>Hundreds of thousands of programmers got their start writing C-64, TRS-80, Apple & Sinclair BASIC on their home computers before graduating to structured languages, and 10s of thousands of them turned out to eat good or great programmers.
There, fixed that for you.
Great programmers learned assembly language first, or machine code. BASIC is just something you use when you want a distraction from programming.
I teach microprocessor design. Am I am expert, PhD in it? No. But I am passionate about it, and I've been told that passion rubs off.
Some of the worst teachers I have had, were simply bad teachers. The problem where I grew up (UK) was that it was very difficult to get rid of a bad teacher.
This is the first troll post that I can sympathize with. We all know it; we are breaking the law when we download music/videos. It's just that, unlike mugging someone in the street, no one really loses out. Maybe the music execs will have to buy fewer wraps of coke. Is that such a bad thing? I don't think so.
>ZigBee Pro, which promises interoperability among light switches, thermostats, door locks, motorized shades, security systems, remote controls and some 36 million electric meters
Slashdot Mirror
>However, I also argue that Apple be forced to open up the iPhone,
Oh for the love of Christ, when is this shit going to end. Apple don;t have a monopoly on mobile phones; buy another if you don't like how they play.
It's their ball, they get to set the rules. Are you some kind of communist or something?
>Apple has no moral authority to set these rules at all.
Let me put this in simple terms for you.
It's their ball. They get to choose the rules.
They do not have the monopoly on phone handsets. Buy another and get over it.
I can't be the only person who loved the iPhone but thought "I'll wait till a handset that I can put my own apps on comes along".
The openmoko project is an attempt at this, and one day it will happen, but until then I'll keep my cash in my wallet.
There, fixed that for you.
Great programmers learned assembly language first, or machine code. BASIC is just something you use when you want a distraction from programming.
>I'm still giggling over the idea of the next hacktool being written in BASIC, tho.
Me too. I'm waiting for the obligatory "The 1980s called and they want their language back" jokes. :o)
Agreed.
I teach microprocessor design. Am I am expert, PhD in it? No. But I am passionate about it, and I've been told that passion rubs off.
Some of the worst teachers I have had, were simply bad teachers. The problem where I grew up (UK) was that it was very difficult to get rid of a bad teacher.
But who would eat there?
>Now that they've virtually guaranteed her bankruptcy, how else could they possibly punish her?
er, jail?
> And just how many lawyers are there in the USA?
>Where are they?
Absolutely fucking everywhere.
This is the first troll post that I can sympathize with. We all know it; we are breaking the law when we download music/videos. It's just that, unlike mugging someone in the street, no one really loses out. Maybe the music execs will have to buy fewer wraps of coke. Is that such a bad thing? I don't think so.
In the end, the only winners are lawyers.
>The government is an agent working on your behalf.
The government is an agent working on behalf of the corporations that paid for them to get into power.
There, fixed that for you.
>Start on Slashdot ... that's what the rest of us do.
And end on Slatshot ... that's what the rest of us do.
>and are likely to keep reversing, though none of us will be around to find out.
And I doubt that the people around at the time will be around to find out either :o)
Wrong. You give it to RMS, and demands your soul. :o)
>Isn't that Eurpean American Football league called "World League"?
It was for sarcasm.
We enjoy humor in europe.
>but there are people who like creating and stimulating there brains.
Given your attention to spelling, I assume you aren't including yourself in that list
>Nothing beats Xvid for low bitrates. (The bitrates which create ~350MB videos)
I had to laugh at that.
*Any* video codec will create files of ~350MB :o)
Not with today's oil prices
>The wealthy person who gets a kick out of buying this will surely know a thing or two about mice.
No, they know a thing or two about business. They probably know feck all about mice, and leave that to us penniless geeks :o)
>even though no one alive today has heard, played or even seen a picture of this forgotten instrument."
So in fact he could make it sound like any old shit, and who is to disagree with him? :)
Still works, but up in the attic. I built in 1978. So nowhere near a device purchased 1 year before I was even born. Wow.
I'm still looking for a PDP-8, if anyone wants to part with one for next to nothing.
Wont swap it for the Acorn though, I love that to bits.
>ZigBee Pro, which promises interoperability among light switches, thermostats, door locks, motorized shades, security systems, remote controls and some 36 million electric meters
Now how could that *possibly* go wrong :o)
>You don't have to support IE? I must know what this job is. Please?
He works for the FSF.
Basic? Assembler, dude.
Maybe he could write software like we all did in the old days.
Some of us *enjoy* reading what he writes. I do. I suspect I wouldn't read anything you write.