Don't you Americans read news or watch newspapers? I am shocked with the level of misinformation when it comes to your own laws.
Absolutely we do! Where do you think all the misinformation comes from???
Ignorance is easy. Being that badly misinformed takes real effort.
Maybe one day we'll all be named Bob.
I'm one step ahead of you.
Chicago does have a free "maker" lab at its main public library, and they are creating more. Those are free/nominal fee to use.
As a Chicago tax-payer, if the CPL maker space continues beyond it's $250K start-up grant, it will not be free to me. I should also add that I am a member of a Chicago maker space. Someone always pays; whether donors or taxpayers or members.
I'm all for putting maker spaces in high schools. We called them "shop class" when I went to school. (BTW, get off my lawn!)
I am not yet convinced a maker space belongs in a library.
You forgot the dash!
Yeah, that's right. I check my spelling with Yahoo! Answers before posting. Brilliant!!
Umm, ok, now you have to be brilliant to "sudo su ".
Sucker. Now you'll never get hired by the NSA.
Are they? Or are they just realizing that a cluster of redundant, possibly virtualized, machines is just as reliable even if each single machine is not? Two linux boxes with 99% uptime each running the same service redundantly is equivalent to one machine with 99.99% uptime but I bet the linux boxes are cheaper.
Exactly. Hardware and software architectures have changed a lot since 1973. Redundancy that used to be done in one piece of hardware -- "the server" or "the mainframe" -- is now handled by "the cluster". We still have expensive hardware when you look at the servers, network infrastructure, storage infrastructure, clustering and/or virtualization software and monitoring systems. But individually, we can take our pick of vendors for each of these components and that competition is what keeps the costs down.
Our vendors know that they cannot screw us (as, for example, Sun/Oracle does my previous employer) because they will very quickly find themselves with one less customer. There is healthy competition in the marketplace. And we work to avoid vendor lock-in.
We can also identify bottlenecks and selectively upgrade the pieces as needed. The cluster is organic in that regards. Our software runs on the same cluster it did years ago -- but all of the components have been upgraded numerous times, just like the cells in our bodies.
Interfaces, abstract classes, private members, etc... Why did python avoid all this?
I'm curious -- how many dynamically-typed languages have these features?
Preferred? No. Required? Unfortunately...
I use Fedora at home (preferred) and RHEL at work (required). And I get the same yummy package management system for both. Besides, with the shit I pull on my home desktop machine, the added stability of RHEL isn't as noticeable as the lack of modern packages.
Good point. Really good point. The only counter that occurs to me is: This assumes that these people are smart enough to put such a system in place. My vote would be, No. In fact, the resulting debacle might be entertaining.
Unfortunately, if it can be done, they have enough money to outsource the development to really smart people who can.
We should all Google 'pressure cooker' and 'backpacks'. Let's send them for a spin.
pressure cooker, backpack, hot grits...
On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN.
