I'm suprised the posting didn't link to the company website. The tech info doesn't really offer a whole lot in the way of useful information though. Anyone know a place with better details?
(/. seems slow for me this morning too)
I don't see any of the big players adopting it when they all want control of the space. Why should AOL or Microsoft get on board to be inter-operable? They loose the control over what the end user sees.
This is going to be another case of a low-hech solution will be able to beat the billion dollar high-tech toy. What do you think a good old-fashioned smoke bomb is going to do the effectiveness of a laser beam? Any kind of dispersed particles are going to hamper it - they've spent this long needing to jump the power enough just to not disperse too much in the atmosphere.
A number of years back from folks in the Microelectronics unit of IBM came up with an idea. It was called POP for PowerPC Open Platform. Basically an open source motherboard design.
Well here they are. The first POP boards. It's been a long wait and, like you, I hope it was well worth it.
The boards do appear to be available - anyone tried them?
Erm so? I threw it in there after contributing to the discussion, not just trolling for clicks like your friends out there. Besides,it doesn't cost you anything.
VRML is/was quite cool - I did work on a VRML viewer using OpenGL for an internship. Unfortunately after all they hype it never went very far, the large download sizes really hurt it's acceptance. Datafiles were one huge honkin' text file. The structure was nice and pretty easy to parse though. That was a fun project to work on.
Buy a book, try stuff out - learn to love CSS. Visit UseIt too.
I liked the 1st edition too, so I'm not suprised that the 2nd got such a rave rating, but 10? I would have liked to see more information on why it's better than the first edition. Not mentioning much in the way of accessibility is a big minus for me working on corporate sites since Section 508 compliance required.
Amazon has it cheaper ($41.97) then B&N by the way.
Remembering 9/11 and what happened is important, and will continue to be important. However, the media in general seems to be back to it's same old self. Tons of 'tribute' and 'what happened' shows that won't do any justice to the events.
Pick your own way to respect those past.
That was my first dissapointment with the book, but he goes out of the way to point out (and include) alternatives. You don't need to go buy Rational's stuff to take advantage of what you learn in the book.
Java and systems are getting faster. Consumer products in Java are not an unrealisitc expectation. The author of the book even says you don't have to follow the complete process - the book just uses 10 out of 100+ artifacts. You can pick whatever works for you.
If you are pumping out similar products having an already-defined path helps instead of hinders. It depends what process you've got in place. For a small app things like doing the UI prototype will take a day or two at most - and you won't need any of the extensive data steps.
Scale to what you really need, don't pick up a book or process and follow it through blindly.
I was heavily addicted to D2 for a while, and Counter-Strike and almost got hooked on DoC. Any game I buy I usually finish in the first week or two, ALL my spare time would go into solving it. Amazingly enough, I have not played any games at all for the past couple months since I bought a house - now I'm busy repairing stuff and taking care of the lawn, etc.. I'm sure I'll start playing games again, but when you have an alternative activity that's significant and you like to some degree you're much less likely to spend the time you finish work to the time you go to bed (+ some) totally devoted to a game.
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I'm suprised the posting didn't link to the company website. The tech info doesn't really offer a whole lot in the way of useful information though. Anyone know a place with better details? (/. seems slow for me this morning too)
New:
Amazon: $27.00 [referral]
Amazon: $27.00
B&N: $36.00 [referral]
B&N: $36.00
Bookpool: $27.50
Used:
Amazon: $26.99 [referral]
Half.com: $29.25
Decent review, but definitely could have been longer - I'm left wanting to know more about the book.
I don't see any of the big players adopting it when they all want control of the space. Why should AOL or Microsoft get on board to be inter-operable? They loose the control over what the end user sees.
Not 'tricking' anyone - I state that they're referral links instead of the people who do hide it, heh. Such hostility ...
Amazon: Used & New from $8.49 [referral]
B&N: Not Stocked [referral]
Bookpool: Not Stocked
Looks like the best bet is going to be half.com or a used bookstore - kind of an old text.
This is going to be another case of a low-hech solution will be able to beat the billion dollar high-tech toy. What do you think a good old-fashioned smoke bomb is going to do the effectiveness of a laser beam? Any kind of dispersed particles are going to hamper it - they've spent this long needing to jump the power enough just to not disperse too much in the atmosphere.
Are you looking for something like this?
From the site:
The boards do appear to be available - anyone tried them?
Erm so? I threw it in there after contributing to the discussion, not just trolling for clicks like your friends out there. Besides,it doesn't cost you anything.
VRML is/was quite cool - I did work on a VRML viewer using OpenGL for an internship. Unfortunately after all they hype it never went very far, the large download sizes really hurt it's acceptance. Datafiles were one huge honkin' text file. The structure was nice and pretty easy to parse though. That was a fun project to work on.
Buy a book, try stuff out - learn to love CSS. Visit UseIt too.
Looks like /. junked my link on Section 508 in the previous post.
I liked the 1st edition too, so I'm not suprised that the 2nd got such a rave rating, but 10? I would have liked to see more information on why it's better than the first edition. Not mentioning much in the way of accessibility is a big minus for me working on corporate sites since Section 508 compliance required.
Amazon has it cheaper ($41.97) then B&N by the way.
Remembering 9/11 and what happened is important, and will continue to be important. However, the media in general seems to be back to it's same old self. Tons of 'tribute' and 'what happened' shows that won't do any justice to the events. Pick your own way to respect those past.
That was my first dissapointment with the book, but he goes out of the way to point out (and include) alternatives. You don't need to go buy Rational's stuff to take advantage of what you learn in the book.
Java and systems are getting faster. Consumer products in Java are not an unrealisitc expectation. The author of the book even says you don't have to follow the complete process - the book just uses 10 out of 100+ artifacts. You can pick whatever works for you. If you are pumping out similar products having an already-defined path helps instead of hinders. It depends what process you've got in place. For a small app things like doing the UI prototype will take a day or two at most - and you won't need any of the extensive data steps. Scale to what you really need, don't pick up a book or process and follow it through blindly.
Great success by what standard? Just because every chip has it doesn't mean it's a "success" when there's 2 manufacturers.
I doubt they'l just be completely cutting off @mac.com addresses - you've only got a few hours to wait for the real news instead of guessing.
I was heavily addicted to D2 for a while, and Counter-Strike and almost got hooked on DoC. Any game I buy I usually finish in the first week or two, ALL my spare time would go into solving it. Amazingly enough, I have not played any games at all for the past couple months since I bought a house - now I'm busy repairing stuff and taking care of the lawn, etc.. I'm sure I'll start playing games again, but when you have an alternative activity that's significant and you like to some degree you're much less likely to spend the time you finish work to the time you go to bed (+ some) totally devoted to a game.