The news, if it is indeed news (or rumor, if it is at least that), is surely amazing. With no real references to actual statements made by the powers-that-be, it is rather stupid to actually believe that a billion will be spent. And to argue for and against the FCC and DRM and Hollywood and so on...
Can the author be so kind to point us to the source of his information ?
Computer Science isn't dead. Some old computer scientists are dying. And new ones are being born. By the dozens. In the west, and in the east. Yes, jobs migrate by rules of economics. That doesn't kill the science. Because what migrated was not science - it was bricklaying of the computer age. If computer scientists were to do the "bricklaying", that would kill the science. Having said that, there are bricklayers in every community - east or west. It's a pity that bricklayers from the west have had to see their jobs move east. Sorry, but that's how the rules of economy work. The real scientists, whether they are from the east or west, stay put where they are, doing what they like doing best. The invention of concrete mixing machines did not render civil architects extinct - on the contrary, it made it necessary to have more of them, and to have better ones. And so it is with software. Off-the-shelf software doesn't make software engineers obsolete - it makes it possible to explore new application areas - and this requires more and better software engineers than before.
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The news, if it is indeed news (or rumor, if it is at least that), is surely amazing. With no real references to actual statements made by the powers-that-be, it is rather stupid to actually believe that a billion will be spent. And to argue for and against the FCC and DRM and Hollywood and so on... Can the author be so kind to point us to the source of his information ?
Computer Science isn't dead. Some old computer scientists are dying. And new ones are being born. By the dozens. In the west, and in the east. Yes, jobs migrate by rules of economics. That doesn't kill the science. Because what migrated was not science - it was bricklaying of the computer age. If computer scientists were to do the "bricklaying", that would kill the science. Having said that, there are bricklayers in every community - east or west. It's a pity that bricklayers from the west have had to see their jobs move east. Sorry, but that's how the rules of economy work. The real scientists, whether they are from the east or west, stay put where they are, doing what they like doing best. The invention of concrete mixing machines did not render civil architects extinct - on the contrary, it made it necessary to have more of them, and to have better ones. And so it is with software. Off-the-shelf software doesn't make software engineers obsolete - it makes it possible to explore new application areas - and this requires more and better software engineers than before.