The "robustness" test isn't good enough either. Sometimes poor implementations of good ideas spurn enough innovation and demand that its marginal quality is irrelevant. The early web browsers, email programs, etc.. were likely neither robust or well implemented. On the other hand, some solid, robust good implementations of ideas are so intractable, that at best they merely serve the original purpose, and at worst are like an albatross around the necks of future developers ( usb anybody ?).
David Parnas proposed that a poor programmer could create demand for dozens of programmers; a unique software situation, as a poor mechanical engineer doesn't scale nearly so well.
Brilliant! The problem with subjecting a 2 year old to a computer is that he might break the computer! It isn't a question of cognitive abilities, it is a question of missed opportunity. The opportunity to learn, explore; discover people, animals, tastes, smells and the joy of sticking little things up your nose and meeting doctors and nurses. These are all far more important.
Smashing the computer might be the smartest thing the 2 year old could do with it. That goes for 3,4 or 5 year old too.
Wouldn't biological evolution tend to follow trends of environmental evolution, that is the state of the climate, soil, water, etc? A more bold assertion may be that biological evolution is a response to longer term mineral evolution.
| Intellect, development and the human condition are easy to define.
Really? That makes matters much simpler then.
| unless there is some belief that this will "steal" a soul from heaven or hell
Straw man. What about the suspicion that the experts are playing with mechanisms that their well defined intellect lacks the capacity to understand. A three year old child has the well defined intellect to point and fire a gun.
Really, do you think so? I kinda thought when the olympic-team-tards donned breathing masks inside the aeroplane, the US had outed their policy.
In the height of the cold war, the Russian people had a better grasp of global affairs than the US people. The troubling question is who has a better grasp now?
I'm 44 and guessed "righty tighty lefty loosy" was about the sexual habits of republicans and democrats. Wish someone had asked me that in an interview.
I find, as an interviewee, I am way less tolerant of bs companies and psychotic hr people in interviews. I'm probably a prima-donna, but I'm not going to brown nose some clown just to get a new gig. That is an attitude you are unlikely to find in a 20-something, with crushing college loans and a desperation to find out if they can do the job or not.
The biggest problem with old geeks is getting them to shut up. If the OP has problems getting old geeks to talk, there may be a reason for it - you might not be that interesting to them, and they are either being polite, or waiting for the good bit.
You might start with a gambit like 'if at any time during this interview you wished you hadn't come, just tell us, we won't be offended'. If that doesn't work, offer them a beer; either way, you'll at least get some respect from them.
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mod parent funny: it is parroting an apple ad where mac consoles pc that it isn't pc's fault that he sucks, and pc agrees. The viewer gets to fill in the blank 'but he sucks and he knows it'....
Isn't this what OSX currently does - not for classic, but for windows via parallels, virtualbox, vmware,... Windows apps are the "legacy".
For Microsoft to inflict so much native breakage on the app base would cut off their own air supply. A marketing decision by Apple to unbundle OSX, or a Linux distro would have the same footing as Windows. Microsoft would have to compete for the first time in 25 years. I really doubt they would take the risk.
To natively maintain the current APIs may not be possible without maintaining huge vulnerabilities. Maybe it is, but obviously it wasn't originally understood and I doubt it 13 years of security hacks have helped that understanding.
Anti-virus software may be the only marketable solution, but is always one step behind.
The 'stay ahead of a falling knife' is a misplaced metaphor; 'chewing off a leg to escape a trap' may be more appropriate.
Sun is a huge company, that employs lots of people both directly and indirectly. Sun has contributed greatly to the computing world; and been well compensated for those contributions. It appears they overextended themselves, and face two choices: find a sustainable core to continue on, or sell whatever is left.
There is a point to the survival, but - to borrow from the Solaris 8-ball - "Outlook not so good".
----- For all of my adult life I have been really afraid of your country.
What about 'ride boards' that are/were common at universities and colleges? Should the university be instructed to take them down, as they are vaguely complicit in a gypsy-busing service?
I am certain that PickupPal has only the best intentions, but before you accept money for giving somebody a lift you should carefully read your insurance policy. Finding yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit because you invalidated your liability insurance mightn't be the smartest move; so you should pass on the "gas or grass" options.
Imagine a democratic society where for every important matter people can be asked to vote electronically..
Dystopia springs to mind. A quagmire of indecision, scored with a barrage of special interests vying for your vote on the issue of the day. Eventually only the people with nothing better to do will end up making the decisions, perhaps during commercial breaks on daytime television.
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usb combines design talents of microsoft and intel. Have a look at it sometime.
The "robustness" test isn't good enough either. Sometimes poor implementations of good ideas spurn enough innovation and demand that its marginal quality is irrelevant. The early web browsers, email programs, etc.. were likely neither robust or well implemented. On the other hand, some solid, robust good implementations of ideas are so intractable, that at best they merely serve the original purpose, and at worst are like an albatross around the necks of future developers ( usb anybody ?).
David Parnas proposed that a poor programmer could create demand for dozens of programmers; a unique software situation, as a poor mechanical engineer doesn't scale nearly so well.
Brilliant! The problem with subjecting a 2 year old to a computer is that he might break the computer! It isn't a question of cognitive abilities, it is a question of missed opportunity. The opportunity to learn, explore; discover people, animals, tastes, smells and the joy of sticking little things up your nose and meeting doctors and nurses. These are all far more important.
Smashing the computer might be the smartest thing the 2 year old could do with it. That goes for 3,4 or 5 year old too.
|Show him printed text and he may read. I was before that age.
Did were what? Printed text?
Your writing isn't a great advertisement for too-early reading.
Wouldn't biological evolution tend to follow trends of environmental evolution, that is the state of the climate, soil, water, etc? A more bold assertion may be that biological evolution is a response to longer term mineral evolution.
| Intellect, development and the human condition are easy to define.
Really? That makes matters much simpler then.
| unless there is some belief that this will "steal" a soul from heaven or hell
Straw man. What about the suspicion that the experts are playing with mechanisms that their well defined intellect lacks the capacity to understand. A three year old child has the well defined intellect to point and fire a gun.
mod -1, naive.
can you actually write anything that doesn't require kernel32? Kernel32 is the most damaging, poorly written add-on you ca imagine.
Demonize the Chinese?
Really, do you think so? I kinda thought when the olympic-team-tards donned breathing masks inside the aeroplane, the US had outed their policy.
In the height of the cold war, the Russian people had a better grasp of global affairs than the US people. The troubling question is who has a better grasp now?
I'm 44 and guessed "righty tighty lefty loosy" was about the sexual habits of republicans and democrats. Wish someone had asked me that in an interview.
I find, as an interviewee, I am way less tolerant of bs companies and psychotic hr people in interviews. I'm probably a prima-donna, but I'm not going to brown nose some clown just to get a new gig. That is an attitude you are unlikely to find in a 20-something, with crushing college loans and a desperation to find out if they can do the job or not.
The biggest problem with old geeks is getting them to shut up. If the OP has problems getting old geeks to talk, there may be a reason for it - you might not be that interesting to them, and they are either being polite, or waiting for the good bit.
You might start with a gambit like 'if at any time during this interview you wished you hadn't come, just tell us, we won't be offended'. If that doesn't work, offer them a beer; either way, you'll at least get some respect from them.
too bad its only in second life..
mod parent funny: it is parroting an apple ad where mac consoles pc that it isn't pc's fault that he sucks, and pc agrees. The viewer gets to fill in the blank 'but he sucks and he knows it'....
Isn't this what OSX currently does - not for classic, but for windows via parallels, virtualbox, vmware, ... Windows apps are the "legacy".
For Microsoft to inflict so much native breakage on the app base would cut off their own air supply. A marketing decision by Apple to unbundle OSX, or a Linux distro would have the same footing as Windows. Microsoft would have to compete for the first time in 25 years. I really doubt they would take the risk.
To natively maintain the current APIs may not be possible without maintaining huge vulnerabilities. Maybe it is, but obviously it wasn't originally understood and I doubt it 13 years of security hacks have helped that understanding.
Anti-virus software may be the only marketable solution, but is always one step behind.
2% probably depends on the college. They should sample politicians and inmates.
Aren't they already doing this? I saw a documentary once that featured a huge spaceship powered by it.
Technically I think it makes you a cocksucker. If he goes and rounds up a mob to beat you for sodomy, that would make them vigilantes
The 'stay ahead of a falling knife' is a misplaced metaphor; 'chewing off a leg to escape a trap' may be more appropriate.
Sun is a huge company, that employs lots of people both directly and indirectly. Sun has contributed greatly to the computing world; and been well compensated for those contributions. It appears they overextended themselves, and face two choices: find a sustainable core to continue on, or sell whatever is left.
There is a point to the survival, but - to borrow from the Solaris 8-ball - "Outlook not so good".
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For all of my adult life I have been really afraid of your country.
I don't work at Sun, but I believe Rich Green is leaving, again. Maybe the others didn't agree.
Couldn't I use this to remove the objects/logos/animations just as effectively? I would likely pay for that!
You take the fun out of life...
What about 'ride boards' that are/were common at universities and colleges? Should the university be instructed to take them down, as they are vaguely complicit in a gypsy-busing service?
I am certain that PickupPal has only the best intentions, but before you accept money for giving somebody a lift you should carefully read your insurance policy. Finding yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit because you invalidated your liability insurance mightn't be the smartest move; so you should pass on the "gas or grass" options.
Microsoft Security Research Centre is a success as a disaster agency? A bit harsh, but I suppose so...
I can back this up. I am so proud of my iphone that I keep it in a trophy case; I probably wouldn't even know if it didn't work....
Do they have the inverse, that can turn IM into voice? That would be so cool, you could just sit there and talk.
maybe he's curious about the Rand thing. It is an odd combination to be young and yet a fan of such an "cranky old person" philosophy.
isn't 7200rpm more like 120hz?
Imagine a democratic society where for every important matter people can be asked to vote electronically..
Dystopia springs to mind. A quagmire of indecision, scored with a barrage of special interests vying for your vote on the issue of the day. Eventually only the people with nothing better to do will end up making the decisions, perhaps during commercial breaks on daytime television.