<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Tomasz Rola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rtomek@ceti.pl" target="_blank">rtomek@ceti.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I can read until I faint but what can I _make_ , on<br>
my own, with this knowledge? To make, I need decent kb, some cpu and<br>
enough mem to compile.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Careful with the programmer's hubris. Not all - not even most - things worth making, can be done entirely in software yet.<br><br></div><div>(That said, a general purpose laptop is more likely than a Kindle to be able to be configured to, say, control a 3D printer or a drone. But that's not directly a result of memory, CPU, et cetera.)<br>
</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The real pauper is<br>
born into real paupers, I'm afraid, and then he goes to pauper school and<br>
chances are, there he is taught to, say, trade drugs (or trade<br>
himself/herself) and to "get reach or day traying".</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quite. Opportunity is wonderful for those who realize there is opportunity and they should reach for it. That is not, and has never been so far as I know, the attitude of the majority of the human race. Hopefully that may change in the future, as many more actually do have opportunity (if they'll take it), but that is far from certain.<br>
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