Google has got to be the most "virtuous" company in the online market today. I won't be surprised if they don't grow enormously, beyond expectations, just because their attitude of "doing it right" will resonate so strongly with Internet users. I think there's a lot to be said for appealing to customer's sense of propriety rather than merely his or her pocketbook.
Quoth the parent: Basically imagine flipping programming languages and natural languages, so that you spoke in perl/c/asm/etc, and coded in english/french/german/etc.
That's silly. Programming languages exist as a formalization of the logic that we are able to develop from having learned natural languages from such a young age. You can't "teach" a child to "speak in code" because the child hasn't yet developed the abstract logical reasoning which enabled people to develop formalized computer languages in the first place.
Seriously! Does anybody remember the heydays of the 90's? Back when basically all of the internet was in "printable" mode, except cleaner and more efficient.
Speaking of which, look at Google! They seem to be the only big corporate site with any sense in them. No annoying banner ads, no bothersome images. You can perform with full functionality in a text browser. That's how the internet is supposed to be read.
Speaking of large man made objects in space, what about all of our junk from previous NASA endeavors left orbiting (or left with the hope that they would burn up eventually)? What about all of the micro-meteorites that are moving fast enough to slice a car in half?
By putting a huge array of solar-panels in space, you've just created an object with a considerably large surface-area to mass ratio. Therefore, the probability of it getting hit, damaged, or even destroyed by speeding space junk is all the larger.
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... but redhat still can't play mp3's out of the box...
Google has got to be the most "virtuous" company in the online market today. I won't be surprised if they don't grow enormously, beyond expectations, just because their attitude of "doing it right" will resonate so strongly with Internet users. I think there's a lot to be said for appealing to customer's sense of propriety rather than merely his or her pocketbook.
Quoth the parent:
Basically imagine flipping programming languages and natural languages, so that you spoke in perl/c/asm/etc, and coded in english/french/german/etc.
That's silly. Programming languages exist as a formalization of the logic that we are able to develop from having learned natural languages from such a young age. You can't "teach" a child to "speak in code" because the child hasn't yet developed the abstract logical reasoning which enabled people to develop formalized computer languages in the first place.
Seriously! Does anybody remember the heydays of the 90's? Back when basically all of the internet was in "printable" mode, except cleaner and more efficient.
Speaking of which, look at Google! They seem to be the only big corporate site with any sense in them. No annoying banner ads, no bothersome images. You can perform with full functionality in a text browser. That's how the internet is supposed to be read.
I believe "bullshit" is in response to all the nay-saying posts prior to this one.
Missles, bah! All we have to do is build them out of Gundanium! Duh!
Speaking of large man made objects in space, what about all of our junk from previous NASA endeavors left orbiting (or left with the hope that they would burn up eventually)? What about all of the micro-meteorites that are moving fast enough to slice a car in half?
By putting a huge array of solar-panels in space, you've just created an object with a considerably large surface-area to mass ratio. Therefore, the probability of it getting hit, damaged, or even destroyed by speeding space junk is all the larger.