On Dec 7, 9:50 pm, Dwight Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Every now and then I decide I have to use some strange unix program,
> like R, for statistics. Then I realize that to use it I have to get
> all the platform stuff and configs all set up, and by then I usually
> have a severe attack of sanity and say screw that, and I remember
> what said,
> "If you think about something long enough, you don't have to
> calculate anything."
> I think John Archibald Wheeler said that.
Yes, but he's a genius ...
I'd like to think I am, but meanwhile I can think myself into a pit
if I don't do something. Actually I usually write something by hand
to think things a bit.
I thought you were going to say there was some ancient mac
program which could help with many jobs and with very little hassle.
That's one reason why I keep my mac collection
>
> So, right now I'm happy with settiing up different types of causal
> models for naturalistic settings while waiting for the data to be
> double verified, prior to final sweeps for outlyers and such.
>
> Thank you for responding. I needed that.
Computers are supposed to be fun, but maybe depends on what fun is
for you. Also with unix/linux as with many things you have to go
through some stages of a little practice then a little fun.
It pays to have some skill no matter whether its serious or not.
All that said, yes I think unix works best for serious things for me
so far. but for a lot of people it goes the other way, they start with
the unix part, that is actually more normal, for those who are
unix users, from what I have seen.
I think for young people starting in programming it would
be much healthier to start with unix rather than say windows...
unless some old mac ide, which is free nowadays and ok for
basics, w/out having to worry about OS stuff.
>
> d
> On Dec 3, 2008, at 11:23 PM, tortoise wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Dec 1, 5:31 am, Dwight Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> Now, are you running any Unix types operating systems, or planning to
> >> do so?
>
> > Why ? Are you interest in running netbsd or linux-m68k ? There is
> > Aranym which is atari emulator that runs on pc (Windows or Linux) or
> > macosX, now running linux-m68k. There is also BasiliskII which runs on
> > macosX and linux (won't run linux because it has no mmu support).
>
> > Just wonder where you are coming from (for myself I am interest in all
> > of the above, however the only interest I have in a pc is for running
> > Linux (no Windows) and even then I would strongly prefer a mac
> > (preferably not an intel of either either).
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