Comment Digital Apollo (Score 1) 338
My favorite book this year was Digital Apollo. It's as much about the human/machine relationship as it is about the computer itself. Great book!
Comment Perl is alive! (Score 2) 187
Perl is alive!
Last time I checked Slashdot still runs on perl...
My company does too.
Now that ActiveState is providing Perl for Cloudfoundry, it's going to be good times in Perl land.
Comment My Letter To Steve Jobs (Score 1) 341
Gates Mocks MIT's $100 Laptop 816
QuietLagoon writes 'Reuters is reporting that Bill Gates is making fun of the one laptop per child initiative to revolutionize how the world's children are educated. 'The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen,' Gates said at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum in suburban Washington. 'Hardware is a small part of the cost' of providing computing capabilities, he said, adding that the big costs come from network connectivity, applications and support. 'If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type,' Gates said.'
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