The day Ruby or Python takes over from the boot grub loader for the initialization of init levels in Linux on start up is the day your statement makes sense. Until then, I think people with your attitude love one tool too much. If you don't understand BASH, you don't really understand Linux. I think OS start up is a serious script.
I watch stuff on hulu.com like Simon & Simon (they have seasons 2 & 3, which are not available on DVD). I do it using Hot Spot Shield which creates a VPN to mask where you are. The trade off, of course, is advertising. I can live with that.
I just tried it on cbs.com/classics and watched some of a Star Trek episode.
I'm in Toronto.
I'm weening myself off an addiction to esoteric info in compsci to deepen a few areas. This would be great to learn how things work, but what are you going to build with it? I'm not so keen on learning for its sake these days. What is the reader going to build? I think just taking the work of others and stealing it to sell it is a bit feeble. Is there a constructive use here beyond knowledge for knowledge's sake?
Thank you very much. That's what I wanted to read. I agree with you on RoR. I think it's not quite as billed. My problem with Perl is reading it. I can't stand it. Really. I'm learning Smalltalk and I can't go to Perl after that. For now it's just shell scripts/sed/awk.
Cheers.
I think you're saying it's ironic I'd have that attitude on a web site that is run on Perl. Correct? That just proves my point. Slashdot was created in 1997. This is legacy code. If it were built today it would not be with Perl. Look at Digg. I want somebody to tell me why they think Perl is relevant for new projects today.
Does this matter? Did anyone think this language had room to evolve? Isn't Perl just for legacy code now? Aren't new people learning Python or Ruby, and aren't those better choices? 1995 is calling. It wants its scripting language back.
"... OLPC hopes the contest will produce templates that allow kids to build their own games..."
You know, this is basically a Python machine on a Linux OS called Sugar. It has eToys installed, which already does this. Kids can build games, animations, etc. But it uses Squeak Smalltalk, and by gosh, those people at the OLPC, even though they've installed it as a default application, don't seem to want to tell anybody that.
Squeak Smalltalk http://www.squeakland.org/ and http://www.squeak.org/ are open source educational tools for K-12. eToys is in the One LapTop Per Child. It's in there because it's an open source educational tool.
I'm Canadian. I'm for it. We believe in authority up here more than in America it seems. It's unlikely to be abused, especially if there is some transparency. It's very American to automatically respond to this kind of thing as though it was a threat. Stop acting like a teenager.
People talk a lot about the money in doing what you love for a living, but the hope of a better tomorrow seems to me to be a life nourishing feeling. I've built a website called Printer Board -- For Self-Publishers Choosing A Printer http://www.printerboard.com/ and at this point I don't know if it is going to make me a living, though I need it to. But working on it has focused my life, which was drifing, in a great way. There is a lot people will put up with if they feel they are working to make their life a larger emotional space, instead of letting it atrophe into a corporate web that tightens.
Brasspen
DRM is about controling copyright, and that's seeming to be something people are experimenting with music and movies and software, but what about books? Aside from the infringement of Google Print, you should see what's happening in publishing. I was reading at http://www.printerboard.com/ and about self-publishing. Sure you own the copyright, but we own the files. You can't do anything without us. Now there's a one sided solution!
Brasspen
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The day Ruby or Python takes over from the boot grub loader for the initialization of init levels in Linux on start up is the day your statement makes sense. Until then, I think people with your attitude love one tool too much. If you don't understand BASH, you don't really understand Linux. I think OS start up is a serious script.
I watch stuff on hulu.com like Simon & Simon (they have seasons 2 & 3, which are not available on DVD). I do it using Hot Spot Shield which creates a VPN to mask where you are. The trade off, of course, is advertising. I can live with that. I just tried it on cbs.com/classics and watched some of a Star Trek episode. I'm in Toronto.
I'm weening myself off an addiction to esoteric info in compsci to deepen a few areas. This would be great to learn how things work, but what are you going to build with it? I'm not so keen on learning for its sake these days. What is the reader going to build? I think just taking the work of others and stealing it to sell it is a bit feeble. Is there a constructive use here beyond knowledge for knowledge's sake?
Thank you very much. That's what I wanted to read. I agree with you on RoR. I think it's not quite as billed. My problem with Perl is reading it. I can't stand it. Really. I'm learning Smalltalk and I can't go to Perl after that. For now it's just shell scripts/sed/awk. Cheers.
I think you're saying it's ironic I'd have that attitude on a web site that is run on Perl. Correct? That just proves my point. Slashdot was created in 1997. This is legacy code. If it were built today it would not be with Perl. Look at Digg. I want somebody to tell me why they think Perl is relevant for new projects today.
Does this matter? Did anyone think this language had room to evolve? Isn't Perl just for legacy code now? Aren't new people learning Python or Ruby, and aren't those better choices? 1995 is calling. It wants its scripting language back.
"... OLPC hopes the contest will produce templates that allow kids to build their own games..." You know, this is basically a Python machine on a Linux OS called Sugar. It has eToys installed, which already does this. Kids can build games, animations, etc. But it uses Squeak Smalltalk, and by gosh, those people at the OLPC, even though they've installed it as a default application, don't seem to want to tell anybody that.
Squeak Smalltalk http://www.squeakland.org/ and http://www.squeak.org/ are open source educational tools for K-12. eToys is in the One LapTop Per Child. It's in there because it's an open source educational tool.
I'm Canadian. I'm for it. We believe in authority up here more than in America it seems. It's unlikely to be abused, especially if there is some transparency. It's very American to automatically respond to this kind of thing as though it was a threat. Stop acting like a teenager.
I think that's Ottawa. As in Canada's capital. There is no "o".
People talk a lot about the money in doing what you love for a living, but the hope of a better tomorrow seems to me to be a life nourishing feeling. I've built a website called Printer Board -- For Self-Publishers Choosing A Printer http://www.printerboard.com/ and at this point I don't know if it is going to make me a living, though I need it to. But working on it has focused my life, which was drifing, in a great way. There is a lot people will put up with if they feel they are working to make their life a larger emotional space, instead of letting it atrophe into a corporate web that tightens. Brasspen
DRM is about controling copyright, and that's seeming to be something people are experimenting with music and movies and software, but what about books? Aside from the infringement of Google Print, you should see what's happening in publishing. I was reading at http://www.printerboard.com/ and about self-publishing. Sure you own the copyright, but we own the files. You can't do anything without us. Now there's a one sided solution! Brasspen