If ebay focused more of their attention on becoming an open platform that people can flexibly use for barter and exchange - and if they opened up paypal peppercoin style or something - then they would be working in the right direction. Right now they seem a bit closed off to me, not to mention making random acquisitions like skype which make them look like that media company which aquired aol, and that, in the end, is going to lose them revenue.
You know... programming by itself is just a tool. Like construction or something.. Programming on a particular project is only as interesting as the idea that is being implemented. Boring idea, boring programming. My suggestion to you... find an idea in the computer field which gets you off and start coding it... or look for people who are working on similar ideas and code with them...
Why couldn't a site like slashdot or any other news / forum / infomation site produce a hardcopy magazine that its readers could order monthly.. I would love a Slashdot magazine that was published once a month or even once a week which brought together the months top stories and summarizied cleaver commentary and consensus from the slashdot community on them. I think that could work well. I would gladly pay money for a newletter / magazine like that.
Email me if you want to talk about the idea with me more...
I don't know about 15 year olds, but I am 20 and I certainly plan to change the world. I mean look at what the older generation has left us to start out with... George W. Bush.. HOW COULD YOU ELECT such a moron. Yes, I am 20, yes, I voted.... so, you say... my generation had a part in it too... yea it did, but we are not the generation in power right now... I am working my ass off and will continue to do so until i see some major changes in the country from how the older generations have left it to us.... It is completely rediculous and there are sure to be some major changes...
One thing I love about the net is that attention is focused on only the best site which fits my need(s) at the present time. The minute a better one comes around, my attention goes elsewhere. Brand names mean nothing to me. Loyalty only lasts as long as the best service is provided to me for free...
3 examples
- news
For about a year and a half, my one and only source for news was wired.com and I used to read it daily. Then a couple months ago I descovered that slashdot was both more interesting and more informative. From that point on wired was completely out of the picture... I rarely look at it now where as I read slashdot daily.
- searching
The search engine of the day is google. But do we, as users, actually care about the google name? I really dont think so.. The day that another search engine provides me with a better service than google does is the day that I never use google again.... I have seen this phenomenom change what search engine I use over and over again in the past few years I have been connected to the internet. From yahoo to infoseek to metacrawler now to google. (and yea there may have been better engines to check out, i just didnt know about them).... do I really care about any of the services that I no longer use? the answer is no. I care about google right now because it is the hightest quality search engine right now... tommorrow, next week, next month or whenever a new search technology comes out that provides me as a user with a better product, google is going to be forgotten...
- mp3s
napster is forgotten... the minute they stopped providing a high quality free service was the minute they were gone... nobody but the media cares about what they are doing now...
In conclusion, this "best of the moment" attitude works extremely well and encorages innovation never before seen in mankind.... its an exciting future...
Bjarne Stroustrup is speaking at Columbia University
ACM @ Columbia Univeristy welcomes all ACM members and interested persons:
April 26th, 2001
JAVA BYTES
OK, maybe not, but there are certainly alternatives. Far and away the
most popular programming language in the world today is C++. Unlike many
modern inventions, C++ has one clear creator: Bjarne Stroustrup.
On April 26th, he's coming to speak at Columbia, thanks to Columbias ACM
chapter with the support of the Department of Computer Science. This is a
rare chance to hear one of the major figures in both computer science and
the information economy speak about his creation.
The topic will be C++ itself, and thus should be of particular interest to
dedicated Java types, as C++ is the primary programming language of the
"real world." Used a Microsoft product lately, either operating system or
application? Written in C++. Played a computer game? Used any retail
software whatsoever? Ditto. Tens of billions of dollars worth of
software written in C++ are sold every year.
So anyway, come and listen to the guy who wrote the worlds main
programming language talk about programming. The talk will be aimed at
intermediate-level computer science undergraduates. We promise that your
mind will be stretched.
Please go to our site: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/acm for directions to
the lecture hall at Columbia U. where the talk will be taking place.
Columbia U. itself is located at 116th and Broadway.
Slashdot Mirror
If ebay focused more of their attention on becoming an open platform that people can flexibly use for barter and exchange - and if they opened up paypal peppercoin style or something - then they would be working in the right direction. Right now they seem a bit closed off to me, not to mention making random acquisitions like skype which make them look like that media company which aquired aol, and that, in the end, is going to lose them revenue.
You know... programming by itself is just a tool. Like construction or something.. Programming on a particular project is only as interesting as the idea that is being implemented. Boring idea, boring programming. My suggestion to you... find an idea in the computer field which gets you off and start coding it... or look for people who are working on similar ideas and code with them...
Why couldn't a site like slashdot or any other news / forum / infomation site produce a hardcopy magazine that its readers could order monthly.. I would love a Slashdot magazine that was published once a month or even once a week which brought together the months top stories and summarizied cleaver commentary and consensus from the slashdot community on them. I think that could work well. I would gladly pay money for a newletter / magazine like that.
Email me if you want to talk about the idea with me more...
Dan
I don't know about 15 year olds, but I am 20 and I certainly plan to change the world. I mean look at what the older generation has left us to start out with... George W. Bush.. HOW COULD YOU ELECT such a moron. Yes, I am 20, yes, I voted.... so, you say... my generation had a part in it too... yea it did, but we are not the generation in power right now... I am working my ass off and will continue to do so until i see some major changes in the country from how the older generations have left it to us.... It is completely rediculous and there are sure to be some major changes...
i read the wash post in the morning.... that about does it for my world news...
One thing I love about the net is that attention is focused on only the best site which fits my need(s) at the present time. The minute a better one comes around, my attention goes elsewhere. Brand names mean nothing to me. Loyalty only lasts as long as the best service is provided to me for free...
3 examples
- news
For about a year and a half, my one and only source for news was wired.com and I used to read it daily. Then a couple months ago I descovered that slashdot was both more interesting and more informative. From that point on wired was completely out of the picture... I rarely look at it now where as I read slashdot daily.
- searching
The search engine of the day is google. But do we, as users, actually care about the google name? I really dont think so.. The day that another search engine provides me with a better service than google does is the day that I never use google again.... I have seen this phenomenom change what search engine I use over and over again in the past few years I have been connected to the internet. From yahoo to infoseek to metacrawler now to google. (and yea there may have been better engines to check out, i just didnt know about them).... do I really care about any of the services that I no longer use? the answer is no. I care about google right now because it is the hightest quality search engine right now... tommorrow, next week, next month or whenever a new search technology comes out that provides me as a user with a better product, google is going to be forgotten...
- mp3s
napster is forgotten... the minute they stopped providing a high quality free service was the minute they were gone... nobody but the media cares about what they are doing now...
In conclusion, this "best of the moment" attitude works extremely well and encorages innovation never before seen in mankind.... its an exciting future...
Bjarne Stroustrup is speaking at Columbia University
ACM @ Columbia Univeristy welcomes all ACM members and interested persons:
April 26th, 2001
JAVA BYTES
OK, maybe not, but there are certainly alternatives. Far and away the
most popular programming language in the world today is C++. Unlike many
modern inventions, C++ has one clear creator: Bjarne Stroustrup.
On April 26th, he's coming to speak at Columbia, thanks to Columbias ACM
chapter with the support of the Department of Computer Science. This is a
rare chance to hear one of the major figures in both computer science and
the information economy speak about his creation.
The topic will be C++ itself, and thus should be of particular interest to
dedicated Java types, as C++ is the primary programming language of the
"real world." Used a Microsoft product lately, either operating system or
application? Written in C++. Played a computer game? Used any retail
software whatsoever? Ditto. Tens of billions of dollars worth of
software written in C++ are sold every year.
So anyway, come and listen to the guy who wrote the worlds main
programming language talk about programming. The talk will be aimed at
intermediate-level computer science undergraduates. We promise that your
mind will be stretched.
Please go to our site: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/acm for directions to
the lecture hall at Columbia U. where the talk will be taking place.
Columbia U. itself is located at 116th and Broadway.
-- ACM @ Columbia U.