Poor example... you've compared an expanding rule of thumb (Moore's Law) vs a contracting one (time to run a marathon).
Oh, but Moore's Law can easily be rephrased so that instead of an expanding rule (density of transistors) it describes a contracting rule (area used by a single transistor and its interconnects).
That's okay, because no company needs "all present and future applications" to work on Citrix.
They only need the applications they need. And with all the money they're saving on desktop OS licenses, they can afford to pay someone to make sure that their critial apps work over Citrix on Linux.
What do managers and team leads do? They COMMUNICATE. They faciliate communication.
If everyone on the team doesn't speak the same language (this can be taken literally OR figuratively), the managers will not be able to manage as effectively, and the project will not be as successful.
I'm not saying that American companies should hire only American citizens. There are plenty of workers from other countries that are more fluent in the English language than homegrown talent. What I'm saying is, bean-counters need to take these increases in communication margins into consideration when they decide it's cheaper to farm out some portion of operations to Elbonia rather than pay for American employees' standard of living.
...if this means less college classes run by Teaching Assistants with accents so think and English so poor that half that students can't understand what's being said, I support it.
Go to the library. There's plenty of documentation on what you need to do to run for office. It's all codified into the laws, y'know.
And before you go off half-cocked trying to run for President or something, aim a little lower and more realistically. Run for your town's board of freeholders or something.
You have to work your way up the ladder -- not because The Man is trying to hold you down, but because that's the only way to build up enough experience to be competent in higher office. When was the last time we had a President that had not previously been either a Governor or a Congressman?
'Digital film' for your old 35mm camera is a GAME???.Net is a platform, not a "software product". You can't go to the store and buy a copy of "Microsoft Dot Net", but right now software is being developed using.Net tools.
I happen to think it's much less important than MS wants us to think, but still.
They have to make it POSSIBLE for you to exercise your rights of fair use, but unfortunately they don't have to make it EASY.
When confronted about their efforts to discourage fair use, the content cartel will turn around and praise the same thing they've been vilifying: The Analog Hole.
If you can hold a tape recorder up to your speakers and record a 7-second snippet of a song to play to your Music Appreciation class, they'll tell you that's fair use. If you can look at a paragraph of text on your e-book and retype it into a word processor for your book report, they'll tell you that's fair use.
The correct response to combat an influx of recordings imported from countries where the copyrights have expired would be to SLASH PRICES on domestic copies of these same 50-year-old recordings. Sell an Elvis CD for $3.99 and there's no incentive for consumers to pay $5.99 (to cover shipping costs) for the identical CD from a European label.
Unfortunately, the RIAA and their constituent member record labels have grown so accustomed to using legislation as a weapon against their own sales base (that's US, yo) that the idea of selling CDs for cheap (it doesn't even have to be at a loss, they could still profit healthily) hasn't even crossed their minds as a way of maintaining their market share.
... this article is not about high school. University students are paying customers and instructors are employees.
As opposed to high school, where students are paying customers (usu. through their parents' property taxes in the case of public schools) and instructors are employees?
Industry? I didn't realize that a handful of furtive scientific experiments with creating genetically identical cows had blossomed into an industry already. How much does a pound of clone sirloin cost?
At that point they'll have to decide if they're going to put it out of it's misery or not.
And the scientists are surely aware that 'putting a human thing out of its misery' means murder charges. There's plenty of other creatures to experiment with cloning on, creatures that can legally be euthanized if necessary, before the god-players and scientitians will tinker with human cloning.
The internet is not on American soil and will never belong to any goverment, neither will you ever have the jurisdiction to secure it.
Maybe not, but there are many, many thousands of computers on the internet that ARE on American soil, and the US government could justifiably have the jurisdiction to secure THEM.
The internet was never created to be regulated or controlled rather, allowed to evolve free of the contraints of the non-virtual world.
That's hippie bullshit. The internet allows people who are not geographically proximate to cooperate and share resources with each other. Period. There's no utopian fantasy involved.
2 - Concentrate on your own Nation's concerns, like the economy, and social issues.
I'm assuming from the tone of your post that you are not a US citizen.
Why don't you shut the fuck up then and concentrate on YOUR own nation's concerns, rather than criticizing my country for things it hasn't even done yet? Asshole.
That certainly says something about the type of developer that doesn't adhere to the the simple philosophy of "use the best tool for the job", doesn't it?
Programming is critical thinking, and that can't really be taught in a classroom. You either cultivate it yourself, or you don't.
I honestly don't give a damn if you learn how to program by going to college and sitting through 3 lectures a week for 4 years, or curling up in bed with a volume of Knuth whenever you have the chance. As long as you understand and are comfortable with the concepts, you can be a good programmer.
You might argue that someone with a formal education is more likely to grok the concepts, but anecdotally I've seen a LOT of kids getting degrees (and this is from high-ranked national universities, never mind the DeVry and trade school grads) that certainly don't belong anywhere near software design.
Yeah, that would be a critical disaster if you weren't able to use your thumbprint to buy groceries and had to revert to using a piece of plastic or little pieces of green paper.
I don't see how this system would make things any worse for anyone, even if it doesn't work perfectly.
The reason OS/2's support for Windows software ended up a failure is because OS/2 could only run 16-bit and certain Win32 software. This was acceptable when Windows 3.11 was at the top of the MS product line, but once NT and Win95 started gaining market share, the Windows compatibility in OS/2 decreased in value to the point of irrelevance.
Not having a viable web browser also helped kill OS/2 off, at least on my desktop. IBM wrote their own called 'Web Explorer' which was a clean little browser, but fell way behind as Netscape extended the standards further and further. I tried running the 16-bit version of Netscape 2.0 on there too, but it crashed. Not just the app, but it brought the OS down too.
I also had to upgrade to Warp Connect so I could have a TCP/IP stack, which was ridiculous when even Trumpet Winsock could be had for free.
Microsoft has never in it's history courted a competitor without either destroying the company through monopolistic practices or by suing them into oblivion.
IBM says "hi", and also "if it weren't for us you might only know Microsoft as the company that wrote BASIC for the 8-bit Atari computer you used as a kid."
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Poor example... you've compared an expanding rule of thumb (Moore's Law) vs a contracting one (time to run a marathon).
Oh, but Moore's Law can easily be rephrased so that instead of an expanding rule (density of transistors) it describes a contracting rule (area used by a single transistor and its interconnects).
Even large CF cards are not large. The footprint is what, 2x2"?
If you need more storage than a single 256MB CompactFlash card can give you, buy a second CF card. They're removable for a reason.
That's okay, because no company needs "all present and future applications" to work on Citrix.
They only need the applications they need. And with all the money they're saving on desktop OS licenses, they can afford to pay someone to make sure that their critial apps work over Citrix on Linux.
What do managers and team leads do? They COMMUNICATE. They faciliate communication.
If everyone on the team doesn't speak the same language (this can be taken literally OR figuratively), the managers will not be able to manage as effectively, and the project will not be as successful.
I'm not saying that American companies should hire only American citizens. There are plenty of workers from other countries that are more fluent in the English language than homegrown talent. What I'm saying is, bean-counters need to take these increases in communication margins into consideration when they decide it's cheaper to farm out some portion of operations to Elbonia rather than pay for American employees' standard of living.
Your remote keyless lock doesn't do you any good when I take a rock and smash your window in.
No security measure is failsafe. Obviously the lesson to be learned here is "don't try".
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Go to the library. There's plenty of documentation on what you need to do to run for office. It's all codified into the laws, y'know.
And before you go off half-cocked trying to run for President or something, aim a little lower and more realistically. Run for your town's board of freeholders or something.
You have to work your way up the ladder -- not because The Man is trying to hold you down, but because that's the only way to build up enough experience to be competent in higher office. When was the last time we had a President that had not previously been either a Governor or a Congressman?
Quark Xpress is a GAME???
.Net is a platform, not a "software product". You can't go to the store and buy a copy of "Microsoft Dot Net", but right now software is being developed using .Net tools.
'Digital film' for your old 35mm camera is a GAME???
I happen to think it's much less important than MS wants us to think, but still.
They have to make it POSSIBLE for you to exercise your rights of fair use, but unfortunately they don't have to make it EASY.
When confronted about their efforts to discourage fair use, the content cartel will turn around and praise the same thing they've been vilifying: The Analog Hole.
If you can hold a tape recorder up to your speakers and record a 7-second snippet of a song to play to your Music Appreciation class, they'll tell you that's fair use. If you can look at a paragraph of text on your e-book and retype it into a word processor for your book report, they'll tell you that's fair use.
The correct response to combat an influx of recordings imported from countries where the copyrights have expired would be to SLASH PRICES on domestic copies of these same 50-year-old recordings. Sell an Elvis CD for $3.99 and there's no incentive for consumers to pay $5.99 (to cover shipping costs) for the identical CD from a European label.
Unfortunately, the RIAA and their constituent member record labels have grown so accustomed to using legislation as a weapon against their own sales base (that's US, yo) that the idea of selling CDs for cheap (it doesn't even have to be at a loss, they could still profit healthily) hasn't even crossed their minds as a way of maintaining their market share.
Are you a university lecturer? Based on your writing style, I would sincerely hope not.
... this article is not about high school.
University students are paying customers and instructors are employees.
As opposed to high school, where students are paying customers (usu. through their parents' property taxes in the case of public schools) and instructors are employees?
Yes, it makes me think that new technologies should not be embraced uncritically, just because they're new.
You already know the answer -- you just want to hear it from RMS's mouth.
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That's not flamebait. He's not saying that to provoke a reaction, he's saying it because he's dumb and doesn't know how wrong he is.
You idiot!!! -- now THIS is flamebait
'Nothing but a setup' implies that he was SET UP, ie that he did not commit the crimes he was accused of.
In my interpretation of the case, this was not the situation.
Even the cattle cloning industry
Industry? I didn't realize that a handful of furtive scientific experiments with creating genetically identical cows had blossomed into an industry already. How much does a pound of clone sirloin cost?
At that point they'll have to decide if they're going to put it out of it's misery or not.
And the scientists are surely aware that 'putting a human thing out of its misery' means murder charges. There's plenty of other creatures to experiment with cloning on, creatures that can legally be euthanized if necessary, before the god-players and scientitians will tinker with human cloning.
The internet is not on American soil and will never belong to any goverment, neither will you ever have the jurisdiction to secure it.
Maybe not, but there are many, many thousands of computers on the internet that ARE on American soil, and the US government could justifiably have the jurisdiction to secure THEM.
The internet was never created to be regulated or controlled rather, allowed to evolve free of the contraints of the non-virtual world.
That's hippie bullshit. The internet allows people who are not geographically proximate to cooperate and share resources with each other. Period. There's no utopian fantasy involved.
2 - Concentrate on your own Nation's concerns, like the economy, and social issues.
I'm assuming from the tone of your post that you are not a US citizen.
Why don't you shut the fuck up then and concentrate on YOUR own nation's concerns, rather than criticizing my country for things it hasn't even done yet? Asshole.
No. The internet was NOT 'created by the US DoD'. That's like saying Al Gore invented it.
Internet != ARPANet. (Hint: one of them was funded by government research funds, the other isn't.)
That certainly says something about the type of developer that doesn't adhere to the the simple philosophy of "use the best tool for the job", doesn't it?
Programming is critical thinking, and that can't really be taught in a classroom. You either cultivate it yourself, or you don't.
I honestly don't give a damn if you learn how to program by going to college and sitting through 3 lectures a week for 4 years, or curling up in bed with a volume of Knuth whenever you have the chance. As long as you understand and are comfortable with the concepts, you can be a good programmer.
You might argue that someone with a formal education is more likely to grok the concepts, but anecdotally I've seen a LOT of kids getting degrees (and this is from high-ranked national universities, never mind the DeVry and trade school grads) that certainly don't belong anywhere near software design.
Yeah, that would be a critical disaster if you weren't able to use your thumbprint to buy groceries and had to revert to using a piece of plastic or little pieces of green paper.
I don't see how this system would make things any worse for anyone, even if it doesn't work perfectly.
The reason OS/2's support for Windows software ended up a failure is because OS/2 could only run 16-bit and certain Win32 software. This was acceptable when Windows 3.11 was at the top of the MS product line, but once NT and Win95 started gaining market share, the Windows compatibility in OS/2 decreased in value to the point of irrelevance.
Not having a viable web browser also helped kill OS/2 off, at least on my desktop. IBM wrote their own called 'Web Explorer' which was a clean little browser, but fell way behind as Netscape extended the standards further and further. I tried running the 16-bit version of Netscape 2.0 on there too, but it crashed. Not just the app, but it brought the OS down too.
I also had to upgrade to Warp Connect so I could have a TCP/IP stack, which was ridiculous when even Trumpet Winsock could be had for free.
Microsoft has never in it's history courted a competitor without either destroying the company through monopolistic practices or by suing them into oblivion.
IBM says "hi", and also "if it weren't for us you might only know Microsoft as the company that wrote BASIC for the 8-bit Atari computer you used as a kid."