Comment Re:Star Trek (Score 1) 506
If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.
You're making Gene Roddenberry cry. There are so many other good lessons in Star Trek.
If there's one lesson I learned from Star Trek it's that you always, ALWAYS, include a manual override.
You're making Gene Roddenberry cry. There are so many other good lessons in Star Trek.
If a driverless car has no manual means of steering, and if it broke down and you had to push it, how could you control it?
Hit the OnStar button (or whatever the equivalence is) and work with the drained driver on the other end.
You are giving up yet another freedom if you believe this is a good idea.
So every passenger in a car has given up freedoms?
Please, please, teach them something besides how to code in Java. A little theory would be nice. Some basic understanding of what a computer actually does with that code they type in. Some idea of how algorithms are turned into programs. Please?
I think the reason why the students are being taught Java is so that the Professors can focus on those other things. For lots of students the gotcha's of native code get in the way of learning the theories, algorithm tuning, and data structures. So by using a managed language in the classes, the classes can spend more time focusing on something else besides language implementation details.
Java seems to be in the middle ground where it's more cumbersome than the "scripting" options, yet slower than the "native" options. Leaving not much of a reason to choose it in the vast majority of cases.
Compile time type checking is a major reason to pick Java over a scripted language. It's not like performance requirements are binary either. There's a lot of distance between optimized assembly and runtime type checking scripts.
Freedom of speech isn't freedom from consequences of your speech, sweet cheeks.
Actually, isn't that what it's supposed to be. I'm sure pre-America British citizens were free to say whatever they wanted, they just had to deal with the consequences of their speech (imprisonment, torture, being blockaded from opportunity, etc). So the founding fathers of the US, put forth laws to prevent certain "consequences" from happening when people decided to speak their mind.
-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D.
And paying salaries to U.S. employees who pay income tax on it and spend their money in the US, thereby also paying US sales taxes.
That is so incredibly irrelevant. We're talking about the taxing of one legal entity, don't try and push the conversation to knock on affects to other legal entities.
Oh, what the heck, let's talk about those other legal entities. If Microsoft paid all of the taxes from revenue generated in the US, those employees would have a lower tax bill, and could have better lives. As a matter of fact, perhaps all citizens of the US would have a lower tax burden. That might really help those who are just trying to find a way to eat every night.
AFAIK it's the only mobile OS doing so.
Windows RT allows for multiple accounts.
But locked-down CORPORATE-user friendly? HELL YEAH. Your IT department sets-up a computer with just 5 big bright icons on the desktop. These are the only applications you use for your job. You can't do anything else but launch these applications. It just keeps working like that 99.999% of the time. When something doesn't work, you call IT about it, move yourself to another computer and resume your work there. There is no way for any computer to possibly be more user-friendly than that. Linux does it, Windows doesn't.
Are you saying that Windows can't be locked down with a white list of only authorized programs?
These Germans. Cant follow through on anything. Fascism, Nazism, linux
Because American's are following through on Linux?
Why not have the auto-reply end at the end of your normal business hours the previous work day? typically no one is expecting you to work then anyway and then on Monday morning before 9am they aren't still getting the auto-replies.
You can. Nothing is preventing you from doing that.
We gave you an atomic bomb, what do you want, mermaids? -- I. I. Rabi to the Atomic Energy Commission