2008年5月30日 星期五

Google美麗辦公室背後的危機?

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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2008年5月29日 星期四

有實踐價值的夢想!

「說出來會被嘲笑的夢想,才有實踐的價值。 」
...

「沒有風,只要擁有足夠強壯的翅膀,我們照樣拔地飛行。」
...

「即使跌倒了,姿勢也會很豪邁。」



-- 網路小說作家九把刀名言

2008年5月28日 星期三

「決定未來的10種人」

 「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。

Taiwan.CNET.com > 部落格 > 吳漢中 > 從設計到管理的觀察: 讀 IDEO 的「決定未來的10種人」

Statistics

The science of collecting, organizing, and applying numerical facts.

-- From: Data Mining, Addison-Wesley

Supervised algorithm

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

2008年5月26日 星期一

2008/05/26每日一小品

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)

2008年5月23日 星期五

資料不是愈多愈好

 

要破除的迷思,就是資料不是愈多愈好,而是要找到有用的關聯資料

ZDNet Taiwan - 名家專欄 - 李信宏 - DBA夢魘:資料太多有害無益

2008/05/23每日一小品

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

Constant Practice

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

Sun Tzu on The Art of War (Part 1)

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

http://www.religiousworlds.com/taoism/suntext.html#INDEX

2008年5月22日 星期四

General Motors 給Microsoft的評價

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:

  1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.
  2. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
  3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail, and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
  4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But then, you would have to buy more seats.
  5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but it would only run on 5 percent of the roads.
  6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
  7. The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
  8. New seats would force everyone to have the same-size butt.
  9. The airbag system would say, "Are you sure", before going off.
  10. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
雖然這是2003年的事情,但在2008的當下,看到這篇報導,很多方面還是令人頗有同感, Microsoft 加油、GM加油。

摘自: July 2003 MIS ASIA

2008年5月21日 星期三

Problem

1. something that is difficult; something that makes you worry

2. a question that you must answer by thinking about it

-- Oxford Elementary Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary

Program

A list of instructions that you give to a computer

-- Oxford Elementary Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary

Background knowledge

Background knowledge

Additional knowledge that can be used by a learning algorithm to facilitate the learning process.

-- Data Mining, Addison-Wesley

Algorithm

Algorithm

Any well-defined computational procedure that takes some value or set of values as input, and produces some value or set of values as output.

-- Data Mining, Addison-Wesley

2008/05/21 每日一小品

Momma always said: "Life is like a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get."

-- Forrest Gump

2008年5月20日 星期二

2008/05/20 每日一小品

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

2008年5月19日 星期一

2008/05/19每日一小品

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)

2008年5月18日 星期日

2008/05/18每日一小品

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)

2008年5月17日 星期六

2008/05/17每日一小品

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)

2008年5月16日 星期五

在VS2008上開發Silverlight不會出現intellisense的解決辦法

 

在VS2008上開發Silverlight不會出現intellisense的解決辦法

  1. 把SDK中的silverlight.xsd放到C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas目錄中
  2. 把silverlight.xsd選項改成Automatic

http://blog.lolota.net/2007/12/vs2008silverlightintellisense.html

隨身碟及硬碟的速率比較

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。
倒是下面這二個圖很有意思,實際上是同一顆硬碟,劃分成C、D二顆,Write竟然邏輯硬碟D較快、但Read卻是C較快,Why?不過如果我們把程式放在C,而把資料放在D,那麼讀C的機會比較多,寫到D的機會也比較多,這樣的配置,倒是蠻合適的。

2008/05/16每日一句

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than I ever did about the far side of death as the last letting-go of all, but now I know that I do not need to know, and that I do not need to be afraid of not knowing. God knows. That is all that matters.

-- Frederick Buechner

2008/05/15每日一句

Everyone is the age of their heart.

-- Guatemalan saying

2008年5月14日 星期三

2008/05/14每日一句

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

-- Albert Einstein

2008年5月13日 星期二

知識管理的重點在「有用」

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

2008/05/13每日一句

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

Help 及智慧提示使用例

■起始位置設為(0,0)語法如下
SGhostPBox.Location = New Point(0, 0)

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

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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。

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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。

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依提示,把X,Y座標鍵入即可,如下圖。

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■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)

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2008年5月12日 星期一

科技新字怎麼念

下面這個連結有詳細介紹 xoops、linux、youtube、skype等科技新字的唸法。
http://blog.pixnet.net/klear302/post/12670832

2008/05/12每日一句

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

2008年5月11日 星期日

2008/05/11每日一句

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

-- Albert Einstein

2008年5月10日 星期六

2008/05/10每日一句

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

-- Anonymous

2008年5月9日 星期五

部落格小工具開發參考資料

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

DIY widgets - How to embed your site on another site

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
......

詳見:http://drnicwilliams.com/2006/11/21/diy-widgets/

2008/05/09每日一句

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

2008年5月8日 星期四

2008/05/08每日一句

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

-- Ben Johnson

2008年5月7日 星期三

垃圾郵件已出現30週年

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

2008/05/07每日一句

If we know to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.

-- Stephen R. Covey

微軟對VB6的"It Just Works"支持策略

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

2008年5月6日 星期二

2008/05/06每日一句

Better to read little with thought than much with levity and quickness.

-- Tupper

2008年5月5日 星期一

2008/05/05每日一句

He knows not his own strenght that hath not met adversity.

-- Ben Johnson

2008年5月4日 星期日

2008/05/04每日一句

A contented mind is a perpetual feast.

-- Anonymous

2008年5月3日 星期六

網頁前端工程(Front-end Engineering)

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

電腦讓你喜歡的對象,對你說你想聽的話

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

2008/05/03每日一句

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

-- Helen Keller

2008年5月2日 星期五

不要再把「資訊管理」當「知識管理」

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

2008年5月1日 星期四

2008/05/02每日一句

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.

2008/05/01每日一句

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