From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b019f7f1faf2125d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 08:37:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!news.litech.org!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.r-kom.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT:Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:37:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4rse6vgb9734tnjb9n7j5d9o747tm8jo5v@4ax.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-alcarin.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.111) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1046968671 61947418 212.79.194.111 (16 [77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34978 Date: 2003-03-06T17:37:51+01:00 List-Id: On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:19:11 +0300 (MSK), "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" wrote: >On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:50:49 +0100 Dmitry A. Kazakov >wrote: > >>Does our civilization really need so many programmers? >Perhaps yes: nearly all people should be prepared for writing scripts for >their Body Area Networks, Social Frame Network Participation Adapters etc. -:) ... to be able to write is not quite same as to be a writer. Everybody be programmer, brrr, that would be a new Utopia (there everybody was supposed to be a philosopher). >>nobody wants to live in interesting times. (:-)) >Well, this time is quite interesting, though. Real global networks with hundreds >of million participants, huge leap in computational power, intellectual property >battles, China... to name a few. BTW, China, I believe it is a Chinese saying: to wish somebody to live in interesting times. Fortunately, our time is not enough "interesting"! (:-)) However, it is getting closer to that. What about getting 25 years jail in a combat (in one of that intellectual property battles)? --- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de