Science
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| jacog Jul 01, 2009 5:36 AM EDT |
I have always liked the term "Computer Science". It IS science. And science by nature should not be owned or controlled by corporations. It's for everyone. There was a great moment in the 1997 film adaptation of The Saint, with Val Kilmer/Elizabeth Shue. Simon Templar (Kilmer) goes through great lengths to steal Dr Emma Russel's (Shue) research notes. She eventually figures out what he's doing she tells him that if he wanted them, he should have just asked for it, since she believes that science is meant to be shared. Open source advocacy in movies ftw. :P |
| gus3 Jul 01, 2009 8:59 AM EDT |
"This is Unix! I KNOW this!" lulz |
| tracyanne Jul 01, 2009 9:13 AM EDT |
"This is insane, it's completely Linux based, open source programming...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9b38_KUCU |
| tracyanne Jul 01, 2009 9:14 AM EDT |
Ubuntu Forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=619813 Linux mentioned on mainstream TV during prime-time |
| softwarejanitor Jul 01, 2009 1:48 PM EDT |
@jacog Well, except that software development isn't really a science, it is an art... and a black one at that... >:-{) |
| herzeleid Jul 01, 2009 2:09 PM EDT |
Quoting:"This is Unix! I KNOW this!" lulzEntirely plausible. When I was working at UC, I brought my daughters to work all the time, and they learned unix. They loved the SGI boxes and the cool demos, but they also learned some useful skills for their futures, Both of my daughters work with computers now. In fact one of them leads the web dev team at ticketmaster. |
| tripwire45 Jul 01, 2009 8:34 PM EDT |
Glad to see one of my reviews stimulating a conversation. |
| hkwint Jul 01, 2009 8:52 PM EDT |
Sad thing I never saw SGI-boxes (too young I guess). Which museum can I find those? |
| Bob_Robertson Jul 01, 2009 8:55 PM EDT |
I saw the thread title, and heard Tom Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science" playing in the back of my mind. It's been my thought that computer programming is a lot like mathematics. Each little bit might be perfectly scientific and generic, but putting it all together is an art form. I'm good at math, but real programmers are a complete mystery. |
| tracyanne Jul 01, 2009 9:39 PM EDT |
Quoting:but real programmers are a complete mystery. I've been told I'm a real mystery, so I suppose I must be a real programmer. |
| jdixon Jul 01, 2009 9:47 PM EDT |
> I've been told I'm a real mystery, so I suppose I must be a real programmer. No, no. If real programmers are a complete mystery, and you're a real mystery, then you must be a complete programmer. |
| rijelkentaurus Jul 01, 2009 11:47 PM EDT |
This sounds rather like a book for me...I can't program my way out of a wet paper bag, a few simple shell scripts and batch files aside, and I've always found "instructional" books too much on the "fun" and "witty" side...I just want them to get to the meat of the matter at hand, and they often get lost in the minutia of the crap they are spewing. Somehow the thought of getting my hands on an actual textbook never occurred to me, probably a good idea to try it. BTW...Firefox 3.5 apparently has a feature where, if you highly a word and right-click, gives you potential proper spellings if it's misspelled. Very cool...however, "Firefox" is not in their dictionary! :^) |
| softwarejanitor Jul 02, 2009 12:19 AM EDT |
> Sad thing I never saw SGI-boxes (too young I guess). Which museum can I find those? Uh... eBay? |
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