Technology doesn't destroy jobs. It displaces them. The result is cheaper products for consumers, alternative jobs elsewhere, and a better standard of living all round.
A little bit too much of a rosy scenario - some techs create more jobs than they destroy, some don't.
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By the last set of figures I saw, the US currently ranks #1 in number of hours worked in the industrialized world, but only #3 in per person productivity. (The average US worker produces a contribution to the GNP of about 30 $ US per hour, while Great Britain was 50 cents (again US) or so higher, and the reunified Germany had assimilated the east German economy and was back up to about 33 $ US per worker hour.
Actually - It's Gernmany, France, and the US (out of the G7) within a couple percent (nowhere near 10%), with the UK about 20% behind.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible neurological disease of deer and elk that produces small lesions in brains of infected animals. It is characterized by loss of body condition, behavioral abnormalities and death. CWD is classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), and is similar to mad cow disease in cattle and scrapie in sheep.
Now try make people "understand" e.g. complex numbers and operations.
Well - just draw them a picture and show how complex numbers can be considered to be an absolute value in combination with a rotation, so that they multiply by multiplying absolute values and adding rotations, and then show them how this can simplify trigonometry, and finally dazzle them with
For example if you are looking for the gene that causes chimps to grow coarse hair on their bodies you can eliminate all parts of the sequence that are identical to humans.
Actually, it's quite possible that we have the gene that causes chimps to grow coarse hair on their bodies, but that we have another gene that represses the expression of coarse hair (or perhaps that we don't have the gene which turns on the expression of coarse hair).
For other institutions considering implementing their own "opencourseware" there are several open-source CMS options. At this point, MIT OCW is monitoring six: Zope, Red Hat, Midgard, OpenACS, OpenCMS, and Bricolage. By 2004, most experts agree that one CMS provider will become the clear, open-source leader in this industry sector. MIT OCW will track the progress of key open-source CMS providers during this accelerated maturation. This will contribute to MIT being able to share its experience and understanding of these CMS options with other institutions. The hope is that utilization of open-source model CMS products could lead to less expensive implementations of opencoursewares on other campuses.
In other words, they picked MS because it was the quickest way to go - for now. They haven't given up on open-source.
I once wrote a bootable program which fit on a single punched card, and I didn't use either hex or assembly language. [the machine was the now probably 35 years obsolete IBM 1401, although it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there is a mainframe out there running an emulator].
It's amazing how many contributor's to this discussion don't seem to realize that the USA's current dominance in the computer/semiconductor/IT industry is to a very large extent the result of government action. Without the federal government's funding and forcing the development of the technology, computer hardware and software would be much less well developed than they are, and the EU would probably host much more of the industry.
Mayson (who wrote his first programs back in '63 on a NASA computer (well, actually I wrote them on a coding pad, but they ran on the 7094)).
My life has taught me a complementary truth: if you don't have the goodwill of others, you're totally screwed.
If you rely on the goodwill of others, and demonstrate goodwill to them, your life will get better.
As a previous poster noted, this post ignores the other side of the economic equation.
It also ignores the production side of the equation.
Open Source software means that there is a lot of good, well-written, software out there for all of us progtrammers to learn from, steal techniques from, critique (on a source code level, rather than the flame-ranting of the OS wars).
In fact, the only problem with Open Source software is that Microsoft can't make money from it.
When you find more than one or two of these redundancies (or other errors) per screen of code, the way to fix these and other problems is to throw the bit-rotten code away and rewrite it from scratch (or from specifications).
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Think about it though - I could destroy the planet, erase every life here and every achievement that humanity has ever made
Nor is incorrect spelling an indicator of lack of knowledge.
PS. Damn it is so spelled, damn you.
PPS - I'm probably a better speller than you are - does that make me any righter?
A little bit too much of a rosy scenario - some techs create more jobs than they destroy, some don't.
Its replacement: the exact reverse.
Check out this guy's posts. 'nuff said
Actually - It's Gernmany, France, and the US (out of the G7) within a couple percent (nowhere near 10%), with the UK about 20% behind.
Or at least, so the British government says.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a transmissible neurological disease of deer and elk that produces small lesions in brains of infected animals. It is characterized by loss of body condition, behavioral abnormalities and death. CWD is classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), and is similar to mad cow disease in cattle and scrapie in sheep.
Why anyone would expect a company founded by a Microsoft alumnus to care about the quality and useability of the software they sell puzzles me.
Didn't Concorde shut down recently?
Name me a culture where there isn't/wasn't an incest taboo?
Did you ever read your own sig?
Well - just draw them a picture and show how complex numbers can be considered to be an absolute value in combination with a rotation, so that they multiply by multiplying absolute values and adding rotations, and then show them how this can simplify trigonometry, and finally dazzle them with
Actually, it's quite possible that we have the gene that causes chimps to grow coarse hair on their bodies, but that we have another gene that represses the expression of coarse hair (or perhaps that we don't have the gene which turns on the expression of coarse hair).
Your typing sucks.
Your grasp of English is shaky.
And none of that matters.
Your website looks interesting, and you seem to be doing things - even if some of the things you're doing are mistakes, you'll learn from them.
Keep it up!
For other institutions considering implementing their own "opencourseware" there are several open-source CMS options. At this point, MIT OCW is monitoring six: Zope, Red Hat, Midgard, OpenACS, OpenCMS, and Bricolage. By 2004, most experts agree that one CMS provider will become the clear, open-source leader in this industry sector. MIT OCW will track the progress of key open-source CMS providers during this accelerated maturation. This will contribute to MIT being able to share its experience and understanding of these CMS options with other institutions. The hope is that utilization of open-source model CMS products could lead to less expensive implementations of opencoursewares on other campuses.
In other words, they picked MS because it was the quickest way to go - for now. They haven't given up on open-source.Until the river runs dry, or there are no more fish left.
But teach a man to learn how to fish...(and to learn how to learn)...
Ditto re your post...
Good writers borrow. Great writers steal.
The opposite of a truth is a falsehood. The opposite of a proound truth is another profound truth.
Just remember - the unlived life is not worth examining (or blogging).
I once wrote a bootable program which fit on a single punched card, and I didn't use either hex or assembly language. [the machine was the now probably 35 years obsolete IBM 1401, although it wouldn't surprise me to find out that there is a mainframe out there running an emulator].
I just made about 34% in about 4 hours betting on Viagra futures. I can see how day-traders can get hooked.
Mayson (who wrote his first programs back in '63 on a NASA computer (well, actually I wrote them on a coding pad, but they ran on the 7094)).
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My life has taught me a complementary truth: if you don't have the goodwill of others, you're totally screwed.
If you rely on the goodwill of others, and demonstrate goodwill to them, your life will get better.
As a previous poster noted, this post ignores the other side of the economic equation. It also ignores the production side of the equation. Open Source software means that there is a lot of good, well-written, software out there for all of us progtrammers to learn from, steal techniques from, critique (on a source code level, rather than the flame-ranting of the OS wars). In fact, the only problem with Open Source software is that Microsoft can't make money from it.
When you find more than one or two of these redundancies (or other errors) per screen of code, the way to fix these and other problems is to throw the bit-rotten code away and rewrite it from scratch (or from specifications).