Well... Think the other way: Even loving pineapple and mango, I never buy these fruits, because I am an incompetent bastard that never know if they are ripe enough to be eaten. After some experiences buying pineapples acid enough to make me cry, I stopped buying those fruits. So, I'd definitelly would buy more fruits if I had some way of knowing if they are already ripe.
I was born in 1974, and because of that, I was exposed to Basic on the 80's, what, according to Dijkstra should have damaged my brain permanently. (I think I survived this fate because after a short time on basic I got an interest on assembler for the z80 processor.)
But now, talking seriously... I believe that learning a computer language is excellent for kids. Besides Sci Fi, I don't know anything as effective to make a kid to really come to appreciate books than trying to solve a programming problem (at least with boys).
Tell a kid from a ghetto that if he studies hard he will eventually become a doctor, and probably, he will laugh at your face. Now, if you manage to make him program something, he will get hooked, and will start believing that HE CAN do things, because now you can give him a fast feedback cycle for his efforts. It's not something distant, like: have good grades and, eventually, you'll go to college, and eventually, you'll get a 100K job.
If Bill Gates mother had not paid for that fscking remote mainframe terminal at young billy's school, we wouldn't need to waste our time everyday here at slashdot, looking for another oportunity to bash Microsoft.
Indeed, we would still be bashing IBM just like our 70's predecessors used to do.
So, I have to agree with you that computers in school have never shown any good results, ever.
and the list goes on for IBM:
Weather Modelling
Nanotechnology
Quantum Cryptography
Holographic Storage
Modelling cardiac muscle
Protein Folding (with Blue Gene)
high-temperature superconductivity (I remember that a IBM researcher got a nobel for that)
scanning tunneling microscopy (another nobel)
Actually, that list goes on, and it's true science, instead of new fancy web calendars.
Microsoft R&D is, on most cases, not true R&D, but product development.
The same can be said about Google.
So far, big science funding by large corporations is solely represented by IBM, who funds research on fields from nanotechnology to biological research. Look at how many Nobel Prize winners they currently employ. Now tell me how many are working for MSFT. Do you really believe you compare some of the finest IBM research with, let's say, winFS?
And what is good in IBM research is that some of this research is actually translated into profitable products, what let the shareholders happy enough to make them let the money flow to R&D without complaints.
A Microsoft source revealed that MSN will have "Accessible Search Personal Experience Edition(TM)" available next winter. ASPEE will require customers to buy "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Neural Control Implant(TM)". According to Microsoft the use of a neural implant will be advantageous to customers, because they will be automatically "shut-down" if caught using a non-genuine version os "Windows for Brains", what would help them to be law-abiding citizens.
Several guys and girls sitted in a class-room style, a parlatory.
Bald middle-aged man - Hey Tonny, it's your turn!
Tonny stands up, and go to the parlatory, there's a palpable layer of sweat on his face, yet, he looks proud and happy.
Tonny stands in the parlatory....
TONNY - I am a Microsoft Windows Developer!...
Thinks about it in that way: Q: Where this money is going? A: to space research.
Personnally I think that this sounds a lot better than if the billionaire was going to buy a small country in africa and building his own personal army, or even better than keeping all his money on third-world bonds issued by corrupt governments that pay absurd interest rates on their bonds just to keep the money flowing into her hands, and later make their people pay the interest with absurd taxes (I talk about myself, because that's the situation we live in Brasil right now)
Why "according" to google. Are we becoming so addict to google, that we can't even do basic math with it? btw, how do you do math with google? And no, don't tell me you had to use google spreadsheets to do a simple division.
Private parts fingerprinting!
I am pretty sure the lines on a scrotal bag, or in a vulva lips are unique just as fingerprints. And unless you're too promiscous, I don't see anyone leaving impressions of those parts everywhere.
The only thing I need to solve before I apply for a patent is the ergonomics.
Hey Guys, get ready to see me next year on the cover of Time Magazine as the man of the year!
I also live in Rio de Janeiro, and I use my iPod all the time with the white earbuds. Never had a problem. the only thing I do is running the cable under my clothes.
Typical teenager-myspace-user dialog I've heard one of these days while commuting:
"Oh, the computers on my school suck, they don't have windows, only word and mozilla"
Under the light of this comment, I believe your suggestion is not going to be widely adopted.
The thing is that we are very resillient. Kill one transistor in Microprocessor and you're done. Compare that with people that lost some brain stuff in accidents and are still able to breath, walk, speak, and sometimes they even manage to rewire their brains to regain some lost functionalities.
So, I don't agree when you say that human brains don't work very well under stress.
Actually child slave labor is, by definition, so cheap, that I believe that soon the chinese government will replace the siscoo (a famous chinese networking brand) firewalls with specially trained kids that will analyse each packet.
Of course this is going to make online gaming somewhat painful.
Ahaha...
Hum, I would love to see you explaining that to stakeholders.
Btw, if you don't like DRM, don't buy music with DRM. If enough people do the same, probably record companies will have to change their minds.
But it's utterly their right to sell music they own, the way they want. it is their's property, not ours. I can choose not to buy what they sell, and they can choose what to sell and how.
I don't like DRM because it restricts legitimate uses. But blaming apple for it is totally stupid
Not really. Modern pipelined architectures make hard-written assembler slower than compiler generated. A human can't really deal with out-of-order execution.
As longas they don't "extend" it with incompatible features, it's the more sensible thing I hear from Microsoft in a long time. Actually, it's the first thing I hear from them in a long time that seems to care about what the customer needs. Kudos for them if they are being serious.
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Well... Think the other way: Even loving pineapple and mango, I never buy these fruits, because I am an incompetent bastard that never know if they are ripe enough to be eaten. After some experiences buying pineapples acid enough to make me cry, I stopped buying those fruits. So, I'd definitelly would buy more fruits if I had some way of knowing if they are already ripe.
I was born in 1974, and because of that, I was exposed to Basic on the 80's, what, according to Dijkstra should have damaged my brain permanently. (I think I survived this fate because after a short time on basic I got an interest on assembler for the z80 processor.) But now, talking seriously... I believe that learning a computer language is excellent for kids. Besides Sci Fi, I don't know anything as effective to make a kid to really come to appreciate books than trying to solve a programming problem (at least with boys). Tell a kid from a ghetto that if he studies hard he will eventually become a doctor, and probably, he will laugh at your face. Now, if you manage to make him program something, he will get hooked, and will start believing that HE CAN do things, because now you can give him a fast feedback cycle for his efforts. It's not something distant, like: have good grades and, eventually, you'll go to college, and eventually, you'll get a 100K job.
If Bill Gates mother had not paid for that fscking remote mainframe terminal at young billy's school, we wouldn't need to waste our time everyday here at slashdot, looking for another oportunity to bash Microsoft. Indeed, we would still be bashing IBM just like our 70's predecessors used to do. So, I have to agree with you that computers in school have never shown any good results, ever.
and the list goes on for IBM: Weather Modelling Nanotechnology Quantum Cryptography Holographic Storage Modelling cardiac muscle Protein Folding (with Blue Gene) high-temperature superconductivity (I remember that a IBM researcher got a nobel for that) scanning tunneling microscopy (another nobel) Actually, that list goes on, and it's true science, instead of new fancy web calendars.
Microsoft R&D is, on most cases, not true R&D, but product development. The same can be said about Google. So far, big science funding by large corporations is solely represented by IBM, who funds research on fields from nanotechnology to biological research. Look at how many Nobel Prize winners they currently employ. Now tell me how many are working for MSFT. Do you really believe you compare some of the finest IBM research with, let's say, winFS? And what is good in IBM research is that some of this research is actually translated into profitable products, what let the shareholders happy enough to make them let the money flow to R&D without complaints.
Well, they have lots of cash to promote and distribute their productions.
A Microsoft source revealed that MSN will have "Accessible Search Personal Experience Edition(TM)" available next winter. ASPEE will require customers to buy "Microsoft Genuine Advantage Neural Control Implant(TM)". According to Microsoft the use of a neural implant will be advantageous to customers, because they will be automatically "shut-down" if caught using a non-genuine version os "Windows for Brains", what would help them to be law-abiding citizens.
Several guys and girls sitted in a class-room style, a parlatory. Bald middle-aged man - Hey Tonny, it's your turn! Tonny stands up, and go to the parlatory, there's a palpable layer of sweat on his face, yet, he looks proud and happy. Tonny stands in the parlatory.... TONNY - I am a Microsoft Windows Developer! ...
Thinks about it in that way: Q: Where this money is going? A: to space research. Personnally I think that this sounds a lot better than if the billionaire was going to buy a small country in africa and building his own personal army, or even better than keeping all his money on third-world bonds issued by corrupt governments that pay absurd interest rates on their bonds just to keep the money flowing into her hands, and later make their people pay the interest with absurd taxes (I talk about myself, because that's the situation we live in Brasil right now)
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Why "according" to google. Are we becoming so addict to google, that we can't even do basic math with it? btw, how do you do math with google? And no, don't tell me you had to use google spreadsheets to do a simple division.
Man, actually I would better live in welfare in US than being an engineer in Soviet Russia.
Private parts fingerprinting! I am pretty sure the lines on a scrotal bag, or in a vulva lips are unique just as fingerprints. And unless you're too promiscous, I don't see anyone leaving impressions of those parts everywhere. The only thing I need to solve before I apply for a patent is the ergonomics. Hey Guys, get ready to see me next year on the cover of Time Magazine as the man of the year!
Well, in Soviet Russia, the dust control the computers. So. they have a precedent.
I also live in Rio de Janeiro, and I use my iPod all the time with the white earbuds. Never had a problem. the only thing I do is running the cable under my clothes.
Typical teenager-myspace-user dialog I've heard one of these days while commuting: "Oh, the computers on my school suck, they don't have windows, only word and mozilla" Under the light of this comment, I believe your suggestion is not going to be widely adopted.
how do you reproduce the Mac OS X drop shadow for a window? Is it possible with DHTML? maybe, that's the reason we see only XP-style ones.
The thing is that we are very resillient. Kill one transistor in Microprocessor and you're done. Compare that with people that lost some brain stuff in accidents and are still able to breath, walk, speak, and sometimes they even manage to rewire their brains to regain some lost functionalities. So, I don't agree when you say that human brains don't work very well under stress.
Actually child slave labor is, by definition, so cheap, that I believe that soon the chinese government will replace the siscoo (a famous chinese networking brand) firewalls with specially trained kids that will analyse each packet. Of course this is going to make online gaming somewhat painful.
Ahaha... Hum, I would love to see you explaining that to stakeholders. Btw, if you don't like DRM, don't buy music with DRM. If enough people do the same, probably record companies will have to change their minds. But it's utterly their right to sell music they own, the way they want. it is their's property, not ours. I can choose not to buy what they sell, and they can choose what to sell and how. I don't like DRM because it restricts legitimate uses. But blaming apple for it is totally stupid
Not really. Modern pipelined architectures make hard-written assembler slower than compiler generated. A human can't really deal with out-of-order execution.
As longas they don't "extend" it with incompatible features, it's the more sensible thing I hear from Microsoft in a long time. Actually, it's the first thing I hear from them in a long time that seems to care about what the customer needs. Kudos for them if they are being serious.
Treat your employees well. They will still be around for a long time after they leave your company (unless, of course, your company is the mafia)
I see a new fast-food chain based on that: JFK Fried Chicken, (or ducks... or whatever..._)
Err... Sometimes pretending you have no humour IS humour. A lot of british humour is based preciselly on that idea.