A new language is like a new musical instrument or paint brush. It may make it slightly easier to express certain ideas and expressions, but it boils down to one simple fact...
The idea matters more than the expression.
The great philosophers would still great even if they spoke another language. As long as a language lets your ideas be expressed in some way, that's all that matters.
The only way I can think that they could come up with the "There Can Be Only one" idea would be if:
- Everybody in the corporate foodchain is a tyrannical money monger - Nobody with any pull in RIAA knows what the real world is like - They're all drunk. Really.
People who create software where human life is at risk, such as aircraft and health monitors, must be certified. I do *not* want a 2-year VisualBasic programmer working on the cruise-control system for my car as his first C project. And if programmers are becoming harder to hire, especially experienced ones, companies may resort to this.
In general, I don't think certification is needed for work that is not as critical. Even a certified individual can make crappy software, so the only way to stop them is making people who charge money for software ACCOUNTABALE for quality of said software.
If a company builds me a crappy car and it's free, no problem. Make me pay $35,000 for a crappy car and I'll get very angry and wonder what they really did with that $35,000.
But it won't happen, not as long as users are willing to put up with bugs, misfeatures and blatant security holes in commercial products.
Is it just me, or does Sony really seem to be into proprietary formats these days? Memory Sticks, MiniDiscs, Super Audio Format, etc. I guess they're hoping one will catch on so they can rake in the licensing fees.
Compressed audio, like compressed images and movies, will be with us forever. MP3 and other compressed formats will be even MORE important as as we move away from CDs into something like DVD-Audio. (CDs aren't the ultimate in quality - udio professionals have been dying for a 24-bit 96-KhZ discrete surround medium for a while)
It's all a balancing act between hard drive space, RAM, bandwidth and cost. MP3 just happens to fit in the middle of those extremes.
Given the size of IBM, it's inevitable there will be a few clueless employees. Not only is he wrong (on purpose?), but he seems to be going against the "official" corporate philosophy.
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A new language is like a new musical instrument or paint brush. It may make it slightly easier to express certain ideas and expressions, but it boils down to one simple fact...
The idea matters more than the expression.
The great philosophers would still great even if they spoke another language. As long as a language lets your ideas be expressed in some way, that's all that matters.
Don't mind RIAA, they're just drunk.
The only way I can think that they could come up with the "There Can Be Only one" idea would be if:
- Everybody in the corporate foodchain is a tyrannical money monger
- Nobody with any pull in RIAA knows what the real world is like
- They're all drunk. Really.
He's like Jimi Hendrix - very narrowly focused and very good at what he does. Of course, he may not be a well-rounded person, but why does it matter?
His donation to Mesa is a sign of his focus.
People who create software where human life is at risk, such as aircraft and health monitors, must be certified. I do *not* want a 2-year VisualBasic programmer working on the cruise-control system for my car as his first C project. And if programmers are becoming harder to hire, especially experienced ones, companies may resort to this.
In general, I don't think certification is needed for work that is not as critical. Even a certified individual can make crappy software, so the only way to stop them is making people who charge money for software ACCOUNTABALE for quality of said software.
If a company builds me a crappy car and it's free, no problem. Make me pay $35,000 for a crappy car and I'll get very angry and wonder what they really did with that $35,000.
But it won't happen, not as long as users are willing to put up with bugs, misfeatures and blatant security holes in commercial products.
Is it just me, or does Sony really seem to be into proprietary formats these days? Memory Sticks, MiniDiscs, Super Audio Format, etc. I guess they're hoping one will catch on so they can rake in the licensing fees.
Compressed audio, like compressed images and movies, will be with us forever. MP3 and other compressed formats will be even MORE important as as we move away from CDs into something like DVD-Audio. (CDs aren't the ultimate in quality - udio professionals have been dying for a 24-bit 96-KhZ discrete surround medium for a while)
It's all a balancing act between hard drive space, RAM, bandwidth and cost. MP3 just happens to fit in the middle of those extremes.
Given the size of IBM, it's inevitable there will be a few clueless employees. Not only is he wrong (on purpose?), but he seems to be going against the "official" corporate philosophy.