Sure. And when all these companies end up under one corporate umbrella, you'll say the same thing, right?
What will you say if one day the only access you can get is censored access, because the cable and telephone monopolies have joined forces and are operating in cooperation with media conglomerates (who may even own them) out to 'protect their intellectual property'?
Remember, these companies don't have to obey the constitution. They know no bill of rights.
Oh, definitely, i agree. i'm not suggesting everybody start off in assembly or something like that. I mean "lower" (like C) level than the programming languages discussed (like VB or JS).
You can get a taste of the lower and higher levels with more need for well structured code practices than you find in higher level languages.
...to start with, or at least be competent with, the basics.
Any good programmer I've ever known started with the lower level stuff and was successful for this reason. Or at least plowed hard into the lower level stuff and learned it well when the time came, but the first scenario is preferable.
Throwing dreamweaver in some HTML kiddie's lap, as much as I love dreamweaver, is not going to get you a reliable Internet DB app.
...from what I read in the article, it seems that philips paid this guy because both of their standards were about the same, and performed the same, and they all agreed, so he accepted the payment so that MIT's work wasn't all for naught.
Which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I mean, why have competing standards and go through all the expense of that when they're nearly the same, and one side is willing to be bought out and move on?
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Sure. And when all these companies end up under one corporate umbrella, you'll say the same thing, right?
What will you say if one day the only access you can get is censored access, because the cable and telephone monopolies have joined forces and are operating in cooperation with media conglomerates (who may even own them) out to 'protect their intellectual property'?
Remember, these companies don't have to obey the constitution. They know no bill of rights.
Oh, definitely, i agree. i'm not suggesting everybody start off in assembly or something like that. I mean "lower" (like C) level than the programming languages discussed (like VB or JS).
You can get a taste of the lower and higher levels with more need for well structured code practices than you find in higher level languages.
...to start with, or at least be competent with, the basics.
Any good programmer I've ever known started with the lower level stuff and was successful for this reason. Or at least plowed hard into the lower level stuff and learned it well when the time came, but the first scenario is preferable.
Throwing dreamweaver in some HTML kiddie's lap, as much as I love dreamweaver, is not going to get you a reliable Internet DB app.
...another drag on the Internet economy.
How about this, fund me some high speed access, then maybe I'll pay an Internet tax.
or maybe even surreptitiously, depending on how long you've been staring at your monitor...
...that tries to convince you it's "for the children."
It seems to be a convenient way to suppretitiously legislate morality-based attacks on personal liberty.
...does it make the computer a better *computer*?
If it doesn't, i'm afraid i'm not that interested.
>Cancer doesn't cause hair loss... chemotherapy does. Just for your information ;)
Heh, I knew that.
>Anyway.. my point is, that in every bad thing there's something good.. even in death.
Maybe if you're the entire population of the world, and the death isn't happening to all of you.
But i can't think of one good thing about my own death.
Well, i think the analogy sticks in that the article is leveraging on the idea of global warming, which is considered by most to be a bad thing.
Any malady could likely make a good analogy.
I'm not saying that global warming is going to destroy the planet, blah blah blah. Still, the polar ice caps melting. How could this be a good thing?
Yeah! And one good thing about having cancer is that you don't have to worry about haircuts anymore!
Jesus, what are these people thinking?
...from what I read in the article, it seems that philips paid this guy because both of their standards were about the same, and performed the same, and they all agreed, so he accepted the payment so that MIT's work wasn't all for naught.
Which sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I mean, why have competing standards and go through all the expense of that when they're nearly the same, and one side is willing to be bought out and move on?
...altavista was the only good search engine. Then everybody decided to make their search engine a "portal." Except Google... hmmm... :)
vk.
...I can't think of a single good reason to buy one of these.
It's too small to do video work, which is where I would need the IO.
Much smaller, and you can just do it with a regular RAM drive, for much cheaper.
Besides, that external power supply scares me...
vk.