My smart phone came with PhotoBucket turned on. I do store pictures on my Terrabyte NAS, just to have a local backup, but when I share, it's the Photobucket or some other cloud storage solution.
With Islam it is even worse. One of the few theological dogmas *all of Islam* agrees to is the concept that *Allah is not rational and cannot be held to human reason as a standard* (it is one of the *big* differences between Catholicism, which was the only form of Christianity at the time Mohammed was walking the Earth, and the heresy of Islam, which can be rightly thought of as The First Schism that Lasted)
As such, you can't even be sure Allah is saying the same thing to the guy praying next to you in the mosque, or what he told you a minute ago is still valid a minute from now.
There is a reason the Turks killed all the Scientists.
More like 2/5ths (Jesus the Man, Jesus the God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and of course, don't forget the Mother of God, though strictly speaking, St. Mary is only honored, not deified).
I agree- this ain't a production worth killing or dying over. And despite people willing to kill over it, it isn't something that is going to make a true believer convert (or even something an anti-believer would use as rational evidence against the Prophet). It is an absolute failure.
My grandfather was a brilliant auto mechanic. Owned his own shop. Went from the "repair my F-Head army jeep that I got for $25 surplus" era clear up to the late 1980s when OBD-I appeared (and it always amazed me the size of the computer he used, even back then, to read OBD codes- it was so large that he installed it on an overhead track that could be pushed between the four bays in his shop- a mini-computer when that classification still meant something, with 12 different cables hanging off of it).
He readily admitted that it took something special to be at his level of his profession- it took constant learning, and bi-yearly recertification to keep the business he did have, even after 30 years in a small community where he was well known. It was a poorer community, and I've never known a man to own so many cars that got left behind in lieu of bill payment.
After 16 years in the industry, here's how I break it down:
If you are smart enough to balance a checkbook, you can learn Boolean Algebra, and that's all it really takes to be a programmer these days. With modern tools, you don't even have to read (or if half the apps in the android app store are any indication, spell; as one bilingual ESL programmer told me once, as long as the machine knows what you mean and you know what you mean, it doesn't matter if your variable or procedure names are spelled correctly).
BUT- and here's the big but and the reason I earn $40/hr right now- writing maintainable code is HARD. Architecting a 5 tier multi-server multi-mode piece of software for 10,000 users across 6 states with multiple operating systems is easier than it used to be, but it still isn't for the average code monkey. And if it has had 5 architects and 30 programmers over the past 11 years, it's a bloody mess of object orientation, spaghetti code, procedural, stupid custom control tricks, and byzantine patches. And it isn't even 5 tier in some places anymore.
Especially if the management does not want to invest in enough people to replace it with a modern web GUI and it's coded in a language/compiler that even Microsoft EOL'd in 2003.
But yeah, given enough training, say, 13 years of working in the language that even Microsoft won't touch with a 10 foot pole, anybody could do it.
My son's Kyros is a particularly cheap tablet you can't install Google Play on. It's made by Coby. It comes with it's own app store called "GetJar" and I also was able to put FDroid on it, with varying results for ability to run apps.
In addition to that, there's a HUGE difference between a CS degree and a SE degree; let alone an MIS degree (at my school, Management of Information Services was what you went into if you couldn't handle the math for the SE degree- us SE students loved the MIS students, they interviewed for the same jobs we did and made us look good). Theory vs practice. A BS CS degree is going to know the theory, but is going to need on the job training. A good BSSE degree is going to hit the ground running with an ability to think.
Actually, if it was rising in a smooth curve, we should have hit 7 billion a decade earlier than we did.
World population is the culmination of individual decisions made by human beings between 80 years and 9 months ago. Birth rates began *falling* in the late 1960s, and downright crashing after the beginning of the millennium. We may well be back down to 2 billion by 2100.
The parent needs a mod up. I wanted my special needs 9-year old to learn programming the way I did, only to find that kind of programming is so obsolete that very few professionals do it anymore. Plus, he doesn't even have the reading or math ability I did, so it'd just be a waste of time.
I substituted a cheap (under $100) Android Pad and a even cheaper ($10) USB Keyboard Case for it (that didn't fit- his pad is a 4:3 and the case is for the same diagonal screen size in a 16:9 ratio) Still, he loves his "laptop" even if the main thing he does with it is to access old Tick episodes on my home media hard drive.
If you're depending on a condom, you have a 3% chance in any given sexual encounter of it breaking and you getting all the diseases of your sexual partner. Condoms simply don't work for protecting against AIDS.
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My smart phone came with PhotoBucket turned on. I do store pictures on my Terrabyte NAS, just to have a local backup, but when I share, it's the Photobucket or some other cloud storage solution.
With Islam it is even worse. One of the few theological dogmas *all of Islam* agrees to is the concept that *Allah is not rational and cannot be held to human reason as a standard* (it is one of the *big* differences between Catholicism, which was the only form of Christianity at the time Mohammed was walking the Earth, and the heresy of Islam, which can be rightly thought of as The First Schism that Lasted)
As such, you can't even be sure Allah is saying the same thing to the guy praying next to you in the mosque, or what he told you a minute ago is still valid a minute from now.
There is a reason the Turks killed all the Scientists.
More like 2/5ths (Jesus the Man, Jesus the God, God the Father, God the Holy Spirit, and of course, don't forget the Mother of God, though strictly speaking, St. Mary is only honored, not deified).
Catholicism. Universal Good is the meaning of the word. Why get rid of something good merely because it came from a different tradition?
And then failed to use it, though your "reasoning" in this post is quite correct.
By failed to use it, I mean you allowed reason to destroy faith instead of using reason to *create* faith.
Yep. Catholicism. Somewhat rare, with 1.1 billion followers, more than 1/6th the population of the Planet Earth.
And 100% man, making a being who is 200%- and part of a godhead that adds up to a being that is 500%.
Nobody said that Christian theology could be judged by math.
And you missed the original brilliant point.
Why? No seriously, why would anybody get more worked up over this garbage than Christians got worked up over the crucifix in a bottle of urine?
I agree- this ain't a production worth killing or dying over. And despite people willing to kill over it, it isn't something that is going to make a true believer convert (or even something an anti-believer would use as rational evidence against the Prophet). It is an absolute failure.
Great, first post but only because I noticed a hole in the latest revision of the system.
And I'm not sure it's a hole. Would it have still allowed me to post without the post anonymously box?
And the actual question still stands- is the memory/storage paradigm just traditional at this point, or is it still useful?
My grandfather was a brilliant auto mechanic. Owned his own shop. Went from the "repair my F-Head army jeep that I got for $25 surplus" era clear up to the late 1980s when OBD-I appeared (and it always amazed me the size of the computer he used, even back then, to read OBD codes- it was so large that he installed it on an overhead track that could be pushed between the four bays in his shop- a mini-computer when that classification still meant something, with 12 different cables hanging off of it).
He readily admitted that it took something special to be at his level of his profession- it took constant learning, and bi-yearly recertification to keep the business he did have, even after 30 years in a small community where he was well known. It was a poorer community, and I've never known a man to own so many cars that got left behind in lieu of bill payment.
After 16 years in the industry, here's how I break it down:
If you are smart enough to balance a checkbook, you can learn Boolean Algebra, and that's all it really takes to be a programmer these days. With modern tools, you don't even have to read (or if half the apps in the android app store are any indication, spell; as one bilingual ESL programmer told me once, as long as the machine knows what you mean and you know what you mean, it doesn't matter if your variable or procedure names are spelled correctly).
BUT- and here's the big but and the reason I earn $40/hr right now- writing maintainable code is HARD. Architecting a 5 tier multi-server multi-mode piece of software for 10,000 users across 6 states with multiple operating systems is easier than it used to be, but it still isn't for the average code monkey. And if it has had 5 architects and 30 programmers over the past 11 years, it's a bloody mess of object orientation, spaghetti code, procedural, stupid custom control tricks, and byzantine patches. And it isn't even 5 tier in some places anymore.
Especially if the management does not want to invest in enough people to replace it with a modern web GUI and it's coded in a language/compiler that even Microsoft EOL'd in 2003.
But yeah, given enough training, say, 13 years of working in the language that even Microsoft won't touch with a 10 foot pole, anybody could do it.
Yep, and the obvious solution to it is a paintball gun
My son's Kyros is a particularly cheap tablet you can't install Google Play on. It's made by Coby. It comes with it's own app store called "GetJar" and I also was able to put FDroid on it, with varying results for ability to run apps.
In addition to that, there's a HUGE difference between a CS degree and a SE degree; let alone an MIS degree (at my school, Management of Information Services was what you went into if you couldn't handle the math for the SE degree- us SE students loved the MIS students, they interviewed for the same jobs we did and made us look good). Theory vs practice. A BS CS degree is going to know the theory, but is going to need on the job training. A good BSSE degree is going to hit the ground running with an ability to think.
And the other half will be Catholics. Everybody else will have contracepted and aborted themselves out of the genetic pool.
Actually, if it was rising in a smooth curve, we should have hit 7 billion a decade earlier than we did.
World population is the culmination of individual decisions made by human beings between 80 years and 9 months ago. Birth rates began *falling* in the late 1960s, and downright crashing after the beginning of the millennium. We may well be back down to 2 billion by 2100.
I think you're full of Shaving Cream
The parent needs a mod up. I wanted my special needs 9-year old to learn programming the way I did, only to find that kind of programming is so obsolete that very few professionals do it anymore. Plus, he doesn't even have the reading or math ability I did, so it'd just be a waste of time.
I substituted a cheap (under $100) Android Pad and a even cheaper ($10) USB Keyboard Case for it (that didn't fit- his pad is a 4:3 and the case is for the same diagonal screen size in a 16:9 ratio) Still, he loves his "laptop" even if the main thing he does with it is to access old Tick episodes on my home media hard drive.
Doesn't matter. Both were revolutionaries, or in modern terms, terrorists. There is little difference between the two.
And I would argue that NEITHER understood the real reasons behind the laws they were protesting.
". In fact, people with such jobs should be actively encouraged to do so."
Is that so you can keep them as slaves?
Wish I had mod points today- this is the most insightful post in the whole discussion.
And exactly my attitude. Laws exist for a reason people. Only IDIOTS who don't understand the reason, break the law.
In recent years that's changed- but then he's doing it wrong because he used DateDiff.
When minimum wage goes up 1% in an economy that is inflating at 2%, that is not a raise.
If you're depending on a condom, you have a 3% chance in any given sexual encounter of it breaking and you getting all the diseases of your sexual partner. Condoms simply don't work for protecting against AIDS.