"'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way"
It looks like the Raphael didn't actually read this article, even the summary he posted; he is also apparently scientifically illiterate.
It's amazing how people can talk about this problem and ignore the elephant in the room. Saying poor countries need our kindness is like asking a bully to give a poor child a quarter but not telling him to stop beating the crap out of him. International corporations and NGO's are actively destroying third-word countries' ability to govern themselves and operate in their public's best interest. They don't need your bleeding hearts, they don't need the help of our businesses. They need vastly improved economic protection, which will directly translate to higher prices for basic items such as clothing in the richer countries. Of course we can't have that, so we say it's all their fault and come up with initiatives like this one... over and over again.
The article begins with a story about a child claiming that school is too easy and the work is pointless, and then glosses right over why he would make such a complaint. I was one of those gifted children; occasionally I got the "you must have worked really hard" praise, but it always sounded absurd. All of the busywork they shoveled down my throat *was* pointless, and I still feel bitter thinking about it. Compare how much money is spent on sped kids to those on the other end of the spectrum. That's the real problem.
Pure free markets do not work without regulation; the law of increasing returns make them very much like the board game Monopoly, where eventually one person has all the money. Regulation is just like the rules that make a game like football interesting to watch, where the best players and the best teams are given the opportunity to shine. Modern rhetoric about "the economy" often asserts that simply maximizing profits to business is for the greater good, and this is just not true; the greater good, maximizing the wealth of a nation as a whole, requires careful and well-thought out regulation (much like the picking of the rules in a sports game) so that the "free market" can allow fair, open, and productive competition. I agree that broadband regulation in the US is broken; one need only look at the many examples of better outcomes, not just in Canada.
In 2007, providing a development tool that does not auto-correct and point out misspellings, syntax errors, etc, is like providing a car without a windshield because the first cars didn't use them, and technically the driver doesn't need it. How many years - what is it, now, well over a decade? - that Visual Studio has had "Intellisense", that does exactly what the poster describes. I just don't understand this anti-MS holier-than-thou attitude when non-MS developers ask questions like these.
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"'Hundreds of Worlds' in Milky Way" It looks like the Raphael didn't actually read this article, even the summary he posted; he is also apparently scientifically illiterate.
It's amazing how people can talk about this problem and ignore the elephant in the room. Saying poor countries need our kindness is like asking a bully to give a poor child a quarter but not telling him to stop beating the crap out of him. International corporations and NGO's are actively destroying third-word countries' ability to govern themselves and operate in their public's best interest. They don't need your bleeding hearts, they don't need the help of our businesses. They need vastly improved economic protection, which will directly translate to higher prices for basic items such as clothing in the richer countries. Of course we can't have that, so we say it's all their fault and come up with initiatives like this one... over and over again.
The article begins with a story about a child claiming that school is too easy and the work is pointless, and then glosses right over why he would make such a complaint. I was one of those gifted children; occasionally I got the "you must have worked really hard" praise, but it always sounded absurd. All of the busywork they shoveled down my throat *was* pointless, and I still feel bitter thinking about it. Compare how much money is spent on sped kids to those on the other end of the spectrum. That's the real problem.
Pure free markets do not work without regulation; the law of increasing returns make them very much like the board game Monopoly, where eventually one person has all the money. Regulation is just like the rules that make a game like football interesting to watch, where the best players and the best teams are given the opportunity to shine. Modern rhetoric about "the economy" often asserts that simply maximizing profits to business is for the greater good, and this is just not true; the greater good, maximizing the wealth of a nation as a whole, requires careful and well-thought out regulation (much like the picking of the rules in a sports game) so that the "free market" can allow fair, open, and productive competition. I agree that broadband regulation in the US is broken; one need only look at the many examples of better outcomes, not just in Canada.
In 2007, providing a development tool that does not auto-correct and point out misspellings, syntax errors, etc, is like providing a car without a windshield because the first cars didn't use them, and technically the driver doesn't need it. How many years - what is it, now, well over a decade? - that Visual Studio has had "Intellisense", that does exactly what the poster describes. I just don't understand this anti-MS holier-than-thou attitude when non-MS developers ask questions like these.