Many people succumb to Luddite thinking as they get older; this is just another example of it. Why these people feel the need to write articles/books about their fear, I don't know... oh, wait, it's for the money.
Depends on the kids too... Having been a parent of homeschooled, then unschooled then schooled kids, I can say that every kid handles these states differently. One of my kids was fine with homeschooling until he got to the 6th grade level (in 4th grade), then he refused to take instruction from us and refused to instruct himself, so he went (willingly) to school. My other child resisted homeschooling, but was fine with unschooling until the 1st grade level, then insisted we send her to school. I've met other kids that were fine with both methods all the way to college. There is no generic child, and no generic parent, therefore, there is no generic method of schooling. The best a parent can do is try to adapt to what their own child needs.
Join a company like IPS http://www.iprofessional.com - they are a group of consultants who submit all their "employees" as a group to health insurance companies, and get group rates (a little cheaper than if you go it alone).
... can you imagine say 12 programmers starting in the morning and copying their VM across the network. They could probably skip the day and have it ready for the next day.
How about running VM's on a central server or servers and having thin clients like the sun ray one connect to them?
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You forget one thing; if Google decides to delete your account, then it can, and there's not much you can do about it. Your own email on your own machine is far safer. I use Gmail too, but I forward anything important to me to one of my regular email accounts, from where incidentally, I collect email using Pine.
Stephen Baxter suggested the retro space program..
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... in his book Voyage
But in reality, we didn't need the alternate history!
Fact following Fiction.
...when I entered the field; CASE tools were all the rage then, remember CASE tools? No I didn't think so. Anyway, I was "warned" that programming would soon be replaced by these tools. It's now 2004; yes the industry has changed, but there are still programmers required, and there will be for a long, long time.
Try to move your programming career into an industry that doesn't outsource all that often like banking, mortgage, tax, some medical. It's all a question of balance. You may not get the coolest jobs if you're only willing to work regular hours, but you can always code an open-source application on the side. Humans are adaptable, so don't worry, you'l adapt.
You act as if developers are some kind of brainless resource. Even if you shut down the other browser projects, it would be unlikely that the larger browser projects would suddenly have more developers. Having more browsers means that the larger browsers will have new ideas trown at them that some of the smaller browsers have (and vice versa).
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I thin it more of a "because it's there" mentality that finds a home in the minds of mountaineers. The thing is that so many of us dream of that great mountain, space, that it must be climbed. We humans try to grasp that which is out of our reach, and in doing so, learn more about what it is to be human. Call it what you will, but there is much more than money at stake here; it's an existential issue.
...but I have a feeling that they're preparing to write an all-encompassing IDE (as was theorized in a Dr. Dobbs article a while back; Basically, you'd have an XML file that contains everything from your code to info on how it should be displayed to multimedia files. Having this patent could allow MS to have a tighter control on who could build such an IDE. Just a guess.
I got a copy of sun's java desktop from the linuxworld expo. It is basically a gnome desktop that boots from a CD; not too bad although I haven't played with it much.
I agree, we humans are quite adaptable creatures. UI designers constantly downgrade our intelligence due to the few who are not adaptable. Most problems adapting are due more to stubborness and habit than misunderstanding.
Buy an antique ring. That's what I did. I bought a Victorian ring with 9C diamonds. It wasn't very expensive, and it has history and class. Forget retail value, this is for life, right?
Forget all this PDA nonsense, get your brain in gear before the Butlerian Jihad hits.
Seriously though, memory is something that *can* be trained; it's all a question of convincing yourself that something is of a higher priority that you initially percieve it to be.
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But, what if it was the diseases that made us intelligent in the first place? We evolve (mind and body). A true AI will have to evolve too, not just learn.
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Thank you. Your sense of humor (which is seriously lacking in this debate) had the wisdom to clarify the issue down to it's fundamental(ist) roots.
The bigger question is that if they paid you when they sold that data, would you mind? - I think it's a question of how much is that data worth.
It's only used it a couple of small applications that can be replaced if necessary.
Many people succumb to Luddite thinking as they get older; this is just another example of it. Why these people feel the need to write articles/books about their fear, I don't know... oh, wait, it's for the money.
Depends on the kids too...
Having been a parent of homeschooled, then unschooled then schooled kids, I can say that every kid handles these states differently. One of my kids was fine with homeschooling until he got to the 6th grade level (in 4th grade), then he refused to take instruction from us and refused to instruct himself, so he went (willingly) to school. My other child resisted homeschooling, but was fine with unschooling until the 1st grade level, then insisted we send her to school. I've met other kids that were fine with both methods all the way to college.
There is no generic child, and no generic parent, therefore, there is no generic method of schooling. The best a parent can do is try to adapt to what their own child needs.
My guess is that they want to create a large version of the "touch" keyboard interface that the iPhone uses.
Join a company like IPS http://www.iprofessional.com - they are a group of consultants who submit all their "employees" as a group to health insurance companies, and get group rates (a little cheaper than if you go it alone).
... can you imagine say 12 programmers starting in the morning and copying their VM across the network. They could probably skip the day and have it ready for the next day.
How about running VM's on a central server or servers and having thin clients like the sun ray one connect to them?
You forget one thing; if Google decides to delete your account, then it can, and there's not much you can do about it. Your own email on your own machine is far safer. I use Gmail too, but I forward anything important to me to one of my regular email accounts, from where incidentally, I collect email using Pine.
... in his book Voyage But in reality, we didn't need the alternate history! Fact following Fiction.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3511678. stm
Why is everyone talking about this like it's news; it's history!
...when I entered the field; CASE tools were all the rage then, remember CASE tools? No I didn't think so. Anyway, I was "warned" that programming would soon be replaced by these tools. It's now 2004; yes the industry has changed, but there are still programmers required, and there will be for a long, long time.
Try to move your programming career into an industry that doesn't outsource all that often like banking, mortgage, tax, some medical.
It's all a question of balance. You may not get the coolest jobs if you're only willing to work regular hours, but you can always code an open-source application on the side.
Humans are adaptable, so don't worry, you'l adapt.
You act as if developers are some kind of brainless resource. Even if you shut down the other browser projects, it would be unlikely that the larger browser projects would suddenly have more developers. Having more browsers means that the larger browsers will have new ideas trown at them that some of the smaller browsers have (and vice versa).
I thin it more of a "because it's there" mentality that finds a home in the minds of mountaineers.
The thing is that so many of us dream of that great mountain, space, that it must be climbed. We humans try to grasp that which is out of our reach, and in doing so, learn more about what it is to be human. Call it what you will, but there is much more than money at stake here; it's an existential issue.
...but I have a feeling that they're preparing to write an all-encompassing IDE (as was theorized in a Dr. Dobbs article a while back;
Basically, you'd have an XML file that contains everything from your code to info on how it should be displayed to multimedia files. Having this patent could allow MS to have a tighter control on who could build such an IDE.
Just a guess.
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I got a copy of sun's java desktop from the linuxworld expo. It is basically a gnome desktop that boots from a CD; not too bad although I haven't played with it much.
I just write it in Perl's POD and run it through pod2man. Very easy.
I agree, we humans are quite adaptable creatures. UI designers constantly downgrade our intelligence due to the few who are not adaptable. Most problems adapting are due more to stubborness and habit than misunderstanding.
Buy an antique ring. That's what I did. I bought a Victorian ring with 9C diamonds. It wasn't very expensive, and it has history and class. Forget retail value, this is for life, right?
I used to play with "the kit" on my old Apple 2e; ahh, them were the days ;)
Forget all this PDA nonsense, get your brain in gear before the Butlerian Jihad hits. Seriously though, memory is something that *can* be trained; it's all a question of convincing yourself that something is of a higher priority that you initially percieve it to be.
How about:
Mac OS X for Linux Users?
But, what if it was the diseases that made us intelligent in the first place? We evolve (mind and body). A true AI will have to evolve too, not just learn.
Perhaps Galileo learned what NASA had in store for it?
"Dave? Dave?"