"It's quite obvious that cgi can only go to real life quality and not beyond."
I had to read that line a whole bunch of times, and I'm still confused. Would you mind telling me what you define as image quality *beyond* real life? I'm pretty sure real life is as far as the scale goes.
That's what he's saying, nothing's realer* than real life.
Knowing how to search the web would be good. You could start by looking for the last forty times that this question has come up on Slashdot.
And what the hell are you going to university for?! You could have searched the web for books on every topic then just bought a degree!
No, it's up to the people who are actually buying and using the laptops. And if they decide to go with Intel, he has no right to throw a hissy-fit about it.
He does have a right, and to more than just a hissy-fit, if Intel encouraged a customer to break a legally binding contract, and if by doing so broke their own contract with OLPC, though I'm not sure if this is the case.
It's not just about choosing the Classmate over the XO, it's about choosing it after having agreed to purchase the XO, and being encouraged to do so by a so called partner of the OLPC.
However a beginner must learn the concepts behind those data structures in order to advance, and Java just makes it too easy to use the standard set of classes. In the CS degree I'm currently doing, in our second year we did have to write things like linked lists, stacks, binary search trees, but we did it in Java. This seems to me (bearing in mind I'm a 3rd year with no industry experience) a good balance; we learned the concepts, but we could write the implementation in a language we had been introduced to in first year. I'd say this was beneficial for us because it allowed us to focus on the data structures, not the mechanics and details of a different language. I've a smidgen of experience writing in C++ and I'd like to think I could make the same data structures in C++ because I've learned the more important stuff regarding them (their abstract model, complexity etc.) - rather than how to code them in [insert language]. I think saying Java is a lousy learning language is a misnomer - it's how some students are being taught to use Java that I think is the problem.
IMO that's the point of teaching Java, because at times it can be the most suitable language for the purpose. Java is easier to use, so we use it when we're being taught abstract, inter-language concepts, where it's the concepts we should be learning about, not the implementation. When we we're being taught stuff much closer to the nuts-n-bolts of computing, of course we don't use Java, our lecturers opting for instead for something such as C.
Essentially Java is a tool just like any other tool, if a university course uses it badly that's not the fault of Java.
Oh please. We all know Microsoft's marketing department has no shame.
Being an expert on marketing (I've seen some adverts and watched a Bill Hicks DVD) I'd say that marketers are the new lawyers.
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That's not all, the US leads the world in World Series titles, too!
I had to read that line a whole bunch of times, and I'm still confused. Would you mind telling me what you define as image quality *beyond* real life? I'm pretty sure real life is as far as the scale goes.
That's what he's saying, nothing's realer* than real life.
* Oh, I know, but it should be a word!
And what the hell are you going to university for?! You could have searched the web for books on every topic then just bought a degree!
He does have a right, and to more than just a hissy-fit, if Intel encouraged a customer to break a legally binding contract, and if by doing so broke their own contract with OLPC, though I'm not sure if this is the case.
It's not just about choosing the Classmate over the XO, it's about choosing it after having agreed to purchase the XO, and being encouraged to do so by a so called partner of the OLPC.
IMO that's the point of teaching Java, because at times it can be the most suitable language for the purpose. Java is easier to use, so we use it when we're being taught abstract, inter-language concepts, where it's the concepts we should be learning about, not the implementation. When we we're being taught stuff much closer to the nuts-n-bolts of computing, of course we don't use Java, our lecturers opting for instead for something such as C.
Essentially Java is a tool just like any other tool, if a university course uses it badly that's not the fault of Java.
Being an expert on marketing (I've seen some adverts and watched a Bill Hicks DVD) I'd say that marketers are the new lawyers.
But I know what will happen to Linux if Linus Torvalds dies... Pretty much nothing.
Is it common knowledge what will happen with the trademark? Does it even matter?