A one / two page version of this book?
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Does anyone know of one or two page summary of this book / general style recommendations? I manage a software development team, and while I'd like to have everyone read this, I think it may be more reasonable to give them a "cheat sheet" of sort.
At the very least, some would take to it immediately and they could always use it as a reference for enforcing things later.
I used to work at a contractor manufacturer in the states (Florida) and was also very surprised at first that they existed. It made more sense one I realized the economics of it: the factory was in the rural outskirts of second/third tier city that still had reliable options for receiving parts, and most of the workers were the wives and girlfriends of migrant farm works. While the men picked produce the women worked in our factory doing low-skilled work like putting chips on boards or anything else the robots couldn't do.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased because of my current reading ("A People's History of the United States"), but isn't a well-paid middle class a buffer from complaints of the lower classes? It makes sense to me.
This looks nice, but it's not going to do anything for my productivity.
How about a utility that switches the CAPS LOCK key based on the window that has focus? For those of us still programming in legacy CAPS LOCK systems (Represent, Informix Universe, PICK Mode!), it would really save some time.
Does this already exist somewhere? I couldn't find it.
No really, I know the parent was chalked up as being Flamebait, but Mr. Katz, who posseses many interesting opinions which I look forward to reading, is often in dire need of an editor to massage a cohesive point out of his wanderings. Considering the nature of the forum (which is not a major publication of the order of the Atlantic Monthly or New York Times), perhaps it would suffice for Mr. Katz to edit his own work a bit more carefully. I would suggest he start by asking himself at both the beginning and end of his piece, "What is this piece about?" Then he should kill his off-topic darlings (such as the swipe at biotechnology monopolies), clever as they may be, in the best interest of the piece. As the piece is currently, I'm not certain what in specific Mr. Katz would like us to comment on.
What content does Kuro5hin offer that is worth anywhere near five dollars a month? While I enjoy the site, it is essentially a BBS where people post links and half-baked manifestos. (Most of which, if you notice, never get past the introductory paragraphs before they are turned over to the masses for discussion.) Much like a verbal conversation, the value of Kuro5hin and similar sites is not in specific retorts or commentaries but in the aggregate of opinions. Furthermore, this aggregate has no value without the processing the reader must perform herself to integrate them with her existing schemas. In short, it is unlikely that enough people will pay for conversation alone when there are so many other free forums for it.
As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop, and so no form of malware could affect their machines used for power generation and/or managment."
This almost makes me think the poster is trying to troll us into bashing any sort of corporate control over user/their desktops. PCs may be cheap, but not when you multiply the necessary number times two, and especially not when you take into consideration the increase in support time this would require. I get nauseous just thinking of the headaches.
I see your point, but your metaphor is skewed. If I didn't drive a Ford I could still share the roadway with other users. However, with Microsoft, If I don't use their products it is much more difficult for me to conduct business witht the vast majority of the U.S. business world. I can just imagine how impressive my Alamo-stand for Linux would be to a client when I couldn't open their M$ Office attachment. Microsoft makes better than average software, but it is essential to America's information future that they be broken up into competing units and forced to sell the source code at a reasonable price..jelling
It's the perfect model: the users pay you *and* for the bandwidth to share the songs they already bought. Course I still don't see the benefit for us. No doubt we'll see more of these deals as napster becomes less relevant and decentralized networks grow in popularity.
Enough with the fair use grandstanding. While there have been numerous models proposed that would infringe on fair use, from the limited details released so far, I don't see this being one. More importantly, why would you use Napster in the first place to get MP3s of songs you already own? Unless you were away from your computer it would quicker for most people to just rip them from their CD player. The strength of napster for me has always been a PULL system of music browsing, as opposed to the antiquated and nauseauting system that is corporate radio. (College radio stations continue to rule.).jelling
Umm, you have my sympathy, and my impending pity for when you have to bite the bullet and install windows, warts and all, on your machines. Seriously, I couldn't imagine trying to sell the board of directors or whoever on linux/opera or whatnot. Hell, at 10,000 users I wouldn't even dream of having them use anything but what they practice on at home everynight. And the minute anything goes wrong you know one of those smart asses who spends every night burning MP3's and thinks he knows everything about computers (that's why he works in purchasing)will be making you look dumb by saying "We should've just installed windows." God bless the open source movement, but in this case I think you only have one realistic option.
Eek. Does anyone have a reference for this? I ask because I'm in the middle of developing a slew of corporate Intranet apps and I was thinking of switching from ASP (it was free and MS, as required) to Java. Lemme know.
Sounds like a major kluge
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DVDs On DAT?
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I've got nothing against a nice hack, but this just seems like far more trouble than it's worth. As mentioned above, the price of a decent DAT drive brings you within striking range of a DVD burner, and if not, it will certainly in a few months. Besides, now you've managed to strip the DVD of all random access and interactive features (When my girlfriend made me watch Stewart Little, at least there was a little game off the menu that I could enjoy.) Another drawback is the lack of a remote control. And finally, I love the speed of the DAT drive I have at work, but it ejects tapes annoyingly slow.
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(Also, is it safe to assume that the DAT will be able to output 5 channel audio?)
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Does anyone know of one or two page summary of this book / general style recommendations? I manage a software development team, and while I'd like to have everyone read this, I think it may be more reasonable to give them a "cheat sheet" of sort.
At the very least, some would take to it immediately and they could always use it as a reference for enforcing things later.
I used to work at a contractor manufacturer in the states (Florida) and was also very surprised at first that they existed. It made more sense one I realized the economics of it: the factory was in the rural outskirts of second/third tier city that still had reliable options for receiving parts, and most of the workers were the wives and girlfriends of migrant farm works. While the men picked produce the women worked in our factory doing low-skilled work like putting chips on boards or anything else the robots couldn't do.
Perhaps I'm a bit biased because of my current reading ("A People's History of the United States"), but isn't a well-paid middle class a buffer from complaints of the lower classes? It makes sense to me.
This looks nice, but it's not going to do anything for my productivity.
How about a utility that switches the CAPS LOCK key based on the window that has focus? For those of us still programming in legacy CAPS LOCK systems (Represent, Informix Universe, PICK Mode!), it would really save some time.
Does this already exist somewhere? I couldn't find it.
.jelling
No really, I know the parent was chalked up as being Flamebait, but Mr. Katz, who posseses many interesting opinions which I look forward to reading, is often in dire need of an editor to massage a cohesive point out of his wanderings. Considering the nature of the forum (which is not a major publication of the order of the Atlantic Monthly or New York Times), perhaps it would suffice for Mr. Katz to edit his own work a bit more carefully. I would suggest he start by asking himself at both the beginning and end of his piece, "What is this piece about?" Then he should kill his off-topic darlings (such as the swipe at biotechnology monopolies), clever as they may be, in the best interest of the piece. As the piece is currently, I'm not certain what in specific Mr. Katz would like us to comment on.
jelling
What content does Kuro5hin offer that is worth anywhere near five dollars a month? While I enjoy the site, it is essentially a BBS where people post links and half-baked manifestos. (Most of which, if you notice, never get past the introductory paragraphs before they are turned over to the masses for discussion.) Much like a verbal conversation, the value of Kuro5hin and similar sites is not in specific retorts or commentaries but in the aggregate of opinions. Furthermore, this aggregate has no value without the processing the reader must perform herself to integrate them with her existing schemas. In short, it is unlikely that enough people will pay for conversation alone when there are so many other free forums for it.
As cheap as PCs are, you'd think that TVA would have separate internet/email PCs on every desktop, and so no form of malware could affect their machines used for power generation and/or managment."
.jelling
This almost makes me think the poster is trying to troll us into bashing any sort of corporate control over user/their desktops. PCs may be cheap, but not when you multiply the necessary number times two, and especially not when you take into consideration the increase in support time this would require. I get nauseous just thinking of the headaches.
I see your point, but your metaphor is skewed. If I didn't drive a Ford I could still share the roadway with other users. However, with Microsoft, If I don't use their products it is much more difficult for me to conduct business witht the vast majority of the U.S. business world. I can just imagine how impressive my Alamo-stand for Linux would be to a client when I couldn't open their M$ Office attachment. Microsoft makes better than average software, but it is essential to America's information future that they be broken up into competing units and forced to sell the source code at a reasonable price. .jelling
It's the perfect model: the users pay you *and* for the bandwidth to share the songs they already bought. Course I still don't see the benefit for us. No doubt we'll see more of these deals as napster becomes less relevant and decentralized networks grow in popularity. Enough with the fair use grandstanding. While there have been numerous models proposed that would infringe on fair use, from the limited details released so far, I don't see this being one. More importantly, why would you use Napster in the first place to get MP3s of songs you already own? Unless you were away from your computer it would quicker for most people to just rip them from their CD player. The strength of napster for me has always been a PULL system of music browsing, as opposed to the antiquated and nauseauting system that is corporate radio. (College radio stations continue to rule.) .jelling
Umm, you have my sympathy, and my impending pity for when you have to bite the bullet and install windows, warts and all, on your machines. Seriously, I couldn't imagine trying to sell the board of directors or whoever on linux/opera or whatnot. Hell, at 10,000 users I wouldn't even dream of having them use anything but what they practice on at home everynight. And the minute anything goes wrong you know one of those smart asses who spends every night burning MP3's and thinks he knows everything about computers (that's why he works in purchasing)will be making you look dumb by saying "We should've just installed windows." God bless the open source movement, but in this case I think you only have one realistic option.
Eek. Does anyone have a reference for this? I ask because I'm in the middle of developing a slew of corporate Intranet apps and I was thinking of switching from ASP (it was free and MS, as required) to Java. Lemme know.
I've got nothing against a nice hack, but this just seems like far more trouble than it's worth. As mentioned above, the price of a decent DAT drive brings you within striking range of a DVD burner, and if not, it will certainly in a few months. Besides, now you've managed to strip the DVD of all random access and interactive features (When my girlfriend made me watch Stewart Little, at least there was a little game off the menu that I could enjoy.) Another drawback is the lack of a remote control. And finally, I love the speed of the DAT drive I have at work, but it ejects tapes annoyingly slow. jelling (Also, is it safe to assume that the DAT will be able to output 5 channel audio?)