Not with chewing gum, but by reading any serious book, especially including novels, twice.
The first time, which speed reading serves well, is to set the context.
The second time, which involves savoring the interplay of topic (or characters) and context, is for learning (the topic; or the beyond-words experience that a serious novelist attempts to convey.
Learning research suggests a least one night's sleep between the first and second times works best. It seems that we "digest" the first time into our cognitive "background" during the night. It is against that background that the topics (or characters, their actions and relations) stand out.
The Big Mac price ratio for China is US 3.22/China 1.41. That's close to the price drop ratio in Vista. Whether Vista is worth it, whether the Chinese consumer will buy it, and whether it will help Microsoft deal with piracy, are all interesting questions, with the latter two answerable only through data. What the price cut does do, however, is set pricing based on the local culture experience of the US dollar. That would be an interesting policy for Microsoft (or other low cost-of-goods manufacturers) to pursue.
You may find that your best bet, for the first 18 months, is to pick up the COBRA-act mandated insurance for which your wife should be eligible. And then try to find your way through the thicket. It used to be that associations could get good deals; and the bigger the organization, the better the deal (e.g., the New York State Small Business Association had a better deal than the local Chamber of Commerce, for the same insurance).
It gets worse if you are a subchapter-S corporation: as owner, you can't deduct your premiums unless you jump through hoops, and then can deduct only part.
I've had an experience with two registrars, where payments went astray, and in each case the domain mysteriously showed up the next day belonging to outfits in the far east. It appears that when they know you're interested, and you end up not buying, they "ice" the domain, to make sure you don't register it anywhere else. I'm surprised (but not terribly) that this usurpation of domains for business purposes has been allowed to go on. I looked for a place to lodge a complaint: it appears that there is none. My conclusion is that the domain racket is just another business, and some of the people you deal with will be ethical.
I've been using Dish for a couple of years now, here in SW Florida, where it _really_ rains (2" in an hour is not uncommon in the Summer). The signal might go out for 5 minutes when the heaviest rain clouds intercept the satellite direction; I've noticed it maybe 5 times a year.
What is really noticeable is the enhanced quality of the local channels (in most areas, Dish now offers a local channels option). The last 30-seconds of the Superbowl (all I watched of it) were incredibly clear, compared to Comcast, which I had for local channels until a few months ago.
The one thing Dish doesn't have that Direc does (other than being owned, or about to be owned, by Rupert Murdoch, purveyor of censored news to China), is a baseball package, if you're into that.
We do our reports using Crystal Reports, for anything other that simple lists. You can do much more with VFP reports (get Cindy Winegarden's book from www.hentzenwerke.com), but Crystal gives drilldown, neat crosstabs, etc.
We've got it set up so that the data can come from any datasource (vfp tables, backends) transparently; we create a DBC on-the-fly and feed that to Crystal.
VFP is fully object-oriented; had the ado recordset engine 3 years before the rest of MS (because the team that wrote the vfp data engine then went on to write the ado recordset engine); handles xml transparently; publishes web services with a couple of clicks; registers web services in intellisense; has event binding for COM objects as well as all events/methods in VFP itself; etc.
The reality from which we are disconnected is the one in which you have to work very hard to get things done.
I was active with FoxPro when MS bought out Dr. Dave. Our (the beta testers of that current version) were pretty happy about it: we saw Windows getting better, hardware (needed to run Windows) getting better, and figured the product would evolve into something pretty special, which it has.
There is no development environment, MS or FOSS, as productive; and I wish there were. Running VFP executables on Linux would be ideal: a lot of developers in developing countries use VFP, because of its productivity, and the native data engine (which can easily upgraded to a c/s backend -- in the case of the framework we use, by simply setting flags). This would be a great benefit for them. And of course you're right, it is very likely that MS wants to prevent loss of OS sales. Between CodeWeaver and Wine, who's going to need an MS OS?
Check out this interview on C# and the language engine underlying it with Anders Hejlsberg on O'Reilly.
Python, among other languages, is being ported to run on the.NET language engine (reported on comp.lang.python by Mark Hammond). As the article makes clear, any language using the common language engine can compile down to machine code. Also, interoperability with all interprocess methods is open and equal.
As I told my friends, I take back almost everything bad I've said about MS. <<g>>
An underlying thread of the GNU folks, all denials aside, is that the tools of production should be free (thank you, Karl Marx). I agree half-heartedly with this. The logical behind this, and it is actually Capitalist logic, is that freeing the tools of production from the need for capital allows the best talent, not the best marketing or financing, to rise to the top.
For one or a few-person shops like myself, writing primarily for small businesses, spending thousands of dollars for an OS+database for each installation, and thousands of dollars for tools (the Universal Subscription is about $2000 now, per year, but I can see it rising, just as OS prices are rising), is a drag on profitability, which in turn places on emphasis on marketing hype to clients, rather than quality of product.
However, what the original poster has here is not a tool of production, but a product. Copyright it, encrypt the binary, and sell the heck out of it. If, on the way, you develop some tools, make those available with sourcecode to the community, preferably with a license that doesn't confuse the tools of production with the products of the tools.
Mediaone here in S. Florida a) can't keep a mailserver up even when the system is up, and in case case b) goes down when there is a cable cut anywhere between here and Virginia, where the authentication server resides; because c) they have no redundancy in the system; and d) are now charging us broadband rates but have not converted to 2-way cable modems. Heck, we're getting ADSL in 2000Q1, after which they won't have any customers down here anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
And the rest of the world is far behind: https://www.newyorker.com/maga...
"...But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows " L. Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
Not with chewing gum, but by reading any serious book, especially including novels, twice.
The first time, which speed reading serves well, is to set the context.
The second time, which involves savoring the interplay of topic (or characters) and context, is for learning (the topic; or the beyond-words experience that a serious novelist attempts to convey.
Learning research suggests a least one night's sleep between the first and second times works best. It seems that we "digest" the first time into our cognitive "background" during the night. It is against that background that the topics (or characters, their actions and relations) stand out.
The Big Mac price ratio for China is US 3.22/China 1.41. That's close to the price drop ratio in Vista. Whether Vista is worth it, whether the Chinese consumer will buy it, and whether it will help Microsoft deal with piracy, are all interesting questions, with the latter two answerable only through data. What the price cut does do, however, is set pricing based on the local culture experience of the US dollar. That would be an interesting policy for Microsoft (or other low cost-of-goods manufacturers) to pursue.
Hank Fay
That is so cool!
I ran into the same issue with an employee. Have you had experience there?
You may find that your best bet, for the first 18 months, is to pick up the COBRA-act mandated insurance for which your wife should be eligible. And then try to find your way through the thicket. It used to be that associations could get good deals; and the bigger the organization, the better the deal (e.g., the New York State Small Business Association had a better deal than the local Chamber of Commerce, for the same insurance).
It gets worse if you are a subchapter-S corporation: as owner, you can't deduct your premiums unless you jump through hoops, and then can deduct only part.
Good luck.
I've had an experience with two registrars, where payments went astray, and in each case the domain mysteriously showed up the next day belonging to outfits in the far east. It appears that when they know you're interested, and you end up not buying, they "ice" the domain, to make sure you don't register it anywhere else. I'm surprised (but not terribly) that this usurpation of domains for business purposes has been allowed to go on. I looked for a place to lodge a complaint: it appears that there is none. My conclusion is that the domain racket is just another business, and some of the people you deal with will be ethical.
I've been using Dish for a couple of years now, here in SW Florida, where it _really_ rains (2" in an hour is not uncommon in the Summer). The signal might go out for 5 minutes when the heaviest rain clouds intercept the satellite direction; I've noticed it maybe 5 times a year.
What is really noticeable is the enhanced quality of the local channels (in most areas, Dish now offers a local channels option). The last 30-seconds of the Superbowl (all I watched of it) were incredibly clear, compared to Comcast, which I had for local channels until a few months ago.
The one thing Dish doesn't have that Direc does (other than being owned, or about to be owned, by Rupert Murdoch, purveyor of censored news to China), is a baseball package, if you're into that.
We do our reports using Crystal Reports, for anything other that simple lists. You can do much more with VFP reports (get Cindy Winegarden's book from www.hentzenwerke.com), but Crystal gives drilldown, neat crosstabs, etc.
We've got it set up so that the data can come from any datasource (vfp tables, backends) transparently; we create a DBC on-the-fly and feed that to Crystal.
VFP is fully object-oriented; had the ado recordset engine 3 years before the rest of MS (because the team that wrote the vfp data engine then went on to write the ado recordset engine); handles xml transparently; publishes web services with a couple of clicks; registers web services in intellisense; has event binding for COM objects as well as all events/methods in VFP itself; etc.
The reality from which we are disconnected is the one in which you have to work very hard to get things done.
I was active with FoxPro when MS bought out Dr. Dave. Our (the beta testers of that current version) were pretty happy about it: we saw Windows getting better, hardware (needed to run Windows) getting better, and figured the product would evolve into something pretty special, which it has.
There is no development environment, MS or FOSS, as productive; and I wish there were. Running VFP executables on Linux would be ideal: a lot of developers in developing countries use VFP, because of its productivity, and the native data engine (which can easily upgraded to a c/s backend -- in the case of the framework we use, by simply setting flags). This would be a great benefit for them. And of course you're right, it is very likely that MS wants to prevent loss of OS sales. Between CodeWeaver and Wine, who's going to need an MS OS?
Check out this interview on C# and the language engine underlying it with Anders Hejlsberg on O'Reilly.
.NET language engine (reported on comp.lang.python by Mark Hammond). As the article makes clear, any language using the common language engine can compile down to machine code. Also, interoperability with all interprocess methods is open and equal.
Python, among other languages, is being ported to run on the
As I told my friends, I take back almost everything bad I've said about MS. <<g>>
Hank Fay
An underlying thread of the GNU folks, all denials aside, is that the tools of production should be free (thank you, Karl Marx). I agree half-heartedly with this. The logical behind this, and it is actually Capitalist logic, is that freeing the tools of production from the need for capital allows the best talent, not the best marketing or financing, to rise to the top.
For one or a few-person shops like myself, writing primarily for small businesses, spending thousands of dollars for an OS+database for each installation, and thousands of dollars for tools (the Universal Subscription is about $2000 now, per year, but I can see it rising, just as OS prices are rising), is a drag on profitability, which in turn places on emphasis on marketing hype to clients, rather than quality of product.
However, what the original poster has here is not a tool of production, but a product. Copyright it, encrypt the binary, and sell the heck out of it. If, on the way, you develop some tools, make those available with sourcecode to the community, preferably with a license that doesn't confuse the tools of production with the products of the tools.
My $.02.
Hank Fay
Mediaone here in S. Florida a) can't keep a mailserver up even when the system is up, and in case case b) goes down when there is a cable cut anywhere between here and Virginia, where the authentication server resides; because c) they have no redundancy in the system; and d) are now charging us broadband rates but have not converted to 2-way cable modems. Heck, we're getting ADSL in 2000Q1, after which they won't have any customers down here anyway.