The results I worried about, millions of children running Windows on the OLPC, have not occurred. Instead we see millions of children running Windows on the Intel Classmate.
ANOTHER GLORIOUS VICTORY
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Anonymous2014-09-10 2:54
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Anonymous2014-09-10 4:05
le circular need
But I am not in a position to judge them on other criteria: even to try them all would be a lot work that I have no need to do.
he would require to try them all to "judge them on other criteria," but hes not on a position to judge them on other criteria, because he doesnt needs to try them all
That will teach kids early that computers are only an appliance.
I guess that's fair enough. I came to conclusion that its not possible to teach or even SHOW most people that computers can be so much more. It is the fate of the Lisp Machine to wait for each individual /prog/rammer to rediscover and recreate it for himself.
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Anonymous2014-09-10 5:19
>>5 Give or sell computers without dumbed-down shit and with unix manuals, they will read them if it's their only one.
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Anonymous2014-09-10 13:27
Ah, the good ol' days™ when OS docs came on a pallet.
I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundamentally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. `read', `eval', and `print' are all missing in Python.
Pretty sure those functions are included in Python out of the box. :D:D:D:D:D