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In about 10 years, we're likely to have digitally connected cars, smart homes, as well as refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves. DEC is making a comeback?
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Yeah, the hackers will have a field day.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves
First we better educate some designers/developers/marketing people/customers that can think for themselves...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In about 10 years, we're likely to have digitally connected cars, smart homes, as well as refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves.
I think I'm going to be joining the Amish.
Marc
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Maybe by then they will be using the internet so your transition won't be so hard.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Imagine your fridge deciding you have had enough for one day.
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With the way i eat junk food that might actually be a blessing. I can just see my fridge now "Adam, are you sure you want to put that much ice cream in the freezer? I have been talking with the scale and we both agree its a bad idea."
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: refrigerators and dishwashers that can think for themselves.
"Does anyone want any toast?"[^] 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Apple's PC, the Mac, has never been as dominant in the workplace, until now, according to new research from long-time Microsoft rival, VMware. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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You know, it was only a couple weeks ago that I found myself sitting in front of a Mac trying to resize a window by click on the upper-left corner of the window.
Oh yeah, this is a Mac, where the only way to resize a window is first drag it and then use the lower-right corner to resize it. I guess Microsoft has the patent on "any corner window resizing."
But I quibble at details. Just give me a computer with a UI that I can configure to my tastes (along with the keyboard and monitors of my choice), and I won't care one wit what it runs underneath. I guess there's a patent for that somewhere out there too, since nobody has achieved that.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: Oh yeah, this is a Mac, where the only way to resize a window is first drag it and then use the lower-right corner to resize it. I guess Microsoft has the patent on "any corner window resizing."
Must have been an old OS? They added that feature a couple of years ago. Lion, maybe?
Anyway, beyond that quibble (the word for the day!), yeah. All we really need is a UI that gets out of the way and lets us work. My days of wanting to futz with the OS to get things "just right" are way behind me.
TTFN - Kent
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If I was going to give up Windows, it'd be for Linux, not Mac.
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Agreed. Mint and Ubuntu have really been tempting me lately.
And you'd still have some money left in your bank account.
TTFN - Kent
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But Macs just look so damn sexy!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Microsoft’s endeavor with Windows Phone has been one of colossal effort and modest gains. Seeing that Windows Phone was quite late to the market and that it took several iterations to bring it close to having feature parity with its competitors, it is perhaps no surprise that the OS remains a distant third in its share of the smartphone market. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
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let the time give the answer lol 
In code we trust !
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A Google spokesperson confronted by the BBC over the removal of articles from search results admits it is in a "learning process." I find copious amounts of liquor are good for forgetting. Perhaps they should pour it in the servers?
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I was watching an interesting conference video by Trisha Gee at the Goto Conference where she was giving lots of career advice, and one bit really struck a chord with me as it essentially outlined my philosophy on my career progression. Don't be a "foo" developer, be a developer
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Of course, developers should alway consider the 'bar'.
And if your foo leads to the bar and you over indulge, then there is a high probability of concatenating to return fubar. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Why when I was yer age there was none of this darn new-fangled "Web" rigamarole, we didn't even have "servers", we had mainframes and minicomputers. Big heavy power-hungry, dare I say "throbbing", monsters of computing power and storage. And you spoke to them in their language and if you were exact enough in your requests, they would generally comply and allow you access.
Hmmm, I almost make it sound like a hippogryph.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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With enterprises scrambling for the right combinations of tech and business skills, age may be less of a factor in IT hiring prospects. "Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance"
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Experience is everything.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Not quite everything: I've known some 20+ year vets that I wouldn't want programming anywhere near me. Experience still needs some brains behind the keyboard.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I've known some 20+ year vets that I wouldn't want programming anywhere near me. Experience still needs some brains behind the keyboard.
Shhhhh! He signs your paycheck. 
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