6 out of 10 is "okay" in my book. If I like it and want to re-read it some time later, it's probably 8-9. If it's outstanding, it's 10. 6 means "pretty good, room for improvement" as my English professor would say.
Microsoft historically has not been successful with DRM implementations. Windows Media perhaps is the only example that succeeded (with MS Reader being one of the main points of frustrations). Read this, it's interesting, and coming from Joe Wilcox at Jupiter Research:
Bottom line: I'm not convinced Microsoft's philosophical approach to rights-protected content is one consumers will embrace.
Also read Rory Blyth trying to buy an eBook. The stuff sounds made up except that I ad exact same experience with buying an eBook off Amazon for my Dell Axim, which ran Microsoft Reader. The book was DRMed and that was the last eBook I bought off Amazon, and wrote them roughly what Rory described in the complaint message.
This is total for about 3 years, so I doubt the pro rata growth is that much. Honestly, I don't read that much, I usually keep the Slashdot window open throughout the day to check back every 2 hours or, and sometimes browse other news sources. Also, I moved up the ladder with my employer and sometimes have to sit through project meetings and training seminars with nothing else to distract myself, but news sites. Every now and then a story comes up that sounds interesting that I think is worth submitting to Slashdot.
Oh, yeah, and there's also that "feature" in Slashcode that if your story is accepted, but it's appended to the other guy's story, you get it marked as "rejected", so this exact story, for example, doesn't count as accepted.
To quote Miguel de Icaza from today's story, "Everyone is arguing about tiny bits of the equation. [...] They are all fine points of view, but what makes Longhorn dangerous for the viability of Linux on the desktop is that the combination of Microsoft deployment power, XAML, Avalon and.NET is killer."
Admittedly OpenOffice is pretty good if you're migrating from Office 95/97 (more 97 than 95). But start anywhere at Office 2000 level, and there are some things that are copied into OpenOffice on an acceptable level, but for even the slightest deviation off the regular path for creating and saving a document you're penalized by not having a certain small feature, that exists in MS Office, but was not important enough to include in OO.
Oh, also forgot to add that Fortune compiles a yearly list of best companies to work for. It looks like they require you to pay to access the articles (like anyone will pony up 5 bucks just to read a single article having no idea about its quality), but get a newsstand copy, check one out at the library, or if you're a student, visit your Careers office.
Fortune also explains why a given company is the best to work for, so writing down a list of things you'd like to see in your potential employer would be helpful for the future.
Monster.com has an entire page dedicated to interview tips. They include things like illegal interview questions or talking salary. Generally it's worthwhile to establish top three priorities that you would like to see in a prospective employer.
Choose from wide array of things like good team to work with, free coffee in the office, paid vacation, general atmosphere, opportunity for advancement, trip re-imbrusement policies, overtime policies, sick leaves, vacation packages, perks like gym memberships, availability of good food nearby, company kitchen, dress code, stock options, medical insurance, dental packages, etc. Ask about your top three priorities directly during the interview, when the HR person or manager asks "Do you have any questions for us?" This will tell them that you have thought certain things through, and will also signalize that those are some things you care about, so it must be important to you.
Or just think about the three-four things that were awesome about the previous employer or other companies on the market (like Google allows you to spend one day on your own projects, and they allow pets in the building, Microsoft buys its employees gym memberships, and I think at some point they were also buy Costco cards).
A cool thing you can do (I've tried that at my girlfriend's house) is have the laptop connected to the back of the stereo system and TV as well through S-Video, and then with Win XP Professional (should work on Linux as well with some differences) do the remote desktop connection from your desktop PC.
This way you can sit and read Slashdot, while having the laptop window open and change the music in the stereo system any time you please.
I owned a ew5000 for 2 days, and returned it afterwards, couldn't take the clumsy setup. Even though it costs around $100, which is far below any decent laptop, it could only do MP3 shared through the wireless as well as JPEGs (on TV screen). Took the sucker back, had no streaming capabilities, the MP3s were decoded locally, so no OGG, AAC, Real, WMA support, and no radio, of course.
At my house I have a small Wifi-enabled Avertec 3120 V plugged into the back of the stereo system. Had to set up Winamp for some easy key combination, like 'space' to start playing and N to stop.
Then it's Internet Radio list in WinAmp, or Shoutcast.com, choose the one with the better bit rate and we're off with high quality Internet radio.
Any cheap laptop with WiFi card or internal WiFi would work.
Doesn't matter much for most of the Slashdotters, but if you happen to read Russian (or always wanted to learn that language), Yandex Mail, which is part of Yandex, Russia's largest Web portal and search engine, announced unlimited mail storage space with maximum letter size of 10 MB and unlimited attachments (as long as the message with all the attaches stays below 10 MB).
Basically, they will just keep buying more hard drives as you grow your message store.
The place where I work (embedded software development as well) uses QVCS. It was there before I arrived, so I am not sure about the setup, but overall works great, and the license cost maxes out at $100 for 4 users. You install it on a Windows box, and then launch the client copies by providing a shortcut to the server install, so cannot run more than 4 simultaneous copies, but that works for us.
I am a paying Safari subscriber (minimal yearly plan) and have found it useful and worth the price. In some of the cases the book search feature worked well for me - couple of projects at work that required specific implementations of something I have never done before. A quick Safari search retrieved the results, I subscribed to the book and had the necessary code in front of me. Granted, the same could probably be done with Google, only would take more time to find, and at that time I was charging per hour, so would've been my loss.
Another thing is that I can explore the subjects foreign to me before. Safari has a variety of business titles on project management and what not, as well as good Cisco and Microsoft certification selection. I am thinking of getting a couple of MCSD exams under my belt, just because I know the books are out there, and my bookshelf is not filled in for the month.
I can't tell you when was the last time I bought a computer book. Unless it's some specific title I desperately need, for basically any topic I know I can always find an O'Reilly/Addison-Wesley equivalent on Safari.
As for reading off the screen, I think people are over-exaggerating the discomfort level. In Firefox with zoom selection and font sizes you can get decent page. When I get into reading stuff, I read on Safari from work, from home desktop and from my laptop while working out. I think it's the best money I ever spent on computer books.
It's hardly a good review. It's descriptive of the features, but the author makes it a point to emphasize apparent facts. He dedicates one paragraph just defending the fact that 1 GB is good for you, as if there was strong opposition and people lined up with posters "Give me back my Hotmail 2 MB!" outside of Google's offices.
Then in two paragraphs he explains what "clear text" means, providing gratuitous analogies of your ISP techs potentially reading your e-mail.
Here're some more interesting first-hand experiences:
But it is also almost certainly cheaper and less risky in the long run.
But how much is the long run? If writing, testing, debugging and implementing an open-source solution is going to cover 2 years of Sharepoint license, then yeah, I am all for it.
But if after two years of developing and debugging you still get a half-assed solution capable of, as some people suggested, "providing input in an HTML form", then who cares whether it's open-source or closed-source if it's not usable?
SharePoint is is $5619 in retail pricing, you can no doubt get it cheaper from the partners. If your rate for this organization is $56 per hour ask yourself whether you can develop a similar functionality within a 100 hour project. If not, get a Sharepoint license, you're hired to save money with software, not push some petty philosophies.
Do you have to register? I couldn't find any forms, and I am assuming that seating for the events is limited, since they have some seminars overlapping.
ComScore also collects data on Internet pornography-viewing habits, although that was not part of the online publishers' report. According to the company, more than 70 percent of men from 18 to 34 visit a pornographic site in a typical month, and those men make up 25 percent of the visitors to such sites. They are 39 percent more likely than the rest of the Internet population to visit the sites, said Graham Mudd, an analyst for comScore.
Slashdot Mirror
6 out of 10 is "okay" in my book. If I like it and want to re-read it some time later, it's probably 8-9. If it's outstanding, it's 10. 6 means "pretty good, room for improvement" as my English professor would say.
I've protected my privacy and use Gator for all my passwords.
Also read Rory Blyth trying to buy an eBook. The stuff sounds made up except that I ad exact same experience with buying an eBook off Amazon for my Dell Axim, which ran Microsoft Reader. The book was DRMed and that was the last eBook I bought off Amazon, and wrote them roughly what Rory described in the complaint message.
This is total for about 3 years, so I doubt the pro rata growth is that much. Honestly, I don't read that much, I usually keep the Slashdot window open throughout the day to check back every 2 hours or, and sometimes browse other news sources. Also, I moved up the ladder with my employer and sometimes have to sit through project meetings and training seminars with nothing else to distract myself, but news sites. Every now and then a story comes up that sounds interesting that I think is worth submitting to Slashdot.
Oh, yeah, and there's also that "feature" in Slashcode that if your story is accepted, but it's appended to the other guy's story, you get it marked as "rejected", so this exact story, for example, doesn't count as accepted.
On the other hand, launching news.com.com and not owning news.com could've landed them in legal trouble.
in order to keep that cookie-sharing going
Is that why CNet is using that *.com.com thing?
You can embed Windows Media Player with all codecs or Internet browser window (IE engine) into your application with 2-3 lines of C# code.
Nothing to license either, just make sure the proper DLL gets shipped to the customer within your installer.
Very true.
.NET is killer."
To quote Miguel de Icaza from today's story, "Everyone is arguing about tiny bits of the equation. [...] They are all fine points of view, but what makes Longhorn dangerous for the viability of Linux on the desktop is that the combination of Microsoft deployment power, XAML, Avalon and
Admittedly OpenOffice is pretty good if you're migrating from Office 95/97 (more 97 than 95). But start anywhere at Office 2000 level, and there are some things that are copied into OpenOffice on an acceptable level, but for even the slightest deviation off the regular path for creating and saving a document you're penalized by not having a certain small feature, that exists in MS Office, but was not important enough to include in OO.
Oh, also forgot to add that Fortune compiles a yearly list of best companies to work for. It looks like they require you to pay to access the articles (like anyone will pony up 5 bucks just to read a single article having no idea about its quality), but get a newsstand copy, check one out at the library, or if you're a student, visit your Careers office.
Fortune also explains why a given company is the best to work for, so writing down a list of things you'd like to see in your potential employer would be helpful for the future.
Monster.com has an entire page dedicated to interview tips. They include things like illegal interview questions or talking salary. Generally it's worthwhile to establish top three priorities that you would like to see in a prospective employer.
Choose from wide array of things like good team to work with, free coffee in the office, paid vacation, general atmosphere, opportunity for advancement, trip re-imbrusement policies, overtime policies, sick leaves, vacation packages, perks like gym memberships, availability of good food nearby, company kitchen, dress code, stock options, medical insurance, dental packages, etc. Ask about your top three priorities directly during the interview, when the HR person or manager asks "Do you have any questions for us?" This will tell them that you have thought certain things through, and will also signalize that those are some things you care about, so it must be important to you.
Or just think about the three-four things that were awesome about the previous employer or other companies on the market (like Google allows you to spend one day on your own projects, and they allow pets in the building, Microsoft buys its employees gym memberships, and I think at some point they were also buy Costco cards).
A cool thing you can do (I've tried that at my girlfriend's house) is have the laptop connected to the back of the stereo system and TV as well through S-Video, and then with Win XP Professional (should work on Linux as well with some differences) do the remote desktop connection from your desktop PC.
This way you can sit and read Slashdot, while having the laptop window open and change the music in the stereo system any time you please.
I owned a ew5000 for 2 days, and returned it afterwards, couldn't take the clumsy setup. Even though it costs around $100, which is far below any decent laptop, it could only do MP3 shared through the wireless as well as JPEGs (on TV screen). Took the sucker back, had no streaming capabilities, the MP3s were decoded locally, so no OGG, AAC, Real, WMA support, and no radio, of course.
At my house I have a small Wifi-enabled Avertec 3120 V plugged into the back of the stereo system. Had to set up Winamp for some easy key combination, like 'space' to start playing and N to stop.
Then it's Internet Radio list in WinAmp, or Shoutcast.com, choose the one with the better bit rate and we're off with high quality Internet radio.
Any cheap laptop with WiFi card or internal WiFi would work.
Doesn't matter much for most of the Slashdotters, but if you happen to read Russian (or always wanted to learn that language), Yandex Mail, which is part of Yandex, Russia's largest Web portal and search engine, announced unlimited mail storage space with maximum letter size of 10 MB and unlimited attachments (as long as the message with all the attaches stays below 10 MB).
Basically, they will just keep buying more hard drives as you grow your message store.
The place where I work (embedded software development as well) uses QVCS. It was there before I arrived, so I am not sure about the setup, but overall works great, and the license cost maxes out at $100 for 4 users. You install it on a Windows box, and then launch the client copies by providing a shortcut to the server install, so cannot run more than 4 simultaneous copies, but that works for us.
Rasmus Lerdorf (the inventor of PHP) has his slides online as well.
Brian Hatch posted Practical SSH Encryption, Tunneling, and Automation online. By looking at his presentation collection, I noticed he always does that. But yes, wish there was a centralized site for all the presentations, since you could only attend 5-6.
I am a paying Safari subscriber (minimal yearly plan) and have found it useful and worth the price. In some of the cases the book search feature worked well for me - couple of projects at work that required specific implementations of something I have never done before. A quick Safari search retrieved the results, I subscribed to the book and had the necessary code in front of me. Granted, the same could probably be done with Google, only would take more time to find, and at that time I was charging per hour, so would've been my loss.
Another thing is that I can explore the subjects foreign to me before. Safari has a variety of business titles on project management and what not, as well as good Cisco and Microsoft certification selection. I am thinking of getting a couple of MCSD exams under my belt, just because I know the books are out there, and my bookshelf is not filled in for the month.
I can't tell you when was the last time I bought a computer book. Unless it's some specific title I desperately need, for basically any topic I know I can always find an O'Reilly/Addison-Wesley equivalent on Safari.
As for reading off the screen, I think people are over-exaggerating the discomfort level. In Firefox with zoom selection and font sizes you can get decent page. When I get into reading stuff, I read on Safari from work, from home desktop and from my laptop while working out. I think it's the best money I ever spent on computer books.
here
Oh, wait, it's the same one.
Corrected second link, so it's not a copy of the first one.
Oops.
It's hardly a good review. It's descriptive of the features, but the author makes it a point to emphasize apparent facts. He dedicates one paragraph just defending the fact that 1 GB is good for you, as if there was strong opposition and people lined up with posters "Give me back my Hotmail 2 MB!" outside of Google's offices.
Then in two paragraphs he explains what "clear text" means, providing gratuitous analogies of your ISP techs potentially reading your e-mail.
Here're some more interesting first-hand experiences:
GMail review, about spam filters and all
Another review with screenshots
Review from a current user with pictures and information on ads
Mark Pilgrim, complaining GMail's JavaScript broke his Firefox shortcuts.
But it is also almost certainly cheaper and less risky in the long run.
But how much is the long run? If writing, testing, debugging and implementing an open-source solution is going to cover 2 years of Sharepoint license, then yeah, I am all for it.
But if after two years of developing and debugging you still get a half-assed solution capable of, as some people suggested, "providing input in an HTML form", then who cares whether it's open-source or closed-source if it's not usable?
SharePoint is is $5619 in retail pricing, you can no doubt get it cheaper from the partners. If your rate for this organization is $56 per hour ask yourself whether you can develop a similar functionality within a 100 hour project. If not, get a Sharepoint license, you're hired to save money with software, not push some petty philosophies.
Go ahead, inspire yourself
and here, protesting KFC
Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.
Do you have to register? I couldn't find any forms, and I am assuming that seating for the events is limited, since they have some seminars overlapping.
Also, what's the fee?
There was also a report by Harris Interactive, that while 84% of college students have TVs, 91% have PCs.