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I disagree. You are thinking of this far too narrowly. First of all, it is true that you would have to filter out the ambient noise. One way would be to use a headset (like a Plantronics) which are used in call center layouts. Second, the programming language would not be C, C#, Lisp, Prolog, Perl or any other language that is out there now but one that does lend itself to verbalization (this would make a really good Master's Thesis project).
It isn't trivial (or it would already have been done), but it is feasible.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
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There will always be legacy code using those languages though. I doubt companies are going to want to switch their codebases over just to ditch keyboards, especially considering keyboards are likely cheaper than any headset.
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lewax00 wrote: There will always be legacy code using those languages though.
I agree and in those instances you would use the older legacy code and tools just like banks, etc. that have their codebase in COBAL on mainframes use the older toolsets.
What I am saying is that the newer hardware which doesn't require an external keyboard will use new tools just like now we use intellisense which wasn't available twenty years ago.
m.bergman
-- For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
modified on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 7:10 PM
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With my present skills I can not develop application for advance devices.
Software development is a contineous learning process and will always be. Once you stop, you are out of the emerging market. My two cent.
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1) BACON - just to keep Nagy quiet
2) CListCtrl - because it does, damn it!
3) "I will migrate my skills to the new environment as necessary" - because we will. We did from Machine code to Assembler, to FORTRAN and COBOL, to C and C++, to C#, to...
Why would you assume we will just go "Oh. That's it then" and get jobs digging up the road?
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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First they said desktops will make mainframes and cobol obsolete...
Then they said the web will make desktop applications obsolete...
Then they said everything is going to the cloud...
Now its the tablet and mobile devices...
Most of the business infrastructure is still on cobol (look and government and banks), we still have desktop apps, we browse the web, we use a patch of the cloud, and we squint at our mobile screens.
It's all a fad and nothing goes away, the only thing constant is the shortage of good programmers to keep it all running...
That's my 2cents...
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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Bigger is always better...Desktops!!! 
A drop of water breaks a rock not by brute force but by patience.
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To quote Austin Powers :
It's not the size, but how you use it, yeah baby!!
Its the man, not the machine - Chuck Yeager
If at first you don't succeed... get a better publicist
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Yeah, like as if the tablet or the smartphone will ever replace the pc. Will never happen. Won't even replace laptops... If it had a keyboard and a screen you don't have to tilt your head like a giraffe in order to view the screen I would say maybe. + when it comes to screens, size does matter... The more screens the merrier.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >>
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Couldn't agree more - smartphones and tablets are primarily consumer devices, not business devices.
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well the way tablet and smart phone grows in terms of memory, space and other features you cant predict what else but as far as display concerned definitely that would be the issue but don't forget we have mobiles that have built in projector
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My 5!
First mention of inbuilt projectors.
But I wonder - if a person can watch stuff from their iPhone, iPad, iDontCare, iEtc on the telly with the appropriate cords, why would it not be the case that one could plug monitor & keyboard into future mobile computing device?
Hands up all those that enjoy the process of synchronising their desktop/mobile devices?
Yeah, thought so...
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I was thinking more the keyboard an issue. I can't imagine writing much without one. In most businesses, this seems to be the main activity for computers.
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(FTFY)
smartphones and tablets are primarily consumer end user devices, not business developer devices.
/ravi
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No, I meant consumer. I haven't come across any of these devices in use, other than quickly checking emails, in business. I can't imagine writing any substantial amount of text on anything other than a keyboard. Hell, even this brief reply would strain my typing skills on swype, and that's a big step forward from a normal on-screen keyboard.
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Plus PCs will always be cheaper and more powerful, smaller technology always comes after the initial, larger desktop equivalent, and its always more expensive. Desktops will always win out for more intensive applications, like graphics, for this reason.
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R. Erasmus wrote: when it comes to screens, size does matter
The day thay invent the holographic monitor that does not need a frame the PC dies right there. You are right it is ALL about the monitor.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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for argument sake, TV are getting bigger
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Never mind - my own stupidity is the source of every "problem" - Mixture
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Computer Skills
A man decided to improve his computer skills, and threw myself himself into it
with enthusiasm. Every week he would check out five or six instructional
books from the library.
After about a month the librarian commented, "Wow! You must really be
getting knowledgeable by now."
"Thanks," he said. "How can you tell?"
The librarian explained, "Only two of the books you're checking out this
week have 'FOR DUMMIES' in their titles."
Listening Skills
"Guess what?" yelled my high school-er as he burst through the door. "I got a 100 on the Spanish quiz that I didn't even know we were having."
"That's great!" I said. "But why didn't you know about the quiz?"
"Because our teacher told us about it in Spanish."
thatraja
My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...
All these are my opinions. Different people. different way of thinking. I am no one to judge others - Chandru
modified on Monday, August 22, 2011 3:17 PM
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No joke: When I did French language at school, one of the exam tests was dictation. The teacher would read out a passage, and we had to translate it and write down the English version, with positive marks for correct bits, and negative marks for errors.
Come the mock O level exams, half the class did not turn up for the test, and were given zero points. Beating everyone who did sit the exam by a considerable margin...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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thatraja wrote: A man decided to improve his computer skills, and threw myself into it
You've given it away - this is personal experience not a joke 
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Oops....blame me. Sometimes blind copy-paste sucks. But believe me I read that joke & didn't notice that.
Well spotted, 5!
thatraja
My Tip/Tricks
My Dad had a Heart Attack on this day so don't...
All these are my opinions. Different people. different way of thinking. I am no one to judge others - Chandru
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Less FOR DUMMIES and more COOKBOOKS!! 
A drop of water breaks a rock not by brute force but by patience.
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