I wish I had read Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie ISBN-10: 0976458705 ISBN-13: 978-0976458708 much earlier. It is an amazing book to really show you a different way to approach programming problems. It is available online these days.
The icons on this release are mostly horrible. I replaced the finder with the one from a previous version and will probably replace the bright folder icons. I like the gray sidebar icons in finder and wish they had used full size versions instead of the horrible bright blue.
"I'm not wasting any more time chasing your moving goal posts"
I didn't move the goal posts. Everyone talking about inflation is trying to do that. The under $200 category of programmable computer is gone. We now have smart phones and tablets. One of the key entry points into computing is no longer available.
I don't buy that inflation argument at all since cellphones (and a lot of consumer items) still go for the $99 and $199 price points. Computers were always touted as getting cheaper every year, yet (because of the economics of Intel and Microsoft) we have lost the under $200 segment. $500 is still not an impulse buy.
ZX Spectrum and its ilk were buy box in store, come home and hook to TV. The Raspberry Pi is not that simple and even amazon lists a bunch of pictures of parts with each entry. That is a pretty big "too hard" for a nontechnical parent.
Go to the Raspberry Pi website and try to figure out from the point of view of a nontechnical parent how to buy your kid a complete computer they can program. That project is not ready for the retail crowd.
None of those are prime-time ready for parent who don't know anything about computers. Last time I checked, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target are still around.
In the late 70's and early 80's in the US, you could go into a big box store and buy a computer with BASIC for under $200. Heck, the Sinclair boxes were under a $100. Which computer fits that description today?
To get the true impact correct, I think you need to change the last couple of lines to: "All pages containing the name of every actress / actor named in this suit will not be indexed and we will not pay Google Ad revenues on those pages so we don't financially benefit from any possible images. Thank you and happy Googling!"
I do sympathize with each and every actress and this must be a nightmare, but with all the security breaches on the internet (cards, SSN, etc.), how can you think your pictures would be safe? Worse, they are in an industry that treats its own techs (FX workers) with about the same respect that programmers get even if the movies that make them famous are not possible without them (see everything about "Life of Pi"). Why would data be safe?
I am pretty sure if someone took the binary for GCC and generated source code from it and declared it to be some other license then the FSF might have some objections. Reversing some binary and distributing that work looks to violate the Minecraft license in the first place.
That's about what I said, except you just cannot change the license on the code itself. Some folks think you can strip the copyright and license from BSD code and that just isn't so.
IANALBIHHTSF It can be included in a GPL project, but there is no provision in the BSD license to change the BSD licensed code to GPL. I would bet there is already some BSD code in the Linux kernel, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
" provide a programmable platform that was good for teaching" - well, they failed at that too. If that was their goal then they should have just bought all the kids LeapFrog LeapPads. More lessons, cost effective, and can be bought by people not part of some government partnership.
The 8-bit generation of under $200 computers did more to teach programming than OLPC has ever done. OLPC is a nifty government contractor and nothing more. Sinclair did more for programming than OLPC.
WWZ (the book) is a great piece of story telling, but it is tragically stupid and requires one hell of a suspension of disbelief. A group of AC-130s ends Yonkers. I would also imagine 5 fully armed rednecks in an F-150 can kill an amazing number of zombies. I get that these things are fascinating models for disease, but a plague would be a whole lot worse.
They are doing a rather large push to use the language in everyday things and movies is one of those things. If the next generation learns it at a young age it will be preserved. Language is an important part of any culture, one of the most basic building blocks to understand what is important.
note: to those wondering about modern terms - the language isn't dead and new terms are created. This is sometimes done by adding words together (the Dakota word for automobile is long and painful) or adding a suffix / prefix (well, computer for an English example).
I should point out that part of that map is not very truthful. It counts money going to Native American reservations, maintenance of Federal land, and military bases and missile silos as returned state funding. This is deceptive and tips the balance in states with a low population. I also believe they seem to be failing to note the "Minerals Management Service royalty".
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I wish I had read Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie ISBN-10: 0976458705 ISBN-13: 978-0976458708 much earlier. It is an amazing book to really show you a different way to approach programming problems. It is available online these days.
Soldered RAM is always a wrong choice in a PC.
The icons on this release are mostly horrible. I replaced the finder with the one from a previous version and will probably replace the bright folder icons. I like the gray sidebar icons in finder and wish they had used full size versions instead of the horrible bright blue.
"I'm not wasting any more time chasing your moving goal posts" I didn't move the goal posts. Everyone talking about inflation is trying to do that. The under $200 category of programmable computer is gone. We now have smart phones and tablets. One of the key entry points into computing is no longer available.
I don't buy that inflation argument at all since cellphones (and a lot of consumer items) still go for the $99 and $199 price points. Computers were always touted as getting cheaper every year, yet (because of the economics of Intel and Microsoft) we have lost the under $200 segment. $500 is still not an impulse buy.
ZX Spectrum and its ilk were buy box in store, come home and hook to TV. The Raspberry Pi is not that simple and even amazon lists a bunch of pictures of parts with each entry. That is a pretty big "too hard" for a nontechnical parent.
Go to the Raspberry Pi website and try to figure out from the point of view of a nontechnical parent how to buy your kid a complete computer they can program. That project is not ready for the retail crowd.
None of those are prime-time ready for parent who don't know anything about computers. Last time I checked, Best Buy, Walmart, and Target are still around.
In the late 70's and early 80's in the US, you could go into a big box store and buy a computer with BASIC for under $200. Heck, the Sinclair boxes were under a $100. Which computer fits that description today?
To get the true impact correct, I think you need to change the last couple of lines to: "All pages containing the name of every actress / actor named in this suit will not be indexed and we will not pay Google Ad revenues on those pages so we don't financially benefit from any possible images. Thank you and happy Googling!"
I do sympathize with each and every actress and this must be a nightmare, but with all the security breaches on the internet (cards, SSN, etc.), how can you think your pictures would be safe? Worse, they are in an industry that treats its own techs (FX workers) with about the same respect that programmers get even if the movies that make them famous are not possible without them (see everything about "Life of Pi"). Why would data be safe?
I am pretty sure if someone took the binary for GCC and generated source code from it and declared it to be some other license then the FSF might have some objections. Reversing some binary and distributing that work looks to violate the Minecraft license in the first place.
That's about what I said, except you just cannot change the license on the code itself. Some folks think you can strip the copyright and license from BSD code and that just isn't so.
IANALBIHHTSF It can be included in a GPL project, but there is no provision in the BSD license to change the BSD licensed code to GPL. I would bet there is already some BSD code in the Linux kernel, so it shouldn't be a big deal.
I thought is was from OpenBSD
OpenBSD lists committers by e-mail and they just don't show the domain.
worked in a poor school to get grants to buy real computers - I've done my bit - what have you done but be am Anonymous Coward?
Well, Sinclair was under $100 - I'm sure the programmers who learned on it and liked it probably bought better computers later
" provide a programmable platform that was good for teaching" - well, they failed at that too. If that was their goal then they should have just bought all the kids LeapFrog LeapPads. More lessons, cost effective, and can be bought by people not part of some government partnership.
The 8-bit generation of under $200 computers did more to teach programming than OLPC has ever done. OLPC is a nifty government contractor and nothing more. Sinclair did more for programming than OLPC.
Let's see, I had to pay for a copy of windows on a machine that never ran windows, and now we have the whole EFI thing. History is a great teacher.
WWZ (the book) is a great piece of story telling, but it is tragically stupid and requires one hell of a suspension of disbelief. A group of AC-130s ends Yonkers. I would also imagine 5 fully armed rednecks in an F-150 can kill an amazing number of zombies. I get that these things are fascinating models for disease, but a plague would be a whole lot worse.
They are doing a rather large push to use the language in everyday things and movies is one of those things. If the next generation learns it at a young age it will be preserved. Language is an important part of any culture, one of the most basic building blocks to understand what is important.
note: to those wondering about modern terms - the language isn't dead and new terms are created. This is sometimes done by adding words together (the Dakota word for automobile is long and painful) or adding a suffix / prefix (well, computer for an English example).
I should point out that part of that map is not very truthful. It counts money going to Native American reservations, maintenance of Federal land, and military bases and missile silos as returned state funding. This is deceptive and tips the balance in states with a low population. I also believe they seem to be failing to note the "Minerals Management Service royalty".
If you get in, you can make some cash and Apple pays on-time.
oh, I see, the Mayan calender is really the due dates on some reports to the galactic overlords - great 2012 will be fun.