With stories like this, and also how a whole city had been built (so some city official can say his cities economy grew at 8 percent this year) despite almost no one having moved in, questions have to be asked of trade with china.
If their government is so slack to allow the above (not to mention the melamine in milk to whiten it) and not be able to put a stop to it with out it affecting their International trade, all children goods, consumables and any other goods possibly effecting public health should be banned from China.
This probably would never happen, one of our sins is putting money before people.
Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project that enables anyone who knows HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create powerful Firefox add-ons. Our goal is to allow anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.
Or may be they are going in the right direction. If companies such as google, litl webbook and projects such as bespin are thinking along the lines of creating a GUI/web platform its possible that their's a new direction that computing is headed. One where older heads like us may not necessarily think to go.There are many parallels in computing (PC, Minicomputer, Internet)
Not saying the above is so (I find the above net GUI idea restrictive), it just pays to think about possibilities, such as a more robust GUI without the need for adding complex libraries.
Ok now your thinking "out side the box" big media (3D TV Network can't be copied and give the same user experience). I still don't think 3D TV will work, standard media will do, and I think you will still screw up the execution of it.
Taking Monty at face value he seems to be saying Mysql was such a dynamic open source poject because of the way it was funded (a GPL codebase with a propriety licence for any one willing to pay), giving it lots of cash to develop (enabling full-time developers to work on the code base). Mysql (in Montys view) was not like Linux that had a distributed development effort behind it.
Taking him at face value this seems to be a weekness in Mysql development model, the Oracle buy out is a case in point. Not taking him at face value however is Groklaw I think her assessment is a little harsh (not because I know Monty personally, I dont) as there is a reasonable explanation for his actions outlined in the Groklaw artical. He's trying to stop Oracle from Buying Sun and therefore mysql, as he can not see Oracle supporting mysql. Why would a company buy out a competitor, whose product makes less profit than theirs, and support it, even though it will take customers from their more lucrative products. I say this because with the accusations against Monty are strong and need to be proven in non contradictory ways.
I never owned or even used an Amiga, but I can't help but respect the longevity of its influence.
Don't listen to the disparaging remarks on slashdot. I would never have known even the little I know about Amiga, had it not been for the articles here on/.
Obviously reality matters (time and commitments etc) but if you guys can build a system in your own time that works keep doing it, it may even become a big deal to every one some day. enjoy
Will this do.
I'm not entirely sure of not extending vim but "not wanting to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM" could mean.
PIDA is an IDE (integrated development environment). PIDA is different from other IDEs in that it will use the tools you already have available rather than attempting to reinvent each one. PIDA is written in Python with the PyGTK toolkit, and although is designed to be used to program in any language, PIDA has fancy Python IDE features.
I like it. I seem to be using it mostly know, even though firefox is installed on my system. There is one thing however, bookmarks, when I wanted to bookmark a page the UI was so simple (no file edit menus) that I did not know how to do it. Familiarity is one important tenant of user interface design.
Learning programing without a specific goal, is another kind of hell. Make it about the 'Solution', then show him how to get there.
I agree with this. As well as a project that someone is interested in it may well pay off to (if this is only his first attempt at programming) give him a big book with lots of examples and questions and answers. An example of book style (please don't flame me, its the format that is good not necessarily the content) is Herbert Schildt teach your self C. This format is great because he explains one concept
Gives code fragments about the concept
Gives (typically) three whole examples of code using the concept/language feature, with a line by line analysis of each programme
Has questions stating "change example x so it can do x"
After each chapter there are more questions aimed at 1. seeing how well you understand the concepts in the chapter as a whole, 2. how well you have integrated this knowledge with previous chapters
Lots more questions both at the end of the chapters, and before you start the new chapter.
Firstly he has to want to do it, I mean really want to because it is hard. Show him this its pretty inspirational (what ever you think of the author), this got me into programming. Peter Norvig says Python or Scheme (he's an old lisp guy) but he needs to get to the point of codding his own apps ASAP so a language with lots of examples is good (Python has the oreilly publishers cookbook and numerous applications out there).
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This is why I wish the internet would become a development platform for application (GUI driven in this case). If this was the case the platform wars (to borrow Microsoft terminology) would be over and developers would code for the internet. Google, with chrome os etc, seems to be an ally in this, not that they are benevolent benefactors, just that their business aims and the open source community desires align.
What would it take to code in any number of languages (in the way we can now code in javascript) for the web.
Good point, my train of thought was along the lines of a cheap internet machine for many (especially the youths). At these prices (ARM processors are cheap) it could be a cheap fashion accessory.
The question is whether ARM-based netbooks will sell at all
They well could do. As I said below 2008 showed that if a laptop is cheap enough it will sell. I don't know about Google's approach, it would get some kid on facebook , so for many it would be good enough.
I hope they do well, then every other company will come out with there own Linux offering.
This is not hard to believe because 2008 showed that if a computer is cheap enough it will sell regardless of well known OS.
I would how ever like to warn against complacency. There are warts in Linux that do not get fixed, such as the flickering screen in Ubuntu boot and shut down, despite attention from distro's (others, such as suspending a computer, are only on a minority of chip sets and can be fixed when working with a Manufacturer) It seems that Linux needs a business to focus on it and ensure that the customer experience is fully taken into account (with deference paid to hackers and community organisations such as Gnome, Kde etc). One thing to ask your self is would Apple (or other unnamed companies operating in the OS space)
allow such a case of the above screen flickering, or would it be dealt with even if the X server had to be replaced (if that is the problem)
Like I heard some kids say last year, I would rather have a crap laptop with the internet than a nice laptop without (said about a Christmas present last year that was a disappointment)
and it is also a company, a hierarchal organization were those lower down have to do what those higher up tell them to do. Those higher up have a pattern of behavior that justifies many of the fears on Slashdot. Groklaw is full of evidence, much of which was gained through court systems from around the world.
So to quote Wikipedia
The base technologies submitted to the ECMA, and therefore also the Unix/GNOME-specific parts, may be non-problematic. The concerns primarily relate to technologies developed by Microsoft on top of the.NET Framework, such as ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows Forms (see Non standardized namespaces)
Firstly I have never used Multics, so I can not directly comment on its superiority (or lack thereof) over Unix. However according to a interview for Unix: An Oral History
Various accounts I’ve read of UNIX, Ritchie’s retrospective on it, and even an interview you did with some people for a video back in 1981 talk about the system as being, or UNIX as being, sort of culling all the best ideas in operating systems that emerged during the ‘60’s.
Ken answered
My background for obtaining these ideas was.... I worked on CTSS, I used CTSS per say. I used CTSS and did some, a lot of programming on CTSS and I worked on MULTICS.
Multics was very influential, it provided Ken Thompson an example of what not to do. In other words, stick closely to the KISS (Keep It Simple) principle.
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With stories like this, and also how a whole city had been built (so some city official can say his cities economy grew at 8 percent this year) despite almost no one having moved in, questions have to be asked of trade with china.
If their government is so slack to allow the above (not to mention the melamine in milk to whiten it) and not be able to put a stop to it with out it affecting their International trade, all children goods, consumables and any other goods possibly effecting public health should be banned from China.
This probably would never happen, one of our sins is putting money before people.
Ok, that makes sense then. Mod this up.
How can they do that when producing an ARM processor cost only ARMs royalty + costs added on from many producers (Texas instruments qualcomm et al).
Or may be they are going in the right direction. If companies such as google, litl webbook and projects such as bespin are thinking along the lines of creating a GUI/web platform its possible that their's a new direction that computing is headed. One where older heads like us may not necessarily think to go.There are many parallels in computing (PC, Minicomputer, Internet) Not saying the above is so (I find the above net GUI idea restrictive), it just pays to think about possibilities, such as a more robust GUI without the need for adding complex libraries.
The list below was quickly trawled up on google, I dont discount you could be right.
My main point is media companies seem to see 3d as some saviour giving a unique selling point whilst protecting demand (profit) from pirates.
What about 3D cinema.
Ok now your thinking "out side the box" big media (3D TV Network can't be copied and give the same user experience). I still don't think 3D TV will work, standard media will do, and I think you will still screw up the execution of it.
Taking Monty at face value he seems to be saying Mysql was such a dynamic open source poject because of the way it was funded (a GPL codebase with a propriety licence for any one willing to pay), giving it lots of cash to develop (enabling full-time developers to work on the code base). Mysql (in Montys view) was not like Linux that had a distributed development effort behind it.
Taking him at face value this seems to be a weekness in Mysql development model, the Oracle buy out is a case in point.
Not taking him at face value however is Groklaw I think her assessment is a little harsh (not because I know Monty personally, I dont) as there is a reasonable explanation for his actions outlined in the Groklaw artical. He's trying to stop Oracle from Buying Sun and therefore mysql, as he can not see Oracle supporting mysql. Why would a company buy out a competitor, whose product makes less profit than theirs, and support it, even though it will take customers from their more lucrative products.
I say this because with the accusations against Monty are strong and need to be proven in non contradictory ways.
I never owned or even used an Amiga, but I can't help but respect the longevity of its influence. /.
Don't listen to the disparaging remarks on slashdot. I would never have known even the little I know about Amiga, had it not been for the articles here on
Obviously reality matters (time and commitments etc) but if you guys can build a system in your own time that works keep doing it, it may even become a big deal to every one some day. enjoy
I'm not entirely sure of not extending vim but "not wanting to give up the efficient text editing capabilities of VIM" could mean.
Its, a IDE and will allow you to use vim as well.
I like it. I seem to be using it mostly know, even though firefox is installed on my system. There is one thing however, bookmarks, when I wanted to bookmark a page the UI was so simple (no file edit menus) that I did not know how to do it. Familiarity is one important tenant of user interface design.
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I agree with this. As well as a project that someone is interested in it may well pay off to (if this is only his first attempt at programming) give him a big book with lots of examples and questions and answers. An example of book style (please don't flame me, its the format that is good not necessarily the content) is Herbert Schildt teach your self C. This format is great because he explains one concept
Firstly he has to want to do it, I mean really want to because it is hard. Show him this its pretty inspirational (what ever you think of the author), this got me into programming.
Peter Norvig says Python or Scheme (he's an old lisp guy) but he needs to get to the point of codding his own apps ASAP so a language with lots of examples is good (Python has the oreilly publishers cookbook and numerous applications out there).
This is why I wish the internet would become a development platform for application (GUI driven in this case). If this was the case the platform wars (to borrow Microsoft terminology) would be over and developers would code for the internet. Google, with chrome os etc, seems to be an ally in this, not that they are benevolent benefactors, just that their business aims and the open source community desires align.
What would it take to code in any number of languages (in the way we can now code in javascript) for the web.
I think that's why Apple opened there own stores.
Even with their longer history, higher public awareness and slicker GUI interface.
Good point, my train of thought was along the lines of a cheap internet machine for many (especially the youths). At these prices (ARM processors are cheap) it could be a cheap fashion accessory.
They well could do. As I said below 2008 showed that if a laptop is cheap enough it will sell. I don't know about Google's approach, it would get some kid on facebook , so for many it would be good enough.
I hope they do well, then every other company will come out with there own Linux offering.
This is not hard to believe because 2008 showed that if a computer is cheap enough it will sell regardless of well known OS.
I would how ever like to warn against complacency. There are warts in Linux that do not get fixed, such as the flickering screen in Ubuntu boot and shut down, despite attention from distro's (others, such as suspending a computer, are only on a minority of chip sets and can be fixed when working with a Manufacturer) It seems that Linux needs a business to focus on it and ensure that the customer experience is fully taken into account (with deference paid to hackers and community organisations such as Gnome, Kde etc).
One thing to ask your self is would Apple (or other unnamed companies operating in the OS space) allow such a case of the above screen flickering, or would it be dealt with even if the X server had to be replaced (if that is the problem)
Like I heard some kids say last year, I would rather have a crap laptop with the internet than a nice laptop without (said about a Christmas present last year that was a disappointment)
and it is also a company, a hierarchal organization were those lower down have to do what those higher up tell them to do. Those higher up have a pattern of behavior that justifies many of the fears on Slashdot. Groklaw is full of evidence, much of which was gained through court systems from around the world.
So to quote Wikipedia
So whats changed
Ken answered
Sorry I meant
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Multics was very influential, it provided Ken Thompson an example of what not to do. In other words, stick closely to the KISS (Keep It Simple) principle.