I have always had an issue with "Hero's" in people minds, either being a religious figure, or a vocal member of some group. hat They are all human, and most of us experience some point(s) in our lives where we seemed to do some great things, however we are human we fail, make mistakes, or just loose track, or our morals.
In Open Source Figures such as Linus and RMS, while they did good things in the past, have been using their fame to push what ever tantrum they have at the time. Because of their Hero status there will be enough people who will follow them, they will allow their mind to twist to follow their views as they are considered a Hero.
For all people you need to take a step back and realize they are human, no better or worse then us. The Stereotype Superman or the Stereotype Dr. Evil really doesn't exist, people are complex with good and bad.
If MS is going to bend over backwards for the game publishers. What about rentals where you rent the game and then return it. You know to see if you actually like it or not. There are a lot of junk games out there, why should you spend $60.00 on something you will hate, and then not be able to sell back. I prefer to rent it. If I like it then I will buy it.
With these bending over backwards for the publishers, The software better be Dirt Cheap.
Well to avoid getting the experience of getting yelled at for being stupid. You can get Microsoft SQL Server Express. While it doesn't have some advanced features it does have enough to give you some experience. Go threw Micorosfts SQL Server Management Studio, and Check out each feature and do some test examples until you understand them. Make a Database, Add Tables, Create Views, Write TSQL Stored Procedures, Add triggers.... Install an other Type of Database server. and create a Link Server. Try to get them all to work togeter. If you don't know how hit F1 for Help or Google it.
However the problem is that the PC is dying. Now by that statement, I am not saying we are going to have a future with No PC's, but the fact not every person to function in society will need a PC, and the PC will become more specialized to do particular tasks. Much Like the Mainframes, They are not dead, they are still new ones being made, However compared to the 1980's they are no longer needed as much, and are more focused towards massive batch processing jobs, and less from the general computing and server.
Now Microsoft has made its money off the PC growth. This market has peaked and begging to contract, Now Microsoft will either need to change or shrink or die. Putting less effort in Windows and Office which for the most part are Mature and Stable, and more towards the new stuff which will need more attention to makes sense. People will still buy Windows and Office, but you should move your best minds to areas of growth.
For the electric car, We will need 500 miles average per charge. (10 hour drive at 50Mph). That is about the normal tolerance a person can take driving on a long trip. Now if it can store more energy... How long will it take to recharge it. if you go over 8 hours (over night) you it may still not be viable as a good way to replace the Gasoline cars. That said it may be able to give a little extra push to Hybrid cars so they can use more electric and less gas, because their batteries can store more.
The US has never been high on education. At least from K-12, College Education in the US is rated quite high though.
If you have ever worked with a lot of these students from non-US background. You find that they are quite booked learned, however tend not to be very good in the practical matters of actual work.
For example in Computer Science, it is good to know how Big O works and how memory allocation, and following an object oriented structure works. However you need practice to know when and how to use the skills learned. Ok I have a double nested loop, I know that my be O(n^2). But only experience may allow you make a different method that does the same thing in speed of O(n).
I can see this as a natural progression. First we have direct brain control for very basic, then it gets more detailed. Finally we can get to less invasive methods of monitoring the brain activity. Once we get that good, I could see getting more details for more finer type of movements. After we get a good map of the movement sectors of the brain, we may want to scan other sections such a vision we we can record what we see, or hearing. Perhaps we could scan our language processing areas and make real time interpreting software. Or allow us to send complex commands by though.
Will the most Developments picking up Steam is Steam. There have been Linux Game companies before who failed, not that I am saying Steam will fail, but history doesn't look too good.
Linux still has a hardware compatibility problem, Sure it works fine for most Hardware but there is enough out there to cause greef. Just look back at Windows ME, and Vista. Their biggest problem was Hardware Compatibility causing the OS to become insecure. Linux on a large scale will create a lot of headaches, and people who use it on their non-Linux approved hardware will not like it at all.
Tablets are good at replacing, the average Consumer PC. And they should, PC's for well over a decade now have been more powerful than what average web user needs. However the PC will still be around, when people say the Death of the PC, it will be the Death of the Idea that you will need a PC to function in society, that is becoming less true. However you will still Need PC's for Software Development, CAD, Research, etc... For real work. Just because you need the extra horsepower to get the work done. As well Microsoft still is strong in the server arena (For reasons unknown to me).
However Microsoft will need to shrink or at least change. Windows+Office use to be Microsoft Cash Cow, which allowed them to produce a bunch of dismal failures, to get a few good other products out. Without Windows+Office Microsoft will need to adapt away from the Consumer market and more to the Business market.
Sigh I miss the days when AOL gave a free Floppy Disk every day on your doorstep. That way you just take it Re-Format it and you have extra storage. When they went to CD's it was a sad day for me. They could have at least made them on CD-R so I can burn a new partition on it to store stuff.
I RTFA, and all I could think about is BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH. I have Windows 8, on my home PC, and I Like it. Yes I do have a touch display on my PC.
The real problems are quite simply Meto is useless for App Development, Your are limited to the features you can do in JavaScript. It ok for simple games and widgets... But for an App the does real work, no. They should expand the Metro UI to fully use the computer that it is running on.
The charms and the Tiles and Charms vs the Start Button, is really no big deal. You put your apps that you run in desktop mode most often on your taskbar and you are OK Much like OS X. In many ways the tiles makes it faster to get to what you are looking for.
I never had it Crash on me, or feel sluggish. I think most of the Complaining about windows 8 is because it is different. The same complaining when Window 95 was released where the Start Button was such a stupid idea, Windows XP was released with it Phisher Price theme, and the fact it was based on NT so some of your old DOS apps didn't work. Windows Vista Aero Interface, getting rid of the word Start. Lets face it IT guys are getting old and are getting afraid of change. And every change takes compromise and they will just focus on the negative part of the compromise.
The idea of 0 corruption, would make our government ineffective. We actually need an appropriate level of it for the us to work. Lets use the "Fair Bidding practices". Sure it sounds like we will always get the best value... But how much time and bickering will it take to try to weed thru thousands of proposals. vs. picking the guy you worked with before and was happy with them. But it crosses the line when that guy you worked with before pays you money, or "Gifts" to choose them.
The idea of 0, only works in math. In real life 0 doesn't happen too often. The trick is to get the correct balance.
The problem is all this activism on both sides is becoming more personal. All this dehumanizing our elected leaders, expecting them to live at an unrealistic standard, only creates more corruption or more radicalization.
Even though you Looked it up and programmed it and forgot it. You knew what to look up. That is part of the reason for Advanced Math in Computer Science.
Sure most of the programs you do the most advanced math may be Division, however sometime you need to pull out the books (or google) about stuff in Statistics (Oh we have a data set, what is most common), Calculus (Lets find the most optimal spot), Discrete Math (Will you hair-brain idea even work), Linear Algebra (If you are doing 3D graphics), My Program had Dif-Q as an elective, I took Advanced Discrete Math.
But still I suffered these classes, but after college was done, I found that knowing it was more useful to me then not, and I was glad I took the classes.
The point isn't as much that these people like sports, but the Double Standard that applies to People who are in sports and not.
A teen is caught smoking pot. If they are an A student, the school will have them expelled from school, this person is obviously a bad influence. A teen is caught smoking pot. If they are a Sports star (even if they signed some stay clean pledge), public outcry, you need to keep this kid in school, he has a gift, and expelling him is so horrible, he is a good kid... On and on.
I love it how Slashdot users (most of them using a Linux based OS) goes Ape Shit over the lack of a start button and menu, while most of the Linux distributions don't use one themselves. In actually Windows 8 Desktop is more Linux like then you care to admit. Ok going full screen for the main menu is different. But is it really that bad? Especially if you pin your common desktop apps to the tool bar, like in GNOME, KDE, OS X...
Just as long it is about sports, we don't care about right and wrong or morals. But if a Scholastic student who wasn't good at sports did it. They will be locked up in jail for the rest of their life.
In reality one should support anti-piracy and open source systems. With the following understandings... Some Software Projects can be better maintained and designed using a priority software model. Sometime to get it done, the incentive of money is the best way. Some Software Projects can be done better with Open Source. The project is interesting enough to have enough supporters to keep it going. There are some projects the license doesn't matter much.
These ideas are not really in conflict it is only pig headed nuts who try to make them seem that way. When choosing software there are a lot of factors to consider. Sometime those thousand dollar license fees, or the freedom to alter source code are least of your concern, compared to getting support, and hiring staff proficient in the software, or just general product quality.
However whatever license you choose for your software it is important that you try to follow it. If you have say a GNU license, you better make sure you don't accidentally let some of that code slip into your own product, by some naive developer or manager who think GNU = Public Domain. In the same vein you need to make sure your commercial license are equally maintained, as you have already weight the good and the bad and chosen your product and you should take what you expect.
Piracy of commercial software is bad, it is just as bad as taking a GNU product and relicensing it, without the appropriate permission. Making software take a lot of time and resources. Just to toss the software creators license aside, will only make things worse.
Not really, The NRA is a little bit more focused. The NRA focus is to make sure that americans maintain their rights to own firearms. And any law that can restrict their rights will be up for argument. PETA is more on the Fuzzy area. Sure they say they are about helping animals, but they just expand and get crazier every time, they think further. Fur Coats, should we kill animals for their fur when we have good substitutes. Vegetarian, should we need to kill animals for food. Veganism, should we use the animal in any way for food. Pet Freedom, you are enslaving your loving dog, you must release him to the elements and let him fend for himself.
Farm animals even ones who are doomed to become meat, Tend to have a better and longer life on the farm then out in the wild.
Well take off and landing is one thing (Not needing an airport infrastructure), but for actual battle in an atmosphere, I would expect wings would give you an advantage. Save power on lift and more power towards forward speed. Otherwise you will need the thrust shooting at an angle to keep the ship in the air. Also banking and and turning would be easier too. In space you wouldn't need wings, but stabilizers... however the wings on an X-Wing would be huge for what is needed.
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The first step is easy.
Call up the Company that you worked for and ask that some of your credit should be on that set of public code.
Try to give people a chance to do the right thing, before you jump and rant and rave like an idiot.
I have always had an issue with "Hero's" in people minds, either being a religious figure, or a vocal member of some group.
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They are all human, and most of us experience some point(s) in our lives where we seemed to do some great things, however we are human we fail, make mistakes, or just loose track, or our morals.
In Open Source Figures such as Linus and RMS, while they did good things in the past, have been using their fame to push what ever tantrum they have at the time. Because of their Hero status there will be enough people who will follow them, they will allow their mind to twist to follow their views as they are considered a Hero.
For all people you need to take a step back and realize they are human, no better or worse then us. The Stereotype Superman or the Stereotype Dr. Evil really doesn't exist, people are complex with good and bad.
What about rentals?
If MS is going to bend over backwards for the game publishers. What about rentals where you rent the game and then return it. You know to see if you actually like it or not. There are a lot of junk games out there, why should you spend $60.00 on something you will hate, and then not be able to sell back.
I prefer to rent it. If I like it then I will buy it.
With these bending over backwards for the publishers, The software better be Dirt Cheap.
After 10 years you still didn't get your project done?
Man what a slacker.
Well to avoid getting the experience of getting yelled at for being stupid.
You can get Microsoft SQL Server Express. While it doesn't have some advanced features it does have enough to give you some experience.
Go threw Micorosfts SQL Server Management Studio, and Check out each feature and do some test examples until you understand them.
Make a Database, Add Tables, Create Views, Write TSQL Stored Procedures, Add triggers....
Install an other Type of Database server. and create a Link Server. Try to get them all to work togeter.
If you don't know how hit F1 for Help or Google it.
However the problem is that the PC is dying. Now by that statement, I am not saying we are going to have a future with No PC's, but the fact not every person to function in society will need a PC, and the PC will become more specialized to do particular tasks. Much Like the Mainframes, They are not dead, they are still new ones being made, However compared to the 1980's they are no longer needed as much, and are more focused towards massive batch processing jobs, and less from the general computing and server.
Now Microsoft has made its money off the PC growth. This market has peaked and begging to contract, Now Microsoft will either need to change or shrink or die. Putting less effort in Windows and Office which for the most part are Mature and Stable, and more towards the new stuff which will need more attention to makes sense. People will still buy Windows and Office, but you should move your best minds to areas of growth.
You mean Windows 8 is the greatest thing to happen for Apple.
Microsofts screw ups tend to benefit Apple more than Linux.
Well 480 miles is fairly close to the 500 mile mark.
But if you figure it is going to take hours to recharge. You will need a larger capacity than a gasoline. Which can be filled up in a few minutes.
For the electric car,
We will need 500 miles average per charge. (10 hour drive at 50Mph). That is about the normal tolerance a person can take driving on a long trip. Now if it can store more energy... How long will it take to recharge it. if you go over 8 hours (over night) you it may still not be viable as a good way to replace the Gasoline cars. That said it may be able to give a little extra push to Hybrid cars so they can use more electric and less gas, because their batteries can store more.
The US has never been high on education.
At least from K-12, College Education in the US is rated quite high though.
If you have ever worked with a lot of these students from non-US background. You find that they are quite booked learned, however tend not to be very good in the practical matters of actual work.
For example in Computer Science, it is good to know how Big O works and how memory allocation, and following an object oriented structure works. However you need practice to know when and how to use the skills learned.
Ok I have a double nested loop, I know that my be O(n^2). But only experience may allow you make a different method that does the same thing in speed of O(n).
I can see this as a natural progression.
First we have direct brain control for very basic, then it gets more detailed. Finally we can get to less invasive methods of monitoring the brain activity.
Once we get that good, I could see getting more details for more finer type of movements. After we get a good map of the movement sectors of the brain, we may want to scan other sections such a vision we we can record what we see, or hearing. Perhaps we could scan our language processing areas and make real time interpreting software. Or allow us to send complex commands by though.
Will the most Developments picking up Steam is Steam. There have been Linux Game companies before who failed, not that I am saying Steam will fail, but history doesn't look too good.
Linux still has a hardware compatibility problem, Sure it works fine for most Hardware but there is enough out there to cause greef. Just look back at Windows ME, and Vista. Their biggest problem was Hardware Compatibility causing the OS to become insecure. Linux on a large scale will create a lot of headaches, and people who use it on their non-Linux approved hardware will not like it at all.
Tablets are good at replacing, the average Consumer PC. And they should, PC's for well over a decade now have been more powerful than what average web user needs. However the PC will still be around, when people say the Death of the PC, it will be the Death of the Idea that you will need a PC to function in society, that is becoming less true. However you will still Need PC's for Software Development, CAD, Research, etc... For real work. Just because you need the extra horsepower to get the work done. As well Microsoft still is strong in the server arena (For reasons unknown to me).
However Microsoft will need to shrink or at least change. Windows+Office use to be Microsoft Cash Cow, which allowed them to produce a bunch of dismal failures, to get a few good other products out. Without Windows+Office Microsoft will need to adapt away from the Consumer market and more to the Business market.
Sigh I miss the days when AOL gave a free Floppy Disk every day on your doorstep. That way you just take it Re-Format it and you have extra storage. When they went to CD's it was a sad day for me. They could have at least made them on CD-R so I can burn a new partition on it to store stuff.
I RTFA, and all I could think about is BITCH BITCH BITCH BITCH.
I have Windows 8, on my home PC, and I Like it. Yes I do have a touch display on my PC.
The real problems are quite simply Meto is useless for App Development, Your are limited to the features you can do in JavaScript. It ok for simple games and widgets... But for an App the does real work, no. They should expand the Metro UI to fully use the computer that it is running on.
The charms and the Tiles and Charms vs the Start Button, is really no big deal. You put your apps that you run in desktop mode most often on your taskbar and you are OK Much like OS X. In many ways the tiles makes it faster to get to what you are looking for.
I never had it Crash on me, or feel sluggish. I think most of the Complaining about windows 8 is because it is different. The same complaining when Window 95 was released where the Start Button was such a stupid idea, Windows XP was released with it Phisher Price theme, and the fact it was based on NT so some of your old DOS apps didn't work. Windows Vista Aero Interface, getting rid of the word Start. Lets face it IT guys are getting old and are getting afraid of change. And every change takes compromise and they will just focus on the negative part of the compromise.
The idea of 0 corruption, would make our government ineffective.
We actually need an appropriate level of it for the us to work.
Lets use the "Fair Bidding practices". Sure it sounds like we will always get the best value... But how much time and bickering will it take to try to weed thru thousands of proposals. vs. picking the guy you worked with before and was happy with them.
But it crosses the line when that guy you worked with before pays you money, or "Gifts" to choose them.
The idea of 0, only works in math. In real life 0 doesn't happen too often. The trick is to get the correct balance.
The problem is all this activism on both sides is becoming more personal. All this dehumanizing our elected leaders, expecting them to live at an unrealistic standard, only creates more corruption or more radicalization.
Even though you Looked it up and programmed it and forgot it. You knew what to look up.
That is part of the reason for Advanced Math in Computer Science.
Sure most of the programs you do the most advanced math may be Division, however sometime you need to pull out the books (or google) about stuff in Statistics (Oh we have a data set, what is most common), Calculus (Lets find the most optimal spot), Discrete Math (Will you hair-brain idea even work), Linear Algebra (If you are doing 3D graphics), My Program had Dif-Q as an elective, I took Advanced Discrete Math.
But still I suffered these classes, but after college was done, I found that knowing it was more useful to me then not, and I was glad I took the classes.
Radiation only has positive outcomes!
The point isn't as much that these people like sports, but the Double Standard that applies to People who are in sports and not.
A teen is caught smoking pot. If they are an A student, the school will have them expelled from school, this person is obviously a bad influence.
A teen is caught smoking pot. If they are a Sports star (even if they signed some stay clean pledge), public outcry, you need to keep this kid in school, he has a gift, and expelling him is so horrible, he is a good kid... On and on.
I love it how Slashdot users (most of them using a Linux based OS) goes Ape Shit over the lack of a start button and menu, while most of the Linux distributions don't use one themselves. In actually Windows 8 Desktop is more Linux like then you care to admit. Ok going full screen for the main menu is different. But is it really that bad? Especially if you pin your common desktop apps to the tool bar, like in GNOME, KDE, OS X...
Just as long it is about sports, we don't care about right and wrong or morals. But if a Scholastic student who wasn't good at sports did it. They will be locked up in jail for the rest of their life.
In reality one should support anti-piracy and open source systems.
With the following understandings...
Some Software Projects can be better maintained and designed using a priority software model. Sometime to get it done, the incentive of money is the best way.
Some Software Projects can be done better with Open Source. The project is interesting enough to have enough supporters to keep it going.
There are some projects the license doesn't matter much.
These ideas are not really in conflict it is only pig headed nuts who try to make them seem that way. When choosing software there are a lot of factors to consider. Sometime those thousand dollar license fees, or the freedom to alter source code are least of your concern, compared to getting support, and hiring staff proficient in the software, or just general product quality.
However whatever license you choose for your software it is important that you try to follow it. If you have say a GNU license, you better make sure you don't accidentally let some of that code slip into your own product, by some naive developer or manager who think GNU = Public Domain. In the same vein you need to make sure your commercial license are equally maintained, as you have already weight the good and the bad and chosen your product and you should take what you expect.
Piracy of commercial software is bad, it is just as bad as taking a GNU product and relicensing it, without the appropriate permission. Making software take a lot of time and resources. Just to toss the software creators license aside, will only make things worse.
Not really, The NRA is a little bit more focused.
The NRA focus is to make sure that americans maintain their rights to own firearms. And any law that can restrict their rights will be up for argument.
PETA is more on the Fuzzy area. Sure they say they are about helping animals, but they just expand and get crazier every time, they think further.
Fur Coats, should we kill animals for their fur when we have good substitutes.
Vegetarian, should we need to kill animals for food.
Veganism, should we use the animal in any way for food.
Pet Freedom, you are enslaving your loving dog, you must release him to the elements and let him fend for himself.
Farm animals even ones who are doomed to become meat, Tend to have a better and longer life on the farm then out in the wild.
Well take off and landing is one thing (Not needing an airport infrastructure), but for actual battle in an atmosphere, I would expect wings would give you an advantage. Save power on lift and more power towards forward speed. Otherwise you will need the thrust shooting at an angle to keep the ship in the air. Also banking and and turning would be easier too. In space you wouldn't need wings, but stabilizers... however the wings on an X-Wing would be huge for what is needed.