nuff said!

Aliens...

Isn't it weird that this article cites only good things about Linux, damns the not so well spent chance in the turmoil of Vista, and then dooms Linux on the desktop because of it and the fact that you can't watch all DVD's (and related content) out of the box. Pretty strange indeed as I don't see Windows coming with a twitter/facebook/irc client, an bittorrent client, a full office suit, andriod integration, osv. out of the box.

Java is full of bugs that needs to be supported for backwards compatibility reasons. Just check out this java puzzlers presentation to get a showcase of the funniest.

I always wanted to own a distro!

That is the root password on my Server!

I agree, it's known that throughout modern history, that scientific advancement gives rise to technological advancements, and in turn these new technologies becomes available to the general public.

There, fixed that for you!

what kind of business move is this? OpenSolaris doesn't really have a lot of users! They might get a couple of bucks from someone acquiring a non gratis license. But is really a good Idea to squeeze out what's left of it, and ruin the brand name?

It most probably won't work, because, face it, they are kids, you will spend most of your time trying to get them to understand quirkiness. The thing is that what they won't solve in time, they probably won't solve at all, and unless you are doing difficult stuff or you are squeezing c++ (wich you probably won't get kids to do right), python is comparable to c++ (maybe between 4 and 5 times slower), and when it comes to VB, it will just mess with their minds...

"Is it safer to stay in the car, or is it safe to go outside? Like many of you, I use a car to go to work and whatnot. At home and at work, I wonder if it would be safer to just stay in the car then going outside. Is it more secure to lock my car with a key (big bad parking lot) where people can come up and steal my keys, or is it more secure to just remain in the car? I use my car 1 to 4 times per day, most days." On a serious note; when you have used so much time to secure your connection why not used now and then.

actually, *cough*, not many people lived to be old aged in medieval Europe.

I totally disagree on skipping math for logic. Not that logic isn't important but Discrete math is very important for general problem solving involving countable sets. It's essential, so you got to at least take that course. And when it comes to "selected math chapters"; a firm understanding of those topics, is really useful, but if you want to take more math later, a course on Real Analysis and a course on Linear Algebra should cover those topics that were provided, and a lot of other useful stuff, and it might give you a better understanding.

An instant after I had written this I regretted doing so, because I suddenly remembered the old wise words of Why the lucky stiff... Teaching programming should be easy, fun, in collaboration with other kids, done on the child's terms and not be about how a computer works. I wholeheartedly hope you teach the kid ruby with hackety hack. Because it's all of the above and done in a language the is all about readability and doesn't have the "first you have to do like this and then that" that many other languages have. Take C or Java, you'll either have to wade through a lot information or you have to just leave a blank at many questions like: "why do I have to write include stdio?", "what is this int main()?", "why do I have to write public?", "what is an int?" or even "what is a compiler?" or "what is a textfile?" In ruby you might jump those initial questions in a couple of sentences for instances like this: "I'm going to teach you many different ways of hacking, but we are going to start here with this program called irb, and do the first steps. Now in this program type puts "hello world", which puts "hello world" on the screen..."