Book Review: Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from Reel People
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Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from
Reel People, Chapter 3: What to Learn
Getting a Job in CG: Real Advice from
Reel People, Chapter 3: What to Learn
04/19/2004 06:57 AMHere is an explanation of the skills involved in 3D and effects and
how to acquire them. You'll learn about the importance of having an
arts education and of having specific 3D skills (such as using Maya),
that are necessary when 3D is the major focus of your work. By Sybex.
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Retro Gadget Tuesday: Reel-to-Reel
History CD-ROMs
Retro Gadget Tuesday: Reel-to-Reel
History CD-ROMs
07/20/2004 04:12 PM
These aren't
retro gadgets, exactly, but that doesn't make them less tubular, or
alternately, wicked. These Get Reel CD-ROMs from Bass Boy pack
tons of interactive data about reel-to-reel tape recorders from as far
back as 1940 to as recently as 1977, with thousands of pictures,
circuit diagrams, owners manuals, vintage advertisements, and more.
The first two CDs cover a variety of players, while the last focuses
on the Tandberg series of tape recorders. Each CD is available for
around $33, shipped.
Steve Schoenherr tells a great story, too, when he details (in the
second link) how Bing Crosby himself adopted the reel-to-reel
technology to pre-record his own shows, leading to the first edited
radio broadcasts and the first laugh tracks, and eventually mutated to
become videotape.
Read -
Get Reel Product Page [BassBoy]
Read - Der Bingle Technology [ACUSD.edu]
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
Book review: The Book of SAX: The Simple
API for XML (Unix Review)
11/18/2002 09:56 AMBook Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
Book Review: Windows Admin Scripting
Little Black Book, Second Edition
06/12/2004 12:32 PMBook review - Book lowers fear of
threats
Book review - Book lowers fear of
threats
12/15/2003 08:15 AMvnunet.com Dec 15 2003 7:11AM ET
Donald trump publishes life advice book
Donald trump publishes life advice book
05/04/2004 09:27 AMDonald Trump Publishes Life Advice Book
(AP)
Donald Trump Publishes Life Advice Book
(AP)
05/04/2004 08:03 AMAP - Donald Trump has more advice on how to get rich. To coincide with
the debut this fall of the second season of his hit reality TV series
"The Apprentice," Random House is releasing "Think Like a
Billionaire," an advice book Trump describes as a fast path to the
good life.
Counterstrike keeps me from going out
and shooting real people.
Counterstrike keeps me from going out
and shooting real people.
11/19/2003 12:27 AM The
Daily Herald is running a piece on Violence and Videogames, and to
any person who plays games, it may marr their opinion of the Daily
Herald for a while. In fact, Steve from
www.HardOcp.com (november 18th
link) wrote the author a letter to explain that what he wrote doesnt
hold weight in the real world. "If a parent wanted their children
to develop attitudes
like Gary Ridgway, the confessed killer
of at least 48 women, these games might provide a good
training ground."
Seems to me like the author doesnt play video games,
especially considering there are other games besides first person
shooters.
"Video games are expected to reach $20 billion in sales this
year. That is a sizable piece of the growing economy everybody is
hoping for, and it works directly against what most parents want for
their children."
A little opinionated, but so am I.
What do you think?
Barbie clothes -- for real people
(Reuters)
Barbie clothes -- for real people
(Reuters)
06/08/2004 08:14 PMReuters - Fairies leaped, surfer girls danced and fashionistas
sashayed down the catwalk as Mattel showed off its
Barbie clothing line -- for real people.
People of honor and cheesy Hollywood
plots gone real
People of honor and cheesy Hollywood
plots gone real
08/05/2004 02:32 PMI don't know whether to be impressed that John McCain is calling on
the Bush campaign to condemn the indepdendent ads impugning Kerry's
war record or depressed that it's news that a person has crossed party
lines in defense of simple decency. (The White House declined the
invitation to condemn the ads.) And then there's the news that during
Bush and Kerry's simultaneous visits to Davenport, Iowa, three banks
were robbed, just to make sure that we all remain good and cynical....
Glenn Reynolds: The Real Energy In The
Antiwar Movement Comes From People Who
Don't Like America (Exactly True)
Glenn Reynolds: The Real Energy In The
Antiwar Movement Comes From People Who
Don't Like America (Exactly True)
11/14/2003 08:03 AMaccreted some more links .. Instapundit ..
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A New Book Review
A New Book Review
08/27/2004 01:28 PMIn
this
review of
We the Media, Chris Schroeder, vice president
for strategy at the Washington Post Company and former CEO of
WashingtonPost.com, has some
amazingly flattering words. I blush...
Book Review
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CodeWalkers: New Brief Book Review
CodeWalkers: New Brief Book Review
01/07/2003 02:46 PMBook Review Aggregator
Book Review Aggregator
01/03/2005 07:33 PM
Metacritic Books.
Metacritic has been covering reviews for movies, music, and games for
years, but now has started aggregating books reviews, with about 150
books so far.
Book Review: iPhoto 4 For Mac OS X
Book Review: iPhoto 4 For Mac OS X
07/07/2004 11:17 AMStu Gitlow checks in with another in a series of Mac book reviews.
Book Review: Against All Enemies
Book Review: Against All Enemies
04/17/2004 03:20 PMWhen Against All Enemies was published a few weeks ago, it was greeted
by a flurry of press and blogsphere discussion, almost entirely
focused on the book's criticisms of the Bush administration. Those
criticisms are largely contained within the book's final chapter, a
chapter that feels grafted on, and which is significantly different in
tone from the rest of the book. It's unfortunate that this chapter has
become the focus for discussion of the book - a fact which argues
that, perhaps, it shouldn't have been included at all. The majority
of the book is a discussion of how the first Bush administration and
the Clinton administration gradually came to realize the existence of
al Qaeda and tried to figure out what to do about it. The story is
framed, at the beginning and the end, by the events of September 11,
2001 (during which Clarke was one of the people primarily responsible
for government operations during the hours until President Bush took
charge) - but that is simply the framing; the real meat of the book
takes place in an earlier time. The time that laid the groundwork for
that day.
CodeWalkers: New Book Review
CodeWalkers: New Book Review
03/19/2003 10:24 PMOver on
CodeWalkers.com this
morning, there's a new review of a book (from Sams Publishing, not
Wrox) about the second edition of the book
PHP and MySQL Web
Development.
Book Review: Programming PHP
Book Review: Programming PHP
09/09/2002 08:34 AMBook Review: WarDriving
Book Review: WarDriving
05/27/2004 06:24 PMNobody likes to make enemies, but I have to be honest about the
dollar-to-content value of this book: Let me be clear from the outset.
I don't know any of the authors of this book, except by reputation,
and have nothing but the highest regard for their technical knowledge
and their achievements. The folks who wrote WarDriving: Drive, Detect,
Defend are experts about most of what they write about, and offer
great technical insights and tips throughout. That said, I can't
recommend this book primarily because the best advice is already
available on the Web for free in much the same form; chunks of the
most practical early part of the book are repetitive to cover
different operating systems or scenarios with the same approach; the
middle part of the book comprises a 60-page-long set of anecdotes with
long code extracts; and the last part of the book features security
advice that's somewhat strange focusing on commercial software and
hardware that's obscure and hard to use and mostly out of keeping with
the kind of audience that could possibly be interested in this title.
A factor that led to book bloat (520 pages, no CD-ROM, $49.99) is the
lengthy reproduction of code, sometimes double spaced that a reader
must be expected to input rather than download or copy and paste from
a Web page. Further, many of the programs seem too idiosyncratic to be
of general utility, arguing against their inclusion in the printed
book even if other programs were printed in full. For fairness's sake,
after reading this book a few weeks ago, I sent the publisher's
publicist contact my remarks and a list of errors found in the book. I
was promised some follow up and didn't get it, so the statute of
limitations of waiting for a response to specifics has ended. I should
also make it clear that I have co-written a book on wireless
networking which has practically no overlap with this book. In
general, the book is best at collecting and providing documentation on
the trickiest aspects of scanning for, recording, and defending
against wardriving and Wi-Fi network cracking. Some of the areas on
defense are the strongest in the book, although other areas seem
highly misguided. From the first page of the book to the end of
Chapter 7, page 243, it's at its strongest. It's a cogent, how-to
guide to installing and...
"his review of Nicholson Baker's new
book"
"his review of Nicholson Baker's new
book"
08/10/2004 08:42 AMBook Review: Apache Cookbook
Book Review: Apache Cookbook
01/02/2004 06:03 AMA lot of helpful tips and advice make up for a few shortcomings.
"You've Got Fe-Mail!" Book Review on
www.Lesbianation.com
"You've Got Fe-Mail!" Book Review on
www.Lesbianation.com
06/06/2004 03:35 AMBook Review. For more book reviews visit www.youvegotfemail.com
[PRWEB Jun 6, 2004]
Book Review: Web Standards Solutions
Book Review: Web Standards Solutions
07/11/2004 08:05 PMIf you've been following Dan Cederholm's SimpleQuiz
series for any length of time, you'll be happy to note that his new
book Web
Standards Solutions is a full-length summary of the best practices
that have evolved from it, and more.
Book review: Mitnick's The Art of
Intrusion
Book review: Mitnick's The Art of
Intrusion
03/30/2005 08:40 PMKevin Mitnick is the hacker who went legit. He has just published a
second book, this time on the hackers themselves.
Book review: XML (XML & Web Services
Magazine)
Book review: XML (XML & Web Services
Magazine)
06/06/2002 12:03 PMBook review: Perl and XML (Slashdot)
Book review: Perl and XML (Slashdot)
08/26/2002 08:32 AMBook Review: Linux Unwired
Book Review: Linux Unwired
12/19/2004 03:17 PMTechnical errors and already out-of-date advice mar the usefulness of
this guide to wireless protocols.
Codewalkers.com: O'Reilly Book Review
Codewalkers.com: O'Reilly Book Review
08/10/2004 08:29 AMCodewalkers.com has a new
review today covering a new O'Reilly book for PHP -
Web Database
Application with PHP and MySQL (2nd Edition).
Book Review: Professional Apache 2.0
Book Review: Professional Apache 2.0
09/20/2002 08:07 AMBook Review: The Future of Work
Book Review: The Future of Work
08/04/2004 09:34 AMglobetechnology.com Aug 4 2004 1:48PM GMT
PHPClasses.org: Book Review on
phpMyAdmin
PHPClasses.org: Book Review on
phpMyAdmin
05/20/2004 08:41 AMPHPClasses.org has a new book
review posted today covering the Packt book
Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL
Management.
Book Review: PHPClasses on Wrox
Book Review: PHPClasses on Wrox
10/22/2002 08:45 AMBook Review: Speed Up Your Site
Book Review: Speed Up Your Site
11/12/2003 07:55 PMAndy King's recent book collects, outlines, and evaluates a large
number of methods and techniques to make your sites perform better.
Book Review: Linux for the Rest of Us
Book Review: Linux for the Rest of Us
03/13/2003 10:25 AMIt won't be the last Linux book you own, but consider making it your
first.
his review of Nicholson Baker's new book
his review of Nicholson Baker's new book
08/09/2004 02:31 AMreview
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Book Review: Perl Medic
Book Review: Perl Medic
04/09/2004 04:00 PMRobrt has posted a review of Perl Medic by Peter Scott. In Robrt's
words: This feels like it was taken straight from my brain. Sounds
like it should be mandatory reading ...
Defend I.T.: Security by Example - Book
Review
Defend I.T.: Security by Example - Book
Review
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Stone Studio updated for Panther
Stone Studio updated for Panther
02/11/2004 07:09 PMStone Design today announced the availability of new versions of Stone
Studio, specifically to take advantage of new features in Mac OS X
10.3 (Panther)...
CodeWarrior Development Studio Supports
Panther
CodeWarrior Development Studio Supports
Panther
12/02/2003 01:45 AMLatest Version of CodeWarrior(tm) Development Studio Supports the Mac
OS X
v10.3 Panther Platform
Audiobook Studio 3 gains Panther
support, more
Audiobook Studio 3 gains Panther
support, more
11/03/2003 08:59 AMAlexander Wilson Studios has
released Audiobook Studio 3, a major update to its Mac OS X
application to help users create digital "audiobooks." The new version
adds support for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and some new features as
well.
Black Panther on the Loose (Reuters)
Black Panther on the Loose (Reuters)
06/08/2004 09:05 AMReuters - A black panther was on the
loose in the Mediterranean port city of Marseille for the sixth
day Monday, eluding capture despite efforts by 60 men to track
down the feline in creeks southeast of the city.
Paraglyph publishes 'Little Black Book'
for Panther
Paraglyph publishes 'Little Black Book'
for Panther
03/06/2004 01:55 AMParaglyph Press, which
distributes its titles through
fellow tech book publisher
O'Reilly, recently announced the publication of Mac expert Gene
Steinberg's
"Mac
OS X 10.3 Panther Little Black Book." The latest edition of his
"Little Black Book" details the more than 100 new features found in
Panther and offers tips and tricks for getting the most out of the OS.
It's aimed at both those who are upgrading to Mac OS X with Panther as
well as seasoned users who want to learn about everything the new OS
has to offer.
Modeler 3.5
Modeler 3.5
08/13/2004 06:13 PMA professional interactive 3D modeling application that makes it
simple to create and render your model and view the results.
OpenTeddy 3D Modeler
OpenTeddy 3D Modeler
07/02/2004 01:30 PMOpenTeddy Linux tech preview
Microspot makes Modeler 3.5 available
for Mac OS X
Microspot makes Modeler 3.5 available
for Mac OS X
08/13/2004 12:18 PMBritish developer Microspot Ltd. has announced that its 3D modeling
application
Microspot
Modeler 3.5 is now compatible with Mac OS X. The software allows
you to build and render 3D models in real-world dimensions, viewing
the results as you work. Modeler can be used as stand-alone software
or as a companion to Microspot Interiors, which allows you to preview
interior decoration decisions; you can employ Modeler to create
furniture and other items for use with Interiors.
Update: Microspot Modeler 3.5
Update: Microspot Modeler 3.5
08/13/2004 10:48 AMMicrospot Modeler is an interactive 3D modeling application for
creating and rendering models in real world dimensions and viewing the
results as you work.
Microspot releases Modeler 3.5 for OS X
Microspot releases Modeler 3.5 for OS X
08/12/2004 01:33 PMMicrospot today announced the release of Modeler 3.5 for Mac OS X...
Incubus Data Modeler
Incubus Data Modeler
07/22/2004 02:35 PMBirth of the project!
JPatch open source patch modeler
JPatch open source patch modeler
06/15/2004 02:16 AMJPatch 0.3 beta 1 released
Refractory Lining Thermal Modeler:
create heater linings
Refractory Lining Thermal Modeler:
create heater linings
07/12/2004 07:13 AMBritish developer Hotwork Ltd. announced on Friday the release of
Refractory Lining Thermal
Modeler, an application for designing prototype linings for
furnaces, heaters and kilns. It offers several ways to adjust
variables and make comparisons while modeling a lining, including the
ability to drag and drop materials onto different heat calculations,
automatic adjustments for face and ambient temperatures, support for
ASTM and metric units of measurement and more. Its database structure
allows you to store and edit various lining materials and you can
import them from other applications and export them for use elsewhere.
Refractory Lining Thermal Modeler is £169.95 (US$316.07) and
runs in Mac OS X, although Hotwork Ltd. doesn't specify the minimum
version number required.
ComponentOne(R) Announces Studio
Enterprise(TM) Beta Program for
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
ComponentOne(R) Announces Studio
Enterprise(TM) Beta Program for
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
03/28/2005 06:14 PMWWW Coder Mar 28 2005 9:38PM GMT
AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler – databases
design software (PART1 - Preview)
AllFusion ERwin Data Modeler – databases
design software (PART1 - Preview)
06/06/2004 12:18 AMComponentOne® Releases ComponentOne
DevKits for Visual Studio .NET and
Borland® Delphi™ 8 —Combines Powerful
Microsoft .NET development environments
with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise
ComponentOne® Releases ComponentOne
DevKits for Visual Studio .NET and
Borland® Delphi™ 8 —Combines Powerful
Microsoft .NET development environments
with ComponentOne Studio Enterprise
06/11/2004 03:46 AMComponentOne today released ComponentOne DevKit for Visual Studio .NET
and ComponentOne DevKit for Borland® Delphi™ 8. These combos not only
include the .NET and Delphi 8 development environments, they also
include the entire line of award-winning components for .NET, ASP.NET,
Mobile Devices, and even COM, which are included in ComponentOne
Studio Enterprise. [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]
Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W
Steve Jobs to Preview Mac OS X ''Tiger''
at WWDCSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's W
05/04/2004 03:21 PMSteve Jobs to Kick Off Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2004
with
Preview of Mac OS X "Tiger"
Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19
Vanishing Jobs: Structural change in the
economy means many jobs are never going
to come back. 12/19
12/20/2003 05:03 AMIt's been a long time since I heard anything positive about American
programming jobs .. Those Good Paying Jobs Are Not Coming
Back
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Dual Jobs Make Jobs Chron 200's CEO Of
Year
Dual Jobs Make Jobs Chron 200's CEO Of
Year
05/03/2004 12:28 PM"What [Steve Jobs] has done is a unique accomplishment. Both
companies... weren't just successful. They're helping to reshape some
industries." By Benny Evangelista and Matthew Yi, San Francisco
Chronicle (via MyAppleMenu)
Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black
Sony's PSP: Available in Black, Black,
and Black
05/29/2004 09:18 PM
Looks like all those pastel
PSPs Sony was showing at E3 were just a tease. According to an
interview in Japanese game magazine Famitsu, Sony claims the
various color PSPs were "just for reference. We plan to make the
system black." I wouldn't worry too much, though. I'm sure if the PSP
does well at all, color models will start showing up in no time at
all.
Read
[IGN via Portagame]
Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys
Chris Abraham: Evil Man in Black and His
Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
Guys
04/12/2005 05:55 AMEvil Man in Black and His Evil Black Suitcases Tackled by the Good
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Pixar vs. Apple, Jobs vs. Jobs
Pixar vs. Apple, Jobs vs. Jobs
08/05/2004 10:50 AMBLACK
HUMOUR
BLACK
HUMOUR
05/08/2004 05:30 PM
No one who has read The Boondocks
has a neutral opinion about its writer, Aaron McGruder. You either
love
him or hate him, or vacillate between the two extremes. The
twenty-something radical leftie is working on a Simpsons-style
animated
series that will air, ironically, on Fox, probably next year, and as
the New Yorker reported last
month,
he's managed to outrage almost everyone of every political stripe,
including other cartoonists who say that he's gotten lazy (the strip
is
now drawn by Jennifer Seng, though McGruder still does the writing),
and that he's relentless to the point of being tedious and unfunny. He
is the most banned cartoonist in history, with many of the 300+ papers
carrying the strip having cut it at one time or another. But as I
think
the above strip from last week shows, McGruder's biting wit has lost
none of its edge, and demonstrates a fearlessness that goes beyond
even
what Doonsbury and Bloom County achieved.
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Black. Duncan Black.
Black. Duncan Black.
07/28/2004 02:44 PM
The true identity of the "mysterious"
Atrios has
been revealed.
THINK
GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL: PETER SINGER'S
ONE
WORLD
THINK
GLOBAL, ACT LOCAL: PETER SINGER'S
ONE
WORLD
04/23/2004 09:24 AM
 If
you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm
opposed to unregulated 'free' trade, very worried about the
extraterritoriality of the WTO, NAFTA, Davos and other corporatist
captives, strongly opposed to domestic corporations 'offshoring' jobs,
using influence with the Bush regime and other right-wing governments
to circumvent social and environmental laws and responsibilities, and
a
great believer in taking the pledge to buy local, and in community
self-sufficiency.
At the same time, I'm a strong supporter of the UN and other
multi-lateral NGOs, and I believe that we each have a responsibility
for the well-being of all the people and creatures of this world. Some
readers have said this view is inconsistent, and I wasn't quite sure
how to respond to such charges. Fortunately, Peter Singer, in his
recent book on global ethics, One World: The Ethics of
Globalization,
has come to my rescue. Singer sees no inconsistency between strong
local autonomy, community, and self-sufficient economies on the one
hand, and global responsibility on the other. The book is based on the
Dwight Terry lectures at Yale in 2000, but has been updated to
incorporate reflection on the events of 9/11 and the appalling Bush
social, environmental and economic record.
I'll have more to say next week about Bush's fraudulent and despicable
Earth Day media blitz, and the major media's shameless lack of
critical
evaluation of the utter nonsense that his propaganda machine has been
churning out this week on the environment -- newspeak of Orwellian
proportions. The first part of Singer's book deals with environmental
responsibility, and his prescription for increasing it -- immediate
ratification of Kyoto by the US and other holdout countries, and
introduction of an emissions trading mechanism to make the realization
of Kyoto feasible (subject to the need for some oversight on the
disposition of the proceeds of such trading when it involves
autocratic
governments).
The second part of the book deals with the global economy, and Singer
adroitly tears apart the Economist's (and other neocons') naive
assertion that economic globalization somehow benefits both rich and
poor countries. He then goes on to prescribe a substantial reform of
the WTO and the GATT, which could actually lead to more equitable
distribution of wealth and more efficient production of economic
goods,
while safeguarding human rights, labour and the environment.
Unfortunately, the multi-national corporations and corporatists who
hold sway in the WTO would never tolerate Singer's prescription, since
it would entirely divert the benefits of economic globalization from
their pockets to those of the world's poor.
The third part of the book deals with international law, and Singer
lashes out at Bush for his unconscionable refusal to ratify the
International Court of Justice, and for the UN's continued hesitancy
to
accept a duty (not a right) to intervene in situations of genocide and
other humanitarian crises, even within a single nation. Singer is
sanguine about the limitations and dangers of 'global government', but
supports strengthening the UN to enable it to act as a 'protector of
last resort', and including in its mandate the responsibility to
supervise elections in all
member nations.
The fourth and final part goes back to ethical principles and proposes
that countries must, in this world where national boundaries no longer
have any logistic meaning, set aside national interest and embrace,
once and for all, global interest, impartially. That does not mean
cultural homogenization, but imposes a responsibility for the
reduction
of inequality, both of economic resources and personal rights and
freedoms.
Always the pragmatist, Singer concludes by worrying out loud about how
the responsibility for a global ethic could be managed:
It
is widely believed that a world government would be, at best, an
unchecked bureaucratic behemoth that would make the bureaucracy of the
EU look lean and efficient. At worst, it would become a global
tyranny,
unchecked and unchallengeable. These thoughts have to be taken
seriously. How to prevent global bodies becoming either dangerous
tyrannies or self-aggrandizing bureaucracies, and instead make them
effective and responsive to the people whose lives they affect? It is
a
challenge that should not be beyond the best minds in the fields of
political science and public administration.
I'd like to believe that this was possible, because if it isn't, we're
in serious trouble. We cannot expect national governments to set aside
parochial interests, especially when this entails accepting a
responsibility that would, for the richer nations, inevitably lead to
a
drastic redistribution of wealth to poorer nations and hence a sudden
and sharp reduction in, at least, economic living standards (if not
necessarily well-being). But as John Ralston Saul has so eloquently
argued, larger organizations and institutions, whether public or
private, are almost always, and inherently, less efficient, less
agile,
more resistant to change, more hierarchic, and less transparent than
smaller organizations. So the challenge is to achieve the best of both
worlds, having organizations of global scope and authority and
responsibility, but broken up into sufficiently small, autonomous and
dynamic units that they are sensitive, resilient, responsible and
responsive to the people and communities they serve. We can only hope
that "the best minds in the fields of political science and public
administration", wherever they are, are up to the task.
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To black hole, or not black hole, that
is the question
To black hole, or not black hole, that
is the question
02/18/2004 10:44 AMI really need to get things together and finish the time-limited black
hole route system I keep thinking about. Digging through the logs
recently I've been finding that there are patterns in there to be
teased out--systems that constantly hammer me with viruses or bang on
the webserver with attempts to post comments to non-functional cgi
programs. (Yeah, I left mt-comments.cgi around and just marked it
non-executable) While it's not a lot of traffic, it's annoying
traffic, and in the case of the virus bombs it's repeated over and
over. I could just install a blackhole route for these things,...
DVD Studio Pro 2.0.4
DVD Studio Pro 2.0.4
12/23/2003 10:24 PM
Apple has posted an update to DVD Studio Pro through your Mac OS X
Software Update:
The DVD Studio Pro 2.0.4 update is strongly recommended for all u...
PHP Dev Studio
PHP Dev Studio
03/29/2005 02:48 PMWebsite Up
"DVD Studio Pro 3"
"DVD Studio Pro 3"
04/19/2004 04:29 PMDVD Studio Pro 2.0.3
DVD Studio Pro 2.0.3
12/18/2003 09:47 PMUpdate includes French, German and Japanese localizations as well as
providing a number of other improvements.
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