I worked as a COBOL developer for 15 years and I never saw the "cut and paste" approach as he describes it. I doubt he's seen that at all, it's just the geek delusion that Java and COBOL have anything in common beyond features that all languages have. Apart from anything else COBOL existed long before cut and paste was even possible, when programmers used punched cards.
I can't speak for Java but it certainly isn't (or wasn't anyway) a COBOL thing. I've got no idea where you got that idea from. Rather like equating Java with COBOL. They're not even remotely similar.
Don't be ridiculous. The applications barrier to entry doesn't exist and all that the competitors need to do is come up with a killer app and Microsoft will die. Or so people tell me on here repeatedly, ignoring all the Windows only apps and drivers that trap people into using it. The fact the Microsoft themselves have to provide a Windows XP mode tells you all you need to know about how bloody hard it is to shift Win32. Apple may have made inroads but I wonder how many dual booting Macs there are or Mac owners who also own a PC out of convenience or necessity.
I have news for you. It's not that long ago that our countries had much the same system. Our ancestors fought long and hard to allow children to be educated rather than forced into working in factories to support their familes. The huge advances in our way of life in the last 150 years show that it was worth doing. Let's hope the leaders of your former country can be persuaded of that too.
So between the time when manufacturing workers from the developed world managed to get a decent standard of living and the time when manufacturing companies moved to outsourcing, how did any manufacturing industries make any money?
I'm a Scot. Now I might have Viking or Roman blood but on the off-chance I don't could you please explain to me whose land I stole. I'm not a troll I was responding to the wanker above me insulting people who had their land stolen from them after about 30,000 years of continuous inhabitance.
There are a lot more grandmas (and grandpas like my dad) than there are people like you. Hence the Wii's enormous popularity. My dad mainly plays racing games with a couple of kiddy titles for the grandkids when they come round.
The Xbox 360 player puts on the headphone/mic headset and is instantly talking to his circle of friends over the internet while navigating through a virtual world with them. The Wii does not allow the two-way voice communication with other players. If the Wii players want to gather in the same room and play they will find that there are very few Wii games with split-screen multiplayer capability. Taken together, this means the Wii is by and large, a solitary experience unless the players take turns watching each other play.
Turn based board games are hugely popular and social, ten pin bowling is hugely popular and social and in the same way the fun of the Wii isn't the four way multiplayer it's the social interaction amongst people playing the game. Jeering from the sidelines is just as much fun as playing the game. I think you should try watching non-geeks play the thing and you might change your opinion.
Resources, tourism, research etc. plenty of profit to be made, it's just a matter of building up the necessary technology and infrastructure.
You have just answered your own argument. No business is going to pay the billions or possibly trillions required to build up the necessary tech and infrastructure.
Discovering and using radio was one of the steps on our journey but how can you be sure that it will be for every civilization journeying towards advancement. Stick your pedantry up your arse - anyone with any common sense at all could see I wasn't referring to alien puddles of goo you sad smelly twat.
You don't want logic, you want foaming at the mouth BBC hate. A TV is a luxury item, therefore it is not compulsory to pay for a TV licence. That is a fact no matter how much you want to pretend that it's some great imposition on you.
Stop reading the right wing press and think for yourself. This might help your understanding a bit better. By the way the tax isn't compulsory. Don't receive live TV broadcasts and you won't ever have to pay it.
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I worked as a COBOL developer for 15 years and I never saw the "cut and paste" approach as he describes it. I doubt he's seen that at all, it's just the geek delusion that Java and COBOL have anything in common beyond features that all languages have. Apart from anything else COBOL existed long before cut and paste was even possible, when programmers used punched cards.
And in the code review you get advised to use the best one for the job and get told the reason why. At least that's how it should work.
I can't speak for Java but it certainly isn't (or wasn't anyway) a COBOL thing. I've got no idea where you got that idea from. Rather like equating Java with COBOL. They're not even remotely similar.
So how did Apple make any money before they outsourced to China?
Don't be ridiculous. The applications barrier to entry doesn't exist and all that the competitors need to do is come up with a killer app and Microsoft will die. Or so people tell me on here repeatedly, ignoring all the Windows only apps and drivers that trap people into using it. The fact the Microsoft themselves have to provide a Windows XP mode tells you all you need to know about how bloody hard it is to shift Win32. Apple may have made inroads but I wonder how many dual booting Macs there are or Mac owners who also own a PC out of convenience or necessity.
I have news for you. It's not that long ago that our countries had much the same system. Our ancestors fought long and hard to allow children to be educated rather than forced into working in factories to support their familes. The huge advances in our way of life in the last 150 years show that it was worth doing. Let's hope the leaders of your former country can be persuaded of that too.
So between the time when manufacturing workers from the developed world managed to get a decent standard of living and the time when manufacturing companies moved to outsourcing, how did any manufacturing industries make any money?
I'm a Scot. Now I might have Viking or Roman blood but on the off-chance I don't could you please explain to me whose land I stole. I'm not a troll I was responding to the wanker above me insulting people who had their land stolen from them after about 30,000 years of continuous inhabitance.
Give them their country back and bugger off back to Europe. I bet you have the nerve to complain about illegal immigrants too.
There are a lot more grandmas (and grandpas like my dad) than there are people like you. Hence the Wii's enormous popularity. My dad mainly plays racing games with a couple of kiddy titles for the grandkids when they come round.
Console gaming has died? Looks like nobody told the hugely profitable manufacturers about that.
The Xbox 360 player puts on the headphone/mic headset and is instantly talking to his circle of friends over the internet while navigating through a virtual world with them. The Wii does not allow the two-way voice communication with other players. If the Wii players want to gather in the same room and play they will find that there are very few Wii games with split-screen multiplayer capability. Taken together, this means the Wii is by and large, a solitary experience unless the players take turns watching each other play.
Turn based board games are hugely popular and social, ten pin bowling is hugely popular and social and in the same way the fun of the Wii isn't the four way multiplayer it's the social interaction amongst people playing the game. Jeering from the sidelines is just as much fun as playing the game. I think you should try watching non-geeks play the thing and you might change your opinion.
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2007/07_06AR.html
And Microsoft not being total fools provide a great deal of freebie development tools now too.
Resources, tourism, research etc. plenty of profit to be made, it's just a matter of building up the necessary technology and infrastructure.
You have just answered your own argument. No business is going to pay the billions or possibly trillions required to build up the necessary tech and infrastructure.
Discovering and using radio was one of the steps on our journey but how can you be sure that it will be for every civilization journeying towards advancement. Stick your pedantry up your arse - anyone with any common sense at all could see I wasn't referring to alien puddles of goo you sad smelly twat.
How do we know aliens will be using radio waves to communicate?
Yeh noticed that later after I'd already posted. I need to learn to read more thoroughly :-)
You don't want logic, you want foaming at the mouth BBC hate. A TV is a luxury item, therefore it is not compulsory to pay for a TV licence. That is a fact no matter how much you want to pretend that it's some great imposition on you.
Stop reading the right wing press and think for yourself. Stalinist my arse.
It will be intrusive if you can't record it to watch it later.
Stop reading the right wing press and think for yourself. This might help your understanding a bit better. By the way the tax isn't compulsory. Don't receive live TV broadcasts and you won't ever have to pay it.
Since when is proprietary software intrinsically profitable? If you want to make a living from that you need to convince someone to pay you money too.
According to the BBC they've known about it since September. Back to the bashing as usual...