Kemeny and Kurtz developed, and ran, the very first BASIC program, which started many of us on the way to programming. It was, and still is, simple, easy to learn, and relatively powerful, making it simple to have working programs in very little time.
from Wired
1964: In the predawn hours of May Day, two professors […]
When I was young, I had teachers tell me to concentrate on what I was working on, and not let my mind become taken over by thoughts that were either not of any consequence or on the periphery of the task at hand.
It was good advice.
The voting public could take that advice today, and dwell […]
‘to err is human, to do it often takes Microsoft’ - unknown
The top story this morning on the Computer World website is the non-start of the Windows XP Service Pack Release. The details have already been disseminated through other channels, but for those not rabid about details, the SP3 code causes data loss with one […]
I guess the folks at Novell have taken to the idea that existence for its own sake, rather than thriving through innovation is the way they want to ‘roll’.
Toward this end, the powers that be at Novell have, to the utter amazement and anger of the rest of the Linux world, cozied up to […]
Over at Ars Technica, an article describing the upcoming marriage of Intel processors, graphics technology, and Cray knowledge shows that it is quite possible that the future of high performance computing just may change standard personal computing as we know it, and in the process, threaten the existence of AMD.
Intel is pursuing yet another shrink […]
