It's politically incorrect to say it, but the introduction of Firefox and its subsequent growth in the market is what made the extra work. Web standards are useful but they haven't made web development easier, they just bifurcated the web site design process.
"I wonder how much money they ever made from ads, and if they regret it, given that 5 years on they're still trying to lose the bad aroma it produced?"
If the "bad aroma" of advertising on nearly every web page a person has seen on any browser isn't a problem, I doubt that most people would worry about it.
In fact, it's possible that non-technical folks running Opera in the old days didn't notice if the ads were generated by opera or the web page they were viewing. Only fanatics get excited by these issues.
So by your logic if a teacher doubles their class size their salary should be doubled. Somehow I don't think you thought your argument through. I suspect that you care a lot more about lowering your taxes than improving education.
There's lots of published advice about how to run the gauntlet of the hiring process for candidates but little published on how companies can "up their game" when looking for new employees. The emphasis on the employers part seems to be minimal work rather than maximum quality.
Neither of us have any idea what the code is like, but it is true that traditional desktop or server approaches usually aren't appropriate for a real-time system. Of course in recent years people have been watering-down the definition of real-time, but in this case, it's the real thing.
I think an important side effect of all this pasting a bunch of different libraries/frameworks together is the difficulty of finding a job.
20 years ago if you knew C you probably were qualified for most jobs. Now you have to know several different languages not to mention whichever frameworks de jour are popular at the company you wish to join.
If this trend increases we may get to the point that there will be jobs posted that nobody qualifies for except those who already work at the company.
"Various economists have analyzed the effects of Prop 13 and pretty much agree that the effects of the fallout would have normalized within a decade."
I don't know who these "various economists" are, but they are obviously not very competent. In California thanks to Prop 13 it takes a 2/3 majority to raise taxes. How can the effects be normalized when this minority veto power still exists?
Prop 13 wasn't just about property taxes - that was just the hook.
Your comment that "We can't solve a single damned problem anymore" is rather funny given that prop 13 allows 1/3 of the legislature or 1/3 of the people to veto anything that involves increasing taxes. You may like the fact that taxes are difficult to raise but then you shouldn't complain that nothing gets accomplished.
It's a nice turn-around, but it doesn't really work. Among the potential solutions are ideas that require more taxes to be paid by everyone including teachers without paying teachers more.
The US government isn't the primary source of education funding. So the increasing amount it spends might not be all that significant in influencing the outcomes.
Of course the other question is how education funds (from all sources) are distributed among schools and how the money is spent. As usual the devil's in the details.
I'm not part of the system (other than paying taxes) but if I were, I wouldn't expect that lobbying Slashdotters would be an effective use of my time.
If we get to the point where leaving your reader behind in a public place isn't any more likely to result in theft than leaving a book, readers will be well positioned to overtake printed books.
You mean all the n00bs who know what "standard GNU utilities" are?
I don't think your analogy is very good but I'd say Windows CE is more like a linux kernel without the standard GNU utilities. I believe most Windows CE software development takes place on a standard PC, not the target environment.
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It's politically incorrect to say it, but the introduction of Firefox and its subsequent growth in the market is what made the extra work. Web standards are useful but they haven't made web development easier, they just bifurcated the web site design process.
"I wonder how much money they ever made from ads, and if they regret it, given that 5 years on they're still trying to lose the bad aroma it produced?"
If the "bad aroma" of advertising on nearly every web page a person has seen on any browser isn't a problem, I doubt that most people would worry about it.
In fact, it's possible that non-technical folks running Opera in the old days didn't notice if the ads were generated by opera or the web page they were viewing. Only fanatics get excited by these issues.
Most typing errors generate compiler errors.
you'd already know that "Alice" was a satire.
Actually, "the right way" is a leftover from the old typewriter days when speed was important and mistakes were forever.
After touch typing for 25 years I'm of the opinion that the ad-hoc techniques are less likely to damage you than the "right way".
So by your logic if a teacher doubles their class size their salary should be doubled. Somehow I don't think you thought your argument through. I suspect that you care a lot more about lowering your taxes than improving education.
There's lots of published advice about how to run the gauntlet of the hiring process for candidates but little published on how companies can "up their game" when looking for new employees. The emphasis on the employers part seems to be minimal work rather than maximum quality.
Neither of us have any idea what the code is like, but it is true that traditional desktop or server approaches usually aren't appropriate for a real-time system. Of course in recent years people have been watering-down the definition of real-time, but in this case, it's the real thing.
I think an important side effect of all this pasting a bunch of different libraries/frameworks together is the difficulty of finding a job.
20 years ago if you knew C you probably were qualified for most jobs. Now you have to know several different languages not to mention whichever frameworks de jour are popular at the company you wish to join.
If this trend increases we may get to the point that there will be jobs posted that nobody qualifies for except those who already work at the company.
We are talking about a real-time control system. It's unlikely to be structured anything like a video driver on a PC.
"Various economists have analyzed the effects of Prop 13 and pretty much agree that the effects of the fallout would have normalized within a decade."
I don't know who these "various economists" are, but they are obviously not very competent. In California thanks to Prop 13 it takes a 2/3 majority to raise taxes. How can the effects be normalized when this minority veto power still exists?
Prop 13 wasn't just about property taxes - that was just the hook.
Your comment that "We can't solve a single damned problem anymore" is rather funny given that prop 13 allows 1/3 of the legislature or 1/3 of the people to veto anything that involves increasing taxes. You may like the fact that taxes are difficult to raise but then you shouldn't complain that nothing gets accomplished.
It's a nice turn-around, but it doesn't really work. Among the potential solutions are ideas that require more taxes to be paid by everyone including teachers without paying teachers more.
The US government isn't the primary source of education funding. So the increasing amount it spends might not be all that significant in influencing the outcomes.
Of course the other question is how education funds (from all sources) are distributed among schools and how the money is spent. As usual the devil's in the details.
I'm not part of the system (other than paying taxes) but if I were, I wouldn't expect that lobbying Slashdotters would be an effective use of my time.
I had no idea Reagan was spending Soviet money on our military.
Sounds like they are already being punished.
You have passed your standardized tests. You are now qualified to work in a factory in the 1950s.
You do realize that California's education system used to among the best in the country until Prop 13 passed.
Every bad scenario that was envisioned if it passed has come true. All the reassurances that were given by the pro-13 people have not.
because that way, no additional work or money is required by the complainer to solve the problem.
He's a genius at making money off his meager talents. His latest gig is pimping a bait-and-switch credit site called freescore.com.
He makes a good pixie though.
If we get to the point where leaving your reader behind in a public place isn't any more likely to result in theft than leaving a book, readers will be well positioned to overtake printed books.
I think that day is still far off.
Wow, people around here are getting to subtle for me.
"MSFT has been doing tablets for almost a decade. however it took apple to design a smart phone with a tablet interface."
I'm confused. The iPad isn't a smart phone and the iPhone doesn't have a tablet interface.
"LOLz Your comparing a concept to a shipping product"
Are you referring to the iPad that Apple just delayed a month?
You mean all the n00bs who know what "standard GNU utilities" are?
I don't think your analogy is very good but I'd say Windows CE is more like a linux kernel without the standard GNU utilities. I believe most Windows CE software development takes place on a standard PC, not the target environment.