26 jargon words to avoid (like the plague) | The Tendo View Buzzwords. Corporate cliches. Jargon. But what separates good jargon from bad jargon? 1| The 80/20 rule (noun) Definition: a widely adopted principle that 20 percent of something always produces 80 percent of the results. Why we hate it: Juran's legitimate management principle is co-opted so often that it's lost its original meaning, plus it's often used incorrectly. 2| Actionable (adjective) Definition: subject to or affording ground for an action or suit at law; in business terms, it's the idea of taking action toward a solution; e.g., "Let's take actionable steps to solve that issue." Why we hate it: Stealing lingo from wordy lawyers? 3| "Ah-ha" moment (noun) Definition: the moment when you get it: the solution, the realization, the answer Why we hate it: OK for use in conversation, but don't write it down; it's clunky and awkward-looking. 4| Baked in (adjective) Definition: anything that comes with a product. Why we hate it: Our mothers' brownies have pecans baked into them.
as Piël » ZeroMQ an introduction ZeroMQ is a messaging library, which allows you to design a complex communication system without much effort. It has been wrestling with how to effectively describe itself in the recent years. In the beginning it was introduced as ‘messaging middleware’ later they moved to ‘TCP on steroids’ and right now it is a ‘new layer on the networking stack’. I had some trouble understanding ZeroMQ at first and really had to reset my brain. First of all, it is not a complete messaging system such as RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ. I know the guys of Linden Research compared them, but it is apples and oranges. ZeroMQ is not such a system at all; it is a simple messaging library to be used programmatically. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee But why use ZeroMQ and not just use the low level Berkeley socket interface or a high level messaging system? I believe that ZeroMQ perfectly fits this gap between the high and the low level, so what are its features? Performance ZeroMQ is blazing fast. Simplicity
Pão: Lei que impõe cortes no sal entra hoje em vigor Lisboa, 12 ago (Lusa) – A partir de hoje o pão português é obrigado a conter menos sal, com a entrada em vigor de uma lei elogiada por médicos e especialistas em saúde pública mas que levanta várias reticências à indústria do setor. A nova lei define um teor máximo de 1,4 gramas de sal por 100 gramas de pão e obriga a que os rótulos das embalagens de alimentos pré-embalados prestem informação sobre a quantidade relativa e absoluta de sal na embalagem, por percentagem do produto e por porção/dose. Industriais e comerciantes de panificação lamentam que a lei deixe de fora produtos como os cereais de pequeno-almoço e acusam o Governo de falhar os apoios previstos para o setor. “O pão foi um bode de expiatório para alguém mostrar que se preocupa com a saúde dos portugueses. Se fosse com esta preocupação seria abrangente para todos os produtos”, comentou à agência Lusa o presidente da Associação do Comércio e da Industria de Panificação (ACIP), Carlos Alberto dos Santos.
Jargon-busters pick top offenders after 25 years of rewriting history | UK news The Plain English Campaign today celebrates the anniversary of a mission as vital, unglamorous and unending as sewage disposal. For a quarter of a century, it has been struggling to cleanse the muck of jargon and circumlocution from British official writing. The campaign was co-founded with the vehemence of a crusade by Chrissie Maher, a Liverpool woman furious because the official forms she received were indecipherable. Its combined tactic of public ridicule and backstairs training for repentant organisations can claim credit for the clearer forms and leaflets now seen in many health clinics, post offices and government ministries. Yesterday its 7,000 supporters in 80 countries marked the anniversary by nominating their choicest item of gobbledygook from the last 25 years. The winner is a sentence from draft national minimum wage regulations introduced by Tony Blair's government in 1998. Mr Ashton cited a recent company document inviting tenders. The winners 1st 2nd 3rd
Pen This is pen, a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols such as http or smtp. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside and automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance. 140402 snprintf format errors reported by Christopher Meng fixed in pen.c and penctl.c. The load balancing algorithm keeps track of clients and will try to send them back to the server they visited the last time. This is superior to a simple round-robin algorithm, which sends a client that connects repeatedly to different servers. When pen detects that a server is unavailable, it scans for another starting with the server after the most recently used one. Correctly configured, pen can ensure that a server farm is always available, even when individual servers are brought down for maintenance or reconfiguration. Change log Mailing list archive Penlogd Webstats Portability Installation And on Fedora: . .
Liya Mairson's Pop-Up Cardboard Playhouse Posted by core jr | 13 Aug 2010 | Comments (0) Liya Mairson, a graduate of the Shenkar College of Engneering and Design, has created a children's play house that takes cues from pop up books, except this on is life size. As the pages are unfolded, so too do imaginary domestic spaces for children to play in. Whether intentional or not, it reminds of Joe Colombo's Total Furnishing Unit, circa 1971-72, which is awesome. A few more shots of My Space after the jump.
Marketing Blunders 1. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux." 2. Coors put its slogan, "Turn It Loose," into Spanish where its translation was read as "Suffer From Diarrhea." 3. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into German only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
List of national independence days Independence-related National Day No official National Day An Independence Day is an annual event commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a group or part of another nation or state; more rarely after the end of a military occupation. List[edit] The following is a partial list of independence days of countries around the world: See also[edit] References[edit] General "National holiday of member states". Specific Jump up ^ Abkhazia , Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO).Jump up ^ Pertama Dalam Sejarah PM Belanda Hadiri Resepsi HUT RI 17-8Jump up ^ Xiaoyuan Liu - Reins of Liberation, p.6Jump up ^ Stephen Kotkin, Bruce A.
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Translations that are Marketing Mistakes People forward translation and cultural mistakes to me, and I love them. I hope you enjoy these as well. Often I receive the same ones over and over. Please only send me ones that are not listed here. (Please search this page first.) Also, take these with a grain of salt...They may be contrived and not true, or if true, unrecognizably transformed. The site About Spanish Language indicates many of these are patently untrue. Acknowledgements: Some of the original sources are credited here. Tex "I am a jelly doughnut" Texin Copyright © 1999-2009 Tex Texin. Translations That (Allegedly) Embarassed Their Marketing Departments If you like these signs, try this page of Odd Signs. Acknowledgements David A.
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins I love the concept, though, so let's see if we can make it work. Assume we have the following two tables. Table A is on the left, and Table B is on the right. We'll populate them with four records each. id name id name -- ---- -- ---- 1 Pirate 1 Rutabaga 2 Monkey 2 Pirate 3 Ninja 3 Darth Vader 4 Spaghetti 4 Ninja Let's join these tables by the name field in a few different ways and see if we can get a conceptual match to those nifty Venn diagrams. There's also a cartesian product or cross join, which as far as I can tell, can't be expressed as a Venn diagram: SELECT * FROM TableA CROSS JOIN TableB This joins "everything to everything", resulting in 4 x 4 = 16 rows, far more than we had in the original sets.