On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
One of the things on his list was to read a book of papers that had been
gathered by (Stanley?) Fox from the UK. I recall that some of the papers in
this book were classics by Strachey and Landin on foundations of programming
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 14:06, Robert Hirschfeld
robert.hirschf...@gmx.net wrote:
A recording of Alan's talk is available online at
http://www.tele-task.de/de/archive/lecture/overview/5819/
I've taken the two files that were supplied in RealMedia format,
composited to one file and made them
Dr. Kay,
Thank you for giving this talk. Do you recall the list of papers Bob Barton
instructed you to read, learn, and understand in 1966? Can you share that list
of papers with us?
On Jul 23, 2011, at 1:38, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Converting the file to something generally
Wow, what a question!
Let me ponder this. I can certainly come up with a few of them. The class was
actually taught starting Jan 1967 (I entered grad school a few months before
this), so all the papers were from 1966 or earlier.
For example, a big deal back then was the design and
On 7/22/2011 6:41 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
I did this dance too... Hmm... Seems the Mac installer comes with some
kind of translation tool that's advertised to be able to output MPEG,
maybe we can use that to save others the trouble of installing the
Real client.
yeah...
even on
On 7/23/2011 2:10 PM, Casey Ransberger wrote:
Drat. Tried to convert this, but I just get a dialog that says
convert only works from a local file. I don't see an option to pull
the actual video file down, and IIRC .ram files are like trackers that
point at a stream rather than being the actual
Leo Richard Comerford wrote:
You can just download the individual items (lo and behold, RealPlayer
allows you to download the videos if you open them individually), put
them together in a folder with the SMIL file, and edit the SMIL to
point to the local copies. (This was the subject of my email
Casey Ransberger wrote:
I did this dance too... Hmm... Seems the Mac installer comes with some
kind of translation tool that's advertised to be able to output MPEG,
maybe we can use that to save others the trouble of installing the
Real client.
If I figure out that I can handle the
