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Comment People Cheat (Score 1) 546

It isn't true that Universities don't focus on practical coding. In school I had to code many things. They had to work. Many students cheat. They have other people do their assignements. Or they do the assignments with a study group. Or they use google to find the solutions to problems. They get out of school and cannot program simple things. This is why internships are so important. Companies need to try out people before the commit to them. They need to work with for a few weeks to see if they are fakers.

Comment Theology is bad too (Score 4, Insightful) 528

I would also argue that "Intelligent Design" isn't Christian. Arguing that God exists because the world is made the same way a human would make it isn't biblical. An all knowing God doesn't need reason to create anything. An all powerfull God does not care about efficiency. Human asthetics from human culture/biology isn't going to influance how God creates the world. Intelligent Design anthropomorphizes God into a man. You wind up with Zeus instead of a pillar of fire/burning bush/rock of ages.

Comment Re:Short term (Score 1) 506

So what does that entail? Taking a road test every 5 years? Every year? 16 year old kids can pass the current tests. But they are not wonderful drivers. Now imagine those 16 year olds never getting any better at driving. Becoming 30 year olds who need to look in the manual to remember what lever is the turn signal.

Comment Short term (Score 4, Insightful) 506

That is very short term thinking. 15 years after driverless cars are released your going to have a whole generation of people who never learned to drive a car. People who get the license and then forget everything because they haven't touched the wheel in 10 years. There is not going to be anyone quilified to drive a car. You will just have millions of amatuers with a skill level of a 16 year old.

Comment Re:Sale by another name (Score 1) 82

That depends on where you live. In Europe you have

European Court of Justice ruled on July 3, 2012, that it is indeed permissible to resell software licenses even if the digital good has been downloaded directly from the Internet, and that the first-sale doctrine applied whenever software was originally sold to a customer for an unlimited amount of time, as such sale involves a transfer of ownership, thus prohibiting any software maker from preventing the resale of their software by any of their legitimate owners

In the United States the issue is working its way through the courts. Basically some courts are willing to call a spade a spade. And know a sale when they see one.

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