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They (Lego) should bring out blocks that allow you to assemble the code (similar in concept to Scratch) and have very small LED in to show current program pointer.
hmm... this might be worth prototyping with the nephews when I see then next...
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: should bring out blocks that allow you to assemble the code
Well, that's what I'm working on as per those two links. 
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: similar in concept to Scratch
Scratch, while an interesting concept, is too low level and horrific to look at and use, IMHO. 
Marc
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N_tro_P wrote: If they are assuming it is simpler to teach kids programming on a tablet, it might just so happen it is easier to teach kids programming on a tablet. From that, it might just so happen it is easier to program on a tablet. We just can't see it yet.
Clearly, 'for kids' means an excuse for parents to buy one for themselves under the guise of 'an brithday/xmas/other occasion gift for the kids'.
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With 2016 officially over, we can crown Android as 2016's product with most vulnerabilities, and Oracle as the vendor with the most security bugs. And the Flash developers rejoice
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2016 - the year of extremes and unbelievable. When Windows became far more secure than Linux. 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: 2016 - the year of extremes and unbelievable. When Windows became far more secure unusable than Linux.
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You find Windows unusable? Have you considered switching to a different career - something with minimal exposure to computers?
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I do things with computers that most people only dream of some day doing.
Windows is becoming a "consumer product", which might make it easy to do very basic things, like tweet and spend all your time on social sites, but doing anything hard-core or to high professional standards is becoming more and more difficult.
If you are happy with computers that are as crippled as children's "learning toy" computers, perhaps it is you who should move to a different career. Developers should demand more.
Oh, and diving straight in and insulting someone, the first time in your life that you talk to him, is perhaps not the best idea.
Maybe your parents should have invested in better "learning toy" computers -- ones that taught manners.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: the first time in your life that you talk to him
with this account at least 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ah, yes.
I always forget that there are people who who have to keep changing their names, to hide previous sins.
My on-line name has been "Mark Wallace" since the Internet became available; I've never had the need to change it.
I need to sin more, obviously.
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Please accept my apologies, that was not intended as an insult.
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No worries; it's the Interwebs -- worse things happen with C.
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LOL
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Not only it is insecure, it is unstable and unpolished as well. Yes, talking about Android, not Windows ME.
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raddevus wrote: This also explains why Apple products are so safe.
If you scrolled just past the list of most vulnerable products, you'd see that Apple's Mac OS X held this 'prestigious' spot the previous year.
Apple as a vendor had more security vulnerabilities (324, to be precise) than Redhad, Canonical, Debian, etc. With those many security flaws, I'd probably not categorize Apple's products as "so safe".
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Everyone seems to have missed the point that the research shows winio to be the most insecure windows, and weven to be the most secure.
Selective blindness, perhaps?
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Microsoft SQL Server is the database management system that gained more popularity in our DB-Engines Ranking within the last year than any of the other 315 monitored systems. A SELECT group
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A SELECT group
You're RIGHT; can't DENY that.
CASE IN point - BULK of the software them Microsoft devs CREATE IS ABSOLUTE TOP stuff, which is the KEY to their success.
HAVING said that, I could GO FULL ON WITH the crappy SQL puns, but let's SAVE it FOR later, AND DROP it now.
Bye, THEN.
I'm OFF.
LIKE, really.
WAITFOR it.
The END.
modified 4-Jan-17 23:37pm.
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The only thing stupider than declaring a platform to be a winner based on publicly released bogometrics (*cough*tiobe*cough*redmonk*cough*) is to do the same with a bogometric that you don't publish at all. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A SELECT group
Gotta give you props for that one. 
Jeremy Falcon
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A team of physicists, led by research assistant Asier Marzo of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, has released instructions in the journal Applied Physics Letters and on YouTube for how to create a plastic tractor-beam device. "You left spacedock without a tractor beam?"
I was going to go with, "But nothing runs like a Deere", but I wasn't sure how well that one would travel.
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using the pressure of sound waves to move objects.
Sadly it won't work in space.
Marc
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You mean, in outer-space.
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In space, no-one can hear your tractor beam?
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