Why is this coming from the department of Homeland Security? The department that was created, established because of the events of 9/11?
And to think, while we all laughed at the color-coded terrorist threats, we find the same department that was created for the sole purpose of securing its citizens from foreign, unseen threats to be the same department leveraging their power to censor and intimidate its very citizens without due process of law.
Proper discourse is fractured if not altogether absent in this country. We are in a state of a "nervous breakdown."
Don't even think that this hyperbole.
I don't have a computer science degree, but I agree with you. What you're saying is universal to basic parenting or mentoring. Your primary responsibility as a parent is to provide exposure to a child's innate interest. If he/she likes it, he/she will excel undoubtedly, if they're bright, even against great odds.
I think these programs are doing more than just providing exposure -- exposure along with the nourishing their pursuit of interest -- but creating, like a commenter had suggest before, a bubble. It is, in affect, over-saturating a new industry with candidates with only monetary goals. The competent candidates will suffer even more.
I say, hands-off. Technology is everywhere, the kids are already overly-exposed. This will only lead to more unemployment, economical hardship, and failed lives.
This just in! Scientists have a sense of humor.
Scientist, meet Dante. Like always, you're 1000 years too late. Just like your big bang theory.
Pick up a fucking book.
Yeah you totally sound like an unbiased, un-bigoted individual from which others should form their opinions on. Have fun chatting with your two friends, err, I mean clients on your Gizmo5 client. Oh wait google killed that in 2009.
errrm.. It just equals more time. How is that more biased? As another web developer, any Microsoft product or any product built upon their OS costs me an additional 75% of my time. Yeah. I was born on Windows 3.1. And Yeah. I now use Mac and Ubuntu.
You guys are slow. Read my post in the above thread. Air was introduced two years ago. It's not catching on: it's a failure. However, it's open source "alternative" is gaining... Titanium compiles web languages to native applications for desktop and mobile.
I am an American citizen and a professional musician that has many a-time been harassed by U.S. Customs when re-entering. Solely because I do not dress as the average midwestern. If there is any advice that I may give to foreigners visiting the States, is to research your entry points. The treatment is not the same at every airport (note: avoid Detroit).
Here's a good reason. You can get around this policy relatively easily.
Step 1: If you think you're going to use any data while you're here, put it on your website and password-protect the directory it's in. My hosting provider allows this, yours probably does too.
Step 2: When you travel to the U.S. bring only the clothes on your back. Make sure you finish any books before your flight touches down, so you won't mind losing them.
Step 3: Once you're here and get your rental car, drive to the nearest pawnshop and buy a crap laptop for fifty bucks, and maybe a camera or something. Then go to a retail electronics store and buy a commercial Linux distro and install it. Carry on with your vacation activities happily, without interference.
Step 4: Just before you return, upload everything you want to keep, wipe the laptop, and sell the laptop and camera back to the pawnshop. Fed-Ex any souveniers you bought to your home address. Walk through Customs with only the clothes on your back and go home.
Presto! No problems at the border.
Walking through the border with only the clothes on your back is a red-flag.
Law doesn't drive man. Never has, never will. Jury nullification seems more a last stance against injustice enacted by legislators with fat paws.
Tell me, what laws do you think are unjust?
Impossible until computers are given or have gained consciousness. Then, I kill it.
Man is the greatest wonder of all, yet it is always the last question we ask.
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Why is this coming from the department of Homeland Security? The department that was created, established because of the events of 9/11? And to think, while we all laughed at the color-coded terrorist threats, we find the same department that was created for the sole purpose of securing its citizens from foreign, unseen threats to be the same department leveraging their power to censor and intimidate its very citizens without due process of law. Proper discourse is fractured if not altogether absent in this country. We are in a state of a "nervous breakdown." Don't even think that this hyperbole.
I don't have a computer science degree, but I agree with you. What you're saying is universal to basic parenting or mentoring. Your primary responsibility as a parent is to provide exposure to a child's innate interest. If he/she likes it, he/she will excel undoubtedly, if they're bright, even against great odds. I think these programs are doing more than just providing exposure -- exposure along with the nourishing their pursuit of interest -- but creating, like a commenter had suggest before, a bubble. It is, in affect, over-saturating a new industry with candidates with only monetary goals. The competent candidates will suffer even more. I say, hands-off. Technology is everywhere, the kids are already overly-exposed. This will only lead to more unemployment, economical hardship, and failed lives.
Wow. Until they get addicted to WOW.
Well, once the caviar is gone...
Can't do shit or don't give a shit? Relax, your grand-children won't even know what they're missing.
This just in! Scientists have a sense of humor. Scientist, meet Dante. Like always, you're 1000 years too late. Just like your big bang theory. Pick up a fucking book.
Because, times now are so great... http://youtu.be/rhFvSRWYusc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9g7FNcJ39U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBOq8XWS798
Yeah you totally sound like an unbiased, un-bigoted individual from which others should form their opinions on. Have fun chatting with your two friends, err, I mean clients on your Gizmo5 client. Oh wait google killed that in 2009.
errrm.. It just equals more time. How is that more biased? As another web developer, any Microsoft product or any product built upon their OS costs me an additional 75% of my time. Yeah. I was born on Windows 3.1. And Yeah. I now use Mac and Ubuntu.
Guess how Harlem came to be.
You guys are slow. Read my post in the above thread. Air was introduced two years ago. It's not catching on: it's a failure. However, it's open source "alternative" is gaining... Titanium compiles web languages to native applications for desktop and mobile.
don't mention it. sorry for being so disgruntled, /. didn't post my first response. i highly recommend Ti. definitely check into their Titanium Mobile.
jesus, you guys are lost. Air?? wtf?? Use Titanium, it'll compile your web apps to near native applications.
It's funny how we worry about the whole in our roof only when it's raining.
I am an American citizen and a professional musician that has many a-time been harassed by U.S. Customs when re-entering. Solely because I do not dress as the average midwestern. If there is any advice that I may give to foreigners visiting the States, is to research your entry points. The treatment is not the same at every airport (note: avoid Detroit).
Here's a good reason. You can get around this policy relatively easily.
Step 1: If you think you're going to use any data while you're here, put it on your website and password-protect the directory it's in. My hosting provider allows this, yours probably does too.
Step 2: When you travel to the U.S. bring only the clothes on your back. Make sure you finish any books before your flight touches down, so you won't mind losing them.
Step 3: Once you're here and get your rental car, drive to the nearest pawnshop and buy a crap laptop for fifty bucks, and maybe a camera or something. Then go to a retail electronics store and buy a commercial Linux distro and install it. Carry on with your vacation activities happily, without interference.
Step 4: Just before you return, upload everything you want to keep, wipe the laptop, and sell the laptop and camera back to the pawnshop. Fed-Ex any souveniers you bought to your home address. Walk through Customs with only the clothes on your back and go home.
Presto! No problems at the border.
Walking through the border with only the clothes on your back is a red-flag.
Plutocracy.
Law doesn't drive man. Never has, never will. Jury nullification seems more a last stance against injustice enacted by legislators with fat paws. Tell me, what laws do you think are unjust?
Impossible until computers are given or have gained consciousness. Then, I kill it. Man is the greatest wonder of all, yet it is always the last question we ask.
Agreed.
Hell, I still use dial-up.
Just curious, what CAN you patent then?