Wow, that confirms my suspicion about Nescafe: it's a different blend depending where it's made.
About 8 years ago I was enjoying an excellent cup of coffee in Chihuahua, made similarly to the Indian method above, and it turns out it was Nescafe. But the jar said "made in Mexico", while the stuff I get here in Boston says "made in Canada".
So instead I get Nescafe at the small 'Hispanic' stores around town and look for the "made in Mexico" variety.
I haven't done a side-by-side taste test, nor have I done the requisite Google research, but it's good to know someone else has the same idea.
There's a bazillion wiki implementations out there - written is Java, Perl, whatnot, talking to flat files and different databases. Surely one of them scales.
It's not like we're talking about a single application that was ported to different platforms. Many of these were written from the ground up.
Yeah, the name does sound silly. But I sound just as silling saying 'blog' as I do 'wiki'.
I tried one out a month ago. It did have a great "cool" factor, and it was sweet that I could turn on Graffiti-like recognition. But it is clearly "limited" as compared to a nice light laptop. And given how expensive it is, a light laptop is better.
Think of it this way, if I'm paying so much for this heavier-than-I-want-it-to-be thing, I need to be real carefull with it, and I'd might as well just get another laptop.
Maybe it's too late for TabletPC's? Everyone who as spare cash already has a laptop and a Palm, so why bother with a third piece of tech? Save it for an iPod!
At Harvard, around 1987, we used Elementary Quantum Mechanics, by David Saxon. It was a junior or senior-level course and it assumed you have a strong math background, which I didn't.
I ended up using the Landau and Lifshitz book.
I found Saxon assumed you knew a lot of math theory, especially around special functions. And too much of the "and the derivation is relatively simple" or "since f(x) is arbitrary within wide bounds, it follows that..."
That's what I use. I've set up my own my.yahoo page and keep my important bookmarks there.
Now what's an important bookmark? Links to the web interfaces for the various servers I manage. Custom search links for our request tracking system (RT).
For anything else I rely on memory or Google. And certainly if there's an important URL I forgot and can't find again when on another system, I put in onto Yahoo as soon as I track it down again.
But I'm not one of those people who's saving tons of bookmarks all the time - just like I'm not one of those people who is compulsively writting down everything said at a meeting.
However, my ideal set up -- my dream -- would be the ability to run TheBrain (www.thebrain.com) on Linux or MacOSX and read the data from a central server. Then I would start saving every interesting bookmark I came across.
Why does the phrase, "Please advise." really piss me off?
I went to the web site and clicked on the link and nothing happened. I really need to get this done soon. Is the website down again? Do I need to upgrade my browser?
Please advise.
Is it because it somehow implies that I don't understand how important this is? Or are you saying that it is important no matter what I think? Are you implying that I won't get back to you unless you demand it? Are you asking for me to immediately respond to you without determining the priority?
I once worked at a high-powered business school on the east coast (guess:). I sat in on a research colloquium with the faculty of Operations Management department. Each month a professor talked about his research. Typically the research was understanding why a certain company was so successfull at some particular function (manfacturing, IT, R&D, etc.)
So it's the department head and his doctoral student's turn...
He throws down a three bullet-point transparency on the overhead.
Point 3: We believe that their success is a result of certain synergies.
The whole hour was a discussion of that fact that these 'synergies' existed. Never did anyone say just what these synergies were.
And every time he said "synergy" he rotated his two hands together. Was that supposed to make it clearer?
Does this mean HP will dump all their Jornadas on the market at a cheap price? I use my Palm day to day, but I'd like a Jornada too if I could get it for next to nothing.
Where should I look for dirt-cheap Jornadas? Ebay?
Wiki allows you to document without getting bogged down worrying about structure and organization. Great for just dumping what's in your brain. Which at least documents info *somewhere*.
Much better than sitting in meetings discussing how the documentation should be organized and where it should go on the web -- just watch your developers go to sleep in those meetings.
Once you determine what the important documentation is, then you can clean it up.
In our twiki, I (as the manager) go in from time to time and clean things up.
Nope. "Real Soon Now" is Perl circles is a sarcastic phrase meaning "when we are good and ready". I'm guessing one more year before you see a shaky alpha and another before a you see a usable beta. And that'soptimistic.
Thanks for taking the time write this. Fascinating corporate culture. I bet the genius that dreamed this up never envisioned these results. Very Dilbertish.
I'm unable to get any version of Mozilla working on my iMac (m16,m17 or last night's nightly build). Each freezes my machine during the display of the first page. yes I checked my extensions, yes I've got plenty of ram, yes I deleted old mozilla preferences and cache folders. Given the dearth of postings by other mac users on the subject (here and the mozilla newsgroups) it seems not many people are even trying it.
All I want is a simple, fast, accurate browser where I can save my bookmarks. Don't give me a huge web application delivery environment that sucks the energy out of my machine like Java.
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Wow, that confirms my suspicion about Nescafe: it's a different blend depending where it's made.
About 8 years ago I was enjoying an excellent cup of coffee in Chihuahua, made similarly to the Indian method above, and it turns out it was Nescafe. But the jar said "made in Mexico", while the stuff I get here in Boston says "made in Canada".
So instead I get Nescafe at the small 'Hispanic' stores around town and look for the "made in Mexico" variety.
I haven't done a side-by-side taste test, nor have I done the requisite Google research, but it's good to know someone else has the same idea.
But it could be the raw sugar...
There's a bazillion wiki implementations out there - written is Java, Perl, whatnot, talking to flat files and different databases. Surely one of them scales.
It's not like we're talking about a single application that was ported to different platforms. Many of these were written from the ground up.
Yeah, the name does sound silly. But I sound just as silling saying 'blog' as I do 'wiki'.
I tried one out a month ago. It did have a great "cool" factor, and it was sweet that I could turn on Graffiti-like recognition. But it is clearly "limited" as compared to a nice light laptop. And given how expensive it is, a light laptop is better.
Think of it this way, if I'm paying so much for this heavier-than-I-want-it-to-be thing, I need to be real carefull with it, and I'd might as well just get another laptop.
Maybe it's too late for TabletPC's? Everyone who as spare cash already has a laptop and a Palm, so why bother with a third piece of tech? Save it for an iPod!
I ended up using the Landau and Lifshitz book.
I found Saxon assumed you knew a lot of math theory, especially around special functions. And too much of the "and the derivation is relatively simple" or "since f(x) is arbitrary within wide bounds, it follows that..."
That's what I use. I've set up my own my.yahoo page and keep my important bookmarks there.
Now what's an important bookmark? Links to the web interfaces for the various servers I manage. Custom search links for our request tracking system (RT).
For anything else I rely on memory or Google. And certainly if there's an important URL I forgot and can't find again when on another system, I put in onto Yahoo as soon as I track it down again.
But I'm not one of those people who's saving tons of bookmarks all the time - just like I'm not one of those people who is compulsively writting down everything said at a meeting.
However, my ideal set up -- my dream -- would be the ability to run TheBrain (www.thebrain.com) on Linux or MacOSX and read the data from a central server. Then I would start saving every interesting bookmark I came across.
I once worked at a high-powered business school on the east coast (guess :). I sat in on a research colloquium with the faculty of Operations Management department. Each month a professor talked about his research. Typically the research was understanding why a certain company was so successfull at some particular function (manfacturing, IT, R&D, etc.)
So it's the department head and his doctoral student's turn...
He throws down a three bullet-point transparency on the overhead.
Point 3: We believe that their success is a result of certain synergies.
The whole hour was a discussion of that fact that these 'synergies' existed. Never did anyone say just what these synergies were.
And every time he said "synergy" he rotated his two hands together. Was that supposed to make it clearer?
Does this mean HP will dump all their Jornadas on the market at a cheap price? I use my Palm day to day, but I'd like a Jornada too if I could get it for next to nothing.
Where should I look for dirt-cheap Jornadas? Ebay?
Wiki allows you to document without getting bogged down worrying about structure and organization. Great for just dumping what's in your brain. Which at least documents info *somewhere*.
Much better than sitting in meetings discussing how the documentation should be organized and where it should go on the web -- just watch your developers go to sleep in those meetings.
Once you determine what the important documentation is, then you can clean it up.
In our twiki, I (as the manager) go in from time to time and clean things up.
Nope. "Real Soon Now" is Perl circles is a sarcastic phrase meaning "when we are good and ready". I'm guessing one more year before you see a shaky alpha and another before a you see a usable beta. And that'soptimistic.
Thanks for taking the time write this. Fascinating corporate culture. I bet the genius that dreamed this up never envisioned these results. Very Dilbertish.
I'm unable to get any version of Mozilla working on my iMac (m16,m17 or last night's nightly build). Each freezes my machine during the display of the first page. yes I checked my extensions, yes I've got plenty of ram, yes I deleted old mozilla preferences and cache folders. Given the dearth of postings by other mac users on the subject (here and the mozilla newsgroups) it seems not many people are even trying it.
All I want is a simple, fast, accurate browser where I can save my bookmarks. Don't give me a huge web application delivery environment that sucks the energy out of my machine like Java.