Hardly, you do recall the glorious effort of one James Carter, who convinced Bill "I'm stupid, its the economy" Clinton, that N. Korea would live up to food + aid for a stay in developing nuclear weapons. Only trouble was, N. Korea went ahead and developed them anyhow...said, U.S. was threatening them...and this with a U.S. President (Clinton) who's idea of retaliation was lighting off a few bottle rockets against Osama. When Dubya took office, he was presented with a fait accompli, N. Korea already had the enriched nuclear materials to build the bombs and the missile technology to deliver them.
Dubya spoke the truth and called the problem what it was, your problem is you just won't admit it.
Hear, hear! I work for the U.S. Navy. They too treat M$ doc formats as the default. If your suite thingy cannot read/write M$ formats, then your suite thingy cannot be used.
I can understand the reason for M$ Word docs. They have to standardize on something. But Powerpoint slides are a must for their ability to reduce even complicated technical points to something that almost but not quite entirely fails to be inane (D. Adams...what a wonderful way of expressing the situtation).
"exaggerated and self-aggrandizing worldview" is actually a psychological condition, technically it is called "grandiosity".
"Grandiosity is a symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder (aka manic depression). In the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV (DSM IV) it is used in combination with several other symptoms to confirm a diagnosis of this disorder. This symptom also occurs in children with early onset bipolar disorder."
I have a copy of DSM IV manual, dissecting human behavior is impossible without it.
Bingo! I got a CS degree from a major institution and had 3 offers (in the ancient past). One was from Grumman, they wanted me to work at night since then the big computer would be available. One was from a company in Rochester but something felt wrong about it. One was from a small company in Wisconsin. They hired me but decided they hired me for the wrong project and would I mind learning enough control theory to be useful and remain employed. I was damn happy for that wide education I got.
I don't know the answer to that, but what was the practical significance of Einstein's work on quantum theory...back in 1910-1920...you know, before anyone thought of computers and silicon and quantum effects in very small circuits?
What a load of fetid dingo kidneys. Does Newton's calculus or quantum mechanics ring a bell? Tell us how you want to be connecting webservers to a database for the rest of your life because you were too narrow minded to learn anything else. Math opens up the whole world of technology and science to you, you might find that refreshing after coming home from being told that a software program is going to be connecting that webserver to the database from now on.
And if you do not develop the joy of learning while you are in school, most reputable employers will figure that out before you even get finished with interview...they won't be happy you do not wish to learn.
By not getting a well rounded education, your brain as a muscle, will get soft. If you ever find a niche, you will be fed and cared for as a mushroom.
And you might find that the world is a bigger place than what someone will pay you for. Math and science education is central any country's future. You should want to learn it for that reason alone.
Companies run by math and science illiterates are an abomination, and they are no fun to work for either.
It will not be the one of the few things M$ actually innovated. I learned about capability based architectures back in 1976 and I believe they were "innovated" in the '60's, but security wasn't such a problem back then. Here's a url for 1980's article. You can pick up the trail there:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=850709&dl= AC M&coll=portal
Nope, it would still be a pile of fetid dingos kindeys...slow ones. The basic problem (forgetting about server side Java) is that Sun just doesn't get interfaces. They never did, they never will. They have a big machine, XWindow mentality. While that is good for some things, Java will never be able to produce apps for Windoze and Macs that are not slow and bloated. And the apps produced (at on Mac) sometimes have weird, hard to diagnose bugs because neither Sun nor Apple are committed to making Java good enough.
I beg to differ. PowerPoint is still an unmitigated pile of fetid dingos' kidneys. The rest may be okay, but I'm sure when I'm forced to use them, I'll find them similarly challenged. I wish Apple would pluuuueeese get Keynote up to reading all PowerPoint files. If I must use a braindead, bullet-speckled, PHB wet dream, at the least it ought to work like Keynote.
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Hardly, you do recall the glorious effort of one James Carter, who convinced Bill "I'm stupid, its the economy" Clinton, that N. Korea would live up to food + aid for a stay in developing nuclear weapons. Only trouble was, N. Korea went ahead and developed them anyhow...said, U.S. was threatening them...and this with a U.S. President (Clinton) who's idea of retaliation was lighting off a few bottle rockets against Osama. When Dubya took office, he was presented with a fait accompli, N. Korea already had the enriched nuclear materials to build the bombs and the missile technology to deliver them.
Dubya spoke the truth and called the problem what it was, your problem is you just won't admit it.
Hear, hear! I work for the U.S. Navy. They too treat M$ doc formats as the default. If your suite thingy cannot read/write M$ formats, then your suite thingy cannot be used.
I can understand the reason for M$ Word docs. They have to standardize on something. But Powerpoint slides are a must for their ability to reduce even complicated technical points to something that almost but not quite entirely fails to be inane (D. Adams...what a wonderful way of expressing the situtation).
M$ didn't "refute" anything, they "rebutted". Reporters should at least know the difference.
Maybe you "elicit" requirements?
"exaggerated and self-aggrandizing worldview" is actually a psychological condition, technically it is called "grandiosity".
"Grandiosity is a symptom of mania or hypomania in bipolar disorder (aka manic depression). In the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV (DSM IV) it is used in combination with several other symptoms to confirm a diagnosis of this disorder. This symptom also occurs in children with early onset bipolar disorder."
I have a copy of DSM IV manual, dissecting human behavior is impossible without it.
Gerry
Bingo! I got a CS degree from a major institution and had 3 offers (in the ancient past). One was from Grumman, they wanted me to work at night since then the big computer would be available. One was from a company in Rochester but something felt wrong about it. One was from a small company in Wisconsin. They hired me but decided they hired me for the wrong project and would I mind learning enough control theory to be useful and remain employed. I was damn happy for that wide education I got.
I don't know the answer to that, but what was the practical significance of Einstein's work on quantum theory...back in 1910-1920...you know, before anyone thought of computers and silicon and quantum effects in very small circuits?
What a load of fetid dingo kidneys. Does Newton's calculus or quantum mechanics ring a bell? Tell us how you want to be connecting webservers to a database for the rest of your life because you were too narrow minded to learn anything else. Math opens up the whole world of technology and science to you, you might find that refreshing after coming home from being told that a software program is going to be connecting that webserver to the database from now on.
And if you do not develop the joy of learning while you are in school, most reputable employers will figure that out before you even get finished with interview...they won't be happy you do not wish to learn.
By not getting a well rounded education, your brain as a muscle, will get soft. If you ever find a niche, you will be fed and cared for as a mushroom.
And you might find that the world is a bigger place than what someone will pay you for. Math and science education is central any country's future. You should want to learn it for that reason alone.
Companies run by math and science illiterates are an abomination, and they are no fun to work for either.
It will not be the one of the few things M$ actually innovated. I learned about capability based architectures back in 1976 and I believe they were "innovated" in the '60's, but security wasn't such a problem back then. Here's a url for 1980's article. You can pick up the trail there:
= AC M&coll=portal
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=850709&dl
Let 1 bit represent your favorite mathematical theorem is either true or false.
How much information is that?
Nope, it would still be a pile of fetid dingos kindeys...slow ones. The basic problem (forgetting about server side Java) is that Sun just doesn't get interfaces. They never did, they never will. They have a big machine, XWindow mentality. While that is good for some things, Java will never be able to produce apps for Windoze and Macs that are not slow
and bloated. And the apps produced (at on Mac) sometimes have weird, hard to diagnose bugs because neither Sun nor Apple are committed to making Java good enough.
I beg to differ. PowerPoint is still an unmitigated pile of fetid dingos' kidneys. The rest may be okay, but I'm sure when I'm forced to use them, I'll find them similarly challenged. I wish Apple would pluuuueeese get Keynote up to reading all PowerPoint files. If I must use a braindead, bullet-speckled, PHB wet dream, at the least it ought to work like Keynote.