kirby urner wrote:
>> I think you owe it to yourself, and perhaps to us, to understand and
>> express why Squeak does not represent the perfect environment for pursuing
>> the kind of educational ideas that you tend to express. If it in fact does
>> not
>> My own concerns start exactly there -
kirby urner wrote:
>>Please Kirby, I am talking physics, not cartoons. And as much as I
>>admire Mr. J. Moose - I try not to confuse the two things.
>>
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>Aw, you're no fun. [Roger Rabbit voice]
>
>
>
>>>Yes. Wittgenstein took the same approach to logic: yes it's true,
>>>but so
> Please Kirby, I am talking physics, not cartoons. And as much as I
> admire Mr. J. Moose - I try not to confuse the two things.
>
Aw, you're no fun. [Roger Rabbit voice]
> >Yes. Wittgenstein took the same approach to logic: yes it's true,
> >but so is 0 = 0.
> >
> >
> Not sure what you m
kirby urner wrote:
>>We turn on the television and pictures appear and we are lost in the
>>pictures - the magic that is beyond our understanding or interest on
>>what is making them appear is suitably left as magic. *That's* the
>>fallacy that's going to bring us down, IMO.
>>
>>
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>
>Yes,
kirby urner wrote:
>
>Type:
>
>A real Tarzan or Jane, a virtuoso of real jungles -- has no use for
>computers in big sky country, outside the DVD teepee. Maybe sleeps in
>a hammock, suffers no star-stealing "light pollution" (the nearest big
>city is far away).
>
>
>
Can we get them elected to
> We turn on the television and pictures appear and we are lost in the
> pictures - the magic that is beyond our understanding or interest on
> what is making them appear is suitably left as magic. *That's* the
> fallacy that's going to bring us down, IMO.
>
Yes, and I think Squeakland helps figh
kirby urner wrote:
>Yes, *you* might hate such stuff, but we could *not* take all this
>away from children on general policy, once they've become addicted.
>There's simply too much precedent for healthy development in this
>direction, like in the form of fairy tales and mythology.
>
>
Tsunamis
> I think you owe it to yourself, and perhaps to us, to understand and
> express why Squeak does not represent the perfect environment for pursuing
> the kind of educational ideas that you tend to express. If it in fact does
> not.
In fact I'm better at using Python to express what I want to expr
On 3/10/06, Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >-Original Message-> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
] On Behalf Of kirby urner> >> >OK, Teds Ocean comes up, I beckon my wife, and she comes> >over to watch. "What about the car?" That's what Tara's> >been up to, progra
On 3/10/06, Vern Ceder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Arthur wrote:
> > My own concerns start exactly there - with the word "environment".
> >
> > My understanding is that many conclude that too much "environment" is what
> > doomed Smalltalk to a minor role in today's software world.
> >
> > And re
Arthur wrote:
> My own concerns start exactly there - with the word "environment".
>
> My understanding is that many conclude that too much "environment" is what
> doomed Smalltalk to a minor role in today's software world.
>
> And respect for children starts, I think, with not considering the
> >-Original Message-
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of kirby urner
> >
> >OK, Teds Ocean comes up, I beckon my wife, and she comes
> >over to watch. "What about the car?" That's what Tara's
> >been up to, programming a car (one of the eToys exerci
So McCarty, my supervisor @ Winterhaven, treasured faculty, talked me
through a demo dowload of Squeak to the Toshiba, as kids were settling
into their seats (projecter already running). Now I have it open in
another tab, within FireFox. Let's go see if the plug-in actually
works (didn't quite ge
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