Because huge chunk of municipal IT infrastructure, processes and procedures depend on Autodesk's solutions. I don't know whether you're aware how state administration works on local level in EU, but it's very much about cadastre, urban planning, architecture, civil infrastructure, building permits, etc. That's, generally, their basic source of income.
Funny thing, but this discussion reminds me on decades old rambling on assembler programming techniques. IMHO, the whole "paradigm" will get rendered obsolete by smarter CLIs being able to automagically;-) interpret parts of code to fit multicore architecture. This is, after all, one of the features of CLI layer anyway (beside portability) - to conform to underlying hardware with minnimum or no programming efforts.
IMHO, CATV operators' investment in FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home) and similar fiber optic based technologies is not that mindboggingly huge as someone might think. Every (sane) CATV operator already placed an extra empty conduit along the trenched route to you home. It's left there on purpose, for future use. Later on, when they need to fill it with a new cable - they use a technique known as "jetting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetting/.
The overall price of hardware that supports fiber optic transmission is considerably small when compared to amount of money a CATV provider needs to invest when routing a completely new network. They can't just dig around (your house, appartment block, a street or a highway). They need approvals, and I mean many approvals. Certain approvals cost a lot of money. Some cities won't even let them dig - they'll rather rent them city-owned (or national Telco-owned) undeground conduits.
I'm afraid that many people living in the land of plenty (Mr. Gates included) do not fully understand what's going on in undeveloped parts of the world. There's rather strange general opinion that the only difference between developed and underdeveloped (or poor) societies lies in the fact that developed ones use high technology while others don't. There're also tons of studies published on that, only few of them getting close to explain what's causing that difference. In my personal experience it's a) organization and b) education.
The truth is, laptops and cell phones (hi-tech in general) represent only side effects of a modern society. They do not either help develop, nor modernize, undeveloped one.
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As for my 25+ years of coding, I can say only one thing - it won't help you if hammer is red or blue, if you're lousy craftsman.
Because huge chunk of municipal IT infrastructure, processes and procedures depend on Autodesk's solutions. I don't know whether you're aware how state administration works on local level in EU, but it's very much about cadastre, urban planning, architecture, civil infrastructure, building permits, etc. That's, generally, their basic source of income.
Good God, I had no idea Bing has that many users!
4.24 x 4.5 x 1.93 inches is how many Lordes exactly?
So, you're telling me that this year is not the year of Linux for desktops?
Did you mean Buttle?
What could possibly go wrong?
Funny thing, but this discussion reminds me on decades old rambling on assembler programming techniques. IMHO, the whole "paradigm" will get rendered obsolete by smarter CLIs being able to automagically ;-) interpret parts of code to fit multicore architecture. This is, after all, one of the features of CLI layer anyway (beside portability) - to conform to underlying hardware with minnimum or no programming efforts.
IMHO, CATV operators' investment in FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home) and similar fiber optic based technologies is not that mindboggingly huge as someone might think. Every (sane) CATV operator already placed an extra empty conduit along the trenched route to you home. It's left there on purpose, for future use. Later on, when they need to fill it with a new cable - they use a technique known as "jetting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetting/.
The overall price of hardware that supports fiber optic transmission is considerably small when compared to amount of money a CATV provider needs to invest when routing a completely new network. They can't just dig around (your house, appartment block, a street or a highway). They need approvals, and I mean many approvals. Certain approvals cost a lot of money. Some cities won't even let them dig - they'll rather rent them city-owned (or national Telco-owned) undeground conduits.
I'm afraid that many people living in the land of plenty (Mr. Gates included) do not fully understand what's going on in undeveloped parts of the world. There's rather strange general opinion that the only difference between developed and underdeveloped (or poor) societies lies in the fact that developed ones use high technology while others don't. There're also tons of studies published on that, only few of them getting close to explain what's causing that difference. In my personal experience it's a) organization and b) education. The truth is, laptops and cell phones (hi-tech in general) represent only side effects of a modern society. They do not either help develop, nor modernize, undeveloped one.