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What matters is if this interpretation of already existing technologies fit well with the needs of today. I’ll leave the task of inventing new breaking things to CS departments as I’m a programmer and not a scientist, with all the limits and strengths that this implies. As long as we, programmers, developers, hackers, computer entusiasts, don’t realize that our work is an interpretation work, like architects, we will continue to be nerdy engineers that the society will continue to look [at as providing no] real value.
Super charming website for this little old Denver bar. Love the rollovers on the menu: http://www.billysinn.com/index.html.
It’s not. The Real Work is not formatting the margins, installing the printer driver, uploading the document, finishing the PowerPoint slides, running the software update or reinstalling the OS. The Real Work is teaching the child, healing the patient, selling the house, logging the road defects, fixing the car at the roadside, capturing the table’s order, designing the house and organizing the party.
New Worlders have no reason to be gun-shy about loading up their device with apps. Why would that break anything? Old Worlders on the other hand have been browbeaten to the point of expecting such behavior to lead to problems. We’re genuinely surprised when it doesn’t.
The key to successful apps on the iPad will be creating more realistic, engaging interfaces than even on the iPhone.
The government likes to tout the number of jobs that have been created or saved by the stimulus. But even if these numbers are accurate, they do not count the number of jobs that are not created in other more productive or self-sustaining sectors of the economy.
Opinion piece by Ron Paul at http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/25/paul.stimulus.waste/index.html?hpt=C2
This review of the economy seems sane. However, I would like to hear some debate from other economists.
It’s a new car with a couple bells and whistles, but it’s still going to leave you stranded or blow up when you try to shift lanes.
