Because Windows doesn't run on it. I saw a piece on Google news about the netbook fad dying. The premise is that they lost sight of their original goals and are just becoming low powered laptops. IMO, this is mainly down to trying to get windows on netbooks.
This is true. We're seeing fewer with SSDs, they're becoming slightly bigger but still have shitty little atom processors.
So now they're not as portable, more expensive and irrelevant. The EEE's were awesome (typing this on my 901 in bed), cheap, ran forever (compared to a laptop) and could take some serious abuse.
Personally I believe the netbook will be another victim of the Windows monopoly.
I intend the keep my little EEE. I went to Crucial, scored some extra memory and a 64 gig ssd. It runs eveything I want just fine and has more than enough space for when I'm out and about.
That free international cellular access doesn't pay for itself, the servers dishing out the content don't pay for themselves and, as much as we don't like it (and it shouldn't be there) that DRM software doesn't pay for itself.
Python is an excellent choice. It's very easy to learn and you can do a lot with it.
The down side is it's very easy to do a lot without writing a load of code (not that you're going to get a kid to love programming by writing his own code to parse xml).
It depends on the person but as dumb as it may seem I've seen people w ho dislike Python because of its lack of curly braces. Some people learn one way of doing things and get stuck in what they've learned (even university based learners) so it may be worth introducing him to something like JavaScript too. JavaScript can allow him to do things on the web quickly, has curly braces, is popular and is (in some ways) pretty awful which will make him appreciate Python even more.
That would be awful for Python. Python doesn't use curly brackets but instead uses whitespace. You can't tab in ideone because it's a textarea in the browser.
Sure you can C&P into ideone but what's the point? I'm not sure if the standard Python distro comes with it but installing the active state python distor which has Python Win. http://www.activestate.com/activepython/
It's basically Notepad with the interactive Python shell so you can open it and just type code and watch what it would do (same as typing python in a command prompt) or write a whole script, save and run it. It's very lightweight and doesn't really hold you hand.
There may be some truth to this but there have been some estimates that the average life expectancy will drop because we're in a transitional phase where we eat shit and sit around too much and our bodies aren't really made for that. While it won't drop to 35, there are things that effect it on the other side.
Anti-bacterial soaps and cleaners are relatively new where as people lived into their eighties long before they existed.
In fact, thanks to evolution, those anti-bacterial products are making stronger bacteria. I personally wouldn't want to have to bathe in bleach so I think we should ban them. The benefit as well is that we can cull some of the weak and have some population control.
But Tiger cheated on his mistresses too. Does Miguel really want to be treated like a porn queen who gets no respect? It would be better to be ignored by Tiger and have nothing to do with him. Even his mistresses feel that way so Miguel should too!
Unless we start getting governments to enforce some sort of standard which means customers can return software or sue companies for releasing shit then the best thing for software is for it to be open so anyone can see it and fix it.
Part of me thinks that computer languages are languages like no other and one should be able to see it and use other people's work, at the very least for inspiration. Like you can do with any other language.
Another part of me thinks that true freedom means having the choice to close your code if you want because seeing the code isn't required to use your product.
But again too often companies can effectively release beta shit and be paid hundreds per licence to use it. So what we really need, imo, is standards that stop that. You can argue that, unlike a car, you can't die from bad code but your life can effectively be ruined when your privacy is compromised.
So how about striving for openness and higher standards in quality? If we get at least one of those we should be fine.
The exception should be data. Your data should *never* be stored in a format that only one or two programs can read. It's your data and if the company goes under or just moves on to another product, you're fucked. That shouldn't be allowed.
I will plead ignorance but is their equivalent of version 3 stable or still experimental, in development, etc? That makes a huge difference to businesses.
I don't think the issue is the licence as such but the fact it revolves around a closed source company's language and a company that does not want Linux to succeed. Had it started at lgpl then it probably wouldn't have been an issue. But it appears like they're slowly closing it up because they started on gpl and went to lgpl. What's next after that? Should we care? Maybe not but then maybe we should as MS' philosophy is inherently different from the open source philosophy.
Wave isn't even in beta form yet, works fine for me and my co-workers in FireFox and I'm not sure what you're fucking up in GWT but it works fine in all browsers when you know how to write code.
As someone who has used more PHP than C++, I would still have to say PHP is pretty shit. It's an ugly language. I've seen loads of nice C++, PHP, Java, etc. and loads of awful examples.
The biggest problem with PHP is that anyone can use it. That is also why a lot of PHP is messy, imo.
I do hope PHP goes out of style and Python or Scala take its place. PERL is more or less dead but I'd rather see that come back than see PHP stick around.
It was nice and easy to learn with and yes it's nice to knock out something quickly but once you start using other languages I think PHP really starts to lose its shine.
It's completely relevant when there is no proof that he was killed for his abortion stance and he was disliked by many for the way he treated women like shit. It's not been unknown for wife beaters to get the shit kicked out of them or even end up dead by a 3rd party.
Whether it's PC or not, most men do view women as physically weaker and don't like the idea of men going around bullying women or abusing their wife.
My guess is his murder is related to his stance on abortion but purely because of how he expressed himself and not strictly because of his opinion.
I never said everyone that is pro-life or pro-choice is an asshole but each group has assholes. Maybe 50% in each group are assholes, maybe only one in each group are assholes. Don't know and don't really care. All I'm saying is any reasonable sized group of people (even unrelated to abortion) will have at least one asshole in it. I can't see how anyone can argue that especially when the Internet provides more than enough proof.
I'm in no way for PETA and in fact think that both PETA and ALF should be considered terrorist organisations and treated as such. Ingrid Newkirk should be deported and never allowed in the US again.
Violence is the wrong way to go about it for either side. As for cops, even they only use violence as a last resort generally when their life or someone else's is in immediate danger.
So using cops as a reason for why either side should be getting violent during protests, for example, is invalid because it's not the same sort of situation.
Pro-Lifers definitely win the award for the biggest assholes but if you take anything there is always someone who is more extreme than the norm and to deny that the pro-abortion people don't have them is ignorant.
I believe in the right to have abortion but there are still people that hold my point of view that I don't want to associate and yes some have been violent. Just because the other side is dumb enough to go all out and use bombs doesn't make the pro-choice violence right.
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I assume you can save images, audio and video to your computer so 64 gig is sensible, imo.
Because Windows doesn't run on it. I saw a piece on Google news about the netbook fad dying. The premise is that they lost sight of their original goals and are just becoming low powered laptops. IMO, this is mainly down to trying to get windows on netbooks.
This is true. We're seeing fewer with SSDs, they're becoming slightly bigger but still have shitty little atom processors.
So now they're not as portable, more expensive and irrelevant. The EEE's were awesome (typing this on my 901 in bed), cheap, ran forever (compared to a laptop) and could take some serious abuse.
Personally I believe the netbook will be another victim of the Windows monopoly.
I intend the keep my little EEE. I went to Crucial, scored some extra memory and a 64 gig ssd. It runs eveything I want just fine and has more than enough space for when I'm out and about.
I rather see ads relevant to me than irrelevant ads.
Many don't indent and they're generally the sort that shouldn't be programming either.
One look at his page gives solid proof why anyone on a council estate should be neutered.
Make the consumer pay use tax. They won't suggest that but Amazon isn't breaking the law where as the consumer is.
Don't drink shit and replace the water you piss out. A pint of water just before bed will stop virtually all headaches.
That free international cellular access doesn't pay for itself, the servers dishing out the content don't pay for themselves and, as much as we don't like it (and it shouldn't be there) that DRM software doesn't pay for itself.
Python is an excellent choice. It's very easy to learn and you can do a lot with it.
The down side is it's very easy to do a lot without writing a load of code (not that you're going to get a kid to love programming by writing his own code to parse xml).
It depends on the person but as dumb as it may seem I've seen people w ho dislike Python because of its lack of curly braces. Some people learn one way of doing things and get stuck in what they've learned (even university based learners) so it may be worth introducing him to something like JavaScript too. JavaScript can allow him to do things on the web quickly, has curly braces, is popular and is (in some ways) pretty awful which will make him appreciate Python even more.
That would be awful for Python. Python doesn't use curly brackets but instead uses whitespace. You can't tab in ideone because it's a textarea in the browser.
Sure you can C&P into ideone but what's the point? I'm not sure if the standard Python distro comes with it but installing the active state python distor which has Python Win. http://www.activestate.com/activepython/
It's basically Notepad with the interactive Python shell so you can open it and just type code and watch what it would do (same as typing python in a command prompt) or write a whole script, save and run it. It's very lightweight and doesn't really hold you hand.
If it's a pre-built machine some do come with Python installed as the OEM uses it for their own bundled software.
There may be some truth to this but there have been some estimates that the average life expectancy will drop because we're in a transitional phase where we eat shit and sit around too much and our bodies aren't really made for that. While it won't drop to 35, there are things that effect it on the other side.
Anti-bacterial soaps and cleaners are relatively new where as people lived into their eighties long before they existed.
In fact, thanks to evolution, those anti-bacterial products are making stronger bacteria. I personally wouldn't want to have to bathe in bleach so I think we should ban them. The benefit as well is that we can cull some of the weak and have some population control.
Or we could move all the racist ignorant "Christians" out of the US and that will also make it much less likely that we'll be attacked.
Bacon sandwiches and no Palin supporters is a super win.
Seriously, people need to quit giving money to Nigerians princes so they can't afford this sort of crap.
But Tiger cheated on his mistresses too. Does Miguel really want to be treated like a porn queen who gets no respect? It would be better to be ignored by Tiger and have nothing to do with him. Even his mistresses feel that way so Miguel should too!
Unless we start getting governments to enforce some sort of standard which means customers can return software or sue companies for releasing shit then the best thing for software is for it to be open so anyone can see it and fix it.
Part of me thinks that computer languages are languages like no other and one should be able to see it and use other people's work, at the very least for inspiration. Like you can do with any other language.
Another part of me thinks that true freedom means having the choice to close your code if you want because seeing the code isn't required to use your product.
But again too often companies can effectively release beta shit and be paid hundreds per licence to use it. So what we really need, imo, is standards that stop that. You can argue that, unlike a car, you can't die from bad code but your life can effectively be ruined when your privacy is compromised.
So how about striving for openness and higher standards in quality? If we get at least one of those we should be fine.
The exception should be data. Your data should *never* be stored in a format that only one or two programs can read. It's your data and if the company goes under or just moves on to another product, you're fucked. That shouldn't be allowed.
I will plead ignorance but is their equivalent of version 3 stable or still experimental, in development, etc? That makes a huge difference to businesses.
I don't think the issue is the licence as such but the fact it revolves around a closed source company's language and a company that does not want Linux to succeed. Had it started at lgpl then it probably wouldn't have been an issue. But it appears like they're slowly closing it up because they started on gpl and went to lgpl. What's next after that? Should we care? Maybe not but then maybe we should as MS' philosophy is inherently different from the open source philosophy.
Wave isn't even in beta form yet, works fine for me and my co-workers in FireFox and I'm not sure what you're fucking up in GWT but it works fine in all browsers when you know how to write code.
As someone who has used more PHP than C++, I would still have to say PHP is pretty shit. It's an ugly language. I've seen loads of nice C++, PHP, Java, etc. and loads of awful examples.
The biggest problem with PHP is that anyone can use it. That is also why a lot of PHP is messy, imo.
I do hope PHP goes out of style and Python or Scala take its place. PERL is more or less dead but I'd rather see that come back than see PHP stick around.
It was nice and easy to learn with and yes it's nice to knock out something quickly but once you start using other languages I think PHP really starts to lose its shine.
It's completely relevant when there is no proof that he was killed for his abortion stance and he was disliked by many for the way he treated women like shit. It's not been unknown for wife beaters to get the shit kicked out of them or even end up dead by a 3rd party.
Whether it's PC or not, most men do view women as physically weaker and don't like the idea of men going around bullying women or abusing their wife.
My guess is his murder is related to his stance on abortion but purely because of how he expressed himself and not strictly because of his opinion.
I never said everyone that is pro-life or pro-choice is an asshole but each group has assholes. Maybe 50% in each group are assholes, maybe only one in each group are assholes. Don't know and don't really care. All I'm saying is any reasonable sized group of people (even unrelated to abortion) will have at least one asshole in it. I can't see how anyone can argue that especially when the Internet provides more than enough proof.
I'm in no way for PETA and in fact think that both PETA and ALF should be considered terrorist organisations and treated as such. Ingrid Newkirk should be deported and never allowed in the US again.
Violence is the wrong way to go about it for either side. As for cops, even they only use violence as a last resort generally when their life or someone else's is in immediate danger.
So using cops as a reason for why either side should be getting violent during protests, for example, is invalid because it's not the same sort of situation.
Pro-Lifers definitely win the award for the biggest assholes but if you take anything there is always someone who is more extreme than the norm and to deny that the pro-abortion people don't have them is ignorant.
I believe in the right to have abortion but there are still people that hold my point of view that I don't want to associate and yes some have been violent. Just because the other side is dumb enough to go all out and use bombs doesn't make the pro-choice violence right.
I hope you washed you hands afterwards.