> Dell got its name by selling direct. Dell == Direct. > After spending 20 years proving to everybody that "direct is better and cheaper", > them selling direct thru a major distributor like Wally World is a > major, major change in their product placement and emphasis.
Yup, but in this CBC article they say they know that most of their customers will still buy direct. Note that the Ubuntu thing is mentioned in the same article, but I don't see a mention of any overlap there.
I remember seeing these container ships cruise by - our Coast Guard ship would be going north at 12-13 kts and they'd be going south at 40 kts... lots of mass and lots of relative velocity there. Even with a CPA of a mile they were pretty impressive.
> because the poor American workers have to work for more than 35 hours a week?
This reminds me of a quote by a Communist worker from the excellent book Wild Swans:
"How can you even think about such things [in this context, asking a girl out on a date] while the capitalists in America are living in an abyss of misery?"
This was around the times of the hideous (and Mao-imposed) famines in the Great Leap Forward.
> All CBS has to do to make money off this is have advertising in a corner of the screen
Right on. thenewsroom is one of those content distribution sites, and the beauty of it is that you can do things like create a custom feed of Coast Guard videos and you'll get the latest content both from CBS and from other content providers. The videos are of pretty high quality and the ads aren't too long. Ditto for text content, too, except it's a static ad and thus doesn't take up any time.
Disclaimer: I'm working on the Rails app that's powering thenewsroom.
Looks like IBM is getting some money from Amazon (via thenewsroom) to settle some patent disputes, maybe they can hang on to a few of those employees after all....
....when he suggests "Treat everything he does as a favor. ". Actually, that's not a bad life strategy - when the waitress refills your coffee right away, treat it as if she didn't really have to - because, really, she didn't! She could have just ignored your empty cup, or waited a few minutes, or whatever.
Same with a sysadmin. When he adds a rewrite rule (done!) 20 seconds after you ask for it, act appreciative and say thanks, even though that's his job. Because he could have put it off until tomorrow and probably would have reasonable excuses for doing so. (Incidentally, I hosed up this rewrite rule the first time by leaving off the trailing $. Doh!)
> I don't see this as being any different from WebStart, > which everyone loves to hate because it is so clunky.
JWS is pretty sweet for internal apps, though. I wrote a Swing client for a J2EE app for an internal group and folks were quite happy with the easy updates. They'd suggest a change and half an hour later I'd come buy their office, ask them to restart the app, and the new version would get downloaded and Bob's your uncle. Pretty sweet.
> What will the others think, what will happen to them ?
So true. It's the same sort of thing with folks who write books about open source projects. For example, I recently bought the Ruby Quiz book because a) it seemed like an excellent book and b) I knew that the guy who has been running the Ruby Quiz for the last few years had written the book and would benefit from the purchase. If the book had instead been written by a "professional author" who had swooped in and written the book in a furious three month flurry of work, I wouldn't have felt as motivated to buy the book.
One thing I try to do is Paypal out some money occasionally to folks whose code I use. I need to do that for this excellent Rails plugin; it's been very helpful and the author deserves a few bucks for his efforts...
> Many times I have edited lex and yacc code, but > never have I understood what the hell I was doing.
So true. I'm writing a JavaCC book and I'm still learning new stuff about it even though I'm almost done with the book.
The thing that's worked best for me is writing the lexical spec first, then going back and writing the parser spec. At least then you know that the basic tokens of the language are being recognized before you try to shape them into a parse tree.
> I'm sure that for sites with dozens (or hundreds) of servers, it's more problematic
Although in those cases I'd hope that they'd have everything nicely automated so that pushing out updates is just a matter running some utility that executes the update on all the machines. As Zed Shaw says, "if you're ssh'ing in to your servers more than once a week, you haven't automated things enough."
Of course there will be exceptions - custom installations and whatnot - but hopefully a change like this could just be shoved right out there.
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Looks like there's a Star Wars marathon in Australia... storm trooper Olympics, w00t!
> 5. Experience using CAD like programs (to make maps of my school of course)
Better yet, learning to program by writing DOOM map generators.
Hm, I don't know... I still get people emailing me about this post on a JavaCC grammar for COBOL. COBOL may be dying, but it's lingering on...
> Dell got its name by selling direct. Dell == Direct.
> After spending 20 years proving to everybody that "direct is better and cheaper",
> them selling direct thru a major distributor like Wally World is a
> major, major change in their product placement and emphasis.
Yup, but in this CBC article they say they know that most of their customers will still buy direct. Note that the Ubuntu thing is mentioned in the same article, but I don't see a mention of any overlap there.
An article about a Wordpress vulnerability from last month sounded like a SQL injection flaw, and Secunia has a bunch listed here. Mostly DOS and cross-site scripting... plus some "unspecified"...
There have been various articles about it, but I only found one that talked about pricing - $17.70 per month (via thenewsroom.com).
> anyone who can dismantle supertankers with their bare hands
Looks like even they have their standards, though.
I remember seeing these container ships cruise by - our Coast Guard ship would be going north at 12-13 kts and they'd be going south at 40 kts... lots of mass and lots of relative velocity there. Even with a CPA of a mile they were pretty impressive.
> because the poor American workers have to work for more than 35 hours a week?
This reminds me of a quote by a Communist worker from the excellent book Wild Swans:
"How can you even think about such things [in this context, asking a girl out on a date] while the capitalists in America are living in an abyss of misery?"
This was around the times of the hideous (and Mao-imposed) famines in the Great Leap Forward.
> why have a link
It's because thenewsroom is not a destination; see this post for more info.
...and as far as I can see VMWare has done nothing but good for Ubuntu.
> All CBS has to do to make money off this is have advertising in a corner of the screen
Right on. thenewsroom is one of those content distribution sites, and the beauty of it is that you can do things like create a custom feed of Coast Guard videos and you'll get the latest content both from CBS and from other content providers. The videos are of pretty high quality and the ads aren't too long. Ditto for text content, too, except it's a static ad and thus doesn't take up any time.
Disclaimer: I'm working on the Rails app that's powering thenewsroom.
Looks like IBM is getting some money from Amazon (via thenewsroom) to settle some patent disputes, maybe they can hang on to a few of those employees after all....
I don't know, looks like it's getting used in the 2008 Olympics (via thenewsroom).
....when he suggests "Treat everything he does as a favor. ". Actually, that's not a bad life strategy - when the waitress refills your coffee right away, treat it as if she didn't really have to - because, really, she didn't! She could have just ignored your empty cup, or waited a few minutes, or whatever.
Same with a sysadmin. When he adds a rewrite rule (done!) 20 seconds after you ask for it, act appreciative and say thanks, even though that's his job. Because he could have put it off until tomorrow and probably would have reasonable excuses for doing so. (Incidentally, I hosed up this rewrite rule the first time by leaving off the trailing $. Doh!)
> I don't see this as being any different from WebStart,
> which everyone loves to hate because it is so clunky.
JWS is pretty sweet for internal apps, though. I wrote a Swing client for a J2EE app for an internal group and folks were quite happy with the easy updates. They'd suggest a change and half an hour later I'd come buy their office, ask them to restart the app, and the new version would get downloaded and Bob's your uncle. Pretty sweet.
The JavaFX code looks pretty nice, and here's the original press release (got it from thenewsroom).
> What will the others think, what will happen to them ?
So true. It's the same sort of thing with folks who write books about open source projects. For example, I recently bought the Ruby Quiz book because a) it seemed like an excellent book and b) I knew that the guy who has been running the Ruby Quiz for the last few years had written the book and would benefit from the purchase. If the book had instead been written by a "professional author" who had swooped in and written the book in a furious three month flurry of work, I wouldn't have felt as motivated to buy the book.
One thing I try to do is Paypal out some money occasionally to folks whose code I use. I need to do that for this excellent Rails plugin; it's been very helpful and the author deserves a few bucks for his efforts...
...having just missed their first quarter profit numbers. But their revenue is still fine, 10B a quarter...
You can get those with SUSE now; not sure what the 2K version gets you, but seems like a reasonable price for a starter workstation...
Batteries or no, Microsoft is doing just fine with Vista.
Bought by Yahoo, and now further by Microsoft... break out the new business cards....
...including a mention of him receiving a "Lifetime Achievement Award" at the Game Developer's Choice Awards are on thenewsroom.
...which, in a 500K LOC program, there may be a bit of, try the copy/paste detector, CPD. There's a chapter on CPD in my PMD book, too...
> Many times I have edited lex and yacc code, but
> never have I understood what the hell I was doing.
So true. I'm writing a JavaCC book and I'm still learning new stuff about it even though I'm almost done with the book.
The thing that's worked best for me is writing the lexical spec first, then going back and writing the parser spec. At least then you know that the basic tokens of the language are being recognized before you try to shape them into a parse tree.
> I'm sure that for sites with dozens (or hundreds) of servers, it's more problematic
Although in those cases I'd hope that they'd have everything nicely automated so that pushing out updates is just a matter running some utility that executes the update on all the machines. As Zed Shaw says, "if you're ssh'ing in to your servers more than once a week, you haven't automated things enough."
Of course there will be exceptions - custom installations and whatnot - but hopefully a change like this could just be shoved right out there.
...but close: getindi. More of a "share stuff with the groups I'm in", e.g., your softball team, church choir, etc.