"... I think if you got together many of the technical thinkers of our time and asked them who the 20 best computer innovators were , Gates would have a hard time on that list (as well as Jobs) and it would be filled with people whom the average guy would never have heard of... "
Cool, fine, but that's not what the poll was asking. And they were asking a large mixture of people.
I'm sure if you asked a bunch of astronomers or musicians or theologians who they admire most you'd get some names the average guy had never heard of.
"... Gates' real accomplishment is being able to take other people's ideas, dumb them down, and give people a wink and a nod to make people think they are his without really lying... "
Isn't that called marketing?
And anyway, Gates did write a lot of the code on the initial builds of windows.
If someone played football for an average of 5 hours a day they don't get called addicts they get called David Beckham and Pele. Why is it different with computer games?
This is all a big fight against Apple, and rightly so. Adobe are supporting VP8 as well as H.264. Flash will play all formats, we won't need loads of plugins, just flash. Yet again, flash steps into the breach where a mess of formats are battling it out.
In my experience most sysadmins would refuse to give up control. The only other control they usually have in there lives is telling there mum what type of pizza to bring down to the basement of an evening.:-)
Although NI is not part of Great Britain (technically Lewis, Skye, The Orkneys and Shetlands and all the other islands are not part of Great Britain as the "Great" refers to the large, or great, island), NI is part of Britain! So he was, in fact, correct!
Also, if I wanted to be even more of a pedant myself, I would say you cannot be pedantic, you can only be a pedant.
So, if you want to be a pedant, get it right yourself!
However, it did reflect what astronomy is really like. It mostly is waiting around for skies to clear and things in the sky to happen and speculating on previous events while you wait.
Yeh, Flamsteed, Airy, Halley, Moore, Lassell, Hawking, Newton, Herschel, Cox,... Britain is rubbish for astronomy and all that dull space stuff. Don't know why we British bother, to be honest!
Yay, BBC Micro! My first computer. I learned Assembly on that. I haven't done assembly for years. Most languages we write in these days must be L5 or even L6 languages. I found myself having to really dredge my memory to understand some of the code in that article.
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" ... I think if you got together many of the technical thinkers of our time and asked them who the 20 best computer innovators were , Gates would have a hard time on that list (as well as Jobs) and it would be filled with people whom the average guy would never have heard of ... "
... Gates' real accomplishment is being able to take other people's ideas, dumb them down, and give people a wink and a nod to make people think they are his without really lying ... "
Cool, fine, but that's not what the poll was asking. And they were asking a large mixture of people.
I'm sure if you asked a bunch of astronomers or musicians or theologians who they admire most you'd get some names the average guy had never heard of.
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Isn't that called marketing?
And anyway, Gates did write a lot of the code on the initial builds of windows.
Not that I am necessarily disagreeing with you. But how is a bicycle "self-driving"?
If someone played football for an average of 5 hours a day they don't get called addicts they get called David Beckham and Pele. Why is it different with computer games?
I know very little about American law, but if the judge recommends a particular sentence, who has the power to change that?
Hey, I use OS/2 you insensitive clod!
" ... I have come to expect a certain amount of journalistic integrity from Slashdot ... "
My screen is now covered in coffee. Thanks a bunch!
" ... I can't wait to see your math/food analogies ... "
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Exactly, and I thought the bit about freezing the samples preserved the signal, was dubious too!
Read Ruie's comments above. There is no linear correlation between numbers of bacteria and EMF. That pretty much means background noise.
" ... Exactly. It doesn't matter how an idea sounds. If it's right then it's right. ... "
And if it is right, other people will be able to re-create the experiment and observe the same things. That's how science works.
Quoting one paper that observed something does not show it to be right.
" And after several generations, you'd have a new species".
Erm, unlikely.
After several 1000 generations, if children with mutations are allowed to develop, you may have a new species.
This is all a big fight against Apple, and rightly so. Adobe are supporting VP8 as well as H.264. Flash will play all formats, we won't need loads of plugins, just flash. Yet again, flash steps into the breach where a mess of formats are battling it out.
Make it so Number One!
Given your sig, are you being sarcastic?
Bread and circuses wasn't a reason at all. It was a symptom.
In my experience most sysadmins would refuse to give up control. The only other control they usually have in there lives is telling there mum what type of pizza to bring down to the basement of an evening. :-)
If you read my post I said NI was NOT part of Great Britain. However, it IS part of Britain. *GREAT* Britain is the main island.
Some people may think NI should belong to Ireland but currently it does not.
"(collected while she watched a sad movie)"
I'm glad you said that, I would have wondered how they got the women to cry otherwise.
*smug*Makes me even happier that I am a vegetarian*smug*
There, fixed that for ya!
Yes, but how many KGs of protein are produced per hectare?
Exactly how would planes measure true north in a reliable way?
Although NI is not part of Great Britain (technically Lewis, Skye, The Orkneys and Shetlands and all the other islands are not part of Great Britain as the "Great" refers to the large, or great, island), NI is part of Britain! So he was, in fact, correct!
Also, if I wanted to be even more of a pedant myself, I would say you cannot be pedantic, you can only be a pedant.
So, if you want to be a pedant, get it right yourself!
However, it did reflect what astronomy is really like. It mostly is waiting around for skies to clear and things in the sky to happen and speculating on previous events while you wait.
Yeh, Flamsteed, Airy, Halley, Moore, Lassell, Hawking, Newton, Herschel, Cox, ... Britain is rubbish for astronomy and all that dull space stuff. Don't know why we British bother, to be honest!
Yay, BBC Micro! My first computer. I learned Assembly on that. I haven't done assembly for years. Most languages we write in these days must be L5 or even L6 languages. I found myself having to really dredge my memory to understand some of the code in that article.