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That's good news. I will try it soon.
Thx
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We want to empower students of all ages and skill levels with the right tools, projects, and opportunities so that they can learn to create, code, and develop. Whether it’s a ten-year-old making her first game or a university senior building projects for their first job application, Microsoft can provide what they need, for free, today. "I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one"
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Guggs wrote: for free, today
We'll charge you double tomorrow.
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Last Thursday, Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner spoke at a Credit Suisse technology investment conference held in Tucson, Arizona, and signaled a change in strategy for monetizing Windows. 25 cent charge on every "OK" dialog
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For one week, Code.org's Hour of Code event will offer one-hour tutorials on the basics of computer science. In my day, it took us a full 21 days to learn how to code
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I once did a 24 hour book. 
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If you're a programmer, please don't denigrate what a beginner is currently learning ... unless you're willing to personally invest the enormous amount of time to ensure that they learn what you want them to learn. We all started somewhere
Yes, it's a month old, but new to me.
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The only thing I tell our beginners is 'run'!
(If he does not I give him an assignment so complicated that will keep him occupied for 2-3 months - after that he is not a beginner anymore )
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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you sir are a good mentor. assume 'hat tipped in your direction' smiley here.
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The one I have a hard time holding back is
some are not made for it
It's an instinctive reaction when seeing them struggle with the underlying mindset, when they copy by rote without apparent understanding.
But I should know it's pretty elitist (in a bad way) and who knows how my first steps and exploits have looked.
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peterchen wrote: copy by rote without apparent understanding.
even worse...
copy by rote without any apparent desire to understand.
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Facebook's CEO takes a shot at Apple over earlier comments that free, ad-supported services turn people into products. Hard to pick you you want to win this fight
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Hey, Zuckerberg, boot-to-the-head.
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Not that hard. Apple sells stuff.
Zuck sells people, that's how he makes money. And he should look in the mirror and admit it.
Life is too shor
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I agree with Tim Cook on this, hard not too. It's an individuals choice whether to use a free service, based on how they feel their data will be used/abused.
However, Apple's trading practices are worse - instead of making money by advertising, they do all they can to ensure their customers are locked into the Apple ecosystem. Ensuring Apple devices require more Apple devices to interoperate. This should be illegal.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Zuckerberg should try to avoid talking about the "people are product" issue if he can. If cornered by journalists, the politically best move is to repeat a memorized list of positve things about Facebook and avoid mentioning anything negative or anything on Apple's business or Cook's remarks. The more he talks about negative things, the more the issue stays in the news, which is exactly what he doesn't want.
In any case, journalists haven't pulled any statement from Google yet; Google seems to have its press-control system down.
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jesarg wrote: The more he talks about negative things, the more the issue stays in the news, which is exactly what he doesn't want
"I don't care what they say about me, just make sure they spell my name right!" ~P. T. Barnum
Did you mean, "exactly what he does want!" ? 
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One of the weaknesses in online advertising is whether ads are seen by actual, you know, humans. Google has now acknowledged that more than half of its ads are not on the screen for even one second. Watch them try to buy AdBlock (to shut it down)
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Thats good.
I really hate useless ads taking my bandwidth much more than my actual webpage.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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I can live with static ads...it's when they play video on my screen without my permission that bothers me.
Also, when you're trying to read something and it keeps moving because the layout keeps changing to accommodate more crap they're loading into boxes...I usually close the window if it does that to me even once.
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DaveX86 wrote: it's when they play video on my screen without my permission that bothers me
Couldn't agree more.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Watch them try to buy AdBlock (to shut it down)
*cough*[^]
Quote: Allowing acceptable ads in Adblock Plus
What is this about?
Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 you can allow some of the advertising not considered annoying to be viewed. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way.
Why is this feature enabled by default?
Unfortunately, this is the only way to accomplish the goals described above. But if the majority of Adblock Plus users have this function activated, advertisers will have the incentive to produce better ads.
This happened a few years ago after Google started sponsoring the project....
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Over the past few months, we have been working on improvements to many open source middleware components, and following our announcements from the last few months, we’re excited to share the latest open source projects that we’ve enabled for your Windows and Windows Phone games. "Here I am, stuck in the middle with you"
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What value can be placed on the letter 'S'? If it's the 'S' in HTTPS, it could equate to a loss of productivity due to increased latency, greater battery drain for certain connected devices, and the loss of in-network value-added services, according to new research. Does this network traffic make my 'S' look big?
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 for the PUN
No it's your 'S' that makes your 'S' look big 
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