Theoretically Google should be able to put that into their toolbar. Also you could probably use an extension in Firefox that would modify your query to exclude certain sites. After the list gets long, however, it wouldn't be too effective.
I discovered how to make a Firefox plugin for limiting Google searches to select few sites, but the problem before was that each site:domainname.com directive was treated as a term. So if you wanted to search 7 sites at once, then google would let you enter maximum of 3 keywords to span that search across multiple sites. So this keywords increase, you can do stuff like 5-word searches across 10 domain names, for example.
No, Data Space Transfer Protocol is not "also known as" Data Socket Transfer Protocol. DataSocket is a National Instruments server that can reside on your test machine and enable streaming the test data across the Internet. So if you have a measurement test stand on one end, and LabView front-end on the other, DataSocket will take care of gluing two together.
Not exactly a skills test, but on TechInterviews.com I collected a bunch of questions from recruiters and those who interviewed at tech companies. Since the site was up, there were a bunch of questions coming from people just sharing their job interview experience, but recently a lot of that is coming from India. I noticed that "fresher" type of questions used by some large-scale employers in India are pretty rudimentary, so I am not sure whether the applicant is expected to be a college graduate or just a high school diploma holder. So pick and choose, basically, should be a good way to refresh skills, if not self-test.
The latter is not true, I read that somewhere between 70 and 90 % of the population lives within miles to US border. Not sure what the source was on that. Plus, it's the number of households, not people that matters, as the family of 10 somewhere in Utah will apparently not need more than 1 broadband connection.
This is nothing to fret about. The United States is losing to the countries with high population density and smaller footprint, where wiring a city of size of Seoul or Amsterdam suddenly wires up 10-15% of country's population. If you take California or New York City and treat them as a separate country, the rate of broadband access would be quite competitive with the others. US of A is just a pretty big country to have anything decent in terms of % numbers.
Agreed. People tend to bash the tools like Dreamweaver and FrontPage, but once you've played around with pure HTML, you rarely want to go back, you just want to build sites quicker and get better handle on site management, which DW and FP are excellent at.
Open source site engines are also proliferating, and so is open source Web design, and frequently one can launch a complete Web site by just going through the install manual or performing a few clicks in Fantastico, which many Web hosters provide.
Building simplistic Web pages with HTML is part of the required curriculum in Washington state, and is attached to the CPLA (Computer Literacy) exam that each college graduate has to take before getting Bachelor's. So it's considered a part of basic skills now, just like word processing and electronic spreadsheet knowledge is.
Heh, yeah, that's true, Passport tends to lose your authentication cookie more often that a 3-year-old would lose his toys. You have financial losses, I would just get frustrated.
On top of that I used their hotmail account to register for the Passport, since that's their recommended option. I never use Hotmail for my daily webmail, in fact, the only message I have there is a thank-you for signing up. The bozos from hotmail kept threatening me with turning off the account, and they did execute their threats every 90 days. So unless I remember to log in to the Hotmail account, which I never use, I lose my passport, and have to go through easy but still frustrating retrival system at hotmail.
The guys who designed this system are probably competing with Clippy team on who builds the most annoying product.
Well, MS has single sign-in within their MSN zoo, but the idea was outside licensing to sites like eBay. I am not aware of any Yahoo! implementations on the sites outside of its own.
The idea is not that bad - instead of thousands of sites and message boards requiring registration, login and confirmation of the e-mail, have just one single entity provide and verify the virtual avatar.
As a Webmkaster, I would like to have some simple authentication solution, so that the users dont have to register in forums and what not to post. However, the implementation is just unacceptable:
There are two fees for licensing Passport: a periodic compliance testing fee of $1,500 US and a yearly provisioning fee of $10,000 US. The provisioning fee is charged on a per-company basis.
Small sites who would benefit frim such service don't have $10,000 to throw around, and large sites, which do have the money, just will write their own username+password code.
This one is not really clean in terms of copyright. It's a copy of Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days from Sams, and I am not aware of Sams ever releasing any of their stuff into public domain. All the books on my site are clean.
The entire book is available on the Web for free, since the book is basically the collection of Joel's best articles. He cleaned them up, according to the introduction, but anyone willing to "look inside the book" (tm) before getting it, has a chance to go through 100% of it.
Mainly dealt with the blogging engines here, since most of the sites are content-driven without the need for many additional modules.
MovableType - fast to setup, easy to deploy, live community with hacks and what not around it, but since the move to the paid distro in 3.0 the activity died off a little bit. Never upgraded to the paid version, couldn't justify the license money with WordPress having so many similar features. It's a Perl+MySQL or Perl+flat file set up, so theoretically nothing more than cgi-bin is required.
Which brings us to WordPress - extensible, lively community, very easy to install and setup. The engine itself is a bit immature at this point for some advanced stuff, but if you know PHP, you'll find your way around it. Has a link manager and mass edit for comments (very useful for spam treatment), extensible as far as design, not too modular though.
pMachine - easy to set up, easy to use, but not too flexible. Coded in PHP and uses MySQL, many tweaks available, but limited functionality for the free version. The authors have since moved on to a different project, Expression Engine, and the community is a bit abandoned.
The above links are going to my sites which run the said engines, not the engines themselves, a simple google search would take you to download pages for the engines.
I couldn't find this link over the weekend, when I was writing the book review but some people did that already.
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I read this book in a single setting on the airplane (Salt Lake City to San Francisco, so wasn't that long) and it was a fun one to read. It's basically an auto-biography of a guy who graduated with a degree in Physics to find out his best job opportunity was waiting tables at a local restaurant.
The interesting thing about author's career at Lawson, as he emphasizes that in several places in the book, is that he always managed to work for departments that have never shipped a product. A lot of the time was spent in maintenance, planning, high-level design and then high-level redesign, office politics and what not.
There's also a funny story about back-stabbing inside Lawson with some guys separating from Technology department and creating the Advanced Technology department (as if to imply that the other one is some kind of non-advanced, backward, technology).
That's a tough one. I work for reasonable large corp, so there's always patent lawyer available when you need him, but I can imagine for an inventor working on his own the fees can be quite demanding.
I don't see the way around filing fee, since USPTO just charges that for each filing, and they won't do free consultations or anything. Perhaps a solution for you would be to get into a deal with those "intellectual property warehouses" that appeared in the Valley a few years ago with the dot-com boom. I think the guy who started Lycos had one, but the name escapes me.
Basically it's a one-person company, consisting of a patent lawyer on salary. They will work some kind of deal with the inventor, where they will get the patent ready to file, and will cover the fees, in exchange for slice in future royalties. Those guys can offer you a free consultation and a talk with patent lawyer, since they probably don't want to spend their own money on filing fees before making sure that the idea is worth it.
Unfortunately, even though the patent is granted to you, you lose some control over it by assigning commercial rights to the IP warehouse. Just tried out a Google search on invention, brings a handful of those companies with "Free patent info, free consultation with registered patent attorney" advertised.
Our customers will often only order small quantities at first.
Do you guys require any kind of commitments for the large orders when I place the small one? Thanks for the URL, it looks like you're selling the service that my current employer is interested in.
How much would the final device sell for? If your quantities are in thousands of units and require additional R&D, you can produce the device in the United States, provided you supply the factories with the board design, casing, cabling and all the other components. But in that case consumers might be expected to pay $100-200 per device, which doesn't work if the device is simplistic.
You can outsource manufacturing to China and get the same device for pennies on the dollar, but Chinese won't talk to you unless you place an order for a million. Depending on the complexity of the device itself, the price might be around $1-5, so you're looking at initial order of $1 mln to $5 mln, which few companies have budgeted for the outside ideas. Unless it's pretty obvious that they can sell it in the United States for $20 a pop and get a million of them sold within reasonable amount of time.
If all you want is royalties on something you invented, consider filing a patent application with USPTO, final cost - $15K-$30K, depending on the patent lawyer. That would be a fairly quick way to establish yourself as the inventor of this paricular technology and would invite all the companies to participate in production and paying you a small royalty fee.
Yet another way to market it is to approach a startup in Silicon Valley. There're always some guys on the lookout for a new company, and they're willing to start a new company, but are looking for technical smarts to build the company on. Contact those guys, and you get access to the venture capital, management and marketing skills, plus a title of co-founder, if the device itself is expected to sell well, so it's worth creating a company behind this product idea.
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Theoretically Google should be able to put that into their toolbar. Also you could probably use an extension in Firefox that would modify your query to exclude certain sites. After the list gets long, however, it wouldn't be too effective.
I discovered how to make a Firefox plugin for limiting Google searches to select few sites, but the problem before was that each site:domainname.com directive was treated as a term. So if you wanted to search 7 sites at once, then google would let you enter maximum of 3 keywords to span that search across multiple sites. So this keywords increase, you can do stuff like 5-word searches across 10 domain names, for example.
No, Data Space Transfer Protocol is not "also known as" Data Socket Transfer Protocol. DataSocket is a National Instruments server that can reside on your test machine and enable streaming the test data across the Internet. So if you have a measurement test stand on one end, and LabView front-end on the other, DataSocket will take care of gluing two together.
Not exactly a skills test, but on TechInterviews.com I collected a bunch of questions from recruiters and those who interviewed at tech companies. Since the site was up, there were a bunch of questions coming from people just sharing their job interview experience, but recently a lot of that is coming from India. I noticed that "fresher" type of questions used by some large-scale employers in India are pretty rudimentary, so I am not sure whether the applicant is expected to be a college graduate or just a high school diploma holder. So pick and choose, basically, should be a good way to refresh skills, if not self-test.
They did not when they first launched it, but now they do.
Google Desktop Search does it.
Canada is bigger, less densely settled
The latter is not true, I read that somewhere between 70 and 90 % of the population lives within miles to US border. Not sure what the source was on that. Plus, it's the number of households, not people that matters, as the family of 10 somewhere in Utah will apparently not need more than 1 broadband connection.
This is nothing to fret about. The United States is losing to the countries with high population density and smaller footprint, where wiring a city of size of Seoul or Amsterdam suddenly wires up 10-15% of country's population. If you take California or New York City and treat them as a separate country, the rate of broadband access would be quite competitive with the others. US of A is just a pretty big country to have anything decent in terms of % numbers.
Note, however, that on the same page it says US is leading the world in the total number of broadband connections with 31.7 million cable/DSL/other lines. The nearest competitor - China - only has 22.2 million broadband hook-ups.
Agreed. People tend to bash the tools like Dreamweaver and FrontPage, but once you've played around with pure HTML, you rarely want to go back, you just want to build sites quicker and get better handle on site management, which DW and FP are excellent at.
Open source site engines are also proliferating, and so is open source Web design, and frequently one can launch a complete Web site by just going through the install manual or performing a few clicks in Fantastico, which many Web hosters provide.
Building simplistic Web pages with HTML is part of the required curriculum in Washington state, and is attached to the CPLA (Computer Literacy) exam that each college graduate has to take before getting Bachelor's. So it's considered a part of basic skills now, just like word processing and electronic spreadsheet knowledge is.
Heh, yeah, that's true, Passport tends to lose your authentication cookie more often that a 3-year-old would lose his toys. You have financial losses, I would just get frustrated.
On top of that I used their hotmail account to register for the Passport, since that's their recommended option. I never use Hotmail for my daily webmail, in fact, the only message I have there is a thank-you for signing up. The bozos from hotmail kept threatening me with turning off the account, and they did execute their threats every 90 days. So unless I remember to log in to the Hotmail account, which I never use, I lose my passport, and have to go through easy but still frustrating retrival system at hotmail.
The guys who designed this system are probably competing with Clippy team on who builds the most annoying product.
Well, MS has single sign-in within their MSN zoo, but the idea was outside licensing to sites like eBay. I am not aware of any Yahoo! implementations on the sites outside of its own.
As a Webmkaster, I would like to have some simple authentication solution, so that the users dont have to register in forums and what not to post. However, the implementation is just unacceptable:
Small sites who would benefit frim such service don't have $10,000 to throw around, and large sites, which do have the money, just will write their own username+password code.
Ah, thanks, this one slipped through.
This one is not really clean in terms of copyright. It's a copy of Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days from Sams, and I am not aware of Sams ever releasing any of their stuff into public domain. All the books on my site are clean.
Free tech books
Large collection of free online books at UPenn (not just tech)
The entire book is available on the Web for free, since the book is basically the collection of Joel's best articles. He cleaned them up, according to the introduction, but anyone willing to "look inside the book" (tm) before getting it, has a chance to go through 100% of it.
Mainly dealt with the blogging engines here, since most of the sites are content-driven without the need for many additional modules.
MovableType - fast to setup, easy to deploy, live community with hacks and what not around it, but since the move to the paid distro in 3.0 the activity died off a little bit. Never upgraded to the paid version, couldn't justify the license money with WordPress having so many similar features. It's a Perl+MySQL or Perl+flat file set up, so theoretically nothing more than cgi-bin is required.
Which brings us to WordPress - extensible, lively community, very easy to install and setup. The engine itself is a bit immature at this point for some advanced stuff, but if you know PHP, you'll find your way around it. Has a link manager and mass edit for comments (very useful for spam treatment), extensible as far as design, not too modular though.
pMachine - easy to set up, easy to use, but not too flexible. Coded in PHP and uses MySQL, many tweaks available, but limited functionality for the free version. The authors have since moved on to a different project, Expression Engine, and the community is a bit abandoned.
The above links are going to my sites which run the said engines, not the engines themselves, a simple google search would take you to download pages for the engines.
1. That was the President of Ukraine.
2. The charges were dropped later.
3. The radars were never found in Iraq.
I can stop worrying about my job going to India and start worrying about my job going to Indiana.
I couldn't find this link over the weekend, when I was writing the book review but some people did that already.
I read this book in a single setting on the airplane (Salt Lake City to San Francisco, so wasn't that long) and it was a fun one to read. It's basically an auto-biography of a guy who graduated with a degree in Physics to find out his best job opportunity was waiting tables at a local restaurant.
The interesting thing about author's career at Lawson, as he emphasizes that in several places in the book, is that he always managed to work for departments that have never shipped a product. A lot of the time was spent in maintenance, planning, high-level design and then high-level redesign, office politics and what not.
There's also a funny story about back-stabbing inside Lawson with some guys separating from Technology department and creating the Advanced Technology department (as if to imply that the other one is some kind of non-advanced, backward, technology).
That's a tough one. I work for reasonable large corp, so there's always patent lawyer available when you need him, but I can imagine for an inventor working on his own the fees can be quite demanding.
I don't see the way around filing fee, since USPTO just charges that for each filing, and they won't do free consultations or anything. Perhaps a solution for you would be to get into a deal with those "intellectual property warehouses" that appeared in the Valley a few years ago with the dot-com boom. I think the guy who started Lycos had one, but the name escapes me.
Basically it's a one-person company, consisting of a patent lawyer on salary. They will work some kind of deal with the inventor, where they will get the patent ready to file, and will cover the fees, in exchange for slice in future royalties. Those guys can offer you a free consultation and a talk with patent lawyer, since they probably don't want to spend their own money on filing fees before making sure that the idea is worth it.
Unfortunately, even though the patent is granted to you, you lose some control over it by assigning commercial rights to the IP warehouse. Just tried out a Google search on invention , brings a handful of those companies with "Free patent info, free consultation with registered patent attorney" advertised.
Our customers will often only order small quantities at first.
Do you guys require any kind of commitments for the large orders when I place the small one? Thanks for the URL, it looks like you're selling the service that my current employer is interested in.
How much would the final device sell for? If your quantities are in thousands of units and require additional R&D, you can produce the device in the United States, provided you supply the factories with the board design, casing, cabling and all the other components. But in that case consumers might be expected to pay $100-200 per device, which doesn't work if the device is simplistic.
You can outsource manufacturing to China and get the same device for pennies on the dollar, but Chinese won't talk to you unless you place an order for a million. Depending on the complexity of the device itself, the price might be around $1-5, so you're looking at initial order of $1 mln to $5 mln, which few companies have budgeted for the outside ideas. Unless it's pretty obvious that they can sell it in the United States for $20 a pop and get a million of them sold within reasonable amount of time.
If all you want is royalties on something you invented, consider filing a patent application with USPTO, final cost - $15K-$30K, depending on the patent lawyer. That would be a fairly quick way to establish yourself as the inventor of this paricular technology and would invite all the companies to participate in production and paying you a small royalty fee.
Yet another way to market it is to approach a startup in Silicon Valley. There're always some guys on the lookout for a new company, and they're willing to start a new company, but are looking for technical smarts to build the company on. Contact those guys, and you get access to the venture capital, management and marketing skills, plus a title of co-founder, if the device itself is expected to sell well, so it's worth creating a company behind this product idea.
Among those Americans who are online 44% support Bush and 39% support Kerry.