Newton was thought to have a mild case of autism called Aspegers.
I'm not sure that could be determined at this point, but I do hear that he stuttered and had epilepsy, so it could be. I'm sure it's possible to be intelligent and be mostly normal/conventional/neurotypical in most other respects at the same time. But to achieve the things guys like Newton have achieved, the level of perseveration has to be such that they at least need to be OCD. I hear Thomas Edison didn't read until he was 12 -- had some learning disability. Graham Bell, I believe was dyslexic. Einstein is controversial, but this is fairly well documented in the "Einstein Syndrome:" He was a late talker, and couldn't really speak fluently until the age of 9. Had violent temper tantrums. Repeated every sentence he uttered. Was considered retarted by his elementary school teachers. (I'm pretty sure Einstein today would be diagnosed HFA and put on Ritalin.) Consider also Howard Hughes -- just go see "The Aviator." Someone here mentioned recently that James Gosling "amazingly" doesn't seem to have good social skills. I think I could go on for ever with this.
There are also cases of autistic individuals considered retarted who later in life are determined to have very high IQs (even though a lot of times they still cannot communicate verbally.) There was a documentary in CNN recently about a woman such as this.
I for one don't consider true high-functioning autism a disease or a disorder. It's just neurological diversity, for which there's very little tolerance, and is plagued by ridiculous stereotypes.
I think his reference to aliens refers to ppl not born here.
No kidding.
The corporations decry that they have to hire Visa workers because
they cannot find ppl locally, but the real truth is that a Visa
worker often can be had for ALOT less salary wise, and fear
can be used to scare the visa worker to work HUGE amounts of unpaid overtime .
I've mentioned this before. There are immigration laws that regulate the salaries of H1-B workers. Can you prove that these laws are broken on a regular basis or that foreign employees are generally threatened? Not in my personal experience. If locals are unable to get jobs and foreigners are (assuming that's even true) there might be other reasons (e.g. locals can have the luxury of being pickier.)
I don't think the argument is that people are getting dumber. It's like trying to make processors faster. There are always limits, physical limits -- until a new breakthrough is made. Nowadays it's also very difficult for a single individual to come up with new things when there are corporations with a lot of resources driving technological change. So motivation for the individual could be a factor, combined with the need for huge resources in order to develop something new.
Did Darwin get a business visa to conduct his studies in the Galapagos?
Big deal. I'm sure it's not that hard to get a Visa to Ecuador. I need a visa to visit the US, and I can only stay 3 months. Most people in Ecuador who apply for visas to the US cannot pass the interview. It's just not possible (hence, all the illegal immigration.) There's a reason why the US appears in the short list of countries for which a Visa is required. Strangely, Colombian citizens are just let in.
Costless is good, but open source is better (at least to a developer.) I can use the.NET framework for free, for example, but I'll curse whenever I need to debug unusual issues occurring in the library. Since not all of the.NET source code is available it's often necessary to decompile it.
It's pretty amazing if you think about it. All these arguments all come down to a shortcoming of the English language. In Spanish it would be impossible to have this argument. The words Libre and Gratis are unambiguous.
I do believe that Sun will eventually yield to the pressure and make Java open source. Resistance is futile, really. IBM wants it to be open source. There's the HarmonyProject. Microsoft has.NET, a Java clone which will not be open source any sooner. There's mounting competition from open source platforms, such a Ruby. We just need to be patient.
I had a feeling somehow archive.org could be used to screw someone. That manifesto is pretty clear. I don't see what's out of context. And it's not surprising that he started a project such as BitTorrent after reading it. Nothing wrong with starting a project for political reasons though:)
It comes to show that how technically impressive a project is doesn't necessarily have a correlation with how popular it is. It likely has to do with how MySQL has been marketed and positioned. It may have to do with its licensing model. Maybe it's easier to get going for most simple applications.
It is true that many Java frameworks (and to be specific much of what Sun designs) tends to be over-engineered and complicated. That's not to say that Java the language sucks, or that there can't be simple Java frameworks. In fact, it has been a very successful language for a reason, a language that MS itself has put a lot of effort into cloning (and improving to a limited extent in some areas), and one that IBM is very fond of.
I'm not that familiar with PHP, so correct me if I'm wrong. It's not really a runtime, like Java. So how do you manage threads? I'm sure it can be used to code CRUD websites (probably 95% percent of all websites) but can it handle more technical requirements? What if I needed to code a low-threaded load balancer with it? Does it have a collection API comparable to Java's? I believe session data is stored in a file. How complex an object hierarchy can you put in a session?
Hopefully Google doesn't underestimate them as much. It would be foolish. MS specializes in catching up and making small improvements on what they are copying. They lose their sleep thinking of ways to break their competition. They study their opponents very carefully, probably even personally. It only takes them half the time to catch up than it did to develop the original product.
MS long-term strategy involves having both client and web applications developed with XAML. Though they appear to deny the intention to replace HTML/Javascript, XAML is designed to be able to, and it just might because it will be far superior -- it will be a.NET language. (The open source community will help them port it to Linux, etc.)
Not to mention reliable. I've had Java run a software load balancer for a customer processing hundreds/thousands of requests per second for serveral months non-stop, without a hitch.
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What needs to happen is there needs to be an international standard (not sure if it exists already) whereby handling/storage/access of sensitive information in company data centers is specified. So when you go to a website, in addition to checking for HTTPS there would be some indication of whether the company follows the standard. Banks would also publish whether they follow it.
Agreed. My credit card number, to take one example, should not be visible to all kinds of employees, regardless of whether they are offshore or not. That's the problem when you enter sensitive information on a website. It doesn't matter that it's sent over HTTPS if it's unclear how the information is dealt with on the other end.
HTML won't be around in 2056. XHTML, I doubt it. Javascript, come on? Even XAML will be gone by then I bet.
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It's bound to be as different as today compared to 1956, more or less. Pretty interesting changes have occurred, although not ridiculous nor predictable.
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I'm not sure that could be determined at this point, but I do hear that he stuttered and had epilepsy, so it could be. I'm sure it's possible to be intelligent and be mostly normal/conventional/neurotypical in most other respects at the same time. But to achieve the things guys like Newton have achieved, the level of perseveration has to be such that they at least need to be OCD. I hear Thomas Edison didn't read until he was 12 -- had some learning disability. Graham Bell, I believe was dyslexic. Einstein is controversial, but this is fairly well documented in the "Einstein Syndrome:" He was a late talker, and couldn't really speak fluently until the age of 9. Had violent temper tantrums. Repeated every sentence he uttered. Was considered retarted by his elementary school teachers. (I'm pretty sure Einstein today would be diagnosed HFA and put on Ritalin.) Consider also Howard Hughes -- just go see "The Aviator." Someone here mentioned recently that James Gosling "amazingly" doesn't seem to have good social skills. I think I could go on for ever with this.
There are also cases of autistic individuals considered retarted who later in life are determined to have very high IQs (even though a lot of times they still cannot communicate verbally.) There was a documentary in CNN recently about a woman such as this.
I for one don't consider true high-functioning autism a disease or a disorder. It's just neurological diversity, for which there's very little tolerance, and is plagued by ridiculous stereotypes.
No kidding.
The corporations decry that they have to hire Visa workers because they cannot find ppl locally, but the real truth is that a Visa worker often can be had for ALOT less salary wise, and fear can be used to scare the visa worker to work HUGE amounts of unpaid overtime .
I've mentioned this before. There are immigration laws that regulate the salaries of H1-B workers. Can you prove that these laws are broken on a regular basis or that foreign employees are generally threatened? Not in my personal experience. If locals are unable to get jobs and foreigners are (assuming that's even true) there might be other reasons (e.g. locals can have the luxury of being pickier.)
WTF do "aliens" have to do with innovation?
I don't think the argument is that people are getting dumber. It's like trying to make processors faster. There are always limits, physical limits -- until a new breakthrough is made. Nowadays it's also very difficult for a single individual to come up with new things when there are corporations with a lot of resources driving technological change. So motivation for the individual could be a factor, combined with the need for huge resources in order to develop something new.
Big deal. I'm sure it's not that hard to get a Visa to Ecuador. I need a visa to visit the US, and I can only stay 3 months. Most people in Ecuador who apply for visas to the US cannot pass the interview. It's just not possible (hence, all the illegal immigration.) There's a reason why the US appears in the short list of countries for which a Visa is required. Strangely, Colombian citizens are just let in.
Costless is good, but open source is better (at least to a developer.) I can use the .NET framework for free, for example, but I'll curse whenever I need to debug unusual issues occurring in the library. Since not all of the .NET source code is available it's often necessary to decompile it.
It's pretty amazing if you think about it. All these arguments all come down to a shortcoming of the English language. In Spanish it would be impossible to have this argument. The words Libre and Gratis are unambiguous.
Hmm. Myth-busters I recall disproved that one.
I do believe that Sun will eventually yield to the pressure and make Java open source. Resistance is futile, really. IBM wants it to be open source. There's the HarmonyProject. Microsoft has .NET, a Java clone which will not be open source any sooner. There's mounting competition from open source platforms, such a Ruby. We just need to be patient.
I had a feeling somehow archive.org could be used to screw someone. That manifesto is pretty clear. I don't see what's out of context. And it's not surprising that he started a project such as BitTorrent after reading it. Nothing wrong with starting a project for political reasons though :)
How is that amazing?
I previously posted a comment wondering if this is so.
It comes to show that how technically impressive a project is doesn't necessarily have a correlation with how popular it is. It likely has to do with how MySQL has been marketed and positioned. It may have to do with its licensing model. Maybe it's easier to get going for most simple applications.
It is true that many Java frameworks (and to be specific much of what Sun designs) tends to be over-engineered and complicated. That's not to say that Java the language sucks, or that there can't be simple Java frameworks. In fact, it has been a very successful language for a reason, a language that MS itself has put a lot of effort into cloning (and improving to a limited extent in some areas), and one that IBM is very fond of.
I'm not that familiar with PHP, so correct me if I'm wrong. It's not really a runtime, like Java. So how do you manage threads? I'm sure it can be used to code CRUD websites (probably 95% percent of all websites) but can it handle more technical requirements? What if I needed to code a low-threaded load balancer with it? Does it have a collection API comparable to Java's? I believe session data is stored in a file. How complex an object hierarchy can you put in a session?
Hopefully Google doesn't underestimate them as much. It would be foolish. MS specializes in catching up and making small improvements on what they are copying. They lose their sleep thinking of ways to break their competition. They study their opponents very carefully, probably even personally. It only takes them half the time to catch up than it did to develop the original product.
MS long-term strategy involves having both client and web applications developed with XAML. Though they appear to deny the intention to replace HTML/Javascript, XAML is designed to be able to, and it just might because it will be far superior -- it will be a .NET language. (The open source community will help them port it to Linux, etc.)
Not to mention reliable. I've had Java run a software load balancer for a customer processing hundreds/thousands of requests per second for serveral months non-stop, without a hitch.
I'd have to agree Sun thought it out pretty well.
What needs to happen is there needs to be an international standard (not sure if it exists already) whereby handling/storage/access of sensitive information in company data centers is specified. So when you go to a website, in addition to checking for HTTPS there would be some indication of whether the company follows the standard. Banks would also publish whether they follow it.
To be fair they ought to try that experiment in the US o UK.
Agreed. My credit card number, to take one example, should not be visible to all kinds of employees, regardless of whether they are offshore or not. That's the problem when you enter sensitive information on a website. It doesn't matter that it's sent over HTTPS if it's unclear how the information is dealt with on the other end.
HTML won't be around in 2056. XHTML, I doubt it. Javascript, come on? Even XAML will be gone by then I bet.
It's bound to be as different as today compared to 1956, more or less. Pretty interesting changes have occurred, although not ridiculous nor predictable.
Yep, good thing Silicon Valley is not in an earthquake prone area :)