Re: [Edu-sig] re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread ajsiegel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Sorry. I was poorly educated. Of course under (my intepretation of) Kirby's regime, we will all have expertise in the workings of one particular kind of machine, the Uber-Machine. But I am not so

Re: [Edu-sig] re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread ajsiegel
From: Gregor Lingl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > > Kirby writes - > > it seems to me that if you and I were each > > hooked up to geiger counters and the > > word "Promethean" was flashed in front of us, > > our needles would move in opposite > > directions. > Are you sure tha

[Edu-sig] Re: CP4E

2005-04-11 Thread Lee Harr
This is very much about empowerment (to use a buzz word). The computer, especially connected to the internet, is the paradigm power tool of our age. The sin would be to bring up a generation of passive consumers who complain and whine because "it won't do what I want." I guess there will be peop

Re: [Edu-sig] re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread Gregor Lingl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Kirby writes - Certainly Unicode is another one of those key topics that kids should check out early on. god knows who will be helping them with their homework ;) it seems to me that if you and I were each hooked up to geiger counters and the word "Promethean" was flas

[Edu-sig] re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread ajsiegel
Kirby writes - >Certainly Unicode is another one of those key >topics that kids should check out early on. god knows who will be helping them with their homework ;) it seems to me that if you and I were each hooked up to geiger counters and the word "Promethean" was flashed in front of us, our

RE: [Edu-sig] CP4E

2005-04-11 Thread Kirby Urner
> There are those who may have been at the right schools, taking the > opportunity to do the wrong things. Fuller was a drop-out, I think. > Actually, Fuller got "fired" from Harvard as he put it -- expelled. He'd romanticized the place to the point that he couldn't stomach the reality (a family

RE: [Edu-sig] Re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread Kirby Urner
> I think that the Demo and the Tools directories should be included in all > binary distributions of the Python interpreter. > > -- > Nicola Larosa - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Nicola. Yes, I see that's in Tools in the Windows distro. I've uploaded it to my ISP as I'm not sure if I have access t

RE: [Edu-sig] CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread Kirby Urner
> > Kirby - > > A great microcosm of where things stand, IMO. > > It's simply amazing how well what we are capable of technically maps to > how things *should* be taught. > > Is there an Unseen Hand arranging the universe in this user friendly > fashion. > > Art Not nearly user-friendly enoug

[Edu-sig] Re: CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread Nicola Larosa
> (2) because I'm playing around on a WinXP laptop and using PSFTP to copy > files up to my ISP, I got bitten by the line-ending problem, i.e. Apache at > the ISP dies if the line endings are \r\n instead of \n (locally, > CGIHTTPServer didn't care). I fixed this by running Perl stuff like: perl

RE: [Edu-sig] CP4E (states cgi demo)

2005-04-11 Thread Arthur
Kirby - A great microcosm of where things stand, IMO. It's simply amazing how well what we are capable of technically maps to how things *should* be taught. Is there an Unseen Hand arranging the universe in this user friendly fashion. Art > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECT