They needed a Gates when they were 15, 50, 100, 500 employees and needed someone who could pick one or two things to focus on out of 100s.
They have enough money and employees to do everything (for some definition of everything.) What they need is a visionary leader who can say "do this in Cloud, do that in the OS, do X, Y, and Z in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint."
AFAICT, Ballmer isn't that guy. (And Steve Jobs is doing his thing at Apple.)
When you say study, do you mean devote a lifetime, or just take four or five years in middle school and high school? Schools around here teach Latin at least and lots of kids take it.
My own children wanted to write their own computer/video games, but weren't the least bit interested in learning anything resembling programming in order to do it. ("Can't you just do it for us dad?" Yeah, sure, in my copious spare time I can.) My son took CS101 (Intro to Algorithms) and did okay until they got to recursion. I helped him and he got more tutoring at school, but he just couldn't get his head around it. He got demoralized and it was all down hill after that.
That aside, there was no force fed correctness. Despite my best efforts they just never got into creating things like I did as a child. Their creative efforts never, IMO, reached the same level as my own as a child, spanning the spectrum from legos to chemistry sets to building bikes, and forts and tree houses. It's sad really.
+1 and I'd mod you up if I had modpoints. (hmm, it's taking a much longer time to get modpoints with this account than it did with my previous account)
I've been touch typing since I took typing in high school. And I know the diff between write/right, to/too/two, your/you're, its/it's, etc.
With muscle memory and/or the lizard brain running things when I'm typing quickly, I've had plenty of instances when I thought one word but the other came out of my fingertips. This is often compounded by physiological issues with the speed at which the messages travel from brain to the different fingers and it's very common for me to type, e.g., suod instead of sudo.
Since I know this happens I make a point to check, and even so I still miss some. I wonder how many are in this message.
I bought a top-of-the-line 52" TV last year. If it lasts even half as long as the same brand TV it replaced (I waited and waited for it to die, but it never did), it'll be ten years before I'll be ready to buy another TV.
It's a laser when coherent wavelength light is emitted. I.e. all the same frequency, going in the same direction.
Okay, cool, we've used transgenic techniques to give other organisms bioluminescence; now tell me how you make that coherent. (No, I didn't read the article.)
...sent me a friend request a while back and I almost fell for it. Hey, 40 people who I know and trust are her friends. Apparently.
Uh, right.
I get friend requests; if I don't know who they are, they get rejected. Why would I accept a FR from a complete stranger? If 40 of my friends know the person, I'd probably know them, or of them too.
Some people just need to take their brain out of Neutral; Drive preferably, but even Reverse would be better than nothing.
I tried that early on in my marriage -- long before FB obviously. A cutie at work was hitting on me. I thought it was funny, told my wife. Big mistake. If it were to ever happen again you can bet I won't be telling my wife about it. Nothing's worse than being in the doghouse when you haven't done anything wrong.
I have firstinitiallastname@gmail. Some ditz (probably blond) in Ohio with the same firstinitiallastname (and as near as I can tell is probably really firstinitiallastname@yahoo) has given out the gmail address and may still be giving it out for all I know.
I know she's in Ohio because some of the mail I have received that was obviously intended for her had her snailmail address, along with other personal information. Looked her up on switchboard at that address, etc., etc. I realized something was up when I started to get a steady stream of spam that all started with "Dear Kristie, thanks for responding...." I had someone in another state where there are lots more lastnames send her a snailmail letter asking her to knock it off. Don't know if it had any effect, figured it couldn't hurt to try.
But mostly I just get spam targeted at her, and gmail's spam filters are pretty good and sorting it into my spam folder.
And why on earth would you use your real facebook account to friend an unrelated teenage girl? Or tell your wife? GAC. Honestly, based on a sample size of one, I'd say Facebook's subscriber numbers are inflated by a factor of two or three. Oh, their T&Cs that say no phony accounts? Yeah right. Get real. They do whatever they want -- can you say privacy? -- I'll do whatever I want. And of course I don't have anything private in my real account either.
Ahem, we were all British when Revere, Dawes, etc. rode out.
"The Regulars are out" is what he is reputed to have warned the locals about.
I guess I'm not surprised, if it's true, that Palin doesn't know her American history; she certainly has demonstrated a poor grasp of the Constitution.
What a f*cken doofus she is. The British are coming. ROTFLMAO.
Considering that the WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) was able to make the World Wrestling Federation change their name, you'd think that the Boy Scouts of America could do the same to the Business Software Alliance.
A quick check of TESS at uspto.gov shows many other registrations of BSA, but I never see those. (And don't bother to tell me about scoutings, i.e. BSA's, problems. I know all about them, and despite them, scouting is still doing plenty of other good things.)
You're picking nits. What do you want, egg in your beer too? 354 ml is every bit as much a 'measure' of what's in the bottle as 16 fl. oz. is.
There are two measurements on every box, can, and bottle: metric and US. Since at least the 70s, everyone has been taught the metric system in school. There are highway signs with both miles and kilometers; though perhaps not in Kansas. The speedometers in my cars have a KPH scale. The Buick my dad bought new in 1977, fricken 1977, was built with metric fasteners. Ditto for the Mercury he bought new nine years later.
How much more do we need to do to be 'on the metric system'?
There are, what, about 200 million Americans over the age of 16, who, despite all the above, are apparently happeier with US measurements? You think you're going to convince them to switch to something else? Overnight? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.
It's hard to jingoism your way around facts, but you still made a good go of it.
Jingoism? Clearly, you're as ignorant about what jingoism is as you are ignorant about ungrounded, unpolarized outlets and 50A service. Nearly illiterate too. "...hard to jingoism your way around facts..." I can barely parse that.
That's okay, coming from an eurotrash AC, I wasn't taking you too seriously in the first place.
Maybe it's the piss poor domestic voltage (110V P-E) that necessitates using 2 phase supplies for domestic electric heating, the occasional domestic installations rated for 50 amps (5.5kW) and the un-earthed non-polarised plug / sockets? Or maybe it's just the yearly summer rolling blackouts?
Coming from a country where you can run a 3kW power-tool from a single phase domestic plug / socket combo, then when your done quickly boil water in an electric tea kettle to make a nice hot drink, and at the end of the day wash yourself clean in a 10kW electric shower I can say that the US domestic supply at least looks pretty fucking dismal.
110V domestic voltage? Ungrounded, non-polarized plugs? 50A service? Are you referring to North America? If so, you're woefully misinformed, or ignorant, or both. With minor exceptions domestic service is 220V split phase. While most things in American households run on 110V (one half or the other of the 220V split phase) electric appliances like water heaters, stoves, ovens, and clothes dryers, run on 220V. Current building codes require grounded, polarized outlets, and the only place you find ungrounded, unpolarized outlets are old buildings that haven't been upgraded. Most new construction gets 200A service, and like the outlets, the only place you find mere 50A or 100A service is in older homes that haven't upgraded their service.
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They needed a Gates when they were 15, 50, 100, 500 employees and needed someone who could pick one or two things to focus on out of 100s.
They have enough money and employees to do everything (for some definition of everything.) What they need is a visionary leader who can say "do this in Cloud, do that in the OS, do X, Y, and Z in Word, Excel, and Powerpoint."
AFAICT, Ballmer isn't that guy. (And Steve Jobs is doing his thing at Apple.)
Even if you threaten them with the death penalty.
After all, it's just phone calls. If there was oil at stake we'd send the Marines in a heartbeat.~
When you say study, do you mean devote a lifetime, or just take four or five years in middle school and high school? Schools around here teach Latin at least and lots of kids take it.
My own children wanted to write their own computer/video games, but weren't the least bit interested in learning anything resembling programming in order to do it. ("Can't you just do it for us dad?" Yeah, sure, in my copious spare time I can.) My son took CS101 (Intro to Algorithms) and did okay until they got to recursion. I helped him and he got more tutoring at school, but he just couldn't get his head around it. He got demoralized and it was all down hill after that.
That aside, there was no force fed correctness. Despite my best efforts they just never got into creating things like I did as a child. Their creative efforts never, IMO, reached the same level as my own as a child, spanning the spectrum from legos to chemistry sets to building bikes, and forts and tree houses. It's sad really.
+1 and I'd mod you up if I had modpoints. (hmm, it's taking a much longer time to get modpoints with this account than it did with my previous account)
I've been touch typing since I took typing in high school. And I know the diff between write/right, to/too/two, your/you're, its/it's, etc.
With muscle memory and/or the lizard brain running things when I'm typing quickly, I've had plenty of instances when I thought one word but the other came out of my fingertips. This is often compounded by physiological issues with the speed at which the messages travel from brain to the different fingers and it's very common for me to type, e.g., suod instead of sudo.
Since I know this happens I make a point to check, and even so I still miss some. I wonder how many are in this message.
I bought a top-of-the-line 52" TV last year. If it lasts even half as long as the same brand TV it replaced (I waited and waited for it to die, but it never did), it'll be ten years before I'll be ready to buy another TV.
I can pull stuff out of my ass too, and I'd like to get paid for it.
It's a laser when coherent wavelength light is emitted. I.e. all the same frequency, going in the same direction.
Okay, cool, we've used transgenic techniques to give other organisms bioluminescence; now tell me how you make that coherent. (No, I didn't read the article.)
Uh, right.
I get friend requests; if I don't know who they are, they get rejected. Why would I accept a FR from a complete stranger? If 40 of my friends know the person, I'd probably know them, or of them too.
Some people just need to take their brain out of Neutral; Drive preferably, but even Reverse would be better than nothing.
Why wouldn't I tell her? Seriously? ROTFLMAO.
I tried that early on in my marriage -- long before FB obviously. A cutie at work was hitting on me. I thought it was funny, told my wife. Big mistake. If it were to ever happen again you can bet I won't be telling my wife about it. Nothing's worse than being in the doghouse when you haven't done anything wrong.
I have firstinitiallastname@gmail. Some ditz (probably blond) in Ohio with the same firstinitiallastname (and as near as I can tell is probably really firstinitiallastname@yahoo) has given out the gmail address and may still be giving it out for all I know.
I know she's in Ohio because some of the mail I have received that was obviously intended for her had her snailmail address, along with other personal information. Looked her up on switchboard at that address, etc., etc. I realized something was up when I started to get a steady stream of spam that all started with "Dear Kristie, thanks for responding...." I had someone in another state where there are lots more lastnames send her a snailmail letter asking her to knock it off. Don't know if it had any effect, figured it couldn't hurt to try.
But mostly I just get spam targeted at her, and gmail's spam filters are pretty good and sorting it into my spam folder.
And why on earth would you use your real facebook account to friend an unrelated teenage girl? Or tell your wife? GAC. Honestly, based on a sample size of one, I'd say Facebook's subscriber numbers are inflated by a factor of two or three. Oh, their T&Cs that say no phony accounts? Yeah right. Get real. They do whatever they want -- can you say privacy? -- I'll do whatever I want. And of course I don't have anything private in my real account either.
Not as much as Koch pays you and Faux News. Fooking righty anonymous clownard.
Ahem, we were all British when Revere, Dawes, etc. rode out.
"The Regulars are out" is what he is reputed to have warned the locals about.
I guess I'm not surprised, if it's true, that Palin doesn't know her American history; she certainly has demonstrated a poor grasp of the Constitution.
What a f*cken doofus she is. The British are coming. ROTFLMAO.
History, it's not just for breakfast any more.
If you or I screw up, we'll get shown the door without so much as a penny.
nukulars?
awesome scientists?
on there team?
so u can be sure?
Is that you, W?
2037? Why rush? It won't be a problem until 19 Jan 2038.
I'm sure we can wait at least until the 15th or the 16th to start working on a fix.
Are Third-Party Android Vendors Violating the GPL?
Gee, I don't know, are they?
Is this what qualifies as "journalism" in 2011?
Can you image the New York Times headline of July 21, 1969: Did Americans just land on the Moon?
Oh, it appears that someone is keeping a list of Android GPL violations, so the answer is yes.
"Google's refusal to not release Honeycomb source..."
I know that you believe you understand what you think you wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you wrote is not what you meant.
What kind of illegal software are you copying? Inquiring minds want to know.
Oh, you're making illegal copies of legal software. Never mind.
Considering that the WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) was able to make the World Wrestling Federation change their name, you'd think that the Boy Scouts of America could do the same to the Business Software Alliance.
A quick check of TESS at uspto.gov shows many other registrations of BSA, but I never see those. (And don't bother to tell me about scoutings, i.e. BSA's, problems. I know all about them, and despite them, scouting is still doing plenty of other good things.)
You're picking nits. What do you want, egg in your beer too? 354 ml is every bit as much a 'measure' of what's in the bottle as 16 fl. oz. is.
There are two measurements on every box, can, and bottle: metric and US. Since at least the 70s, everyone has been taught the metric system in school. There are highway signs with both miles and kilometers; though perhaps not in Kansas. The speedometers in my cars have a KPH scale. The Buick my dad bought new in 1977, fricken 1977, was built with metric fasteners. Ditto for the Mercury he bought new nine years later.
How much more do we need to do to be 'on the metric system'?
There are, what, about 200 million Americans over the age of 16, who, despite all the above, are apparently happeier with US measurements? You think you're going to convince them to switch to something else? Overnight? If so, I've got a bridge to sell you.
It's hard to jingoism your way around facts, but you still made a good go of it.
Jingoism? Clearly, you're as ignorant about what jingoism is as you are ignorant about ungrounded, unpolarized outlets and 50A service. Nearly illiterate too. "...hard to jingoism your way around facts..." I can barely parse that.
That's okay, coming from an eurotrash AC, I wasn't taking you too seriously in the first place.
US is Metric. By law. Passed in Congress in 1866. Not mandatory, but still---
Go to the store. Look at boxes of cereal, cans of vegetables, bottles of soda, etc.. All measured in metric units.
Maybe it's the piss poor domestic voltage (110V P-E) that necessitates using 2 phase supplies for domestic electric heating, the occasional domestic installations rated for 50 amps (5.5kW) and the un-earthed non-polarised plug / sockets? Or maybe it's just the yearly summer rolling blackouts?
Coming from a country where you can run a 3kW power-tool from a single phase domestic plug / socket combo, then when your done quickly boil water in an electric tea kettle to make a nice hot drink, and at the end of the day wash yourself clean in a 10kW electric shower I can say that the US domestic supply at least looks pretty fucking dismal.
110V domestic voltage? Ungrounded, non-polarized plugs? 50A service? Are you referring to North America? If so, you're woefully misinformed, or ignorant, or both. With minor exceptions domestic service is 220V split phase. While most things in American households run on 110V (one half or the other of the 220V split phase) electric appliances like water heaters, stoves, ovens, and clothes dryers, run on 220V. Current building codes require grounded, polarized outlets, and the only place you find ungrounded, unpolarized outlets are old buildings that haven't been upgraded. Most new construction gets 200A service, and like the outlets, the only place you find mere 50A or 100A service is in older homes that haven't upgraded their service.
And I shower with water, not electricity. ;-)
Forget the end, Macs were closed from the beginning. Why anything thinks they were ever open is beyond me.
Indeed.
Unix had pkg_add long before Linux even existed. It lives on in the BSDs and OS X, and probably Solaris too for all I know.
The community could have enhanced/extended the pkg tools instead of reinventing them as rpm/apt/rpath....
Oh, NIH, nevermind.