美麗背後的陷阱：「Bureaucratic Google」
Bureaucratic？官僚嗎？為什麼？
它說，Google在「resource allocation」方面做得特別差勁，這個字眼在管理學或許有深廣的意義，但在這篇文章中，它是在暗批Google，雖然給工程師像天堂般的環境，但「管不動他們」。他舉了一個例子，Google Apps的負責人Dave Girouard有天希望將Gmail稍改一點點，來讓他更容易賣給企業，為了這麼一件簡單且來自客戶需求的事情，這位負責人竟然必須親自向工程師「求情」，請他們做這個。這位負責人認為，此事竟然像求人捐款一樣困難！
所以這公司的Bureaucracy，不是來自高層的傲慢，而是來自「基層的傲慢」。
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「決定未來的10種人(Ten Faces of Innovation)」一書，由知名設計諮詢公司IDEO總經理 Tom Kelley所撰寫，但這一本書不談狹義的「設計」與「產品」，反而回歸到「人」與「文化」的角度，看創新的十個「角色」扮演，其中的任何一個角色，都是促成企業或社會創新的重要角色。
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The science of collecting, organizing, and applying numerical facts.
-- From: Data Mining, Addison-Wesley
Algorithm that need the control of a human operator during their execution. Other types of algorithm do not need human interaction. There are several forms of supervision: it is possible that the human operator controls only those parameters that influence the performance of the algorithm during execution; but the operator might also have extensive interaction with the algorithm and provide all kinds of examples or additional information.
-- From: Data Mining, Addison-Wesley
In Those Years
In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic, terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and, yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
into our personal weather
They were headed somewhere else but their beaks
and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I
-- Adrienne Rich (b, 1929)
Big money was never made up in the buying or the selling. The big money was always made up in the waiting.
-- Willian H. Gross
Tu Yu quotes Wang Tzu as saying: "Without constant practice, the officers will be nervous and undecide when mustering for battle; without constant practice, the general will be wavering and irresolute when the crisis is at hand."
-- http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/suntext.html#LAYPLANS
1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be taken into account in one's deliberations, when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field.
英文版的孫子兵法，有趣吧，詳細資料在
Bill Gates: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving US$25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response, GM issued a press release, saying: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?" If GM had developed the technology like Microsoft, it adds, we would all be driving cars with the folling characteristics:
Background knowledge
Additional knowledge that can be used by a learning algorithm to facilitate the learning process.
-- Data Mining, Addison-Wesley
Momma always said: "Life is like a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get."
-- Forrest Gump
Woman Work
I've got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I've got the shirts to press
The tots to dress
The cane to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton on pick.
Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.
Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
'Til I can rest again.
Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.
Sun, rain curving sky
Mountain, ocean, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You're all that I can call my own.
-- Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
In Those Years
In those years, people will say, we lost track
of the meaning of we, of you
we found ourselves
reduced to I
and the whole thing became
silly, ironic terrible:
we were trying to live a personal life
and, yes, that was the only life
we could bear witness to
but the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged
injto our personal weather
There were headed somewhere else but their beaks
and pinions drove
along the shore, through the rags of fog
where we stood, saying I
-- Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-- Robert Frost (1874-1963)
在VS2008上開發Silverlight不會出現intellisense的解決辦法
- 把SDK中的silverlight.xsd放到C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas目錄中
- 把silverlight.xsd選項改成Automatic
http://blog.lolota.net/2007/12/vs2008silverlightintellisense.html
隨身碟很慢，用FDBENCH測試一下，以下三個數據依序是隨身碟、硬碟C、硬碟D的測試數據。
原來隨身碟Write的速率，大概只有硬碟的十幾分之一，難怪這麼慢。 有人說：現在不是「書到用時方恨少」，而是「書到用時找不到」，「用時」是讀書的目的，所謂養兵千日、用在一時。這「一時」便比「千日」來得重要，因此，知識管理的重點不在「知識」，而在「有用」！
資料來源：http://140.118.9.116/mislab/?q=node/117
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on the future generations.
-- George Bernard Shaw
■起始位置設為(0,0)語法如下 操作方法 1、輸入「SGhostPBox.l」注意按下「l」(L的小寫字母)後會出現智慧提示功能如下 游標移至「Location」上面後，按下「Tab」鍵，「Location」會自動輸入，再鍵入「 = New po」，得到如下畫面。 游標移至「Point」上面後，按下「Tab」鍵，「Point」會自動輸入，鍵入「(」後出現的智慧提示畫面，如下圖。 依提示，把X，Y座標鍵入即可，如下圖。 ■在計時器物件上，快速點按左鍵二下，會自動出現如下副程式架構 Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick End Sub 鍵入 SGhostPBox.Location = New Point(SGhostPBox.Location.X + 20, SGhostPBox.Location.Y) 即得完整程式 Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick SGhostPBox.Location = New Point(SGhostPBox.Location.X + 20, SGhostPBox.Location.Y) End Sub ■Help之使用 游標移至想要查詢的程式碼上，按下「F1」鍵，除說明外，一般均可找到可以參考的範例，畫面如下(以查詢Point語法為例)
SGhostPBox.Location = New Point(0, 0)
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
-- Albert Schweitzer
這裡有要自已建立Widget方法的完整介紹及範例說明。
http://gadget.blueshop.com.tw/2007contest/microsoft/spaces/gadgets/tuition.aspx
下面文章介紹如何嵌入您的網頁資料在另一個網頁中。
I used to wonder how Google AdSense worked. How did those ads from over at Google get on another site over here? This article ignores how Google did it and shows you how you can do it. That is, shows you how to embed JavaScript widgets on other people’s websites.
Demonstration
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詳見：http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/11/21/diy-widgets/
Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worring about the past. Live in the present, enjoy the present.
-- Henry David Thoreau
垃圾郵件已出現30週年 氾濫成災危害巨大
發佈時間：2008.05.02 08:50 來源：賽迪網 作者：天虹
今年5月3日是世界上出現垃圾郵件30週年的紀念日。垃圾郵件的出現改變了全球各地的人們的收件箱的狀況。
1978年5月3日，DEC電腦公司（目前已經倒閉）的行銷人員向美國西海岸的大約400個人發送了行銷電子郵件。當時，這個電子郵件沒有被稱作垃圾郵件。這封郵件的發送者也沒有惡意。
專門研究垃圾郵件問題的專家Brad Templeton介紹說，垃圾郵件的名稱來自於電視節目“Monty Python的飛行馬戲團”中的一個滑稽短劇。在這個滑稽短劇中，一群海盜在一個飯店裏吃飯，食品都是“Spam”品牌的罐頭豬肉。他們一邊吃一邊唱著反復重復這個詞的歌曲。他說，這個詞彙的意思就是一再重復地說得讓人非常厭煩的東西
資料來源：http://big5.ccidnet.com:89/gate/big5/news.ccidnet.com/art/951/20080502/1437839_1.html
If we know to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
-- Stephen R. Covey
雖然已經發布了接近十年，Visual Basic 6仍舊廣泛應用于很多公司中的IT部門中。考慮到很多當前正在使用的應用程序甚至已經找不到源代碼，我們必須仔細考慮將其升級至Windows Vista或Server 2008的步驟。為了能夠讓升級更加簡單，微軟公司為VB 6應用程序提出了一種名為“It Just Works”的策略。微軟公司宣稱，大多數VB 6應用程序應該可以直接運行于最新的操作系統上。所有需要的新版本DLL均會預裝于操作系統中，或者可以由開發者進行分發。分發DLL的模式與在舊版本操作系統上的方法完全一致。
資料來源：http://financenews.sina.com/sinacn/304-000-106-109/2008-05-04/2314764553.html
Koechley表示，包括VISA、Dell、eBay、Adobe、Apple、Wikia、JetBlue等企業，都在網頁開發上採用了YUI，甚至Google去年在台大力推廣的iGoogle個人首頁，都採用了雅虎YUI的CSS技術，而非自家開發。
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所謂網頁前端工程(Front-end Engineering)，即是網頁實際與使用者互動的操作介面等相關技術、程式的開發工作，相關技術包括JavaScript、CSS、HTML等，「一言以蔽之，就是叫瀏覽器正確執行它該做的事，」Koechley說。
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簡化網頁開發過程、促進產業發展，網雅虎已在2005年將其前端工程的大部份技術開放原始碼，放在網站供任何人取用，並有完整教學文件。Koechley說，新興網站可以不必自行開發能一體適用的使用者介面程式，例如若打算增加拖放(Drag & Drop)功能，則直接利用YUI即可。
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資料來源：http://www.zdnet.com.tw/enterprise/topic/opensource/0,2000085741,20128714,00.htm
歌唱語音合成技術(Singing Voice Synthesis)。該技術結合了人聲自動合成與電腦音樂MIDI，可在有歌詞與MIDI檔案的情況下，讓電腦自動唱歌。
值得注意的是，該語音合成的發聲特徵來自建模(modeling)技術，「任何人只要先花二十分鐘說話，讓系統學習，然後就能用他的聲音唱任何歌曲、說任何話，」。
「這樣一來，你可以讓你喜歡的對象、明星，對你說任何你想聽的話，」。
資料來源： http://www.zdnet.com.tw/news/software/0,2000085678,20129105,00.htm
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
-- Helen Keller
資訊是過去的歷史紀錄，知識關心未來的問題解決
任何檔案，只要存在電腦或記在文件裡的，就叫作資料。
經過整理後的資料，能反映現狀問題的，便是資訊。
資料紀錄過去發生的大小事情，資訊整理這些資料，但是若要回應未來與解決問題，靠的便是知識。
資料來源：http://140.118.9.116/mislab/?q=node/196 盧希鵬 老師
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way -- that is not easy.
-- Aristotle
