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Movie Quote Of The Day
You thought Brad Pitt was a cave in Yorkshire.
Which movie?
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V. wrote: You thought Brad Pitt was IN a cave in Yorkshire.
FTFY!
It's from a brand new docusoap called "Domestic Trouble in Hollywood" featuring Angelina amongst others...
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I guess it's from Friends & Aliens, the movie 
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Billy Eliot?
veni bibi saltavi
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Where the sun does not shine
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You mean that valley up near Slice?
veni bibi saltavi
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Top Gear, has to be 
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All I remember from this movie is Megan Fox in a pool.
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Haha 
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Blackhawk Down
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Easey peasey today another old one but quite good
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Evidently this is some new and exotic meaning of 'easy peasy' I haven't previously encountered!
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A bit of a quandary here... This is not your preschooler who wants to program, it's a junior in HS who has been busy in LUA for a while. I'm his hard-a$$ dad who doesn't want to elephant this up.
Ideas for first project? He's playing with the idea of robotics, but I'm thinking guide him to another scripting language (no idea what) to get his feet wet?
java is not in the equation.....
Charlie Gilley
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It has to be something he wants.
My kid is starting to use a little Java for Minecraft mods.
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I completely agree with this. Starting with something he's interested in will be key for holding his interest.
My suggestion is Lego Mindstorms. What kid doesn't like building with Legos, and these are Legos you can program with.
Yes, it'll be in Java, but he's not going to know the difference between it or any other language to start with.
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Walter Bates wrote: My suggestion is Lego Mindstorms...Yes, it'll be in Java...
The last time I played with EV3, there was no language involved, only building blocks.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Get him one of the new Raspberry Pi 2's and start him off with either Python or C/C++. Has a large following, lots of hardware to chose from and they're fun.
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agree - and you can even do C# on some of these beasties
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Supposedly you can put Windows 10 on the new Pi, I haven't tried it yet, you have to have Windows 10 on the PC and I believe VS2015, I have W10 on a VM but haven't installed VS2015 yet. Got to many other irons in the fire right now.
I've been converting some of my Arduino Uno/ATMega code to run on the Pi 2 using Python. Just learning Python, know a little Linux and learning a lot about the Pi since getting it a few days ago. I was lucky traded my neighbor some electronic hardware for the Pi...sweet!
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Gets my vote 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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Adafruits a good outfit, I've been buying stuff from them for several years now and they keep getting better. They not only sell the boards and such but provide firmware/software to control them.
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I agree with Mike Hankey's suggestion - I'm working 'in the field' - and foresee a large need for people who understand these boards, and people who can use them - wether that's Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Intel Edison....
The advantage of any of them is you can get things happening 'right now' - so much like your first 'hello world' in whatever language, you can get LEDs to blink and get a result quickly. Sparkfun (& others) sell starter kits, then all you need is a computer (Windows, Mac), the Arduino (for example) IDE and you're off - its only 'upwards' from there
Your son's world of the future will all be about interacting with it - its a good start - then he can go to c# on the Raspberry Pi
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