Junk food is right.
I had a friend that hired a team of 6 from India to develop a project. Unfortunately they missed the deadline because the software that they "wrote" was of such "quality" that he had to go back and rewrite most of it himself so that it WOULD work.
It really cracks me up hearing about the lack of quality developers in NA -- perhaps the people looking to hire these developers are looking in all the wrong places. They ARE here.
Haha
I get it now! The show sounds pretty interesting, I think it might be time that I break down and start buying the seasons.
Thanks for the explanation =)
We will just have to agree to disagree on this issue then. I have enjoyed this though =D
In any case, no matter what happens, I do agree with you in that something does need to be done in order to suit everyone's language -- I should be able to read anything I want, no matter what language it is original published in it, and the reverse should also hold true. It should not be that hard. Perhaps have a translating protocol of some sort that will translate the source document to your language based on your ip range.
I'm sure there are more clever ways to accomplish this.
Well, I had thought it would be automatically formatted -- I guess not (as I see HTML tags below).
Its going to make that painful to read.
In any case, our opinions do not really differ that much at all. This is somewhat more like a 'healthy debate' instead of US > *, EU > *, etc. which spawn flame wars and are not constructive. I am in no way knocking the rest of the world either, as there have been plenty of contributions from other countries that have moved humanity forward. What bothers me is many of the significant achievements/creations, made by the US or funded by the US, seem to fall in the wrong hands, and are somehow used against us out of sheer hatred and jealousy.
The Internet is a powerful asset to the world, if it were in the wrong hands or controlled by a few key members of a group with ulterior motives - it could be used to disrupt the world that you and I live and have enjoyed. I think the Internet is fine as it is.
P.S.: Yes, Linus Torvalds contributed greatly with Linux and is not American! I use it daily =)
Ultimately this is pointless and non-constructive, but I am a sucker for responding..;)
I stand where I stand on the Internet -- it was a US invention (ARPANet) and should remain as-is. Forgive me if I stand stern on this issue but I also know that some of the money that I pay in taxes went toward this (maybe not directly, but I'm sure there were government programs that needed funding).
Now for your copy/paste Wikipedia skills (great site, but but I would hardly trust everything there as accepted fact, especially on sensitive issues. Much of the world harbors some jealousy or hatred for the US so any measure that can be done to discredit the country's achievements, beliefs, etc. will be taken including introduction of falsified or suspect 'fact'. Many of the arguments stated in those articles lack evidence or credibility).
1) Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
2) Electricity - maybe a dispute here, but Bell, Edison, Franklin, et. all -> US
3) Transistor - patents are patents, creations are creating, planning, executing, and crafting that initial concept into a tangible item/service - the transistor was created in the US.
4) Aviation - not sure why you pasted that, as it essentially said what I had originally stated -- US were first to "fly". All this paste says is that man might have flown before, but it was either via catapult (mechanically assisted) or jumping off a cliff and gliding down (non-powered flight without take off). I do recall reading this long before Wikipedia existed in Scientific American or National Geographic (I believe it was a group in Brazil disputing this, and ultimately, the dispute had more to do with the world "fly" as opposed to the actual means -- they took fly to mean literally, whereas the US meant it as in aviation).
5) Light -- I did say this in my haste, my apologies. It was intended to be read as 'electricity' (#2).
Regards
Old Myth? Yea okay...
TBL has my respect for creating the most-used PROTOCOL on the internet, but realistically that protocol could not have existed without a medium for it to exist upon.
If I am not mistaking the internet came into existence after the department of defense(US) gave a grant to MIT and UC (Berkley). They were the first two NODES of the Internet.
I think it is quite nice that the US allowed other nodes to be plugged into the network that had existed here for 40 years...
I could go on about flight, light, phone, electricity, the transistor, etc. but this thread concerns the Internet.
Free speech == free thinking == creativity, the last thing I need is some rogue 3rd world country censoring what I am able to read and think in my relatively free country, stifling my creativity.
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Junk food is right. I had a friend that hired a team of 6 from India to develop a project. Unfortunately they missed the deadline because the software that they "wrote" was of such "quality" that he had to go back and rewrite most of it himself so that it WOULD work. It really cracks me up hearing about the lack of quality developers in NA -- perhaps the people looking to hire these developers are looking in all the wrong places. They ARE here.
Haha I get it now! The show sounds pretty interesting, I think it might be time that I break down and start buying the seasons. Thanks for the explanation =)
I don't watch BSG ;~(
I am missing out.
We will just have to agree to disagree on this issue then. I have enjoyed this though =D
In any case, no matter what happens, I do agree with you in that something does need to be done in order to suit everyone's language -- I should be able to read anything I want, no matter what language it is original published in it, and the reverse should also hold true. It should not be that hard. Perhaps have a translating protocol of some sort that will translate the source document to your language based on your ip range.
I'm sure there are more clever ways to accomplish this.
Well, I had thought it would be automatically formatted -- I guess not (as I see HTML tags below).
Its going to make that painful to read.
In any case, our opinions do not really differ that much at all. This is somewhat more like a 'healthy debate' instead of US > *, EU > *, etc. which spawn flame wars and are not constructive. I am in no way knocking the rest of the world either, as there have been plenty of contributions from other countries that have moved humanity forward. What bothers me is many of the significant achievements/creations, made by the US or funded by the US, seem to fall in the wrong hands, and are somehow used against us out of sheer hatred and jealousy.
The Internet is a powerful asset to the world, if it were in the wrong hands or controlled by a few key members of a group with ulterior motives - it could be used to disrupt the world that you and I live and have enjoyed. I think the Internet is fine as it is.
P.S.: Yes, Linus Torvalds contributed greatly with Linux and is not American! I use it daily =)
Ultimately this is pointless and non-constructive, but I am a sucker for responding.. ;)
I stand where I stand on the Internet -- it was a US invention (ARPANet) and should remain as-is. Forgive me if I stand stern on this issue but I also know that some of the money that I pay in taxes went toward this (maybe not directly, but I'm sure there were government programs that needed funding).
Now for your copy/paste Wikipedia skills (great site, but but I would hardly trust everything there as accepted fact, especially on sensitive issues. Much of the world harbors some jealousy or hatred for the US so any measure that can be done to discredit the country's achievements, beliefs, etc. will be taken including introduction of falsified or suspect 'fact'. Many of the arguments stated in those articles lack evidence or credibility).
1) Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
2) Electricity - maybe a dispute here, but Bell, Edison, Franklin, et. all -> US
3) Transistor - patents are patents, creations are creating, planning, executing, and crafting that initial concept into a tangible item/service - the transistor was created in the US.
4) Aviation - not sure why you pasted that, as it essentially said what I had originally stated -- US were first to "fly". All this paste says is that man might have flown before, but it was either via catapult (mechanically assisted) or jumping off a cliff and gliding down (non-powered flight without take off). I do recall reading this long before Wikipedia existed in Scientific American or National Geographic (I believe it was a group in Brazil disputing this, and ultimately, the dispute had more to do with the world "fly" as opposed to the actual means -- they took fly to mean literally, whereas the US meant it as in aviation).
5) Light -- I did say this in my haste, my apologies. It was intended to be read as 'electricity' (#2).
Regards
Old Myth? Yea okay... TBL has my respect for creating the most-used PROTOCOL on the internet, but realistically that protocol could not have existed without a medium for it to exist upon. If I am not mistaking the internet came into existence after the department of defense(US) gave a grant to MIT and UC (Berkley). They were the first two NODES of the Internet. I think it is quite nice that the US allowed other nodes to be plugged into the network that had existed here for 40 years... I could go on about flight, light, phone, electricity, the transistor, etc. but this thread concerns the Internet. Free speech == free thinking == creativity, the last thing I need is some rogue 3rd world country censoring what I am able to read and think in my relatively free country, stifling my creativity.