What you say regarding code quality is true of Mambo, and to a lesser extent, of Joomla 1.0.x. On the other hand, the post-Mambo fork team has been rebuilding the upcoming 1.5 release from the ground up.
When I went looking in 2003 for a pre-built CMS to supplant the simple LAMP-based site I had written for a small non-profit, though Drupal looked like it could have all sorts of power someday, I could see that I could build them a fully featured site with Mambo in less than a month's worth of nights n' weekends.
Um, Um, Um (there, there, I pi$$ed you off). I didn't obfuscate that language for the benfit of the/. crowd. I did it to get by the company censorwall (you @$$#@+).
Um, this would be a nit if Microsoft were not a 900 Gorilla with a brand new t#&d to throw, but if you go to their Vista launch site (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experiences /default.mspx), select "Get Ready" from the nav menu, then select "Windows Vista Editions", you get a broken link. This does not bode well.;-)
Why would you not mind? By this same logic you would not mind having your boss discipline you at work for perfectly legal things you did on the weekend as long as he got to check up on everyone equally.
If we could ignore for a moment the trolls and knuckle draggers who must comment on Susan Rempe's appearance, this advance will be important to those of us who are losing eyesight to RP or AMD.
Most of the current clinical trials for artificial retinas (http://www.optobionics.com/ excluded) rely on some sort of external component partially due to the lack of a sufficiently small, dense, permanent, biocompatible power source. This then requires some sort of link to the retinal surface, either via micro-lasers or implanted ultra-thin wires. As much as enjoy watching ST:TNG, I for one would happily trade the Geordi LaForge look for a strictly internal prosthetic.
Most of the time when I hear of someone going missing in the woods, it's a small child or a couple of teens. This crowd is not expected to go off trail, hence is least likely to slap on a tracker. Perhaps a good compromise is a low res cam. Can't tell who it is, but you can tell it's a human.
Most conversations on this topic revolve "taking care of" the elderly, sort of like they are children. I think that the first adopters will rather be perfectly competent seniors with physical challenges, not mental ones. My father is more likely going to buy the thing for himself than me buying it for him.
So now M$ benfits from the charitable acts of less rapacious companies. It would have made sense for them to charge no fee and take a tax writeoff of their own (for what exactly?), BUT NOOOO!
... and that's about it.
Seriously, one the most expensive things for a retail establishment is forcasting and maintaining physical stock. It costs in staff(stock handlers), floor space(often more than the retail space), and risk(loss & damage, obsolete or unpopular products). This "innovation" kills two birds with one stone, just-in-time stock management, and customer self service.
I was once told by an MBA that in order for my consulting services to be valued more, I should raise my rates. People automatically think that they get what they pay for, therefor a free distro can't be worth as much as an XP or Solaris license.
Verner Vinge wrote of the "Group Mind" in 1993 as a path to Sigularity see http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html. The free posting of the advances in knowlege is an accelerant to Singularity. If one buys into the Extopian worldview, then the debate takes on some profound implications.
Another job I had in the late 80s was at a CASE software vendor. The salesguy came back from Japan and announced that he had sold an installation in Kanji, then asked us if we could get it ready by Labor Day (it was mid June). After working 13 days on, 1 off it was ready just in time.
My manager thanked me and said "Take two days off, but don't tell the rest of the team. I'm only giving them one day off>"
The punchline: Of course I told my co-workers, and found that the PHB has said the exact same thing to each of them.
Back when I started my career in 1983, I worked for an insurance company that let the actuaries run their own VSBasic programs under TSO without any release control. Aside from dumps debugging, my job included periodically going through the source code of hundreds of programs to determine if the user was using company resources for personal uses like tracking lottery numbers or NCAA brackets.
On one occasion, the operator scratched the pack that I had recovered MSS volumes to for this purpose, leading to weeks of tape recovery from Iron Mountain. After recovering thousands of files and not recovering hundreds, not one user had even noticed anything wrong. I quess they didn't need any of those files after all
The cover story of the March issue of Technology Review is "Search Beyond Google" (click CURRENT ISSUE, privacy invasion required). Like the Salon article, they mention Dipsie, but they also cover a search engine (Mooter) that uses a MindMap style interface.
I don't know about you, but most of the real good architects I know were coders first. So I guess the architect jobs will be going in a few years as well (sigh).
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What you say regarding code quality is true of Mambo, and to a lesser extent, of Joomla 1.0.x. On the other hand, the post-Mambo fork team has been rebuilding the upcoming 1.5 release from the ground up.
When I went looking in 2003 for a pre-built CMS to supplant the simple LAMP-based site I had written for a small non-profit, though Drupal looked like it could have all sorts of power someday, I could see that I could build them a fully featured site with Mambo in less than a month's worth of nights n' weekends.
Um, Um, Um (there, there, I pi$$ed you off). I didn't obfuscate that language for the benfit of the /. crowd. I did it to get by the company censorwall (you @$$#@+).
From ThinkGeek?
Doh! Stupid keyboard.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0
Um, this would be a nit if Microsoft were not a 900 Gorilla with a brand new t#&d to throw, but if you go to their Vista launch site (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/experiences /default.mspx), select "Get Ready" from the nav menu, then select "Windows Vista Editions", you get a broken link. This does not bode well. ;-)
Why would you not mind? By this same logic you would not mind having your boss discipline you at work for perfectly legal things you did on the weekend as long as he got to check up on everyone equally.
If we could ignore for a moment the trolls and knuckle draggers who must comment on Susan Rempe's appearance, this advance will be important to those of us who are losing eyesight to RP or AMD.
Most of the current clinical trials for artificial retinas (http://www.optobionics.com/ excluded) rely on some sort of external component partially due to the lack of a sufficiently small, dense, permanent, biocompatible power source. This then requires some sort of link to the retinal surface, either via micro-lasers or implanted ultra-thin wires. As much as enjoy watching ST:TNG, I for one would happily trade the Geordi LaForge look for a strictly internal prosthetic.
Most of the time when I hear of someone going missing in the woods, it's a small child or a couple of teens. This crowd is not expected to go off trail, hence is least likely to slap on a tracker. Perhaps a good compromise is a low res cam. Can't tell who it is, but you can tell it's a human.
Hey, It's New York. Standard fare in the Village.
Paul Rubens will soon have a lot of company in the pork-pull theatre gallery. Imagine what the projectionist will see at American Pie Three.
My other sig is drunk.
Forget cameras, check out Optobionics. The whole thing is in the eye.
My other sig went home.
Most conversations on this topic revolve "taking care of" the elderly, sort of like they are children. I think that the first adopters will rather be perfectly competent seniors with physical challenges, not mental ones. My father is more likely going to buy the thing for himself than me buying it for him.
My other sig is in jail.
So now M$ benfits from the charitable acts of less rapacious companies. It would have made sense for them to charge no fee and take a tax writeoff of their own (for what exactly?), BUT NOOOO!
My other sig is in Aruba.
... and that's about it.
Seriously, one the most expensive things for a retail establishment is forcasting and maintaining physical stock. It costs in staff(stock handlers), floor space(often more than the retail space), and risk(loss & damage, obsolete or unpopular products). This "innovation" kills two birds with one stone, just-in-time stock management, and customer self service.
My other sig is in the wash.
What whould you do if the parking ticket cost less than the parking meter?
I was once told by an MBA that in order for my consulting services to be valued more, I should raise my rates. People automatically think that they get what they pay for, therefor a free distro can't be worth as much as an XP or Solaris license.
Verner Vinge wrote of the "Group Mind" in 1993 as a path to Sigularity see http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix/vinge/vinge-s ing.html. The free posting of the advances in knowlege is an accelerant to Singularity. If one buys into the Extopian worldview, then the debate takes on some profound implications.
...from Clash of the Titans.
Rifraff.
Your wife isn't the one to worry about. Just ask anyone that started life as Moonbeam, Flower, or Song.
Another job I had in the late 80s was at a CASE software vendor. The salesguy came back from Japan and announced that he had sold an installation in Kanji, then asked us if we could get it ready by Labor Day (it was mid June). After working 13 days on, 1 off it was ready just in time.
My manager thanked me and said "Take two days off, but don't tell the rest of the team. I'm only giving them one day off>"
The punchline: Of course I told my co-workers, and found that the PHB has said the exact same thing to each of them.
Back when I started my career in 1983, I worked for an insurance company that let the actuaries run their own VSBasic programs under TSO without any release control. Aside from dumps debugging, my job included periodically going through the source code of hundreds of programs to determine if the user was using company resources for personal uses like tracking lottery numbers or NCAA brackets.
On one occasion, the operator scratched the pack that I had recovered MSS volumes to for this purpose, leading to weeks of tape recovery from Iron Mountain. After recovering thousands of files and not recovering hundreds, not one user had even noticed anything wrong. I quess they didn't need any of those files after all
Deja vu, similar thoughts were expressed by Alvin Toffler in "Future Shock" over 25 years ago, but he called it the "Tyranny of Choice".
The cover story of the March issue of Technology Review is "Search Beyond Google" (click CURRENT ISSUE, privacy invasion required). Like the Salon article, they mention Dipsie, but they also cover a search engine (Mooter) that uses a MindMap style interface.
I don't know about you, but most of the real good architects I know were coders first. So I guess the architect jobs will be going in a few years as well (sigh).