Full speed ahead for new ferries (USATODAY.com)

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"Spoilers Ahead, Full Speed!"

"Spoilers Ahead, Full Speed!" 12/29/2003 09:13 PM

Spoilers Ahead, Full Speed!

Spoilers Ahead, Full Speed! 01/07/2004 06:02 PM
The current bane of my existence? Spoiler queens. "Don't tell meeeeee!" they shriek. You know you've got one, too, someone...

Nokia goes full speed ahead with world's
smallest 3G megapixel phone

Nokia goes full speed ahead with world's
smallest 3G megapixel phone 06/20/2004 06:54 AM
AME Info Jun 20 2004 10:38AM GMT

Speed warning for loch ferries

Speed warning for loch ferries 04/22/2004 01:09 AM
Ferries are being urged to watch their speed in a Scottish loch where a father and his two sons died in a boating accident.

Full Tech Ahead?

Full Tech Ahead? 12/30/2003 08:37 AM
ABCNEWS.com Dec 30 2003 8:02AM ET

Full Steam Ahead for Profits

Full Steam Ahead for Profits 07/27/2004 02:24 PM
Burlington Northern produces an impressive second quarter.

Microsoft: Full Steam Ahead for NGSCB

Microsoft: Full Steam Ahead for NGSCB 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Internet News May 5 2004 9:45PM GMT

Microsoft: Full Steam Ahead for
Palladium

Microsoft: Full Steam Ahead for
Palladium 05/05/2004 04:55 PM
Internet News May 5 2004 9:45PM GMT

Longhorn Infocards: Full Steam Ahead

Longhorn Infocards: Full Steam Ahead 03/30/2005 03:18 PM
Everyone seems to be getting awfully excited as of late about infocards, the ID management technology for which Microsoft is building support into Longhorn. Infocards aren't new; Microsoft officials talked about the Windows team's plans for infocards in the fall of 2004.

Internet Speed Zone Ahead

Internet Speed Zone Ahead 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Once relegated to 33.6 or slower backwaters, home users now enjoy Internet speeds that were reserved for colleges and corporations a decade ago. The question is, will we continue to see the kind of gains that have taken place over the last decade, or is there a limit to how fast we can go?

Half.com to continue at full speed

Half.com to continue at full speed 09/24/2004 01:26 PM
eBay drops its decision to close down the site, under pressure from people using it to sell books and music.

Heres how to get the full speed out of
your Internet connection

Heres how to get the full speed out of
your Internet connection 06/02/2004 10:03 AM
Royal Gazette Jun 2 2004 2:18PM GMT

Cingular moves ahead with high-speed
plans

Cingular moves ahead with high-speed
plans 06/22/2004 08:37 PM
Wireless company scurries to make up lost ground as it races rivals to deliver 3G services.

A full night's sleep? Not everyone needs
it (USATODAY.com)

A full night's sleep? Not everyone needs
it (USATODAY.com) 02/10/2004 02:52 AM
USATODAY.com - The truism that all adults need at least eight hours of sleep a night for good health should be put to rest by mounting evidence that less may be better, a leading sleep scientist says.

Poll finds optimism about what lies
ahead (USATODAY.com)

Poll finds optimism about what lies
ahead (USATODAY.com) 04/30/2004 06:22 AM
USATODAY.com - A new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows Iraqis are optimistic about their future, despite deep, potentially dangerous divides among competing factions over the role of religion in government and autonomy for the Kurdish minority.

Macraigor Systems Announces usbSprite, a
Full-Speed USB Device for JTAG/BDM
Debugging

Macraigor Systems Announces usbSprite, a
Full-Speed USB Device for JTAG/BDM
Debugging 06/10/2004 03:26 AM
· Features USB Mini-b Connector Eliminating JTAG Headers or Non-Standard Connectors· Fully Compatible with Industry-Leading Software Debuggers and Microprocessor Architectures [PRWEB Jun 10, 2004]

Hospital sues insurer for not paying
full charge (USATODAY.com)

Hospital sues insurer for not paying
full charge (USATODAY.com) 04/13/2004 07:24 AM
USATODAY.com - The debate over hospital charges has led to clashes between insurers and medical centers. One of the latest pits an insurer who refuses to pay full charges against a group of Florida hospitals.

Wireless race for speed intensifies
(USATODAY.com)

Wireless race for speed intensifies
(USATODAY.com) 06/23/2004 06:07 AM
USATODAY.com - Sprint and Cingular Wireless unveiled plans Tuesday to speed rollouts of broadband services for mobile phones and laptops. They're moving to close the gap with high-speed front-runner Verizon Wireless.

Other nations zip by USA in high-speed
Net race (USATODAY.com)

Other nations zip by USA in high-speed
Net race (USATODAY.com) 01/19/2004 08:24 AM
USATODAY.com - LaBelle Management fights a poky dial-up Internet connection every morning to see how 13 restaurants did the day before.

Don't get stuck with a full digital
camera memory card on your trip
(USATODAY.com)

Don't get stuck with a full digital
camera memory card on your trip
(USATODAY.com) 07/12/2004 05:47 AM
USATODAY.com - People who sign up for Andy Biggs' photographic safaris to Africa always ask him the same question: How do we save our digital pictures and clear our memory cards while away?

Study stirs debate over full-body scans'
cancer risk (USATODAY.com)

Study stirs debate over full-body scans'
cancer risk (USATODAY.com) 08/31/2004 06:04 AM
USATODAY.com - People who have full-body CT screenings to detect potential health problems are exposed to about as much radiation as some survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, a study in Tuesday's journal Radiology reports.

Internet surfers dumping dial-up for
high speed (USATODAY.com)

Internet surfers dumping dial-up for
high speed (USATODAY.com) 04/19/2004 06:58 AM
USATODAY.com - Broadband is fast gaining broad acceptance. More than half the Internet users in the USA have speedy connections somewhere in their lives. So says a survey of 2,200 Americans over 18, released Monday by the non-profit Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Seattle ferries to offer Wi-Fi

Seattle ferries to offer Wi-Fi 06/11/2004 07:59 AM
Surf'n'ship

Job cuts expected at P&O Ferries

Job cuts expected at P&O Ferries 09/26/2004 08:48 AM
P&O is to hold a meeting on Tuesday when it will announce the results of its review into the future of its ferry services.

Sydney to bridge harbour with Wi-Fi
ferries

Sydney to bridge harbour with Wi-Fi
ferries 09/21/2004 05:05 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 21 2004 9:01AM GMT

Washington State Gets WiFi On Ferries,
NYC Subways Still Radio Silent

Washington State Gets WiFi On Ferries,
NYC Subways Still Radio Silent 06/11/2004 09:40 AM

Oh, this is lovely. Washington state ferries will be WiFi-enabled by summer, thanks to a small Port Townsend firm Mobilisa. They are beaming a fat signal from ship to shore over 5GHz (Glenn Fleishman is guessing 802.11a), they distributing it freely, at least until the fall, when they'll start charging. Each of the first equipped ferry runs have crossing times of 30 minutes.
Read [SeattlePI via WiFiNetNews]

Full Tilt Poker’s “Main Event Mania™” Is
in Full Swing

Full Tilt Poker’s “Main Event Mania™” Is
in Full Swing 06/05/2005 10:52 PM
More than 50 people have already qualified for Full Tilt Poker’s $10 million giveaway. [PRWEB Jun 1, 2005]

Bruneis e-Speed Is No Speed Complain
Angry Internet Users

Bruneis e-Speed Is No Speed Complain
Angry Internet Users 10/31/2003 01:42 AM
BruDirect Oct 31 2003 0:17AM ET

Speed Download 2.3: Internet Utility
Fails To Boost Speed

Speed Download 2.3: Internet Utility
Fails To Boost Speed 06/21/2004 12:15 PM
If you need a download manager that centralizes your Internet downloads, lets you sort them, and facilitates file sharing, then you may benefit from Speed Download 2.3.4. But don't buy it if you want only to boost download speed. By Jackie Dove, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

Rogers Hi-Speed Internet to set new
cable industry benchmark for speed

Rogers Hi-Speed Internet to set new
cable industry benchmark for speed 01/22/2004 06:11 PM
Stockhouse Canada Jan 22 2004 10:10PM GMT

More cars, more speed: development of
Need For Speed: Underground 2 announced

More cars, more speed: development of
Need For Speed: Underground 2 announced 08/15/2004 11:04 PM
TechTree Aug 16 2004 2:50AM GMT

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself

Don't Get Ahead of Yourself 03/14/2005 06:07 PM

Here are two things that cut so many good ideas off at the knees. These two factors are the two biggest things that stop good ideas from getting implemented and make programmers pause when they should forge ahead.

1. The Urge to Generalize
Say you come up with an idea for a little transaction management system — a tracking app that follows a sales transaction from inception to closure. It works well for your company, but — you think — if I unleash this on the world, then it has to be able to handle other things, right?

I have to abstract the simple "Transaction Name" field away to be able to handle "Buyers" and "Sellers" in case someone wants to use it for third party brokerage, right? And what exactly constitutes a transaction? I need to have an object oriented "Attributes" sub-system to be able to handle any information they want to store, right? Etc. Etc.

Pretty quickly, you've decided that it's just too much work to do all this stuff you just made up and imposed on yourself, so forget it.

I think programmers equate "The software doesn't handle that" with "I can't make it do that because I suck." We never want to say no or have to admit that our software wasn't designed to do everything. If our image editing program can't also balance our checkbook, then we have somehow failed and it's not worth releasing.

(In terms of content management, I've talked about the The Urge to Generalize here. For some reason, I discussed it in positive terms...)

2. The Fear of Expansion
So you get past the first hurdle with your little transaction management system, and you're coding happily away. But then your mind starts to look down the road....

You think, well, I should put something in here so the user can indicate that an invoice was sent for payment. I mean, people don't want to do double-entry, right? But then why can't this system just generate the invoice....and track receipt of the payment...and display aggregate customer sales figures...etc.

Before you know it you (1) have mentally evolved your simple app into an accounting system, and (2) scared the crap out of yourself because there are apps like Peachtree and Quickbooks that do this better, and (3) thrown in the towel.

Why do we look at every app as always getting bigger? I appreciate ambition, but the problem with this is at the end of every development road is a bigger app that you're going to run into and encroach at some point. Why can't we stop three-quarters of the way down this road and just be happy with that? Do one thing and do it well. (Josh Clark has been very good at this, judging from the comments on this entry.)

These two things have killed millions of good ideas before they even got out of the starting gate. As programmers, we think too much, sometimes. Your app (1) doesn't need to handle every possible scenario, (2) encompass every aspect of functionaity, and (3) continue evolving into a successfully bigger and bigger app.

If this little essay makes sense to you, read this one from Joel Spolsky. Same concept from a little different angle:

These are the people I call Architecture Astronauts. It's very hard to get them to write code or design programs, because they won't stop thinking about Architecture. They're astronauts because they are above the oxygen level, I don't know how they're breathing. They tend to work for really big companies that can afford to have lots of unproductive people with really advanced degrees that don't contribute to the bottom line.

The Functionality Astronauts are just as dangeous as the Architecture Astronauts.

What's Ahead for C++?

What's Ahead for C++? 08/17/2004 01:14 PM
These days, Microsoft's C# gets the lion's share of the attention (and ink). But Microsoft is continuing to work on Visual C++.

Broadband changes ahead

Broadband changes ahead 07/18/2004 12:52 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Jul 16, 07:52 am GMT

Moving ahead with the best of the old

Moving ahead with the best of the old 04/11/2005 06:17 AM
Computer Weekly Apr 11 2005 9:39AM GMT

Playboy gets go-ahead to sue AOL

Playboy gets go-ahead to sue AOL 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
Playboy gets the right to sue AOL unit Netscape in a breach of copyright case over the term "playmate".

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst

Run from Sun ahead of Q2 - analyst 01/03/2005 05:38 PM
Down on investor optimism

Google's IPO goes ahead

Google's IPO goes ahead 08/18/2004 08:24 PM
Melbourne Age Aug 19 2004 0:56AM GMT

Trouble ahead

Trouble ahead 07/30/2004 01:53 AM
USA Today Jul 30 2004 6:02AM GMT
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