The Arabs were busy unlocking scientific secrets and storing up knowledge during that time out of necessity -- it's not a forgiving land. It has limited resources, and if you aren't smart about managing it, you die. Generations of resource scarcity meant that their culture stressed history. The first written languages came from the same region. Moving from a barter economy to a cash economy also came from there.
Seems to me all that happened before Islam. Islam seems to have put the brakes on mid-east progress.
Want more people in CS, and engineering? Provide good jobs for those people. Stop offshoring like mad. Stop giving the few remaining jobs to lower paid visa workers.
There is a reason, a very good reason, that students are avoiding IT studies.
But, can msft continue to dominate the industry the way they do today? Can msft continue to vendor lock everybody? Can msft continue to force so-called "upgrades?" Can msft enforce their proprietary documents format?
Sure msft can survive, but will they be anything like the msft of today?
Seems to me there is all of **one** browser based programming languages in common usage. And that one language has some very serious defects which, practically, cannot be fixed.
After insisting, for years, that the US needs more H1Bs, because of a desperate shortage of trained Americans. Bloomberg now recommends that Americans become plumbers, to avoid offshore competition.
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Windows sales are not down because of weak PC sales, PC sales are down because nobody wants the new Windows.
Seems to me all that happened before Islam. Islam seems to have put the brakes on mid-east progress.
I cannot think of any. As such, it's hard for me to condemn Google for filing frivolous patents for self defense.
I feel certain that MS, Apple, and Oracle have been conspiring against Google with frivolous patent lawsuits.
Smart US students would have to be stupid to plan on a STEM career in today's environment.
If you want student to study STEM, provide stable employment for them.
If you want Americans to study engineering, provide secure jobs for them.
Dune was a good book, but made a crappy movie.
The same could be true of "Ender's Game"
If I boycott something, am I not just expressing *my* point of view?
If you want Americans to learn programming, provide jobs for them.
Most places that sell PCs only sell Win8. If you can get Win7 at all, you have to pay a premium for it.
Also, people figure "I might as well buy it now, since I am going to be forced to use it anyway."
People are *not* buying Win8 because they like it. If people had a choice, they would stay with win7, or XP.
Yeah, the occasional good flick, and much better stuff like HBO series "Game of Thrones" and the like. It's better than most movies, much better.
Nice try.
It is not just cell phones and texters, it's the jackass who runs his mouth though the entire movie.
That is what I do, and for just the reasons this article mentions.
Prices are too high, most movies are not very good, and then I have to listen to some asshole run his mouth through the entire thing.
I would rather wait a few months, and watch the movie on pay-per-view, or something.
Home theaters are good, and affordable. I can stop the movie when I like. I do not have to pay $15 for popcorn and soda.
I used to go to movies all the time, but not anymore.
The solar ship only works if there is enough sun shine.
Want more people in CS, and engineering? Provide good jobs for those people. Stop offshoring like mad. Stop giving the few remaining jobs to lower paid visa workers.
There is a reason, a very good reason, that students are avoiding IT studies.
You are comparing very old Apple technology, to very old Microsoft technology.
I am not sure if that proves anything about the current state of either technologies.
All msft has to do is sue their competitors out of business. This has been msft's strategy for years.
Part of their strategy. The other part is to have everybody vendor-locked with msft's proprietary formats.
Of course msft can survive.
But, can msft continue to dominate the industry the way they do today? Can msft continue to vendor lock everybody? Can msft continue to force so-called "upgrades?" Can msft enforce their proprietary documents format?
Sure msft can survive, but will they be anything like the msft of today?
Seems to me there is all of **one** browser based programming languages in common usage. And that one language has some very serious defects which, practically, cannot be fixed.
> Dart is basically an inferior Ecmascript 6.
No it is not.
10 reasons why Dart is cooler than JavaScript
http://www.grobmeier.de/10-reasons-why-dart-is-cooler-than-javascript-03012012.html#.UZzaoaARiXk
> Why they recreated Ecmascript 6 is beyond me.
Because of inherent limitations in Ecmascript, that cannot be fixed. I believe Google has explained all this.
No, the government of Somilia, like all Islamic governed countries, is much more like totalitarianism, than libertarianism.
Can't you tell?
After insisting, for years, that the US needs more H1Bs, because of a desperate shortage of trained Americans. Bloomberg now recommends that Americans become plumbers, to avoid offshore competition.
There are already Linux apps that can be used to put songs on an iPod. I think the Linux apps work with an iPhone as well.
Why bother with that horrid iTunes interface, and the 79 page contract.
Works for me. Not sure how well it works for iPhone.