Man, I can barely live with 2.5G of RAM. I wouldn't buy a cellphone with that little storage. I carry more that 2.5G in mp3 around all the time. No, no one should be forced to live with 2.5G. A 40G mandatory storage should be a basic human right.
On the other hand, raising monkeys in a giant centrifuge? Now we are talking. The movie will be an instant YouTube hit.
First, let me assure you this is not a troll. I have been using Mozilla as my main browser for more than a year now, both under Linux and Windows. Nowadays it is my sole browser, and I open IE only when I need to test an application or check a page design.
Venkman may well become a good debugger one day, but the version that comes with Mozilla 1.0 is a little more than a toy, a nice menu entry to have under "Web Development". It is absolutely unusable under real world situations. And the traditional lack of real documentation only adds to it uselessness.
So, calling Venkman "the best" anything is just streching reality a little too far, even for people like me who gain their living mostly developing under/for/with Free Software.
My eyes just crossed through the words without really reading. Then my brain started puzzling itself about why were people taking their macho feelings about their hardware so far as to have a company explicitly launching a "Cockless" computer.
So your idea of an advanced civilization is a bunch of inconsequent conquerors who go about launching terraforming robots towards other people planets?
My guess is that if such a civilization ever appear among a group of starfaring species, it will quickly be made extinct by its annoyed neighbours.
Nobody uses or has ever used Knuth's assembly language to develop real software.
But Knuth's reasons for making the student learn a simple assembler for a virtual processor are valid. As he explains in the introduction to the first book, it abstracts the language from the algorithms, allows him to include all features he needs to demonstrate the theory (and only those) and it also serves as an exercise for the future professional (I am developing software for 15 years, and I must have learned more than 20 different languages and used at least 10 in production enviroments).
I would advise you to buy these fundamental books and study them. You will see that the language is very simple and more than worth the trouble (because Knuth's books are still the best available source of basic information on many of his topics).
I was there too, and I am sure they were not called IT then.
I saw people buying their own Apples and bringing them to work. I saw middle managers daring the VPs in charge of the mainframe guys to come and take their small computers away, over the dead bodies of the whole department. But then again, I also saw the secretaries (there were no personal assistants then) of those same middle managers treating disks and printer paper as if they were made of gold.
Eventually the mainframe guys were gone and the IT guys started their long march to centralization again. I agree it is almost done (it would have been done already, if Microsoft and Micorsoft owned media haven't shot down the network computer idea so badly). But I don't really believe it will be able to hold the fort as the mainframe guys once held. Not because it is impossible, but because it is probably far less efficient.
While there is a case to be argued about the use of company resources for personal benefit, I believe you are failing to consider all the factors leading to the PC revolution in the workplace.
Those old, slow, overpaid and overstaffed IT departments that were shot down in the eighties died because, once computers became cheap and powerful enough, the mere mortals in accounting and marketing wouldn't have their work controlled by a bunch of nerds. I find it hard to believe these guys will be willing to give the control back to a centralized entity.
Even the supposed benefits of control won't be enough when Jane from marketing and Will from sales go over the CIO head and tell the CEO that those same nerds are again hurting the company profits with their new policies and controls. And that, by the way, the new product launch will be postponed because the nerds couldn't deliver the new server in time for the website launch.
I mean, you make it look like the size of your (or in most case, your father's) wallet isn't a important factor MTG. It certainly is. And Wizards is saying you will be able to trade your virtual deck for a real deck, so the price may well be right.
As for the tournaments, they can improve, can't they? No one of the problems you describe can't be solved by email notification or longer tournaments (1 hour a day for 8 days).
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Man, I can barely live with 2.5G of RAM. I wouldn't buy a cellphone with that little storage. I carry more that 2.5G in mp3 around all the time. No, no one should be forced to live with 2.5G. A 40G mandatory storage should be a basic human right.
On the other hand, raising monkeys in a giant centrifuge? Now we are talking. The movie will be an instant YouTube hit.
First, let me assure you this is not a troll. I have been using Mozilla as my main browser for more than a year now, both under Linux and Windows. Nowadays it is my sole browser, and I open IE only when I need to test an application or check a page design.
Venkman may well become a good debugger one day, but the version that comes with Mozilla 1.0 is a little more than a toy, a nice menu entry to have under "Web Development". It is absolutely unusable under real world situations. And the traditional lack of real documentation only adds to it uselessness.
So, calling Venkman "the best" anything is just streching reality a little too far, even for people like me who gain their living mostly developing under/for/with Free Software.
My eyes just crossed through the words without really reading. Then my brain started puzzling itself about why were people taking their macho feelings about their hardware so far as to have a company explicitly launching a "Cockless" computer.
So your idea of an advanced civilization is a bunch of inconsequent conquerors who go about launching terraforming robots towards other people planets?
My guess is that if such a civilization ever appear among a group of starfaring species, it will quickly be made extinct by its annoyed neighbours.
Nobody uses or has ever used Knuth's assembly language to develop real software.
But Knuth's reasons for making the student learn a simple assembler for a virtual processor are valid. As he explains in the introduction to the first book, it abstracts the language from the algorithms, allows him to include all features he needs to demonstrate the theory (and only those) and it also serves as an exercise for the future professional (I am developing software for 15 years, and I must have learned more than 20 different languages and used at least 10 in production enviroments).
I would advise you to buy these fundamental books and study them. You will see that the language is very simple and more than worth the trouble (because Knuth's books are still the best available source of basic information on many of his topics).
I was there too, and I am sure they were not called IT then.
I saw people buying their own Apples and bringing them to work. I saw middle managers daring the VPs in charge of the mainframe guys to come and take their small computers away, over the dead bodies of the whole department. But then again, I also saw the secretaries (there were no personal assistants then) of those same middle managers treating disks and printer paper as if they were made of gold.
Eventually the mainframe guys were gone and the IT guys started their long march to centralization again. I agree it is almost done (it would have been done already, if Microsoft and Micorsoft owned media haven't shot down the network computer idea so badly). But I don't really believe it will be able to hold the fort as the mainframe guys once held. Not because it is impossible, but because it is probably far less efficient.
While there is a case to be argued about the use of company resources for personal benefit, I believe you are failing to consider all the factors leading to the PC revolution in the workplace.
Those old, slow, overpaid and overstaffed IT departments that were shot down in the eighties died because, once computers became cheap and powerful enough, the mere mortals in accounting and marketing wouldn't have their work controlled by a bunch of nerds. I find it hard to believe these guys will be willing to give the control back to a centralized entity.
Even the supposed benefits of control won't be enough when Jane from marketing and Will from sales go over the CIO head and tell the CEO that those same nerds are again hurting the company profits with their new policies and controls. And that, by the way, the new product launch will be postponed because the nerds couldn't deliver the new server in time for the website launch.
When some of the facts leading to this case happenned Honduras was a dictatorship.
I mean, you make it look like the size of your (or in most case, your father's) wallet isn't a important factor MTG. It certainly is. And Wizards is saying you will be able to trade your virtual deck for a real deck, so the price may well be right.
As for the tournaments, they can improve, can't they? No one of the problems you describe can't be solved by email notification or longer tournaments (1 hour a day for 8 days).