This rather doofy rationale has been expounded before. The counterargument, of course, is that if kids tinker with locks it's one thing... when they tinker with the locks on other peoples' buildings and go walking around inside, it's another entirely.
Yes. That is why I said "kids". They are not adults or grown ups and do not fully understand the implications of their actions. Most are teens that are under tremendous peer pressure. They have much more to contribute to society and their own lives rather than living on with guilt and frustrations.
Next time please resist this urge to score points and if you find my rationale doofy and beleive kids should be put in prison well that says a lot about you.
The funny thing is that the expression of this "disorder" can be fingered early in life. One can watch for the early warning signs. Children that take apart watches or have a penchant for building elaborate structures from blocks may just be engineers in their pupae stage. By all accounts, Babbage definitely was afflicted by the time of his boyhood. His tinkering with things, his dismantling of gadgets, and his inquisitiveness as to how things worked are all sure signs. While the draw of engineering can be sublimated if caught early and treated with care,
Maybe, ti just might be that the hackers and crackers are just not "evil" as they are made out. Instead of opening watches and playing with blocks they toy around with computers. I say this because recently there was news about a kid being prisoned and I cannot help but wonder at the wastedpotential.
Hardware is the excuse for bloatware, its not H/W engineers fault but it isn't an excuse to use....
No. Good hardware is never an "excuse" for writing bloatware. Most times you refer to programs as bloatware, it's not the programmers who intentionally write "bad code" but the development enviorment and it's assosciated overheads that cause bloatware. Besides, most bloatwares have lots of features that you may not need, but others do.
All said and done, I don't think we are doing too badly as far as bloat is concerned...and any bloat that exists is more a reflection on programming methodologies being used and their limitation as we scale.
Not to rain on anyone's parade...
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but does it really talk back or just plays a chime (human voice, pre-recorded) when certain system conditions are triggered off. Let's not get too excited;-) though "talking computers" are going to be the next big thing in user interface...hrm...two years ago we heard a lot about MSFT doing work on voice regonition and such....what's happening on that front?
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Ugh! I couldn't read the other comments in the thread. sorry.
Yes. That is why I said "kids". They are not adults or grown ups and do not fully understand the implications of their actions. Most are teens that are under tremendous peer pressure. They have much more to contribute to society and their own lives rather than living on with guilt and frustrations.
Next time please resist this urge to score points and if you find my rationale doofy and beleive kids should be put in prison well that says a lot about you.
The funny thing is that the expression of this "disorder" can be fingered early in life. One can watch for the early warning signs. Children that take apart watches or have a penchant for building elaborate structures from blocks may just be engineers in their pupae stage. By all accounts, Babbage definitely was afflicted by the time of his boyhood. His tinkering with things, his dismantling of gadgets, and his inquisitiveness as to how things worked are all sure signs. While the draw of engineering can be sublimated if caught early and treated with care,
Maybe, ti just might be that the hackers and crackers are just not "evil" as they are made out. Instead of opening watches and playing with blocks they toy around with computers. I say this because recently there was news about a kid being prisoned and I cannot help but wonder at the wasted potential.
Anyway, here is a rather illuminating article on "bloatware". Cheers.
No. Good hardware is never an "excuse" for writing bloatware. Most times you refer to programs as bloatware, it's not the programmers who intentionally write "bad code" but the development enviorment and it's assosciated overheads that cause bloatware. Besides, most bloatwares have lots of features that you may not need, but others do.
All said and done, I don't think we are doing too badly as far as bloat is concerned...and any bloat that exists is more a reflection on programming methodologies being used and their limitation as we scale.
but does it really talk back or just plays a chime (human voice, pre-recorded) when certain system conditions are triggered off. Let's not get too excited ;-) though "talking computers" are going to be the next big thing in user interface...hrm...two years ago we heard a lot about MSFT doing work on voice regonition and such....what's happening on that front?