So Nike gives Michael Jordan a very good pair of tennis. He likes it very much and wears them when playing. As a "favor" to Jordan, Nike would give him a good supply of shoes.
The idea above is so stupid, that I can't still understand why the most famous superstar programmer didn't charge to use a commercial software.
Yes! OO saved my wife's M.Sc. thesis. In the eve of day to deliver it, MS Office corrupted the file and crashed every time she opened it. She was almost crying when I used OO to open it, deleted the corrupted data (weird chars in text), saved it again and word stopped crashing. Lucky she was to marry a nerd. Imagine if she was alone, as an usual windows user should be?
I know, CSS2.1 is still a candidate recommendation, but since the excuse for M$ is that there's no good standard, why not W3C put some oil in their bureaucracy and it a standard as soon as possible? Make it a standard NOW! Months before M$ releases IE7.
One of the best free tools to know about your users is Pathalizer. From your logs, it draws a graph with the most followed sequence of pages. You can see the "most interesting" subjects in your site and segment your audience based in it. Another nice benefit is to discover if your users are stucked somewhere in the middle of an interaction path.
You'll get even more interesting info if you tweak the configuration with regular expressions to aggregate similar pages. Represent in the graph all your different site news pages as with just an node called news (e.g, if your news urls are like/news/123, put a configuration line like "news/news/[0-9]+").
BTW, I'm not affiliated with the developers. It's just a good open source tool that I like.
Since I've bought a keyboard for my clié, I've tried a lot of editors. The free SiEd with it's easy convertion to/from text files was my choice. Great work!
In my country Liberal means a business friend politic, nearer the right. I've always get som cognitive dissonance when I read definitions like Orkut's "very left/liberal". It's an oxymoron. USA political environment is so conservative that any democrat candidate would belong to the right in other countries.
Took the example of my country, Brazil, that with Japan and EUA are the only countries where the national music sells more than the imported. Here a lot of small retailers have already died. The reason? They can't compete selling just 2 dozen albums.
Today the world has just 4 transnacional record companies, each year they release less albuns and have a smaller cast. The record companies just want to sell millions of copies, and their greatest buyers are the big departament stores. Retailers that just want to sell the last hit, and have very little shelf space. The payola marketing makes just these few artists play in the radio. The public doesn't know anything different.
The small independent store, with a knowledgeable salesman and a variety of offers, is dying. They can't sell the handful of hits at the same price of the big stores. They will die in Korea, Brazil and everywhere.
I'm starting to backup my 2.000 CD collection. I'm a brazilian music lover. The big record labels not just try to sell the last Britney albums, but they also bought the labels that produced important historical recordings. I can say that at least 75% of my CDs aren't in the market anymore. If I loose them, I'll never be able to buy them anymore.
The paper market isn't really going to take off (in the way it should take off) until we can give people less then the current weight per page.
It's hard to convince people to completly drop their PDAs when you can take megabytes of information in 28 pounds. Yet the best papers would still weight some kilos just to carry the same amount of data. Let's not even talk about the volume, and the ability to search, anotate and edit the data.
BTW: My clié sj20 has a 2.5" display with 320 pixels, that's 128 dpi. It's a lot better than my desktop display.
Social networking always has been the killer application of internet in Brazil. Probably no other country use chat, irc, and IM as Brazil. A lot of people live by it. This is probably the most interesting lesson of this quarrel: to see how a country that has a lot less internet users become predominant in a social networking service. This is a consequence of brazilians culture, which puts a lot of value in social relations.
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Ok, Flac is the guy answer, but what would he use to transcode FLAC without loosing his metadata?
No, if Larry were Gates, he would forbid anyone to use Word to write articles critizing Microsoft.
So Nike gives Michael Jordan a very good pair of tennis. He likes it very much and wears them when playing. As a "favor" to Jordan, Nike would give him a good supply of shoes.
The idea above is so stupid, that I can't still understand why the most famous superstar programmer didn't charge to use a commercial software.
Yes! OO saved my wife's M.Sc. thesis. In the eve of day to deliver it, MS Office corrupted the file and crashed every time she opened it. She was almost crying when I used OO to open it, deleted the corrupted data (weird chars in text), saved it again and word stopped crashing. Lucky she was to marry a nerd. Imagine if she was alone, as an usual windows user should be?
This remembers me of an old joke.
Here are the tips of the Digital Data Preservation Program from the north-american National Institute of Standards and Technology.
I know, CSS2.1 is still a candidate recommendation, but since the excuse for M$ is that there's no good standard, why not W3C put some oil in their bureaucracy and it a standard as soon as possible? Make it a standard NOW! Months before M$ releases IE7.
One of the best free tools to know about your users is Pathalizer. From your logs, it draws a graph with the most followed sequence of pages. You can see the "most interesting" subjects in your site and segment your audience based in it. Another nice benefit is to discover if your users are stucked somewhere in the middle of an interaction path.
You'll get even more interesting info if you tweak the configuration with regular expressions to aggregate similar pages. Represent in the graph all your different site news pages as with just an node called news (e.g, if your news urls are like /news/123, put a configuration line like "news /news/[0-9]+").
BTW, I'm not affiliated with the developers. It's just a good open source tool that I like.
Excuse me, but I must say: me too!
Since I've bought a keyboard for my clié, I've tried a lot of editors. The free SiEd with it's easy convertion to/from text files was my choice. Great work!
See the effect of drugs in a spider web. Maybe this will happen in your code
I don't have an ipod, but my CD collection is worth more than my car.
In my country Liberal means a business friend politic, nearer the right. I've always get som cognitive dissonance when I read definitions like Orkut's "very left/liberal". It's an oxymoron. USA political environment is so conservative that any democrat candidate would belong to the right in other countries.
correction: Brazil is the largest economy in Latin America.
Create a pill to make you buy more. Or even better: something to spray inside shopping centers.
The book is On Line. Go, read it.
After all this talk about Doug McIlroy, when will /. interview him?
homebrewing!
You would solve your synchrony problem outsourcing to countries like Argentina or Brazil, that have a similar worktime.
Piracy isn't the only reason.
Took the example of my country, Brazil, that with Japan and EUA are the only countries where the national music sells more than the imported. Here a lot of small retailers have already died. The reason? They can't compete selling just 2 dozen albums.
Today the world has just 4 transnacional record companies, each year they release less albuns and have a smaller cast. The record companies just want to sell millions of copies, and their greatest buyers are the big departament stores. Retailers that just want to sell the last hit, and have very little shelf space. The payola marketing makes just these few artists play in the radio. The public doesn't know anything different.
The small independent store, with a knowledgeable salesman and a variety of offers, is dying. They can't sell the handful of hits at the same price of the big stores. They will die in Korea, Brazil and everywhere.
Noam Chomsky has his blog: Turning the tide.
Didn't Sony stop to produce the palm os clié handhelds? Or they just build it for the japonese market?
I'm starting to backup my 2.000 CD collection. I'm a brazilian music lover. The big record labels not just try to sell the last Britney albums, but they also bought the labels that produced important historical recordings. I can say that at least 75% of my CDs aren't in the market anymore. If I loose them, I'll never be able to buy them anymore.
The paper market isn't really going to take off (in the way it should take off) until we can give people less then the current weight per page.
It's hard to convince people to completly drop their PDAs when you can take megabytes of information in 28 pounds. Yet the best papers would still weight some kilos just to carry the same amount of data. Let's not even talk about the volume, and the ability to search, anotate and edit the data.
BTW: My clié sj20 has a 2.5" display with 320 pixels, that's 128 dpi. It's a lot better than my desktop display.
Social networking always has been the killer application of internet in Brazil. Probably no other country use chat, irc, and IM as Brazil. A lot of people live by it. This is probably the most interesting lesson of this quarrel: to see how a country that has a lot less internet users become predominant in a social networking service. This is a consequence of brazilians culture, which puts a lot of value in social relations.