totally agree. I would add language skills to it.
Basic language skills such as the difference between "there" and "their", "our" and "are" is very often missing.
Too bad, because without this, engineers, any engineer, can only go for the technical jobs, and not the marketing, sales, management jobs that pay far more...
If you find an English mistake in my post, i have an excuse, English is not my native language;)
I coded in machine language on an apple 2. Great experience.
Yes, i see kids think they master computers because they know how to change the background image, and that's depressing.
But I can also tell you that using an iphone, I was able to learn a foreign language in a few years with no teacher. So I also believe that an easy to use interface does not make users dumb, or prevent them from learning.
And also, no one is preventing you from learning to code apps for touch phones.
yes, cli is great with piping.
it's also great for automating
a gui however is great for learning concepts. I prefer using gimp to discover image processing concepts (use layers, filters, undo, etc...). but then if I need to do an image processing on hundreds of pictures (resize and sharpen for example), then the imagemagick called from a script is what I'll do. It has no limits.
for example from the command line or a script, it's easy to add sending and email to your mobile phone at the end of a process.
your-script-or-command | (echo -e "Subject: Done";echo;cat -) | msmtp -t your-address@example.com
I could upgrade my first iphone (iphone 3G) from version 2 to version 3 with no problem. I sensed it was a good idea not to upgrade it to 4.x, and i think it was wise!
I then bought an iphone 4 last summer, and have since easily upgraded it to 4.3.
I bought a Samsung phone (to play with android) around September. it runs android 2.1. I can't upgrade it to 2.2 or 2.3 or 3.0. and it's not a 2 year old model
It seems the hardware manufacturer is free to provide the option to upgrade or not, plus the phone operator is free to provide it or not. Anyway, that 6 month old phone is locked in the past.
The one thing I love my Android for is the google listen app. It synchronizes all my podcasts without any manual process (much better than on the iphone where I used one app to know what was new, itunes to download the episode, and the ipod function to listen to it).
I keep thinking I'll fully switch to Android one day, but will that be 2012 2013 2014 or 2015... ?
I use an iphone. and a samsung android phone.
If I had the need for a tablet today, I would go for the ipad.
The simple reason is that the iphone works way better.
With Android, you keep dreaming of a future version that solves everything. My Android device is stuck at version 2.1 (although I bought it after the iphone 4 came out!!!)
Today we dream of version 3 devices. but the iphone 5 is surely around the corner...
I used Netscape on a Silicon Graphics workstation for many years. I loved it.
I only switched to Internet Explorer later, and on a PC.
Then I happily switched back to Firefox.
For embedded systems, I don't use Firefox, but that's another story.
10 watts was a guess. I found one that uses 19 watts/hour: http://showershavingmirrorfour.co.cc/fog-free-mirror-shower-clearmirror-12-inch-x-12-inch-19-watts
Let's do the math, 15 minutes to shave =1/4 hour.
19/4=4.75 watts to shave in the shower
Your estimate of 1500 watts: 1500/4.75=315, so 315 times too high!
I also found shaving mirrors where the warm water goes through the mirror, eliminating the need for an electric heat. And I still think shaving outside the shower is better.
1500 watts to remove fog on a shaving mirror???
it's more like 10 watts, plus it only needs to run for 15 minutes a day. Do the math.
As for me, I'm ok with shaving before the shower, no fog, no energy wasted!!!
The important analysis is Android dominating the market, and Symbian sinking. But really, that's easy to guess, even Nokia has announced they're stopping Symbian around 2012!
IOS share at 15.7 going down to 15.3 in 2015. that's too many digits to forecast the market in 4 years. It could just as well be at 10% or 20%.
And if Apple introduces an "iphone Nano" in the mean time, then the numbers could be totally different.
having the pollution in one place, away from large numbers of people, where it can be more easily managed (reduced), sounds good to me.
Wrong my friend, at least not for carbon and green house effect.
Whether you use a car in the desert, or in downtown NY, it's the same effect on the atmosphere.
It's the same to have thousands of petrol cars in downtown New-York or a plant producing electricity from petrol in a desert and thousands of electric cars in NY.
Actually, it could well be worse to have electric cars in this scenario, I mean, since electric cars cost more, it means more pollution went into building it!
Doesn't mean we should not do research, but let's be logical
so the Tea Party is for keeping incandescent bulbs to keep some corporations happy?
and below someone says the Democrats are for switching to new light bulbs to please other corporations?
Is the USA only about corporations???
True, until then we still need to work on producing electricity that does not come from coal, gas, petrol or uranium (probably 98% of electricity produced in France today).
Or get yourself a wife able to adapt to a Mac, there are millions out there;)
Seriously, if she's used to Windows XP, windows vista or windows 7 are so different that she won't like it either.
And Microsoft is already not patching XP as much as it should, so it's becoming a security problem to keep XP machines running.
Some say there's a small chance the world will end in 2012. What do you do about it?
I say "nothing, and let's talk about it in 2013!"
And last year's flu was just the same
I still have some liquid soap left from last year's flu hysteria.
And some air masks too. Who wants some?
There was also a hysteria for the mad cow disease, but my wife did not buy anything, we merely rode the car through pools of soapy water back then (near farms)
The problem when the media says apocalypse is coming once a year, and we're still there the next year is that we pay less attention the next time.
I would argue that it is about the environmental impact.
I am one of those who thinks this bitcoin thing is not going to be really used, on the other hand the environmental impact is going to be very real.
If and when countries produce less physical coins because people switch to bitcoin, then we can revisit the subject.
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totally agree. I would add language skills to it. ... ;)
Basic language skills such as the difference between "there" and "their", "our" and "are" is very often missing.
Too bad, because without this, engineers, any engineer, can only go for the technical jobs, and not the marketing, sales, management jobs that pay far more
If you find an English mistake in my post, i have an excuse, English is not my native language
I coded in machine language on an apple 2. Great experience.
Yes, i see kids think they master computers because they know how to change the background image, and that's depressing.
But I can also tell you that using an iphone, I was able to learn a foreign language in a few years with no teacher. So I also believe that an easy to use interface does not make users dumb, or prevent them from learning.
And also, no one is preventing you from learning to code apps for touch phones.
512MB / 64KB = 8192
yes, programmers knew how to make efficient use of resources back then!
yes, cli is great with piping. ...). but then if I need to do an image processing on hundreds of pictures (resize and sharpen for example), then the imagemagick called from a script is what I'll do. It has no limits.
it's also great for automating
a gui however is great for learning concepts. I prefer using gimp to discover image processing concepts (use layers, filters, undo, etc
for example from the command line or a script, it's easy to add sending and email to your mobile phone at the end of a process.
your-script-or-command | (echo -e "Subject: Done";echo;cat -) | msmtp -t your-address@example.com
I've got a working 701. And I'm not selling it. Or your offer should be really high!!!
I could upgrade my first iphone (iphone 3G) from version 2 to version 3 with no problem. I sensed it was a good idea not to upgrade it to 4.x, and i think it was wise! ... ?
I then bought an iphone 4 last summer, and have since easily upgraded it to 4.3.
I bought a Samsung phone (to play with android) around September. it runs android 2.1. I can't upgrade it to 2.2 or 2.3 or 3.0. and it's not a 2 year old model
It seems the hardware manufacturer is free to provide the option to upgrade or not, plus the phone operator is free to provide it or not. Anyway, that 6 month old phone is locked in the past.
The one thing I love my Android for is the google listen app. It synchronizes all my podcasts without any manual process (much better than on the iphone where I used one app to know what was new, itunes to download the episode, and the ipod function to listen to it).
I keep thinking I'll fully switch to Android one day, but will that be 2012 2013 2014 or 2015
I use an iphone. and a samsung android phone. ...
If I had the need for a tablet today, I would go for the ipad.
The simple reason is that the iphone works way better.
With Android, you keep dreaming of a future version that solves everything. My Android device is stuck at version 2.1 (although I bought it after the iphone 4 came out!!!)
Today we dream of version 3 devices. but the iphone 5 is surely around the corner
Let me guess, you worked for Sgi?
Which country?
I worked for Sgi, but I've dumped my Extreme since. Switched to Linux too.
I used Netscape on a Silicon Graphics workstation for many years. I loved it.
I only switched to Internet Explorer later, and on a PC.
Then I happily switched back to Firefox.
For embedded systems, I don't use Firefox, but that's another story.
10 watts was a guess. I found one that uses 19 watts/hour:
http://showershavingmirrorfour.co.cc/fog-free-mirror-shower-clearmirror-12-inch-x-12-inch-19-watts
Let's do the math, 15 minutes to shave =1/4 hour.
19/4=4.75 watts to shave in the shower
Your estimate of 1500 watts: 1500/4.75=315, so 315 times too high!
I also found shaving mirrors where the warm water goes through the mirror, eliminating the need for an electric heat. And I still think shaving outside the shower is better.
1500 watts to remove fog on a shaving mirror???
it's more like 10 watts, plus it only needs to run for 15 minutes a day. Do the math.
As for me, I'm ok with shaving before the shower, no fog, no energy wasted!!!
The important analysis is Android dominating the market, and Symbian sinking. But really, that's easy to guess, even Nokia has announced they're stopping Symbian around 2012!
IOS share at 15.7 going down to 15.3 in 2015. that's too many digits to forecast the market in 4 years. It could just as well be at 10% or 20%.
And if Apple introduces an "iphone Nano" in the mean time, then the numbers could be totally different.
Oil leak
Private-data leak
What next, Wikileaks?
Ô temps ! suspends ton vol...
-- French poem by Lamartine http://astronad.voila.net/Lamartine.htm
having the pollution in one place, away from large numbers of people, where it can be more easily managed (reduced), sounds good to me.
Wrong my friend, at least not for carbon and green house effect. Whether you use a car in the desert, or in downtown NY, it's the same effect on the atmosphere.
It's the same to have thousands of petrol cars in downtown New-York or a plant producing electricity from petrol in a desert and thousands of electric cars in NY.
Actually, it could well be worse to have electric cars in this scenario, I mean, since electric cars cost more, it means more pollution went into building it!
Doesn't mean we should not do research, but let's be logical
so the Tea Party is for keeping incandescent bulbs to keep some corporations happy?
and below someone says the Democrats are for switching to new light bulbs to please other corporations?
Is the USA only about corporations???
True, until then we still need to work on producing electricity that does not come from coal, gas, petrol or uranium (probably 98% of electricity produced in France today).
Easy, have a little electric resistance inside the mirror, just as on car rear windows, but hidden behind the mirror.
today's dilbert strip matches this post perfectly: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-03-29/
Just install windows on the mac?
Or get yourself a wife able to adapt to a Mac, there are millions out there ;)
Seriously, if she's used to Windows XP, windows vista or windows 7 are so different that she won't like it either.
And Microsoft is already not patching XP as much as it should, so it's becoming a security problem to keep XP machines running.
what else?
Some say there's a small chance the world will end in 2012. What do you do about it?
I say "nothing, and let's talk about it in 2013!"
And last year's flu was just the same
I still have some liquid soap left from last year's flu hysteria.
And some air masks too. Who wants some?
There was also a hysteria for the mad cow disease, but my wife did not buy anything, we merely rode the car through pools of soapy water back then (near farms)
The problem when the media says apocalypse is coming once a year, and we're still there the next year is that we pay less attention the next time.
It's time for robots to be proud. They should not have to hide anymore. It's the 21st century!
I would argue that it is about the environmental impact.
I am one of those who thinks this bitcoin thing is not going to be really used, on the other hand the environmental impact is going to be very real.
If and when countries produce less physical coins because people switch to bitcoin, then we can revisit the subject.