People buying domains for that price without complaining is also a BIG part of the problem. Paraguay has one of the most expensive TLD 44 USD, and probable the worst service. This is not an isolated case, is the reality in many other areas in my country, paraguayans running a public service abusing of other paraguayans. More and more people are buying domains outside ".py" because of that, overpriced and poor quality of service.
If you mean "tag" as the kind of a "post-it", like the tag for a picture or a file, then you are only talking about a little part of semantic web. Actually, semantic web is more complex than just tags joined to "build an ontology". It is based on several ontologies combined, and most of all, the use of a language that allows me to stablish semantic relations, which will allow me to do semantic queries like "what are other books this authos has written and are related to other investigations I'm doing now".
If you want to give a try to a Semantic Desktop, the Nepomuk project http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/ (IBM, HP, SAP, Mandriva among others, are participating) is building a very interesting solutions, PSWE is the desktop application (Eclipse RCP based) and have Nightly builds http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/download/, KDE is also working on having a semantic desktop, with colaboration from Nepomuk.
One of the authors of Nepomuk, Leo Sauermann, did Gnowsis http://www.gnowsis.org/ from where some ideas were taken.
When you find somebody who's really qualified to give "expert" opinions on how random people should raise their kids (keeping in mind situations and kids and parents are all different in many ways), you let me know.
In the meantime... I'm entirely comfortable making my own decisions on how to raise my kids (4.5 and 2). Are you sure they are "your own decision" or are the decisions you take based on the information or education you received? I would say that everybody are (or should be) raising their kids based on their choice for an opinion, I'm totally agree with that. Or maybe you could not be an expert and can come up with new ideas of course; but just ignoring new advices or opinions and thinking that you know it all, will just make you a fool. IMHO
So yes, Java doesn't teach very darn much about the harsh realities of actually thinking. And since thinking is hard, it's an impediment to productivity anyway, so it hasn't much been missed. The only thing we lost in the shuffle is our professional self respect. You were explaining your point very well, but with this allegation, you are way wrong. Are you telling me that the concepts behind great Java projects lack of thinking, mmmm
Compiere is a competition for SAP because they have nothing but a bunch of non-thinking programmers?
IBM and the Eclipse Project, full of professionales without self respect? And the list can go on and on...
I think not, you could also do smart and well designed programs in Java, an university that teaches only recipes for programming in an "easy" language, is wrong, I agree, but you can't state that everybody and every project done the "easy way", are garbage.
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People buying domains for that price without complaining is also a BIG part of the problem. Paraguay has one of the most expensive TLD 44 USD, and probable the worst service. This is not an isolated case, is the reality in many other areas in my country, paraguayans running a public service abusing of other paraguayans. More and more people are buying domains outside ".py" because of that, overpriced and poor quality of service.
If you mean "tag" as the kind of a "post-it", like the tag for a picture or a file, then you are only talking about a little part of semantic web. Actually, semantic web is more complex than just tags joined to "build an ontology". It is based on several ontologies combined, and most of all, the use of a language that allows me to stablish semantic relations, which will allow me to do semantic queries like "what are other books this authos has written and are related to other investigations I'm doing now". If you want to give a try to a Semantic Desktop, the Nepomuk project http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/ (IBM, HP, SAP, Mandriva among others, are participating) is building a very interesting solutions, PSWE is the desktop application (Eclipse RCP based) and have Nightly builds http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/download/, KDE is also working on having a semantic desktop, with colaboration from Nepomuk. One of the authors of Nepomuk, Leo Sauermann, did Gnowsis http://www.gnowsis.org/ from where some ideas were taken.
In the meantime