Thiessen worked for George W. Bush, Jesse Helms, and Donald Rumsfeld. He's a well-regarded pundit and speechwriter in conservative circles.
His writings do not represent the editorial board of the Washington Post. The Post publishes columns by Thiessen so that they can represent different shades of the political spectrum.
I think the e-ink tech is great and I'd be willing to invest $3k for somebody to build the right company around this.
I'm not a VC, but any VC would tell you that it's the poeople who make the company. Tell us more about who you are, why you are the one who will do this right.
Then I need to know more than just "I've got some great ideas". What's the business model? Who are the customers?
The bottom line is the bottom line. Convince me that the return on my investment will be positive.
I like the idea of the community site to help collect the information on applications and alternatives.
I don't really expect the program to demonstrate 1-to-1 relation or to understand how important particular applications are for me. Note that I don't expect this program to give me a definitive thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the "Can I Switch?" question. With a good list of applications, I can scan it to determine what the reality is for the programs that I know are important to me.
The key thing that I'd like somebody else to do is to create the program which gathers the real data from my daily work habits. I don't do windows system programming.
I'm more than a little tempted to get a mac. But, could I get by in with a mac in my non-mac work world? There are two ways to answer this question. I could just jump in and see, or I could identify all programs I'm now using at my job and do the appropriate web research to see what's available for the mac. I don't have the time or patience to do the research nor do I have the time just to jump in and try it now either.
There's a better way. And I think the marketing types at Apple should pester some of their techies to make it happen.
I want to install a new program on my work computer (running WinXP Pro) that will track every program I run for two weeks or so. At the end of that period it should report to me how much of what I ran is available under Mac OS X.
I've written more details (same from google cache) on this, but some key points are that it can show alternatives even if the same program exists (e.g. Office), it must be open source, it must be honest about the mac capabilities (e.g. "program X will work for most users, but may not be compatible with a corporate server environment because of blah blah").
Of course, this might work to convince people to switch to a linux desktop as well, but the linux desktop has bigger issues to cover than just application compatibility.
First, the 4.2" vs 5.5" that's over an inch longer (or 30% longer) that it sticks down into your pocket. That's exacerbated by the extra half an inch of depth of the Riot over the iPod. And this auction says it weighs 10 oz.
This Rio Karma, on the other hand, is small. Its longets dimension is only 3" and it weighs 5.5 oz.
While the desktop makes for better demos, the real strong players are still the enterprise options. These are the tools which will get noticed by CIO-types. I'm talking about apache, samba, sendmail/postfix/exim, jboss, etc.
Then send them to David Wheeler's report on quantitative data which shows the strength of open source projects.
I added network.img to the end of the command and it worked:
% mkisofs -b network.img -c boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso network.img
Size of boot image is 2880 sectors -> Emulating a 1440 kB floppy
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 3000
768 extents written (1 Mb)
I've had a new Blackberry 7230 color model for about three weeks now and I haven't seen any sort of predictive text. It does have "AutoText" which does replacement, e.g. it will change "arent" into "aren't" or "htere" to "there".
Is there true predictive text that I haven't found and enabled yet?
...I myself have recently run into the problem of different sequencing systems on different databases (such as MySQL's AUTO_INCREMENT column type vs PostgreSQL's sequence types). I've worked around it by modifying the application's database calls, but that isn't really a good strategy. Implementing a sequencer at the application level (one of the "best practices") is a much better idea...
I disagree. Why do you want to reimplement database features such as sequences when the developers of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc. have spent plenty of time optimizing it. Ask Tom Kyte (of Oracle) his opinion about doing something like that -- here's his answer.
"But," you say, "that will mean making different versions of my code for each different database." Not exactly. Take a look at the implementation of Hibernate which uses classes such as OracleDialect and MySQLDialect which are subclasses of Dialect. Each of these specific dialects implements vendor-specific code for sequences (and others). This allows the application level code to maintain its database independence while at the same time taking advantage of the vendor-specific features.
How about browsing the word choice chapter of The American Heritage® Book of English Usage at bartleby.com. There's even an entry which explains the difference between "it's" and "its".
The cranky former-NeXTStep programmer inside of me is screaming "Objective C is not owned by and was not created by Apple." Nor was it created by NeXT, Inc. It predates NeXT and was merely adopted by NeXT.
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Yes, mod up this AC.
Thiessen worked for George W. Bush, Jesse Helms, and Donald Rumsfeld. He's a well-regarded pundit and speechwriter in conservative circles.
His writings do not represent the editorial board of the Washington Post. The Post publishes columns by Thiessen so that they can represent different shades of the political spectrum.
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I think the e-ink tech is great and I'd be willing to invest $3k for somebody to build the right company around this.
I'm not a VC, but any VC would tell you that it's the poeople who make the company. Tell us more about who you are, why you are the one who will do this right.
Then I need to know more than just "I've got some great ideas". What's the business model? Who are the customers?
The bottom line is the bottom line. Convince me that the return on my investment will be positive.
Try wapedia.org
Start with the page that lists starting pages for different devices
I like the idea of the community site to help collect the information on applications and alternatives.
I don't really expect the program to demonstrate 1-to-1 relation or to understand how important particular applications are for me. Note that I don't expect this program to give me a definitive thumbs-up or thumbs-down on the "Can I Switch?" question. With a good list of applications, I can scan it to determine what the reality is for the programs that I know are important to me.
The key thing that I'd like somebody else to do is to create the program which gathers the real data from my daily work habits. I don't do windows system programming.
More or less, however, more to the point is that I know next to nothing about windows system level programming.
There's a better way. And I think the marketing types at Apple should pester some of their techies to make it happen.
I want to install a new program on my work computer (running WinXP Pro) that will track every program I run for two weeks or so. At the end of that period it should report to me how much of what I ran is available under Mac OS X.
I've written more details (same from google cache) on this, but some key points are that it can show alternatives even if the same program exists (e.g. Office), it must be open source, it must be honest about the mac capabilities (e.g. "program X will work for most users, but may not be compatible with a corporate server environment because of blah blah").
Of course, this might work to convince people to switch to a linux desktop as well, but the linux desktop has bigger issues to cover than just application compatibility.
Well, yes. That's what they did to be successful.
Good people: Bill Gates was good enough to realize that anybody who would create the OS for the IBM PC would do well.
Something customers want: Ok, only one customer, but it was IBM.
Spend little money: They bought somebody else's DOS. I don't know the exact cost, but it was certainly a bargain after getting it put on every IBM PC.
The trouble with dead tree books, of course, is that probably none are new enough to mention new extensions to podcasting such as ipodder.
If you haven't tried bittorrent yet, ask google where to find a client and use it.
The firefox download took only about 5 sec for me and I didn't have to click through multiple mirrors to find one that would respond.
Composing with Mozilla? I thought composing was meant to be done in emacs.
This Rio Karma, on the other hand, is small. Its longets dimension is only 3" and it weighs 5.5 oz.
Then send them to David Wheeler's report on quantitative data which shows the strength of open source projects.
Is there an installation option in the downloadable version to install and configure like this Discovery release?
I can see how the default "task-based menus" could be very useful for newbies.
% mkisofs -b network.img -c boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso
mkisofs: Missing pathspec.
I added network.img to the end of the command and it worked:
% mkisofs -b network.img -c boot.catalog -o bootcd.iso network.img
Size of boot image is 2880 sectors -> Emulating a 1440 kB floppy
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 0
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 3000
768 extents written (1 Mb)
But then you might have to suffer the wrath of this executive when he discovers that the web browser is broken.
alias recent='ls -lt | head'
I've had a new Blackberry 7230 color model for about three weeks now and I haven't seen any sort of predictive text. It does have "AutoText" which does replacement, e.g. it will change "arent" into "aren't" or "htere" to "there".
Is there true predictive text that I haven't found and enabled yet?
I disagree. Why do you want to reimplement database features such as sequences when the developers of MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc. have spent plenty of time optimizing it. Ask Tom Kyte (of Oracle) his opinion about doing something like that -- here's his answer.
"But," you say, "that will mean making different versions of my code for each different database." Not exactly. Take a look at the implementation of Hibernate which uses classes such as OracleDialect and MySQLDialect which are subclasses of Dialect. Each of these specific dialects implements vendor-specific code for sequences (and others). This allows the application level code to maintain its database independence while at the same time taking advantage of the vendor-specific features.
Doug
How about browsing the word choice chapter of The American Heritage® Book of English Usage at bartleby.com. There's even an entry which explains the difference between "it's" and "its".
The cranky former-NeXTStep programmer inside of me is screaming "Objective C is not owned by and was not created by Apple." Nor was it created by NeXT, Inc. It predates NeXT and was merely adopted by NeXT.
ahhhh. My apologies.
I'm looking forward to the book, nonetheless.
A spell checker would not catch that error. "Cannon" and "canon" are both legitimate English words. Read more here.
Oh yes, oh yes... you could strip the unneeded fat out of binaries using a wonderfully named command line utility: lipo.
I searched addall.com for this book and got these results.