[After the 49ers blew a 12-point fourth-quarter lead in a 34-31 loss to visiting Dallas, first-year coach Mike Nolan suggested there could be changes on the roster and in the lineup this week against Arizona. Nolan was particularly upset with breakdowns in pass coverage, which allowed Drew Bledsoe to throw for 363 yards, with five passes covering 20 or more yards.] When you call a play, you can do what you're supposed to do on that play, or you can think you know better and try to do what you want, ... One is called trust, one is called distrust. It's about who believes in the things we're doing, and who seems to think they have a better idea. Some people think they have a better idea. The ones who trust, I believe, are champions and will still be here. |
[All these numbers are perfectly suited to the Internet. And talk about sticky -- a handicapper can spend six hours analyzing the day's races before the first bugle sounds. The Racing Form's Web site, drf.com, provides racing news, but its new online product, Formulator, supplies past performance information that you can interact with. Other sites provide past performances, but the Form's are the most sophisticated. Colorful charts supplant the black type of the printed version of the Form, and some features let handicappers enter new realms of number crunching.] If you want to know how a horse has run in wet weather, click and it's there. On the grass, at a certain distance, and so forth, ... It is useful for both the experienced player and the novice. |
[To build its SOA environment, Staples first had to dissect its business processes into its component functions, such as inventory checking, build-to-order, order history, and so on.] Then they took that business model and they implemented it on top of IBM products, like WebSphere Commerce, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, Product Center, and DB2 -- and they did this on iSeries, ... Now they have a kind of full, SOA environment that enables them to bring new services to the marketplace much quicker, allows them to integrate any piece of the company they have or acquisitions very quickly, and gives a single, seamless view of their customer set across multiple channels. So they've gotten extremely good business value from being able to do that. |
Tom Watson (1949-) |
It's clear that they were the victims here, |