This is probably too late for this discussion but anyway.
I got down to 14 stone/196lbs/. I'm 6ft tall. It was dead easy. I stopped eating crap, my diet consisted of a kilo of fruit for breakfast, a baked potato at lunch and a cup of Miso soup in the evening. I stopped drinking booze completely and drank lots of water and little else. I also went to the gym 6 days a week where, initially I walked for 10 minutes, rowed for 10 minutes, did a stepper for 5 but as I got fitter I upped the intensity and time, I still only exercise maybe 40 minutes a day. After I got to about 19 stone, I estimated my VO2 by doing four different tests and taking the average, you would not believe how hard it is to find somewhere to do a gas aspiration test in the UK, I'm still looking. I punched in the VO2 into my heart rate monitor and it would estimate, using my weight, height, VO2 and heart the burnt calories. I burnt Around 500 per day. In 9 months since I started observing my HR, I lost 36 kilos, bang on a kilo per month.
I then stopped, I carried on the diet but the exercise stopped. My weight loss plateaued. I kept a weekly record of my weight (for over a year). For me, the exercise was the difference between losing weight, and staying the same.
I know, from experiance that I lost weight when exercising and didn't when I wasn't exercising. Physics, has alot to do with this.
Not even been to Law School? That's not like anywhere we know, oh, wait...
"The first group, known as lay Justices of the Peace, sit voluntarily (though they may receive money for costs incurred) on local benches (a colloquial and legal term for the local court), hearing lesser matters, and are provided with advice, especially on sentencing, by a legally qualified Court Legal Adviser. However, before they can hear cases they must undergo a period of training."
That is to say lay magistrates have also not been to law school.
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This seems to me as something that we're already trying to do. If you look at the way that we're trying to shift the programming pardigm now we'll see some of the concepts Jaron mentions. The current approach of analyse the problem, abstract it and then solve it on a case by case basis is not wrong, per se. However, we try to write our code for re-use, but all these small pools of answers to problems all reside inside small development groups.
The answer to all of this might be to role the concept of generative programming, with better pattern matching. Therefore companies can more intelligently apply existing, tested, debugged code to their problems and the problems of others.
In my experiance if you want to use an "out of the box" solution, really make sure that what you're given in terms of features is as close to what you need as possible. If you get a system with loads of features I gaurentee you won't use half of them. I built a Corporate Knowledge Management System (I love the smell of buzzwords in the morning) using Vignette V/5. It was, IMHO, overkill for the type of web app we were building. From then I went to use lots of different ones, Spectra, Broadvision, Interwoven, three or four opensource ones and it seems content management systems fall into two categories.
Delivery and Management model or Management Model. In the first instance the tool worries about managing your content, usually using tables it creates in a database you provide or XML files. It also has something like a scripting language or other tool for you design your pages with and then insert your manged content (or links to it). The second model effectivly reaches down into a repositry which the system may or may not have created and effects changes on the files that your delivery tool, like perhaps a servlet with an XML parser reads.
The arguments for an against can go on and on for hours, dependent on varying circumstances. If you have lots of legacy data the tools that can be adapted to use your existing repositories can be useful but then again you have to weigh up the pros and cons of implementation time. You might find it'll import your data a dream but it takes so long to implement that by the time you've done that you could have imported the knowledge into another product.
Main features are:
Workflow, allowing tracking of tasks associated with a piece of content, file, link, article, etc
Security, logging in for authorised people to perform actions, edit content make it live.
Audit trails, for all actions, who does what, who put Belindas Big Boobs on the corporate homepage
Profiling, Vignette were very big on this, broadvision sucked at it, saying for instance, hey, you like movies about dweeby looking guys getting the girl in the end, you might like watching Deep Impact or some such
Legacy Data, unless you're a brand new company you've always got this, in my case we had 20 years of methodologies to deal with. As an aside you'll need the support of the rest of the business to help you wade through what is important, what's junk and where it goes.
Multiplatform support, if it's a delivery tool also, this is more promonent than in a management only system, does it let you use wap, create avantgo channels easily etc.
As someone said earlier, the big coporate players arn't cheap, Vignette will cost you half a million before you've started. Things may have changed since I used it, but yes, these things arn't cheap. Last thing before I go and leave you good people alone. Opensource, There are some really cool tools out there, one of these days I'll release the one I'm writing for the J2EE platform. Checkout sourceforge. Try content management system or CMS.
That's all folks Max -- Insert Clever Signature Here.
UML = Modelling the flow through and design of object orientated systems/things (I won't use the word object)
XML = Is a framework, it's not really a language (I know what you're going to say). Using this framework you can markup your own language subset to transfer or store your specific data in an ordered structure, in such a way that a standard set of tools can be used to read said data.
Seriously though, if you request (import, order etc) something which breaks the laws of the country you are importing it into, the reciever and not the shipper is liable. seems like you're "importing" the data, be it via a wire or if you order illegal porn on a CD.
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What would you say the balance should be, 60/40, 70/30? Can you quantify it? If you can't, how do you decide?
Yes actually, it's 28 degrees in the office here.
This is probably too late for this discussion but anyway.
I got down to 14 stone/196lbs/. I'm 6ft tall. It was dead easy. I stopped eating crap, my diet consisted of a kilo of fruit for breakfast, a baked potato at lunch and a cup of Miso soup in the evening. I stopped drinking booze completely and drank lots of water and little else. I also went to the gym 6 days a week where, initially I walked for 10 minutes, rowed for 10 minutes, did a stepper for 5 but as I got fitter I upped the intensity and time, I still only exercise maybe 40 minutes a day. After I got to about 19 stone, I estimated my VO2 by doing four different tests and taking the average, you would not believe how hard it is to find somewhere to do a gas aspiration test in the UK, I'm still looking. I punched in the VO2 into my heart rate monitor and it would estimate, using my weight, height, VO2 and heart the burnt calories. I burnt Around 500 per day. In 9 months since I started observing my HR, I lost 36 kilos, bang on a kilo per month.
I then stopped, I carried on the diet but the exercise stopped. My weight loss plateaued. I kept a weekly record of my weight (for over a year). For me, the exercise was the difference between losing weight, and staying the same.
I know, from experiance that I lost weight when exercising and didn't when I wasn't exercising. Physics, has alot to do with this.
...please, in fact, I'd like to know why it was modded down
Not even been to Law School? That's not like anywhere we know, oh, wait...
"The first group, known as lay Justices of the Peace, sit voluntarily (though they may receive money for costs incurred) on local benches (a colloquial and legal term for the local court), hearing lesser matters, and are provided with advice, especially on sentencing, by a legally qualified Court Legal Adviser. However, before they can hear cases they must undergo a period of training."
That is to say lay magistrates have also not been to law school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrate#United Kingdom
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Using an Alias is not illegal. Using an alias might compound another crime however.
work more than 60 hours a week?
Here ya go, why don't you start with this, some major, enterprise server porn. http://www.sun.com/smrc/photos-sun/downloads/datac enter-gen03s.jpg
The answer to all of this might be to role the concept of generative programming, with better pattern matching. Therefore companies can more intelligently apply existing, tested, debugged code to their problems and the problems of others.
I get when I go to yaledailynews.com, "WARNING!, YOUR COMPUTER DATA IS AT RISK" Yeah no shit.
Delivery and Management model or Management Model. In the first instance the tool worries about managing your content, usually using tables it creates in a database you provide or XML files. It also has something like a scripting language or other tool for you design your pages with and then insert your manged content (or links to it). The second model effectivly reaches down into a repositry which the system may or may not have created and effects changes on the files that your delivery tool, like perhaps a servlet with an XML parser reads.
The arguments for an against can go on and on for hours, dependent on varying circumstances. If you have lots of legacy data the tools that can be adapted to use your existing repositories can be useful but then again you have to weigh up the pros and cons of implementation time. You might find it'll import your data a dream but it takes so long to implement that by the time you've done that you could have imported the knowledge into another product.
Main features are:
As someone said earlier, the big coporate players arn't cheap, Vignette will cost you half a million before you've started. Things may have changed since I used it, but yes, these things arn't cheap.
Last thing before I go and leave you good people alone. Opensource, There are some really cool tools out there, one of these days I'll release the one I'm writing for the J2EE platform. Checkout sourceforge. Try content management system or CMS.
That's all folks
Max
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Insert Clever Signature Here.
UML = Modelling the flow through and design of object orientated systems/things (I won't use the word object)
XML = Is a framework, it's not really a language (I know what you're going to say). Using this framework you can markup your own language subset to transfer or store your specific data in an ordered structure, in such a way that a standard set of tools can be used to read said data.
and people say I'm just a crazy foreigner....
Seriously though, if you request (import, order etc) something which breaks the laws of the country you are importing it into, the reciever and not the shipper is liable. seems like you're "importing" the data, be it via a wire or if you order illegal porn on a CD.
Seems simple enough to me.