Christmas is by far e-bay's lowest traffic of the year.. There's a bunch of charts showing the huge drop off, year after year, on the number of auctions starting about a week before christmas..
If someone has the link, post it? I'll see if I can dig it up.
The constitution applies to Federal laws, and perhaps state and local ones in some cases
Uh..Federal law supercedes both state and local governments. It applies to ALL state and local governments. (and state law supercedes all county governments, county law supercedes all city laws...).
Our shop requires that we get the RUP certification and become "experts" on the subject (a bunch of our early people are former rational folks.) From what I remember (hah), the entire test drills the adaptable-framework concept into your head. I'd go ahead and call those folks out next time they suggest something similar.
Thats the point. You don't have to *buy* RUP. What you buy are the tools and added documentation that helps you use the process. The process itself is general knowledge you can gain by reading a book and/or website.
I work for an ibm rational partner (to give you an idea, we're all required to be RUP certified...). We had an e-mail go out explaining what the open source donation is and all that.. Basically, iirc (dont have my work email opened), IBM is donating a certain % of the RUP documentation/etc to the open source community. From our standpoint, this means we can go into our consulting gigs and push rup -- but actually leave them with things to support that newly implemented process. Before, we'd have to try to sell them a bunch of stuff in addition to selling them on the process change.
I hope what ultimately comes out of it is a better understanding of what RUP actually is and isn't, and maybe some new open source tools. A lot of people dog Rose (and yeah, I've been guilty of it myself), but the newer tools coming out of Rational (sme, for example), are a whole lot better. If somehow the open source community can get involved with some of that, I would imagine it'd lead to some really great CASE stuff.
People try to make RUP into more than it is. The idea is to take and leave what works for your organization, and build a loose process around it. It's a framework for generating your own applicable process, and all too often companies want to do everything that RUP tells them to do (ignorning the fact that RUP tells you not to do everything..)
What really needs to be taken from RUP is the idea that an iterative approach reduces risk of failure. The concept of "roles" is helpful, but thats just basic teamwork.
Kinds of make you question the usefulness of those tools and processes.
If your relying on the tools, then your probably missing the point of the process. Tools can aid you in the process, but a process doesn't require tools (not even a commercial 'product' like RUP).
The other way is to look at the fact that's he's only one year out of college, and already hating the typical IT field. If we're not graduating enough engineers as it is, and not keeping the ones that we are graduating.. You do the math.
It's not really a different product though, is it? I mean.. same market, same concept, doeos the same thing... just looks different
It's more like replacing the body style of a top selling car (e.g., the honda civic. top selling car in its class.. changed the body style/interior/etc, now a better selling car in its class)
How did this get modded up to insightful? The parent was talking about *making up* material to use ina film. That's not an argument about objectivity vs subjectivity, it's a point being made about facts vs lies.
From dictionary.com:
documentary -
"Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film."
but I have never found any problems registering a domain that's 'remotely pronouncable'
Eventually these squatters are going to move out to "deeper territory," and people will have to keep coming up with longer and longer domain names. There reaches a point where a long domain name is no longer of any value to a new business trying to build name recognition.
Do you really think a new widget shop can truly compete with a 255 character domain name? This entire paragraph consisting of two sentences is 132 characters.
Think about how many small internet projects have failed due to really dumb, non-descriptive domain names.
Granted, some companies have been able to pull off misspellings (flickr), but how much more time is left before anything even remotely pronouncable is already registered?
If google really wants to "not be evil," they should find a way to pull the blanket from under these shams.. I almost wish domains were $100 a pop again just to make people think twice before doing this:(
Get the terminology right: deitists, not "theists." They believed in a surpreme deity.
Further, it may be prudent to note that Ben Franklin (often cited along with your argument), while a deitist, believed that it was better to believe in the Christian God and teachings than not to, simply because he felt that Christian teachings prevented moral anarchy. (or something along those lines)
Our society was most certainly not founded on Christianity itself, but to deny the connections to the Christian teachings and its influence on all of the founding fathers (regardless of their professed religions) is to rewrite history in a rather bold way.
including the bit removing EVERY court's jurisdiction to hear a case involving decisions made by the Secretary of Homeland Security
To be fair, only decisions related to creating barriers along our borders as part of immigration control (section 102, read it). (in response to circuit courts stopping construction on a fence in mexico because of endangered species)..
Simple really-- some programmers are lazy. They can't be bothered with optimizing their code for individual platforms.
Or they don't have the time to write something for multiple platforms. Time-to-market is directly tied to your ROI..
Why would I pay a programmer $1 an hour to code something for 10 hours on three different platforms, when I can pay him $1 an hour to code something once? Especially if I'm going to sell just as many copies for the same exact price in either scenerio -- the java route increases my return.
Swing is generally slow because developers don't take the time to learn how to use it -- they end up overloading event listeners instead of using SwingUtilities to offload the logic onto the SwingWorker thread..
It's not so much of a speed issue as it is a visual response issue.
Here's an excellent presentation on how to go about coding swing properly...
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I'm pretty sure its statistically impossible to regain control in 2006. It'll take a big win in 2006, and another in 2008 to swing it.
Christmas is by far e-bay's lowest traffic of the year.. There's a bunch of charts showing the huge drop off, year after year, on the number of auctions starting about a week before christmas..
If someone has the link, post it? I'll see if I can dig it up.
The constitution applies to Federal laws, and perhaps state and local ones in some cases
Uh..Federal law supercedes both state and local governments. It applies to ALL state and local governments. (and state law supercedes all county governments, county law supercedes all city laws...).
Our shop requires that we get the RUP certification and become "experts" on the subject (a bunch of our early people are former rational folks.) From what I remember (hah), the entire test drills the adaptable-framework concept into your head. I'd go ahead and call those folks out next time they suggest something similar.
Thats the point. You don't have to *buy* RUP. What you buy are the tools and added documentation that helps you use the process. The process itself is general knowledge you can gain by reading a book and/or website.
I work for an ibm rational partner (to give you an idea, we're all required to be RUP certified...). We had an e-mail go out explaining what the open source donation is and all that.. Basically, iirc (dont have my work email opened), IBM is donating a certain % of the RUP documentation/etc to the open source community. From our standpoint, this means we can go into our consulting gigs and push rup -- but actually leave them with things to support that newly implemented process. Before, we'd have to try to sell them a bunch of stuff in addition to selling them on the process change.
I hope what ultimately comes out of it is a better understanding of what RUP actually is and isn't, and maybe some new open source tools. A lot of people dog Rose (and yeah, I've been guilty of it myself), but the newer tools coming out of Rational (sme, for example), are a whole lot better. If somehow the open source community can get involved with some of that, I would imagine it'd lead to some really great CASE stuff.
And you consider a compiler to be a CASE tool? Keep the context of the conversation, please.
People try to make RUP into more than it is. The idea is to take and leave what works for your organization, and build a loose process around it. It's a framework for generating your own applicable process, and all too often companies want to do everything that RUP tells them to do (ignorning the fact that RUP tells you not to do everything..)
What really needs to be taken from RUP is the idea that an iterative approach reduces risk of failure. The concept of "roles" is helpful, but thats just basic teamwork.
Kinds of make you question the usefulness of those tools and processes.
If your relying on the tools, then your probably missing the point of the process. Tools can aid you in the process, but a process doesn't require tools (not even a commercial 'product' like RUP).
That's one way to look at it..
The other way is to look at the fact that's he's only one year out of college, and already hating the typical IT field. If we're not graduating enough engineers as it is, and not keeping the ones that we are graduating.. You do the math.
Seriously, thanks for gmail though. I wish I would apply the concept of labels to files on my harddisk.
Buy a mac.
uh.. was your professor fred brooks? ;)
It's not really a different product though, is it? I mean.. same market, same concept, doeos the same thing... just looks different
It's more like replacing the body style of a top selling car (e.g., the honda civic. top selling car in its class.. changed the body style/interior/etc, now a better selling car in its class)
If companies are able to see the problem coming, shouldn't they be able to provide their own resources to circumvent it?
Why rely on outside forces to supply your labor if its that big of a deal?
The most visible feature of GMail is the extra storage
I think it's safe to say that 99.9% of the people who use GMail will tell you it's the interface, not the storage.
How did this get modded up to insightful? The parent was talking about *making up* material to use ina film. That's not an argument about objectivity vs subjectivity, it's a point being made about facts vs lies. From dictionary.com: documentary - "Presenting facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter, as in a book or film."
but I have never found any problems registering a domain that's 'remotely pronouncable'
c ompetewitha255characterdomainname?Thisentire paragraphconsistingoftwosentencesis132characters.c om just doesn't have that much of a ring to it...(nor will slashdot even recognize it as one link ;)
Eventually these squatters are going to move out to "deeper territory," and people will have to keep coming up with longer and longer domain names. There reaches a point where a long domain name is no longer of any value to a new business trying to build name recognition.
Do you really think a new widget shop can truly compete with a 255 character domain name? This entire paragraph consisting of two sentences is 132 characters.
http://www.doyoureallythinkanewwidgetshopcantruly
Think about how many small internet projects have failed due to really dumb, non-descriptive domain names.
:(
Granted, some companies have been able to pull off misspellings (flickr), but how much more time is left before anything even remotely pronouncable is already registered?
If google really wants to "not be evil," they should find a way to pull the blanket from under these shams.. I almost wish domains were $100 a pop again just to make people think twice before doing this
Then what should we do?
Just for conversations sake.. A lot of people like to talk about how awful the current policy is.. but never offer up an alternative.
Get the terminology right: deitists, not "theists." They believed in a surpreme deity.
Further, it may be prudent to note that Ben Franklin (often cited along with your argument), while a deitist, believed that it was better to believe in the Christian God and teachings than not to, simply because he felt that Christian teachings prevented moral anarchy. (or something along those lines)
Our society was most certainly not founded on Christianity itself, but to deny the connections to the Christian teachings and its influence on all of the founding fathers (regardless of their professed religions) is to rewrite history in a rather bold way.
What if we all pulled our invites together, and spammed hotmail users with our collective gmail invites? ;)
including the bit removing EVERY court's jurisdiction to hear a case involving decisions made by the Secretary of Homeland Security
To be fair, only decisions related to creating barriers along our borders as part of immigration control (section 102, read it). (in response to circuit courts stopping construction on a fence in mexico because of endangered species)..
FUD
You left out the most important part.
pursuant to paragraph (1)
Paragraph 1 being in relation to the construction of barriers along our borders. Look it up, it's in section 102..
It's right on the ichat features page
Simple really-- some programmers are lazy. They can't be bothered with optimizing their code for individual platforms.
Or they don't have the time to write something for multiple platforms. Time-to-market is directly tied to your ROI..
Why would I pay a programmer $1 an hour to code something for 10 hours on three different platforms, when I can pay him $1 an hour to code something once? Especially if I'm going to sell just as many copies for the same exact price in either scenerio -- the java route increases my return.
Swing is generally slow because developers don't take the time to learn how to use it -- they end up overloading event listeners instead of using SwingUtilities to offload the logic onto the SwingWorker thread..
It's not so much of a speed issue as it is a visual response issue.
Here's an excellent presentation on how to go about coding swing properly...