Something doesn't smell right with these statistics. The artical is too vauge on a lot of needed points. What types of companies were polled? What platforms to the develop on? What type of software do they write - internal, shareware, commercial, web,...? Who sponsored the poll? What are their geographical locations?
I am biases myself, but it looks like the poll started in favor of Microsoft development tools. If you ask ANYone I know, they would say for the Windows platform, Visual C, Delphi, and last Java. *nix is another story.
Let me explain why. If I look on my Windows computer, most of the software is commercial. I have Netscape, MS Office, Seti@home, Easy CD Extractor, Norton Antivirus, etc... All of the above is written in Visual C except for one, Easy CD Extractor is Delphi. I have other software written in Visual C others written in Delphi, but I can't say the same for Visual Basic. I have zero programs running on my computer using Visual Basic.
I don't think that is true at all. Cable Internet is not available in my home town (in Alberta) either, nor is ADSL. In fact, whether this goes through or not has nothing to do with cable Internet is small towns.
The reason? Cable Internet is too expensive. Cable companies need the high prices of cable TV to subsidize the net loss of cable Internet. And this is in the cities. In small towns it is worse. They have to either bury thousands of miles of backbones or lease a telco's if available, just so that only a few people can use it. I've seen a map of Telus' backbone. It is huge, expensive, and covers only major cities and a couple lucky towns on the way.
As for "We _need_ monopolies to provide incentive to service providers to make the necessary capital investment.", your on your own on that one. And the cable company in my home town is neither Shaw nor Rogers; it's privately owned.
This looks more like a request from Microsoft for security rather than a feature for Win2K OS.
Remember the news about Microsoft's wireless campus LAN? Programmers at MS will be broadcasting huge amounts of private information into the atmosphere, including Windows 2000 source code. What is stopping someone from opening up shop near by with a couple recievers? And Windows 2000 is slow enough as it is, without on the fly driver based encryption. Microsoft needs this card.
Personally I would prefer hardware acceleration rather than the card doing everything.
Ozwald
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I'm all for not telling the newbie about the "root" account and all, but this raises some problems. Some tasks require root access to accomplish. RPMs cannot be installed/removed without appropriete rights.
I installed StarOffice a short time ago and there are some security tricks with that too. Do I install it in the/usr/local directory as root or do I install it in my home directory under my account? I can deal with this problem but to the people you are targeting probably can't.
----------------- Actual tech-sup question: "How am I supposed to right-click on your computer?"
I don't believe that there has to be any one language decided on. Instead they should try to decide on what their goals are: do they want students to be computer literate? do they want students to understand logic? or do they want a huge new group of mediocre programmers?
Language has nothing to do with any of this. I learned lots of languages that made me the programmer that I am. I learned logic using my Vic20/Basic. I learned algorithms and efficient coding using Assembler and C. And I learned Object Oriented Programming using C++ and applied the knowledge to Borland's Delphi. I could go on but every language is important in its own way.
If they want students to be computer literate, give them an operating system install CD, a newly formatted hard drive and tell them to write an essay on it. This is probably more useful to the masses. If they want to teach logic, Lego Mindstorms would do just as well. As for a tonne of weenie programmers, we don't need them. We need programmers who are talented, self motivated, and innovative. Linux would not exist if every contributor wasn't all of the above. And schools can't teach this.
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Something doesn't smell right with these statistics. The artical is too vauge on a lot of needed points. What types of companies were polled? What platforms to the develop on? What type of software do they write - internal, shareware, commercial, web, ...? Who sponsored the poll? What are their geographical locations?
I am biases myself, but it looks like the poll started in favor of Microsoft development tools. If you ask ANYone I know, they would say for the Windows platform, Visual C, Delphi, and last Java. *nix is another story.
Let me explain why. If I look on my Windows computer, most of the software is commercial. I have Netscape, MS Office, Seti@home, Easy CD Extractor, Norton Antivirus, etc... All of the above is written in Visual C except for one, Easy CD Extractor is Delphi. I have other software written in Visual C others written in Delphi, but I can't say the same for Visual Basic. I have zero programs running on my computer using Visual Basic.
But I am biased.
Ozwald
Now you see this wouldn't be happening if MS was using G4s. :)
Ozwald
I don't think that is true at all. Cable Internet is not available in my home town (in Alberta) either, nor is ADSL. In fact,
whether this goes through or not has nothing to do with cable Internet is small towns.
The reason? Cable Internet is too expensive. Cable companies need the high prices of cable TV to subsidize the net loss of
cable Internet. And this is in the cities. In small towns it is worse. They have to either bury thousands of miles of backbones
or lease a telco's if available, just so that only a few people can use it. I've seen a map of Telus' backbone. It is huge,
expensive, and covers only major cities and a couple lucky towns on the way.
As for "We _need_ monopolies to provide incentive to service providers to make the necessary capital investment.", your on
your own on that one. And the cable company in my home town is neither Shaw nor Rogers; it's privately owned.
This looks more like a request from Microsoft for security rather than a feature for Win2K OS.
Remember the news about Microsoft's wireless campus LAN? Programmers at MS will be broadcasting huge amounts of private information into the atmosphere, including Windows 2000 source code. What is stopping someone from opening up shop near by with a couple recievers? And Windows 2000 is slow enough as it is, without on the fly driver based encryption. Microsoft needs this card.
Personally I would prefer hardware acceleration rather than the card doing everything.
Ozwald
I'm all for not telling the newbie about the "root" account and all, but this raises some problems. Some tasks require root access to accomplish. RPMs cannot be installed/removed without appropriete rights.
/usr/local directory as root or do I install it in my home directory under my account? I can deal with this problem but to the people you are targeting probably can't.
I installed StarOffice a short time ago and there are some security tricks with that too. Do I install it in the
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Actual tech-sup question: "How am I supposed to right-click on your computer?"
I don't believe that there has to be any one language decided on. Instead they should try to decide on what their goals are: do they want students to be computer literate? do they want students to understand logic? or do they want a huge new group of mediocre programmers?
Language has nothing to do with any of this. I learned lots of languages that made me the programmer that I am. I learned logic using my Vic20/Basic. I learned algorithms and efficient coding using Assembler and C. And I learned Object Oriented Programming using C++ and applied the knowledge to Borland's Delphi. I could go on but every language is important in its own way.
If they want students to be computer literate, give them an operating system install CD, a newly formatted hard drive and tell them to write an essay on it. This is probably more useful to the masses. If they want to teach logic, Lego Mindstorms would do just as well. As for a tonne of weenie programmers, we don't need them. We need programmers who are talented, self motivated, and innovative. Linux would not exist if every contributor wasn't all of the above. And schools can't teach this.
Ozwald