From personal experience, I've worked with some programmers from India, specifically Chennai. There was no problem with verbal language per se. We could always communicate in English although their mother tongue was Bengali and mine Malay (not to be confused with Malayalam).
The difficult part adjusting to was firstly, gestures, and secondly intonation. More specifically those programmers that I had to deal with used to shake their heads in agreement and their questions sometimes sounded like statements to me (or vice versa). Apart from that there were no major issues with language. In the end I also found it fun getting to know each other's culture, language etc. (Bengali and Malay although geographically distant language seem to be related in that both are at least partially derived from Sanskrit.)
This is the best evidence yet against those who accuse Open Source people as being communists. As is known, we Open Source people are very much into porn.
With gentoo, your system no longer runs slow because it is unoptimized. It now runs slow because you're always busy compiling something to make it more optimized.
Yes, the T-Rex and its family were in fact overgrown carnivorous chickens. The only reason the chickens you see today dont eat us is because they are smaller than us.
... that someone took advantage of the previous RPC bugs on Windows. At least now Microsoft is taking this shit seriously enough to offer patches to other flaws. One wonders sometimes if those "flaws" were in fact flaws or just a backdoor implated purposely for remotely controlling your desktop;). Then again, do these patches really fix things or do they just change the nature of the backdoor so that only Microsoft knows how to use it?
Or maybe I've just been watching too many Matrix movies.
Lets say something happens that a bunch of Y-Windows system developers dont like, and they fork again.... That of course, will be called the Z-Windows system. Then what happens if something forks off Z? What will it be called then?
Something you clip on to your belt (assuming those will still be in use by then), and is about the size of a really small walkman.
It will have no monitor screen, all data/graphics/whatever are displayed via multiple virtual screens which you could move about at will in front of you. Only you would be able to see because you are wearing specialized holographic display glasses linked to the computer.
It will have sensors linked to your elbows, knees, wrist... well, basically every relevant joint which movement needs to be recorded from for navigation purposes. This will of course render the mouse/track-whatever obsolete.
There will be no virtual keyboard to type on (as some of you might expect). Instead, someone will devise a clever way to input text, such as maybe writing with your index finger on air, or maybe some kind of sign-language-like thing which you do and the computer interprets it as text.
Instead of speakers or regular headphones for sound, one would have some kind of 3D positional shell headphones which have several microspeakers to position audio virtually up/down, left/right, forward/backward.
All this being said, you could actually use your computer or watch a movie while lying down, and become the ultimate bed potato, as opposed to couch potato.
P.S. I'm too lazy to link or search for relevant URLs, not unless I could lie down & sip some ice tea while typing this.
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since when did html become a programming language?
From personal experience, I've worked with some programmers from India, specifically Chennai. There was no problem with verbal language per se. We could always communicate in English although their mother tongue was Bengali and mine Malay (not to be confused with Malayalam).
The difficult part adjusting to was firstly, gestures, and secondly intonation. More specifically those programmers that I had to deal with used to shake their heads in agreement and their questions sometimes sounded like statements to me (or vice versa). Apart from that there were no major issues with language. In the end I also found it fun getting to know each other's culture, language etc. (Bengali and Malay although geographically distant language seem to be related in that both are at least partially derived from Sanskrit.)
In reality it is not you who controls the computer with your thoughts....
All your thoughts are belong to us!
The Reindeer or the Reindeer bone lasso?
The screenshots reminded me of the old PC game called Neuromancer (based on the world created by Gibson).
Seems to me that the Croquet project takes us closer to realizing the true meaning of Cyberspace as envisioned by Gibson.
I like what Sjoerd said in the last part of the article:
:-)
That's a dangerous question to answer. No matter what you answer, people will flame you. Good. I like a good flame war
This is the best evidence yet against those who accuse Open Source people as being communists. As is known, we Open Source people are very much into porn.
Oops... did I say we?
With gentoo, your system no longer runs slow because it is unoptimized. It now runs slow because you're always busy compiling something to make it more optimized.
Yes, the T-Rex and its family were in fact overgrown carnivorous chickens. The only reason the chickens you see today dont eat us is because they are smaller than us.
I agree. They should come up with movies based more on realistic cartoons such as Hackles and User Friendly.
Its weird how, in reaction to this article, everyone wants to patent stuff that goes out their own rear end.
the Alien Ant collony that lives nearby yet?
Or maybe I've just been watching too many Matrix movies.
Geez! Talk about a shitty job!
Lets say something happens that a bunch of Y-Windows system developers dont like, and they fork again....
That of course, will be called the Z-Windows system. Then what happens if something forks off Z? What will it be called then?
My gut reaction is that the computer would be:
All this being said, you could actually use your computer or watch a movie while lying down, and become the ultimate bed potato, as opposed to couch potato.
P.S. I'm too lazy to link or search for relevant URLs, not unless I could lie down & sip some ice tea while typing this.