See the title in this journal.
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Software, Hardware
“Pinker’s love for the nuts and bolts of language
(he calls verbs his ‘little friends’)
is equally matched by his appreciation for,
and command of, the way it’s put together,
making him the ideal guide to the subject.”
— Laurence Phelan, review of The Stuff of Thought:
Language as a Window into Human Nature ,
by Steven Pinker, in The Independent on Sunday,
June 22, 2008
“Say hello to my little friend.”
Happy birthday, sweet sixteen.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Design
The New York Times online front page last night—
"Microsoft introduced its own tablet computer,
called Surface, illustrating the pressure
Apple's success has put on it to marry
software and hardware more tightly."
Commentary—
Google Maps image
"Was ist Raum, wie können wir ihn
erfassen und gestalten?"
The Theory and
Organization of the
Bauhaus (1923)
Update of Feb. 3, 2013:
See also The Perception of Doors in this journal.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Now, Here’s My Plan
"Plan 9 is an operating system kernel but also a collection of accompanying software."
— Webpage pointed out by the late Dennis Ritchie,
father of the programming language C
and co-developer of Unix, who reportedly died on October 8.
From Ritchie's own home page—
"A brief biography, in first person instead of obituary style."
From that biography—
"Today, as a manager of a small group of researchers, I promote exploration of distributed operating systems, languages, and routing/switching hardware. The recent accomplishments of this group include the Plan 9 operating system…."
Another operating system is that of Alfred Bester.
My laptop now includes his classic The Stars My Destination ,
downloaded this morning…
Not much compared to Widener Library (see this morning's Lost Cornerstone),
but sufficient for present purposes…
"Simple jaunt." — "The Comedian as the Letter C"
See also Plan 9 from Outer Space in this journal.
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