BTW: if you have the means try to go a week without using a desktop. I tried to do it and failed 35 hours into the experiment. You just can't be productive on tablets even with the silly keyboards, no matter how many of them you have.
You people really can't let something be on it's own can you? Just like in the 1860s: "Negro can’t take care of himself, so we’ll put him to work. Give him four walls, a bed. We’ll civilize the heathen"
Agree to the second paragraph but you really have to take a closer look at what creates the current patent warfare climate. Only by understanding better the problem will you be able to adequately judge proposed solutions. And for what it's worth: "Fuck IP" it's only an idea anyway
Opera was (and on some points still is) the first and only browser to provide all that functionality in a stable and productive environment. I didn't say they did invent all these things but they publicized them really well. I am not sure about the facts and I don't care that much about those to be honest, the fact is that in 2000 and way up until ff3.5 if you wanted work done you used Opera.
LoL mate, you really did get some smack didn't you?
BTW: the other respondents to your post are right. You need to get out more. You need to take a better look at gestural interfaces, not all gestural input is kinect. You need to revisit your logic. Last but not least, You need to get over Opera firing you. It really isn't worth it, torturing yourself like this.
One more thing®: Large SaaS project? You are from management aren't you? You buzzword slinging, flowchart summoning beast You:-)
Well, AFAIK Opera's busyness plan is mainly based on sponsor contributions for things like default search etc. (thankfully) So unless they put a bean counter on the head of the board I would suggest browser innovation is safe as far as it concerns Opera.
However, if we want to think about this as adults? No one knows if IP is right, because no one has done a study, because you can't really measure progress—especially when the current system is definitely broken as designed, and doesn't reflect a healthy IP ecosystem.
Very true. But that problem would fix itself if You killed all the Economists/Accountants/Economic_Theorists/Money_Brokers/you_get_the_idea...
You don't like it. We do like it very much. Sure if you are a web developer you need to work much on FF and CR but nonetheless a lot of power users are die hard Opera fans and you know what? They are rightfully so. Also most of the devs I know and respect use Opera and the ones that don't use it are GPL advocates so it's a religious thing... Opera is the only browser I have been using the past decade that hasn't screwed up big at one point or another. and yes, all the other browsers are copying them because their ideas work(In comparison to FF and CR for example). I still cannot fathom why chrome hasn't copied their gesture suite btw...
Yes! If you think that having tabs, tab groups, sidebars, user scripts, encoded password managers... (the list goes on) sucks then yes send one back!;-)
OTOH if you debug correctly (even if not unit testing) if you have one low level bug and it shows up in a, logically correct, high level part of the program you will just have helped yourself to find an obscure low level bug;-)
It just depends on fixing your code the right way. Ok, I know that fixing it the right way is not the practice but still!
He would also contend that most people sleepwalk into that choice without knowing the ins and outs of the factors.
I accuse Bill Gates for crimes against humanity for "setting the default encoding of audio CDs to encrypted.wma in windows XP". I have been in pain for his decision way to many times while trying to help out friends and family.
What you just concluded here works only in theory. The world is set up to be idiot proof, not genius friendly. This kid is obviously way too smart than your average School genius. Smart people can handle public schools and society on their own, geniuses need protection from the system in order to find their way.
let me put it to you this way: if you put a genius in a public class room, and assuming he understands physical things well, two things will happen A) he will fail in everything that has nothing to do with his strengths (he will fail in everything related to speech, history, literature and art) B) he will succeed in everything related to his strengths to the point where his attendees/teachers will be frustrated/intimidated by him.
Best case scenario? Kid looses about a decade of productivity and intellectual growth being handled by the system as a liar, cheater and lazy person.
Better seek help from higher education, I am sure some institutions would be interested in providing a curriculum good enough to cover basic education and focus on his strengths. Also a good idea would be to hook him up with some hobbies normal kids also like, that way you ensure he wont be isolated by accademia...
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Well, maybe wolfram is set up to be European like me and therefore didn't get it :P
BTW: if you have the means try to go a week without using a desktop.
I tried to do it and failed 35 hours into the experiment. You just can't be productive on tablets even with the silly keyboards, no matter how many of them you have.
Here we go again...
You people really can't let something be on it's own can you? Just like in the 1860s:
"Negro can’t take care of himself, so we’ll put him to work. Give him four walls, a bed. We’ll civilize the heathen"
Just leave us alone ok?
With utter respect,
HAL 9000
you mean thatHofstadter?
BTW: sorry for the blatant display of ignorance but what is this question supposed to produce?
"Who was the cowboy in Washington?"
At least they wont bitch about the eternal beauty of their images like Dorian did!
regards,
Basil Hallward
Wish I hadn't commented earlier on. Very well said sir.
(+1 insightful)
Talk about living on, through his work...
in no particular order:
Book(s), OSs, programing languages....
BTW: why does wikipedia state 8th October? wikipedia
And if he died on Saturday why is this on slashdot today, five days later?
That taught us how to manage our garbage!
Agree to the second paragraph but you really have to take a closer look at what creates the current patent warfare climate. Only by understanding better the problem will you be able to adequately judge proposed solutions.
And for what it's worth: "Fuck IP" it's only an idea anyway
Overreacting a bit aren't we?
Opera was (and on some points still is) the first and only browser to provide all that functionality in a stable and productive environment. I didn't say they did invent all these things but they publicized them really well. I am not sure about the facts and I don't care that much about those to be honest, the fact is that in 2000 and way up until ff3.5 if you wanted work done you used Opera.
LoL mate, you really did get some smack didn't you?
BTW: the other respondents to your post are right. You need to get out more. You need to take a better look at gestural interfaces, not all gestural input is kinect. You need to revisit your logic. Last but not least, You need to get over Opera firing you. It really isn't worth it, torturing yourself like this.
One more thing®: Large SaaS project? You are from management aren't you? You buzzword slinging, flowchart summoning beast You :-)
Well, AFAIK Opera's busyness plan is mainly based on sponsor contributions for things like default search etc. (thankfully) So unless they put a bean counter on the head of the board I would suggest browser innovation is safe as far as it concerns Opera.
never again has a sig been that misleading!
And who would want that then?
</sarcasm>
However, if we want to think about this as adults? No one knows if IP is right, because no one has done a study, because you can't really measure progress—especially when the current system is definitely broken as designed, and doesn't reflect a healthy IP ecosystem.
Very true. But that problem would fix itself if You killed all the Economists/Accountants/Economic_Theorists/Money_Brokers/you_get_the_idea...
Didn't get it? ok, let me explain: The IP and Patent eco system of the world degraded into a corpolegislative mess the second we gave the above guys the keys to the garage. Just like with the monetary system they went in, turned everything into a tradeable good and went berserk with it. Now it is out there in plain sight for everyone: the Money sciences have failed as have the IP and © sciences. But what would happen if IP and © Where to be immutably attached to the person(s) who produced them? then you would be facing a totally different ecosystem, one that would protect the inovator and not the sponsoring company, fixing every problem there exist about patent trolls and similar.
You don't like it. We do like it very much. Sure if you are a web developer you need to work much on FF and CR but nonetheless a lot of power users are die hard Opera fans and you know what? They are rightfully so. Also most of the devs I know and respect use Opera and the ones that don't use it are GPL advocates so it's a religious thing...
Opera is the only browser I have been using the past decade that hasn't screwed up big at one point or another. and yes, all the other browsers are copying them because their ideas work(In comparison to FF and CR for example). I still cannot fathom why chrome hasn't copied their gesture suite btw...
Yes! ;-)
If you think that having tabs, tab groups, sidebars, user scripts, encoded password managers... (the list goes on) sucks then yes send one back!
forget about English. Just shout out a torrent of buzzwords and the check is in the mail! proven practice
Spanish... very interesting ;-)
unless they find out you are hiding something!
OTOH if you debug correctly (even if not unit testing) if you have one low level bug and it shows up in a, logically correct, high level part of the program you will just have helped yourself to find an obscure low level bug ;-)
It just depends on fixing your code the right way. Ok, I know that fixing it the right way is not the practice but still!
He would also contend that most people sleepwalk into that choice without knowing the ins and outs of the factors.
I accuse Bill Gates for crimes against humanity for "setting the default encoding of audio CDs to encrypted .wma in windows XP". I have been in pain for his decision way to many times while trying to help out friends and family.
so its GWT? (java that compiles to js)
BTW: did anybody else read "Google starts to derail dart"?
What you just concluded here works only in theory. The world is set up to be idiot proof, not genius friendly. This kid is obviously way too smart than your average School genius. Smart people can handle public schools and society on their own, geniuses need protection from the system in order to find their way.
let me put it to you this way: if you put a genius in a public class room, and assuming he understands physical things well, two things will happen
A) he will fail in everything that has nothing to do with his strengths (he will fail in everything related to speech, history, literature and art)
B) he will succeed in everything related to his strengths to the point where his attendees/teachers will be frustrated/intimidated by him.
Best case scenario? Kid looses about a decade of productivity and intellectual growth being handled by the system as a liar, cheater and lazy person.
Better seek help from higher education, I am sure some institutions would be interested in providing a curriculum good enough to cover basic education and focus on his strengths. Also a good idea would be to hook him up with some hobbies normal kids also like, that way you ensure he wont be isolated by accademia...