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NHL Playoffs scouting report: Penguins vs. Senators
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Erik Karlsson is back, and that changes everything about the Ottawa Senators.
"The dynamic of him as a player on the ice – his up-ice ability, his ability behind the blue line, his skating, his shot," coach Dan Bylsma said. "He's dangerous. He's always a factor."
Karlsson was set to challenge for another Norris Trophy – he was honored as the NHL's top defenseman last season – before his Achilles tendon was accidentally sliced by the skate blade of Penguins winger Matt Cooke in a game on Feb. 13.
The Senators were 7-4-2 before Karlsson was lost until the final week of the regular season.
With him and goalie Craig Anderson – also out a chuck of the season because of an injury – back in the mix, the Senators easily dispatched No. 2 seeded Montreal in Round 1.
The favored Penguins had their troubles with the No. 8 seeded New York Islanders in Round 1, but showed flashes of dominance (two shutout victories at home) and determination (two overtime wins on the road).
Bylsma said the Senators are systematically different from the Islanders, who relied on a neutral-zone trap to deny the Penguins' clean breakout passes.
"(The Senators) play with a lot of speed throughout the lineup," Bylsma said. "That makes them effective.
"I also think they really showed a lot in the last series they played. They put a team back on their heels, a team that was fast and quick."
The Penguins went 3-0-0 against the Senators. They outscored the Senators, 8-4, in those games.
Penguins: RW James Neal (2 goals): Neal, C Sidney Crosby, D Paul Martin, LW Brenden Morrow (tied, 2 assists; Neal (4 points). Senators: LW Colin Greening, D Patrick Wiercioch, Cs Jim O'Brien and Stephane Da Costa (tied, 1 goal); RW Daniel Alfredsson, D Sergei Gonchar (tied, 2 assists); Alfredsson, Gonchar (tied, 2 points).
Penguins: Marc-Andre Fleury (2-0-0, .951 save percentage, 1.44 goals-against average), Tomas Vokoun (1-0-0, .971 save percentage, 1.00 goals-against average). Senators: Anderson (0-2-1, .909 save percentage, 2.61 goals-against average).
Dan Bylsma, Penguins
Playoff record: 32-24, won Stanley Cup (2009).
Paul MacLean, Senators
Playoff record: 7-5
The Penguins have won two of three series.
2007 Eastern Conference quarterfinal: Senators 4, Penguins 1
The Penguins' young stars – Crosby was in his second season, fellow Cs Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal their first – spearheaded the fourth-best single season turnaround in NHL history and the franchise's first playoff appearance since 2001. A victory in Game 2 earned them a split at Ottawa, but close losses at Mellon Arena in Games 3 and 4 swung the series for the Senators, who went on to play in the Cup Final after ousting the Penguins in five games.
2008 Eastern Conference quarterfinal: Penguins 4, Senators 0
Crosby and Co. needed no reminder of the previous postseason, but a giant photo outside the visiting dressing room in Ottawa provided one. That picture – of the handshake that followed the 2007 series between these clubs – was a source of inspiration to the Penguins. So was RW Gary Roberts, who set a tone in Game 1 with two goals and a desire to fight any Senators player willing to cross a Penguins teammate. The Senators were barely competitive in the sweep that began the Penguins' Cup Final march.
2010 Eastern Conference quarterfinal: Penguins 4, Senators 2
The Penguins raced to a 3-1 series lead that never quite felt comfortable and before long they were facing a possible Game 7. The Senators won Game 5 at Mellon Arena in triple overtime then jumped to a 3-0 lead in Game 6 at home in front of a frenzied crowd at ScotiaBank Place. Two goals by LW Matt Cooke and one from RW Bill Guerin pulled the Penguins even, and RW Pascal Dupuis won the series in overtime. That was, until these playoffs, the last postseason series won by the Penguins.
James Neal, Penguins
Anderson is as good as it gets between the pipes, but left-handed shooters can get the best of him. Neal possesses arguably the NHL's best off-angle left-handed shot. The Senators' system does not call for a lot of one-on-one defending in the offensive zone. Neal is expert at finding creases and openings from which to shoot. He should generate chances in Round 2.
Jason Spezza, Senators
He practiced Sunday for the first time since undergoing surgery on his back in February. The Senators have not ruled him out to play at some point in Round 2. When at full health, Spezza is a legitimate top-line center. His high hockey IQ and elite playmaking capabilities could cause problems for Penguins defensemen who often struggled to mark Islanders forwards in the slot during Round 1.
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Volunteers ready big push to promote $219 million school bond
March 13, 2012
By Tom Corrigan
At a kick-off in early February, the coming push for passage of a $219 million bond issue was advertised as being possibly the largest campaign ever mounted in the name of the Issaquah School District.
With the April 17 deadline for voting in that election a little over a month away, residents can expect to start seeing tangible evidence of that campaign shortly.
Last week, volunteers should have picked up campaign materials for the first of several planned and targeted literature drops, said Lesley Austin, a former Issaquah School Board member and one of two co-chairwomen of Volunteers for Issaquah Schools, the grassroots group promoting the bond.
Those materials are supposed to go out to specific areas at specific times, according to Austin's counterpart, Kelly Munn. But Munn said volunteers sometimes hand out the materials when they have the time to do so.
Concurrent with the first literature drop, VIS also will start placing yard signs throughout the area.
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Learn more about Volunteers for Issaquah Schools at www.visvote.org.
The target is to have the first literature runs completed and the first yard signs up by March 24. VIS has so far raised $70,000 to help pass the bond issue and is looking for a total of $90,000.
In terms of fundraising, VIS is right on schedule, according to Munn. The group hopes to set aside an undetermined amount in order to at least launch a campaign behind an operating levy the school district is likely to put on the ballot in a few years, Austin said.
A certified nonprofit, VIS was founded in 1977 to work within the district to pass ballot issues. State law prohibits school districts from directly promoting money issues themselves. District financial resources can be used only to provide information and facts regarding bond measures, not for materials urging voters to cast ballots in one way or another.
In terms of strategy for its campaign, VIS organizers have called for newspaper and possibly cable TV ads. There will be additional literature drops. VIS leaders also are seeking endorsements from elected officials within the district, as well as from local community and business groups.
Both Austin and Munn are veterans when it comes to Issaquah school campaigns. Each has been involved with promoting every issue to go before voters since the early 1990s. Both initially got involved because they had children in the district. Munn's interest in education is also professional. She serves as state field director for the nonprofit League of Education Voters.
The league promotes various education-related issues in the state, often lobbying Olympia legislators. For example, the league recently backed renewal of legislation known as WaKids, which proponents said promotes cooperation between parents and kindergarten teachers. The league also has backed the controversial idea of bringing charter schools into Washington. Her employment with the league never has been an issue in campaigns, Munn said.
Regarding the current bond campaign, it differs greatly from previous bond issues, Austin said. For Issaquah schools, this is the first time a capital improvement package is not primarily meant to address issues of population growth.
In the past, bond proponents could simply point to a portion of the district and argue that area was growing in population and more classroom space was needed as a result. For the most part, that's just not the case this time around. The capital improvements proposed in the current bond package are mostly maintenance issues and replacement of the oldest schools in the district.
"We are basically going to use every resource we can think of," Austin said in terms of promoting the bond issue.
VIS volunteers and school administrators have and will continue to speak with any community group or organization that will listen, Munn said, adding she figures VIS will have orchestrated some 500 speaking engagements before the end of the campaign.
Tom Corrigan: 392-6434, ext. 241, or firstname.lastname@example.com. Comment at www.issaquahpress.com.
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There goes another one.
Farewell, Ohio!
— Jonathan Penn (@jonathanpenn) July 10, 2014
That's @jonathanpenn, as he heads off to Apple. He follows a number of top indie developers/author/speakers to head to the mothership in the last few months, including Patrick Burleson, Kevin Hoctor, and if we'll go back a little over a year, we can throw in my former iOS SDK Development co-author Bill Dudney.
This is causing a little bit of angst among those of us who hate to see our friends decamp from our communities to California, and to suggest that maybe indie iOS development/writing/speaking isn't tenable. Janie Clayton-Hasz, whom I'm working with on a soon-to-be-announced project, expresses this from the POV of a newcomer to development life in her latest blog.
Read the rest of this entry…
A bunch of my friends, particularly on the F/OSS and Android side, are issuing a new call to the barricades to make the case that APIs should not be copyrightable. In particular, the EFF wants developers to send in stories of how they've reimplemented APIs for reasons of competition, interoperability, innovation, etc. The issue is heating up again because a three-judge Federal Circuit panel is going to revisit Judge Aslip's ruling in Oracle v. Google, where the jury found that Google willfully infringed Oracle's copyright on the Java APIs, but the Judge found that APIs aren't copyrightable in the first place, rendering the jury decision moot.
This isn't the slam dunk some people think it is. During the trial, Florian Mueller pulled up relevant case law to show that copyright has traditionally considered the design of computer code (and, implicitly, its public interfaces) to be protected.
Furthermore, the case against copyrightability of APIs strikes me as quite weak. If software deserves copyright at all — and there are good arguments against it, but that's not what we're talking about here — then drawing the line at published interfaces doesn't hold up.
There are basically two arguments I've heard against API copyrightability. Here's why I think they're bunk:
Somewhere between the Happily Ever After and the Downer Ending, the Bittersweet Ending happens when victory came at a harsh price, when, for whatever reason, the heroes cannot fully enjoy the reward of their actions, when some irrevocable loss has happened during the course of the events, and nothing will ever be the same again.
So, Apple wins big in their patent case against Samsung, and reactions are pretty much not what you'd expect. While the Fandroids console themselves with a straw-man claim that "Apple patented rounded rectangles", writers in iOS circles are hardly delighted. Pre-verdict, Matt Drance wrote "However the verdict falls, I feel like there are no winners here in the long term — certainly not us." And a day after the verdict, John Gruber's Daring Fireball hasn't even mentioned the outcome.
Matt's concern is giving Apple too much power to control the market, and the verdict likely does that. Following along with The Verge's liveblog, I noticed that a few devices were found as non-infringing. That's got to be even worse news for Samsung and Google, because the jury is effectively saying that it is possible to make smartphones without copying Apple, and Samsung largely (and willfully) chose not to. Combine this with the speed at which they reached their conclusions and it's utterly damning.
And yet, on the other hand, what we're discussing is patents like "slide to unlock", which many/most of us think is unworthy of patentability in the first place. And that's what makes this so uncomfortable: Android's and particularly Samsung's copying of Apple was egregious and shameless, but since that itself is not illegal (and how could you even codify that as law?), then does settling for a victory over stuff that probably shouldn't even be patentable count as a victory at all? Making things worse, the jury had the option of invalidating patents on both sides, and declined to do so on every count.
Then again, what do I know? I thought ripping off the Java programming language and practically the entire API of Java SE was a lot worse, but the court said that was OK. So I guess stealing is bad, except when it's not.
Let me introduce you to the "Whiny Little Bitch Contingent". This was a term I coined in the late 2000's to cover the Java developers who cried and moaned about the slow decline in Apple's support for Java: the deprecation of the Cocoa-Java bridge, the long wait for Java 6 on Mac OS X, its absence from iOS, etc. Every time there was news on this front, they could be reliably counted on to dredge up Steve Jobs' pledge at the JavaOne 2000 keynote to make the Mac the best Java programming environment… and to bring this up in seeming ignorance of the passage of many years, the changes in the tech world, the abject failure of Desktop Java, other companies' broken promises (Sony's pledge of Java on the PlayStation 2, the Java-based Phantom gaming console), etc.
The obvious trait of the Whiny Little Bitch Contingent is their sense of entitlement: companies like Apple owe us stuff. The more subtle trait is their ignorance of the basic principle that people, organizations, and companies largely operate in their own self-interest. Apple got interested in Java when it seemed like a promising way to write Mac apps (or, a promising way to get developers to write Mac apps). When that failed, they had understandably little interest in providing developers a means of writing apps for other platforms. I'm sure I'm not the only person to write a Java webapp on the Mac that I knew my employer would block Mac clients from actually using. By 2008, when Apple entered the mobile market with the iPhone, there was nothing about supporting Java that would appeal to Apple's self-interest, outside of a small number of hardware sales to Java developers.
That's what defines the WLBC to me: sense of entitlement, and an igorance of other parties' self-interest (which leads to an expectation of charity and thus the sense of entitlement).
So, yesterday, Apple holds an event to roll out their whole big deal with Textbooks on the iPad. They look pretty, they've got an economic model that may make some sense for publishers (i.e., it may be in the publishers' self-interest), etc. Also, there's a tool for creating textbooks in Apple's format.
And this is where the Whiny Little Bitch Contingent goes ape-shit. Because there's a clause in the iBooks Author EULA that says if you're going to charge for your books, you can only publish to Apple's iBookstore.
So, let's back up a second. The only point of this software is to feed Apple's content chain. The only reason it is being offered, free, is to lure authors and publishers to use Apple's stuff… which in turn sells more iPads and gives Apple a 30% cut. If you are not going to put stuff on Apple's store, why do you even care about this? Hell, I don't develop for Microsoft's platforms, so if they see the need to turn Visual Studio into an adventure game… hey that's their problem.
If you're not authoring for Apple's iBookstore, why do you even care what iBooks Author does, or what's in its EULA?
In decrying the "cold cynicism" of Apple's iBook EULA, Marshall Kirkpatrick writes:
It's hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple's releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to include in the tool's terms and conditions a prohibition against selling those books anywhere but through Apple's own bookstore
"Democratize the publishing of eBooks"? Where the hell did he get that? Maybe he watched the video and fell for the grandiosity and puffery… I never actually watch these Apple dog-and-pony shows anymore, as following the Twitter discussion seems to give me the info I need. But thinking that Apple is in the business of democratizing anything is nuts: they're in the business of selling stuff, and the only reason they'd give out a free tool is to get you to help them sell more of that stuff.
I didn't download iBooks Author, even though you'd expect an Apple-skewing author like me to be one of the first onboard. Frankly, I'm pretty tired of writing, as the last two books have been difficult experiences, and the thought of starting another book, even with a 70% royalty instead of 5%, is not that appealing. A year ago I thought about self-publishing a book on AV Foundation, but right now I lack the will (also, I've failed to fall in love with AV Foundation, and blanch at its presumptions, limitations, and lack of extensibility… I much prefer the wild and wooly QuickTime or Core Audio).
So, if we're going to talk about iBooks Author, let me know how it holds up for long documents: if it's pretty on page 1, is it still usable when you're 200 pages in? Does it offer useful tools for managing huge numbers of assets? Does it provide its own revision system and change tracking, or does it at least play nicely with Subversion and Git? Can it be used in a collaborative environment? These are interesting questions, at least to people who plan to use the tool to publish books on the iBookstore.
But if Apple's not giving you a pretty, free tool you can use to write
.mobi files that Amazon can sell Kindles with? Sorry, Whiny Little Bitch Contingent, I've got zero sympathy for you there. Call it a third party opportunity. Or just put on your big boy underwear and do it yourself.
Take it, Geddy:
You don't get something for nothing
You can't have freedom for free
You won't get wise
With the sleep still in your eyes
No matter what your dreams might be
As mentioned before, I'm not a big fan of panels at developer conferences, and whenever I'm in one, I deliberately look for points of contention or disagreement, so that we don't end up as a bunch of nodding heads who all toe a party line. Still, at last week's CocoaConf in Raleigh, I may have outdone myself.
When an iOS developer in the audience asked if he should get into Mac development, most of the panel said "go for it", but I said "don't bother: the Mac is going to be gone in 5-10 years. And what's going to kill it is iOS."
This is wrong, but not for the reason I'll initally be accused of.
First, am I overstating it? Not in the least. Just looking at things where they stand today, and the general trends in computing, I can't see the Mac disappearing in less than five years, but I also can't imagine it prevailing more than another 10.
This isn't the first time I've put an unpopular prediction out there: in 2005, back when I was with O'Reilly and right after the Intel transition announcement, I I predicted that Mac OS X 10.6 would come out in 2010 and be Intel-only. This was called "questionable", "dumb", and "ridiculous advice". Readers said I had fooled myself, claimed I was recommending never upgrading because something better is always coming (ie, a straw man argument), argued Intel wouldn't be that big a deal, and predicted that PPC machines would still be at least as common as Intel when 10.6 came out. For the record, 10.6 came out in August, 2009 and was indeed Intel-only. Also, Intel Macs had already displaced PowerPC in the installed base by 2008.
So, before you tell me I'm an idiot, keep in mind that I've been told that lots of times before.
Still, punditry has been in the "Mac is doomed" prediction business for 20 years now… so why am I getting on board now?
Well, the fact that I'm writing this blog on my iPad is a start. And the fact that I never take my MacBook when I travel anymore, just the iPad. And the issue that Lion sucks and is ruining so much of what's valuable about the Mac. But that's all subjective. Let's look at facts and trends.
iOS Devices are Massively Outselling Mac OS X
One easy place to go for numbers is Apple's latest financial reports. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, 2011 (4Q by Apple's financial calendar), the company sold 4.89 million Macs, 11.12 million iPads, and 17.07 million iPhones. That means the iPad is outselling all models of Mac by a factor of more than 2 to 1.
The numbers also mean that iOS devices are outselling Mac OS X devices by a ratio of at least 5.7 to 1… and it must be much more, since Apple also sold 6.62 million iPods (since these aren't broken down by model, we don't know which are iOS devices and which aren't).
While the Mac is growing, iOS is growing much faster, so this gap is only going to continue to grow.
Goin' Mobile
Let's also think about just which Macs are selling. The answer is obvious: laptops. The Mac Unit Sales chart in this April 2011 MacWorld article shows Apple laptops outselling desktops by a factor of nearly 3-to-1 for the last few quarters. Things are so cold for desktops that there is open speculation about whether the Mac Pro will ever be updated, or if it is destined to go the way of the Xserve.
Now consider: Apple has a whole OS built around mobility, and it's not Mac OS X. If the market is stating a clear preference for mobile devices, iOS suits that better than the Mac, and the number of buyers who prefer a traditional desktop (and thus the traditional desktop OS) are dwindling.
Replace That Laptop!
Despite the fact that it's only about 28% of Apple laptop sales, I would argue the definitive Mac laptop at this point is the MacBook Air. It's the most affordable MacBook, and has gotten more promotion this year than any other Mac (when was the last time you saw an iMac ad?). It also epitomizes Apple's focus on thinness, lightness, and long battery life.
But on any of these points, does it come out ahead of an iPad 2? It does not. And it costs twice as much. The primary technical advantage of the Air over the iPad 2 are CPU power, RAM, and storage.
Is there $500 worth of win in having bigger SSD options or a faster CPU?
Few People Need Trucks…
"But", you're saying, "I can do real work on a Mac". Definitely true… but how much of it can you really not do on an iPad? For last month's Voices That Matter conference, I wrote slides for two talks while on the road, using Keynote, OmniGraffle, and Textastic… the same as I would have used on my Mac Pro, except for using Xcode to work with code instead of Textastic. I also delivered the talk via Keynote off the iPad with the VGA cable, and ran the demos via the default mirroring over the cable.
I've gone three straight trips without the laptop and really haven't missed it. And I'm not the only one. Technologizer's Harry McCracken posted a piece the other week on How the iPad 2 Became My Favorite Computer.
Personally, the only thing that I think I'm really missing on my iPad is Xcode, so that I could develop on the road. I suspect we'll actually see an Xcode for iPad someday… the Xcode 4 UI changes and its single-window model made the app much more compatible with iPad UI conventions (the hide-and-show panes could become popovers, for example). And lest you argue the iPad isn't up to the challenge, keep in mind that when Xcode 1.0 was first released in Fall, 2003, a top-of-the-line Power Mac G5 had a dual-core 2.0GHz CPU and 512 MB RAM, whereas the current iPad 2 has a dual-core A5 running at 1.0GHz and 512 MB RAM, meaning iPad is already in the ballpark.
…and Nobody Needs a Bad Truck
"But Mac OS X is a real OS," someone argues. Sure, but two things:
How much does that matter – a "real OS" means what? Access to a file system instead of having everything adjudicated by apps? I'd say that's a defining difference, maybe the most important one. But it matters a lot less than we might think. Most files are only used in the context of one application, and many applications make their persistence mechanism opaque. If your mail was stored in flat files or a database, how would you know? How often do you really need or want the Finder? With a few exceptions, the idea of apps as the focus of our attention has worked quite well.
What exceptions? Well, think of tasks where you need to combine information from multiple sources. Building a web page involves managing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and graphic files: seemingly a good job for a desktop OS and bad job for iOS. But maybe it argues for a task-specific app: there's one thing you want to do (build a web page), and the app can manage all the needed files.
For how long will Mac OS X be a "real OS"? – Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I don't like Lion. And much of what I don't like about it is the ham-handed way iOS concepts have been shoehorned into the Mac, making for a good marketing message but a lousy user experience. Some of it is just misguided, like the impractical and forgettable LaunchPad.
But there's a lot of concern about the Mac App Store, and the limitations being put on apps sold through the MAS. This starts with sandboxing, which makes it difficult or impossible for applications to damage one another or the system as a whole. As Andy Ihnatko pointed out, this utterly emasculates AppleScript and Automator. Daniel Steinberg, in his "Mac for iOS Programmers" talk at CocoaConf, also wondered aloud if inter-application communication via the
NSDistributedNotificationCenterwill be the next thing to go. And plenty of developers fear that in time, Apple will prohibit third-party software installs outside of the MAS.
Steve Jobs once made a useful analogy that many people need cars and only a few need trucks, implying that the traditional PC as we've known it is a "truck", useful to those with advanced or specific needs. And that would be fine… if they were willing to let the Mac continue to be the best truck. But instead, the creep of inappropriate iPad-isms and the iOS-like limitations being put on Mac apps are encroaching the advanced abilities that make the truck worth owning in the first place.
The Weight of the Evidence
Summarizing these arguments:
- iOS devices are far outselling Mac OS X, and the gulf is growing
- The iPad and the MacBook (the only Mac that matters) are converging on the same place on the product diagram: an ultra-light portable computing device with long battery life
- iOS is already capable of doing nearly anything that Mac OS X can do, and keeps getting better.
- Mac OS X shows signs of becoming less capable, through deliberate crippling of applications by the OS.
Taken together, the trends seem to me like they argue against the future of Mac OS X. Of the things that matter to most people, iOS generally does them better, and the few things the Mac does better seem like they're being actively subverted.
Some people say the two platforms will merge. That's certainly an interesting possibility. Imagine, say, an iOS laptop that's just an iPad in a clamshell with a hardware keyboard, likely still cheaper than the Air, and the case for the MacBook gets weaker still.
Given all this, I think OS X becomes less necessary to Apple — and Apple users — with each passing year. When does it reach a point where OS X doesn't make sense to Apple anymore? That's what I'm mentally pencilling in: 5-10 years, maybe after one or two more releases of OS X.
But in the beginning, I said I was wrong to say that an iOS developer shouldn't get into Mac programming because the Mac is doomed. And here's why that's wrong: you shouldn't let popularity determine what you choose to work with. Chasing a platform or a language just because it's popular is always a sucker's bet. For one thing, times change, and the new hotness becomes old news quickly. Imagine jumping into Go, which in 2009 grew fast enough to become the "language of the year" on the TIOBE programming language index. It's currently in 34th, just behind Prolog, ahead of Visual Basic .NET, and well behind FORTRAN (seriously!).
Moreover, making yourself like something just because it's popular doesn't work. As Desktop Java faded into irrelevance, I studied C++ and Flash as possible areas of focus, and found that I really didn't like either of them. Only when the iPhone OS came along did I find a platform with ideas that appealed to me.
Similarly, I greatly value the time I spent years ago studying Jini, Sun's mis-marketed and overblown self-networking technology. Even though few applications were ever shipped with it — Jini made the fatal mistake of assuming a Java ubiquity that did not actually exist outside of Sun's labs — the ideas it represented were profound. Up to that point, I had never seen an API that presented such a realistic view of networking, one that kept in mind the eight fallacies of distributed computing and made them managable, largely by treating failure as a normal state, rather than an exceptional one. In terms of thinking about hard problems and how stuff works (or doesn't work) in the real world, learning about Jini was hugely valuable to me at the time I encountered it.
And had I known Jini was doomed, would I have been better off studying something more popular, like Java Message Service (which my colleagues preferred, since it "guaranteed" message delivery rather than making developers think about failure)? I don't think so. And so, even if I don't think the Mac has a particularly bright future, that's no reason for me to throw cold water on someone's interest in learning about the platform. There are more than 20 years of really good ideas in the Mac, and if some of them enlighten and empower you, why not go for it?


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I'm not a kitchen equipment junkie. I more of a kitchen minimalist. I really couldn't do without just a few things: stainless steel mixing bowls, my darling Kitchen Aid, a cast iron skillet, and good metal measuring cups, high temperature spatulas and my brilliant bench knife.
Don't have a bench knife? Well you should! A bench knife is a 3-inch by 6- inch smooth piece of metal topped with a molded plastic or wood gripping handle. Don't be fooled by the name, the edge of this piece of metal isn't sharp like a cutting knife, but it can still work its way around the kitchen. It's great for dividing dough, slicing refrigerator cookies and leveling off measured ingredients like flour and baking soda. Some bench knives have measurements in inches along the cutting edge. How handy is that!? It's also great for cleaning off counters and tables that might have bits of dough or flour on them. It's a simple and efficient tool that can be used as many ways as you can think up! It's a real gem!
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Hi I'm from the UK and I want to buy a bench knife for a present for someone. I have no idea where I can get one, do you know anywhere that would supply to the UK? Thanks.
nice bench knife for cooking
Kitchen Aid mixer is where it's at! I adore mine! Sure beats standing there like a chump with a hand mixer and does a much better job too. I'll have to get a bench knife too….wonder if kitchen aid makes them…in black to match my mixer…
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Uh oh, I am most definitely a kitchen gadget junkie! I'm desperately searching for Kitchen Equipment Addicts Anonymous branch in my city, so please let me know if you know of one! Until then, I'll just pop out at lunch and pick up a bench knife, hee-hee. ;-)
i need one!
I use mine to transfer things from the cutting board to the pot or pan. You can pick up a lot more than with your knife!!
Bench knife – check! I was in Williams-Sonoma this morning and saw it on their gadget wall and had to get it! Now on to those cinnamon rolls…
Hi Joy…love your bench knife. I wish I had just a clutch of things like you & was a minimalist too. My 2 fave kitchen gadgets at the moment are a microplaner, which grates ginger garlic in a hurry too, & my santuko knife. Now a bench knife seems like the next thing on my list! What a great post!! The pictures are beautiful too…what camera do you use?
I just discovered your lovely blog :)
I definitely need a bench knife that is as rockin' as yours!
I'm kind of a kitchen equipment junkie … I can't help it, I'm an impulsive shopper, but somehow I don't have one of these. Looks like a shopping trip is in my future haha
My mom put a bench knife in my stocking this past Christmas and I LOVE it! I use it all the time, I can't believe I functioned without one for so long!


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Peanut butter and chocolate are probably my favorite combined flavors. I like peanut butter on its own -- and I love chocolate -- but when you marry them together in the harmony that is a peanut butter cup... well I digress, we're not here to talk about my junk food issues.
We've spoken quite a bit about the special circumstances that surround the small businesses marketing budget -- along with the scarcity of your time as a small business owner. Building pages or writing copy that serves only one purpose is good, but using that same content for two applications is even better when you're barely finding time to write one page -- let alone two.
I've never been a huge fan of the traditional PPC-only landing page in a small business setting. Designed to be a uni-tasker, its sole purpose is to convert clicks from a particular PPC ad or ad group.
If you have a lot of time and budget for generating and testing these landing pages -- by all means go for it. For small businesses, the "time is money" mantra makes this a less than desirable way to spend valuable time.
Instead, spend the time building a great page of content that will give you nice conversions and a good CTR and quality score for your paid ads. Your awesomely optimized page is just a few more steps away. Why not have a page that serves double duty?
Many successful marketers will tell you they use their PPC campaigns to fine-tune the keywords they've found before implementing them in their SEO. We can use keyword research tools to make educated guesses as to which keywords would be ideal for a site.
The issue: every site, and every site's target market, is a bit different. By putting your initial keyword research into a PPC campaign measuring the actual traffic volumes and conversion rates, you're going to ensure stellar SEO results -- if you're SEOing your pages correctly. This works well if you already have a good landing page available for those PPC clicks.
Sometimes you're going to need to build that page of content. You just might move ahead of the game by optimizing that page for search engines -- and paid ads at the same time.
My preferred technique is to build a quality page of content for a term that may have a hefty search volume -- and a high KEI (keyword effectiveness index). If you're optimizing that page for your high-KEI (low-competition) keyword -- and then pointing PPC at that page -- you'll see nice results if the traffic is there and you're providing a nice user experience.
If your term has a very low KEI -- and a ton of searches -- it's more than likely going to be quite competitive (read: "Expensive!") in terms of PPC spend. Many small businesses don't have the budget available to bid on expensive keywords.
My preference in many cases, depending upon size of site and budget, is to build organic pages for terms that cost a lot in PPC engines, optimize them for those highly competitive terms, and work on gaining some decent rankings. Once I'm happy with the organic positioning, I add in a supporting PPC ad bid to position in a less expensive space -- say fifth through seventh on the page. This reduces my cost per click in two ways:
- My page is highly relevant to the term I'm bidding on -- increasing my quality score.
- The ad is bid to a lower and less competitive position -- costing less per click than positions one through three.
If your PPC budget just won't support highly competitive terms, you can still see success using the "long tail" of search. Long tail terms get fewer searches, but the ones they get are usually much more targeted.
"Orlando hotel" is pretty competitive and expensive. "Orlando hotel suite near Downtown Disney" is much less competitive, and therefore less expensive. The beauty is this term is much more descriptive of what that particular client might offer -- resulting in a more likely to convert scenario. As a general rule, longer tail terms tend to convert at better rates -- making them the champions when looking at your "cost per conversion" metric.
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Dip into your stash of old brooches and pins to create a Repurposed Jewelry Pendant from Candace Jedrowicz. Jewelry craft ideas don't have to be complicated or expensive - simply use pieces you already have and let your creativity shine through. This is a great excuse to show off an old piece of jewelry that is especially meaningful.
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The Resource Description Format (RDF) is a way to describe information about relationships between entities and objects. It was originally developed by the W3C as a way to describe information about resources on the Web. It is intended to be the data model used in the Semantic Web, where web pages contain not just text but also structured records describing the data they contain and the relationships in that data.
RDF has seen widespread adoption in recent years. For example, the entire MIT library catalog is available in RDF format. More recently, a number of biology researchers have begun to publish their data in RDF, including the UniProt comprehensive catalog of protein sequence, function, and annotation data.
Understanding RDF
An RDF document consists of a collection of statements of the form subject-property-object. For example, a library database that stores data about authors and books might have statement triples like "User1 has-name 'Sam Madden'", "User1 is-an Author", "User1 wrote Book1″, "Book1 is-a Book", "Book1 has-title 'Who ate my cheese?'", etc.
It should be clear that an RDF document, containing a collection of triples about a group of resources, is a structured database that users may want to browse, search, or query in a number of ways. Building tools that make it possible do this efficiently is one of the goals of our research. In particular, we are interested in the performance of different on-disk storage representations for a collection of triples.
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Our first attempts to do this have focused on leveraging relational database technology. The obvious relational representation of an RDF document is as a table with three columns, which would conventionally be stored as a series of 3-tuples laid out on disk in a row-major format. This representation, however, performs quite poorly for many types of queries. Suppose, for example, we want to find all the authors of the book "Who ate my cheese". We will first have to find the triple "bookM has-title 'Who ate my cheese'". We will then have to perform a self join with the triples table to find all of the triples of the form "personN wrote bookM'. Finally, for each author, we will have to perform another self join to find triples of the form 'personN has-name 'Sam Madden'".
Hence, we have been looking at alternative representations that eliminate these self joins (we still expose a logical model of a collection of triples that the user queries, but we transform user queries to apply to our modified physical representation.) For example, one possible representation is to store a table where the first column contains the subject, and each additional column corresponds to a particular property. This representation is sometimes called a "property representation", as shown on the bottom of the figure above. Though this representation can have many NULL values if there are a variety of subjects with diverse properties defined, it has the advantage that all of the properties of a given object are now stored together.
Our work in this area, "Scalable Semantic Web Data Management Using Vertical Partitioning," appeared in the VLDB Conference in Vienna in September. It showed that using a column-oriented database, along with this property representation, allows us to overcome the overhead of representing NULLs, while providing two orders of magnitude better performance than the naive triples representation. This is particularly true when processing queries that must access many triples during execution (e.g., computing the number of books grouped by subject area or institution.) Of course, there is a fair amount of subtlety to getting good performance out of such a representation. Have a look at our conference paper for the details!
Caveats for column- and row-store databases
As we've discussed elsewhere in this blog, column-stores can perform worse than row-stores for certain classes of queries. In particular, for lookups of a single record (e.g., all of the information about a particular author), a row-oriented database (using a property representation) may outperform a column-oriented system. This is because it only has to seek to one location on disk to read the data from this record, whereas a column store will have to seek to each column to reconstruct the entire record.
There are other situations where neither a row- nor column-oriented property representation is ideal. Imagine, for example, a user browsing an RDF-based Web site containing our library database. During browsing, suppose the user navigates from books or articles, to authors, to related books and articles, and so on. Such browsing queries in a property representation will lead to (slow) self-joins on the property table, just as they did in the triples table. Hence, a more sensible representation for a browsing-oriented database would be to store a given record R near to records the user is likely to navigate to from R. This is the topic of our current research in this area.
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Why would Goldman hire such morons to work for them?
More Goldman/Goldman clients looking for that edge. It is amazing the firm still stands when you look at the magnitude of fraud they engage in.
Notice MF Global collapse has both Jon Corzine and Bradley Abelow involved as top executives. both were Goldman executives before and now the FBI is claiming fraud took place in the handling of customer accounts.
This is why you can"t get honest research from Wall Street.
Goldman is quickly becoming the lightning rod for what is wrong with this industry. The greed that drives getting that extra advantage is quickly coming back to haunt the firm that is embroiled in charges of fraud from former and current employees.
Goldman Sachs - the breeding grounds for government connections and individual ethical misbehavior. Goldman people of success are the poster child for doing at all cost to get ahead - ethical or otherwise.
Anon - Do you have any idea what you're talking about? Honest research? They put a freakin SELL on a client that just paid them 10mil to manage their IPO. It doesn't get any more honest than that. One more ignorant person riping sell-side research without knowing the facts. I'm no Goldman fan, but geez you clearly don't get this story.
You have got to be an idiot to think what happened here is any way an example of Goldman greed. It's the exact opposite. The honesty of their equity research cost them the huge fees they would have received from underwriting this secondary offering. This is the OPPOSITE of illicit edge. They are GIVING away money in exchange for expressing an honest opinion! Anyone who does not understand this has no credibility to comment.
Agreed with Justice and T Rex - this is an internal mess up, not an example of greed or fraud. When banks are working on offerings they are often subject to restrictions on what they can publish in research (sometimes dictated by US rules). Somehow this research got through the net, so it's more like a big mistake in process.
Everyone should try to be honest, especially in public because any dishonesty caught is a big deal!!
if they planned it, maybe they should have planned better not getting caught…..
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