In my experience, it is fairly common for good software developers (working in industry), to read no less than one book per month. What you need to remember (and what other posts have already emphasized) is that these books shouldn't only include "flavour of the day" books on particular languages or tools; they need to include the broader stuff, those things that stretch your understanding and make you a better problem solver.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet---this is a ongoing dispute in its 5th year now. One would expect there is a hefty bit of smearing going on from both sides at this point. You would have to be completely naive if you think that the union had nothing to do with this bad publicity that Telus is getting right now. Both parties are actively portraying themselves as the good guy. For example, that the union is claiming a strike, and Telus a lockout.
It's interesting how people are fixating on this comment. In context, it is certainly clear that he knows the differences and similarities between Windows and Mac. That he chose to speak sloppily in this regard is not something people seriously should be chewing on.
As a point of argument, he statement does not strictly imply that MacOS is NOT a GUI. What he is stating is the Windows is a GUI, and, in his mind, an evolution of the Mac operating system.
To snap the elasticity of your argument, the technology behind today's cars DO NOT serve us very well. That we continue to hold on to the idea of fossil-fuel powered transportation is mind boggling.
Consider what you are saying. By continuing to use forms of transportation based on the good old car, we choose to destroy our environment and kill 1 million++ people worldwide per year due to car accidents. There are wars over securing the ever so required non-renewable resource! As a result of this obsolete form of transport, we give up all sorts of advances to our society.
The common car is a product of a different time. It just does not make sense in the world of today. Yet, close minded people remain close minded.
Metcalfe is not talking about trashing the monitor and keyboard. He is talking about revolutionizing the design goals (and the design) of the operating system.
Visit http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ to find out what sorts of things you can do. This site is Canadian-oriented on the surface, but applicable none the less.
You don't need a protest to make a difference at all. You just need people to open their eyes and see that there is a better way to live.
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In my experience, it is fairly common for good software developers (working in industry), to read no less than one book per month. What you need to remember (and what other posts have already emphasized) is that these books shouldn't only include "flavour of the day" books on particular languages or tools; they need to include the broader stuff, those things that stretch your understanding and make you a better problem solver.
Guess what? The real contribution is in the advancement of the field. That is, the generation of new ideas! Tanenbaum is just slightly ahead here. Compare http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices /a-tree/t/Tanenbaum:Andrew_S=.html to http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices /a-tree/t/Torvalds:Linus.html
And yes, new ideas aren't always practical--very few are actually. But new ideas are the catalyst for better ideas.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet---this is a ongoing dispute in its 5th year now. One would expect there is a hefty bit of smearing going on from both sides at this point. You would have to be completely naive if you think that the union had nothing to do with this bad publicity that Telus is getting right now. Both parties are actively portraying themselves as the good guy. For example, that the union is claiming a strike, and Telus a lockout.
It's interesting how people are fixating on this comment. In context, it is certainly clear that he knows the differences and similarities between Windows and Mac. That he chose to speak sloppily in this regard is not something people seriously should be chewing on. As a point of argument, he statement does not strictly imply that MacOS is NOT a GUI. What he is stating is the Windows is a GUI, and, in his mind, an evolution of the Mac operating system.
To snap the elasticity of your argument, the technology behind today's cars DO NOT serve us very well. That we continue to hold on to the idea of fossil-fuel powered transportation is mind boggling. Consider what you are saying. By continuing to use forms of transportation based on the good old car, we choose to destroy our environment and kill 1 million++ people worldwide per year due to car accidents. There are wars over securing the ever so required non-renewable resource! As a result of this obsolete form of transport, we give up all sorts of advances to our society. The common car is a product of a different time. It just does not make sense in the world of today. Yet, close minded people remain close minded. Metcalfe is not talking about trashing the monitor and keyboard. He is talking about revolutionizing the design goals (and the design) of the operating system.
It doesn't take much to see that this is a concept only.
Visit http://www.davidsuzuki.org/ to find out what sorts of things you can do. This site is Canadian-oriented on the surface, but applicable none the less. You don't need a protest to make a difference at all. You just need people to open their eyes and see that there is a better way to live.