A very nice tribute to dmr as one of the authors of "The C Programming Language" which made the hello world programming example popular. But, for correctness sake (and I really do hope this doesn't ruin the tribute completely,) the example is due to Brian Kernighan, the other author of "The C Programming Language", who had written that example in an bell labs C language tutorial in 1974 and had used a similar example in his 1972 "Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" wich also featured the phrase "hello, world".
This might raise awareness of the windows tax. The main problem with it is that most buyers intending to use some other operating system will accept the extra cost, install whatever they like over windows and never look back. Microsoft got a good deal going, locking in a machine to use windows and nothing else is unnecessary.
However, if there is no way to run anything else then windows on a machine, it will make a small but noticeable decrease in sales. Perhaps this will increase the marked for desktop machines with a free os installed, with the possibility of tweaking or disabling secure boot, since "locked in" desktops is not a preferable option for some users.
Isn't it weird that this article cites only good things about Linux, damns the not so well spent chance in the turmoil of Vista, and then dooms Linux on the desktop because of it and the fact that you can't watch all DVD's (and related content) out of the box. Pretty strange indeed as I don't see Windows coming with a twitter/facebook/irc client, an bittorrent client, a full office suit, andriod integration, osv. out of the box.
...Seriously, isn't the great appeal of Java supposed to be that you can avoid shit like this?
Java is full of bugs that needs to be supported for backwards compatibility reasons. Just check out this java puzzlers presentation to get a showcase of the funniest.
I agree, it's known that throughout modern history, that scientific advancement gives rise to technological advancements, and in turn these new technologies becomes available to the general public.
what kind of business move is this? OpenSolaris doesn't really have a lot of users! They might get a couple of bucks from someone acquiring a non gratis license. But is really a good Idea to squeeze out what's left of it, and ruin the brand name?
It most probably won't work, because, face it, they are kids, you will spend most of your time trying to get them to understand quirkiness. The thing is that what they won't solve in time, they probably won't solve at all, and unless you are doing difficult stuff or you are squeezing c++ (wich you probably won't get kids to do right), python is comparable to c++ (maybe between 4 and 5 times slower), and when it comes to VB, it will just mess with their minds...
"Is it safer to stay in the car, or is it safe to go outside? Like many of you, I use a car to go to work and whatnot. At home and at work, I wonder if it would be safer to just stay in the car then going outside. Is it more secure to lock my car with a key (big bad parking lot) where people can come up and steal my keys, or is it more secure to just remain in the car? I use my car 1 to 4 times per day, most days."
On a serious note; when you have used so much time to secure your connection why not used now and then.
My advice: Learn Logic rather than math. It is far more useful.
I totally disagree on skipping math for logic. Not that logic isn't important but Discrete math is very important for general problem solving involving countable sets. It's essential, so you got to at least take that course. And when it comes to "selected math chapters"; a firm understanding of those topics, is really useful, but if you want to take more math later, a course on Real Analysis and a course on Linear Algebra should cover those topics that were provided, and a lot of other useful stuff, and it might give you a better understanding.
An instant after I had written this I regretted doing so, because I suddenly remembered the old wise words of Why the lucky stiff... Teaching programming should be easy, fun, in collaboration with other kids, done on the child's terms and not be about how a computer works. I wholeheartedly hope you teach the kid ruby with hackety hack. Because it's all of the above and done in a language the is all about readability and doesn't have the "first you have to do like this and then that" that many other languages have. Take C or Java, you'll either have to wade through a lot information or you have to just leave a blank at many questions like: "why do I have to write include stdio?", "what is this int main()?", "why do I have to write public?", "what is an int?" or even "what is a compiler?" or "what is a textfile?" In ruby you might jump those initial questions in a couple of sentences for instances like this: "I'm going to teach you many different ways of hacking, but we are going to start here with this program called irb, and do the first steps. Now in this program type puts "hello world", which puts "hello world" on the screen..."
I would guess that at an early age you should appeal to their interests, if he is into "web2.0", social networking and that kind of stuff I would guess ruby and lead him towards ruby on rails later on, nice loving language, powerful framework.
If he like games, python and eventually teach pygame or pyglet. Maybe you'll put competing together in PyWeek as a goal.
If none of the above applies but he have a general interest in computers, Haskell is just a jawdroppingly beautiful language. Functional and typed. I just love it. Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell is a great book for learning Haskell, and if your looking for an online resource there is always Learn You a Haskell For Great Good
Does anyone know what kind of legal action plurk can take? they claim copyright of their content, but does that cover code? and since this is in China who knows what kind of rights plurk has...
It doesn't seem like this does something "patchable," it seems like Linux is working as expected, you download the file, you get prompted for security elevation when executed (if that is automatic then the problem is probably somewhere else like the browser), and the program does it's thing. If it doesn't work in SELinux its probably because SELinux would recover some extra manual overriding of configuration that Linux doesn't require by design.
However it sounded to me like it does something it's not suppose to be able to, when issuing it's auto start. But let's face it, if you allow a problem to it is supposed to be able to do almost anything...
I don't know about you, but I can't seem to find any downloads unless I go to the specific site where they have it, you can't even get new membership it seems... Seems to me that google has packed up the product and is looking to move it elsewhere, maybe incorporate it in their own software perhaps? and the fact that you can't download linux version from http://www.gizmo5.com/download.php , seems to me to be more of a bug then a "kill the penguins" act, although I guess most of the posts here is going to assume so...
Let's say there are 500 different vulnerabilities in FF, and 1 in IE, but the 500 vulnerabilities of FF is just variations of the same and would just make for a denial of service, however the vulnerability in IE destroys the computer who is subject of it. Maybe the vulnerabilities in FF in addition is very rear and involves user agreement, and the one in IE is common to every website... This is not a good measurement of web browser security...
Slashdot Mirror
One thing is that some wallstreet wannabe wrote this, but that it pops up on Slashdot is another thing.
apparently Muslims believe that god plays dice...
A very nice tribute to dmr as one of the authors of "The C Programming Language" which made the hello world programming example popular. But, for correctness sake (and I really do hope this doesn't ruin the tribute completely,) the example is due to Brian Kernighan, the other author of "The C Programming Language", who had written that example in an bell labs C language tutorial in 1974 and had used a similar example in his 1972 "Tutorial Introduction to the Language B" wich also featured the phrase "hello, world".
This might raise awareness of the windows tax. The main problem with it is that most buyers intending to use some other operating system will accept the extra cost, install whatever they like over windows and never look back. Microsoft got a good deal going, locking in a machine to use windows and nothing else is unnecessary.
However, if there is no way to run anything else then windows on a machine, it will make a small but noticeable decrease in sales. Perhaps this will increase the marked for desktop machines with a free os installed, with the possibility of tweaking or disabling secure boot, since "locked in" desktops is not a preferable option for some users.
nuff said!
Aliens...
Isn't it weird that this article cites only good things about Linux, damns the not so well spent chance in the turmoil of Vista, and then dooms Linux on the desktop because of it and the fact that you can't watch all DVD's (and related content) out of the box. Pretty strange indeed as I don't see Windows coming with a twitter/facebook/irc client, an bittorrent client, a full office suit, andriod integration, osv. out of the box.
...Seriously, isn't the great appeal of Java supposed to be that you can avoid shit like this?
Java is full of bugs that needs to be supported for backwards compatibility reasons. Just check out this java puzzlers presentation to get a showcase of the funniest.
I always wanted to own a distro!
special character fail.
up up down down left right left right B A
That is the root password on my Server!
I agree, it's known that throughout modern history, that scientific advancement gives rise to technological advancements, and in turn these new technologies becomes available to the general public.
Free... as long as your privacy is worth a smoking fast browser.
There, fixed that for you!
what kind of business move is this? OpenSolaris doesn't really have a lot of users! They might get a couple of bucks from someone acquiring a non gratis license. But is really a good Idea to squeeze out what's left of it, and ruin the brand name?
It most probably won't work, because, face it, they are kids, you will spend most of your time trying to get them to understand quirkiness. The thing is that what they won't solve in time, they probably won't solve at all, and unless you are doing difficult stuff or you are squeezing c++ (wich you probably won't get kids to do right), python is comparable to c++ (maybe between 4 and 5 times slower), and when it comes to VB, it will just mess with their minds...
"Is it safer to stay in the car, or is it safe to go outside? Like many of you, I use a car to go to work and whatnot. At home and at work, I wonder if it would be safer to just stay in the car then going outside. Is it more secure to lock my car with a key (big bad parking lot) where people can come up and steal my keys, or is it more secure to just remain in the car? I use my car 1 to 4 times per day, most days." On a serious note; when you have used so much time to secure your connection why not used now and then.
actually, *cough*, not many people lived to be old aged in medieval Europe.
My advice: Learn Logic rather than math. It is far more useful.
I totally disagree on skipping math for logic. Not that logic isn't important but Discrete math is very important for general problem solving involving countable sets. It's essential, so you got to at least take that course. And when it comes to "selected math chapters"; a firm understanding of those topics, is really useful, but if you want to take more math later, a course on Real Analysis and a course on Linear Algebra should cover those topics that were provided, and a lot of other useful stuff, and it might give you a better understanding.
An instant after I had written this I regretted doing so, because I suddenly remembered the old wise words of Why the lucky stiff... Teaching programming should be easy, fun, in collaboration with other kids, done on the child's terms and not be about how a computer works. I wholeheartedly hope you teach the kid ruby with hackety hack. Because it's all of the above and done in a language the is all about readability and doesn't have the "first you have to do like this and then that" that many other languages have. Take C or Java, you'll either have to wade through a lot information or you have to just leave a blank at many questions like: "why do I have to write include stdio?", "what is this int main()?", "why do I have to write public?", "what is an int?" or even "what is a compiler?" or "what is a textfile?" In ruby you might jump those initial questions in a couple of sentences for instances like this: "I'm going to teach you many different ways of hacking, but we are going to start here with this program called irb, and do the first steps. Now in this program type puts "hello world", which puts "hello world" on the screen..."
chrome has rss support through an extension.
gun battles aren't the only thing happening....
I would guess that at an early age you should appeal to their interests, if he is into "web2.0", social networking and that kind of stuff I would guess ruby and lead him towards ruby on rails later on, nice loving language, powerful framework.
If he like games, python and eventually teach pygame or pyglet. Maybe you'll put competing together in PyWeek as a goal.
If none of the above applies but he have a general interest in computers, Haskell is just a jawdroppingly beautiful language. Functional and typed. I just love it. Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell is a great book for learning Haskell, and if your looking for an online resource there is always Learn You a Haskell For Great Good
Does anyone know what kind of legal action plurk can take? they claim copyright of their content, but does that cover code? and since this is in China who knows what kind of rights plurk has...
It doesn't seem like this does something "patchable," it seems like Linux is working as expected, you download the file, you get prompted for security elevation when executed (if that is automatic then the problem is probably somewhere else like the browser), and the program does it's thing. If it doesn't work in SELinux its probably because SELinux would recover some extra manual overriding of configuration that Linux doesn't require by design. However it sounded to me like it does something it's not suppose to be able to, when issuing it's auto start. But let's face it, if you allow a problem to it is supposed to be able to do almost anything...
I don't know about you, but I can't seem to find any downloads unless I go to the specific site where they have it, you can't even get new membership it seems... Seems to me that google has packed up the product and is looking to move it elsewhere, maybe incorporate it in their own software perhaps? and the fact that you can't download linux version from http://www.gizmo5.com/download.php , seems to me to be more of a bug then a "kill the penguins" act, although I guess most of the posts here is going to assume so...
Let's say there are 500 different vulnerabilities in FF, and 1 in IE, but the 500 vulnerabilities of FF is just variations of the same and would just make for a denial of service, however the vulnerability in IE destroys the computer who is subject of it. Maybe the vulnerabilities in FF in addition is very rear and involves user agreement, and the one in IE is common to every website... This is not a good measurement of web browser security...