8 ms·

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™

by rlx0x 13y ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9HqHVPeik "Stephen™ Wolfram™'s Introduction to the Wolfram™ Language" That Wolfram™ Language and the Wolfram™ Cloud is going to change the world forever, the language is so great because its Wolfram™ Symbolic and since it all just runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud its really fast. You can put all your financial data in the Wolfram™ and do things. You know they worked 30 years on this, and it must be good because it runs in the Wolfram™ Cloud. Cloud Cloud Cloud Bla Bla Bla Bla Buy Buy Buy Wolfram™ Wolfram™ Wolfram™.

primitivesuave 13y ago
I think he trademarked the word "Symbolic" as well.
gituliar 13y ago
How I love irony...
brudgers 13y ago
That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic. His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the world because they help solve really hard problems in ways that scale. He's putting knowledge into the world not peddling caveat emptor planned obsolescence and digital whoopie cushions. Now he's taken his life's work and is shipping it on the Raspberry Pi instead of taken a 30% cut of the creative output of developer and musicians. That's the difference between what is rightfully called "great" and what is called so only insanely.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]
- nswanberg 13y ago
  Don't worry about it. Every thread needs a kids' table, and in some threads they're just more prominent.
  - taliesinb 13y ago
    Nicely put.
- jakobe 13y ago
  No need to shit on Steve Jobs in order to praise Steven Wolfram. Both are good businessmen that built great products and successful companies. And they had great respect for one another. And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free. Have you seen how much a Mathematica license costs? I loved using Mathematica at my university, but now I just can't afford a license anymore.
  - GregBuchholz 13y ago
    >And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free. I think he is... http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
    - sourcex 13y ago
      So Wolfram for raspberry Pi is available for free with NOOBS ? eye rolls and Wolfram is chargeable ?
  - brudgers 13y ago
    Steve Jobs built a business around charging students full retail and encouraging educational institutions to promote Apple computers to them. Freshman are encourage to take out loans to buy Apple products with a support life cycle that ends before they graduate. Any admiration for Mr. Jobs is based on something other than human community.
    - staunch 13y ago
      If you can't acknowledge Steve Jobs massive contributions to technological progress you're extremely confused about the history.
      - lutusp 13y ago
        Wait, what? Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people (and did that very well). Before you reply, consider that I was there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) and I knew Jobs personally. I watched how he operated. He was very good at what he did, but he was a promoter, not a creator, of technology -- technology created by others.
programnature 13y ago
If all you know is buzzwords, buzzwords are all you hear. Personally I found the idea and explanation of knowledge-based computing where my attention went. Does your favorite language have knowledge about the world built into it?
- pseut 13y ago
  Almost any language can throw a query to google, so yes.
tremols 13y ago
I had the same impression.. and whats with the body language of the guy? waving his hands like a populist dictator... signs of "oh no we really need marketing because the product sucks". The product can be good actually... but this kind of narcisistic marketing is better suited for weight loss products, self help, pick-up techniques e-book, etc (anything that gets money on your insecurity).
seanmcdirmid 13y ago
It is bad form to TM every mention of a word, you should only do the first one. Anyways, invariably someone bashes Wolfram's ego whenever talking anything about Wolfram. This should be an internet law already.
- maxerickson 13y ago
  Obviously, it should be called Wolfram's law.
  - deleted 13y ago
    [deleted]

by rlx0x 13y ago

primitivesuave 13y ago

I think he trademarked the word "Symbolic" as well.

gituliar 13y ago

How I love irony...

brudgers 13y ago

That this is a top rated comment is fucking pathetic. His name is on the door. Unlike the late beloved Steve Jobs, he does not afford himself the opportunity to blame others for product problems. It's a higher standard - one without "Hold it another way" copouts and buy our products to show your good taste values. He built his startip into a company that makes amazing products that can be used to really change the world because they help solve really hard problems in ways that scale. He's putting knowledge into the world not peddling caveat emptor planned obsolescence and digital whoopie cushions. Now he's taken his life's work and is shipping it on the Raspberry Pi instead of taken a 30% cut of the creative output of developer and musicians. That's the difference between what is rightfully called "great" and what is called so only insanely.

deleted 13y ago
[deleted]
nswanberg 13y ago
Don't worry about it. Every thread needs a kids' table, and in some threads they're just more prominent.
- taliesinb 13y ago
  Nicely put.
jakobe 13y ago
No need to shit on Steve Jobs in order to praise Steven Wolfram. Both are good businessmen that built great products and successful companies. And they had great respect for one another. And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free. Have you seen how much a Mathematica license costs? I loved using Mathematica at my university, but now I just can't afford a license anymore.
- GregBuchholz 13y ago
  >And it's not like Wolfram is giving stuff away for free. I think he is... http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/ http://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
  - sourcex 13y ago
    So Wolfram for raspberry Pi is available for free with NOOBS ? eye rolls and Wolfram is chargeable ?
- brudgers 13y ago
  Steve Jobs built a business around charging students full retail and encouraging educational institutions to promote Apple computers to them. Freshman are encourage to take out loans to buy Apple products with a support life cycle that ends before they graduate. Any admiration for Mr. Jobs is based on something other than human community.
  - staunch 13y ago
    If you can't acknowledge Steve Jobs massive contributions to technological progress you're extremely confused about the history.
    - lutusp 13y ago
      Wait, what? Jobs didn't create technology, he sold it to people (and did that very well). Before you reply, consider that I was there (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Writer) and I knew Jobs personally. I watched how he operated. He was very good at what he did, but he was a promoter, not a creator, of technology -- technology created by others.

programnature 13y ago

If all you know is buzzwords, buzzwords are all you hear. Personally I found the idea and explanation of knowledge-based computing where my attention went. Does your favorite language have knowledge about the world built into it?

pseut 13y ago
Almost any language can throw a query to google, so yes.

tremols 13y ago

I had the same impression.. and whats with the body language of the guy? waving his hands like a populist dictator... signs of "oh no we really need marketing because the product sucks". The product can be good actually... but this kind of narcisistic marketing is better suited for weight loss products, self help, pick-up techniques e-book, etc (anything that gets money on your insecurity).

seanmcdirmid 13y ago

It is bad form to TM every mention of a word, you should only do the first one. Anyways, invariably someone bashes Wolfram's ego whenever talking anything about Wolfram. This should be an internet law already.

maxerickson 13y ago
Obviously, it should be called Wolfram's law.
- deleted 13y ago
  [deleted]