was turned on (probably by default) isn't exactly an obscure security hole. Nonetheless, the kid doesn't get all blame thrown off just because he *could* do it. If they leave the doors open at night, any thieves caught don't get off free, either.
If I were a parent there, I would also take issue with the ridiculous suspension meted out.
The kid knew what he was doing was wrong, and his teacher (or in this case principal) should have corrected or punished this in some way. I have no problem with that. It's only hacking in the sense that it's an obscure enough, um, "feature", that it must seem mysterious to the teachers. Regardless, the lesson they are ending up teaching is their own fallibility. The crime, even in their imagined fear of what they thought it was, simply does not merit the punishment. Is this the same treatment they would give someone who grabbed the school PA and did the same thing (a worse act, since it involves a bit of physical trespass, too)?