there is no reason to put every job you had on the resume Until you happen to run into someone who worked with you at one of the places you didn't list, and your manager says "Hey, I didn't know you worked at SomeCo". Then they check your resume and see that you didn't mention it, and they start wondering what else you didn't mention. Especially if you fudge your start/end dates, then it's not just an oversight, it's a lie. And lying on your resume is a Very Bad Thing....
I would still suggest that anyone doing web design should at least be familiar with his work Oh, definitely. I think that anyone who produces or evaluates information or ideas (which is pretty much everybody) should skim all of his books. He's kind of like Knuth: when publishers told him it would be too expensive to print his books the way he wanted (Visual Explanations, especially, has lots of little flaps and pieces glued in), he started his own publishing house. The results are books that are distinctive and have that air of quality about them, the kind that elicit a "wow, this is nice" feeling when you pick one up. Or maybe that's just me...
Hmmm, I see he's just published another book. Dag, there goes my lunch money for next week...
Tufte doesn't say squat about web design. He doesn't really get into page or content design at all. He's all about the presentation of data, and how to try to turn it into information. He'll tell you that you should stick to primary colors or simple textures, but he'd try to dissuade you from adding a drop shadow to your graphic (indeed, from even adding a graphic if it wasn't intimately related to the data set you were trying to present).
He's the man if you're trying to present data, but if you want to present text or other non-numeric information, he's not much help.
pentium 2 266mhz (yeah that old thing) Heh, this article reminded me that I burned a 6.10 ISO, and I've been meaning to try it. I had assembled an old box for one of my wife's friends to use while his was in the shop, so I had a P-II/450 with 256M and a new 100G drive with naught but a copy of XP on it. So last night I threw in the CD and booted it up. Installation seemed to go all right (I didn't sit there and watch it), but it automatically repartitioned the hard drive (which impressed me, as I thought XP had used NTFS) and came up after I power-cycled the box this morning. My only complaint is that it doesn't seem to support the graphics card (a Matrox G200 AGP): at least, my only choices for screen resolution are 640x480 and 800x600. The old MultiSync I've got it hooked to won't go farther than 1024x768, but I'd like to at least get that resolution. And I have done zero poking and reconfiguring things, it's likely that I'll be able to fix this after spending fifteen minutes or so with the installed help and Firefox. Oh, one thing that annoyed me: the buttons on all the installer pages were rendered behind the taskbar, and the window wouldn't resize. Fortunately they had the option of hiding the taskbar, so I just did that and everything was fine, but that was annoying.
Otherwise, it looks fine and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
I would just point out that Alan Cox's statement is the exact reason Fedora has been loosing [sic] seats to Ubuntu as rapidly as possible Well, I wouldn't say that's the exact reason... I've noticed on several OSS support forums that Fedora seems to be one of the most problematic distros. People have problems installing stuff, configuring stuff, things hang or eat tons of CPU time, and just generally don't work properly. And, while I've never see anyone come right out and say "You need to move to another distro", lots of times the threads will end with "I see on the project bug list that this is a known problem with Fedora Core"...
So I don't think any mass exodus is solely based on political ideals...
I read about this in the paper this morning. Interestingly, in a sidebar they interview a student from Wesleyan (a neighboring school), who came onto campus specifically to download music, because they have all the popular download sites blocked at her school. I wonder if "visiting" student contribute in any meaningful way to UNL's stats?
He didn't say that Java was slow. He said that Ruby was slower than Java. Since Java isn't 400 times faster than most other contemporary languages, that makes Ruby slower than most other languages out there. It doesn't affect Java's position vis-a-vis performance comparisons.
both standards use rather long element names, often in excess of eight characters, plus eight or more namespace characters beyond that. Actually, one of my complaints about the MS format was that it used short tags. Not that I favor <loquaciousTagNameWithEmbeddedDescription>, but when you start to get down to where the data really lives, you start to see tags like <bk>, <t>, <lt>... It looks like they just wrapped their earlier implementations with some new structure (with long tag names), instead of restructuring the whole thing and cleaning it up.
Seriously, did that many people really have problems with WordStar and Word Perfect? They used embedded control codes, and everybody I knew who used them was well aware of their limitations and how to use them for leverage to do some complex formatting.
When I bought a copy of Wasabi NetBSD (now just "Wasabi BSD"), they included a NetBSD Daemon case sticker. Fit perfectly, in fact it's still there! Of course, that PPro 200 box doesn't see a lot of use any more...
Personnel can have it if they insist (I can almost see a reason for them to have it, although as I live alone there's no-one there to notify in the extremely unlikely event of an accident), Well, in the "extremely unlikely" event you have an accident at home, wouldn't it be nice if your boss could try to get in touch with you? If you don't answer, they might assume you're too sick/hurt to answer, and send someone around to check on you. Depends on where you live, but I know I've read two or three accounts in the paper lately (say in the last six months) about people who have had exactly that happen, and that's how the cops/paramedics found them. Usually in time, except for the guy who — well, he died within a day, before anyone from his office would have reported him missing anyway. This is in "the heartland", so if you're on one of the coasts this may seem rediculous.
Sorry, that should be "multithreaded device access". I was quoting from this entry linked from the FAQ:
one small but critical element for the use of DirectX over OpenGL, multi-threaded graphics device access. Not sure exactly how DirectX (now Direct3D) implements its thread-safe layer, but I think the important question is how well will the new Java version work? I haven't played with Java3D much, but I doubt it's integrated with hardware as closely as DirectX is, so I can't imagine its performance is going to be comparable.
OpenGL won't give you multithreaded graphics devices, something WW uses pretty heavily. If you're going to restructure the code to get around that, you might as well port it to Java...
I remember something from the 70s, don't remember if it was a patent or not, but it described a device shaped like a shoe innersole. The thing had pizeoelectric pads that turned the pressure from walking into heat to keep the wearer's feet warm during the winter. Never heard about it again, so I don't know if any were ever made, but the idea's been around for awhile.
the software giant will certainly be on the hook for millions of dollars, some of which may end up helping Iowa school kids Oh, yeah, Microsoft loves helping schools. I remember when I lived in Portland, Microsoft was incredibly helpful.
Actually, as it turned out, they were helpful — they helped spur the development of K12OS...
most of Sun's hardware nowadays is built on top of AMD (and soon Intel) CPUs Nope, most of their stuff still runs on SPARC. They're selling their new Niagra-based systems as fast as they can crank them out, and they still ship a healthy number of UltraSPARC boxes too. They do have a lot of AMD-based stuff, but they're still predominantly a SPARC vendor.
Most of the time a computer isn't churning away on a single problem that needs to be parallelized. In that respect, the solution rests more with the operating system. True, and in the short term I'd imagine that's where most of the improvements will appear, but context switches are expensive. It's more efficient if you can switch execution to another thread within the same context, so you can (hopefully) still use the data in your I & D caches, although you do still have a register spill/reload.
Speaking of architecture changes, it sounds like Intel is going down the same road the Alpha team did — more cacheing. I remember reading an article about one system DEC made (ISTR this was about the time the 21264 came out) that had 1M of L1 cache, 2M of L2, and 8M of L3. I wonder how much cache they could squeeze onto a chip, given current power handling.
It wasn't THAT long ago that I had to disable javascript on every web browser I used or my computer(s) would lock up. Well, that's what you get for using Fedora Core...
No, I don't want to download the extra 12 megs of java interpreter. Lemme guess, you never update your browser either. Last I checked, most of them were running 50+MB for downloads. Still, if you're running a P-II with 256MB and a 40G drive, I guess you've got a point...
And at the end of the day, where we're at now, most things can be done in Javascript. Yeah, and 640K should be enough for anybody...
Java's virtual machine, for the first several revisions, sucked ass and ran extremely slowly, cutting the general user experience on a Pentium I 100Mhz machine down to that of Windows 2.0 on a 80286 runing at 14 Mhz. Yeah, I noticed that nobody paid attention to Windows after they saw how pokey it was... FWIW, my team shipped a Java app on Java 1.1.8, it was plenty speedy enough (on an 800MHz P-III) to win a couple of million-dollar deals. Certainly faster than the VB app it replaced (largely because we didn't have to load a dozen or so fat DLLs for third-party ActiveX controls).
Microsoft does not charge Dell $139 for a copy of Windows But then, we're not talking about what MS charges Dell, we're talking about what Dell charges their customers. Right now, Dell will sell a home edition of Vista at prices ranging from $99 to $239. However, Red Hat Linux, while mentioned as an option if you browse their server lines, doesn't appear under either desktop or server OSes (although Datawatch's "Monarch", a reporting and analysis tool, does...)
It's tricky to sell machines without an OS because MS have some kind of conspiracy going, not because consumers generally just want the machine to come with the current Windows OS? kinda. Think about it — the #1 (and probably nos 2-5, too) reason people don't buy a Mac is the price. Now imagine you popped over to the Dell site and saw that you could get a bottom-end machine for $299 with XP Media Edition on it OR: the exact same machine with no OS for $199. How many people would elect to just re-use the same OS they've been using for the last 4-5 years to save $100? At that price point, I'd guess about 99.44%. But Dell doesn't do that, do they? Nope, because MS would either raise their OEM license fees (oh, sorry, "reduce their OEM discount") or restrict the number of licenses they were granted until Dell caved. I've heard that Dell does in fact sell some systems with no OS, but apparently they're not a lot cheaper and (allegedly) it's hard to find them on their web site. Not like a straight "This model: $699. Add $139 for Windows."
Heh, can you imagine: "This model: $299. Add $139 for Windows. Add $29 for Novell Linux." Why do you think we don't see Dell or HP doing something like that?
primitive portion of the brain, called the amygdala, feels fear and incites a fear-or-flight response This should actually be fight-or-flight response. Fear is the stimulus, the amygdala merely chooses (or rather, "strongly suggests", as the article points out) the reaction to it.
That's a good idea, but so much space hardware is non-ferrous (aliminium, titanium, stainless steel, plastic) I don't know how effective such a device would be. I think a better solution would be some kind of space flypaper, but I don't have any idea how to make an adhesive that would work at space temperatures, or if even something like Kevlar would provide a strong-enough backing material.
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Hmmm, I see he's just published another book. Dag, there goes my lunch money for next week...
Tufte doesn't say squat about web design. He doesn't really get into page or content design at all. He's all about the presentation of data, and how to try to turn it into information. He'll tell you that you should stick to primary colors or simple textures, but he'd try to dissuade you from adding a drop shadow to your graphic (indeed, from even adding a graphic if it wasn't intimately related to the data set you were trying to present).
He's the man if you're trying to present data, but if you want to present text or other non-numeric information, he's not much help.
Otherwise, it looks fine and I'm looking forward to trying it out.
So I don't think any mass exodus is solely based on political ideals...
I read about this in the paper this morning. Interestingly, in a sidebar they interview a student from Wesleyan (a neighboring school), who came onto campus specifically to download music, because they have all the popular download sites blocked at her school. I wonder if "visiting" student contribute in any meaningful way to UNL's stats?
He didn't say that Java was slow. He said that Ruby was slower than Java. Since Java isn't 400 times faster than most other contemporary languages, that makes Ruby slower than most other languages out there. It doesn't affect Java's position vis-a-vis performance comparisons.
The word is propelled. I'm not usually a grammar Nazi, but I just couldn't let this one slide.
Who's to say his kernel didn't post that? Software often refers to my^H^Hitself in the third person, you know?
Seriously, did that many people really have problems with WordStar and Word Perfect? They used embedded control codes, and everybody I knew who used them was well aware of their limitations and how to use them for leverage to do some complex formatting.
When I bought a copy of Wasabi NetBSD (now just "Wasabi BSD"), they included a NetBSD Daemon case sticker. Fit perfectly, in fact it's still there! Of course, that PPro 200 box doesn't see a lot of use any more...
I've undergone croissant examination, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't legal.
OpenGL won't give you multithreaded graphics devices, something WW uses pretty heavily. If you're going to restructure the code to get around that, you might as well port it to Java...
I remember something from the 70s, don't remember if it was a patent or not, but it described a device shaped like a shoe innersole. The thing had pizeoelectric pads that turned the pressure from walking into heat to keep the wearer's feet warm during the winter. Never heard about it again, so I don't know if any were ever made, but the idea's been around for awhile.
Actually, as it turned out, they were helpful — they helped spur the development of K12OS...
Speaking of architecture changes, it sounds like Intel is going down the same road the Alpha team did — more cacheing. I remember reading an article about one system DEC made (ISTR this was about the time the 21264 came out) that had 1M of L1 cache, 2M of L2, and 8M of L3. I wonder how much cache they could squeeze onto a chip, given current power handling.
Heh, can you imagine: "This model: $299. Add $139 for Windows. Add $29 for Novell Linux." Why do you think we don't see Dell or HP doing something like that?
That's a good idea, but so much space hardware is non-ferrous (aliminium, titanium, stainless steel, plastic) I don't know how effective such a device would be. I think a better solution would be some kind of space flypaper, but I don't have any idea how to make an adhesive that would work at space temperatures, or if even something like Kevlar would provide a strong-enough backing material.