All of the bands they mention are groups that have specifically stated that they allow and/or encourage their fans to record and trade their shows. Hell, Pearl Jam even announced it was okay to trade/make free copies of the 72 live shows they released commercially last year. Presumably the record companies defer to the bands on this point.
At least Tuvalu is getting some money for its citizens (or dictator, or royal family - I'm not up on Tuvalian politics) with the sale of the.tv extension. Here in the US we just let corporations make money off of our extensions with no return to the taxpayer.
But $8.75/hr isn't competitive even with other easily obtainable undergrad jobs, especially if a student has workstudy. Never mind what they could be making working in industry. It may say it in the article, but it really doesn't make sense.
I agree it must be a typo - undergrads can make $8.75/hour making copies in the admissions office. No way is that even clos to competitive with the other offers these guys were getting.
Part of me wants to say "Is there ANYONE who still thinks corporate slogans are actually a reflection of the performance of a product?". But then I realize that many, many people who are responsible for purchasing software probably think exactly that.
So I'm not sure how I feel about this, but it will be funny to see Ellison squirm a little bit - this should do wonders for his campaign to be the official database of Big Brother.
This encourages students to write horribly obfuscated programs that only barely compile (in the hopes that nobody else would do anything taht bizarre)...in other words, it prepares them for the real world nicely.:-)
UML (and its associated processes) are used to model requirements and design software systems. It is a very graphical, diagram oriented language, showing the relationship between various software components and how they interact to form a complete system. XML is a markup language, like HTML, SGML, WML or any other *ML.
The Addison Wesley series is so thorough, complete and useful that I don't see how anything other than an extraodinary book could displace any of those volumes. Being as how this is a SAMS 24-hour book, I have a strong hunch it won't be that extraordinary...
This site is so useful not only for those of us who can't follow the huge volume of email, but also for people who either got into the game late or only read sporadically. It's sort of like jumping into a TV show in the 8th season and having a wonderful reference to give you background on the first 7. Thanks so much to everyone at kernel traffic!
Stallman's piece has no place in a book like this. It is a poorly written fable, and while it may be somewhat instructive, it's nothing that I ever hoped would be published on paper. Compared to the other selections in this book that I'm familiar with it doesn't seem to warrant inclusion.
Metrics and processes worry me to some extent on this particular topic, because often times it seems that managers think that anyone can apply a few algorithms to a set of data and come up with an estimate.
What's truly important is that intuitive feel that people develop over time for what the bottlenecks will be, how their particular organization operates, etc, etc...
You can teach number-crunching, but you can't develop that intuition without experience.
All this is very interesting, but let's answer the question potential users are REALLY asking - is there a dancing paper clip to help me through my troubles?
I am a software developer who has the joy of working in a window-less office. Unfortunately, this is only because they recently moved us to the basement, and we have no windows. I'm not sure which I would rather - Linux on my desktop or natural light.:-)
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All of the bands they mention are groups that have specifically stated that they allow and/or encourage their fans to record and trade their shows. Hell, Pearl Jam even announced it was okay to trade/make free copies of the 72 live shows they released commercially last year. Presumably the record companies defer to the bands on this point.
At least Tuvalu is getting some money for its citizens (or dictator, or royal family - I'm not up on Tuvalian politics) with the sale of the .tv extension. Here in the US we just let corporations make money off of our extensions with no return to the taxpayer.
But $8.75/hr isn't competitive even with other easily obtainable undergrad jobs, especially if a student has workstudy. Never mind what they could be making working in industry. It may say it in the article, but it really doesn't make sense.
I agree it must be a typo - undergrads can make $8.75/hour making copies in the admissions office. No way is that even clos to competitive with the other offers these guys were getting.
First class cross country airfare - $2000.
Limo to and from the airport - $400.
Building designed by I.M. Pei - $4,000,000.
Inventing the "smart" potholder - priceless
3 years ago this would have generated approximately 6 billion dollars in venture capital already. Unfortunately for Yahoo!, it's not 3 years ago.
I was more concerned with appearance than size.
Should be fun trying to get that on to an airplane.
Part of me wants to say "Is there ANYONE who still thinks corporate slogans are actually a reflection of the performance of a product?". But then I realize that many, many people who are responsible for purchasing software probably think exactly that.
So I'm not sure how I feel about this, but it will be funny to see Ellison squirm a little bit - this should do wonders for his campaign to be the official database of Big Brother.
This encourages students to write horribly obfuscated programs that only barely compile (in the hopes that nobody else would do anything taht bizarre)...in other words, it prepares them for the real world nicely. :-)
Touche - I'm a moron. :-)
UML (and its associated processes) are used to model requirements and design software systems. It is a very graphical, diagram oriented language, showing the relationship between various software components and how they interact to form a complete system. XML is a markup language, like HTML, SGML, WML or any other *ML.
The Addison Wesley series is so thorough, complete and useful that I don't see how anything other than an extraodinary book could displace any of those volumes. Being as how this is a SAMS 24-hour book, I have a strong hunch it won't be that extraordinary...
This site is so useful not only for those of us who can't follow the huge volume of email, but also for people who either got into the game late or only read sporadically. It's sort of like jumping into a TV show in the 8th season and having a wonderful reference to give you background on the first 7. Thanks so much to everyone at kernel traffic!
Is this anything like those Sea Monkeys I had as a kid? :-)
Stallman's piece has no place in a book like this. It is a poorly written fable, and while it may be somewhat instructive, it's nothing that I ever hoped would be published on paper. Compared to the other selections in this book that I'm familiar with it doesn't seem to warrant inclusion.
Metrics and processes worry me to some extent on this particular topic, because often times it seems that managers think that anyone can apply a few algorithms to a set of data and come up with an estimate.
What's truly important is that intuitive feel that people develop over time for what the bottlenecks will be, how their particular organization operates, etc, etc...
You can teach number-crunching, but you can't develop that intuition without experience.
I can see it now - "DoubleClick - now we're a NEWS company".
This is a tragedy for fans of annoying internet advertising everywhere. Sleep well, sweet Doubleclick - we barely knew thee.
Okay, I'm over it now - when's the fire sale auction?
Where the heck is the Intercal plug-in? :-)
If those bastards sell my "Hello, World" code from Intro to CompSci I'll sue them for everything they're worth!
Does this mean I should have gone to college instead of buying teenspanking.com?
1500 bucks and it can't even play vinyl! Screw that.
All this is very interesting, but let's answer the question potential users are REALLY asking - is there a dancing paper clip to help me through my troubles?
I am a software developer who has the joy of working in a window-less office. Unfortunately, this is only because they recently moved us to the basement, and we have no windows. I'm not sure which I would rather - Linux on my desktop or natural light. :-)