Under Linux with X-11, Squeak can be set up to be its own window manager. Dropping the Gnome, KDE etc. layer from the software stack results in a speed increase which is quite remarkable. It's then just about useable on a 400MHz P/II.
While Squeak, as in the e-Toys environment, as its name implies, is a plaything, but it's a pretty good plaything none the less. It leads directly on to the commercial Smalltalks which are arguably the premier 'productivity' language.
Onward links include:-
But if you are not a first language English kind of person, extemely useful. Perhaps links such as the one you mention should be tagged ( vocab ) or some such.
This is a loss leader primarily to show off OS/X. If they've got half a brain, it'll come with a VNC server built-in, a short crossover network cable, and a Windows VNC client for the PC.
Then it will be possible to experience the OS X environment without having to fiddle about with monitor and keyboard plugs. It won't be long before it's obvious to the new owner that the new Mac is the machine of choice. At that time the situation can be reversed. Then we'll need a VNC sever on the PC, and a VNC client viewer on the Mac, so include those too. A DHCP server too, so network setup is a doddle.
Listen, Apple!! That's good advice, forget that you first read about it on Slashdot.:-)
He's being an obnoxious prat. A two year old who cannot share. He shold remember that all great things are built by climbing on the sholders of others. ( c.f. Newton, & Torvalds )
With the greatest of ease, look at the OS they are running!
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Gets me the sources, checks the md5sum,
which came from a different and trusted mirror server from the one which hosted the source. Builds those sources into the binaries which I then run.
Do I trust the Gentoo Portage system?
Yes I do, absolutely!
It's Better Manually with Better Organized Optical Knowledge.
Sorry but I agree with the other poster, it's a sunk cost.
Unless you have in the upper tens of thousands of $$$ to spend on a full blown language lab, you'd be better off getting some decent books and recordings. Or more to the point, a well-trained teacher.
My son's school has attempted a 'computer technology based education' and frankly it's a complete failure, & I'm hacked off with myself for being sucked in.
... to put real political pressure on the US.
You sign up to the Kyoto Protocol and stop your citizens polluting our common atmosphere, and we'll stop ours sharing your files.
Bit of a long shot, but it might just work.
... the Object Oriented paradigm and the whole Windowing and GUI idea? Smalltalk may well end up being a mere side-show in the Annals of Time 1972 page 43, but
imho Alan Kay at least deserves a mention.
... is alive and well. There are lots of farms being built currently.
It's about time the Northern Hemisphere took resposibility for its current orgy of atmosheric destruction and did the same on a widespread basis.
I have never owned a MS o/s and probably know less than they do about them.
Christopher always and literally "sings for his supper".
They must be prepared to at least try out Linux by booting a Knoppix LiveCD and toss out Microsoft before I can do anything for them.
They must have a 400MHz P/II or better, and be prepaerd to get a Linux supported modem. Preferably an external or a Venus chipset one,
They must be prepared to get either a dynamic dns name, or preferably run a Satellite client and be prepared to run sshd as needed so I can log in. ( This is the most difficult idea to get across )
They must have sufficient literacy and keyboard skills to be able to key a word or two.
Those condidtions mean that my time doesn't get abused too badly. "Supper" has varied from quite a few really decent meals with nice friends to being shunted under the golden arches.
... the Latin++ alphabet, ( the current one + single characters for the multi-character phenomes ). 50% license commission available for all educational establishments. Untold riches result from legally mandated lincensed reading and writing.
Simply because the schools make students specialise far to soon in their lives. Pupils who show any word-mongering skills get little or no exposure to Science, while the scientist types get little or no exposure to Literature. Thus many scientists cannot hang words together to make sentences, and the literary types are grossly ignorent of even the most basic science.
Science and Journalism are thus on differrent planets!!
Perhaps this is the one and only activity which would benefit from being outsourced. The US needs Democracy more urgently now, than at any time in the past. India, with an envranchised population five times that of the US, and thus the largest democracy in the world, has just had a trouble free mechanized election. Perhaps, just perhaps, using these machines would be a cheaper and better solution to producing a just and fair election result than the machines produced by a very partisan local manufacturer. Democracy, btw === 'Rule by the People for the People'. It's perfectly clear to this writer, who lives in the 'Rest-of-the-World', American Politics != Democracy. So much so I don't know whether to weep or laugh.
"These are an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. GMT supports ~30 map projections and transformations and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries."
The data set is available on CD from The Geoware Online Store or alternatively from various ftp archives. I have not got the various the url's to hand but the data is freely available from US institutions. ( several hundred megabyte download )
Create suitable images according to the need of the moment using the GMT software and project them onto a horizontal board. Us the projected image as a guide to making plaster reliefs. Great educational fun for folks of all ages who want to learn that there is a real World out there which is more than just target co-ordinates.
... is pretty well split: 49% Don't care; 25% Democrat; 25% Republican; and a tiny minority of Others, wouldn't it be best if the Presidency was shared around the Parties? 4 years Democrat, 4 years Republican, and Ralph Nader or his descendent for a year once a century. That's fuss-free, fair, and there is not enough time for the Pres. to be corrupted by Power. What's more to the point it will put corrupt election officials out of office, because there won't be any more elections.
There's been some debate recently on the license-discuss list hosted by the OSI on how to release code as open source while still requiring that it be compatible with a test suite that must be distributed as part of the code.
This software is copyright but you are granted a license which gives you, the "user" of the software, legal permission to copy, distribute, and/or modify the software. However, if you modify the software and then distribute it (even just locally) you must change the name of the software to avoid confusion.
That's probably too simple a solution, i.e. nothing in it for the lawyers.:-)
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While Squeak, as in the e-Toys environment, as its name implies, is a plaything, but it's a pretty good plaything none the less. It leads directly on to the commercial Smalltalks which are arguably the premier 'productivity' language. Onward links include:-
But if you are not a first language English kind of person, extemely useful. Perhaps links such as the one you mention should be tagged ( vocab ) or some such.
Enjoy your next dose of Super-super-fast Hurricanes and Tornadoes.
They'll match the Super-super-fast highway to a turn!
Thank God the gas will have probably run out before this ghastly temple to Mammon gets built.
Perhaps it's time for the Rest-of-the-World to tie the Kyoto and Intellectual Property treaties together. What do you think about that?
So if that ever happens to you, don't hang about, run inland as fast as your little legs will carry you. You life depends on it.
Slashdot moderators please help get that message out, you will save lives.
This is a loss leader primarily to show off OS/X. If they've got half a brain, it'll come with a VNC server built-in, a short crossover network cable, and a Windows VNC client for the PC.
:-)
Then it will be possible to experience the OS X environment without having to fiddle about with monitor and keyboard plugs. It won't be long before it's obvious to the new owner that the new Mac is the machine of choice. At that time the situation can be reversed. Then we'll need a VNC sever on the PC, and a VNC client viewer on the Mac, so include those too. A DHCP server too, so network setup is a doddle.
Listen, Apple!! That's good advice, forget that you first read about it on Slashdot.
Time to spare?
Go by Air.
He's being an obnoxious prat. A two year old who cannot share. He shold remember that all great things are built by climbing on the sholders of others. ( c.f. Newton, & Torvalds )
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Gets me the sources, checks the md5sum, which came from a different and trusted mirror server from the one which hosted the source. Builds those sources into the binaries which I then run.
Do I trust the Gentoo Portage system? Yes I do, absolutely!
It's Better Manually with Better Organized Optical Knowledge.
Sorry but I agree with the other poster, it's a sunk cost.
Unless you have in the upper tens of thousands of $$$ to spend on a full blown language lab, you'd be better off getting some decent books and recordings. Or more to the point, a well-trained teacher.
My son's school has attempted a 'computer technology based education' and frankly it's a complete failure, & I'm hacked off with myself for being sucked in.
You sign up to the Kyoto Protocol and stop your citizens polluting our common atmosphere, and we'll stop ours sharing your files.
Bit of a long shot, but it might just work.
... the Object Oriented paradigm and the whole Windowing and GUI idea?
Smalltalk may well end up being a mere side-show in the Annals of Time 1972 page 43, but imho Alan Kay at least deserves a mention.
... is alive and well. There are lots of farms being built currently. It's about time the Northern Hemisphere took resposibility for its current orgy of atmosheric destruction and did the same on a widespread basis.
Peace might just break out.
Those condidtions mean that my time doesn't get abused too badly.
"Supper" has varied from quite a few really decent meals with nice friends to being shunted under the golden arches.
... the Latin++ alphabet, ( the current one + single characters for the multi-character phenomes ). 50% license commission available for all educational establishments. Untold riches result from legally mandated lincensed reading and writing.
Why are these two professions so often at odds?
Simply because the schools make students specialise far to soon in their lives. Pupils who show any word-mongering skills get little or no exposure to Science, while the scientist types get little or no exposure to Literature. Thus many scientists cannot hang words together to make sentences, and the literary types are grossly ignorent of even the most basic science.
Science and Journalism are thus on differrent planets!!
I hope they don't try to patent this.
Refer to 1944 for prior art.
Perhaps this is the one and only activity which would benefit from being outsourced. The US needs Democracy more urgently now, than at any time in the past. India, with an envranchised population five times that of the US, and thus the largest democracy in the world, has just had a trouble free mechanized election. Perhaps, just perhaps, using these machines would be a cheaper and better solution to producing a just and fair election result than the machines produced by a very partisan local manufacturer. Democracy, btw === 'Rule by the People for the People'. It's perfectly clear to this writer, who lives in the 'Rest-of-the-World', American Politics != Democracy. So much so I don't know whether to weep or laugh.
Generic Mapping Tools
The data set is available on CD from The Geoware Online Store or alternatively from various ftp archives. I have not got the various the url's to hand but the data is freely available from US institutions. ( several hundred megabyte download )
Create suitable images according to the need of the moment using the GMT software and project them onto a horizontal board. Us the projected image as a guide to making plaster reliefs. Great educational fun for folks of all ages who want to learn that there is a real World out there which is more than just target co-ordinates.
mplayer can put it back much better.
... is pretty well split: 49% Don't care; 25% Democrat; 25% Republican; and a tiny minority of Others, wouldn't it be best if the Presidency was shared around the Parties? 4 years Democrat, 4 years Republican, and Ralph Nader or his descendent for a year once a century. That's fuss-free, fair, and there is not enough time for the Pres. to be corrupted by Power. What's more to the point it will put corrupt election officials out of office, because there won't be any more elections.
has this to do with what we normally read in this forum?
Where is free software, Linux, or the Borg mentioned?
Yes It's been done for years.
The LaTeX Project Public License (lppl)
In essence it says:-
That's probably too simple a solution, i.e. nothing in it for the lawyers.
You forgot the one off Thule in Greenland lost during 1968