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Squeak Group Buys Ship Naming Rights in Gaiman Novel
nadyne writes "Recently, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund ran an auction for the naming rights for a cruise ship in Neil Gaiman's upcoming novel Anansi Boys. Today, Neil Gaiman reported in a post to his blog that Markus Gaelli won this auction. According to Neil, Markus will use his hard-won auction to promote Squeak. He didn't tell us what the name of the cruise ship will be, but promised to do so in the future. Neil linked to Squeakland, although it's not clear whether Markus is associated with that site or Neil was just using it as a convenient starting point for his readers who might not know anything about Squeak."
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
At least you know that there isn't some subtle meaning behind the ship name that you think you don't quite get as you read ;)
I am having the same problems too. This is somewhat interesting but the real question is how much is he paying to have the ship named in a book.
http://mirrordot.com/stories/f18bdc72242db088f0b0e 96ae0aca490/index.html
It doesn't help much, but this is what the site says it's about:
WHAT IS SQUEAK? Squeak is a "media authoring tool"-- software that you can download to your computer and then use to create your own media or share and play with others. It is free and downloadable here. If you'd like to get a feel for what Squeak looks like without downloading, view a typical early project for kids in HTML (no download needed). Once you download Squeak you can use the Squeak Tutorials and download the handy Etoys Quickstart Guide.Further information can be found in the Squeak FAQ.
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Ok this is quite unlikely , though what hapens if a troll decideds to waste his money on this and he ends up having a ship named the "USS fart-bonk-poo-sh*t-F*ck".
I mean that could really break the illusion and harm sales.? did the aucthion have any rules to prevent this
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
What does it cost to get my promo embedded in the Slashdot front page infotainverts? Is it an auction, or a more "intimate" transaction?
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Smalltalk dead? Riiight.
Seriously, people don't know what they're missing. Quick example: one of the most advanced web application development framework around is coded under Squeak in Smalltalk: Seaside.
And people right now are wetting themselves over "Ruby on Rails", while this isn't even comparable in term of flexibility and power.
Pity the masses who ignore advanced programming languages technology.
A message from the system administrator: 'I've upped my priority. Now up yours.'
Disney starts selling off the naming rights to its cartoons?
We'll have the GOP fairy in Peter Pan, Captian SCO, and Wendy will be known as Windows.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
http://www.squeakland.org.nyud.net:8090/
Boxers with writing on their back for off shore gambling
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
Baseball parks now without one bare wall. Tear down the Ivy, we need to make room for Bacardi.
Companies using subliminal advertising
20 minutes of commercials at the Theater, the place I paid $10 bucks to see a movie, hijacked by angry Jew adverisors. It is enough to make me want to strap on a bomb and blow myself up.
Super hot attractive knock-out girls on college campuses getting free clothing and music and mp3 players so all the ugly, unnatractive, fat women on campus will follow them and buy the crap the pretty ones get for free. Related- how much free crap did Trump get for his wedding so all the guests would go running to buy it?
And if I hear the "I'm lovin' it" one more time, I am canceling my cable.
Now if I open a copy of Old Man and the Sea, and find his boat is renamed "Bank One boat", I will go apeshit.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Where will all the advertising stop?
McDonalds now offering money to rappers and musicians everytime they mention a McDonalds product
You know their name.
You repeat their name, you just did, twice. Anf they didn't even have to pay you: They paid someone you pay attention to, and now you're doing it, for free!
It will stop where it stops working, not an inch before that point. And if your behaviour is any indication, they've got miles to go.
Like Lisa and Paul Anka said: "Just don't look! Just don't look!"
Passive resistance man, give it a try.
You can't take the sky from me...
I must say as someone who used to work in smalltalk and has now extensive knowlidge of ruby, I would not underestimate ruby on rails . ,,It really is wonderfull.
Smalltalk is great and squeak is very intresting and powerfull , though the development time with ruby and its comparitive speed is of far more intrest, the same can be said for ruby on rails
i shall take a look at squeak as i do have very fond memorys of smalltalk , however i am becoming a strong proponent of ruby day on day so it will take alot to convert me , However i always look forward to eatting my words if it helps make my life easier.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Likewise, do we want our books to be used to promote products? It would make an unlevel playing field. If book "A" is sponsored by Pepsi because it talks about how good and refreshing a Pepsi is, and Pepsi helps promote it AND pays some fee to the author, how many of the good writiers will want that kind of security. John Girsham must have mentioned Coors beer in A Time to Kill at least 100 times. Whenever it got too stressful, he would have a refreshing Coors and he could solve problems with such clearity. It happened with movies too, when companies started paying money for their products to be used in films.
I dunno, what kind of society will we have? What can I do if my neighbor decides to paint his house like a big Coca~Cola can?
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Back on target, I don't like the trend even thought this is for a good cause. Product placement in books and comics may be a bad thing.
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Ok, so is Ebay just a huge advertising firm these days? I mean, is the best way to promote your new book (grilled cheese sandwitch, forehead) really Ebay?
Are there that many millionaires out there surfing Ebay that they will buy any and all advertising space in the world? It seems to me like more and more often, the way to make a quick buck is to plant your ad on Ebay and watch the cash flow in.
Are the old methods of getting advertisers (and selling advertisements) just not as effective as Ebay? Will we see Ebay take a nosedive when all of the sudden every auction you see is just a clickthrough to someone trying to promote themselves? couldn't this (presumably, but not to me) well-knonw author have sold his ad space more effectively somewhere else?
Just my two cents...all I know is that he is lucky he didn't end up with a certain Online Casino's name on every page in his book.
Squeak has a lot of programmers interested, a lot of people in education too... But perhaps not so many designers, no. But in the usual mode of open source: if you don't like it, lend a hand!
Though it's not as bad as it is on default- most people have a customized environment, though a better default should be picked. A couple screenshots from my Squeak images, one with with an IceWM theme and another IceWM theme'd Squeak.
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You're only listening to the FUD.
Canada allows a third party to arbitrate in legal matters, provided both sides consent to it. Therefore, you could ask a priest/rabbi/imam to help you decide how to conduct your divorce proceedings, or divide up inheritance according to the rules prescribed by the religion. Both sides have to agree to having someone like that, and a Canadian judge must OK everything that the arbitrator decides, before it can take effect. It's not Muslims getting separate laws, they are still bound by Canadian laws, which take precedence. It's not just for Muslims, its for religious Jews and other groups as well. Heck, under this law, Catholics could ask for a priest to preside over the distribution of inheritance, but everyone involved must agree to it, and a Canadian judge must OK any decision the priest makes.
Quit the FUD, its nowhere near as terrifying as you make it out to be.
Squeak hasn't been close to dying since it's inception. If the squeak-dev list traffic is any indication, a lot of growth has happened in the last year...
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I was a bit harsh i do apoligise , i was more meaning the website though which i found hard to read .Alas i am no longer a designer and am already far too busy , though this thread does give us a good excuse to advertise for some ;) . ...I agree though , the OSS world is lacking in designers ,if i wernt so comfertble as a sysadmin i would consider taking back up the design aspect
I shall pass on the site to a few of my freinds who i know are very busy but you never know
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I read something last year that said pop stars in China had basically given up making money from direct sales because of all the piracy. Some relied on concert sales, but others would find a corporate sponsor for their song. Since advertising can just be ripped out, they would right the song about the product. Like if it was a love song, they'd be sure and mention their love of Pepsi. Come think of it, isn't this what Celine Dion tried to do for Chrysler here in the U.S.?
Integrated product placement is the wave of the future... but its easier to do in IP, which has very little innate value and great advertising potential, then in manufactured goods.
Still, perhaps we'll reach a day when every item has product placement in it or on it, and is thus free. Expensive products will be advertised on cheaper products, and more expensive products will be advertised on merely expensive products. Of course, that advertising budget has to come from somewhere, so in the end of the day you will have to turn over your entire salary to one company's really expensive product that spirals down the proceeds to everything else you would normally have pay for but now get for free with advertising on it. I'm betting that company will be Microsoft...
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We have paid product placement in movies... And now they are coming to books? WTF?
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It's not dead?
Apparently not.
However, I seized upon Squeak as a way to try out Smalltalk, because I thought it might be a way to finally shift myself into the OO paradigm. (I'm an old-school procedural programmer, and OO design has never clicked for me).
What I found was very impressive and satisfying -- I loved the way you could manipulate objects interactively and watch them update live in the GUI.
But, the available online tutorials peter out at a very, very basic level. You need to shell out real money on a book in order to learn enough Squeak to write anything remotely satisfying. I guess the free learning materials didn't give me enough confidence that Squeak as "for me", that I was prepared to spend that money.
As someone with severe colour blindness I must say that i agree strongly , the sites current design make navigation near impossible to me!
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In one sense this marketing strategy has already worked -- I have read Neil Gaiman and now have tried to follow the link (initially more interested in Gaiman references that programming tools). Though squeak.org is slashdotted, your link to seaside.st is not, and the tutorial references www.sqeak.org. While I'm not a web designer for a living, I find myself doing a fair amount of HTML, CGI, and Perl work. I will have to check this out in more detail latter. So the gambit has already gotten them a possible user.
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I think that Croquet will be a huge shot in the arm for Squeak. I have played with it about 6 months ago, but Croquet has inspired me to order The White Book and the OpenGL programming guide, to really dig into Squeak in April. Can't wait.
Ruby is the second slowest scripting language (PHP is slower), and its by a huge margin. Python is significantly faster, and can often be sped up even more using psyco. Even better, use pike. Its about as fast as python with psyco, but its portable, more feature complete (?:, switch, for), and has a nice, sane C++ like syntax.
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Case of an author selling "name space" in his novels seems to be another bit of evidence supporting Klein's claims. There is something very close to intellectual prostitution in this.
A problem I have with Squeak is that it's essentially impossible to lock down a window, and still allow it to be unlocked for modifications later. The assumption seems to be that one always wants the windows to be unlocked, but I find that this results in windows that are too unstable, and get changed by accident. I want to lock down the windows when I'm working on them, and then unlock them when I want to make changes. A random mis-click can totally (well...this is fear speaking, not experience) change things and it may be difficult to impossible to recover.
Mind you, my real problem is that the environment is too self-contained, and it's hard to link externally. This is a problem common to Smalltalk systems, and Squeak is in good company here. Another problem I have is the license, which while pretty good does seem a bit restrictive in ways incompatible with the GPL. This isn't a problem if Squeak is the entire environment of the application (as it is designed for), but it makes it (probably) inappropriate for my uses.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I hadn't heard of pike, so I checked it out. It seems to miss the point of scripting languages entirely -- you have to declare the datatypes of variables just like inconvenient compiled languages like Java or C++. The whole point of scripting is to get away from low-level tedium like that. Sure that might make it fast, but if you are going to deal with that stuff, why not just use a compiled language? IMHO, if speed is an issue (and I find it rarely is), use SWIG to write the speed critical parts in a compiled language and write the rest in a scripting language.
Bad design is a problem and can cause problems , jesus mods this is not flamebait , everytimes someone says something you disagree with you dont mod them down .....
The problem is that unlike the average Catholic girl, the average Muslim girl is going to be so brainwashed by her peers and elders that she won't know she has any alternative to the virtual slavery of shari'a. Allowing shari'a-based arbitration condemns Muslim women to permanent second-class citizen status.
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Locking down windows is pretty easily done. You must be building apps in a different way than I am, but when I build mine programmatically or through a GUI builder like Prefab, I don't have this problem. I have seen it with random morphs, though. Or, someone could still pull apart my window by pulling up the Halos, by Alt- or Middle-Clicking on various Morphs (= Widgets) and then deleting them, moving them, resizing them, rotating them, changing their color, changing their action etc etc etc. I don't usually lock mine down to prevent that, but that is completely doable as well, and it's something some folks who have created "shippable" apps have done. If you'd like more information, check the Squeak-dev archive, ask the list anew, or email me and I can get you the information.
The second point is very true- Squeak and pretty much every other Smalltalk environment is very self-conitained.
How is the license restrictive? The GPL is the issue here, not playing well, polluting everything it touches. The GPL wasn't written for image-based languages like Smalltalk or Lisp, and if you license something under the GPL, by being loaded into the image the licenses are all made GPL. That's a problem with the GPL, not with the SqueakL. If you can convince the GPL to be changed so that these problems don't exist, what else is there?
If you're concerned about the old issues about the Squeak fonts from Apple having that weird clause, you've nothing to worry about now. They were dumped a while back in favor of truly Free fonts that don't have any funky Apple clauses.
The SqueakL is pretty much BSD-style. Unlike the GPL, you aren't forced to share your modifications, etc. You can use it in commercial software, sell it, etc. Squeak is open in a way, culturally and technologically, that most FOSS developers have no idea.
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Having programmed in perl, php, python, C, C++ and VB, I find I am just as productive and write code just as fast in pike as I did in perl and python. Do you really think "int i = 0" instead of "i = 0" is what makes C and C++ take longer to code in? No, its the lack of advanced data types, the manual memory allocation/deallocation, and the compile/debug cycle.
Not really. Modern statically typed compiled languages like Java and C# basically solve all those problems, and yet still aren't very convenient for the tasks people (at least me) use scripting languages for. From the descriptions of the language it seems Pike is trying to be a Java/C# competitor rather than a "scripting" language.
Static typing doesn't require declarations, it just requires type inference.
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Actually, studies showed that American Muslims had a higher than average number of college graduates, last I heard.
Your problem would make sense, but thats not how the system works or will work. It has to go before a Canadian judge, who will ask both parties if they are sure that they wish to submit to this arbitration, and explain to them the options. If the woman declines of her own free will, the judge will instead take it through the Canadian judicial system.
Your claim that the Muslim woman will be pressured into a decision isn't specific to Muslims. Many Hindu parents try to arrange marriages for their children, Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish families have their own strict rules that apply to women. Many Christian families are pushing for laws that allow the parents to prevent their daughters from having an abortion. Everyone tries to pressure women, its a fact of life, but you cannot blame it on everyone or religion. Remember, Islam doesn't oppress women, men do.
Shari'a doesn't make women second-class citizens, Middle Eastern governments that make their own laws and call it Shari'a. Saudi Arabia doesn't allow women to drive, is that a part of the religion? No! Go ask any female Muslim scholar, there are plenty out there. Ever wonder why there are so many Muslim women, married and unmarried in favor of this arbitration idea? I'm not worried.
...r, someone could still pull apart my window by pulling up the Halos, by Alt- or Middle-Clicking on various Morphs (= Widgets) a...
But that's rather the point. I do lots of left and middle, as well as right clicking. Even when on the Mac I use a three button mouse. And I occasionally click the wrong button...(Yes, it's clumsy. But I *do* do it. Particularly if I'm off to the side, and operating the mouse with an unusual hand.)
OTOH, I hadn't been aware of the change in the licensing of the Fonts.
On the third hand, anything I used Squeak (or any other Smalltalk) for would be a minor part of the application. Squeak is possible because the last time I looked it was possible to have it generate C code which was equivalent. It can even be considered because it looks to be an excellent graphics environment. But it can't be considered because the linking is too difficult, etc., as mentioned before.
Still, I have looked at it, and at one time I was considering it for a business application. But I didn't want the naive end-user redesigning the dialogs (whether by accident, or on purpose). The inability to lock down the dialogs, and then later unlock them defeated this application. (That *was* two or three years ago now, but when I asked I was told that this was a feature, not a bug. And that there was no likelihood of it changing in the future. So I looked elsewhere. I eventually ended up with a bunch of scripted macros in an MSExcel Spreadsheet...UGH!, but it was the best way I could find. And it didn't require installing an entire new programming environment at the end-user locations. I was, however, *really* trying to avoid ending up there.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.