And if our brain was just an interface for our conciousness (spirit,... ) to use our body.
Now if one's brain is damaged, can't you consider that one's conciousness will try to repair its
interface...
As soon as we put our conciousness at doing something specific we develop a specific intelligence : body intelligence, mathematical intelligence, emotionnal
intelligence.
Even if there is nothing scientific in my explanation I can't stop wondering wether we are a really just a brain tha will rott and die or if we are more that that.
Belgium is massively investing in the renewal of its administration.
Lately we heard of many projects :
- They plan to hire 7.000 cs by the end of 2007. - The e-ID card - Now people can pay their taxes on the web... and lately :
- The ODF format.
It's not just an idea thrown into the air. That's a massive structural update at all the level of the organization of the belgian governement.
Now if you are in this context and you have to choose for a common document format, would you really choose MS Word (.doc) file format ??
A format that you have no control on it whatsoever. A format that will be deprecated next year when OFFICE 2007 goes live, or when OFFICE whatever is released....
Will you really throw in the trash belgian taxpayers money ? I don't think MS Word is a sound choice when you have to answer for your choices and you wanna cut costs....
More and more all my private life is scanned by google.
Google knows everything about me.
Via gmail they know who are my friends, where I work, what I do,... everything.
Via google search history they can even gather more informations, they can even guess when I was in front of my computer.
I don't wanna draw a dark picture, but they are gaining more and more access to
our private life. What do they do whith all the data they collect ? Targeting advertisement ?
I really hope they have the best intentions and they only do that !
Because If a I were the CIA investigating somebody, google would be the first place to go to retrieve informations.
I thought that most of the sucessfull Open Source project were maintained by very close team. I thought that we realised lately the the chaos theory was doomed to chaos. And that basically a small team of people working at the same place were working far better than 10.000 people around the globe.
I think there is nothing to learn from the open source development scheme. Basically it's always up to a very few people to make things go forward. And the rest of the people causes more troubles than good...
Voila, being an european, I've neven been bothered by this question.
In total honestly I hope this article doesn't try to make this debate look as something that people outside of the USA cares. We don't give a fuck about your Intelligent.. design an so forth...
There is not debate here. This is as much interesting as wheter Jesus Christ went to the USA between 12 and 30... Come on.
To us the USA are the most scientific country in the world, and such a debate is so funny to us. We cannot even considerate it.
I don't know where he's from.
But here in Belgium it's pretty hard to get a sentence over 20 years.
And the best example is that if you kill your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend.... it can be judged as a "passion crime" and then the maximum sentence is 5 years (and propably no more than 3 in jail).
While this is maybe not the best system. It is time we find something else than Jail. And it's time that we speak of justice in other tems than punishment. When somebody is guilty, he shouldn't be "punished" he should "repay". He should amend.
IMHO web devellopement is a very specific kind of devellopement. And while respecting standard is important, pragmatism is far more important.
Choosing a target as specific as possible (e.g. Mozilla + IE) and define precise design practices is the only practical choice if you don't wanna end up in CHAOS.
You need to be very very pragmatic and do everything as simply as possible. Great revolutionnary designs, Design patterns for every problems, extreme modularity, and cutting the codes in many many very small practical functions
may often end up being impractical with a web project and make it a hell of a job to be maintained.
And overall, in any languages, complexity is never
welcome in the code source. All the job consist precisely in making a clever design allowing to make very complex stuffs in very simple and easy steps.
Of course it's only my sujective and personnal point of view. But having to maintain websites
where the libraries implement or rename nearly every PHP functions, where it takes up to 2 hours to find the actual code that's causing an error.
I'm sick of complexity. Especially when it's not needed.
I'm a french speaker, and given my condition, was always used to type on a,so called, 'AZERTY' keyboard.
When I lived in Ireland, I quickly became proficient with the 'QWERTY' layout. And for me now, there IS NO TURNING BACK.
You can say wathever you want on the QWERTY layout. To write CODE it is one of the most efficient. Do you know how complicated it is to type {}[]() that are so much used in modern computing languages on any other kind of layout...
This is so much of burden for us, french speakers, when we want to write code.
I even think that some people give up learning to program because of all those weird characters that they nearly never used before and for wich they need 3 fingers a 3 different and opposites places on the keyboard !.
IMHO this is nonsense. Some things must stay FREE like the air we breath, the water we drink (or at least the water from the river), the linux kernel...
Quitting the GPL now, it's like saying Now I want to pay to breathe and drink the water from the river.
The corporate world is happy to polluate and overuse what is free. The GPL is a good compromise. You give, you receive !!!
I think , IMHO, that everything in GPL is a bad idea. Maybe the licence should be more suple. Maybe you should be able to do something that is not free out of it... but again there are already solutions like the LGPL... We're always going forward. Maybe slowly but steadily.
We would better try to protect what we've got now than giving it away. When you see stuff like "cherry Os" and the like you wonder what "teeth" they are speaking about...
IMHO tcp/ip is a really bad standard.
Already back when it was invented it was not that glamourous. If we use it nowadays it is not because it is the best network infrastructure but because it was back then the easiest and cheapest network solutions. After all the (theorical) OSI standards did exist, and everybody hoped that ATM would replace tcp/ip...
When you see the QOS needed for VOIP, Video-conference and live TV feed... You realize that tcp/ip belong to the past.
Seriously it wasn't the best stuff they had ever done.
I was once given the choice of a linux distro for my job and I gave it a try.
It was incredible how they suceeded to slow down Linux. At first I thougt that everything was done in JAVA... but it wasn't.
It was as if they had slowed down linux to make the java applications look faster than they really are.
Beside the support you could get from Sun if you bought it, IMHO from a user perspective it was really a piece of sh.. .
The CRT technology is still much better than anything else. They will soon realize it and you will eventually be able to buy
a laptop with a 22"CRT or even or a tablet PC with a 17"CRT screen.
At least in the states... before they import that in europe.
Actually Renault didn't begin a legal action against the driver himself.
In France you can make a legal action to proove what you say is right. Therefore, Renault will confront it's expertise(inquiry) on this car against independant specialists hired by the court.
If the court conclude the car is not defective. Renault will have a legal proof that the car is not faulty. And will be able to sue everybody saying the opposite.
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And if our brain was just an interface for our conciousness (spirit, ... ) to use our body.
Now if one's brain is damaged, can't you consider that one's conciousness will try to repair its
interface ...
As soon as we put our conciousness at doing something specific we develop a specific intelligence : body intelligence, mathematical intelligence, emotionnal
intelligence.
Even if there is nothing scientific in my explanation I can't stop wondering wether we are a really just a brain tha will rott and die or if we are more that that.
Belgium is massively investing in the renewal of its administration.
... and lately :
....
....
Lately we heard of many projects :
- They plan to hire 7.000 cs by the end of 2007.
- The e-ID card
- Now people can pay their taxes on the web
- The ODF format.
It's not just an idea thrown into the air.
That's a massive structural update at all the level of the organization of the belgian governement.
Now if you are in this context and you have to choose for a common document format, would you really
choose MS Word (.doc) file format ??
A format that you have no control on it whatsoever. A format that will be deprecated next year when OFFICE 2007 goes live,
or when OFFICE whatever is released
Will you really throw in the trash belgian taxpayers money ?
I don't think MS Word is a sound choice when you have to answer for your choices and you wanna cut costs
I wish you were right about Google...
... everything.
More and more all my private life is scanned by google.
Google knows everything about me.
Via gmail they know who are my friends, where I work, what I do,
Via google search history they can even gather more informations, they can even guess when I was in front of my computer.
I don't wanna draw a dark picture, but they are gaining more and more access to our private life. What do they do whith all the data they collect ? Targeting advertisement ?
I really hope they have the best intentions and they only do that !
Because If a I were the CIA investigating somebody, google would be the first place to go to retrieve informations.
Without being too sarcastic ...
I thought that most of the sucessfull Open Source project were maintained by very close team. I thought that we realised lately the the chaos theory was doomed to chaos. And that basically a small team of people working at the same place were working far better than 10.000 people around the globe.
I think there is nothing to learn from the open source development scheme. Basically it's always up to a very few people to make things go forward. And the rest of the people causes more troubles than good...
Now if everybody changes his mind !
Voila, being an european, I've neven been bothered by this question.
.. design an so forth...
In total honestly I hope this article doesn't try to make this debate look as something that people outside of the USA cares. We don't give a fuck about your Intelligent
There is not debate here. This is as much interesting as wheter Jesus Christ went to the USA between 12 and 30... Come on.
To us the USA are the most scientific country in the world, and such a debate is so funny to us. We cannot even considerate it.
I don't know where he's from.
.... it can be judged as a "passion crime" and then the maximum sentence is 5 years (and propably no more than 3 in jail).
But here in Belgium it's pretty hard to get a sentence over 20 years.
And the best example is that if you kill your wife/girlfriend/boyfriend
While this is maybe not the best system. It is time we find something else than Jail. And it's time that we speak of justice in other tems than punishment.
When somebody is guilty, he shouldn't be "punished" he should "repay". He should amend.
IMHO web devellopement is a very specific kind of devellopement. And while respecting standard is important, pragmatism is far more important.
Choosing a target as specific as possible (e.g. Mozilla + IE) and define precise design practices is the only practical choice if you don't wanna end up in CHAOS.
You need to be very very pragmatic and do everything as simply as possible. Great revolutionnary designs, Design patterns for every problems, extreme modularity, and cutting the codes in many many very small practical functions may often end up being impractical with a web project and make it a hell of a job to be maintained.
And overall, in any languages, complexity is never welcome in the code source. All the job consist precisely in making a clever design allowing to make very complex stuffs in very simple and easy steps.
Of course it's only my sujective and personnal point of view. But having to maintain websites where the libraries implement or rename nearly every PHP functions, where it takes up to 2 hours to find the actual code that's causing an error. I'm sick of complexity. Especially when it's not needed.
I'm a french speaker, and given my condition, was always used to type on a ,so called, 'AZERTY' keyboard.
...
When I lived in Ireland, I quickly became proficient with the 'QWERTY' layout. And for me now, there IS NO TURNING BACK.
You can say wathever you want on the QWERTY layout. To write CODE it is one of the most efficient. Do you know how complicated it is to type {}[]() that are so much used in modern computing languages on any other kind of layout
This is so much of burden for us, french speakers, when we want to write code.
I even think that some people give up learning to program because of all those weird characters that they nearly never used before and for wich they need 3 fingers a 3 different and opposites places on the keyboard !.
IMHO this is nonsense. Some things must stay FREE like the air we breath, the water we drink (or at least the water from the river), the linux kernel ...
... We're always going forward. Maybe slowly but steadily.
Quitting the GPL now, it's like saying Now I want to pay to breathe and drink the water from the river.
The corporate world is happy to polluate and overuse what is free. The GPL is a good compromise. You give, you receive !!!
I think , IMHO, that everything in GPL is a bad idea. Maybe the licence should be more suple. Maybe you should be able to do something that is not free out of it... but again there are already solutions like the LGPL
We would better try to protect what we've got now than giving it away. When you see stuff like "cherry Os" and the like you wonder what "teeth" they are speaking about...
IMHO tcp/ip is a really bad standard. ...
... You realize that tcp/ip belong to the past.
Already back when it was invented it was not that glamourous. If we use it nowadays it is not because it is the best network infrastructure but because it was back then the easiest and cheapest network solutions.
After all the (theorical) OSI standards did exist, and everybody hoped that ATM would replace tcp/ip
When you see the QOS needed for VOIP, Video-conference and live TV feed
Seriously it wasn't the best stuff they had ever done.
... but it wasn't.
I was once given the choice of a linux distro for my job and I gave it a try. It was incredible how they suceeded to slow down Linux. At first I thougt that everything was done in JAVA
It was as if they had slowed down linux to make the java applications look faster than they really are.
Beside the support you could get from Sun if you bought it, IMHO from a user perspective it was really a piece of sh.. .
I don't understand why this post hasn't bee modded insigthfull.
It's often better to handle errors at the same place and use goto in the error-detection. It's even called a "good practice" by many people.
It helps avoiding even more evil stuffs like putting return everywhere in the code !!! That is EVIL !!!
The CRT technology is still much better than anything else. They will soon realize it and you will eventually be able to buy a laptop with a 22"CRT or even or a tablet PC with a 17"CRT screen. At least in the states ... before they import that in europe.
Actually Renault didn't begin a legal action against the driver himself.
In France you can make a legal action to proove what you say is right. Therefore, Renault will confront it's expertise(inquiry) on this car against independant specialists hired by the court.
If the court conclude the car is not defective.
Renault will have a legal proof that the car is
not faulty. And will be able to sue everybody saying the opposite.