Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:40 PM, David Girle davidgi...@gmail.com wrote: Given the interest the Raspberry Pi is enjoying in education, the new platform coming out of TI towards the end of April, might be an interesting target for any fonc experiments runnable on ARM.

Re: [fonc] education experimental target

2013-03-03 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Loup Vaillant-David l...@loup-vaillant.frwrote: Err, what did you mean exactly? Could Nile use hardware graphics on the rPi? Why (not)? My current understanding is that to do this, we would have to interface with the rPi's firmware blob, effectively

Re: [fonc] Natural Language Wins

2013-04-04 Thread Gath-Gealaich
The first math language Fortran was soon displaced in business by more readable code afforded by Cobol's longer variable names. Fortran was displaced in business because early Fortran had no structures and random record-oriented file access, and because of some silly government requirements for

Re: [fonc] Natural Language Wins

2013-04-04 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.comwrote: Liberal dictionaries have definitions that are by default wrong. There's no such thing as liberal dictionaries. For evidence of language decay, read definitions from the 1988 Webster's Collegiate vs. the current

Re: [fonc] Natural Language Wins

2013-04-05 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Kirk Fraser overcomer@gmail.com wrote: I was pointing out that innovation for its own sake is worthless then was agreeing with the view that not all the world's inventions come from people who think in English yet pointing out communicating in English is

Re: [fonc] Layering, Thinking and Computing

2013-04-14 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:29 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote: On this forum, 'Nile' is sometimes proffered as an example of the power of equational reasoning, but is a domain specific model. Isn't one of the points of idst/COLA/Frank/whatever-it-is-called-today to simplify the

Re: [fonc] Morphic 3 defensive disclosure

2013-12-05 Thread Gath-Gealaich
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:24:12 -0300 J. Vuletich (mail lists) juanli...@jvuletich.org wrote: Hi Folks, The first defensive disclosure about Morphic 3 has been accepted and published at http://www.defensivepublications.org/publications/prefiltering-antialiasing-for-general-vector-graphics