You use your own hand rolled libraries for standard data structures? I really hope I don't end up on a project with you or inheriting one you've worked on.
Lots of developers already know the.NET Framework and are learning WPF. Lots of companies already have backend systems in.NET, subscribe to MSDN, and are investing in training their teams in WPF.
This is the reason that Silverlight is an appealing choice to lots of people and worthy of investigation in Microsoft shops (there are lots of them, and they aren't all evil).
Throughout, there are nuggets of insight and technical arcana that even Mac veterans will be surprised to learn about. I learned, for example, that the one-button Apple Mighty Mouse has a secret 2-button feature. Also there is a similar way to operate a laptop with a two finger trackpad technique.
As a recent switcher to Mac, and Windows and *NIX Power User, I am interested in this book. But can someone else tell me if the various ways to simulate right-clicking is really the extent of the "insight and technical arcana" in the book??
I knew about right clicking on the Mighty Mouse and the two-finger touchpad trick months before I even bought a Mac!
Comcast's customer service is horrible. I've had to spend hours on the phone getting them to admit to putting a bogus charge on my bill. Not to mention their inane billing practices; I have services that regularly flip from charging me for the previous month of service to the next month of service.
But they are genuinely afraid of competition. I don't even live in a place where I can get FIOS yet, and anytime I talk to them on the phone and mention any of the words "quit," "satellite," or "Verizon," I get transferred to a "Retention Department" that will end up either adding features for no charge, or rearranging my package to make it cheaper.
The fact of the matter is that acquiring a new customer is much more expensive than retaining an existing one. Comcast is well aware of this, and that is why FIOS is going to have a hard time breaking into mature cable markets.
The MIT Gehry building is not the only one of his campus buildings to result in controversy.
His building on the Case campus, the Peter B. Lewis building, had more issues than just the deadly icicles. It was over budget by nearly 2x the original price, which Peter B. Lewis (founder of Progressive Insurance) himself donated for the building.
He was so pissed that after the building was finished, he boycotted all Cleveland charities, including the university, asking that the boards be restructured. There is a lot of overlap on the boards of Case and the various Cleveland charities and non-profits.
I think Adobe *will* be providing the leadership here. In fact, they already are, with Flex and Flash. Flash player is installed on 90%+ of all browsers.
JavaScript serves a purpose, and had led to some cool web apps. But the REALLY cool new stuff is being done on the Flex/Flash platform. See Google Street View, Google Finance, Gliffy... JS can only take interactivity and so far. The new breed of web apps will finally fulfill what Java promised 10 years ago. But they won't be Java; they will be Flex or Silverlight (sorry, Sun, you were ahead of your time). Right now, Adobe is winning this battle. This is why MS is pushing Silverlight so hard.
This doesn't make ECMAScript irrelevant though--Flex is based on it. But I don't see ECMA's role in the browser expanding much beyond the current generation of web apps and providing the glue between Flex/Silverlight and the HTML.
These kinds of things will never be used by the NSA or the Pentagon where the sensitive information varies widely from document to document. But there are plenty of problems where an automated approach can work well.
A computer can be programmed to recognize what a credit card number looks like, or a Social Security number, or an address... that is the application for this kind of technology. Throw a stack of papers onto this copier, and POOF all the Credit Card numbers are gone. 99.99% probably IS good enough for this.
"Edwards, on the other hand, seems friendly and harmless. And he'll probably turn things around and set this country back on course."
You do realize that Guiliani literally turned around NYC and put it *back on course, don't you? The man has real grit and character. What did Edwards accomplish? A few hundred lawsuits? His hair is nice, though.
I hate to break this to you, but the Democratic party is much more likely to be the one that whithers away. The Republicans at least stand for SOMETHING. The Dems, and the Left in general, these days seem to represent nothing other than "the lesser of two evils." If and when a powerful third party comes along, it will be the Dems that fracture.
The parent here does a good job explaining that VJ's model is a *superset* of the conversational model we have now. The GP, however, has a very good point that dynamic content relies on the conversational model.
What is the next logical step then?
We can break down content into these named, secure objects. I may contact/. to get the home page using the conversational model we are used to. The page I get back, however, can have my customized content wrapped around references to the common, static pieces. For example, the article summaries could simply be named references. If I'm on a college campus, there is a good chance that my neighbors have already downloaded (and cached) the article summary text, so I can retrieve that data from them (based on the object name), and my browser can plug it into the dynamic content that had to come from/. itself.
It is sort of like taking the idea of a CDN and applying BT or Freenet democratization to it. I understand that this is a shift in perspective compared to tradition IP, but BT and Freenet have been successfully applied at the application layer of the stack. Why do we need new architecture? We can build an application that understands these named references and use that on top of what we already have.
It is nice to hear an Internet superpower talk about selling "plain old MP3s," but eMusic has been doing this for years (well before the iPod even existed). They don't have acts like Jessica Simpson, or even Radiohead, but they do have a huge collection of quality, interesting music. Loads of Indie Rock, Underground Hiphop, old and new jazz, lots of classic stuff and new albums come in everyday. It's cheap and no watermarks, either.
I'm a serious music collector and plain MP3s simplify my collection--DRM is a major headache when you just want to HAVE music and store it anyway you like.
Walmart has a right to decide what it wants to sell. The publishers and developers are the ones making a concsious decision here. Support independent game publishers that don't go through this channel, the ones that understand their customers enough to realize that there is a market that may lie outside of the Walmart shopper demographic and are willing to take the risk to sell to them. Remeber, only YOU can prove there is a market outside of Walmart.
Not RAID, but on my network I have a Linkys NSLU2 with two identical external USB harddrives. It has built in SMB support and can be configured to do a full drive backup daily. Its not the most scalable solution but it is low cost and easy to maintain.
The NSLU2 runs Linux and can be hacked so that you can setup more complex cron jobs to do your backups, if desired.
Non-citizens have no expectation of civil rights when entering a foreign country. The fact that you are even allowed to enter is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.
Does anyone else here think that Motorola phones are crap? I've known them to have very poor reliability and awful reception to boot.
Many stories abound about people exchanging their Motorola phone multiple times, and it seems like if there's one person in the room with no service, they're sporting a Motorola.
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YES and it has been this way for months. There are some incredibly brilliant XKCD comics but I'm afraid it's jumped the shark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_object-relational_mapping_software
You use your own hand rolled libraries for standard data structures? I really hope I don't end up on a project with you or inheriting one you've worked on.
This business model is called "dumb pipe" and the cell phone carriers are trying desperately to avoid it.
Lots of developers already know the .NET Framework and are learning WPF. Lots of companies already have backend systems in .NET, subscribe to MSDN, and are investing in training their teams in WPF.
This is the reason that Silverlight is an appealing choice to lots of people and worthy of investigation in Microsoft shops (there are lots of them, and they aren't all evil).
Not to mention that OS X comes with enough software out of the box to actually do stuff.
Safari, iCal, Mail, Address Book, and iLife definitively do not suck, do not nag, and are supported by the people you bought the machine from.
You also get the full suite of Developer tools with OS X. The cost of this alone closes the price gap.
As a recent switcher to Mac, and Windows and *NIX Power User, I am interested in this book. But can someone else tell me if the various ways to simulate right-clicking is really the extent of the "insight and technical arcana" in the book??
I knew about right clicking on the Mighty Mouse and the two-finger touchpad trick months before I even bought a Mac!
You forgot the application-layer pedophilia protocol: Freenet.
Comcast's customer service is horrible. I've had to spend hours on the phone getting them to admit to putting a bogus charge on my bill. Not to mention their inane billing practices; I have services that regularly flip from charging me for the previous month of service to the next month of service.
But they are genuinely afraid of competition. I don't even live in a place where I can get FIOS yet, and anytime I talk to them on the phone and mention any of the words "quit," "satellite," or "Verizon," I get transferred to a "Retention Department" that will end up either adding features for no charge, or rearranging my package to make it cheaper.
The fact of the matter is that acquiring a new customer is much more expensive than retaining an existing one. Comcast is well aware of this, and that is why FIOS is going to have a hard time breaking into mature cable markets.
The MIT Gehry building is not the only one of his campus buildings to result in controversy.
His building on the Case campus, the Peter B. Lewis building, had more issues than just the deadly icicles. It was over budget by nearly 2x the original price, which Peter B. Lewis (founder of Progressive Insurance) himself donated for the building.
He was so pissed that after the building was finished, he boycotted all Cleveland charities, including the university, asking that the boards be restructured. There is a lot of overlap on the boards of Case and the various Cleveland charities and non-profits.
Article here.
I think Adobe *will* be providing the leadership here. In fact, they already are, with Flex and Flash. Flash player is installed on 90%+ of all browsers.
JavaScript serves a purpose, and had led to some cool web apps. But the REALLY cool new stuff is being done on the Flex/Flash platform. See Google Street View, Google Finance, Gliffy... JS can only take interactivity and so far. The new breed of web apps will finally fulfill what Java promised 10 years ago. But they won't be Java; they will be Flex or Silverlight (sorry, Sun, you were ahead of your time). Right now, Adobe is winning this battle. This is why MS is pushing Silverlight so hard.
This doesn't make ECMAScript irrelevant though--Flex is based on it. But I don't see ECMA's role in the browser expanding much beyond the current generation of web apps and providing the glue between Flex/Silverlight and the HTML.
These kinds of things will never be used by the NSA or the Pentagon where the sensitive information varies widely from document to document. But there are plenty of problems where an automated approach can work well.
A computer can be programmed to recognize what a credit card number looks like, or a Social Security number, or an address... that is the application for this kind of technology. Throw a stack of papers onto this copier, and POOF all the Credit Card numbers are gone. 99.99% probably IS good enough for this.
"Edwards, on the other hand, seems friendly and harmless. And he'll probably turn things around and set this country back on course."
You do realize that Guiliani literally turned around NYC and put it *back on course, don't you? The man has real grit and character. What did Edwards accomplish? A few hundred lawsuits? His hair is nice, though.
I hate to break this to you, but the Democratic party is much more likely to be the one that whithers away. The Republicans at least stand for SOMETHING. The Dems, and the Left in general, these days seem to represent nothing other than "the lesser of two evils." If and when a powerful third party comes along, it will be the Dems that fracture.
The parent here does a good job explaining that VJ's model is a *superset* of the conversational model we have now. The GP, however, has a very good point that dynamic content relies on the conversational model.
/. to get the home page using the conversational model we are used to. The page I get back, however, can have my customized content wrapped around references to the common, static pieces. For example, the article summaries could simply be named references. If I'm on a college campus, there is a good chance that my neighbors have already downloaded (and cached) the article summary text, so I can retrieve that data from them (based on the object name), and my browser can plug it into the dynamic content that had to come from /. itself.
What is the next logical step then?
We can break down content into these named, secure objects. I may contact
It is sort of like taking the idea of a CDN and applying BT or Freenet democratization to it. I understand that this is a shift in perspective compared to tradition IP, but BT and Freenet have been successfully applied at the application layer of the stack. Why do we need new architecture? We can build an application that understands these named references and use that on top of what we already have.
I thought the correct adjective was Womish?
It is nice to hear an Internet superpower talk about selling "plain old MP3s," but eMusic has been doing this for years (well before the iPod even existed). They don't have acts like Jessica Simpson, or even Radiohead, but they do have a huge collection of quality, interesting music. Loads of Indie Rock, Underground Hiphop, old and new jazz, lots of classic stuff and new albums come in everyday. It's cheap and no watermarks, either.
I'm a serious music collector and plain MP3s simplify my collection--DRM is a major headache when you just want to HAVE music and store it anyway you like.
Yes, I particularly like having to click through 3 prompts search for *.foo.
Walmart has a right to decide what it wants to sell. The publishers and developers are the ones making a concsious decision here. Support independent game publishers that don't go through this channel, the ones that understand their customers enough to realize that there is a market that may lie outside of the Walmart shopper demographic and are willing to take the risk to sell to them. Remeber, only YOU can prove there is a market outside of Walmart.
Not RAID, but on my network I have a Linkys NSLU2 with two identical external USB harddrives. It has built in SMB support and can be configured to do a full drive backup daily. Its not the most scalable solution but it is low cost and easy to maintain.
The NSLU2 runs Linux and can be hacked so that you can setup more complex cron jobs to do your backups, if desired.
Non-citizens have no expectation of civil rights when entering a foreign country. The fact that you are even allowed to enter is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.
OT but..
Does anyone else here think that Motorola phones are crap? I've known them to have very poor reliability and awful reception to boot.
Many stories abound about people exchanging their Motorola phone multiple times, and it seems like if there's one person in the room with no service, they're sporting a Motorola.
Try WordPort--will convert ProWrite 1.0 (and others) to a number of formats.
It looks like this is really shaping up to be the year of Windows!
Similar to how Jews were used by the Germans in WW2 to test out new technology.