This article was little more than a marketing pamphlet. If these are going to be put up for combustion engines, please post all the promotional literature about the next varporware.
A saying I've heard and take to heart: "If you want me to believe in a ghost, catch it, and nail it to the barn door."
The complaints by this/. crowd about Big Brother knowing everything about you are a little exaggerated if they can mess up something as simple as two people with the same name. If the whole world is in a conspiracy, only to be thrown off by two people sharing the same name, its not a very good conspiracy.
So the gist of this story is that you guys are now complaining that the government doesn't know enough about you.
If the bat were flying upward (as you look at the screen) you could let him go inside one of the 1 room castles, and he would fly upward, staying inside that castle. Then once you killed the dragons everything was safe to explore.
True enough that they would have gotten bad press if they had pulled out. But they also would have gotten bad press had the imacs been there. I can just see the snide articles writing about how Intel is sponsoring a school that is smart enough not to purchase from Intel.
What Harvard did was merely polite. If you received money from Coke, you shouldn't serve Pepsi.
Its not like they covered up, and powered down all apple products throughout the entire university.
Battlefield Earth revolutionized the speed at which bad information can travel. Bad reviews flew about this so quickly, and thoroughly, that I actually managed not to go see a movie I was looking forward to, and surely would have been disappointed with.
Had this new maximum speed of bad news been available last year, I could have shown up at a different movie only during the one cool fight scene.
First of all, who wants to have to program a mouse several times.
Second, clicks from hardware will be clicks the same way every time. What happens when you have some heavy processing going on? Does that click turn in to a mouseDown?
And perhaps most importantly, its bad enough playing quake with someone else's keybindings, but I can't imagine playing with their mouse bindings.
Assuming you want to keep the children interested, and not just chain them to the chair I would suggest something that is fairly result oriented, but still consistent as a language.
Java would be my top choice for children learning a language. They have no preconceived notions, and they soak up knew stuff like sponges. Java allows a lot of room for growth, and can be used for a great deal of experimentation. Its also relatively safe. Combined with simple html, it can even provide a place to display their work in the form of applets. The downside to Java is that there is no simple one liner, and its possible to lose someone on programming before "hello world" has been printed.
Perl depending on what they are like. If they aren't graphically oriented, they may like a language that just makes more sense. The big upside to Perl is edit, run, edit, run. Good warnings, well documented.
C/C++ if they are future hardcore geeks I couldn't recommend anything more highly than C. It is powerful, and will result in them know how a computer works. Big potential downsides of blowing up the computer, especially on windows. Upside on Unix is that it runs the world.
VB. Ack! Every function in VB seems to be written independently, and has a completely different method of operation. Upside is that it is easy to get started, and graphics, which can be strange to work with any other way are quite simple. Probably a good one for kids.
Lisp. Probably not best for them. But my wife has inquired about learning to program, and I've considered teaching her nothing but LISP. It would not be at all useful, except for the practical joke value that may take years to realize. That said, I could always move her to maintenance of my.emacs file.
Summary I would have to choose between Java, and VB. Java is nicely integrated with the web though where VB is nicely integrated with the windows box.
My recommendation: Teach your kids Java, and teach your wife LISP.
You can only play this game during the hours dictated by the game, mostly at 8 o'clock in the morning. It will be your responsibility to sit, watch, and listen while your computer drones on about facts and opinions that you don't even care about.
You will be responsible for turning in papers, but since the "fun" part of your student's life is taken care of outside the game, you won't be able to write the paper until the night before its due. The game will enfore this, please don't start the paper until 5am the day its due.
Once installed, SimStudent, in its best simulation of a University environment will start blocking Napster, and filtering the websites you view.
I would agree that legal action would need to be taken if they appeared to be "insincere". That could only be a judgement call that would have to be made by the author. Redusal to take calls, respond to emails, or otherwise ignore the issue would obviously necessitate a legal solution.
My feeling about such cases though is that big companies would prefer to fight these battles in the courtroom than to fight them at the developer level.
Its been my experience is that once you teach a VB (activeX, dll, ado, whatever the hell it is named this week) developer how it could also be done in Perl, they are never quite so happy with VB again. $smug++
You ask for too much too soon. Companies move slowly. The very fact that they are politely making changes to the code, and getting it done in 1 or 2 weeks is a good thing.
This little flap will serve to open their eyes to the values of open source. At this point, a greater portion of the company has become aware that they are in fact using open source tools to meet their production goals. They are a little bit more aware than before.
Also, it would be bad to scare off a company from using open source works. Imagine if managers had the option of saying, "We can't use that stuff or we'll be sued."
So what if they use it in the development process, and only switch it out at the last minute with their own stuff. This means their developers are all using open source code. This is good. As these people move on up the chain, it will become more and more accepted.
Open source is a long fight. Let's win hearts and minds, not court cases.
What is being said here is that "it will create an interesting social dynamic".
Think about this for a second. Outside of the very recent past, people with diseases were locked away. Personal "rights" were stripped for the good of the whole. What will happen in the game when someone gets a character that is running around trying to kill everyone with disease.
It will be interesting to see if people are as forgiving in a game atmosphere (where it costs even less) to someone that has a disease. Will names of the diseased be posted. Flags put outside their houses? Neighbors take up collections to pay for the cure?
I look forward to the answer to these questions and more when people can behave however they want.
Until employers value experienced professionals with the proper credentials (instead of thinking that every kid with green hair and a stud through his tounge is a web expert), there's little hope for a standard of quality on the web.
Please, insist on hiring only the most credentialed, and best groomed crap out there.
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Hmm...it never even occurred to me that calling people lazy would be taken negatively. In a coding context its usually considered a virtue.
If you follow this chain of illegal links, essentially we have links in our browsers that we follow. We have links in newspaper adds (non-hypertext perhaps).
Nothing to worry about, they can find illegal sites, but they can't write them down without breaking the same laws of linking to illegal sites.
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He did manage to land it safely.
By extension, wouldn't the site they came from be illegal also?
A saying I've heard and take to heart: "If you want me to believe in a ghost, catch it, and nail it to the barn door."
1 if you are lucky.
It may not be the most popular here on /. but it works, its available a lot of places, and it uses C++.
Well, in someone else's hands it uses C++, in mine everything still looks like C.
So the gist of this story is that you guys are now complaining that the government doesn't know enough about you.
The upside is that they can now have net access.
What Harvard did was merely polite. If you received money from Coke, you shouldn't serve Pepsi.
Its not like they covered up, and powered down all apple products throughout the entire university.
Had this new maximum speed of bad news been available last year, I could have shown up at a different movie only during the one cool fight scene.
Uninstalling it would not allieve them of the responsibility to switch to all free software.
Second, clicks from hardware will be clicks the same way every time. What happens when you have some heavy processing going on? Does that click turn in to a mouseDown?
And perhaps most importantly, its bad enough playing quake with someone else's keybindings, but I can't imagine playing with their mouse bindings.
I mean, they could all go work on getting a worthwhile Daikatana out the door.
Java would be my top choice for children learning a language. They have no preconceived notions, and they soak up knew stuff like sponges. Java allows a lot of room for growth, and can be used for a great deal of experimentation. Its also relatively safe. Combined with simple html, it can even provide a place to display their work in the form of applets.
The downside to Java is that there is no simple one liner, and its possible to lose someone on programming before "hello world" has been printed.
Perl depending on what they are like. If they aren't graphically oriented, they may like a language that just makes more sense.
The big upside to Perl is edit, run, edit, run. Good warnings, well documented.
C/C++ if they are future hardcore geeks I couldn't recommend anything more highly than C. It is powerful, and will result in them know how a computer works.
Big potential downsides of blowing up the computer, especially on windows. Upside on Unix is that it runs the world.
VB. Ack! Every function in VB seems to be written independently, and has a completely different method of operation.
Upside is that it is easy to get started, and graphics, which can be strange to work with any other way are quite simple. Probably a good one for kids.
Lisp. Probably not best for them. But my wife has inquired about learning to program, and I've considered teaching her nothing but LISP. It would not be at all useful, except for the practical joke value that may take years to realize. That said, I could always move her to maintenance of my .emacs file.
Summary I would have to choose between Java, and VB. Java is nicely integrated with the web though where VB is nicely integrated with the windows box.
My recommendation:
Teach your kids Java, and teach your wife LISP.
I might choose to use the word "misinformed" instead of "ignorent". If only to avoid the hostile tone of someone that may occasionally make a mistake.
All Ip addresses are the sum of /. account id's.
NUTS!
It doesn't mention anywhere the 16 reboots.
You will be responsible for turning in papers, but since the "fun" part of your student's life is taken care of outside the game, you won't be able to write the paper until the night before its due. The game will enfore this, please don't start the paper until 5am the day its due.
Once installed, SimStudent, in its best simulation of a University environment will start blocking Napster, and filtering the websites you view.
My feeling about such cases though is that big companies would prefer to fight these battles in the courtroom than to fight them at the developer level.
Its been my experience is that once you teach a VB (activeX, dll, ado, whatever the hell it is named this week) developer how it could also be done in Perl, they are never quite so happy with VB again. $smug++
This little flap will serve to open their eyes to the values of open source. At this point, a greater portion of the company has become aware that they are in fact using open source tools to meet their production goals. They are a little bit more aware than before.
Also, it would be bad to scare off a company from using open source works. Imagine if managers had the option of saying, "We can't use that stuff or we'll be sued."
So what if they use it in the development process, and only switch it out at the last minute with their own stuff. This means their developers are all using open source code. This is good. As these people move on up the chain, it will become more and more accepted.
Open source is a long fight. Let's win hearts and minds, not court cases.
Think about this for a second. Outside of the very recent past, people with diseases were locked away. Personal "rights" were stripped for the good of the whole. What will happen in the game when someone gets a character that is running around trying to kill everyone with disease.
It will be interesting to see if people are as forgiving in a game atmosphere (where it costs even less) to someone that has a disease. Will names of the diseased be posted. Flags put outside their houses? Neighbors take up collections to pay for the cure?
I look forward to the answer to these questions and more when people can behave however they want.
Please, insist on hiring only the most credentialed, and best groomed crap out there.
Hmm...it never even occurred to me that calling people lazy would be taken negatively. In a coding context its usually considered a virtue.
If you follow this chain of illegal links, essentially we have links in our browsers that we follow.
We have links in newspaper adds (non-hypertext perhaps).
Nothing to worry about, they can find illegal sites, but they can't write them down without breaking the same laws of linking to illegal sites.