No no no no no! What you're describing is the result of bad algorithms - bad design - not lack of low-level understanding.
In fact, good understanding of algorithms is not only independent of low-level understanding, but might be better learned without it. An argument for teaching with Java!
Does this count travelling time? I work a 40-hour week, but that doesn't include 3 hours travelling to and from work every day. Gross value: 55 hours.
And even 40 seems too many - both my previous jobs were 35, and I'm still finding 40 hard going... perhaps I'm just a wimp, but I have a life outside of work! And I refuse to be ashamed of that!
BTW, what is the difference between a job and a 'career'???
Erm, could you explain a few things to a poor Brit who doesn't get all these US cultural references please?
Who's this Natalie Portman? Some relation of The Prisoner actor Eric Portman?
What exactly are 'grits'? I suspect you're not talking about the stuff you put on the roads in cold weather?
What's all this "are belong to us"? I guess it's either a film reference, or a simultaneous outbreak of unusually bad grammar (either seems possible!).
Why are there so many Java job oppurtunities that we can't find enough qualified people to fill them?
Here in the UK, Java recently overtook C++ as the No.1 skill wanted by employers. Speaks for itself, doesn't it? And that's not just for web applets - that's for serious, enterprise-scale applications spanning both servers and clients. (I know coz I work on one myself.)
Most of the arguments against Java here - speed, cross-platform support, GUI support - are years out of date. Two years ago, back on JDK1.2, I did some number-crunching tests comparing JITted Java and optimised C, and they were comparable, with Java ahead in some cases.
Oh, and as for cross-platform support, I'm developing in Java on my Psion Series 5mx...
Opera has one huge advantage - for me - over all the others mentioned: it runs on EPOC! (That's Symbian's OS, running on my Psion Series 5mx as well as other palmtops, phones, etc.)
Not only is it fast and well-featured, but it also supports Java, using the JVM supplied with the machine.
In fact, it's so good that Psion have licensed it, to replace their own browser.
Sorry for shouting, but you guys really disappoint me. For years we've been saying that people should open-source things because (amongst many other things) open source is a way to to device/OS/app independence. When Linux was ignored by the mainstream, we all agreed, because it was the only way to get stuff working on it - but now it's partway to mainstream, all those principles seem to have gone out of the window! (Lame pun intended.)
What about users of other, non-binary-compatible OSs? (I use two myself; and although I'm unlikely to want the drivers in question, the principle still stands.)
If Linux (and compatibles) ever become the unquestioned OS Of Choice, will any of us remember our principles, or will we too be trying to lock everyone else into our favourite system?
If this lead to standard use of headsets in conjunction with cellphones, we might see... lower radiation exposure
A controversial report here in the UK claimed that hands-free kits (headsets, whatever you want to call 'em...) acted as antennas, effectively increasing the signal and piping it straight to your brain!
Why don't we all join? After all, we all care about freedom to innovate - our freedom to innovate!
We could go along to their town hall meetings and ask awkward questions about why M$ is preventing us from innovating around their OS, or why their `innovations' always end up harming consumer choice...
We could even `embrace and extend' their `grassroots' organisation by setting up a clique within it, with tighter entrance requirements and hugely-attractive side-events!
1. Reading online is uncomfortable at best, and painful at worst. It's not portable,...
I carry my Psion 5mx with me all the time. I don't carry books all the time. For me, etexts are more portable!
it's tiring on the eyes,...
A fault of some current implementations, not of the medium itself. I've read many whole books on my 5mx's screen, and like any good medium, I'm unaware of it when I get absorbed in the story.
it's not random access like a book is.
With scrollbars, percentage jumping, chapter/section marks, bookmarks, text searching... etexts are more accessible!
Sure, your set-up might not give you a better reading experience than a dead-tree edition, but many set-ups now do for many uses, and this will increase in future. You don't print out Slashdot to read it, now, do you?:)
I'm an MD fan - I've a couple of hundred of them (all recorded from my own CDs). And I'm nearly a thirtysomething:)
MP3 is a great soft format, but until there's a hard format to match - or several - I'll stick with MD. I don't have half an hour to spend every morning downloading music to an MP3 player; I need to grab some music off the shelf and go! I also couldn't fit my (huge) CD collection, as MP3s, onto my hard disk...
MD is surprisingly popular, and will keep growing. It won't replace CD or MP3, but it'll sit next to 'em. Who knows, perhaps we'll all be storing MP3 files on MD?!
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No no no no no! What you're describing is the result of bad algorithms - bad design - not lack of low-level understanding.
In fact, good understanding of algorithms is not only independent of low-level understanding, but might be better learned without it. An argument for teaching with Java!
Does this count travelling time? I work a 40-hour week, but that doesn't include 3 hours travelling to and from work every day. Gross value: 55 hours.
And even 40 seems too many - both my previous jobs were 35, and I'm still finding 40 hard going... perhaps I'm just a wimp, but I have a life outside of work! And I refuse to be ashamed of that!
BTW, what is the difference between a job and a 'career'???
- Who's this Natalie Portman? Some relation of The Prisoner actor Eric Portman?
- What exactly are 'grits'? I suspect you're not talking about the stuff you put on the roads in cold weather?
- What's all this "are belong to us"? I guess it's either a film reference, or a simultaneous outbreak of unusually bad grammar (either seems possible!).
Please note: this is no joke!Why are there so many Java job oppurtunities that we can't find enough qualified people to fill them?
Here in the UK, Java recently overtook C++ as the No.1 skill wanted by employers. Speaks for itself, doesn't it? And that's not just for web applets - that's for serious, enterprise-scale applications spanning both servers and clients. (I know coz I work on one myself.)
Most of the arguments against Java here - speed, cross-platform support, GUI support - are years out of date. Two years ago, back on JDK1.2, I did some number-crunching tests comparing JITted Java and optimised C, and they were comparable, with Java ahead in some cases.
Oh, and as for cross-platform support, I'm developing in Java on my Psion Series 5mx...
Any chance of a PDA-friendly version? Plain ASCII, TCR, PalmDoc, or similar would be most welcome.
TIA,
"ADD" - wossat?
Opera has one huge advantage - for me - over all the others mentioned: it runs on EPOC! (That's Symbian's OS, running on my Psion Series 5mx as well as other palmtops, phones, etc.)
Not only is it fast and well-featured, but it also supports Java, using the JVM supplied with the machine.
In fact, it's so good that Psion have licensed it, to replace their own browser.
Just thought I'd mention it...
And they say that films don't predict the future...
What about users of other, non-binary-compatible OSs? (I use two myself; and although I'm unlikely to want the drivers in question, the principle still stands.)
If Linux (and compatibles) ever become the unquestioned OS Of Choice, will any of us remember our principles, or will we too be trying to lock everyone else into our favourite system?
A controversial report here in the UK claimed that hands-free kits (headsets, whatever you want to call 'em...) acted as antennas, effectively increasing the signal and piping it straight to your brain!
We could go along to their town hall meetings and ask awkward questions about why M$ is preventing us from innovating around their OS, or why their `innovations' always end up harming consumer choice...
We could even `embrace and extend' their `grassroots' organisation by setting up a clique within it, with tighter entrance requirements and hugely-attractive side-events!
I carry my Psion 5mx with me all the time. I don't carry books all the time. For me, etexts are more portable!
A fault of some current implementations, not of the medium itself. I've read many whole books on my 5mx's screen, and like any good medium, I'm unaware of it when I get absorbed in the story.
With scrollbars, percentage jumping, chapter/section marks, bookmarks, text searching... etexts are more accessible!
Sure, your set-up might not give you a better reading experience than a dead-tree edition, but many set-ups now do for many uses, and this will increase in future. You don't print out Slashdot to read it, now, do you? :)
I'm an MD fan - I've a couple of hundred of them (all recorded from my own CDs). And I'm nearly a thirtysomething :)
MP3 is a great soft format, but until there's a hard format to match - or several - I'll stick with MD. I don't have half an hour to spend every morning downloading music to an MP3 player; I need to grab some music off the shelf and go! I also couldn't fit my (huge) CD collection, as MP3s, onto my hard disk...
MD is surprisingly popular, and will keep growing. It won't replace CD or MP3, but it'll sit next to 'em. Who knows, perhaps we'll all be storing MP3 files on MD?!
MSIE is now no more than a GUI wrapper to a set of objects for talking HTTP, displaying HTML, etc.
This raises an interesting issue: when software is a co-operating network of objects, where does one 'application' end and another begin?
It's 9/10/1999.
:-p
Remember, that's the 9th of October in the UK, not the 10th of September.
> Folks moderate newsgroups, release code,
> anything, just to make a name for themselves
Not even that - sometimes merely to ensure that something gets done, or gets done well. There really is true altruism, as well as recognition-seeking.