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- Literate programming
- Literate programming*blink*Full time programers don't do this? I learned FORTRAN around 1980 and the text required "a structured and disciplined style." That may not be the same thing as "literate programming" but it seems close. I know I have a hard time getting statisticians to document their project specific analysis...
- Tags: Development tools, programming, programmer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- BIT: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeThe function, then the how.A discussion beginning: State population totals were derived from individual census tract results by... would create a context. As a narrative strategy, reaching a goal is more organized, satisfying, than describing a process and giving...
- Tags: Mainframes, Servers, Orwell, IBM Corp., data-processing, hypothesis, mainframe, IBM mainframe
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Got science?
- Got science?Great article!I'd love to believe that a political regime change (that we'll hopefully see in November) can bring us some progress in this area. Hopefully not more business as usual if the Dems can be believed. We'll see.Chris DawsonLeading Nuclear Research is now done in...India.Remember when the...
- Tags: Nuclear Research, ozone, Thomas Jefferson
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Market disconnects
- Market disconnectsLootoI remember a few years back, the state Lotto was over $100 million. An investor firm wanted to buy one ticket for every number (at the time, about 20 million numbers). They went to the state and asked to purchase the 20 million tickets. The state came back and...
- Tags: Investment, trader, Warren Buffet, Sun Microsystems Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit City
- Blockbuster sees media convergence; Offers to buy Circuit CityI don't understand it either.I just don't see how merging these two will make them both successfull either. This is like merging Sear's and KMART. I just do not get it. Movie rentals are a dying breed and until a formal way...
- Tags: Investment, Movie Rentals, Blockbuster Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., media convergence
- Discussion threads 2008-04-14
- 10 reasons why use cases are indispensable to your software development project
- Well-written use case narratives (or simply "use cases") offer the analysis, development, and testing teams an invaluable guidebook. A use case is a formalized story that describes how someone procedurally interacts with an existing or proposed system. Here are ten reasons why they should be part of a project managers'...
- Tags: Software, Software Development, Use Case
- Download resources 2007-11-08
- Compromise
- CompromiseHear hear!I left Company 'F' because of these compromises. I would always stand firm on my principles - only to be ignored and outcast. I'm not bitter, as you and I understand that it's just "people being people" - but I am disappointed.What's even worse than Windoze people doing *NIX?...
- Tags: Operating systems, Workstations, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Unix, IT administration, IT Department, information technology
- Discussion threads 2007-07-09
- The right way for Sun to deal with Wall Street
- The right way for Sun to deal with Wall StreetGive me a breakYou are kidding right? What you are proposing is a simplistic off the cuff insight into the market. It is as if I said all computer people stink, don't have manners and are introverts. The problem of Sun...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., earnings, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- Pew Report notes, part three: He shoots, he scores... telling the story that makes a winner
- The Pew Internet & American Life Projects report, A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users, has raised a lot of questions in the mediasphere in the past couple days. Despite the concerns that social media, or "Web 2.0," are not catching on with rapidly or broadly enough, the report...
- Tags: Business &, Technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- What Second Life should learn from Myst
- What Second Life should learn from MystExcellent observations.Somehow I've found myself immune to the supposed allure of such things as Second Life. I spent probably 10 minutes in it and left yawning. But I know [i]exactly[/i] what you're talking about with regard to Myst. It provided that full immersion experience...
- Tags: Games, Second Life, Myst, game
- Discussion threads 2007-03-24
- Apple TV launch put on pause
- Apple TV launch put on pauseApple's late product is lateWhat with the myriad of other devices that already do everything Apple TV does (and much, much, much more), this is really non-news. The only people that are affected by this are the Apple zealots who absolutely must have everything that...
- Tags: Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Apple TV, Apple Inc., PC, TV
- Discussion threads 2007-02-26
- Tags, Networks, Narrative
- This presentation aims at how to evaluate the potential of new tools for the sharing and classifying of knowledge, and identify the accompanying opportunities and threats. To obtain an overview of current research into narratives in a digital context, disseminate findings and identify topics for further investigation.
- Tags: Network, Productivity, Strategy, Management
- Presentations 2007-01-30
- Hollywood vs. YouTube clip culture
- Metacafe CEO Arik Czerniak believes short form video is not an “extension of TV,” it is a new medium with its own unlimited creative and financial potential; Czerniak told me (see “Metacafe CEO talks ‘The Real Deal’”) that he is committed to taking Metacafe as far as it can go...
- Tags: MetaCafe, YouTube Inc., video, Arik Czerniak
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Podcasting Gear: What David Berlind is using now
- Podcasting Gear: What David Berlind is using nowNiceThanks David. Perfect timing. Especially the info on InnKeeper. -RSWhat about videoThe signs point to audio only podcasts being short-lived and video podcasts becoming mainstream. What equipment would video podcasting require?Good if you are a professionalThis kind stuff is nice to...
- Tags: Podcasts, Fostex, rechargeable battery, podcasting, recorder, mic, podcast, battery, media, David Berlind
- Discussion threads 2006-04-26
- Save America, save the schools
- Save America, save the schools"J"-s in charge[Many of the problems with schools today are the result of determined conservative efforts to strangle the schools by limiting funding and demanding simplistic standards of students rather than treating the schools as the place where children grow into the rich minds that make...
- Tags: J-type, P-type
- Discussion threads 2006-04-20
- Sun begins Sparc phase of server overhaul
- Sun begins Sparc phase of server overhaulToo bad for sunWe just switched some of our Sun machines for IBM machines. The Sun machines are just not what they used to be, motherboards are failing, memory gets out of whack etc etc I am not taking about peanuts either, this is...
- Tags: Sun Solaris, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, Processors, Sun Sparc, server, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-12-06
- >Land Value taxation and the Stock market
- >Land Value taxation and the Stock marketLOL[i]"I like to explain this kind of thing to myself..."[/i]One question: if you have a question do you raise your hand and wait for you to call on yourself? The mental picture of you sitting in front of a mirror lecturing yourself...
- Tags: Investment, stock market, Sun Microsystems Inc., willing to pay, willing to pay MORE, stock, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-04
- Teaching Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design With UML
- The transition to object-oriented software presents a challenge to Information Systems IS educators, especially in the area of systems analysis and design, as familiar structured methods give way to the Unified Modeling Language UML. This paper summarizes the principal similarities and differences between structured and object-oriented approaches and provides advice...
- Tags: Use Case, Object-oriented, Analysis, Ooa/Ood/Oop, UML, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2005-10-08
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