This is plain stupid. This sort of system would create more problems than it will solve it. For example...the GPS dies (does not transmit), what then? The driver should pay a fine for it?
Let everybody that has a car registered in California pay once a year a tax for using roads no matter how much he drives. They could calculate the average miles a normal car drives and tax this, to everyone the same...the only difference could be the category of the vehicle (car, truck, bus, motocycle...).. Why complicate with advanced technology and create only more additional expenses to collect a little more taxes?
Those californians are strange.:)
Is MicroSoft really accountable for their flaws in the kernel? I remember their EULA telling me I cannot sue them if in windows something does not work and destroys my data as a result...
So in real life... Who cares? For me is good if it works... Because that I've switched completely of Microsoft software 2 or so years ago... I cannot pay for something I cannot sue somebody for, I rather use it for free and legally (opensource).:))
Another good example why software patents are bad for us. As M$ was sued recently for the use of the parameters, and we will all have to recode our pages that they will work in explorer... the same could happen with this pattent... Even if it's not essential for chatting, it is cool to se how someone on the other side of the world types. It makes the conversation more "human".
I think they are old enought to start programming in a language that will teach them how to program good clean code. Find for them an old copy of Turbo Pascal and a starter book about that thing. They won't program any fancy thing like a windows app, but they will soon find out how to do an eazy game... Pascal is a clean language with strong principles of programming, so IMHO is the best start to form a good programmer. Maybe Oberon would be a better start, but unfortunatelly is an unusable language at this stage (like Pascal was before Turbo Pascal came out).:) McLion
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This is plain stupid. This sort of system would create more problems than it will solve it. For example...the GPS dies (does not transmit), what then? The driver should pay a fine for it? Let everybody that has a car registered in California pay once a year a tax for using roads no matter how much he drives. They could calculate the average miles a normal car drives and tax this, to everyone the same...the only difference could be the category of the vehicle (car, truck, bus, motocycle...).. Why complicate with advanced technology and create only more additional expenses to collect a little more taxes? Those californians are strange. :)
Is MicroSoft really accountable for their flaws in the kernel? I remember their EULA telling me I cannot sue them if in windows something does not work and destroys my data as a result...
So in real life... Who cares? For me is good if it works... Because that I've switched completely of Microsoft software 2 or so years ago... I cannot pay for something I cannot sue somebody for, I rather use it for free and legally (opensource). :))
Another good example why software patents are bad for us. As M$ was sued recently for the use of the parameters, and we will all have to recode our pages that they will work in explorer... the same could happen with this pattent... Even if it's not essential for chatting, it is cool to se how someone on the other side of the world types. It makes the conversation more "human".
I think they are old enought to start programming in a language that will teach them how to program good clean code. Find for them an old copy of Turbo Pascal and a starter book about that thing. They won't program any fancy thing like a windows app, but they will soon find out how to do an eazy game... Pascal is a clean language with strong principles of programming, so IMHO is the best start to form a good programmer. Maybe Oberon would be a better start, but unfortunatelly is an unusable language at this stage (like Pascal was before Turbo Pascal came out). :) McLion