I'm certain the guys in emergency room will be very happy when the machines they are connected to suddenly decide their heartbeat is copyrighted music and disengage life support.
CPUs aren't used only for PCs, they are everywhere. If my CPU prevents me from doing what I want, I'll install Linux in my refrigerator and use it as a PC.
Until they invent some machine to read your brain this problem will never be solved. Some guy wants the widgets to be on the left, the other prefers them on the right, etc.
My dad is very conservative. I went to the store to help him buy a new laptop and he didn't follow my suggestion of buying a Mac. I almost convinced him of letting me install Linux but I needed some time and he was in a a hurry to take the laptop home, to the country.
Anyway, he hated Vista so much that he asked me to set it to the Windows 2000 look and feel. Even so, he has a fit every time one of those stupid popups comes up with some badly translated bullshit that he can't understand. I can't wait to have him here again so I can install Linux on the fucking thing.
There's an answer to that. Just promote the word "kernel" until it sounds cool.
"Hey, dude. I just bought a new PC with a fuckin' great kernel, like 100.000 Gigasomething, and all. Yeah, Microsoft rocks!"
Anecdote:
Valves (or tubes) are cool in the music equipment scene, forget that 90% of the buyers have no idea what a valve is, or what's for. In a subway station near me there used to be a shitty little instrument store. One of the items in exhibition was a lousy solid-state guitar amplifier with a huge label saying: "Very good. Uses varves (sic)"
I was using Hotmail when M$ bought it. It stopped working for several days. I read somewhere that it failed because Microsoft moved all the Hotmail infrastructure from Sun platform to IIS over Windows and it couldn't handle the load. They had to restore the previous architecture until they had a decent solution which was 100% Micro$oft.
I dumped my Hotmail account at that time and moved to Yahoo. If M$ buys Yahoo, I will have to dump my Yahoo account also.
I've developed with Oracle for years and then moved to a team of Microsoft drones some years ago. They loved MSSQL but I hated it with all my guts. After Oracle, developing with it was horrid. I begged to be moved away from the team but it took 2 years to years.
I must agree developing stuff with MSVS is cool but only if you want to stay strictly in the M$ world. Microsoft did a great job to make all their tools completely incompatible with anything else.
Before modding me flamebait, give it a better thought. I'm not trying to put down anything, this is my honest opinion. You have the right to disagree but don't have the right to censor me.
According to your thought, the vaccine for tuberculosis is completely useless because some people still catch tuberculosis today. Of course Microsoft is still a monopoly, but weakening their position is a GOOD THING. You can't take down a monopoly with some magic bullet, it takes decades.
I consider myself on the Socialist side, but you aren't going to help anyone in the mid/long term by keeping people nice and quiet in their inefficient, obsolete jobs just to artificially keep them busy.
People must acknowledge they have to learn and evolve. Most complaint about career stagnation but the fact is that they don't want to learn ways out of it.
If everyone thought like you we'd still be living in caves.
WTF???? The standard algorithms exist for centuries, are universal, work perfectly and are easy to understand. Why are people spending time and money to create these bullshit algorithm? Are you trying to go 3rd World?
I had a great microprocessor teacher at college. He would use the Socratic method, not telling people how things are done but asking people and slowly building knowledge using the answers.
His classes were great. He would start by drawing some components on the board and then asking people how to connect them for some purpose. Some students would suggest things, he would ask the others if they could find a flaw, and so on. Many times he would follow a wrong idea on purpose so that the students could find the flaw by themselves some steps ahead. Then he would erase everything back to the bad idea and start again from there.
In the end of each class we would have a full circuit drawn and the greatest thing was, the teacher didn't explain it to us, we created the solution by ourselves.
I loved his classes but almost every one of my colleagues hated the teacher's guts. They preferred to be spoon-fed with information, and that teacher committed the worst of sins: make them think.
I ALWAYS turn off my work PC and all the lights I have control over. The free lunch is a better future for my children.
Most my colleagues couldn't care less. They always leave their PCs on just to save them some time to start them up in the morning.
A timed power-down in the whole building may be the key. I can't even imagine the amount of wasted energy uselessly because of companies with the lights and PCs on the whole night, every single night.
Well, I understand the purpose of screens for football days, it happens exactly the same here, but with soccer. What I don't understand is why those screens have to be on the rest of the time just showing useless garbage.
I have always hated how they fill bars with huge TV screens, sometimes several of them, showing MTV or VH1 or something. People go to bars to have a drink, chat and dance. Not to watch TV. But when I point this out, people say I'm crazy. I quit complaining because some people started looking at me as if I'm weird. What's the point of going out for a good time with other people and having to put up with distracting TV screens all around? The same in restaurants and cafés, just turn that shit off!
Dude, you're right on spot, with the exception of the Bangalore code-monkey, which sounds a bit racist to me.
I've worked with a few nerds before and, in spite of being considered "geniuses" by the management they are a pain to work with, they work too many hours and force others to do the same because they are unable to plan and organise, and also explain themselves and listen to others. Once, for a particular project, the lead developer coded an FTP stack of her own in C++ because he didn't trust the standard ftp unix command or any free FTP library.
I'm aware of that. And those are USA statistics, round here must be even worse, though you won't find anyone here riding a bike without a helmet. I believe that's common behavior in the US.
I try to do my share, don't drink n' drive, don't speed, always wear helmet and protective clothes even for very short rides. Bad luck is a factor too, statistics show that most deaths are due to dangerous behavior/carelessness.
I get better mileage, I can ride perfectly both in streets and highways and I don't get stuck in traffic jams. And even about the safety, I'm not so sure. You can pry my motorcycle from my cold, dead hand.
It's just the usual senseless Java bashing. It has ZERO to do with Java. If the students are taught VB or C# and nothing else, like it happens in my country today, the problem is the same.
So the web is based on open standards, like HTML. I know it sucks, but it could be improved but the big ones are blocking the evolution of HTML, CSS, Javascript or any other web-related standard.
After open standards made the Internet possible, we all happily embracing a bunch of proprietary shit that we don't need?
What's Flash good for, anyway. I use AdBlock and NoScript and rarely I have to use Flash. I don't miss it much. I can't see the point of building an entire website in Flash or Silverlight or Java applets. It's silly and annoying, to say the least.
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I'm certain the guys in emergency room will be very happy when the machines they are connected to suddenly decide their heartbeat is copyrighted music and disengage life support.
CPUs aren't used only for PCs, they are everywhere. If my CPU prevents me from doing what I want, I'll install Linux in my refrigerator and use it as a PC.
We also have something alike. It's called license plate.
Until they invent some machine to read your brain this problem will never be solved. Some guy wants the widgets to be on the left, the other prefers them on the right, etc.
My dad is very conservative. I went to the store to help him buy a new laptop and he didn't follow my suggestion of buying a Mac. I almost convinced him of letting me install Linux but I needed some time and he was in a a hurry to take the laptop home, to the country.
Anyway, he hated Vista so much that he asked me to set it to the Windows 2000 look and feel. Even so, he has a fit every time one of those stupid popups comes up with some badly translated bullshit that he can't understand. I can't wait to have him here again so I can install Linux on the fucking thing.
There's an answer to that. Just promote the word "kernel" until it sounds cool.
"Hey, dude. I just bought a new PC with a fuckin' great kernel, like 100.000 Gigasomething, and all. Yeah, Microsoft rocks!"
Anecdote:
Valves (or tubes) are cool in the music equipment scene, forget that 90% of the buyers have no idea what a valve is, or what's for. In a subway station near me there used to be a shitty little instrument store. One of the items in exhibition was a lousy solid-state guitar amplifier with a huge label saying: "Very good. Uses varves (sic)"
And the ship was called Titanic...
I was using Hotmail when M$ bought it. It stopped working for several days. I read somewhere that it failed because Microsoft moved all the Hotmail infrastructure from Sun platform to IIS over Windows and it couldn't handle the load. They had to restore the previous architecture until they had a decent solution which was 100% Micro$oft.
I dumped my Hotmail account at that time and moved to Yahoo. If M$ buys Yahoo, I will have to dump my Yahoo account also.
Do you actually LIKE SQL Server and Access?
I've developed with Oracle for years and then moved to a team of Microsoft drones some years ago. They loved MSSQL but I hated it with all my guts. After Oracle, developing with it was horrid. I begged to be moved away from the team but it took 2 years to years.
I must agree developing stuff with MSVS is cool but only if you want to stay strictly in the M$ world. Microsoft did a great job to make all their tools completely incompatible with anything else.
Before modding me flamebait, give it a better thought. I'm not trying to put down anything, this is my honest opinion. You have the right to disagree but don't have the right to censor me.
According to your thought, the vaccine for tuberculosis is completely useless because some people still catch tuberculosis today. Of course Microsoft is still a monopoly, but weakening their position is a GOOD THING. You can't take down a monopoly with some magic bullet, it takes decades.
I consider myself on the Socialist side, but you aren't going to help anyone in the mid/long term by keeping people nice and quiet in their inefficient, obsolete jobs just to artificially keep them busy.
People must acknowledge they have to learn and evolve. Most complaint about career stagnation but the fact is that they don't want to learn ways out of it.
If everyone thought like you we'd still be living in caves.
Yeah, here in Europe we all know how unsuccessful GSM is. Oh, the horror...
Get a clue.
another incompetent, ineffectual and political circle-jerk like the United Nations?
Or, maybe like... your government?
WTF???? The standard algorithms exist for centuries, are universal, work perfectly and are easy to understand. Why are people spending time and money to create these bullshit algorithm? Are you trying to go 3rd World?
I had a great microprocessor teacher at college. He would use the Socratic method, not telling people how things are done but asking people and slowly building knowledge using the answers.
His classes were great. He would start by drawing some components on the board and then asking people how to connect them for some purpose. Some students would suggest things, he would ask the others if they could find a flaw, and so on. Many times he would follow a wrong idea on purpose so that the students could find the flaw by themselves some steps ahead. Then he would erase everything back to the bad idea and start again from there.
In the end of each class we would have a full circuit drawn and the greatest thing was, the teacher didn't explain it to us, we created the solution by ourselves.
I loved his classes but almost every one of my colleagues hated the teacher's guts. They preferred to be spoon-fed with information, and that teacher committed the worst of sins: make them think.
I ALWAYS turn off my work PC and all the lights I have control over. The free lunch is a better future for my children.
Most my colleagues couldn't care less. They always leave their PCs on just to save them some time to start them up in the morning.
A timed power-down in the whole building may be the key. I can't even imagine the amount of wasted energy uselessly because of companies with the lights and PCs on the whole night, every single night.
Well, I understand the purpose of screens for football days, it happens exactly the same here, but with soccer. What I don't understand is why those screens have to be on the rest of the time just showing useless garbage.
I have always hated how they fill bars with huge TV screens, sometimes several of them, showing MTV or VH1 or something. People go to bars to have a drink, chat and dance. Not to watch TV. But when I point this out, people say I'm crazy. I quit complaining because some people started looking at me as if I'm weird. What's the point of going out for a good time with other people and having to put up with distracting TV screens all around? The same in restaurants and cafés, just turn that shit off!
IMHO, this should be illegal. Compete in improving, not crippling.
Dude, you're right on spot, with the exception of the Bangalore code-monkey, which sounds a bit racist to me.
I've worked with a few nerds before and, in spite of being considered "geniuses" by the management they are a pain to work with, they work too many hours and force others to do the same because they are unable to plan and organise, and also explain themselves and listen to others. Once, for a particular project, the lead developer coded an FTP stack of her own in C++ because he didn't trust the standard ftp unix command or any free FTP library.
I'm aware of that. And those are USA statistics, round here must be even worse, though you won't find anyone here riding a bike without a helmet. I believe that's common behavior in the US.
I try to do my share, don't drink n' drive, don't speed, always wear helmet and protective clothes even for very short rides. Bad luck is a factor too, statistics show that most deaths are due to dangerous behavior/carelessness.
I get better mileage, I can ride perfectly both in streets and highways and I don't get stuck in traffic jams. And even about the safety, I'm not so sure. You can pry my motorcycle from my cold, dead hand.
If copper becomes too expensive, we move to alluminum, or some other metal. All metals conduct electricity, some better, some worse.
It's not about TFA, it's the stupid summary bashing Java for no reason.
It's just the usual senseless Java bashing. It has ZERO to do with Java. If the students are taught VB or C# and nothing else, like it happens in my country today, the problem is the same.
So the web is based on open standards, like HTML. I know it sucks, but it could be improved but the big ones are blocking the evolution of HTML, CSS, Javascript or any other web-related standard.
After open standards made the Internet possible, we all happily embracing a bunch of proprietary shit that we don't need?
What's Flash good for, anyway. I use AdBlock and NoScript and rarely I have to use Flash. I don't miss it much. I can't see the point of building an entire website in Flash or Silverlight or Java applets. It's silly and annoying, to say the least.