As someone going through this sort of therapy, I can tell you that if an individual has no incentive or desire, there is absolutely no point in trying.
Game team talk type things might help, but only if they have issues with that kind of situation. There is no substitute for real life trials.
With all this buzz about climate change being thrown about, you can't go wrong there.
Besides, they tend to visit schools, and have a high level of visibility and impact.
On a serious note, Stephing Hawking and Carl Sagan are still around, right? So why do you need new heroes?
Perhaps I'm naive or just misinformed, but would it be that difficult to use HTML 5.0 if it did not implement video support? Could video support not be built elsewhere (like in the browser)? It seems much more sensible to rely on a browser for such things anyhow - as a browser is easier to customize with addons and so forth.
Living in suburbia sucks. The local police (with the backing of the township council) have announced high fines for anyone who sets off anything, in addition to tripling the fines for disorderly conduct... I'll just settle for the fire dept.'s fireworks; it's better than driving out thirty miles to the countryside.
Who is this Michael Jackson you speak of?
Some of us prefer attics. A nice view over the neighborhood, a typically larger space, and less dampness are all good benefits.
I have no money, you insensitive clod!
I would expect to live to maybe my late 70s early 80s. Most of my family has made there or past, and if I keep in shape, I suppose that I could follow. However, this assumes a fairly healthy diet and lifestyle on my part and no new innovation. If all that research into ageing gives some results, or if someone manages to recreate the procedure Agamemnon used on Vorian in Dune... I could cross 100.
Every new generation is bound to feel superior to the previous, being fresh and inexperienced and self-confident in their sparkling new standards. Every previous generation will feel that the new children are annoying little pests wearing too-big boots. This is to be expected, and the attitudes usually fade over time as the new generation gets hit with reality and the older ones come to stand them.
Of course, this really is the one of the first times that it comes up in the software fields, as the field is relatively new.
What we are seeing here, my friends, is capitalism gone wild.
People watch movies for entertainment, or for thrills - not for technological enlightenment. Tech in movies has a role meant to captivate the layperson - to keep them hooked; it is of no consequence whether it is acurate - it SOUNDS cool, and thus grips the viewer. In real life, it is similar to a high school wanna-be-nerd spewing out long and convoluted words to impress some peon... It seems to work.
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Is this not already present with Perl and Python? I mean, both support GTK and are fairly powerful and efficient...
But, JavaScript for desktop GUIs? That just gives me an odd feeling inside...
I find it somewhat hard to believe that this study will change anything; the number of searches are not going to decrease, and people are probably not going to stop drinking tea. So even if each search released fifteen times more CO2, would that change anything?
Not to be rude, but, if you were to click on the link to the section titled 'Developers' or the section titled 'Ask Slashdot' and read the various posts, and I mean actually read every post, your questions probably should be answered.
Topics of notice are: ('getting started with part-time development work' and 'balancing performance and convention' and 'software development predictions for 2009' and 'interesting computer science jobs' and 'study abroad for computer science majors' and 'are my ideas being stolen? if so, what then?' and the one about MS letting people go and the one about abused IT people).
To actually answer, yes.
He could always go to Mexico if he really wants Spanish...
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
