The problem with voluntary tho is you can't promise someone will get paid so it would never get done.
If there were a reliable (testing) house that could offer it at relatively low cost then maybe we could incorporate most types of developement. *shrug*
Am I the only one that thinks that he's just pissed off because he's not seen as 'Big Man on Campus' by Apple's red tape?
If he had persued the legal route, which is having his parents sign the contract then would there be anything to barf about? Legally he can't GPL can he? Is he going to write an article about that as well?
I think now all the Linux carnivores have something to say Apple is like M$ (let's eat!) but considering what they've done so far, (and excusing they are a big company that sometimes look at the bottom line). I think this open source business is a bit more than hype.
I went to the movie quite excited, with almost no recollection of whether I had watched the original or not. The previews somehow screamed that I would get some juice. I got the juice in the costumes. ..In my opinion there was bearly a plot, and instead of a message, a cosmetic social commentary. The movie came across emotionless and I remember feeling a lingering empty space while watching it. I developed no attachement to the characters and could care less whether the Captn were to find his way home.
In short I must say a disappointment. I was especially perturbed (and I know some guys who thot this too) at how miraculously a woman fighting apes in the desert had time to pad and wax down her breasts and to put on red lipstick! I found Nova (the "human-lover") to seem to have more of a brain capacity and more entertaining than the woman (did they make her a blonde on purpose? so depressing!). Neither characters were as believable though.
I left the movie feeling less than entertained and only trying to figure out why they would make the replica of Washington just to make the point that he (the Captn) didn't really get home. {rant}Are we as humans so convinced that our ways of expression are so right that if this situation (apes evolving) were to really happen they would express themselves exactly as we had?{end rant}
Even if I did not watch the original, I would think somehow Tim Burton would think to let me in on the secret.
Yes, yes, blame Microsoft, they are the reason that my friends from other countries are profiled on campus, they are the reason it rained today...
If anyone ever stopped to actually look into their "Internet options"(under Security, wow!) they woyuld realize that they can be as paranoid as they want and get every security message known to mankind if they wish, to only run signed scripts etc.
I am actually getting quite tired of the Slashdot mentality of blame the [big] company first, then look into the facts after. (How come no one bashes Sun? They don't take the time to invest in young developers... How come no one bashes IBM, well they are cool and all but don't you think that if Linux moves no where between now and the XP release that they'll not push it as hard?). This is what I do not understand, sorry I don't buy into group mentality.
Microsoft, like every other software company, Red Hat, blah, blah cannot find every bug in a release, heck, no software works exactly the way you want it to.
Come people, the found the bug and made a fix, lets start being a little more mature about this stuff.
"What makes big news -- and what doesn't -- is always telling. We hear a lot about suburban white kids who get gunned down in schools by their peers. "
Yes, I feel we should go there, just as Mr. Katz felt "we" (or the media) are focussing on the kids who retaliate loudly (John brings gun to school. John kills people.) I haven't heard the media raise concern over the apathy of some of our kids in school today. No, I'm not talking about, "oh, I don't feel like doing home work today", I'm talking about the kids who shoot the guidance counselor simply because they didn't like counselor asking them to think about their future.(What you want to know about my future for b**ch? None of your f***n business!).
How come we don't hear about that? That the system is trying so hard to push these kids to learn, to "do something" and they shoot up the place to fight back? Its so fucking alarming when Tommy from Oregon, who is in band, who never had a girlfriend, and was a quite student just snaps... [Yep that there one was worth a documentary on Dateline!].
Maybe one day when I am going shopping and I hear a group of people, tackling the problem that there needs to be some way to help Tommy in Oregan and help John in Richmond I'll die happy.
It's unfortunate they say that. In my small little sample of technical students I have met, several of them who are in fact quite bright, tend to forget the little things... but concepts that _normal mortals_ can sometimes not understand are much easier to deal with and remember when they are explaining it to someone.
they say:
"They claim these gadgets lead to diminished use of the brain to work out problems and inflict "information overload" that makes it difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant facts.
".
Don't they take into account that the younger generation is also able to grasp how theses things work and how to design them? I would call that some sort of balance...
The last thing is... other than being terribly flashy, i don't see why no one is promoting PDA's like its salvation... Imagine the amount of paper we stop wasting for writing little nots to ourselves when we have one of those suckers?
The media, teachers, grownups in general like to think of our generation as apathetic, the recent disappointing turnout of youngin' for the e(gulp)lections among other things. Other than geeks you've known and talked to, is this apathy a general consensus or is there something more to it (in your opinion)?
PS: What I tell myself when people try to screw me over, is "wait till you come bangin at my company door, beggin for a job... I'll have security escort you off my property..."
When I hear the term virtual community, I take for granted that it means a group of people who discuss topic that interest them. THere may be a forum or a site for each, or one that offers them to choose where they want to go.
I'm the type of person that absorbs people opinions to learn about what other people think about something as well as rigorously evaluate my own feelings. I do agree that the break down not only occurs in the defining of the v-comm but in the fact that the business world, realizing that services bring in the money have better PR. The PR that pretty much shape most people's opinions about what to find on the Net. You don't see a tried and true v-comm of people wanting to just talk and share ideas advertised, you have to find it for yourself (accidentally, through google?:-) or one of your friends tell you about it (and if you are lucky at that point it won't be crowded with trollers and spammers, etc.)
Even disscussions lists are plagued with the same problem. The solution? Not sure of that yet, but I'm quite curious about what Jon Katz and other slashdotters have to say about it.
I know we see it as ridiculous, what I am worried about is has this happened enough that judges can see through the BS and let this kid off with a warning. I also find it odd that the teacher didn't think of possible reprucussions and should be reprimanded accordingly.
It is unfortunate that he might be discourage during this ordeal and might even be bitter. I don't think our kids should be jaded and slapped in the face with the scheming bullshit adults can come up with, that is not what teachers are there for. YEs they should learn about themselves and the world but speaking from experience it can make you very bitter if you don't know who you are and what you want.
When the hell are we gonna start treating our kids like human beings with the rights to which they are fully entitles??
What if the election weren't as close? Then there would have been seen no problem with the way America goes to the polls. Could it just have been the candidates themselves that can't let go and have sparked this controversy? I have not yet heard a story where someone in Florida did complain about the ballots and was heard. Shouldn't we try to improve the 'tech support' first? Think about it. Even if we move to a state of the art system, if someone realizes that the eBallot is confusing and is not heard, would it not cause the same problem? We also have to consider that if there are seniors who are pensive about the using computers then they will not feel comfortable with the new technology. It sounds cruel, but we'd have to wait for them to die out.
Also consider that even tho' it (online voting and voting registration schemes) seems better, state governments will wait until the method is cheaper to implement. Until then they will choose a legislation for newer, better roads, over that type of system.
So what do we have to do? We have to recommend a cheap reliable system, where it is garanteed that confusion can be spotted early and minimized. It is not required that the system is electronic.
I would have to disagree... would history show us that companiies don't "wise up" unless a "bloody" revolution (figuratively) takes place? Flitting the word daycare about is by no means to point to what we have no... hell no. I mean why is it we have not pushed them to sweat and slave over the idea and offer us quality. (Quality being partly defined by the fact that you will have numerous choices about the matter.
I am sick and tired of seeing that no one has yet said, listen, your not just coming to work for us, your joining our family, and we'll take care of you. Yes... it sounds very naive... but I want it. Wouldn't you?
Maybe I should become a philosopher and define another term? That may clarify some of the things I had in mind.
Hmm . ..So what am I talking about? I by no means would suggest that it is created so that parents to sheirk responsibility for caring for their children (they have enough years towards publice school for that). What I had in mind was: Is my baby gonna come home excited because they learned something new? For example... the real reason for the sky being blue? (as opposed to "where does Barney live?"). And yes, daycare no is worse than hell on a warm day... but maybe if there are enough people thinkin about it and pushing for companied to provide it, then it would force govermment supported "daycare" to its knees to reform.
I also asked this question because isn't it curious how we the people that sacrifice a great deal of our lives for the sevice idistry are not demanding better security from the companies that demand out souls? Don't we deserve more for them even expecting that?
Daycare is just a small part of the big picture... Can you see it?
It's interesting how privacy policy, disclosure, copy left|right|middle etc is not being talked about or looked at in this election at all. Nor is looking at how anti-trust should be applied to companies in the 'miracle-gro' computer industry. I don't understand why not, since this si something that will be around for a long time, I don't believe that now is the time to get lax, because a lot of companies will get away with some low down dirty shit if this isn't examined properly.
Wait, isn't Al Gore supposed to supercede Tim-Berners Lee? What exactly is the recipe for this thing? Isn't it futile since the list is entirely subjective?
Lets pick some of these major concerns apart shall we? A major reason why so much software sucks, is because its written by some guy with his brand new AS in Visual Basic.
"An H-1B nonimmigrant is an alien employed in a specialty occupation
or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability. A specialty
occupation is an occupation that requires theoretical and practical
application of a body of specialized knowledge and attainment of a
bachelor's or higher degree in the specific specialty as a minimum for
admission into the United States."
Quoted from here. Additionally, Characteristics of Specialty Occupationalist Workers state that it is a must that the degree this worker holds be equivalent for them to be considered for a Visa, further about 41% according to the document of workers hold a Masters or higher. Darn, I guess we can't blame foreign workers for some software being crappy....
Unemployment is so horribly low at the moment there isn't any labor
Well hmm lets think about this... maybe the statistics include mostly the elderly, children and the few-and-far-between-people who choose not to work?
It alarms me that people put forward statements like these "foremost concerns" with no regard for how foreign workers are treated while they are here... They make at least a factor of ten less in some cases than American workers.... and with the current ACWIA they lose work authorization status if they try to leave jobs where they are treated badly. Yes, I know the parties use dispicable tactics but we also need a global perspective on how what is done here affects other countries, regardless.
What also bothers me is that I have not yet seen or heard of efforts for having the educational system entertained in America to be on par with the countries that you "import" workers from. If you look at the list of countries you notice that the countries have a strong educational (and disciplinary system). In that particular regard, put up or shut up.
It hasn't been a lack of and available suite on a whole, It has just been the lack of an application that has rock solid file format compatiblilty. Either way, if it is true, Microsoft will have to abide by the rules of the Gnome Foundation's GUI standard. Funny thing is, it doesn't matter if Microsoft ports as long as in the near future Netscape, Mozilla, Lynx (?) and Gaeleon (sp) can support Office.Net right? So their attempt to kill Microsofts suite would not really work.
I agree with dudeman2 that companies would be smarter if the advertised and strive to give a suite on Linux that would offer rock solid compatibility with dominant file formats. Simply because this suite and desktop is standardized doesn't mean that all the other formats will disappear into a blue hole, never to be seen again. I would like to think that IBM, SUN et al can see far enough past their revenge cloud to see that it would be terribly naive not to offer that file format compatibility.
It would also be shortsighted to think that standardization would inhibit users getting the desktop they want (whether it be fast, or customizable or simple). My understanding is that if standardized then the thing is instead of a John, sitting in the john, with a great idea for an application worrying about what libraries his potential users will have to hack to get it working, he knows if he uses the {ahem} FIL (Foundation Interface Libraries) everyone in every distribution will download and install with a smile on her face...
With that in mind my other point is, although I have been bawling for the last eight months that the industry should turn its attention (if they want Linux to compete in the desktop at all) is some how standardizing, I would think that at the moment the move they are making now should be done in the Server market first. Some ISVs would be less apprehensive of the task of creating an application because at that point it would be able to run on any distro, and lets face it, when ISVs are happy, they push your product, they make you king. Isn't that what they want? To prove Linux can be king?
Other than the question of the extent of a programmers liability, another point the article brought up that I thought important was "Unless technologists take a leading role in shaping the legal debate, says Jennifer Granick, a San Francisco lawyer who regularly defends people accused of computer crimes, Oppenheimer's legacy of freedom could be lost."
Not only will that leagacy be lost, we will stand by and watch a group of people, some of which have relatively little knowledge of how our "baby" (the industry) works, molding it and creating it into what they are used to and are familiar with. The scary thing about that is we have never been exposed to such bombardments and tests on defining or having to redefine copyright or amendment rights et al., therefore we run a grave risk of never having legislature evolve to encapsulate our new ways of communicating, sharing ideas and innovationg.
I think what we should do is treat this whole phase of redefinement (sp?) and growth like Linux: if there is something you don't like and | or you think it can be done better, make an effort to say something that will only benefit us in the long run, and reduce chances of implementing *permanent solutions* (ahem, law) that sucks the innovation and enthusiasm out of our baby. (The engineers, scientist and techs will get left out and the marketing and finance people and lawyers make all the money!)
I think the point he was trying to make was that having the standard helped to fuel the innovation; its harder for a bureaucratic process to jump in and ruin something when several companies have agreed that things can be done a certain way. (This can be both good: GSM - no need for 50 cellphone towers and bad: AT&T et al - when you make it, we take it away, till we think customers are smart enough to ask for it...).
I disagree with your comment about the lack of good support, soley because companies make *better* products so that customers will *want* to buy the new more expensive one... that is when the support and marketing for a product drops off, when it becomes *old*. In my opinion, we are seeing something (potentially) happen to the US, that happens to any competitive organism that decides to just sit on its laurels: it begins to fade away.
I will agree with the fact that more non-big-company consumers (namely Joe Schmo with his PC et al) are getting frustrated and shying away from Intel. However I do not agree that it will be enough to oust them and give AMD enough room to start sitting on their laurels just yet, simply because Intel will not not have to convince us to buy it, they do have companies willing to buy the 1.13 GHz along with the special board and the special drivers if needs be.
We have seen time and time again, and although we'd like to secretly deny it, that these products are not made for us (the trickle down consumer). So Intel will be able to afford their "paper realeases" for at least another three years. Yes, I know I sound like a pessimist but don't you think that if little "trickle down consumers" Mary Jane and Billy Bob could have companies that huge shifting gears because we were unsatisfied, that for instance Microsoft, Intel, Apple etc, would stop leading us around by our pockets and start giving us quality first instead of "hand me your wallet now and I'll patch it up later?"
How, Why, Where and when? Try something original, like posting your actual thots. Man is this me or is this much lower than a troll?? Like this: The reality of Purchased Reviews
I wonder if one day engineers (maybe even now, biological, chemical, genetic and people in the biometrics field) will be able to describe the brain's (or other organ functions) with Verilog or VHDL (or some description language)? That would be an impressive code.... if you can model that you couldn't you apply it to creating and debugging more complex and efficient neural networks and other AI sub-products?
Yes it would be hard to do it now, but for a behavioral / abstract structural design, how much do we really need to know, to implement?. Anybody think there is a low level way to get it done withtin the next 20 years? I am terribly curious
It would by a heck of a long way off but it would be interesting. Nuff Respec'
For the last seven years or so, companies have competed with each other for our attention on the desktop by flashing and alarming etc. However, these competing companied rarely gave us a choice of what they planned to take over, and if they did it was an annoyance (would you like IE to be your default browser? ~ sheesh I answered that question a gizillion times!)
One of the potential problems I see with this interface is I will be dependent on my computer prioritizing for me. That, could be a great problem, because that skill isn't just used for dealing with my computer at work, but in problem solving and time management. If we don't learn how to deal with divvying(?) up attention, there is a lot we might lose (we only use a small percentage of our brains now... what's gonna happen when the computer tells us how and where we get vital info??)
My point is that I believe a new and efficient interface would be one that would make it more natural in performing actions for you, not lock you into a certain sequence so you can get something done. For example telling the computer to shutdown as opposed to looking directly at the shutdown icon (for those systems that track eye movement), or going through left clicking this button, answer some questions... (what we use now) or leave the room for 5 mins, etc.
It would be foolish to say that one kind of approach can solve the problem, but I do think that the emphasis, if they wish to make us more productive, should be on making how we interact with our computers, more natural.(Be it speech and tactic response etc)
These comments are the most interesting I've seen all day (talking about X and going out to see X-Men, any way, back to the point). Granted there are some inconsistencies in what old Monty has posted (i.e regarding QNX and Linux in the same light, although Linux is built to be more capable for programming, QNX is to be smaller and faster and not nearly as powerful...), Mr. Manely does have a point, the *someone* needs to come up with a leaner more effiecient GUI for the times, an X on steroids, if you will.
A good adjustment will be somthing provided that has what we all love: a) Remote display capabilities b) The guarantee that an xterm on my system will behave the same as an xterm on my boyfriend's system when I'm trying to get something done @ his place. c) Configurability d) *Thats all I could think of right now*.:-)
I'm quite disappointed that we didn't take this opportunity, when someone has pointed out that this aspect of *nix is dying, to talk about the new, the more innovative and skillfull approach to creating a GUI in general. Now that we have better monitors, more memory, more developers getting excited about contributing to their community...more of everything... Since we couldn't do that, after such a simple article, I wonder what this means....?
To kill X doesn't mean we get rid of the good stuff, it simply means we improve.
It's hell because, like at my work study job, my boss will expect me to pull off a website that is compatible for IE and Netscape, which can sometimes lead to long term insanity.
There must be a way Mozilla can conform to some of these standards so that Microsoft can stop trying to pull this crap. (No, I don't want Mozilla to be a clone, but what else are you going to do, you got to adapt to survive at this business. I disagree in advance that the percentage of developers, whose jobs depend on creating compatible products, will suffer a lot. No, I'm not saying Mozilla should give up, but they should consider somehow implementing these standards (do they conform to CSS1?).
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The problem with voluntary tho is you can't promise someone will get paid so it would never get done.
If there were a reliable (testing) house that could offer it at relatively low cost then maybe we could incorporate most types of developement. *shrug*
Am I the only one that thinks that he's just pissed off because he's not seen as 'Big Man on Campus' by Apple's red tape?
If he had persued the legal route, which is having his parents sign the contract then would there be anything to barf about? Legally he can't GPL can he? Is he going to write an article about that as well?
I think now all the Linux carnivores have something to say Apple is like M$ (let's eat!) but considering what they've done so far, (and excusing they are a big company that sometimes look at the bottom line). I think this open source business is a bit more than hype.
I went to the movie quite excited, with almost no recollection of whether I had watched the original or not. The previews somehow screamed that I would get some juice. I got the juice in the costumes. . .In my opinion there was bearly a plot, and instead of a message, a cosmetic social commentary. The movie came across emotionless and I remember feeling a lingering empty space while watching it. I developed no attachement to the characters and could care less whether the Captn were to find his way home.
In short I must say a disappointment. I was especially perturbed (and I know some guys who thot this too) at how miraculously a woman fighting apes in the desert had time to pad and wax down her breasts and to put on red lipstick! I found Nova (the "human-lover") to seem to have more of a brain capacity and more entertaining than the woman (did they make her a blonde on purpose? so depressing!). Neither characters were as believable though.
I left the movie feeling less than entertained and only trying to figure out why they would make the replica of Washington just to make the point that he (the Captn) didn't really get home. {rant}Are we as humans so convinced that our ways of expression are so right that if this situation (apes evolving) were to really happen they would express themselves exactly as we had?{end rant}
Even if I did not watch the original, I would think somehow Tim Burton would think to let me in on the secret.
Yes, yes, blame Microsoft, they are the reason that my friends from other countries are profiled on campus, they are the reason it rained today...
If anyone ever stopped to actually look into their "Internet options"(under Security, wow!) they woyuld realize that they can be as paranoid as they want and get every security message known to mankind if they wish, to only run signed scripts etc.
I am actually getting quite tired of the Slashdot mentality of blame the [big] company first, then look into the facts after. (How come no one bashes Sun? They don't take the time to invest in young developers... How come no one bashes IBM, well they are cool and all but don't you think that if Linux moves no where between now and the XP release that they'll not push it as hard?). This is what I do not understand, sorry I don't buy into group mentality.
Microsoft, like every other software company, Red Hat, blah, blah cannot find every bug in a release, heck, no software works exactly the way you want it to.
Come people, the found the bug and made a fix, lets start being a little more mature about this stuff.
"What makes big news -- and what doesn't -- is always telling. We hear a lot about suburban white kids who get gunned down in schools by their peers. "
Yes, I feel we should go there, just as Mr. Katz felt "we" (or the media) are focussing on the kids who retaliate loudly (John brings gun to school. John kills people.) I haven't heard the media raise concern over the apathy of some of our kids in school today. No, I'm not talking about, "oh, I don't feel like doing home work today", I'm talking about the kids who shoot the guidance counselor simply because they didn't like counselor asking them to think about their future.(What you want to know about my future for b**ch? None of your f***n business!).
How come we don't hear about that? That the system is trying so hard to push these kids to learn, to "do something" and they shoot up the place to fight back? Its so fucking alarming when Tommy from Oregon, who is in band, who never had a girlfriend, and was a quite student just snaps... [Yep that there one was worth a documentary on Dateline!].
Maybe one day when I am going shopping and I hear a group of people, tackling the problem that there needs to be some way to help Tommy in Oregan and help John in Richmond I'll die happy.
It's unfortunate they say that. In my small little sample of technical students I have met, several of them who are in fact quite bright, tend to forget the little things... but concepts that _normal mortals_ can sometimes not understand are much easier to deal with and remember when they are explaining it to someone.
they say:
"They claim these gadgets lead to diminished use of the brain to work out problems and inflict "information overload" that makes it difficult to distinguish between important and unimportant facts. ".
Don't they take into account that the younger generation is also able to grasp how theses things work and how to design them? I would call that some sort of balance...
The last thing is... other than being terribly flashy, i don't see why no one is promoting PDA's like its salvation... Imagine the amount of paper we stop wasting for writing little nots to ourselves when we have one of those suckers?
The media, teachers, grownups in general like to think of our generation as apathetic, the recent disappointing turnout of youngin' for the e(gulp)lections among other things. Other than geeks you've known and talked to, is this apathy a general consensus or is there something more to it (in your opinion)?
PS: What I tell myself when people try to screw me over, is "wait till you come bangin at my company door, beggin for a job... I'll have security escort you off my property..."
When I hear the term virtual community, I take for granted that it means a group of people who discuss topic that interest them. THere may be a forum or a site for each, or one that offers them to choose where they want to go.
:-) or one of your friends tell you about it (and if you are lucky at that point it won't be crowded with trollers and spammers, etc.)
I'm the type of person that absorbs people opinions to learn about what other people think about something as well as rigorously evaluate my own feelings. I do agree that the break down not only occurs in the defining of the v-comm but in the fact that the business world, realizing that services bring in the money have better PR. The PR that pretty much shape most people's opinions about what to find on the Net. You don't see a tried and true v-comm of people wanting to just talk and share ideas advertised, you have to find it for yourself (accidentally, through google?
Even disscussions lists are plagued with the same problem. The solution? Not sure of that yet, but I'm quite curious about what Jon Katz and other slashdotters have to say about it.
I know we see it as ridiculous, what I am worried about is has this happened enough that judges can see through the BS and let this kid off with a warning. I also find it odd that the teacher didn't think of possible reprucussions and should be reprimanded accordingly.
It is unfortunate that he might be discourage during this ordeal and might even be bitter. I don't think our kids should be jaded and slapped in the face with the scheming bullshit adults can come up with, that is not what teachers are there for. YEs they should learn about themselves and the world but speaking from experience it can make you very bitter if you don't know who you are and what you want.
When the hell are we gonna start treating our kids like human beings with the rights to which they are fully entitles??
What if the election weren't as close? Then there would have been seen no problem with the way America goes to the polls. Could it just have been the candidates themselves that can't let go and have sparked this controversy? I have not yet heard a story where someone in Florida did complain about the ballots and was heard. Shouldn't we try to improve the 'tech support' first? Think about it. Even if we move to a state of the art system, if someone realizes that the eBallot is confusing and is not heard, would it not cause the same problem? We also have to consider that if there are seniors who are pensive about the using computers then they will not feel comfortable with the new technology. It sounds cruel, but we'd have to wait for them to die out.
Also consider that even tho' it (online voting and voting registration schemes) seems better, state governments will wait until the method is cheaper to implement. Until then they will choose a legislation for newer, better roads, over that type of system.
So what do we have to do? We have to recommend a cheap reliable system, where it is garanteed that confusion can be spotted early and minimized. It is not required that the system is electronic.
I would have to disagree... would history show us that companiies don't "wise up" unless a "bloody" revolution (figuratively) takes place? Flitting the word daycare about is by no means to point to what we have no... hell no. I mean why is it we have not pushed them to sweat and slave over the idea and offer us quality. (Quality being partly defined by the fact that you will have numerous choices about the matter.
I am sick and tired of seeing that no one has yet said, listen, your not just coming to work for us, your joining our family, and we'll take care of you. Yes... it sounds very naive... but I want it. Wouldn't you?
Maybe I should become a philosopher and define another term? That may clarify some of the things I had in mind.
.So what am I talking about? I by no means would suggest that it is created so that parents to sheirk responsibility for caring for their children (they have enough years towards publice school for that). What I had in mind was: Is my baby gonna come home excited because they learned something new? For example... the real reason for the sky being blue? (as opposed to "where does Barney live?"). And yes, daycare no is worse than hell on a warm day... but maybe if there are enough people thinkin about it and pushing for companied to provide it, then it would force govermment supported "daycare" to its knees to reform.
Hmm . .
I also asked this question because isn't it curious how we the people that sacrifice a great deal of our lives for the sevice idistry are not demanding better security from the companies that demand out souls? Don't we deserve more for them even expecting that?
Daycare is just a small part of the big picture... Can you see it?
It's interesting how privacy policy, disclosure, copy left|right|middle etc is not being talked about or looked at in this election at all. Nor is looking at how anti-trust should be applied to companies in the 'miracle-gro' computer industry. I don't understand why not, since this si something that will be around for a long time, I don't believe that now is the time to get lax, because a lot of companies will get away with some low down dirty shit if this isn't examined properly.
Wait, isn't Al Gore supposed to supercede Tim-Berners Lee? What exactly is the recipe for this thing? Isn't it futile since the list is entirely subjective?
Lets pick some of these major concerns apart shall we?
A major reason why so much software sucks, is because its written by some guy with his brand new AS in Visual Basic.
"An H-1B nonimmigrant is an alien employed in a specialty occupation or as a fashion model of distinguished merit and ability. A specialty occupation is an occupation that requires theoretical and practical application of a body of specialized knowledge and attainment of a bachelor's or higher degree in the specific specialty as a minimum for admission into the United States."
Quoted from here. Additionally, Characteristics of Specialty Occupationalist Workers state that it is a must that the degree this worker holds be equivalent for them to be considered for a Visa, further about 41% according to the document of workers hold a Masters or higher.
Darn, I guess we can't blame foreign workers for some software being crappy....
Unemployment is so horribly low at the moment there isn't any labor
Well hmm lets think about this... maybe the statistics include mostly the elderly, children and the few-and-far-between-people who choose not to work?
It alarms me that people put forward statements like these "foremost concerns" with no regard for how foreign workers are treated while they are here... They make at least a factor of ten less in some cases than American workers.... and with the current ACWIA they lose work authorization status if they try to leave jobs where they are treated badly. Yes, I know the parties use dispicable tactics but we also need a global perspective on how what is done here affects other countries, regardless.
What also bothers me is that I have not yet seen or heard of efforts for having the educational system entertained in America to be on par with the countries that you "import" workers from. If you look at the list of countries you notice that the countries have a strong educational (and disciplinary system). In that particular regard, put up or shut up.
It hasn't been a lack of and available suite on a whole, It has just been the lack of an application that has rock solid file format compatiblilty. Either way, if it is true, Microsoft will have to abide by the rules of the Gnome Foundation's GUI standard. Funny thing is, it doesn't matter if Microsoft ports as long as in the near future Netscape, Mozilla, Lynx (?) and Gaeleon (sp) can support Office.Net right? So their attempt to kill Microsofts suite would not really work .
Smart is as smart does: staying 15 steps ahead.
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I agree with dudeman2 that companies would be smarter if the advertised and strive to give a suite on Linux that would offer rock solid compatibility with dominant file formats. Simply because this suite and desktop is standardized doesn't mean that all the other formats will disappear into a blue hole, never to be seen again. I would like to think that IBM, SUN et al can see far enough past their revenge cloud to see that it would be terribly naive not to offer that file format compatibility.
It would also be shortsighted to think that standardization would inhibit users getting the desktop they want (whether it be fast, or customizable or simple). My understanding is that if standardized then the thing is instead of a John, sitting in the john, with a great idea for an application worrying about what libraries his potential users will have to hack to get it working, he knows if he uses the {ahem} FIL (Foundation Interface Libraries) everyone in every distribution will download and install with a smile on her face...
With that in mind my other point is, although I have been bawling for the last eight months that the industry should turn its attention (if they want Linux to compete in the desktop at all) is some how standardizing, I would think that at the moment the move they are making now should be done in the Server market first. Some ISVs would be less apprehensive of the task of creating an application because at that point it would be able to run on any distro, and lets face it, when ISVs are happy, they push your product, they make you king. Isn't that what they want? To prove Linux can be king?
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Other than the question of the extent of a programmers liability, another point the article brought up that I thought important was "Unless technologists take a leading role in shaping the legal debate, says Jennifer Granick, a San Francisco lawyer who regularly defends people accused of computer crimes, Oppenheimer's legacy of freedom could be lost."
Not only will that leagacy be lost, we will stand by and watch a group of people, some of which have relatively little knowledge of how our "baby" (the industry) works, molding it and creating it into what they are used to and are familiar with. The scary thing about that is we have never been exposed to such bombardments and tests on defining or having to redefine copyright or amendment rights et al., therefore we run a grave risk of never having legislature evolve to encapsulate our new ways of communicating, sharing ideas and innovationg.
I think what we should do is treat this whole phase of redefinement (sp?) and growth like Linux: if there is something you don't like and | or you think it can be done better, make an effort to say something that will only benefit us in the long run, and reduce chances of implementing *permanent solutions* (ahem, law) that sucks the innovation and enthusiasm out of our baby. (The engineers, scientist and techs will get left out and the marketing and finance people and lawyers make all the money!)
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I think the point he was trying to make was that having the standard helped to fuel the innovation; its harder for a bureaucratic process to jump in and ruin something when several companies have agreed that things can be done a certain way. (This can be both good: GSM - no need for 50 cellphone towers and bad: AT&T et al - when you make it, we take it away, till we think customers are smart enough to ask for it...).
I disagree with your comment about the lack of good support, soley because companies make *better* products so that customers will *want* to buy the new more expensive one... that is when the support and marketing for a product drops off, when it becomes *old*. In my opinion, we are seeing something (potentially) happen to the US, that happens to any competitive organism that decides to just sit on its laurels: it begins to fade away.
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I will agree with the fact that more non-big-company consumers (namely Joe Schmo with his PC et al) are getting frustrated and shying away from Intel. However I do not agree that it will be enough to oust them and give AMD enough room to start sitting on their laurels just yet, simply because Intel will not not have to convince us to buy it, they do have companies willing to buy the 1.13 GHz along with the special board and the special drivers if needs be.
We have seen time and time again, and although we'd like to secretly deny it, that these products are not made for us (the trickle down consumer). So Intel will be able to afford their "paper realeases" for at least another three years. Yes, I know I sound like a pessimist but don't you think that if little "trickle down consumers" Mary Jane and Billy Bob could have companies that huge shifting gears because we were unsatisfied, that for instance Microsoft, Intel, Apple etc, would stop leading us around by our pockets and start giving us quality first instead of "hand me your wallet now and I'll patch it up later?"
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How, Why, Where and when? Try something original, like posting your actual thots. Man is this me or is this much lower than a troll??
Like this: The reality of Purchased Reviews
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I wonder if one day engineers (maybe even now, biological, chemical, genetic and people in the biometrics field) will be able to describe the brain's (or other organ functions) with Verilog or VHDL (or some description language)? That would be an impressive code.... if you can model that you couldn't you apply it to creating and debugging more complex and efficient neural networks and other AI sub-products?
Yes it would be hard to do it now, but for a behavioral / abstract structural design, how much do we really need to know, to implement?. Anybody think there is a low level way to get it done withtin the next 20 years? I am terribly curious
It would by a heck of a long way off but it would be interesting.
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For the last seven years or so, companies have competed with each other for our attention on the desktop by flashing and alarming etc. However, these competing companied rarely gave us a choice of what they planned to take over, and if they did it was an annoyance (would you like IE to be your default browser? ~ sheesh I answered that question a gizillion times!)
One of the potential problems I see with this interface is I will be dependent on my computer prioritizing for me. That, could be a great problem, because that skill isn't just used for dealing with my computer at work, but in problem solving and time management. If we don't learn how to deal with divvying(?) up attention, there is a lot we might lose (we only use a small percentage of our brains now... what's gonna happen when the computer tells us how and where we get vital info??)
My point is that I believe a new and efficient interface would be one that would make it more natural in performing actions for you, not lock you into a certain sequence so you can get something done. For example telling the computer to shutdown as opposed to looking directly at the shutdown icon (for those systems that track eye movement), or going through left clicking this button, answer some questions... (what we use now) or leave the room for 5 mins, etc.
It would be foolish to say that one kind of approach can solve the problem, but I do think that the emphasis, if they wish to make us more productive, should be on making how we interact with our computers, more natural.(Be it speech and tactic response etc)
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These comments are the most interesting I've seen all day (talking about X and going out to see X-Men, any way, back to the point). Granted there are some inconsistencies in what old Monty has posted (i.e regarding QNX and Linux in the same light, although Linux is built to be more capable for programming, QNX is to be smaller and faster and not nearly as powerful...), Mr. Manely does have a point, the *someone* needs to come up with a leaner more effiecient GUI for the times, an X on steroids, if you will.
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A good adjustment will be somthing provided that has what we all love:
a) Remote display capabilities
b) The guarantee that an xterm on my system will behave the same as an xterm on my boyfriend's system when I'm trying to get something done @ his place.
c) Configurability
d) *Thats all I could think of right now*.
I'm quite disappointed that we didn't take this opportunity, when someone has pointed out that this aspect of *nix is dying, to talk about the new, the more innovative and skillfull approach to creating a GUI in general. Now that we have better monitors, more memory, more developers getting excited about contributing to their community...more of everything... Since we couldn't do that, after such a simple article, I wonder what this means....?
To kill X doesn't mean we get rid of the good stuff, it simply means we improve.
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It's hell because, like at my work study job, my boss will expect me to pull off a website that is compatible for IE and Netscape, which can sometimes lead to long term insanity.
There must be a way Mozilla can conform to some of these standards so that Microsoft can stop trying to pull this crap. (No, I don't want Mozilla to be a clone, but what else are you going to do, you got to adapt to survive at this business. I disagree in advance that the percentage of developers, whose jobs depend on creating compatible products, will suffer a lot. No, I'm not saying Mozilla should give up, but they should consider somehow implementing these standards (do they conform to CSS1?).
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