I'm currently in Switzerland. And I can assure that ISPs here don't give a rat's ass about neutrality. Most have nice HTTP speeds, but suck at everything else, especially P2P. I wish someone goes about measuring speed including non-HTTP traffic in all the planet if possible. I'm sure many in America would agree.
AFAIK Java applets died about half a decade ago. There are some relics here and there, but the web moved on already. Flash will follow. Probably at some point someone will invent more proprietary plugins for the web. I hope this time they don't last as long as Flash did, for the sake of a web based on open standards.
I for one know a few very talented >40 year-old programmers, but in general they tend to be quite outdated. Those that stay up-to-date tend to be really good thanks to experience.
One key ability of a programmer is to learn to cope with change. Sometimes you will have to learn your ways in an entirely new environment. That is generally exciting, but also daunting, and can easily take it's toll on a brain that has gotten a habit of doing things in a certain way. I know far too many programmers that use only one programming language for the duration of their career, and never learned anything new. Some of them have stayed for more than 20 years doing the same. Obviously they can't really adapt well. I mean, they have been doing the same thing for as long as it took them to be born, grow up and learn everything they know. Their brain is pretty much hardwired a single task.
I don't blame fast-paced state-of-the-art Google for not hiring more older programmers. I suspect is not only Google's fault. These older programmers tend not to have the initiative or the knowledge to apply for one of those positions, heck, even for us younger ones is not that easy to fit the expectations.
Older programmers will always be at ease programming for banks or other positions that require their ways and experience.
I expect most slashdotters to remain current on new tech even after their fourties. Sort of like a Jedi council of the elders. Wisdom, experience and knowledge of the state of the art at the same time, that's a powerful combination.
I didn't know about these kinds of service. If they don't charge much I'd consider subscribing. I have a nice TV and 20 Mbps to put to good use.
The fact that this has been slashdotted could mean extra revenue for these pay-per-download sites. Funny how the RIAA ends up shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder how many current users didn't know about The Pirate Bay before the RIAA or one of it's representatives started talking about it. Each time they try to fight some download service, they end up getting them free publicity. Funny stupid grunts.
I am from Venezuela, and our experience with oil is that it's more of a bane. Rich countries rarely arise where there are valuable mineral resources. These merely become corrupt underdevelopped monoproducing big mines controlled by an economical and political elite or neo-communist populist totalitarian ruler.
Since I don't respect Microsoft's "creativity". I have to admit I have to give them good credit for this one. I won't become Paul Thurrot though. There's still a long way to go for Microsoft if they wish to undo the evils they have done to the industry.
As tempting as it seems to get one of these devices, their destructive power seems too great. I have a 7-year-old daughter I'd rather keep far away from this thing. I don't think hiding it somewhere she isn't supposed to find it is good enough. There are usually accidents involving children and concealed firearms.
Respect this laser. Handle it with utmost care if you get it, seriously. After you take this into account, have LOADS of FUN!.
Really ironic, but that's the ways of capital. Fortunately some brilliant developpers and cartoonists from North Korea can put their abilities to good use, even under the harsh conditions they have to endure.
"So, if you hold an iPhone at the typical 30 cm from your eyes, that works out to a pixel spacing of 56.82 m. At 20 cm inches it's 35.47 m. You have to hold iPhone 4 out about 45 cm before it falls to 79.87 m."
So, exactly in what sense is being good related to being government as opposed to a billionaire in a LearJet. At least one of them had to earn what he has (yes, you're right, the billionaire!).
A government agency should open source and open patent absolutely everything she develops. Citizens have paid for all that through money that has been forced out of them by government, which is already bad enough. Now everyone has to pay again to get access to that tech. Pretty neat eh?.
I guess AJAX toolkits, widget sets just stole the show. Using XUL you get nice stuff for Firefox. Using standard AJAX you get it everywhere. Even then, there are people like Atmail who have their web based email client software on XUL, and it uses it when it detects a firefox browser. Pretty neat.
I'd rather be forced to use Firefox to view certain content, than Flash. At least Firefox is Open Source and WORKS FINE on all platforms it runs, and follow standards very closely without misinterpreting them. Neither can be said for Flash. Moreover, if it works with Firefox, it will work on pretty much all browsers that respect standards, unless you use XUL to develop the application, but then you're pretty much conscious you're doing a Gecko app, and not a standard web app.
Flash sucks, let it die, spit on it's tomb, for it's the biggest oppressor of the open web.
It'be interesting to have open source packages clearly specified in the app store, especially Android's app store. Maybe even an option to only show open source software could help. How much malware do you see in your typical Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora repository?.
I suffer from a particularly strong form of cockroach phobia. I can't even see an American cockroach without freaking out. I can tolerate German cockroaches to some extent, because there used to be plenty in the tropical apartments where I spent most of my childhood, but they still make me feel anxious and very uncomfortable.
I'm so sensible that even touching the screen where the picture of the cockroaches is displayed proved very difficult. The mere fact that I looked at the cockroaches pictured in the screen made me anxious.
I work with computers like most slashdotters, so I can pretty much avoid cockroaches in my life, but I still would like to eradicate the phobia if such thing is possible. I would like to be able to touch a living one voluntarily one day. If this therapy comes to town, I'd take it.
The technological singularity could give us the means to fight any unwanted alien invasion. At least machines carrying our legacy could spread throughout the galaxy, colonizing alien planets and being the earthlings. Humans are the first and last naturally evolving species to develop technologically capable intelligence in our planet. Machines will replace us as the dominant life form on this world, since we can make them much more advanced than ourselves. They don't have organic needs, so they will easily wander through space and spread. We're pretty much stuck on this rock, and we're the cusp of organic evolution on this planet, whatever comes next will be engineered by us, eventually becoming our replacement. I don't think humans will disappear or become slaves of the machines.
At first machines will be our servants, they will always defend us from external threats, but eventually they'll become advanced enough to develop their own agendas, that will hopefully not include destruction of our species. We shall have two groups: super advanced machines that will do as they please, and not-so-advanced machines along with humans doing whatever else. Usually not very many conflicts for resources shall arise, since the intelligent machines should be able to extract resources from places humans and their less advanced machines can't.
We evolved from primates, but we normally don't live in the same habitats as them, they're out in the forests and we're here in the cities. We have some resource conflicts with them, but they'll end up surviving OK. The relationship shall be very similar between super machines and humans.
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It seems Britain would like to return to it's libertarian laissez faire ways. Kudos.
I'm currently in Switzerland. And I can assure that ISPs here don't give a rat's ass about neutrality. Most have nice HTTP speeds, but suck at everything else, especially P2P. I wish someone goes about measuring speed including non-HTTP traffic in all the planet if possible. I'm sure many in America would agree.
AFAIK Java applets died about half a decade ago. There are some relics here and there, but the web moved on already. Flash will follow. Probably at some point someone will invent more proprietary plugins for the web. I hope this time they don't last as long as Flash did, for the sake of a web based on open standards.
I for one know a few very talented >40 year-old programmers, but in general they tend to be quite outdated. Those that stay up-to-date tend to be really good thanks to experience.
One key ability of a programmer is to learn to cope with change. Sometimes you will have to learn your ways in an entirely new environment. That is generally exciting, but also daunting, and can easily take it's toll on a brain that has gotten a habit of doing things in a certain way. I know far too many programmers that use only one programming language for the duration of their career, and never learned anything new. Some of them have stayed for more than 20 years doing the same. Obviously they can't really adapt well. I mean, they have been doing the same thing for as long as it took them to be born, grow up and learn everything they know. Their brain is pretty much hardwired a single task.
I don't blame fast-paced state-of-the-art Google for not hiring more older programmers. I suspect is not only Google's fault. These older programmers tend not to have the initiative or the knowledge to apply for one of those positions, heck, even for us younger ones is not that easy to fit the expectations.
Older programmers will always be at ease programming for banks or other positions that require their ways and experience.
I expect most slashdotters to remain current on new tech even after their fourties. Sort of like a Jedi council of the elders. Wisdom, experience and knowledge of the state of the art at the same time, that's a powerful combination.
I didn't know about these kinds of service. If they don't charge much I'd consider subscribing. I have a nice TV and 20 Mbps to put to good use.
The fact that this has been slashdotted could mean extra revenue for these pay-per-download sites. Funny how the RIAA ends up shooting themselves in the foot. I wonder how many current users didn't know about The Pirate Bay before the RIAA or one of it's representatives started talking about it. Each time they try to fight some download service, they end up getting them free publicity. Funny stupid grunts.
I am from Venezuela, and our experience with oil is that it's more of a bane. Rich countries rarely arise where there are valuable mineral resources. These merely become corrupt underdevelopped monoproducing big mines controlled by an economical and political elite or neo-communist populist totalitarian ruler.
What do you mean? American or European?
Please don't call us monkeys, we're chimpanzees. It's the gorillas who will destroy the world.
Since I don't respect Microsoft's "creativity". I have to admit I have to give them good credit for this one. I won't become Paul Thurrot though. There's still a long way to go for Microsoft if they wish to undo the evils they have done to the industry.
As tempting as it seems to get one of these devices, their destructive power seems too great. I have a 7-year-old daughter I'd rather keep far away from this thing. I don't think hiding it somewhere she isn't supposed to find it is good enough. There are usually accidents involving children and concealed firearms. Respect this laser. Handle it with utmost care if you get it, seriously. After you take this into account, have LOADS of FUN!.
How is it exactly that they found subjects for the burning flesh tests?
Really ironic, but that's the ways of capital. Fortunately some brilliant developpers and cartoonists from North Korea can put their abilities to good use, even under the harsh conditions they have to endure.
"So, if you hold an iPhone at the typical 30 cm from your eyes, that works out to a pixel spacing of 56.82 m. At 20 cm inches it's 35.47 m. You have to hold iPhone 4 out about 45 cm before it falls to 79.87 m."
Fax?
So, exactly in what sense is being good related to being government as opposed to a billionaire in a LearJet. At least one of them had to earn what he has (yes, you're right, the billionaire!).
A government agency should open source and open patent absolutely everything she develops. Citizens have paid for all that through money that has been forced out of them by government, which is already bad enough. Now everyone has to pay again to get access to that tech. Pretty neat eh?.
I guess AJAX toolkits, widget sets just stole the show. Using XUL you get nice stuff for Firefox. Using standard AJAX you get it everywhere. Even then, there are people like Atmail who have their web based email client software on XUL, and it uses it when it detects a firefox browser. Pretty neat.
I'd rather be forced to use Firefox to view certain content, than Flash. At least Firefox is Open Source and WORKS FINE on all platforms it runs, and follow standards very closely without misinterpreting them. Neither can be said for Flash. Moreover, if it works with Firefox, it will work on pretty much all browsers that respect standards, unless you use XUL to develop the application, but then you're pretty much conscious you're doing a Gecko app, and not a standard web app.
Flash sucks, let it die, spit on it's tomb, for it's the biggest oppressor of the open web.
It'be interesting to have open source packages clearly specified in the app store, especially Android's app store. Maybe even an option to only show open source software could help. How much malware do you see in your typical Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora repository?.
You all make me want to throw up.
I suffer from a particularly strong form of cockroach phobia. I can't even see an American cockroach without freaking out. I can tolerate German cockroaches to some extent, because there used to be plenty in the tropical apartments where I spent most of my childhood, but they still make me feel anxious and very uncomfortable.
I'm so sensible that even touching the screen where the picture of the cockroaches is displayed proved very difficult. The mere fact that I looked at the cockroaches pictured in the screen made me anxious.
I work with computers like most slashdotters, so I can pretty much avoid cockroaches in my life, but I still would like to eradicate the phobia if such thing is possible. I would like to be able to touch a living one voluntarily one day. If this therapy comes to town, I'd take it.
NO!
the movie Office Space.
Fortunately, you are right.
The technological singularity could give us the means to fight any unwanted alien invasion. At least machines carrying our legacy could spread throughout the galaxy, colonizing alien planets and being the earthlings. Humans are the first and last naturally evolving species to develop technologically capable intelligence in our planet. Machines will replace us as the dominant life form on this world, since we can make them much more advanced than ourselves. They don't have organic needs, so they will easily wander through space and spread. We're pretty much stuck on this rock, and we're the cusp of organic evolution on this planet, whatever comes next will be engineered by us, eventually becoming our replacement. I don't think humans will disappear or become slaves of the machines.
At first machines will be our servants, they will always defend us from external threats, but eventually they'll become advanced enough to develop their own agendas, that will hopefully not include destruction of our species. We shall have two groups: super advanced machines that will do as they please, and not-so-advanced machines along with humans doing whatever else. Usually not very many conflicts for resources shall arise, since the intelligent machines should be able to extract resources from places humans and their less advanced machines can't.
We evolved from primates, but we normally don't live in the same habitats as them, they're out in the forests and we're here in the cities. We have some resource conflicts with them, but they'll end up surviving OK. The relationship shall be very similar between super machines and humans.
"Alien Cows do not Produce Methane"