Sorry, how are 'rich text area' controls going to be replaced?
How are, say (from the parent), Shockwave controls going to be replaced?
Yes, these are ActiveX controls in IE; no, they're not going to be replaced.
What's more, for me, I'd say that more likely to be made obsolete than ActiveX controls by a better, and SOAP-compliant, forms mechanism are Java applets... and that, for me, would be great!
But that's an advantage that I don't see being mentioned here for this thing - it seems quite portable (unlike most ergonomic keyboards and even most chord-based systems)... what's more, one would hope that, like USB 'mass storage' devices, one could just plug and play with this thing on other people's machines (maybe?...)
A diffuse source contradicts with LASER, but yes, it's possible. But in order for it to be detected over ambient light it would have to be something huge and noticeable like a pulsar - I'd hate to see their electricity bill, these aliens of yours;)
Thankfully, there's no problem with employability for Software Engineers in the UK (not that there aren't still many applicants for Computer Science with no aptitude or inclination for science, nor to deny that we collapsed the polytechnic and technical college systems in with the universities and call everything degrees ourselves...)
The important software on Windows isn't the file-sharing, smiley-face-drawing, music-playing rubbish available on-line, it's the contact management, stock control and invoicing systems that were developed client-server on Windows to replace mainframe software. When there's enough of this to take something established, rather than require bespoke, then the investment will come.
Yes, StarOffice has started to make inroads into the other important requirement actual businesses (rather than home entheusiasts) have, but it is often forgotten that the real investment is largely in the macros in secretaries and administrator's Excel spreadsheets (which, I understand, are not portable)...
That's the thing, I'm not disagreeing with you really. If a course like this gives a young IT beginner the right 'skill set' to start and a set of exams by which to prove themselves and have that documented (and further courses throughout their career keep their skills up to date), then that segment of higher education is doing it's job.
I just object to a non-science based education being called science, and worry about a short vocational course being called a bachelor's degree...
The field where a science degree should take you "on its own" is into postgraduate work in that science - this degree will certainly not do so!
Whether or not you believe the 'official line' of a 'proper' Computer Science degree teaching skills and a way of thinking that transcend any current Engineering concerns, you have to admit that the kind of skills taught on that course would only be worthwhile for a few years, within which time a whole different, or at least evolving, set of techniques will have to be acquired to replace them (?)...
I wish people wouldn't call an Engineering - at best - degree Science.
This degree "provide[s] Northface University graduates with a strong foundation in technical skills and standards, an understanding of the business environment, and the ability to communicate and function well as members of teams," but no Science!
(Btw, I'm not being a snob - my first degree was in Software Engineering, even though I consider myself a Computer Scientist now...)
I single these out because they're the only ones I've seen imitated on Slashdot... both with negative affect (like ven ve have vays of making you read rubbish like zis)... like I say, coincidence?
I find Dutch a charming language but if I is to see dis on de Shlashdot, I'd be surprised!
Ooooh that's it, is it - German and Japanese are just particularly amusing, as languages, to the Americans? It's nothing to do with the mid-twentienth century! (That's just coincidence.) How I've misjudged...
Could OpenSource et. al. be what turns Microsoft into an IBM?
You'd like to see them, having survived anti-competitive behaviour remedies, slip a little bit out of the public eye but raise greater and greater revenues with behind-the-scenes monopolies (like CICS)?
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Sorry, how are 'rich text area' controls going to be replaced?
How are, say (from the parent), Shockwave controls going to be replaced?
Yes, these are ActiveX controls in IE; no, they're not going to be replaced.
What's more, for me, I'd say that more likely to be made obsolete than ActiveX controls by a better, and SOAP-compliant, forms mechanism are Java applets... and that, for me, would be great!
Sorry if I'm being naive, but it doesn't look hopeless in Redmond if the inclusion of this article on MSDN is anything to go by: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnasdj00/h tml/xhtml.asp?frame=true
(And, imho, direct SOAP support would be great for everyone, Microsoft included.)
No it's not - worms reproduce and migrate between hosts...
But that's an advantage that I don't see being mentioned here for this thing - it seems quite portable (unlike most ergonomic keyboards and even most chord-based systems)... what's more, one would hope that, like USB 'mass storage' devices, one could just plug and play with this thing on other people's machines (maybe?...)
Actually, it has a stronger component of empiricism than most 'scientific' research!
I KNEW it! Maybe we should send them back a little virus of our own... b***ards!
A diffuse source contradicts with LASER, but yes, it's possible. But in order for it to be detected over ambient light it would have to be something huge and noticeable like a pulsar - I'd hate to see their electricity bill, these aliens of yours ;)
Agreed. Such a heartening read tonight: 'Computer Scientists' who are not even equipped to appreciate what computation really even is!
Thankfully, there's no problem with employability for Software Engineers in the UK (not that there aren't still many applicants for Computer Science with no aptitude or inclination for science, nor to deny that we collapsed the polytechnic and technical college systems in with the universities and call everything degrees ourselves...)
The important software on Windows isn't the file-sharing, smiley-face-drawing, music-playing rubbish available on-line, it's the contact management, stock control and invoicing systems that were developed client-server on Windows to replace mainframe software. When there's enough of this to take something established, rather than require bespoke, then the investment will come. Yes, StarOffice has started to make inroads into the other important requirement actual businesses (rather than home entheusiasts) have, but it is often forgotten that the real investment is largely in the macros in secretaries and administrator's Excel spreadsheets (which, I understand, are not portable)...
That's the thing, I'm not disagreeing with you really. If a course like this gives a young IT beginner the right 'skill set' to start and a set of exams by which to prove themselves and have that documented (and further courses throughout their career keep their skills up to date), then that segment of higher education is doing it's job.
I just object to a non-science based education being called science, and worry about a short vocational course being called a bachelor's degree...
The field where a science degree should take you "on its own" is into postgraduate work in that science - this degree will certainly not do so!
Whether or not you believe the 'official line' of a 'proper' Computer Science degree teaching skills and a way of thinking that transcend any current Engineering concerns, you have to admit that the kind of skills taught on that course would only be worthwhile for a few years, within which time a whole different, or at least evolving, set of techniques will have to be acquired to replace them (?)...
I wish people wouldn't call an Engineering - at best - degree Science.
This degree "provide[s] Northface University graduates with a strong foundation in technical skills and standards, an understanding of the business environment, and the ability to communicate and function well as members of teams," but no Science!
(Btw, I'm not being a snob - my first degree was in Software Engineering, even though I consider myself a Computer Scientist now...)
Slashdot is certainly not without stories about the Netherlands (whose language one can easily mock in text): http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=netherlands+site% 3Aslashdot.org
So that's why anonymity is identified with cowardice on this site...
Hmmm, I speak enough Afrikaans to know what that is literally, but I think I'm missing the nuance...
The parent to your post said "MOD PARENT UP... This is the correct Enligshification". The grandparent is as I quoted (and not by me).
I single these out because they're the only ones I've seen imitated on Slashdot... both with negative affect (like ven ve have vays of making you read rubbish like zis)... like I say, coincidence?
I find Dutch a charming language but if I is to see dis on de Shlashdot, I'd be surprised!
Sorry, I mean not ending in a vowel (i.e. ending in a consonant)
Sorry, where in "burogu sa-bisu" is there a phoneme ending in a vowel?
Ooooh that's it, is it - German and Japanese are just particularly amusing, as languages, to the Americans? It's nothing to do with the mid-twentienth century! (That's just coincidence.) How I've misjudged...
But why, when racism is so much more funny than accuracy... apparently...
So Google is credible for having followed standard MS strategy? LOL
You'd like to see them, having survived anti-competitive behaviour remedies, slip a little bit out of the public eye but raise greater and greater revenues with behind-the-scenes monopolies (like CICS)?