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Myth of US Vacations?

Russell Beattie takes a good look on vacation in US and Europe:

(...) Now, the opposite of this concept is true as well - imagine how harsh it is for someone to go from Europe to the U.S. My wife doesn't really understand yet what a 24/7 society like the U.S. is like. She talks about future vacations when we're living in the U.S. and I shake my head softly. "I doubt we'll have much," I say. Even if we do have vacations, they'll never coincide. And undoubtedly something "important" will be happening at work and we'll have to spend half our vacation calling back to voicemail or checking emails. The fact is that vacations are always just short breaks, not true downtime. By the time you're just forgetting about work, it's time to go back.(...)

It seems that the only loophole may be when you stay at university and have three months of vacation (not counting Christmas). The rumor has it that it is even better in Australia ...

created Sat June 28, 2003 2:10 PM EST [2003/6/28 14:10 EST] permalink

Pyramids: returning magic to computing.

Finally magic of computing restored - nobody can doubt that computer requires special secret skills to run machine that looks like pyramid and glows blue in dark ....

created Sat June 28, 2003 3:31 PM EST [2003/6/28 15:31 EST] permalink

Beyond J2EE and Jini is ... ?

Talip Ozturk writes about J2EE and Jini and what is relationship between them:

(...)They are not truely competing technologies rather complementary technologies. if you are writing a J2EE server, you can use Jini's dynamic, self healing features. if a Jini service needs to persist data in a way that entity beans does, then the Jini service can make use of a J2EE server to do that. if you are writing JMS implementation, you might want to leverage Jini JavaSpaces technology. JNDI might internally be interfacing with Jini Lookup Service to gain some dynamic behaviour.(...)

I think that distributed computing is changing with advent of Web Services and in particular Grids. The feature may be something like distributed container that is dynamically created from available services (similar to Jini but on Internet scale) that guaranteed to have all required resources such as performance, bandwidth, transactions etc. as described in SLA, QoS, ... (in this respect it is meeting and superseding requirements of J2EE).

Anyway only future can really tell and some technologies seem to stay longer (or shorter) than predicted.

created Sat June 28, 2003 4:40 PM EST [2003/6/28 16:40 EST] permalink

Google And Zen

Google regarded as a nature force that is unpredictable and requires very special attitude:

(...)Others have a more a Zen-like approach to doing well in Google. "You can't control Google," says a search engine marketer who goes by the name martinibuster on Webmaster World. "Anything you do to control Google, the more you try to manipulate it, the more it will backfire on you. It's counterintuitive, but it's when you let go -- when you don't try to control Google -- then your results get better."(...)

(...)For good reason, Google doesn't talk about its ranking algorithms; if folks knew what Google was doing, the search engine would be easy to trick. But in the absence of information from the company, rumors, theories and groundless speculation run free. On the Web, Google has taken on the aura of a god -- enigmatic, arbitrary, worthy of our fear and our love. Everyone's watching it for signs of anger and of embrace; we know that whatever it does will affect us profoundly, and so people watch it, and they worry.

read more at salon.com titled The Google backlash.

created Sat June 28, 2003 5:12 PM EST [2003/6/28 17:12 EST] permalink

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