It is with my deepest regret today, that I have to announce the passing of Ms. Dos [slashdot.org].
Ms. Dos was found in it's NY hotel room, lonely and dead. Apperently, Ms. Dos committed suicide because of lack of attention from others, and not feeling "needed" anymore.
We are still trying to find out if Ms. Dos was married or not. If so, her husband will be needed for questioning and to identify the body.
If you have any information on Ms. Dos's husband's whereabouts, please post it to this page...
It is with my deepest regret today, that I have to announce the passing of Ms. Dos.
Ms. Dos was found in it's NY hotel room, lonely and dead. Apperently, Ms. Dos committed suicide because of lack of attention from others, and not feeling "needed" anymore.
We are still trying to find out if Ms. Dos was married or not. If so, her husband will be needed for questioning and to identify the body.
If you have any information on Ms. Dos's husband's whereabouts, please post it to this page...
Steve MacLaughlin wrote this review of Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works, a book which transcends its title to address much more than workflow, and more generally than just on the Web. Steve promises that your copy will soon be tattered and marked -- and that's a good thing. Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works
author Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
pages 253
publisher New Riders Publishing
rating 9
reviewer Steve MacLaughlin
ISBN 0735710627
summary Practical wisdom for Web creators on consulting, design, development and more rolled into a single readable volume.
There are books that attempt to impart the divine wisdom of consulting. There are books that detail best practices in graphic and usability design. There are books that detail the intricacies of software development. There are books that detail project management and surviving the technology lifecycle. But there are very few books that explain how all of these pieces work together successfully. Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler have pulled it off with masterful perfection in their new book Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works.
People, projects, technology, and clients do not work in a vacuum from one another. Process is the magnet that holds them all together. Goto and Cotler offer professionals a comprehensive "Core Process" to guide them through their Web projects. While other books may explain some of the tricks of the trade no book has really placed all of these best practices under the umbrella of a process or methodology. Perhaps that's because a lot of these processes have been closely guarded secrets in the highly competitive interactive services industry. It's almost as if Goto and Cotler are on a humanitarian mission to save clients and projects from future punishment under the hands of companies using poor or in some cases no processes at all.
Web ReDesign's Core Process is a five-step approach to producing successful Web projects. The five steps are Defining the Project, Developing Site Structure, Visual Design & Testing, Production & QA, and Launch & Beyond. And each phase is broken down further into steps and checkpoints in splendid detail. As someone who started out doing this kind of work I found myself making mental checkmarks throughout the book. "Did that. Did something like that. Man, it took me years to learn that I should do that. Where was this book six years ago when I needed it?"
Perhaps a book like this wasn't really possible until now. The profession had to go through its ugly duckling stages where individuals and companies tried to figure out what worked and what didn't. Grafting parts from consulting, marketing, project management, and software development into some freakish process monster that often resulted in turning clients into an angry torch-carrying mob. Thankfully Web ReDesign has finally arrived and it is certainly no Bride of Frankenstein. The processes are spelled out in clear language and the authors repeat certain key points in case you missed something along the way.
It's easy to get sidetracked reading Web ReDesign with all the sidebars, charts, sample forms, and interviews. But this is a good thing! The tips and sidebars along the way spell out in greater detail how to put the process into action, and what to do when trouble arises. The forms and charts are some of the most thorough ever published, and thankfully you can download most of them on the companion website located at www.web-redesign.com. Throughout the book Goto and Cotler call on experts like Lynda Weinman, David Siegel, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Jakob Nielsen to offer their perspective on a given topic. The overall design and layout work done by the folks at New Riders is phenomenal and the visual presentation of the book is really first rate.
The one big question I have about the books is its title: Web ReDesign. That's because this is a book that can be used for first time Internet initiatives just as well as for redesign projects. Perhaps the authors had some dual purpose in mind for the title: If you're doing this for the first time, you need to rethink the conventional wisdom that Web projects are a black art with no best practices. Or if you didn't use a process the first time, then you've probably learned how valuable it is to have a proven methodology to avoid repeating mistakes.
Goto and Cotler have produced a book that no Web professional, whether they're a consultant, project manager, designer, programmer, or specialist, should be without. Web ReDesign is one of those books that should be kept close at hand during projects of all shapes and sizes. It won't take long before your copy is either severely dog-eared or has post-it flags sticking up throughout it. Get your hands on a copy before the competition does.
For years now I've wondered if science could give us a better snack. Science has done much good for us in the snack department. I'm not saying it hasn't been a long bumpy road. Let's think about this for a bit. The pretzel is a good snack, but insufficient on its own. I've always found it a bit bland. Especially on an airplane where I want and deserve a nut.
But lets think about some other examples. The Granola bar had much potential. Especially it's chocolate covered variant, the Kudos bar. But at that point we've forsaken the health factor and you might as well just eath either a butterfinger or a nutrageous bar.
Then there are things that put "Fruit" in the name to fool your brain into thinking that they are healthy. This never fools your ass... it continues to just get fatter and fatter. Leading examples in this category is the Fruit Roll Up.
But today I discovered what may be the best snack ever. The Honey-Nut Chex Mix. Chex mix is great. It takes one of the only "Healthy" cereals that doesn't taste like crap, and mixes it up with the nuts that are now lacking in today's modern air craft. But I always wondered how to improve upon this design. Chocolate covering things is always a popular choice. Chocolate covered pretzels. Chocolate Covered Nuts. Chocolate Covered Chocolate. I mean, you can improve nearly anything by covering it in chocolate... at least so goes the theory. But I always foudn that overkill. Chocolate is like the one ton gorilla of candy. Sure it's powerful, but after you've let it ride you for a bit, you're just not gonna feel the same.
But honey nut chex mix solves the problem. The deception of being "Healthy" because it contains chex. The joy of a prezel. Little pseudo nut clusters... and it's all covered in "Honey Nut" (literally translated: some sticky coating and sugar). It's not quite as sticky as eating pure chocolate, so it even solves the messy problem of eating much sugar or chocolate covered snacks. And it tastes good too!
It's the perfect snack and it's all mine. Hands off biznatch.
Give me a break guys, this site has really gone to $h1+. If/. stopped tommorrow I couldn't care less. So many of thier stories are such loads of crap and not even real news! Also, and probablly my biggest reason for trolling on/. (besides the fact that it's fun) is that if you state an opinion opposite of what the Slashdot collective thinks, then you are a troll. When my karma whore account started getting trolled for stating the "unpopular opinion", I decided that if slashdot wants me to be a troll, I'll show them what a troll really is.
Now, I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but in my mind, If we stated the same opinion to a message board, then what is the point of a message board? To gain insight into other people's opinions? No because it is the same damn opinion! I don't understand where these self rightous assholes get off either modding people down for forming their own mind. I want to point out again, that I'm not just talking about me and my troll account. I am talking users who want to inject this site with some original thought that get trolled down, such as did I. state an unpopular enough thought enough times and then you are stuck posting to -1 for all times.
Only/. does it worse. You see, at least you can type offensive words into Office, but/. uses it's "lameness filter" to prevent certain things from being posted. How is/. any better. If anything they are worse.
You may not be able to find a synonim for an offensive word in Office, but at least they don't prevent you from typing it.
How did a story like this rate a headline on Slashdot or the NY Times?!?! This is stupid people and MS had an article on this since Dec. of 99...
Based on what the NY Times over paid journalist wrote, I can tell his "friend" was not just using office 97, but a verison of Office 97 before Office 97 SR2.
Granted I ran accross this MS article by accident about a year and a half ago, but give me a break! IT'S NOT NEWS PEOPLE!!!
OAKLAND, CA--McDonald's franchise #4793, located on the corner of 12th and Franklin in downtown Oakland, perpetually teeters on the brink of anarchy, store patrons reported Monday.
"I stopped in there this afternoon, and there's garbage all over the floor, half-dressed kids are running around throwing things, and everyone is screaming at each other," said Meredith Smith, 26. "I half-expected the National Guard to flood in."
Smith is not the only one puzzled by the restaurant's near-anarchic state.
"There's always about 15 people in the kitchen, and it still takes 20 minutes just to get your order taken," said Bill Zumbo, 33. "You just stand there and wonder, 'What is going on here? What is happening?'"
During a recent visit, despite long lines at all four registers, Zumbo spotted crew members joking around with friends, sharing cigarettes in the drive-thru area, and throwing random objects on the grill to see how well they burn. As garbage overflowed from the trash receptacles and a wide puddle of fetid, gray-brown water saturated the east-entrance floor mat, the only visible clean-up-crew member was napping in a booth.
"I sometimes go there for lunch during work, and, at first, I was kind of amused by it," Zumbo said. "It was funny how the cashier would yell back to the cook and say, 'Shut up, bitch, and get me some fries!' But then I began to question my safety. In that place, anything could happen."
Fearing everything from food poisoning to death by gunshot, Zumbo said he now walks an extra eight blocks to the McDonald's on Fairview Avenue.
With its graffiti-covered tables and restrooms unfit for human waste, the 12th and Franklin McDonald's evokes the lawlessness of the most far-flung underdeveloped banana republic. Surly single mothers toting caterwauling babies are among the restaurant's most prevalent patrons. The remaining booths are filled with an endless parade of lice-ridden vagrants, morbidly obese bachelors, and borderline illiterates with french-fry-stained pants.
The restaurant's food provides further evidence of its descent into chaos.
"When the burgers are fully cooked--which they rarely are--the orders are always screwed up," Danielle Costa, 36, said. "I've gotten orders with a bun and no burger, two burgers and no bun, a Filet-O-Fish crammed into an apple-pie box--you name it. And the only visible cook is bobbing his head up and down listening to music on his headphones. I can't believe there hasn't been some sort of fast-food coup d'etat at that place by now."
Various McDonald's district supervisors have attempted to stabilize store #4793, but all have met with failure.
"It's all about location," said McDonald's District 7 franchise owner Vanessa Ceres. "No matter how well-planned your corporate structure may be, if the customers in that area want to turn your store into a dump, there's not much you can do about it."
According to University of California- Berkeley sociology professor Richard Weber, the 12th and Franklin McDonald's will likely be overthrown and plunged into full-blown anarchy one day.
"It's only a matter of time before the employees topple the Ronald McDonald statue in the lobby and declare mob rule," Weber said. "And when that day comes, God help anyone who happens to be in the downtown area looking for a place to grab a quick bite.
Linux is changing the way we think about computing.
Changing the way who thinks about computing. And what does it make them think about? Going to a paper office because paper fileing is in the long run less expensive and more efficient than Linux?
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It is with my deepest regret today, that I have to announce the passing of Ms. Dos [slashdot.org].
Ms. Dos was found in it's NY hotel room, lonely and dead. Apperently, Ms. Dos committed suicide because of lack of attention from others, and not feeling "needed" anymore.
We are still trying to find out if Ms. Dos was married or not. If so, her husband will be needed for questioning and to identify the body.
If you have any information on Ms. Dos's husband's whereabouts, please post it to this page...
Talk about a pain... This web site diagrams what you are talking about very well.
is really This!!!
It is with my deepest regret today, that I have to announce the passing of Ms. Dos.
Ms. Dos was found in it's NY hotel room, lonely and dead. Apperently, Ms. Dos committed suicide because of lack of attention from others, and not feeling "needed" anymore.
We are still trying to find out if Ms. Dos was married or not. If so, her husband will be needed for questioning and to identify the body.
If you have any information on Ms. Dos's husband's whereabouts, please post it to this page...
And our Troll Tuesday scores for today are as follows:
(since midnight)
Logged-in Trolls: 6
AC's : 3
CmdrTaco : 1
As always, the trolls own this site!!!
a Beowulf cluster of these?
I'm not banned!!!
Steve MacLaughlin wrote this review of Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works, a book which transcends its title to address much more than workflow, and more generally than just on the Web. Steve promises that your copy will soon be tattered and marked -- and that's a good thing. Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works
author Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
pages 253
publisher New Riders Publishing
rating 9
reviewer Steve MacLaughlin
ISBN 0735710627
summary Practical wisdom for Web creators on consulting, design, development and more rolled into a single readable volume.
There are books that attempt to impart the divine wisdom of consulting. There are books that detail best practices in graphic and usability design. There are books that detail the intricacies of software development. There are books that detail project management and surviving the technology lifecycle. But there are very few books that explain how all of these pieces work together successfully. Kelly Goto and Emily Cotler have pulled it off with masterful perfection in their new book Web ReDesign: Workflow that Works.
People, projects, technology, and clients do not work in a vacuum from one another. Process is the magnet that holds them all together. Goto and Cotler offer professionals a comprehensive "Core Process" to guide them through their Web projects. While other books may explain some of the tricks of the trade no book has really placed all of these best practices under the umbrella of a process or methodology. Perhaps that's because a lot of these processes have been closely guarded secrets in the highly competitive interactive services industry. It's almost as if Goto and Cotler are on a humanitarian mission to save clients and projects from future punishment under the hands of companies using poor or in some cases no processes at all.
Web ReDesign's Core Process is a five-step approach to producing successful Web projects. The five steps are Defining the Project, Developing Site Structure, Visual Design & Testing, Production & QA, and Launch & Beyond. And each phase is broken down further into steps and checkpoints in splendid detail. As someone who started out doing this kind of work I found myself making mental checkmarks throughout the book. "Did that. Did something like that. Man, it took me years to learn that I should do that. Where was this book six years ago when I needed it?"
Perhaps a book like this wasn't really possible until now. The profession had to go through its ugly duckling stages where individuals and companies tried to figure out what worked and what didn't. Grafting parts from consulting, marketing, project management, and software development into some freakish process monster that often resulted in turning clients into an angry torch-carrying mob. Thankfully Web ReDesign has finally arrived and it is certainly no Bride of Frankenstein. The processes are spelled out in clear language and the authors repeat certain key points in case you missed something along the way.
It's easy to get sidetracked reading Web ReDesign with all the sidebars, charts, sample forms, and interviews. But this is a good thing! The tips and sidebars along the way spell out in greater detail how to put the process into action, and what to do when trouble arises. The forms and charts are some of the most thorough ever published, and thankfully you can download most of them on the companion website located at www.web-redesign.com. Throughout the book Goto and Cotler call on experts like Lynda Weinman, David Siegel, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Jakob Nielsen to offer their perspective on a given topic. The overall design and layout work done by the folks at New Riders is phenomenal and the visual presentation of the book is really first rate.
The one big question I have about the books is its title: Web ReDesign. That's because this is a book that can be used for first time Internet initiatives just as well as for redesign projects. Perhaps the authors had some dual purpose in mind for the title: If you're doing this for the first time, you need to rethink the conventional wisdom that Web projects are a black art with no best practices. Or if you didn't use a process the first time, then you've probably learned how valuable it is to have a proven methodology to avoid repeating mistakes.
Goto and Cotler have produced a book that no Web professional, whether they're a consultant, project manager, designer, programmer, or specialist, should be without. Web ReDesign is one of those books that should be kept close at hand during projects of all shapes and sizes. It won't take long before your copy is either severely dog-eared or has post-it flags sticking up throughout it. Get your hands on a copy before the competition does.
For years now I've wondered if science could give us a better snack. Science has done much good for us in the snack department. I'm not saying it hasn't been a long bumpy road. Let's think about this for a bit. The pretzel is a good snack, but insufficient on its own. I've always found it a bit bland. Especially on an airplane where I want and deserve a nut.
But lets think about some other examples. The Granola bar had much potential. Especially it's chocolate covered variant, the Kudos bar. But at that point we've forsaken the health factor and you might as well just eath either a butterfinger or a nutrageous bar.
Then there are things that put "Fruit" in the name to fool your brain into thinking that they are healthy. This never fools your ass... it continues to just get fatter and fatter. Leading examples in this category is the Fruit Roll Up.
But today I discovered what may be the best snack ever. The Honey-Nut Chex Mix. Chex mix is great. It takes one of the only "Healthy" cereals that doesn't taste like crap, and mixes it up with the nuts that are now lacking in today's modern air craft. But I always wondered how to improve upon this design. Chocolate covering things is always a popular choice. Chocolate covered pretzels. Chocolate Covered Nuts. Chocolate Covered Chocolate. I mean, you can improve nearly anything by covering it in chocolate... at least so goes the theory. But I always foudn that overkill. Chocolate is like the one ton gorilla of candy. Sure it's powerful, but after you've let it ride you for a bit, you're just not gonna feel the same.
But honey nut chex mix solves the problem. The deception of being "Healthy" because it contains chex. The joy of a prezel. Little pseudo nut clusters... and it's all covered in "Honey Nut" (literally translated: some sticky coating and sugar). It's not quite as sticky as eating pure chocolate, so it even solves the messy problem of eating much sugar or chocolate covered snacks. And it tastes good too!
It's the perfect snack and it's all mine. Hands off biznatch.
Give me a break guys, this site has really gone to $h1+. If /. stopped tommorrow I couldn't care less. So many of thier stories are such loads of crap and not even real news! Also, and probablly my biggest reason for trolling on /. (besides the fact that it's fun) is that if you state an opinion opposite of what the Slashdot collective thinks, then you are a troll. When my karma whore account started getting trolled for stating the "unpopular opinion", I decided that if slashdot wants me to be a troll, I'll show them what a troll really is.
Now, I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but in my mind, If we stated the same opinion to a message board, then what is the point of a message board? To gain insight into other people's opinions? No because it is the same damn opinion! I don't understand where these self rightous assholes get off either modding people down for forming their own mind. I want to point out again, that I'm not just talking about me and my troll account. I am talking users who want to inject this site with some original thought that get trolled down, such as did I. state an unpopular enough thought enough times and then you are stuck posting to -1 for all times.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.
a Beowulf cluster of these?
I agree, this same story has been available on MS site since Dec 99
Only /. does it worse. You see, at least you can type offensive words into Office, but /. uses it's "lameness filter" to prevent certain things from being posted. How is /. any better. If anything they are worse.
You may not be able to find a synonim for an offensive word in Office, but at least they don't prevent you from typing it.
How did a story like this rate a headline on Slashdot or the NY Times?!?! This is stupid people and MS had an article on this since Dec. of 99...
Based on what the NY Times over paid journalist wrote, I can tell his "friend" was not just using office 97, but a verison of Office 97 before Office 97 SR2.
Granted I ran accross this MS article by accident about a year and a half ago, but give me a break! IT'S NOT NEWS PEOPLE!!!
damn can't even spell onion right today
Ahhh, fellow oinion reader...
I thought this was News for nerds. Stuff that matters.
This is not news!!! And it sure as hell doesn't matter!
This MS article was dated Dec. 23,1999. Where the Hell have you been?
OAKLAND, CA--McDonald's franchise #4793, located on the corner of 12th and Franklin in downtown Oakland, perpetually teeters on the brink of anarchy, store patrons reported Monday.
"I stopped in there this afternoon, and there's garbage all over the floor, half-dressed kids are running around throwing things, and everyone is screaming at each other," said Meredith Smith, 26. "I half-expected the National Guard to flood in."
Smith is not the only one puzzled by the restaurant's near-anarchic state.
"There's always about 15 people in the kitchen, and it still takes 20 minutes just to get your order taken," said Bill Zumbo, 33. "You just stand there and wonder, 'What is going on here? What is happening?'"
During a recent visit, despite long lines at all four registers, Zumbo spotted crew members joking around with friends, sharing cigarettes in the drive-thru area, and throwing random objects on the grill to see how well they burn. As garbage overflowed from the trash receptacles and a wide puddle of fetid, gray-brown water saturated the east-entrance floor mat, the only visible clean-up-crew member was napping in a booth.
"I sometimes go there for lunch during work, and, at first, I was kind of amused by it," Zumbo said. "It was funny how the cashier would yell back to the cook and say, 'Shut up, bitch, and get me some fries!' But then I began to question my safety. In that place, anything could happen."
Fearing everything from food poisoning to death by gunshot, Zumbo said he now walks an extra eight blocks to the McDonald's on Fairview Avenue.
With its graffiti-covered tables and restrooms unfit for human waste, the 12th and Franklin McDonald's evokes the lawlessness of the most far-flung underdeveloped banana republic. Surly single mothers toting caterwauling babies are among the restaurant's most prevalent patrons. The remaining booths are filled with an endless parade of lice-ridden vagrants, morbidly obese bachelors, and borderline illiterates with french-fry-stained pants.
The restaurant's food provides further evidence of its descent into chaos.
"When the burgers are fully cooked--which they rarely are--the orders are always screwed up," Danielle Costa, 36, said. "I've gotten orders with a bun and no burger, two burgers and no bun, a Filet-O-Fish crammed into an apple-pie box--you name it. And the only visible cook is bobbing his head up and down listening to music on his headphones. I can't believe there hasn't been some sort of fast-food coup d'etat at that place by now."
Various McDonald's district supervisors have attempted to stabilize store #4793, but all have met with failure.
"It's all about location," said McDonald's District 7 franchise owner Vanessa Ceres. "No matter how well-planned your corporate structure may be, if the customers in that area want to turn your store into a dump, there's not much you can do about it."
According to University of California- Berkeley sociology professor Richard Weber, the 12th and Franklin McDonald's will likely be overthrown and plunged into full-blown anarchy one day.
"It's only a matter of time before the employees topple the Ronald McDonald statue in the lobby and declare mob rule," Weber said. "And when that day comes, God help anyone who happens to be in the downtown area looking for a place to grab a quick bite.
a Beowulf cluster of these?
Karma whore jerk
Linux is changing the way we think about computing.
Changing the way who thinks about computing. And what does it make them think about? Going to a paper office because paper fileing is in the long run less expensive and more efficient than Linux?
More than your pathetic, pissant, paynothing job pays your worthless a$$
yeah, but Linux sucks turds, so what's your point?
IBM is for assholes too
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a beowulf cluster of these!!!