This is a great idea, but it isn't easy for everyone to 'do what they love'. Can you honestly tell me that every single person working at Wal-Mart should quit their job, put their kids well-being on the back burner while they pursue some other career, like being a champion checker player or a country music singer? Please.
Maybe, just maybe, a better solution would be for corporations and business owners to develop a better long term strategy around making their employees happier and more content in their jobs.
Sauron was dead...except that part of him still existed within the ring...so he wasn't in full physical form where he could forge another ring.
Also, maybe those rings aren't easy to make, maybe he couldn't just have his Orc army go to Wal-Mart for ring parts. This makes sense, since Mordor was considered abandonded for a long time, so Wal-Mart probably moved out...
Also, maybe Sauron's 'Red Eye' form was good for scaring the bajeezus out of hobbits but not so good for making things out of gold and souls....
I think the point is that the big businesses are missing out on the serious viral marketing that technology now affords. See Seth Godin's website, pretty much the authority on viral marketing.
This hasn't solved anything. There are 1000's of Saddam wannabes ready to take over as soon as the U.S. pulls out, and now they really do have a reason to torrorize us.
What a joke. It pains me that we, as a nation, can be this gullible for this long.
"My point, which I think you ignored, was that it costs me nothing for someone else to benefit from my work."
You might want to rethink the wording of this statement. From most businesses perspectives, it may cost you a bundle. Just a note, not arguing with your overall point here.
If I code up a great game engine, and someone else makes $20 million using my engine, and I gave it away free, then I'm out a substantial amount of money. It's not even a question whether I am out the money or not.
"However, there are a large number of DBAs who don't understand databases. Their position of authority comes only from them holding onto the database permissions."
Oh man, does this statement hit home. I don't agree that all role fragmentation has been bad, however. The above statement may resonate truth, but it wasn't caused by role fragmentation per se. It was caused by ineffective business process and ineffective people in IT management.
Dvorak has so many I can't even imagine why he still gets paid to pundit on technology. I know I heard him declare the personal computer business DOA around 1993...
I've changed my mind over the years on this. I used to think anyone could do anything ( in terms of mental exercise), but I no longer feel this is the case.
The ability to think in the abstract is a blanket statement which can be further clarified into specific creative methods:
1. To create 3D art, you must be able to visualize a 3D model in your mind. You must be able to rotate the image, flip it, stretch it and contort it - mentally.
2. To create music, you must be able to hear the notes and chords in your mind, even if those notes and chords have never been played in the order you hear them. You have to be able to implement changes in a song standard just by closing your eyes and listening.
3. To paint or draw, you must be able to visualize how the picture will look before it's begun, down to the conveyed emotion.
4. To write a piece of program code, you must be able to visualize bits of memory in your mind as though it was a real object. If you are programming a multi-dimensional array, you must be able to flip that array around in your mind, go down a number of levels and locate where "variable x" is supposed to be. This is why so many programmers never get past pointers when learning to code. If you get pointers, it's a seemlingly easy concept, but as both Joel Splosky and several others have mentioned, even most C programmers don't understand them. Go figure.
In order to program user code, just as with creating art or music, requires the ability to think in the abstract.
Can anyone be a programmer? No. Not even close. My out-of-thin-air guesstimate is that only 10% of people who are currently employed in the world as programmers can even be considered exceptional, experienced programmers. There are only a few people who are able to even be GOOD programmers, let alone the slim percentage of those who become GREAT programmers. ESR is populated by regimented business minds who know a great deal about IT processes, but that doesn't mean they understand how AI workor or when the 'tipping point' will occur where the average consumer interacts with high end technology on a daily basis.
Ahem. Perhaps you missed the fact that Peter Jackson omitted Tolkien's references to all of the 'dark men' from the South/Harad ( i.e., Africa ) who joined forces with Sauron. I don't know what Tolkien's original intent was, but I don't think making legions of the bad guys Africans as they are described in the book is a good idea...and Jackson hasn't done that yet. So maybe jackson is attempting to stay true to the story and characters of the book without getting too attached to an exact representation of the novels.
I agree, I finally have found that Mozilla has matured to a point where I am comfortable converting non-technical family members over. I've found the Mozilla browser and the Thunderbird email as very easy for them to adapt to, and the pop-up feature and password management in Mozilla are very well recieved.
You must have gone on completely different road trips than I did...and twenty billion stand up comics...
Let's see, what would I rather see on a long boring road trip through Arkansas or Oklahoma, a DVD of Finding Nemo or...trees? Yeah, we don't have trees where I live...nice to stare at it for 16 hours...
When I was a kid I dreamed of a TV in the car on long road trips...
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I can't deal with the clumsiness and poor results of Google anymore...and now Google's everywhere.
This is a great idea, but it isn't easy for everyone to 'do what they love'. Can you honestly tell me that every single person working at Wal-Mart should quit their job, put their kids well-being on the back burner while they pursue some other career, like being a champion checker player or a country music singer? Please.
Maybe, just maybe, a better solution would be for corporations and business owners to develop a better long term strategy around making their employees happier and more content in their jobs.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but from the book...
Sauron was dead...except that part of him still existed within the ring...so he wasn't in full physical form where he could forge another ring.
Also, maybe those rings aren't easy to make, maybe he couldn't just have his Orc army go to Wal-Mart for ring parts. This makes sense, since Mordor was considered abandonded for a long time, so Wal-Mart probably moved out...
Also, maybe Sauron's 'Red Eye' form was good for scaring the bajeezus out of hobbits but not so good for making things out of gold and souls....
Maybe it's because Mac users were finally happy to have something to use their desktops for besides Photoshop...
I have to smile at that one :)
I think the point is that the big businesses are missing out on the serious viral marketing that technology now affords. See Seth Godin's website, pretty much the authority on viral marketing.
This hasn't solved anything. There are 1000's of Saddam wannabes ready to take over as soon as the U.S. pulls out, and now they really do have a reason to torrorize us.
What a joke. It pains me that we, as a nation, can be this gullible for this long.
"My point, which I think you ignored, was that it costs me nothing for someone else to benefit from my work."
You might want to rethink the wording of this statement. From most businesses perspectives, it may cost you a bundle. Just a note, not arguing with your overall point here.
If I code up a great game engine, and someone else makes $20 million using my engine, and I gave it away free, then I'm out a substantial amount of money. It's not even a question whether I am out the money or not.
"However, there are a large number of DBAs who don't understand databases. Their position of authority comes only from them holding onto the database permissions."
Oh man, does this statement hit home. I don't agree that all role fragmentation has been bad, however. The above statement may resonate truth, but it wasn't caused by role fragmentation per se. It was caused by ineffective business process and ineffective people in IT management.
Man, you are really getting in over your head. You obviously don't understand how the checksum works. Let it go, and go read up...
This post identifies the biggest problem. Too many script writers who are employed as programmers, or think they are programmers.
Dvorak has so many I can't even imagine why he still gets paid to pundit on technology. I know I heard him declare the personal computer business DOA around 1993...
I think that one may have been proven a myth.
OMG...are those punchcards? I think I could build this set with the items currently stored in my attic.
Wait...are those banks of computers just stacked old 486s facing backwards?
I've changed my mind over the years on this. I used to think anyone could do anything ( in terms of mental exercise), but I no longer feel this is the case.
The ability to think in the abstract is a blanket statement which can be further clarified into specific creative methods:
1. To create 3D art, you must be able to visualize a 3D model in your mind. You must be able to rotate the image, flip it, stretch it and contort it - mentally.
2. To create music, you must be able to hear the notes and chords in your mind, even if those notes and chords have never been played in the order you hear them. You have to be able to implement changes in a song standard just by closing your eyes and listening.
3. To paint or draw, you must be able to visualize how the picture will look before it's begun, down to the conveyed emotion.
4. To write a piece of program code, you must be able to visualize bits of memory in your mind as though it was a real object. If you are programming a multi-dimensional array, you must be able to flip that array around in your mind, go down a number of levels and locate where "variable x" is supposed to be. This is why so many programmers never get past pointers when learning to code. If you get pointers, it's a seemlingly easy concept, but as both Joel Splosky and several others have mentioned, even most C programmers don't understand them. Go figure.
In order to program user code, just as with creating art or music, requires the ability to think in the abstract.
Can anyone be a programmer? No. Not even close. My out-of-thin-air guesstimate is that only 10% of people who are currently employed in the world as programmers can even be considered exceptional, experienced programmers. There are only a few people who are able to even be GOOD programmers, let alone the slim percentage of those who become GREAT programmers. ESR is populated by regimented business minds who know a great deal about IT processes, but that doesn't mean they understand how AI workor or when the 'tipping point' will occur where the average consumer interacts with high end technology on a daily basis.
These quotes are pie-in-the-sky dreams at best.
Ahem.
Perhaps you missed the fact that Peter Jackson omitted Tolkien's references to all of the 'dark men' from the South/Harad ( i.e., Africa ) who joined forces with Sauron. I don't know what Tolkien's original intent was, but I don't think making legions of the bad guys Africans as they are described in the book is a good idea...and Jackson hasn't done that yet. So maybe jackson is attempting to stay true to the story and characters of the book without getting too attached to an exact representation of the novels.
I agree, I finally have found that Mozilla has matured to a point where I am comfortable converting non-technical family members over. I've found the Mozilla browser and the Thunderbird email as very easy for them to adapt to, and the pop-up feature and password management in Mozilla are very well recieved.
You must have gone on completely different road trips than I did...and twenty billion stand up comics...
Let's see, what would I rather see on a long boring road trip through Arkansas or Oklahoma, a DVD of Finding Nemo or...trees? Yeah, we don't have trees where I live...nice to stare at it for 16 hours...
When I was a kid I dreamed of a TV in the car on long road trips...
I don't think iTunes limits the number of times you can burn to CD.
A friend who lives in San Diego told me, "It's like living in Hell. The sky is black, and we have to wear masks to go outside."
When adware reports your surfing habits..it's spyware. Gator reports surfing habits. It is spyware by the very definition.
I develop everything for Mozilla, and I never have issues with IE, even when I'm developing ASP.NET. Not a hard problem to solve.
It would seem that HP has successfuly re-branded themselves as an actual 'cutting-edge' technology company.
At least in the eyes of the general public.
I thought it had been proven that he didn't say that?