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There are several real Plan9 variants and they are all FOSS (LPL is OSI approved) 9atom: http://9atom.org/ 9front: https://code.google.com/p/plan9front/ 9legacy: http://www.9legacy.org/ and the real bell labs distro: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

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I'm a former classroom teacher whose job is to work with other teachers to integrate technology into their instruction. My primary goal in life is to prevent the horror situation you describe.

We try to show teachers models of integrating technology so deeply into instruction that it becomes another tool (kind of like how most of us use it at work). We also push teachers to introduce the tools, present problems to the kids, and then let THEM choose the tools they use to solve those problems.

If you are interested here's a link to one of the models we use.

https://sites.google.com/a/msad60.org/technology-is-learning/samr-model

is it stable enough to get as close as possible then drive out to rescue them

The ship got trapped because broken sea ice got crunched together by wind and waves around them, then froze in place. Moving ice does not freeze together into nice smooth sheets that are amenable to driving on. As the wind and waves continue to work, the ice surface will buckle, heavy, split, reform, and generally create a confused mess that make for difficult headway even afoot. Check out some of the pictures from Shackleton's Endurance expedition.

Then, too: how many ocean going ships just so happen to have big burly motorized vehicles for just such an occasion? An ice breaker is more likely to have a helicopter than a 4x4 Jeep.

A problem is that limited-purpose computing devices, such as tablets and Chromebooks, may erode the economies of scale that general-purpose computing devices enjoy, making it more expensive for people like you and me who need a real laptop to get a real laptop.

Yes, I do expect that the costs of general purpose computers will grow higher and higher as they'll become exclusively tools for professionals and no more consumer goods. There will be less manufacturers and less choice too.

On the other side there will be a time when one will be able to create a tablet app on a tablet (AIDE is a start) or a chromebook app on a chromebook (easier).

Actually I'm looking forward to a less than 150 g (5 oz) device with at least the computing power of a i5, 8+ GB RAM and 256+ GB of storage, that I can carry around and use as either a smartphone or a computer depending on if it's free or plugged to main power and connected to a screen, keyboard and mouse. The unborn Ubuntu phone was a step in that direction.

Good post!! But really no need to post it here you need to fax this (oh wait that may also cause cancer)

That thermal FAX paper also contains massive amounts of oestrogen imitators that will make you sterile and grow massive moobs. Watch out for those next time you touch a till receipt in a shop...!

Oh gosh. This is not a very good precedent. I hope the children are taught that:
-The radiation from WIFI is the same type as what comes from the Sun, which is essential for all life on earth.
-We all emit radiation.

A New Privacy Enhancing HTML5 Mobile Browser - It's your remote control for the world.

the summary just claims "amators are teh bests!" w/o any documentation. Here's some proof for you of why to be wary of armchair scientists:
https://www.google.com/#q=proof+that+amateur+science+sucks

I'm just gonna leave this here.

https://plus.google.com/111049168280159033135/posts/4KJxFY8VvT1

This is not correct anymore, the touchpad works fine under Ubuntu 13.10 if you install it using the Chrubuntu scripts. The Chrubuntu author has integrated the patches from Chrome dev Beson Leung into the Chrubuntu scripts so that it automatically patches the Ubuntu kernel for you.

If, like me, you want to use 12.04 LTS instead of the latest you can use an Ubuntu 13.10 machine or VM to build the patched modules and then use them with the 13.10 kernel on 12.04, see here for instructions https://plus.google.com/+BensonLeung/posts/EJUSUudzHb3

And just to be clear, I'm talking about the Chrubuntu method of installing a full-fledged Ubuntu installation here as a the only OS or a dual-boot, i.e. not the Ubuntu-using-the-ChromeOS-kernel setup of Crouton.

Specifically we needed an undecorated one of decent fabric and about the right size, because getting the fabric involved driving to the other side of town and we would have had to buy more than we needed. It was to be lined with custom ornate tatting, only possible/financially feasible because a family member is an expert in tatting. If she started then she'd be done by the time the baby finished gestating, which is how it turned out.

Maybe you're so bitter because no one made a museum quality tatted handkerchief for you when you were born.

Calcium Magnesium Acetate (CMA) works great. We've been using CMA for three years on our farm. It is non-toxic, doesn't damage concrete, doesn't corrode steel, won't hurt plants, aquatic life or pigs (what we raise on pasture) so it is pretty ideal.

The down side is that CMA is more expensive than road salt. I feel the extra cost is worth it to protect the environment, our livestock, our buildings and our vehicles.

See these articles
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:sugarmtnfarm.com+cma

When I click a link and watch a Youtube video, there is also: no sale taking place.

You obviously didn't read my original post before replying to it. What we are talking about here are the paid channels,

Weird.

J2EE, J2ME (!!) and J2SE appears to be all in the same level: oblivion. Even "Java Platform" is almost done.

But, "Java the Language" is still strong (because Android, I think).

Oracle effect, perhaps?

Here you are:
https://sites.google.com/site/nimey5/home/archive-org-mame-rom-listing/Archive.org%20MAME%20ROM%20listing?attredirects=0&d=1

Sorry about the formatting, but I'm not going to fix tabdamage on 28740 lines.

You spelled Javascript wrongly (it was not an accident, uh?), and your query about Ruby is too generic: you're counting queries about the stones too.

Your post is a fallacy, and it worries me that enough people find it "insightful".

Here, I made a good query for you. Ruby is in *serious* declining.

So if I go to new egg right now I can expect a $500 discount on any laptop I choose? Sweet.

No, but if you go to Newegg youll see a watch listed as retailing for $900 with 92% off, going for $80; and suprisingly that same watch is available on amazon for around that price ($150 or so). And if you were to go to HP's website right now youd find all of their laptops seem to have 20% off until 1/4/2014-- i have new pics for you:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9qgiyz_vguVUXEza0hBai1SdWs&usp=sharing

Its not a perfect match-- the HP Spectre handily beats the Air at $500 less, and while the HP 15" has a lower resolution, it IS touch enabled, and is better specced in almost every other way-- processor, touch enabled, wifi. The drive is a tossup, but considering we're saving $1500 by going with HP over Mac, you could probably throw in an SSD or 3 from newegg and still come out ahead.

Trying to claim Macs are cost competitive other than perhaps their Airs (depending on what year you choose) and their current Mac pro is ridiculous. I could compare the iMac to several of Asus' offerings, but I get the feeling you'd pooh-pooh that too.

Where's this $80 watchlist? I want to see what parts they're using

Perhaps you have missed that whole saga of Edward Snowden and the NSA files. Maybe you would like to read more about the NSA's practices - practices which Google may resist, but they are powerless to stop.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Does+the+NSA+reimburse+corporations+for+their+data%3F&oq=Does+the+NSA+reimburse+corporations+for+their+data%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57.16794j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

As usual, Google is your friend.

I'm not real certain that I believe the privacy policy entirely, either. To reiterate the idea of my previous posts - I think Google is more honest than a lot of other big corporations, but they are not entirely trustworthy either.

Google's dirty tactics include using and selling personal information on end users.

FALSE

While Google does collect and make use of the personal information of end users, the one thing that they have NEVER done is sell that information to any third parties.

You can read Google's Privacy Policy for more information about how they use personal information. In particular, read the "Information We Share" section.

So if I go to new egg right now I can expect a $500 discount on any laptop I choose? Sweet.

No, but if you go to Newegg youll see a watch listed as retailing for $900 with 92% off, going for $80; and suprisingly that same watch is available on amazon for around that price ($150 or so). And if you were to go to HP's website right now youd find all of their laptops seem to have 20% off until 1/4/2014-- i have new pics for you:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B9qgiyz_vguVUXEza0hBai1SdWs&usp=sharing

Its not a perfect match-- the HP Spectre handily beats the Air at $500 less, and while the HP 15" has a lower resolution, it IS touch enabled, and is better specced in almost every other way-- processor, touch enabled, wifi. The drive is a tossup, but considering we're saving $1500 by going with HP over Mac, you could probably throw in an SSD or 3 from newegg and still come out ahead.

Trying to claim Macs are cost competitive other than perhaps their Airs (depending on what year you choose) and their current Mac pro is ridiculous. I could compare the iMac to several of Asus' offerings, but I get the feeling you'd pooh-pooh that too.

Show them Python - Snake Wrangling for Kids.

Then tell them it was used for Eve Online and that is the only game that supports over 60,000 players in the same world at the same time.

https://www.google.com/search?q=wood+burning&espv=210&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Cf69UqqSIueo2gWUi4CACg&ved=0CDcQsAQ&biw=1371&bih=656

Here's 982 open source projects released by Google
https://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:google

http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/830-what-models-were-built-hayward/

Double that 20 years. I drove an aluminum truck way back in 1984, which was already old and nearly worn out when I got it. I never investigated why the aluminum trucks were dropped - it probably had something to do with the company downsizing, and pulling back to Pennsylvania. During such an operation, I suppose a corporation is going to drop those parts of it's business that are perceived as "risky".

Google has plenty of images for those who are curious: https://www.google.com/search?q=mack+cruiseliner+aluminum+frame&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=4YG9UqyAAai52wWf64GIDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=937

Blockly

This is actually one of the "Default" Plugs that come with the mobile charger: NEMA 6-50 (http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/nema-6-50)

The mobile charger uses the two 120 legs for a 240V charge voltage.

Unfortunately this is often "retro-fitted" over a 30A dryer outlet, or people use stupid stuff like "dryer Outlet Adapters": https://www.google.com/search?q=dryer+outlet+adapter
THAT's where the problems start.
Unfortunately there is no good way for a car to recognize the hacked, butchered and abused wiring in many homes.

(No, i'm not a licensed electrician, but i just remodeled and re-wired an entire house from the 50es. scary stuff!)

Ever use VNC or something like TeamViewer or GoToMyPC? Ever have a virus that copied your keystrokes or screenshots and sent them off to some server somewhere? Ever see a picture on the net where someone had something on their screen that was embarrassing? How exactly do you plan on ensuring the decrypted message doesn't get copied? A system having it's own viewer does nothing to help the system. The only thing it helps with is fooling people into believing their messages will be erased.

https://www.google.com/search?q=snapchat+screenshot&oq=snapchat+screenshot&aqs=chrome..69i57.2441j0j7&bmbp=1&sourceid=chrome&espvd=215&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Can cash be stolen over the TV?

I just have to wonder, what other kind of ways that I have never thought of can Bitcoins be stolen from me.

And unlike cash, there are very little people who take it, so most of the time I would have to convert it into currency to use it.

I'll wait, Thank you very much, until it becomes mature and I have time to learn all the ins and outs about it.

Maybe so, but I have never heard of anyone getting robbed of their $20 bill over the TV like this guy did with his Bitcoins.

Not so fast, Mr. smug. Until the FCC cracks down on LED lights that contain power supplies that generate huge amounts of RFI, blank out the HF radio spectrum, and interfere with garage door openers, I'll keep my incandescents, thank you.

That HF spectrum comes in mighty handy during natural disasters - remember all the articles about Amateur Radio operators saving the day? We can't help if we can't hear the affected station (running on batteries or a generator, and probably using a makeshift antenna).

Sadly, due to their presumed long life, the huge influx of illegal LED lights will be a problem for years to come, even if the FCC halts their importation right now.

Bullshit. Tell me when they release an open source implementation of MapReduce, Chubby, BigTable, their version of OpenStack, and the Linux variant they use on their own servers.

Google just uses open source technologies developed by others to build their products on. The ones they actually develop themselves and release under an OSS license are the software they wish to popularize to push their own agenda. Not something evil per se, but everyone else on the planet does the same thing and they don't deserve the halo you're giving them.

All it takes is 1% of surviving owners placed within state or federal structures. And you don't have too look very far. Just look at prominent politicians from South Carolina and their beliefs. Somehow slavery legacy still lives on.

Well, you don't get much more prominent as a politician than US Senator, so let's look* at Senator Tim Scott, R-SC. He certainly looks like he's descended from slaveowners rather than slaves, right?

Also, Senator Scott took office after his predecessor resigned to take a different job; in South Carolina the Governor appoints a new Senator in this instance. Governor Nikki Haley, R-SC, who appointed Scott, is also a fairly prominent South Carolina politician. (After all, she's the governor.) Haley's parents immigrated from India; she isn't descended from slaveowners either.

You're talking out you ass about descendants of slaveowners. It's an easy rhetorical trick, but it's very clearly false.

*For those that aren't going to click the link, it goes to a Google Image Search showing pictures of Senator Scott, who is an African American.

The equipment isn't in Bermuda or Ireland either.

You sure about that?

The equipment isn't in Bermuda or Ireland either.

You sure about that?

it doesn't seem like any code has made it into Open Source databases like MonetDB, MySQL, CouchDB, etc.

Lemme guess, MySQL fanatic?

You can already go download:

    https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGStrom

if it fits your problem domain and PostGIS has some hackers adding GPU support:

    http://data-informed.com/fast-database-emerges-from-mit-class-gpus-and-students-invention/

Why not the others? Perhaps because PostgreSQL makes developing extensions easier - it's got the largest extension ecosystem, so I'm just presuming there. If it turns out well in Pg-land, the others will naturally adopt it.

So the answer to the story title is "they do." The next question would be, "why isn't it widely deployed", and the answer would be, "it's not done yet." Yadda, yadda, yadda, patches welcome. If the whole summary is just a way to try to turn "hey this is neat" (it is) into an ill-founded complaint story, then write a better story next time. It's neat stuff, no need to whine.

I assume by "blocking" their servers you're talking about DNS or firewall-level blocking. That's hit and miss, since it depends on you keeping up with all of the right domains/IPs. A better solution (which can be applied in addition to DNS/firewall blocking; it needn't be "instead of") is to use the opt outs that Google provides. See http://google.com/privacy/tools.

Clearly, A wins;

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ruby%2C%20javascript%2C%20python%2C%20C%2C%20A&cmpt=q

This is a non authoritative translation of a part of the law that I believe TFA missed, legal-Italian to plain-Italian to plain-English (as good as I can get it). Italics are mine.

Online advertising spaces and sponsored links in search engine result pages that can be viewed on the Italian territory during a visit to a web site or when using on online service on landline or mobile network, must be bought exclusively by companies with a registered Italian VAT account. This applies also to the case in which the sale has been made by the means of media centers, third parties and advertisers.

Think about the implications of the part in italics. Your US company buys an ad in English from Google aimed to the US market. Unfortunately I end up seeing it from my computer located in Italy. Ops, somebody is in trouble now, either you, Google, me or a combination of those three parties. There is nothing in the law about what happens in case of violations and to whom it happens.

Furthermore TFA missed that the law binds companies like Google to register a VAT account in Italy, not to pay taxes there. They'll end up paying just VAT there, which by the way comes from Italians, not from Google. The law aims at quantifying the turnover of those companies in Italy, which can only be estimated now. Unfortunately the way it's worded makes it difficult to enforce.

Luckily a motion (in Italian, Google translation to English here) has already been filed to suspend it. For another take on it you can read this Google translated post from wired.it.

PS: odd thing to do for me on Christmas morning :-)

This is a non authoritative translation of a part of the law that I believe TFA missed, legal-Italian to plain-Italian to plain-English (as good as I can get it). Italics are mine.

Online advertising spaces and sponsored links in search engine result pages that can be viewed on the Italian territory during a visit to a web site or when using on online service on landline or mobile network, must be bought exclusively by companies with a registered Italian VAT account. This applies also to the case in which the sale has been made by the means of media centers, third parties and advertisers.

Think about the implications of the part in italics. Your US company buys an ad in English from Google aimed to the US market. Unfortunately I end up seeing it from my computer located in Italy. Ops, somebody is in trouble now, either you, Google, me or a combination of those three parties. There is nothing in the law about what happens in case of violations and to whom it happens.

Furthermore TFA missed that the law binds companies like Google to register a VAT account in Italy, not to pay taxes there. They'll end up paying just VAT there, which by the way comes from Italians, not from Google. The law aims at quantifying the turnover of those companies in Italy, which can only be estimated now. Unfortunately the way it's worded makes it difficult to enforce.

Luckily a motion (in Italian, Google translation to English here) has already been filed to suspend it. For another take on it you can read this Google translated post from wired.it.

PS: odd thing to do for me on Christmas morning :-)

Which metric? I included four candidates. Let's look at how perl fares on each, in order:

1. Google trend data for perl programming. That certainly doesn't bear out the assertion that perl's where its at. In fact, it looks more like the trend line for Ruby and PHP. Which is to say asymptotically approaching zero.

2. TIOBE. Perl doesn't fare very well here either, ranking 12th in Dec. 2013 after having ranked 9th in Dec. 2012. Python is stead at 8th. PHP is steady at 6th. Ruby looks more like perl, falling from 10th to 13th.

3. Jobs at LinkedIn. Perl: 132 results. Better than Ruby, but vastly less than Python and PHP.

4. Programmer perception survey. Specifically, the question "This language is likely to be around for a very long time." Python is rated most likely to be around for a long time, followed by perl, then Ruby, then PHP.

So I gotta ask...how does even one of these metrics suggest that Perl's future "outshines them all"?

It takes more specificity than that to rule out things like Ruby slippers, Ruby Sparks, Monty Python, and, yes, Java and scripts.

If I focus on web backends, it looks like Ruby on Rails has plateaued, or is dying - although J2EE is dying faster.

Whoa! I took where you stop and look what I found!

Java, as it appears, still matters!

Now add Perl to your graph...

Ruby vs Node or Ruby vs Node vs Perl

Now add Perl to your graph...

Ruby vs Node or Ruby vs Node vs Perl

Ruby is a term that is not only related to the programming language, so this is more correct

Long answer: a better indicator is how many Google queries for the respective languages are issued. And those suggest that Ruby is standing stronger than ever. Ruby is more than just Rails. And just because there is yet another web apps framework, it doesn't mean that the other ones automatically lose traction.

The Google trends supplied in your link used generic search terms, seriously skewing the results inaccurately about programming languages. Stuff about reptiles, famous comedy acts and things such as an infamous Italian scandal (and whatever else) were being included. By replacing the display with terms specific to programming, this version showing trends for searches about programming languages in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java and Nodejs should show something a little more meaningful.

Since the summary is more interested in just Ruby and Node and those trends with the other 3 are difficult evaluate, showing those two together, separated from the others, helps in the evaluation. (I left out Python, not due to any agenda of my own; there were problems with the search terms I wasn't able to resolve.) Fwiw, when it comes to the top regional preferences for these two languages: Japan is for Ruby while South Korea & Iran are for Nodejs. (Cuba prefers PHP).

Long answer: a better indicator is how many Google queries for the respective languages are issued. And those suggest that Ruby is standing stronger than ever. Ruby is more than just Rails. And just because there is yet another web apps framework, it doesn't mean that the other ones automatically lose traction.

The Google trends supplied in your link used generic search terms, seriously skewing the results inaccurately about programming languages. Stuff about reptiles, famous comedy acts and things such as an infamous Italian scandal (and whatever else) were being included. By replacing the display with terms specific to programming, this version showing trends for searches about programming languages in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java and Nodejs should show something a little more meaningful.

Since the summary is more interested in just Ruby and Node and those trends with the other 3 are difficult evaluate, showing those two together, separated from the others, helps in the evaluation. (I left out Python, not due to any agenda of my own; there were problems with the search terms I wasn't able to resolve.) Fwiw, when it comes to the top regional preferences for these two languages: Japan is for Ruby while South Korea & Iran are for Nodejs. (Cuba prefers PHP).

Long answer: a better indicator is how many Google queries for the respective languages are issued. And those suggest that Ruby is standing stronger than ever. Ruby is more than just Rails. And just because there is yet another web apps framework, it doesn't mean that the other ones automatically lose traction.

The Google trends supplied in your link used generic search terms, seriously skewing the results inaccurately about programming languages. Stuff about reptiles, famous comedy acts and things such as an infamous Italian scandal (and whatever else) were being included. By replacing the display with terms specific to programming, this version showing trends for searches about programming languages in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Java and Nodejs should show something a little more meaningful.

Since the summary is more interested in just Ruby and Node and those trends with the other 3 are difficult evaluate, showing those two together, separated from the others, helps in the evaluation. (I left out Python, not due to any agenda of my own; there were problems with the search terms I wasn't able to resolve.) Fwiw, when it comes to the top regional preferences for these two languages: Japan is for Ruby while South Korea & Iran are for Nodejs. (Cuba prefers PHP).

TIOBE is not a particularly good metric, IMO. PyPL (which counts search results for "X tutorial") is a better indicator of which language is popular to learn today (which, quite obviously, translates to its popularity in short term).

Well hell if THAT is the only metric that matters I need to brush up on my VB as its doing great, right up there with Python as a matter of fact.

That said maybe I'm weird but I never understood the "Is X dying" and "Is Y gaining in popularity" I mean who gives a shit? Does it do what you need it to? Can you get your project completed using it? then STFU and use the dang thing, quit acting like a Valley girl chasing trends already! I mean you don't see the engineers going "ZOMFG my VHDL is as out of fashion as an iPhone 3!" /swoon/. So quit caring so damned much about whether the other little programmers will let you play their reindeer games and just use what works already!

Clearly, C wins:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ruby%2C%20javascript%2C%20python%2C%20node.js%2C%20C&cmpt=q