Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Steve Smith wrote: Owen - I'm surprised at how good the critter seems. My main concern is that it doesn't have a camera, so skype would be somewhat disabled. But that seems to be the only serious lack, and will likely be there for future versions. I think

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
Owen I had hoped mightily for a full OSX notebook... so am disappointed by that. Well, that's sorta what the Air is all about, right? Irene has brought hers to the complex in the past, and it looks pretty good. No DVD in that either, however .. but you can plug one into it. Flip the screen

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Robert Holmes
Owen - don't get too excited by the hype. You could end up in the same position as this Apple fanboy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4 -- R On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Owen I had hoped mightily for a full OSX notebook... so am disappointed

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Douglas Roberts
snicker I was going to do an Owen Fanboi comment last night, but bit my tongue instead. Here's a good article about the iPad (and why does that name evoke an image of some kind of feminine hygiene product?) http://blogs.computerworld.com/15487/anything_the_ipad_can_do_linux_can_do_better

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
Roger Critchlow wrote: This is from the Bell Labs corner at Google, the principle designers of the language are Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. Also I understand this is going into GCC proper. Ian Lance Taylor (a well known GCC hacker) is the Google lead. Apparently there will

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Owen Densmore
On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: snicker I was going to do an Owen Fanboi comment last night, but bit my tongue instead. Have no fear, I own an iPhone. That I had to jailbreak. And unlock. And do without their cool net-un-neutral voice mail. And deal with the

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/28/10 1:58 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: I haven't looked lately: how thread-safe are the c++ stl implementations these days? GCC's libstdc++ has this. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/parallel_mode.html It's based on OpenMP (gomp). But that's a different thing than

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/28/10 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Apple just sucks less than all the rest. Hardly an accolade. This looks interesting.. http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/ https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/mobile/1.0/releasenotes/ FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Roger Critchlow
Add this to the stack: http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/01/nokia-has-a-reason-to-carry-on-android-booted-on-an-n900/ A dual boot phone? -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Marcus G. Daniels mar...@snoutfarm.comwrote: On 1/28/10 1:57 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: Apple just sucks less than

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 1/28/10 2:44 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: Add this to the stack: http://www.eurodroid.com/2010/01/nokia-has-a-reason-to-carry-on-android-booted-on-an-n900/ http://gigaom.com/2009/10/19/on-mobile-phones-firefoxs-big-bet-is-nokia-android/

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Douglas Roberts
I can just imagine that 'amateur coder' typing away on his Nokia phone developing all that Android code. Entering a little 300x120 debugger window every now then, doing little compiles, doing lots of little Android reboots... It boggles my little imagination. I bet his thumbs are sore.

Re: [FRIAM] iPad

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Smith
Robert Holmes wrote: Owen - don't get too excited by the hype. You could end up in the same position as this Apple fanboy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4 While I'm not as demonstrative as this toothbrush-mustachioed feller, I have to admit that I resonated with the entire

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-01-28 Thread Roger Critchlow
The ancient Asian game was referred to as yi by Confucius and Mencius. it only spread to Japan and became known as go in the second millennium of its existence. The best international players call the game weiqi (Chinese) or baduk (Korean). -- rec -- On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Robert J.

Re: [FRIAM] The Go Programming Language

2010-01-28 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Then there's 'wei chi' and others variants. Lots of western countries use 'go' as a root: jeu de go, the game of go, spiel go, el juego de go and so on. The Japense romanji is 'igo' being the source. The late Taiwanese philanthropist Ing Chang-ki may have had a point in wanting us to spell