oh and one other thing, american companies have ridiculous standards as far as hiring americans, but indians arent typically held to those standards. (ie we just hired to japanese speaking techs where i work, they were required to have 2 years in a production unix/linux enviroment and 5 years networking experience. the indians that do the same job on the night shift ? no experience. but they do have MCSE's... which means dick to us since we dont touch microsoft products.) so perhaps it is the american companies who set the standards to high ?...... and if it is why the hell should the middle class americans suffer ?
Interesting comment. So, if we assume that those standards were set because of a reason, ie. making sure that a certain quality of service is reached, then that would mean that if those standards are not reached, that the required quality of service will also not be reached.
Since SCO/Caldera was ordered to spread FUD in Germany, I wonder if SCO would be so successful outside the US.
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AFAIK the beetle is designed in the US and since this is totally US-specific I guess no German engineers were involved whatsoever.
I mean, if they were, then they propably wouldn't have use the casette-adaptor anyway.
(Especially since noone uses cassettes in Europe anymore. Boo hiss, old, ancient!)
Yeah well, depends on the age of the kid you're talking about.
The greatest thing about the old C=64 was that you could just type in print " hello world" en it did that. VB has too much baggage. Too much to explain up front, not enough room for experimenting.
You really can easily make simple pograms with it, but explaining a Controller object might be a bit too much.
It's a bit too much for experimenting on your own as a kid, I think.
Well no, actually VB is more difficult than just simple plain Basic.
Basic in the 80s was simple procedural. The only things that happened were the things you programmed. Ideal for experimenting.
Visual Basic does already a lot for you. Most of the programming in VB degenerates into setting of properties. No real programming.
The programming you *can* do is hidden behind buttons, and to change another control you suddenly need to learn a lot more. (ie. Button1.text = " blabla" )
Still doable, but just writing Print "blablabla" is more insightful.
I'd download Java for them. It's free (as in beer), you can get it for most platforms (standard on a Mac), it might be a bit complicated, but it's got big standard libraries.
Even more, with Java2D you can draw! My first programs were all simple demo's, so I see that as a big plus.
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Interesting comment. So, if we assume that those standards were set because of a reason, ie. making sure that a certain quality of service is reached, then that would mean that if those standards are not reached, that the required quality of service will also not be reached.
Since SCO/Caldera was ordered to spread FUD in Germany, I wonder if SCO would be so successful outside the US.
AFAIK the beetle is designed in the US and since this is totally US-specific I guess no German engineers were involved whatsoever. I mean, if they were, then they propably wouldn't have use the casette-adaptor anyway. (Especially since noone uses cassettes in Europe anymore. Boo hiss, old, ancient!)
Single CPU vs Dual CPU?
Yeah yeah, I call it 'cynical' in this case. Using the word 'fast' and 'affordable' to describe Apple products. Pfah!
Integrated into 2.2.5 kernel by Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.com)
Heh. Maybe that explains some similarities in code? SCO put the allegedly 'offending' code in there themselves!
Yeah well, depends on the age of the kid you're talking about. The greatest thing about the old C=64 was that you could just type in print " hello world" en it did that. VB has too much baggage. Too much to explain up front, not enough room for experimenting.
Yeah yeah, all gates kids know nowadays is Bill Gates. 8-)
You really can easily make simple pograms with it, but explaining a Controller object might be a bit too much. It's a bit too much for experimenting on your own as a kid, I think.
Well no, actually VB is more difficult than just simple plain Basic. Basic in the 80s was simple procedural. The only things that happened were the things you programmed. Ideal for experimenting. Visual Basic does already a lot for you. Most of the programming in VB degenerates into setting of properties. No real programming. The programming you *can* do is hidden behind buttons, and to change another control you suddenly need to learn a lot more. (ie. Button1.text = " blabla" ) Still doable, but just writing Print "blablabla" is more insightful.
I'd download Java for them. It's free (as in beer), you can get it for most platforms (standard on a Mac), it might be a bit complicated, but it's got big standard libraries. Even more, with Java2D you can draw! My first programs were all simple demo's, so I see that as a big plus.