Paper was very expensive when he wanted to publish the book due to a shortage, so he divided it into three parts so it was affordable for both the publisher to print and reader to purchase.
Am I missing something, or is the logical part of my brain malfunctioning ?
How on earth would dividing the book to three parts save in the total amount of paper needed ?
The same amount of pages = the same amount of paper needed, regardless of to how many books it is printed.
DRM Capability: Although end-users prefer not to purchase ebooks protected with DRM (Digital Rights Management), publishers are certainly interested in the DRM capability of the universal ebook format. Thus, the universal ebook format must allow inclusion of DRM protection technologies as needed.
Nokia tyres makes spiked tires for mountain-bikes. They are really good for winter. Granted, they cannot change winter to summer, but atleast you can ride !
Yes, that is Nokia as in the mobile phone manufacturer. But nokia tyres is not any more a part of the Electronic giant.
The authors are concerned that they will get less sales of new books...
Emphasis mine...
Their main complaint (according to N.Y. Times) was the fact that you could byu used books almost the same instant the book is published.
Some representative of the Authors guild actually proposed a "wait"-period (of few months) after the book was published before amazon would start selling used books.
They are not (as far as I understood) against selling used books in general.
Strangely enough, all IBM software that I've had the pleasure to deal with (DB2, IBMHTTP and Websphere) try to install themselves by default to/opt..
Seems like a case for Mulder and Scully
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We've seen this before, haven't we ?
The thing with bomber from WWII aliens, and that black stuff on peoples eyes...
Quote: Although there are almost no fish in the zone, Daniels said, the few that fishermen found there -- and other fish that entered the water -- reacted strangely.
"You'd see them here and there, but they were jumping and running, not stopping -- and acting different," Daniels said. "Like they didn't want to be there."
Scary...
Unfortunately, this is not an X-Files episode but "reality-tv".
Okay the timezone is different (I'm in europe). But two weeks...
There you can also easily see how differently different newsagencies report the same story, for example few days ago there was this story about depleted uranium and it being dangerous:
news Agency #1: new study finds connection between depleted uranium and hightened risk to get cancer.
news Agency #2: Soldiers exposed to depleted uranium bullets in risk to get cancer.
news Agency #3: Children in Yugoslavia might get cancer because of NATO's depleted uranium bullets
Talk about reporting the facts objectively...
It would have been intresting to see the summary generated from these three... Might have been a bit schizophrenic...
Well, having to boot your mobile isn't excatly new or unknown.
I have a Nokia 9110 Communicator, which sometimes can be very annoying.
Half a year ago almost half of the calls would simply halt the phone. So I had to disconnect the battery every time. This behaviour simply disappeared after a few weeks.
Microsoft isn't responsible for all bugs in the world...
Weblogic and Websphere have one thing that JBoss will never get directly - a corporation that backs the product and promptly deals with support. And that is what you pay for.
Yeah, you pay for it allright ! That part is correct. Promptly deals with support...
Oh, please... You obviously haven't been working with IBM.
At least in Europe the IBM WebSphere "specialists" tend to know a great deal less of their appserver than ex. I as a developer. (there are exceptions of course.)
Their support is something like "Is the computer connected to the mains ? Oh, it is. Then we'll have to forward your request to the lab. They shoud be able to answer you in a week or two."
Somehow, I've allways had this feeling, that someday someone will point at IBM and say "But he has no clothes on !"...
A quote (on program desings) from P.Brooks: There is no silver bullet :
Whereas the difference between poor conceptual designs and good ones may lie in the soundness of design method, the difference between good designs and great ones surely does not. Great designs come from great designers.
I wonder of which kind of software products they made their conclusions...;)
From the above mentioned website... What's XPCOM, you ask? XPCOM, which stands for Cross Platform Component Object Model, is a framework for writing cross-platform, modular software. As an application, XPCOM uses a set of core XPCOM libraries to selectively load and manipulate XPCOM components. XPCOM components can be written in C, C++, and JavaScript, and they can be used from C, C++, and JavaScript with extensions for Perl and Python that are under development (see Resources).
Yes, there are many model's for distributed computing, but hey this is evolution. The best (ok, the most used, not necessarily the best...) tools will survive.
In my work I have sold (and also programmed) some large systems for some goverment institutions.
Even though we were not renting the software, the customer wanted another company to have the binaries and the source code's of the program as well. (I can't remember the word, but there is actually a legal term for this kind of third organization).
Of course there are strict rules of when the third company can look at source code, but anyway.
The big organizations have, for as long as I can remember, been covering their asses for software vendor and software support organization bankrupcyies.
What kind of agreements could home users do, I'm not sure. But I think it is not so big issue.
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Am I missing something, or is the logical part of my brain malfunctioning ?
How on earth would dividing the book to three parts save in the total amount of paper needed ?
The same amount of pages = the same amount of paper needed, regardless of to how many books it is printed.
Take 2 minutes and read this article from RMS
Right to Readno no, for consultants it should be:
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6) ???
7) Profit !
8) Go to 1)
I remember reading about this particular expirement, and they said that the cell-phone thefts were reduced by 90 % in a year.
Which is quite easy to understand, as this makes it practically impossible to sell the stolen phone.
You do realize that Ford bought Volvo? So only buy Volvo if you now want a piece of american shite
And even worse, american shite made by the swedes... shrudder.
TCO = Total Cost of Ownership
Purchasing prices + the costs of system management.
Why should Software be any different ?
Because it is !
Lets see:
Houses, Bridges, planes = Tangible, concrete
Software = Intagible, computations
I'm just sick and tired of people thinking that only way to do Software is to try to fit it in models that are meant for something totally different.
Lets face it, Software Engineering is not (in most cases) like bridge engineering. Trying to build software like you build bridges just doesn't work.
Software is something totally unique.
Anyone try riding a bicycle on ice?
Yes, ever heard of spikes ?
Nokia tyres makes spiked tires for mountain-bikes. They are really good for winter. Granted, they cannot change winter to summer, but atleast you can ride !
Yes, that is Nokia as in the mobile phone manufacturer. But nokia tyres is not any more a part of the Electronic giant.
Yes, you are absolutely right... I'm ashamed.
I changed my sig to suit me better...
The authors are concerned that they will get less sales of new books...
Emphasis mine...
Their main complaint (according to N.Y. Times) was the fact that you could byu used books almost the same instant the book is published.
Some representative of the Authors guild actually proposed a "wait"-period (of few months) after the book was published before amazon would start selling used books.
They are not (as far as I understood) against selling used books in general.
This article is actually really good ! Read it !
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Strangely enough, all IBM software that I've had the pleasure to deal with (DB2, IBMHTTP and Websphere) try to install themselves by default to
We've seen this before, haven't we ?
The thing with bomber from WWII aliens, and that black stuff on peoples eyes...
Quote:
Although there are almost no fish in the zone, Daniels said, the few that fishermen found there -- and other fish that entered the water -- reacted strangely.
"You'd see them here and there, but they were jumping and running, not stopping -- and acting different," Daniels said. "Like they didn't want to be there."
Scary...
Unfortunately, this is not an X-Files episode but "reality-tv".
Yesterday ?
Okay the timezone is different (I'm in europe). But two weeks...
There you can also easily see how differently different newsagencies report the same story, for example few days ago there was this story about depleted uranium and it being dangerous:
news Agency #1: new study finds connection between depleted uranium and hightened risk to get cancer.
news Agency #2: Soldiers exposed to depleted uranium bullets in risk to get cancer.
news Agency #3: Children in Yugoslavia might get cancer because of NATO's depleted uranium bullets
Talk about reporting the facts objectively...
It would have been intresting to see the summary generated from these three... Might have been a bit schizophrenic...
Well, that is allready existing technology.
You use a laser beam to measure vibrations on a window. Window's because they vibrate more easily than whole walls.
Ofcourse this technology is not foolproof, as it is highly sensitive to "structural" background noises like heating systems etc.
Well, having to boot your mobile isn't excatly new or unknown.
I have a Nokia 9110 Communicator, which sometimes can be very annoying.
Half a year ago almost half of the calls would simply halt the phone. So I had to disconnect the battery every time. This behaviour simply disappeared after a few weeks.
Microsoft isn't responsible for all bugs in the world...
Weblogic and Websphere have one thing that JBoss will never get directly - a corporation that backs the product and promptly deals with support. And that is what you pay for.
Yeah, you pay for it allright ! That part is correct. Promptly deals with support...
Oh, please... You obviously haven't been working with IBM.
At least in Europe the IBM WebSphere "specialists" tend to know a great deal less of their appserver than ex. I as a developer. (there are exceptions of course.)
Their support is something like "Is the computer connected to the mains ? Oh, it is. Then we'll have to forward your request to the lab. They shoud be able to answer you in a week or two."
Somehow, I've allways had this feeling, that someday someone will point at IBM and say "But he has no clothes on !"...
Shattering the myth of the faultless programmer
What's this ? I never heard of this kind of myth before. Faultless programmers... You must be kidding me !
From the article:
The success or failure of any software programming group depends largely on its ability to work together as a team
That's not how i see it. The success or failure of programming projects (and therefore the groups involved) depends mostly on doing the right thing !
Most problems I have encountered in my programming career have hardly ever been technical.
It is a good thing to improve your technical skills, I admit. But if you are doing the wrong thing it doesn't really matter how good you are at it !
Perl man page from:
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6.1/pod/perl.html
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
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Who to believe, now thats a question...
A quote (on program desings) from P.Brooks: There is no silver bullet :
Whereas the difference between poor conceptual designs and good ones may lie in the soundness of design method, the difference between good designs and great ones surely does not. Great designs come from great designers.I wonder of which kind of software products they made their conclusions... ;)
What does XPCOM has to do with GUI libraries ?
Are you trying to tell us that there is going to be same kind of explosion in distributed computing methods ?
Or maybe you just don't know what the XPCOM is... In that case => (Introduction to XPCOM)
From the above mentioned website...
What's XPCOM, you ask? XPCOM, which stands for Cross Platform Component Object Model, is a framework for writing cross-platform, modular software. As an application, XPCOM uses a set of core XPCOM libraries to selectively load and manipulate XPCOM components. XPCOM components can be written in C, C++, and JavaScript, and they can be used from C, C++, and JavaScript with extensions for Perl and Python that are under development (see Resources).
Yes, there are many model's for distributed computing, but hey this is evolution. The best (ok, the most used, not necessarily the best...) tools will survive.
Just a few things:
1) Modified newsgroups
2) newsgroups that have more than two parts in their names
(like: ibm.software.websphere.application-server.as400 , not alt.flame, alt.computers)
I think if you really need information on something, you really can't ignore any channel.
In my work I have sold (and also programmed) some large systems for some goverment institutions.
Even though we were not renting the software, the customer wanted another company to have the binaries and the source code's of the program as well. (I can't remember the word, but there is actually a legal term for this kind of third organization).
Of course there are strict rules of when the third company can look at source code, but anyway.
The big organizations have, for as long as I can remember, been covering their asses for software vendor and software support organization bankrupcyies.
What kind of agreements could home users do, I'm not sure. But I think it is not so big issue.
FFlashI looked at the perl, python and the O'reilly websites, but i'm still little bit skeptical. The announcement was after all made on 1.4.
So tell me is this an April Fools Joke or not ???
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