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Non-Tech : The Crash of '98..1929 all over again??Where are we going? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Green Receipt who wrote (19)	7/2/1999 6:56:00 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23

David, if you work long hours and weekends then I hope you are not on a salary paycheck, but either do consulting or something where you get a money reward for amount of work accomplished. I know some people that do software and hardware, but they want the old fashion security or feel or something that a big company gives them, so they are salary and work 60+ hours a week and complain about it. Not everyone has the stomach to have the confidence to work outside a big group. I looked at that news web site you posted, and it had 100 times as many links as something like the CNN news web site. Your site had a link to everyplace you could ever want to go to for news. I'am going to tell people I know about this. Thanks. Also, I visited the web site with the focus on math, very nice and friendly and easy to view. Eventho one sees simple numbers like 1 + 1 = ... very quickly you educate the reader that behind these little symbols of a digit like 1 and 0, or the operator +, lies stuff that can really fill up your brain with thinking and understanding, almost with no limits. About 10 years ago, out of curiosity at CompUSA, I brought the MicroSoft Software Development Kit (SDK) and then my very first pc and loaded and explored this stuff. I read and did all the stuff, and its just something and someplace I been. But your math examples on that web site of yours reminded me of when after I learned C that it took about 1 hour to learn the C++ additional syntax, but then it took 2 weeks of very strong learning to actually make those OOP Object Oriented Programming programs. I made a very short, 1 page simple program that added two numbers, just input like 1 and 1 and output answer 2. I showed it to a very good and experienced C programmer, and he said it has to be magic or mirros because he can't follow the flow of events. Objects once understood is good, but you really as you know have to understand whats happening behind the code to really use it. Back then the Windows coding was C, but also was the ability to use C++ stuff Microsolf added, but it was easy to memorize and cut and paste code and not really understand what was happening. Included in the kit was the C++ code that made, I forget now what it was called that let you make Windows programs using Objects, but until I learned C++ for real, it looked like rocket science code to make a H-Bomb or science fiction time travel machine. I haven't look past the home web site page, but it looks interesting: try, lost-worlds.com Doug