I have a new iMac G5 with a 20" flat panel screen. The TV shows I've downloaded look great at full-screen. This is not HDTV, but if you've been viewing standard TV for years, you won't notice the difference.
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What is Ruby on Rails?
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Rails is useful in so many ways. Rails is a very cohesive collection of components that make up a complete web development platform, but it is easy to use the indivdual components standalone.
For example, I've used ActiveRecord by itself for database access. The application was a simple command-line utility that interacted with a local database. No web development, but ActiveRecord made it extremely easy to interact with the db.
Another example, I've used ActionView and ActionController without ActiveRecord to create a non-database driven website. I did this to take advantage of the controller/routing features of ActionController and the layout and templating features of ActionView.
Very useful stuff--either together or as separate components.
I think Ubuntu has a good future and now run it on my development workstation, laptop and server. But, what is more interesting are two big feature they added for Breezy that will make it easier for me to get my clients to consider switching over (including many commercial entities and a pro bono private school.)
# Thin Client Integration: Ubuntu is the first distribution in the world to include deeply-integrated thin client technology. This allows you to deploy Ubuntu in large scale networked environments or, for example, in classrooms, with a lightweight Ubuntu image booting over the network. All Ubuntu management tools work for the thin client image as well as for the server.
# OEM Installer Support This release of Ubuntu has special support for OEM hardware vendors. Ubuntu can be pre-installed and tested without configuring end user information. The user will be asked to complete that configuration (name, timezone and password) upon first startup.
Think about it. If Canonical is successful in getting Ubuntu OEM'd with one of the bigger OEMs, this could be a huge success.
Except most navaids now broadcast in English as well.
Agorithem includes popularity
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Google Suggest
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This is interesting because the suggestions are the most popular searches that match the letters you have typed. Type one letter, like 'C'. You'll see the cnn is the top match. 'D': dictionary, dell,...dogs, drudge report.
This certainly would make the algorithm more efficient, since google could just take the top 1 million searches or so and make suggestions from that.
It also makes it easy to see what the most popular searches are.
Prompts and dialogs are usually defined in the functional specification. Software farmed out to India is usually really well spec'ed out and this reduces the language problems. The engineers in India simply copy the language used in the spec and everybody is happy.
Christopher Blizzard of mozilla.org Speaks on the Firebird Naming Conflict
by ALEX BISHOP | Christopher Blizzard has been working with Mozilla since the source code was released. In this interview, the author of the Mozilla branding guidelines gives an insight into mozilla.org's position on the Firebird naming conflict.
How involved were you in the decision to rename Phoenix to Firebird?
I was involved as much as the rest of staff@mozilla.org was. That is, Asa gathered most of the suggestions for names. If you have a large list, you have to whittle it down to a few reasonable candidates and then get those cleared by trademark lawyers. That's what happened in this case. Asa came back to staff with a list of suggestions and we chose the one that made sense and cleared the legal hurdles. Firebird was the name we chose.
A recent CNET News.com article states that mozilla.org is backing down from using the Firebird name. How much truth is there in this claim?
We're still going to use the project name Mozilla Firebird, so the News.com article is false. I think that's pretty clear from our branding document. Just to be clear, Mozilla Firebird is going to be the name of the pre-releases that we're going of the-browser-formerly-known-as-Phoenix before it becomes our primary platform for delivery of the Mozilla platform. Once it's our mainline build it's going to be Mozilla Browser.
That being said, as long as the project exists the Firebird name will be in use, just like SeaMonkey is still in use. Note, though, that most people don't call our current browser SeaMonkey so you probably won't see it in wide use once that transition takes place.
To what extent was the branding strategy influenced by the complaints of the Firebird database community?
It wasn't, really. The branding strategy has been in the works since late last year, well before Phoenix was even on our radar. The only part of that document that was really affected by Firebird database folks was the careful use of "Mozilla Firebird" instead of just "Firebird" and the clear distinction of a "project" vs a "product". We've been talking about using "Mozilla Browser" or something similar for quite a while now.
Do you think that mozilla.org should have contacted the Firebird database project before announcing the new name?
Hindsight being 20/20, sure.
To be honest, though, I don't think that anyone on staff thought that they would care. There isn't room for confusion (I mean, who is going to confuse a database and a browser? I think my mom can tell the difference), there isn't any infringing use, and the name is in wide use outside of both of our projects, including previous use in the software realm. We're simply using a name that's been used over and over again in the past. We've been called all sorts of nasty names over the past few months, being accused of all kinds of malice and ill intent. I can assure you this is not the case. The reality is that if we're guilty of anything it's being a bit apathetic.
According to some reports, in the days immediately after the new name was announced, mozilla.org either ignored emails sent by Firebird database community or responded unhelpfully. Some have even suggested that this left the database project's leaders with little choice but to organise the mass emailing campaign. How did mozilla.org respond to these early messages and could a better reaction have avoided the large-scale protests?
If I remember correctly, they went from zero to mail bombing in less than 60 seconds. I don't remember there being very many, if any, cordial messages at the beginning and those were quickly lost in the cacophony of form letters and unreasonable demands. It's interesting to point out that our biggest problem at the beginning was telling who was in charge over there. We certainly couldn't tell from the incoming email.
I would also flip that question on its head. Would mozilla.org have responded better if they hadn't engaged in a mail bombin
Apple has always fought with sales droughts before MacWorld shows. People anticipate new products and don't want to buy the current products until they know what's coming.
By only participating in one MacWorld per year they alliviate some of these problems.
I am not saying that I think Apple will go to a year long product release cycle, I just think they are actively fighting the pre-MacWorld sales problem. I also think Apple will continue with the recent trend of releasing more and more products out of the MacWorld cycle.
Read the release notes for FreeBSD 4.5. It mentions a number of filesystems bugs that were found and fixed because of a file system test application that Apple contributed.
If the headline and byline changed, wouldn't that make it a new story? What's the big deal?
If I saw a short breaking news story on CNN and then went back an hour later and a story on the same topic with a different headline was much longer and more detailed, I would be grateful...not yelling conspiracy.
So you're saying that I should pay $2000 a year for music/videos even though I have *never* purchased a CD and have *never* purchased a movie and only rent a few a year...sounds like a great deal to me. Communist.
I think it all depends on how well you interview. I got a degree in MIS (Business), even though I wanted a degree in CS. I transferred from a CC and it would have taken two more semesters for a BS. Every chance I had, I took CS classes...every elective and every MIS option that had a CS class I took it! I found that in almost all of my CS classes I took the top grade.
Now, after graduating, I have had absolutly no problems finding jobs that are usually only for CS grads. I am currently a software engineer for your favorite networking company.
I believe it all depends on how well you can sell yourself during an interview. If they know that you know your stuff...you'll get the position--regardless of the degree.
To play the bootup movie
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The bootup movie won't play in the browser, but I got it to work doing the following:
1. Save all three.mov files to a folder.
2. Play the bootup.mov, it will ask for the location of the turnaround.mov. Point it to it and QuickTime will play bootup.mov happily.
To some extent, experience in adolescence does count. I started programming when I was 14 and there is a HUGE difference between the skills I have and those of fellow students majoring in Computer Science. I graduated in May 2000 and still notice the gap between skills/experience with others who have the same amount of "real-world" experience.
I think the mind is much more open to learning to think abstractly when it is younger (as with most other things). If I interviewing new candidates, I would put a lot of weight on the fact that someone had been "playing" with computers since their early teenage years.
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I have a new iMac G5 with a 20" flat panel screen. The TV shows I've downloaded look great at full-screen. This is not HDTV, but if you've been viewing standard TV for years, you won't notice the difference.
Rails is useful in so many ways. Rails is a very cohesive collection of components that make up a complete web development platform, but it is easy to use the indivdual components standalone.
For example, I've used ActiveRecord by itself for database access. The application was a simple command-line utility that interacted with a local database. No web development, but ActiveRecord made it extremely easy to interact with the db.
Another example, I've used ActionView and ActionController without ActiveRecord to create a non-database driven website. I did this to take advantage of the controller/routing features of ActionController and the layout and templating features of ActionView.
Very useful stuff--either together or as separate components.
I think Ubuntu has a good future and now run it on my development workstation, laptop and server. But, what is more interesting are two big feature they added for Breezy that will make it easier for me to get my clients to consider switching over (including many commercial entities and a pro bono private school.)
# Thin Client Integration: Ubuntu is the first distribution in the world to include deeply-integrated thin client technology. This allows you to deploy Ubuntu in large scale networked environments or, for example, in classrooms, with a lightweight Ubuntu image booting over the network. All Ubuntu management tools work for the thin client image as well as for the server.
# OEM Installer Support This release of Ubuntu has special support for OEM hardware vendors. Ubuntu can be pre-installed and tested without configuring end user information. The user will be asked to complete that configuration (name, timezone and password) upon first startup.
Think about it. If Canonical is successful in getting Ubuntu OEM'd with one of the bigger OEMs, this could be a huge success.
I had the same problem.. it just came on. try again.
Except most navaids now broadcast in English as well.
This certainly would make the algorithm more efficient, since google could just take the top 1 million searches or so and make suggestions from that.
It also makes it easy to see what the most popular searches are.
Prompts and dialogs are usually defined in the functional specification. Software farmed out to India is usually really well spec'ed out and this reduces the language problems. The engineers in India simply copy the language used in the spec and everybody is happy.
check out commuter cars corp.
Use a Mac and run Kazaa in VirtualPC. When you get served. Remove VirtualPC and say: "It can't be me...Kazaa doesn't run on my Mac!"
.Mac has a preview of panther and it contains a finder that looks exactly like those in the leaked screenshots!
by ALEX BISHOP | Christopher Blizzard has been working with Mozilla since the source code was released. In this interview, the author of the Mozilla branding guidelines gives an insight into mozilla.org's position on the Firebird naming conflict.
How involved were you in the decision to rename Phoenix to Firebird?
I was involved as much as the rest of staff@mozilla.org was. That is, Asa gathered most of the suggestions for names. If you have a large list, you have to whittle it down to a few reasonable candidates and then get those cleared by trademark lawyers. That's what happened in this case. Asa came back to staff with a list of suggestions and we chose the one that made sense and cleared the legal hurdles. Firebird was the name we chose.
A recent CNET News.com article states that mozilla.org is backing down from using the Firebird name. How much truth is there in this claim?
We're still going to use the project name Mozilla Firebird, so the News.com article is false. I think that's pretty clear from our branding document. Just to be clear, Mozilla Firebird is going to be the name of the pre-releases that we're going of the-browser-formerly-known-as-Phoenix before it becomes our primary platform for delivery of the Mozilla platform. Once it's our mainline build it's going to be Mozilla Browser.
That being said, as long as the project exists the Firebird name will be in use, just like SeaMonkey is still in use. Note, though, that most people don't call our current browser SeaMonkey so you probably won't see it in wide use once that transition takes place.
To what extent was the branding strategy influenced by the complaints of the Firebird database community?
It wasn't, really. The branding strategy has been in the works since late last year, well before Phoenix was even on our radar. The only part of that document that was really affected by Firebird database folks was the careful use of "Mozilla Firebird" instead of just "Firebird" and the clear distinction of a "project" vs a "product". We've been talking about using "Mozilla Browser" or something similar for quite a while now.
Do you think that mozilla.org should have contacted the Firebird database project before announcing the new name?
Hindsight being 20/20, sure.
To be honest, though, I don't think that anyone on staff thought that they would care. There isn't room for confusion (I mean, who is going to confuse a database and a browser? I think my mom can tell the difference), there isn't any infringing use, and the name is in wide use outside of both of our projects, including previous use in the software realm. We're simply using a name that's been used over and over again in the past. We've been called all sorts of nasty names over the past few months, being accused of all kinds of malice and ill intent. I can assure you this is not the case. The reality is that if we're guilty of anything it's being a bit apathetic.
According to some reports, in the days immediately after the new name was announced, mozilla.org either ignored emails sent by Firebird database community or responded unhelpfully. Some have even suggested that this left the database project's leaders with little choice but to organise the mass emailing campaign. How did mozilla.org respond to these early messages and could a better reaction have avoided the large-scale protests?
If I remember correctly, they went from zero to mail bombing in less than 60 seconds. I don't remember there being very many, if any, cordial messages at the beginning and those were quickly lost in the cacophony of form letters and unreasonable demands. It's interesting to point out that our biggest problem at the beginning was telling who was in charge over there. We certainly couldn't tell from the incoming email.
I would also flip that question on its head. Would mozilla.org have responded better if they hadn't engaged in a mail bombin
Apple has released beta X11 support including a window server and a few apps.
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By only participating in one MacWorld per year they alliviate some of these problems.
I am not saying that I think Apple will go to a year long product release cycle, I just think they are actively fighting the pre-MacWorld sales problem. I also think Apple will continue with the recent trend of releasing more and more products out of the MacWorld cycle.
Apple has a great page set up for this.
Read the release notes for FreeBSD 4.5. It mentions a number of filesystems bugs that were found and fixed because of a file system test application that Apple contributed.
If the headline and byline changed, wouldn't that make it a new story? What's the big deal? If I saw a short breaking news story on CNN and then went back an hour later and a story on the same topic with a different headline was much longer and more detailed, I would be grateful...not yelling conspiracy.
So you're saying that I should pay $2000 a year for music/videos even though I have *never* purchased a CD and have *never* purchased a movie and only rent a few a year...sounds like a great deal to me. Communist.
Use a new iMac!
Before you rip on another person's spelling mistakes, perhaps you should look at your own. "A lot" is two words, not one.
And most MIS grads laugh at the CS people who shit their pants when giving public presentations, negotiating, or simply communicating with peers.
I think it all depends on how well you interview. I got a degree in MIS (Business), even though I wanted a degree in CS. I transferred from a CC and it would have taken two more semesters for a BS. Every chance I had, I took CS classes...every elective and every MIS option that had a CS class I took it! I found that in almost all of my CS classes I took the top grade.
Now, after graduating, I have had absolutly no problems finding jobs that are usually only for CS grads. I am currently a software engineer for your favorite networking company.
I believe it all depends on how well you can sell yourself during an interview. If they know that you know your stuff...you'll get the position--regardless of the degree.
The bootup movie won't play in the browser, but I got it to work doing the following: 1. Save all three .mov files to a folder.
2. Play the bootup.mov, it will ask for the location of the turnaround.mov. Point it to it and QuickTime will play bootup.mov happily.
PS: I used to run Exchange -- so if you think I am not tracking this message, think again. Don't forward it! ...and that is why people cut and paste.
To some extent, experience in adolescence does count. I started programming when I was 14 and there is a HUGE difference between the skills I have and those of fellow students majoring in Computer Science. I graduated in May 2000 and still notice the gap between skills/experience with others who have the same amount of "real-world" experience.
I think the mind is much more open to learning to think abstractly when it is younger (as with most other things). If I interviewing new candidates, I would put a lot of weight on the fact that someone had been "playing" with computers since their early teenage years.