Most don't care to understand technology, they are only interested in consuming it. If all were lost tomorrow, how long would it take for us (humanity) to return to this (our current) level of technology? 2000 years?...more?
Well you see, that all depends. I'm betting that a big guy with a purple mohawk, driving around in a dune buggy converted for post-apocalyptic, highway combat will make some geeky engineer type his bitch.
That will last until Mel Gibson (who would have been a police officer at the time), comes along and rescues him, along with a whole village of militant cave children and Tina Turner. From there, we will be able to rebuild a seriously hot retro 80's world WITH all the gadgets.
So no, not 2000 years. Idiot.
I think a more compelling question would be: Is all this technology making us more productive? Or does it simply facilitate our slacking off with more diversions?
I suppose it's a more compelling question if you define yourself by how much of an angle you can get when bending over for the man.
Where's my OpenOutlook clone thingy? Don't the perfectly enlightened open source types need e-mail in the office, too? You're a strange asshat, Charlie Brown!
Most people that malign Perl simply are not able to understand it's power - not the expressiveness of it's syntax (which takes no time to master), but the expressiveness of the language itself.
Most people that malign English simply are not able to understand its power - not the expressiveness of its syntax (which takes no time to master), but the expressiveness of the language itself.
Oh come on. It's funny.
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Being faster than Java isn't really something that people should have to bring up when they're talking about the virtues of their chosen programming language/platform, since just about everything is faster than Java. My grandmother has a tattoo on her ass that says "Faster than Java," but then again, she was in the adult entertainment industry. I think the guy from Wikipedia did some filming on her sets...
It's a better platform for the game development company because more people use it, so they can sell more copies of the game. Tell us how choosing the biggest potential segment and concentrating on developing the best possible game for that segment, bypassing the added cost of cross-platform, is a "problem" for the company developing the product?
Huh? DHTML isn't a mark-up language. It's a description slapped on to using Javascript to make standard HTML pages more dynamic.. CSS is used in conjunction with standard HTML as well. And Ajax is nothing but XML/JavaScript/CSS working together to output... HTM-f'ing-L.
Throw out some more acronyms. You're hilarious.
Alrighty, come out with a framework that has development tools that are as good as Visual Studio.NET 2003 (we're not talking about 2005 -- the jury's still out on that and they will be for some time, something about a glove fitting), and we'll talk about making software that runs on any OS.
[sarcasm]No, no. You're right. Eclipse roxx0rz!!11![/sarcasm]
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Where's my OpenOutlook clone thingy? Don't the perfectly enlightened open source types need e-mail in the office, too? You're a strange asshat, Charlie Brown!
Oh come on. It's funny.
Being faster than Java isn't really something that people should have to bring up when they're talking about the virtues of their chosen programming language/platform, since just about everything is faster than Java. My grandmother has a tattoo on her ass that says "Faster than Java," but then again, she was in the adult entertainment industry. I think the guy from Wikipedia did some filming on her sets...
I've never seen so much quoting of a Disney screenplay. What a nice representation of the lowest common denominator we have here.
It's a better platform for the game development company because more people use it, so they can sell more copies of the game. Tell us how choosing the biggest potential segment and concentrating on developing the best possible game for that segment, bypassing the added cost of cross-platform, is a "problem" for the company developing the product?
It's a pile of steaming, golden crap.
Yeah. Because methodologies are language dependant. Heavy sarcasm, by the way.
I'll take two of those!
Grampa? Is that you?
Huh? DHTML isn't a mark-up language. It's a description slapped on to using Javascript to make standard HTML pages more dynamic.. CSS is used in conjunction with standard HTML as well. And Ajax is nothing but XML/JavaScript/CSS working together to output... HTM-f'ing-L. Throw out some more acronyms. You're hilarious.
I thought *only* 14 year-olds used PHP. :D
A programmer, working on an open source code base, adds tabs to a UI and it's news? lol!
Alrighty, come out with a framework that has development tools that are as good as Visual Studio .NET 2003 (we're not talking about 2005 -- the jury's still out on that and they will be for some time, something about a glove fitting), and we'll talk about making software that runs on any OS.
[sarcasm]No, no. You're right. Eclipse roxx0rz!!11![/sarcasm]
Tell us more about this geeky utopia.
Not with a bang, to be sure.
Gosh I hope so! I've been dying to play MOHAA and... Oh... shit, guess I'm stuck with that penguin racer thing. GO LINUX!