I think the big break through on the whole mirco vs. large payments will occur when the publishers stop looking to milk the consumers. $50/yr is way too much to pay for site content. Considering that a lot/most of these sites are reusing paper published works to begin with. It makes sense to me that a magazine subscription costs what it does, however, when the content is delivered electronically, the cost MUST go down. Now, throw in USEFUL services, etc etc, and the price is justified.
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to this whole scheme is that people have trouble with the idea of paying of virtually nothing... Eh, but then again, who ever said that the net HAD to be free??
There are some great misconceptions here that should be cleared up. Depending on the position on the board, a GM can see X Number of moves ahead. Generally though, this is not the case. Creativity, intuition, past experience, 1,000's of past games all come into play. Generally, a GM will get a general idea of what is going on in the position, figure out where IMBALANCES on the board exist and then calculate a way to take advantage of them, or how to defend against them depending. The computer however, is not creative. It is a brute force machine that looks for tactics and some positional moves. However, it will never be able to be as creative or resourceful as a human player...
In this case of the Kramnik match... Kramnik will kill the beast badly. While Kasparov is generally a tactical, aggressive player, Kramnik is more content in positional/creative battles. It will be interesting to see Kramnik confuse the program. Expect Isolated Queen Pawn positions, and the horizion effect of the computer having huge ramifications on the match...
--RPR
One would think that wanted to put solid security into a product would not be an act of "marketing spin" or " profit ", but as an act of "pride". It make me wonder if M$ has lost that important development value... Maybe that is what keeps opensource alive...the ideal of creating something truly useful and something of a high quality...
Open, peer-reviewed acacdemic publishing pre-dates open source/free software by many, many decades.
Perhaps as a general open medium in which to share knowledge, but I think the idea of using such publications to undermine/compete with comercial sources of information is somewhat new.
Are you on crack? Slashdot isn't even in the same league as those sites.
Or were you being sarcastic?
A little of both.;)
I dont mean the sites though. I was refering to the number of people who read the tree versions of tech magazines as opposed to the number of hits/or the number or/. readers.
To be honest, I still could be way off on this assumption, but please, dont blame the crack...;)
"They say that researchers write and review papers for free, so the journals should not charge to read them."
I find it interesting that areas other than programming are showing signs of the opensource movement. I have to wonder though, would it not be a cheaper endevour to combat established commercial publications with relevant, fresh, quailty content on a new website??
How many more readers does/. get than Yahoo! Internet magazine or Wired?? I would imagine a lot more...
At first I agreed with this sentiment, however, after reading though Bruce Eckels "Thinking in Java 2nd ed." online link to bookI was hooked.
Ed Roman's "Mastering Enterprise Java Beans" is also a free book available at theserverside.com
BTW: After going through them online, I went ahead and purchased the tree versions as well. From the looks of the amazon.com sales rankings, so did a lot of other people. Perhaps this model is not *that* bad for book publication.
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People like this killed the market. The sad part is that this joker still doesnt get it. So many people got the opportunity to do something great, and what did they do, they screwed everyone.
How many tech workers are still on unemployment right now?? How many people bought cars, homes, gadgets, etc thinking that their jobs were safe??
And now these failures have the audacity to publish books in a sad attempt to make some more money. At the very least, this joker could have said, "Hey, we had no idea what we were doing, we had no business running a business, we are sorry."
or perhaps, "Hey I had millions by screwing people over." Atleast then it would be honest.
Yikes, perhaps theres too much idealism there...
Maybe next time around it will be better... hold it wait... Enron... alright, maybe the next time after that...;)
I think that you will find that even the middle manager faces an uphill battle. Generally, it is not middle management pressing the buttons of the developers. It is his {middle managers} boss and various others that are applying the pressure.
Unfortunately, office politics exist everywhere. No-one is immune. I have found that the best thing a manager can do is always keep the door open. If you have a problem, want to rant, etc. He lets you do it in a private and safe way. This keeps chatter out of the dev pool and therefore doesnt kill the morale of a troubled project.
I think you will also find that change is the only thing that you can count on in a project. It sucks, but it happens. The best thing you can do there is have some fail-safes in place. REQUIREMENTS in writing, a sold develpment cycle (eXtreme programming, agile, etc) laid out, and the confidence to try some possibly ANTI-CULTURE actions in order to get a high quality product out the door without burning out you dev core.
Other than that, keep snacks handy...
Good luck
rpr
"Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus" by Richard Hightower is a great place to start. It covers ANT, JMETER, and other JAKARTA and non-jakarta open source tools as well.
I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the darn things didnt cost $400-$600 depending on when you buy it.
By the time you get it shipped to you, its lost 10% of its value, by the time its in your case, you've lost another 10%, and by the time a game comes out that can actually use it... well, you're dead... =(
John Q public still has to get past the "learning to program VCR curve." before Tivo et all. will have a chance.
Besides, who the hell wants to pay ANOTHER 400-700 bucks just to watch television with some "value added features". Cable is expensive as it is.
--ryan
What if someone has fat fingers? How do they dial? Do you have to get your ring phone sized? Why not just do an ear piece enabled with voice recognition software.
"Call home." It calls home.
"Answer phone." It answers phone.
etc.
I think the main point to remember is this: Windows owns the schools. When a 2nd grader comes home from school and tells his parents about 5 legged dog he drew using THE GIMP instead of MSPAINT, then[!!] you will know that Linux has gained acceptance.
Perhaps Linux should adopt the Tobacco Industries philosophy of "Hook'em Young!"
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I think the big break through on the whole mirco vs. large payments will occur when the publishers stop looking to milk the consumers. $50/yr is way too much to pay for site content. Considering that a lot/most of these sites are reusing paper published works to begin with. It makes sense to me that a magazine subscription costs what it does, however, when the content is delivered electronically, the cost MUST go down. Now, throw in USEFUL services, etc etc, and the price is justified.
Perhaps the biggest roadblock to this whole scheme is that people have trouble with the idea of paying of virtually nothing... Eh, but then again, who ever said that the net HAD to be free??
Crazy topic... =))
--rpr
There are some great misconceptions here that should be cleared up. Depending on the position on the board, a GM can see X Number of moves ahead. Generally though, this is not the case. Creativity, intuition, past experience, 1,000's of past games all come into play. Generally, a GM will get a general idea of what is going on in the position, figure out where IMBALANCES on the board exist and then calculate a way to take advantage of them, or how to defend against them depending. The computer however, is not creative. It is a brute force machine that looks for tactics and some positional moves. However, it will never be able to be as creative or resourceful as a human player... In this case of the Kramnik match... Kramnik will kill the beast badly. While Kasparov is generally a tactical, aggressive player, Kramnik is more content in positional/creative battles. It will be interesting to see Kramnik confuse the program. Expect Isolated Queen Pawn positions, and the horizion effect of the computer having huge ramifications on the match... --RPR
One would think that wanted to put solid security into a product would not be an act of "marketing spin" or " profit ", but as an act of "pride". It make me wonder if M$ has lost that important development value... Maybe that is what keeps opensource alive...the ideal of creating something truly useful and something of a high quality...
just some thoughts..
--rpr
Open, peer-reviewed acacdemic publishing pre-dates open source/free software by many, many decades.
;)
/. readers.
;)
Perhaps as a general open medium in which to share knowledge, but I think the idea of using such publications to undermine/compete with comercial sources of information is somewhat new.
Are you on crack? Slashdot isn't even in the same league as those sites.
Or were you being sarcastic? A little of both.
I dont mean the sites though. I was refering to the number of people who read the tree versions of tech magazines as opposed to the number of hits/or the number or
To be honest, I still could be way off on this assumption, but please, dont blame the crack...
--rpr
"They say that researchers write and review papers for free, so the journals should not charge to read them."
/. get than Yahoo! Internet magazine or Wired?? I would imagine a lot more...
I find it interesting that areas other than programming are showing signs of the opensource movement. I have to wonder though, would it not be a cheaper endevour to combat established commercial publications with relevant, fresh, quailty content on a new website??
How many more readers does
Just my $.02
At first I agreed with this sentiment, however, after reading though Bruce Eckels "Thinking in Java 2nd ed." online link to bookI was hooked.
Ed Roman's "Mastering Enterprise Java Beans" is also a free book available at theserverside.com
BTW: After going through them online, I went ahead and purchased the tree versions as well. From the looks of the amazon.com sales rankings, so did a lot of other people. Perhaps this model is not *that* bad for book publication.
People like this killed the market. The sad part is that this joker still doesnt get it. So many people got the opportunity to do something great, and what did they do, they screwed everyone.
;)
How many tech workers are still on unemployment right now?? How many people bought cars, homes, gadgets, etc thinking that their jobs were safe??
And now these failures have the audacity to publish books in a sad attempt to make some more money. At the very least, this joker could have said, "Hey, we had no idea what we were doing, we had no business running a business, we are sorry." or perhaps, "Hey I had millions by screwing people over." Atleast then it would be honest.
Yikes, perhaps theres too much idealism there...
Maybe next time around it will be better... hold it wait... Enron... alright, maybe the next time after that...
I think that you will find that even the middle manager faces an uphill battle. Generally, it is not middle management pressing the buttons of the developers. It is his {middle managers} boss and various others that are applying the pressure.
Unfortunately, office politics exist everywhere. No-one is immune. I have found that the best thing a manager can do is always keep the door open. If you have a problem, want to rant, etc. He lets you do it in a private and safe way. This keeps chatter out of the dev pool and therefore doesnt kill the morale of a troubled project.
I think you will also find that change is the only thing that you can count on in a project. It sucks, but it happens. The best thing you can do there is have some fail-safes in place. REQUIREMENTS in writing, a sold develpment cycle (eXtreme programming, agile, etc) laid out, and the confidence to try some possibly ANTI-CULTURE actions in order to get a high quality product out the door without burning out you dev core.
Other than that, keep snacks handy... Good luck rpr
"Java Tools for Extreme Programming: Mastering Open Source Tools Including Ant, JUnit, and Cactus" by Richard Hightower is a great place to start. It covers ANT, JMETER, and other JAKARTA and non-jakarta open source tools as well.
rpr
I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the darn things didnt cost $400-$600 depending on when you buy it.
By the time you get it shipped to you, its lost 10% of its value, by the time its in your case, you've lost another 10%, and by the time a game comes out that can actually use it... well, you're dead... =(
John Q public still has to get past the "learning to program VCR curve." before Tivo et all. will have a chance. Besides, who the hell wants to pay ANOTHER 400-700 bucks just to watch television with some "value added features". Cable is expensive as it is. --ryan
What if someone has fat fingers? How do they dial? Do you have to get your ring phone sized? Why not just do an ear piece enabled with voice recognition software.
"Call home." It calls home.
"Answer phone." It answers phone.
etc.
Seems a lot easier...
ryan
I think the main point to remember is this: Windows owns the schools. When a 2nd grader comes home from school and tells his parents about 5 legged dog he drew using THE GIMP instead of MSPAINT, then[!!] you will know that Linux has gained acceptance.
Perhaps Linux should adopt the Tobacco Industries philosophy of "Hook'em Young!"
--rpr