Why would anyone outside of ISVs download this? So for the cost of re-imaging my system I get to test an unstable, feature incomplete OS that is likely to further the bane of human existance. Not only does the install expire but I then have to pay full price for a legit copy at the end.
And for all my bug reports I send in I get ???
You get:
An opportuninty to test any software you have developed for compatibility with the updated platform
The thrill of being on the bleeding edge, and to play with something before most other people
Windows system administrators get a chance to update their skills, and perhaps be ahead in the job market
At least when you beta test an OSS OS you then get rewarded with a stable OS that you can freely install as you choose...
... or you could install an unstable OSS OS and test features not currently available in current stable distributions. Same as what's happening here. Some people will be interested, most people won't.
This looks like an interesting technique, but I think that you would have to have a very good reason to use this feature in a real presentation, otherwise it might come across as distracting. The presenter should be trying to make some sort of point (or sale, or argument, or...). I'm sure that there are some cases where this could really make a big different to a presentation, but I'd guess that these are fairly rare.
On the subject of web enabled presentation formats, I really like S5, Eric Meyer's Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (see http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ ). This is much more simple than the technique from the article, and there are now some very powerful Scriptalicious extenstions that can add dynamic features to S5. One of my own presentations is at http://www.exubero.com/ant/antintro-s5.html
This argument resonates with me, especially since I've had to implement countermeasures to stop PageRank spammers on a wiki I admin (see http://www.exubero.com/blog/20051206_Stopping_Wiki spam.html for details). In my case the wiki spammers were obviouly leeching on my resources by adding links using automated tools from a botnet, without contributing anything material to the wiki. The additions were hidden from casual view, the only reason for them was to increate PageRank. I don't look very favourably on tricks used to game the ranking system.
In the case of **Beatles-Beatles, he is actually providing interesting stories, but the motivation appears to be gaming PageRank.
Yes, you are quite correct (as you can easily determine if you look inside the master.css file). Simplebits gave me some initial ideas about colours and layouts. The sliding doors technique described on A List Apart helped complete the menu, and numerous other tweaks and improvements from other articles on that site. Ruby and ERB does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to assembling various bits of body and sidebard content, and generating menu structure.
I have some friends who play around all day smashing antimatter into matter, which I think sounds like a fun hobby. The theory of what they do is well above my head, but I recently got a chance to contribute by creating a new website for them at the Center for Antimatter-Matter Studies. Check it out (though I'm afraid there aren't any pics of quarks)
I needed to create some slides last week for a presentation to my company's Best Practice group. After working out the actual content I wanted, it took me all of 20 minutes to create the content using s5.
JUnit unit = new JUnit.TestFramework.SimpleTest()
unit.setExpectedResult(4)
unit.setPassMessage('Okay, exponention works...')
unit.setFailMessage('Uh oh...')
NumberFormatter format = new NumberFormatter()
format.setDecimalDigits(1)
format.setLocaleFractionalSeperator('.')
unit.setFormatter(format)
unit.runTest(Math.pow(2))
Yeah, I can create a verbose, unreadable and unrealistic example in Perl, too. It doesn't make the language bad, rather it reflects badly on the programmer.
The 1.0 branch is long lived, but it has only just branched and has not stabilised yet. Nightly builds on this branch will be labeled with RC1 in the "About Mozilla" screen and user agent string. When drivers is happy that there are no major issues, and then the RC1 will disappear from the reporting string.
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You get:
... or you could install an unstable OSS OS and test features not currently available in current stable distributions. Same as what's happening here. Some people will be interested, most people won't.
Dude, you could at least give some attribution to http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/ques tions/question19.html
This looks like an interesting technique, but I think that you would have to have a very good reason to use this feature in a real presentation, otherwise it might come across as distracting. The presenter should be trying to make some sort of point (or sale, or argument, or...). I'm sure that there are some cases where this could really make a big different to a presentation, but I'd guess that these are fairly rare.
On the subject of web enabled presentation formats, I really like S5, Eric Meyer's Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (see http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ ). This is much more simple than the technique from the article, and there are now some very powerful Scriptalicious extenstions that can add dynamic features to S5. One of my own presentations is at http://www.exubero.com/ant/antintro-s5.html
This argument resonates with me, especially since I've had to implement countermeasures to stop PageRank spammers on a wiki I admin (see http://www.exubero.com/blog/20051206_Stopping_Wiki spam.html for details). In my case the wiki spammers were obviouly leeching on my resources by adding links using automated tools from a botnet, without contributing anything material to the wiki. The additions were hidden from casual view, the only reason for them was to increate PageRank. I don't look very favourably on tricks used to game the ranking system.
In the case of **Beatles-Beatles, he is actually providing interesting stories, but the motivation appears to be gaming PageRank.
Hey, here's the perfect page for this topic. It will generate the name of a Web 2.0 company and product description in seconds!
I have some friends who play around all day smashing antimatter into matter, which I think sounds like a fun hobby. The theory of what they do is well above my head, but I recently got a chance to contribute by creating a new website for them at the Center for Antimatter-Matter Studies. Check it out (though I'm afraid there aren't any pics of quarks)
This reminded me of the Cluetrain Manifesto; it certainly covers a lot of similar ground.
I needed to create some slides last week for a presentation to my company's Best Practice group. After working out the actual content I wanted, it took me all of 20 minutes to create the content using s5.
Here's the final result: Introduction to CruiseControl
Mozilla users can switch to alternative stylesheets using the switcher on the status bar.
BEN: That's no moon! That's a Security Blimp!
public void testPow() {
assertEquals( "Unexpected Math.Pow result", Math.pow(2), 4 );
}
Yeah, I can create a verbose, unreadable and unrealistic example in Perl, too. It doesn't make the language bad, rather it reflects badly on the programmer.
The 1.0 branch is long lived, but it has only just branched and has not stabilised yet. Nightly builds on this branch will be labeled with RC1 in the "About Mozilla" screen and user agent string. When drivers is happy that there are no major issues, and then the RC1 will disappear from the reporting string.