Yes and no. Students need to write programs in at least 3 or 4 different languages, and not specialise on a single one.

On my days, I had to code in Pascal, Modula 2, C, C++, but also in LISP, Cobol and Fortran. After a full class on each one of these languages, we were allowed to code in whatever we would want (including BASIC, some students coded in Visual BASIC - a novelty at that time).

Colleges should not be market driven, they should give students enough knowledge to allow them to cope with whatever the market is needing when they finally goes to work.

It depends on how you use it.

On my Company, I wrote a "service bus" using Python but all the heavy lifting is made on the good and faithful Java. Lots of RPCs, but it worth the pain because what Python does well, it does really well - and to everything else, there's Java.

But to tell you the true, some components on the stack ended up being wrote in Perl (yeah 5.4) because our testings demonstrate that it would be the fastest option for that particular job - got figure it out, I din't even tried to understand, just accepted the results.

So now I have a stack tied together using RC-Service, Bash, Perl, Python and Java - and we handle literally millions of requests a week on an a pretty cheap server.

Not only on yours. This crap is happening everywhere. It only happens that your country is currently one of the most rich of the World, what made you a primary target.

As soon as USA fixes their infra-structure (and fix it they will, otherwise they will go kaput), will rain hell on the rest of us....

Orkut. :)

Yeah, that was a good Social Network. Your own timeline was your timeline, it was not merged on a huge wall of things that you most doesn't care.

Communities was the keyword there. And it worked very well. But then Google decided it should promote Google Wave, that flopped. People didn't saw a need for Wave, as Orkut was already good enough.

Then Google killed Orkut, and tried to shove Google+ on us. Interesting enough, G+ was good and could had become the "New Orkut" - but Google knows better, and decided that all the content on Orkut should die. The same way they're doing with G+ now.

Do you know? I don't think Google will ever manage to get their feed on a Social Network again. They destroyed everything they managed to build with plain disregard for people willing to keep their social networkings from the last product. It's insane. No one will thrust them again for some time.

The best and longer living products are the ones they bought, by the way. Everything else is kaput.

The first two sentences were from the parent post. Somehow, the quoting failed on me here.

Yes, but who is going to defend me from you?

I have my own gun, and I use it to defend myself from you. I shoot you, you shoot me. In the end, I'm still dead. Now, if neither of us had a gun in the first place, we would both still be alive.

No. You would be dead by a knife on your belly, as the assassin would be pretty sure you are defenseless, and he would walk away from it easily.

Guns are no a life insurance. Guns are deterrences. And on your example, you take the bastard with you - one less criminal walking on the streets.

But this doesn't concerns you, as all you are worried about is on your own survival, with complete disregard of anyone else, right?

I had not had a SystemD for an Year now. Not a single one.

I wonder if there's something to do about not using nothing with it since in the last 12 months?

"Son, that's the deal. You wash the dishes this lunch, and I let you play Okami for the rest of the day".

Then take the PS3 to somewhere else, where he can not access it.

But leave the PS2 attached into the TV with a pirated Okami copy.

When you see the kid playing, say "This is what I was talking about"

So they didn't fixed the crashing - they postponed it by throwing hardware into the problem.

Kudos, moz://a . On the Microsoft way. If at least you had the money to buy your way out, uh?

The BIOS going on top is also Digital Research's fault. CP/M used extensively the CPU's "soft IRQ" as handlers to the S.O., and so the hooks MUST stay on RAM in order to be reprogrammed as the S.O. is loaded (or relocated) and new device drivers are put to use. If you look on the 8080/Z80 home computers of the 80's that choose to put ROM in at the start of the address space (what on the long run would avoid the 640K barrier), you will also see that EVERY SINGLE ONE had died in a way or another due serious difficulties to expand the firmware - you can add devices galore to the expansion bus, but without a solid and easy way to expand the firmware, you are doomed.

Sun Microsystems? It's you? AGAIN?

No. He is splitting the command in more than one line. The next input would trigger the killing frenzy.

Not enough UNIX, as it appears.

Because is precisely those people that pay the taxes the keeps the country alive.

Perhaps. But in this case, I'm afraid there will be no World to people be living in.

Without people paying taxes, there will be no government. Corporations will fulfill the role, as they will be the only ones with money to sustain the Armed Forces.

But once all countries will be "incorporated", who will provide the money that the Corporations need to live? Without anyone to buy their stuff, from who will flow the money?

There're no viable future in this scenario.

So I maintain my statement: there's no future for such economy practicas. Or we will ban such practices, or there will be no one left to keep such practices.

Choose your poison.

Because without employments, there's no money to be spent at all - and so, no need for companies (bigger, smaller or locals).

Economics are just a tool. People are the one that matters - without people, there's no need for money,

Go to ~/Library. Search for the application name. Delete the folder. Done.

There's a lot of things going wrong on MacOS. But this is not one of them.