If we don't get off this rock, we will follow the path of the dinosaurs or even worse. Whether by interplanetary impact or a hugely destructive solar storm or a disastrous disease mutation etc.
On this world we live in borrowed time and probability will catch up to use sooner or later, suck it up, extinction is inevitable when you are bound to a planet, it is just the way of things.
I dispute that getting off Earth will solve our problems. Our problems go a whole lot deeper than that. In fact we seem far more likely to destroy ourselves than a meteor crashing anytime soon.
Apple got to the top fairly because it has great products. That is good.
Apple is trying to stay at the top by killing its competitors unfairly. That is bad.
... this like a battle of the stupidest trick. Each side is pulling out it's tricks and trying to beat the other with a trick more obvious than the last.
I distinctly remember the previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declaring loudly that he was going to push through a Supertax of about 30% on mining. Next thing we knew there were rumbles and he was ousted very quickly. I personally suspected it was the big mining corporations that lent on the government. Just my two cents.
I think I'm generally surprised why this story received so much negative feedback from slashdot.
Everyone is different. Perhaps this style of programming will work better for some people. We should be willing to accept others can approach programming from a different angle.
Why does the education system rely on overpriced commercial literature at all?
Good question. Perhaps we could start a Wikipedia style website for people to contribute educational material. This information could be organised textbook style and printed cheaply and easily for use in schools.
Software patents are essentially patenting a thought process. One thing the internet has taught me is that the world is VAST. Nearly anything I can think of, has been thought of by someone else.
I think you can see the problem with patenting a thought process.
"A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer likes fonts and typography, they'll tell you to get a Mac OSX computer. If they like control and have a huge beard, they'll tell you to install Linux. Again, use whatever computer you have right now that works."
to tell if it will actually be made. It looks like a concept at the moment. I'd want more detailed information about it's components before getting my hopes up.
This may be good news for some people if it were true. Unfortunately I can't find any references to original material on the subject.
Until someone can provide an article that has more details than hearsay blogs I'm calling this a prank.
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If we don't get off this rock, we will follow the path of the dinosaurs or even worse. Whether by interplanetary impact or a hugely destructive solar storm or a disastrous disease mutation etc.
On this world we live in borrowed time and probability will catch up to use sooner or later, suck it up, extinction is inevitable when you are bound to a planet, it is just the way of things.
I dispute that getting off Earth will solve our problems. Our problems go a whole lot deeper than that. In fact we seem far more likely to destroy ourselves than a meteor crashing anytime soon.
Here is my summary:
Apple got to the top fairly because it has great products. That is good.
Apple is trying to stay at the top by killing its competitors unfairly. That is bad.
... this like a battle of the stupidest trick. Each side is pulling out it's tricks and trying to beat the other with a trick more obvious than the last.
I distinctly remember the previous Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declaring loudly that he was going to push through a Supertax of about 30% on mining. Next thing we knew there were rumbles and he was ousted very quickly. I personally suspected it was the big mining corporations that lent on the government. Just my two cents.
If we can ignore the silliness for a moment, it seems exciting that we are getting better at exploring material science at the atomic level.
Sounds like a tagline to a new movie:
He was just a man looking for education in all the wrong places.
I think I'm generally surprised why this story received so much negative feedback from slashdot.
Everyone is different. Perhaps this style of programming will work better for some people. We should be willing to accept others can approach programming from a different angle.
You missed the "soulless" AKA Gingers.
By introducing such a lame technology like the IBM PC and MS DOS, IBM/Microsoft set back the IT industry 20 years or more.
We could have 32 bit machines with GUI, preemptive multitasking and hardware-accelerated 3D graphics much earlier.
I seem to remember that the hardware needed for multitasking and graphics were prohibitively expensive for the average computer user.
It may not be anywhere near Linux, but I find it interesting that HURD development continues.
This might actually work.
I have a preference for results instead of "this might actually work."
Why does the education system rely on overpriced commercial literature at all?
Good question. Perhaps we could start a Wikipedia style website for people to contribute educational material. This information could be organised textbook style and printed cheaply and easily for use in schools.
Before signing a contract, it's a good idea to hire a lawyer to look at the document. It may save you some heartache.
Software patents are essentially patenting a thought process. One thing the internet has taught me is that the world is VAST. Nearly anything I can think of, has been thought of by someone else. I think you can see the problem with patenting a thought process.
Why does this smell so much like SCO?
"A programmer will eventually tell you to use Mac OSX or Linux. If the programmer likes fonts and typography, they'll tell you to get a Mac OSX computer. If they like control and have a huge beard, they'll tell you to install Linux. Again, use whatever computer you have right now that works."
I run Windows because I like to play games :)
To the publisher, the resale of the game is the same as a pirate copy - they get nothing.
to tell if it will actually be made. It looks like a concept at the moment. I'd want more detailed information about it's components before getting my hopes up.
'Geeks' are in 'fashion' right now but I'm too socially inept to take advantage of it.
This may be good news for some people if it were true. Unfortunately I can't find any references to original material on the subject. Until someone can provide an article that has more details than hearsay blogs I'm calling this a prank.