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Re:One in four say it could replace an SO? by Rolgar · 2007-10-26 07:16 · Score: 1 · on America's View of the Internet

Newsweek did an online article on this just last week, although their explanation was job fulfillment instead of internet usage.

Re:"Optional" subscription by fireduck · 2007-09-17 06:30 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Hellgate London Beta Signups Begin

personally I think its gonna end up being a situation like "Sure you can play without subscribing - but you'll never get any of the good items you'll need to kick ass or even beat the game."

Based on the last Hellgate story we had (the interview with Roper), this doesn't sound to be the case. The free online play is the exact same game you get if you play single player. The only difference between free and pay, is that the monthly subscribers get a "bonus", which at launch is a slightly larger stash, an extra character slot, and what sounds like the ability to acquire vanity items (slightly better or differently colored items).

Also based on that interview, it sounds like some of the things the submitter suggested were pay-only aren't. To quote Roper: "It's for free having that same experience online with your friends. And then we also give you access to a bunch of stuff. Like community things like being able to join guilds, trading items, auction houses; all those kinds of things that we never even had with Diablo 2." Stuff above and beyond that is for the monthly subscribers.

Re:"Zonked" again... by Intellectual+Elitist · 2007-08-04 05:02 · Score: 1 · on PS3 Issues Caused GTA IV Delay?

"Take-Two and Rockstar Games were interested in continuing their longtime relationship with Sony, in which they premiered their Grand Theft Auto games on PlayStation platforms exclusively for 6-12 months before bringing them to other systems. [...] But neither company's top executives--all extremely important figures in the games industry--could get an answer from Kutaragi. PlayStation's Japanese headquarters was effectively radio silent, and without Kutaragi's signoff, the normally independent American and European branches had no authority to reach agreements on the exclusives they believed could be valuable to the PS3 cause.

While Kutaragi dragged his feet, Microsoft's top brass called these third-parties almost daily, asking each of them, "What would it take for you to publish these games on 360?" Finally, the executives could wait no longer, and both Take-Two/Rockstar and Ubisoft cut deals to make their games available on Xbox 360 as well as PS3." (source)

Their intent had always been to have the PS3 as the lead platform. Resources only shifted to focus on a simultaneous multiplatform release in the second half of 2006. But thanks for the attitude.

The Parasitic Genius of BioWare by LKM · 2007-07-17 09:51 · Score: 3, Insightful · on BioWare Shares Information on Sonic RPG

N'Gai Croal has an interesting take on why Bioware would develop something like this. Here's the gist of it:

The answer, we believe, can be found in BioWare's past; specifically, the company's careful and considered evolution from being primarily a developer-for-hire to the creator of its own original IP, soaking up as much knowledge as it could along the way, then fold that knowledge into brand new concepts

So we can probably not only look forward to an awesome Sonic RPG, but also to a second, yet unanounced DS RPG from Bioware. Makes a lot of sense to me.

Microsoft claims they fixed the issue by LKM · 2007-07-08 23:50 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Acknowledges 360 Issues, Extends Warranty to 3 Years

More important than the warranty is, in my opinion, that Microsoft claims that they fixed the issue. I quote Peter Moore from an interview by N'Gai Croal:

We're making improvements to the console itself that will reduce the occurrence of these issues.

Not quite as reassuring as I would have liked, but still good to know.

Re:Grandma is 133t by Chibi+Merrow · 2007-06-29 05:54 · Score: 1 · on Nintendo's Market Value Briefly Tops Sony's

I'm sure the wii has the largest following of elderly gamers of any console to date, but you think the sales to the older folks even accounts for 5% of the wii sales?

No, but I think the vast vast majority of Wii sales have been to non-tech-savvy users. I used "Grandma" as the extreme example of this, but the soccer moms buying this for their kids aren't buying it to modchip it either. "Grandma" is also personally a funny example to me since recently a discussion popped up on a GDC mailing list about an article by CliffyB's brother about how "non gamers" are buying the Wii in droves and "ruining" the industry. So it's rather amusing to get "Teh grandmothers!!!1!!" from one side and "Teh hAx0rs!!!!1!!" from the other side when discussing who's buying the damn thing.

I think you're deluded.

Wait, which one of us said "I think one of the strongest selling points for the Wii is that there are modchips already available. And you can download and burn games onto DVDRs." and then went on to imply that hardware sales are moved by ease of piracy? And I'm deluded? 99% of the user base of the Wii is not knowledgeable enough or interested enough to pirate games for it. Anyone who thinks otherwise is following the same old tired Slashdot pattern of assuming the average Slashdot commenter has anything in common with the average consumer.

And yes, people are pirating wii games, as well as Xbox360, PSP, Gamecube, PC and games from every single platform that has had its DRM bypassed. Just because you're not doing it doesn't mean its not prevalent.

Yes, I'm well aware. But such people have always represented an almost unnoticeable minority of purchasers of these systems--with the exception of perhaps the Dreamcast, I suppose...

Re:Really? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-06-27 12:07 · Score: 0 · on Details on Nintendo's Original Downloadable Content

(Appologies for the spelled-out urls, the

"<a>"

tags aren't workins as I'm used to...) Interestingly, this post (http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=4671&pos tdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0) on the Wii support of Unity3D mentions the $2000 price point for dev kits. Note however that was back in April, and was targeted at traditional, retail products. Note also, that wii Indie titles (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160624)won't be vetted for content - if they're under an AO ESRB rating, and http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/200 7/06/26/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.asp xpass Nintendo's bugtesting you're in. So the "selling your soul" part will be vastly mitigated. This still doesn't help w/ obtaining the devkit, but I'm sure we'll get more info shortly. Ideally, they'd release an SDK/DevEnvironment/Whatever for x86 systems for free (somewhat similar to XNA for 360), but at the very least requirements for buying a devkit should be lessened - would be nice if price was less, but honestly, for anything more than general muking about, $2K isn't that big a deal.(Admitedly this is where some true innovation could occur - some brilliant, off-the-wall-so-obvious-why-didn't-I-think-of-that -but-its-amazing idea from somebody that wouldn't otherwise have come near game development might be missed.) I am, however, slightly scared by the prospect of hundreds of lame (but ESRB rated!) tetris/bejewled/goldenaxe/mario/doom/quake clones...I hope Nintendo has a good mechanism in place to seperate the quality from the crap. -Scandalon

Unexpected publicity stunt by reybrujo · 2007-03-01 13:43 · Score: 1 · on Sony Blackballs Blog Over PS3 Rumor

Apparently they made peace. Maybe the positive fan reaction (at least from what one can see at NeoGAF and other gaming forums) made them realize that fans were desperate for good news and that the leak, while getting comments about Sony stealing Nintendo's Miis and Microsoft's Achievements, it was welcomed.

In another note, I wonder what kind of avatars they will be using. After all, in a recent interview with Newsweek's N'Gai, Phil Harrison stated that

I think it's a really great idea. I think the lo-fi execution is not for everyone.

and

If you are going to have an avatar which is your representative in a virtual world, it has to stand for more of your personality than some 2-D cartoons. So while I think that millions of people would be happy with cartoony looks, the planet at large probably isn't. And it's an experiment that will be played out very soon, actually.

Sims meet Animal Crossing?

EA just killed the PSP for good by LKM · 2006-11-30 22:52 · Score: 1 · on PSP, PS2 Sales Skyrocket

I'm not so sure that I agree with the premise that we're strategically focused on building original product for the PSP. That's news to me. It's more likely that we would target platforms like the PS3, Xbox 360 or Nintendo Wii if we had an original in mind. Our strategy on PSP has typically been to take the franchises that we build on other platforms and exploit them on the PSP.

Electronic Arts CEO Larry Probst

Maybe PSP sales "skyrocketed," but if EA officially acknowledges that they simply "exploit their franchises on the PSP," I can't see any reason to get one. And yes, I do own a PSP. I call it "my portable LOST viewer."

A step forward for downloadable content by johnny0neal · 2006-11-01 17:48 · Score: 1 · on Sony Funding 'About 40' Downloadable Games

Okay, so we're Slashdot and lately we hate Sony. But let's recognize good news when we get it. The Xbox Live Arcade has been awesome, but it's firmly rooted in retro-style casual games. If the Sony can stand on Microsoft's shoulders and offer short games with higher production values, they could have something special on their hands.

Since the NES, console games have pretty much been "one size fits all," a distribution model that led to lower budget games often feeling empty or artificially padded. With downloadable games, the price is scaleable so you can make the game whatever length "feels right," then charge for the actual value. We've already seen it work well for retro and casual games; now let's see what it can do for timely movie tie-ins and episodic games.

I rolled my eyes when I heard about David Jaffe's "John Lennon" aspirations, but maybe he's on to something...

important enough to fire up your mail client by ndpatel · 2004-10-07 12:59 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI

hey, i'm not going to take a side, except to say that it'd be awesome if we knew what was going on here. a prominent critic of a sitting president has been silenced, setting a bad precedent. furthermore, they did not charge the critic, but subpeona'd the ISP. that's not good.

so, let's force the people with access to start asking questions.
nytimes
newsweek
o'reilly
msnbc

plus you can go to various other websites and fill out their forms--CNN, for example.
again, no sides taken, but let's try and cause a stink--this is a big deal. I'll even make it easy for you--copy'n'paste!

The FBI has effectively shut down Indymedia.org (IMC) by issuing an order to RackSpace US to hand over server hard drives located in London. As a result, over 20 local Indymedia sites have been shut off. At this time, no one knows why the FBI wants the drives or what they are investigating. It is also unclear why Rackspace US complied with a demand for materials held by Rackspace UK. Indymedia is a vocal critic of the Bush Administration, and also of the mass media. There is some history of this administration's dislike of Indymedia: before the RNC, there was a Secret Service order to shut down nyc.indymedia.org, which was organizing protests. More information can be found at the general Indymedia site, http://www.indymedia.org.

Re:If this shipped with Lindows instead... by b!arg · 2003-12-04 16:48 · Score: 1 · on AOL's $299 PC

Yeah, and we all know MS has no media aspirations at all

Re:Better reasons. . . by pascalb3 · 2003-08-20 08:23 · Score: 2, Informative · on Georgy Tells Why She Should Be California Gov

I'm sorry, but this is a pretty ignorant way to base a vote, especially in an election that is already becoming a joke. That comment reminds me of:

Arnold Schwarzenegger has plenty of rich and famous friends. But to become governor of California, he really needs people like Marlon Sandoval. Sandoval, 26, a hip-hop musician and part-time security guard in Los Angeles, has never cast a ballot in his life. But he says that he'll go to the polls for Arnold "plain and simple". Sandoval, who saw "Terminator 3" last week for the second time, admits he has no idea where Arnold stands on the issues. "It doesn't matter," he says. "I'd vote for the Terminator anyway."

This is from this week's Newsweek, the whole article.

The sad part is that the parent's post and Marlon Sandoval (above) is probably how a lot of people are going to justify their votes; however, can you blame them? Look at some of the people running (Gary Coleman, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger) most people won't know where they stand on issues or their history in politics, but will instead judge them by who they are. This is like ultra-democracy, where the People can recall a leader and anyone can run for office -- ultimately, the People have the final say, for better or worse.

The furor over TIA boils down to one question. by 3-State+Bit · 2002-12-09 09:49 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Act On Total Information Awareness

Are you a patriot, or are you a terrorist?

Because if you're not with us, you're against us.

And if you're not a patriot, you're a terrorist.

A patriot has nothing to hide from his [sic] Country. A patriot is glad, glad with all his heart to hear that his country is taking the initiative, a patriot supports the party -- if the party wants to know whom Sam or Sally is speaking with, let the party know. If the party wants to know where every Citizen is, what every Citizen does, what every Citizen knows, then let the party know.

A patriot believes. A patriot is the opposite of the dissident.

A patriot does not support laws that allow terrorists, those who do not believe in the strength and ideals of our country, to hide behind anonymity. A patriot does not support anarchy, the total chaos that results when you allow dissidents to mess with public awareness, to spread their lies about our country.

And a patriot does not call for public hearings, checks and balances, handcuffs to hold the hand of Justice, to keep our men [sic] in uniforms -- who believe -- from doing what they believe in, what Americans -- real Americans, not bleeding-heart-liberals need for their protection.

A patriot does not question.

You're either with us, or against us.

If you're not a patriot, you're a terrorist.

I guess I'm a terrorist.

( .hj by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-31 18:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Matchbox -- a Small Footprint Window Manager

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TF is a haven for 'Net Terrorists by DonkeyHote · 2002-07-01 07:17 · Score: -1 · on Snort Creator Makes Good

Many of the 9/11 attackers regularly met on QuakeTF servers in order to plot thier horrible attacks.
Details Here: 911attacks.com

The snort creator has also been linked to the 9/11 tragedy, his company funding and providing jobs for the terrorists while in the U.S.
Details Here: NewsWeek

Re:What are the odds of this SSSCA by Andux · 2001-09-21 12:54 · Score: 1 · on Senator Hollings and the SSSCA

So, lets follow this closely, and try to get the word out to the mainstream media!

You seem to be forgetting who owns the mainstream media (among other things).

potential good news by graveyhead · 2001-08-23 05:10 · Score: 2 · on Convicted by the Movie Cops

I posted this two days ago, but of course 2001-08-21 22:16:52 Mainstream DMCA Coverage(articles,money) (rejected) for some unknown reason :-(

The Washington Post has a small editorial regarding the dangers of the DMCA. Newsweek is carrying a similar piece [registration required]. Although this news is nothing new for the /. crowd, the Post is read regularly by members of congress and their staff. Maybe this is the kick-in-the-pants that congress needs to take another look at this terrible lobby. There is also a relevant discussion here on k5.

But how is it pronounced? by Neuracnu+Coyote · 2000-06-05 02:43 · Score: 1 · on Gnutella VBS Worm

I was reading a Newsweek article (linked off the wego Gnutella site) that claims it's "pronounced New-tella." Is it?

I always pronounced it like the spread, with the G being silent: nuh-TEL-uh.

Another friend claimed that he pronounced it like other Gnu software projects, giving the G sound: guh-new-TEL-uh.

Thoughts?

Yet another article by wiggles · 2000-05-31 02:54 · Score: 2 · on The MP3 Troubles Continue

Here's another article (rejected by the nazi moderators :) on Newsweek about the whole deal with Napster & the RIAA. Notice the picture of the kid, presumably downloading mp3's from the internet. Notice the massive rack of CD's he has behind them. Think he pays for his music?

Yet another article by wiggles · 2000-05-31 02:54 · Score: 2 · on The MP3 Troubles Continue

Here's another article (rejected by the nazi moderators :) on Newsweek about the whole deal with Napster & the RIAA. Notice the picture of the kid, presumably downloading mp3's from the internet. Notice the massive rack of CD's he has behind them. Think he pays for his music?

Re:minidisc.org has some more info by Zach · 2000-05-26 23:20 · Score: 1 · on Sony MiniDisc DV Cam Does Java, Ethernet

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Re:His "wishful thinking" isn't far off by roundclock · 2000-05-10 07:08 · Score: 1 · on Linux Users Unscathed By ILOVEYOU

The Air Force has other things to worry about.

open source == harder to lie by theonetruekeebler · 2000-05-09 20:10 · Score: 3 · on Does Open Source Separate Business From Technology?

One of the biggest ways OSS is changing this industry is by making the contents and quality of software known to outsiders. By exposing themselves to external code reviews, and creating what amounts to a highly interactive beta test, a company's marketing must remain honest, because they can be caught in a lie very quickly.

Once a product is feature-complete, all that's left is bug hunting. If the bug list is driving the coding effort, the Whole World (tm) gets to see it, gets to knock things off it, gets to verify for itself whether and how bugs have been eliminated.

The only thing that's to a company's disadvantage is that it's harder to make money supporting a high-quality product than by patching up the bugs and selling the fixes as an "upgrade." Nevertheless, the old model is disappearing. Just as Detroit had to abandon planned vehicle obsolescence in the face of high-quality, reliable imports, closed-source companies are being forced to meet the challenge of open, provable-quality software. Some of them will do this by lobbying for absurd laws (see George Will's May 15 Newsweek column for a fascinating mundane example). Some will do this by suing us. The ones that survive, though, are the ones that prove they can adapt. They always are.

--

Newsweeks by maastrictian · 2000-03-04 21:34 · Score: 1 · on Playstation 2 Launched in Japan

... has the Playstation 2 as their cover story this week (I bet the Dreamcast people are pissed). Check it out here. Not a bad article, not very technical (unsurprisingly) but decent interviews with the people who made it.

Finally by LarsWestergren · 2000-01-31 16:03 · Score: 1 · on TI CEO Says PC Era is Ending

I agree. I have tried to get Slashdot to report on wireless for about a year now without success, and I have started to believe it might be something about the fact that they don't want to see their old systems and skills becoming obsolete now that they are king of the hill and media darlings. And so the new and young quickly turn conservative.

Oh yeah, maybe the reluctance also comes from the fact that the biggest growth areas of wireless isn't the US, but Japan and especially Europe. And we all know that if it isn't from the US, it must be worthless...

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worst 'of the year' i've seen so far is... by Juln · 1999-12-19 07:49 · Score: 1 · on Jeff Bezos Named Time Person of the Year

'The National League of Junior Cotillions has named Bill Gates the "best-mannered" person of 1999, citing "his example of generosity and humility."'
check out this blurb for a little more.

Whoever the National League of Junior Cotillions is.

We're landing on Mars this Friday! by apsmith · 1999-11-29 10:27 · Score: 3 · on Five Possible Life-Bearing Planets Found

NASA's "Mars Polar Lander" touches down this Friday (December 3) at 3:37 pm EST. Shortly before that it'll be releasing the two "Deep Space 2" probes to bury deeper into Mars' surface - both will be looking for water and organics, signs of life, and in the most promising part of Mars yet - the south polar area. Newsweek has an excellent cover story on this this week (by Sharon Begley, whose science reporting I greatly respect). Aside from Europa, Mars really is the mostly likely place for life in our solar system. Perhaps more likely than Europa given that Mars clearly had a liquid water ocean early in its history. The next few years should be VERY interesting in the search for extraterrestrial life!

Hitting Where It Hurts When It Isn't Expected by DeadMonkey · 1999-11-17 09:33 · Score: 1 · on China Plots Cyberspace War Strategy

(Subtitle: Kinda like getting hit in the groin with a baseball bat from behind)
By focusing on the electronic warfare concept frequently brought up these days, China shows one of the USA's main weaknesses: we are slow. There recently was an article in Newsweek about military reaction time and the difficulties of deploying the army. It also showed figures that the total weight of an army division has rose over the last ten year to a frightening amount (Some of the article can be found here, although the graphic in which the figures were is not on this link). This has always been a difficulty for armies and such problems have allowed terrorism and guerilla tactics to become quite successful against a conventional army. This worked for the Colonists in the Revolutionary War, it worked for the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War, it worked countleass times. Again and again, the supposed underdog was successful because it forced the enemy to keep on its toes until they slipped and fell over. This concept of electronic warfare (the media's fabled "electronic battlefield") draws from the same idea. By simply disrupting the enemy they can cause massive damage and draw attention away from a conventional attack.

Not to mention China gets in the news as a superpower looking for the future, the government can all lobby for an anti-electronic warfare study, and I can sit at home and code code code...

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Re:I love it. by Anonymous Coward · 1999-11-08 00:32 · Score: 0 · on The Post-Microsoft Era

Whether the appeal works, it will buy time. Microsoft counsel Neukom joyfully recounted how long it would take to exhaust every avenue. By the time, he figured, that the Supreme Court got hold of the matter it would probably be 2003. He didn't mention it, but long before then the new president taking office might have replaced Joel Klein with a trustbuster who views Microsoft more sanguinely. When George W. Bush addressed an audience of high-tech executives in Arizona last month, he promised them less interference from Washington, vowing to "always take the side of innovation over litigation." One of Bush's highest-profile supporters is Microsoft chief operating officer Bob Herbold, who has hosted the candidate on the company's campus.

-excerpt from a Newsweek article

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched...

Re:Dung Madonna by brennan73 · 1999-10-13 00:48 · Score: 1 · on Dying Babies and The Myth of American Freedom

I don't know where Jon gets the idea that Guiliani was censoring the offensive art show. He simply said that the taxpayers don't have to pay for it.

Ah, but it's not that simple, is it? As has been noted, once the decision has been made to fund the arts, picking and choosing what will get funded based on how "offensive" the art is amounts to government subsidation and/or approval of certain points of view, and disapproval of others, which is unconstitutional.

But what I haven't heard many people complain about is the fact that the taxpayers didn't decide that they disliked the art, Giuliani decided that HE didn't like it. Since when could a single individual determine what will and won't be funded, at their discretion, whenever they feel like it? I find that notion by far more offensive than a little elephant dung. BTW, there's an excellent article on the whole flap by Anna Quindlen in the latest Newsweek. Really puts it in perspective.

-brennan

Re:Why are metered local calls "stupid"? by SEE · 1999-09-29 03:07 · Score: 1 · on ISP War in the UK

Don't US users pay a lot more for 'long distance' calls than we do anyway?

Newsweek explains the current situation in U.S. long distance.

Basically, the U.S. long-distance telecos have to pay $0.04 in per-minute fees to the local telecos for access to the local network -- and are charging $0.05 a minute to customers for long distance. So, modulo the local telco access charge, long distance in the U.S. is essentially unmetered if you buy, say, the $9.95-per-month AT&T plan.

If and when AT&T can get its newly acquired cable assets to operate as a local teleco, I would bet heavily on completely unmetered long distance soon following. (Maybe not from AT&T at first, but from somebody.)

Now, OTOH, I have to pay a metered $0.15 to call a location 10 miles away, becaue that's a "zone call". It remains entirely on my local teleco's own networks, but, without competition, who is going to stop them? So 100 minutes to 10 miles away on one company's network costs me 50% more than 1,000 minutes 2,000 miles away on three companies' networks. It's an unstable situation, and it will change -- the FCC is being nasty about denying the local telecos the chance to get into interstate long distance until there's competition.

Anyway, I expect in 5 years to have unlimited local calls, unlimited long distance, cable TV, and unlimited cable modem access for a combined bill of about $75 a month given current trends.

Oops, whites may have been here before Indians. by Anonymous Coward · 1999-08-03 00:50 · Score: 0 · on H-1B Tech Workers May Be Severely Underpaid

Newsweek discusses evidence that "Europeans" preceeded the "Indians" http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/issue/23_99a/printed/in t/socu/so0117_1.htm. So much for that old, racist argument.

Popular Media take on PCs by Silas · 1999-06-11 02:36 · Score: 2 · on Future of the PC on NPR's Science Friday

It'll be interesting to see how NPR frames the conversation with these folks, especially since Steven Levy was the primary author of Newsweek's recent cover story on "The New Digital Galaxy", a fairly mainstreamed, fluffified and narrow view of the future of PCs and pervasive computing. I know Levy is capable of much better, but he does a good job of bringing it to the masses wrapped in a candy coating. The issue also included an article by Bill Gates on " Why the PC Will Not Die". Possibly good background reading for the NPR bit.

Popular Media take on PCs by Silas · 1999-06-11 02:36 · Score: 2 · on Future of the PC on NPR's Science Friday

It'll be interesting to see how NPR frames the conversation with these folks, especially since Steven Levy was the primary author of Newsweek's recent cover story on "The New Digital Galaxy", a fairly mainstreamed, fluffified and narrow view of the future of PCs and pervasive computing. I know Levy is capable of much better, but he does a good job of bringing it to the masses wrapped in a candy coating. The issue also included an article by Bill Gates on " Why the PC Will Not Die". Possibly good background reading for the NPR bit.

Popular Media take on PCs by Silas · 1999-06-11 02:36 · Score: 2 · on Future of the PC on NPR's Science Friday

It'll be interesting to see how NPR frames the conversation with these folks, especially since Steven Levy was the primary author of Newsweek's recent cover story on "The New Digital Galaxy", a fairly mainstreamed, fluffified and narrow view of the future of PCs and pervasive computing. I know Levy is capable of much better, but he does a good job of bringing it to the masses wrapped in a candy coating. The issue also included an article by Bill Gates on " Why the PC Will Not Die". Possibly good background reading for the NPR bit.

Re:Florida by for(;;); · 1999-05-23 13:20 · Score: 1 · on Review:Star Wars:The Phantom Menance

Okay, someone actually sent me email on this, apparently still not understanding what Fisher meant in the quote. So just to spell it out, when she said "Boba Fett could see all the way to florida", she meant "Boba Fett could see my pubic hair under the metal bikini." The interview is here, the quote is on the second page.

Another Interview: newsweek by plumpy · 1999-05-05 01:43 · Score: 2 · on Neal Stephenson on Linux, Crypto and More

Here's another interview. This one in newsweek. Haven't read it; I just got my copy in the mail today.

Nope, read this ... by Anonymous Coward · 1999-04-26 05:48 · Score: 0 · on Voices From The Hellmouth

Newsweek says different ... First Americans were Caucasians?

NATO is f**ked by Anonymous Coward · 1999-04-02 08:20 · Score: 0 · on Fighting the Techno-War

Take a look at "Doing Injury to History" by Henry A. Kissinger. http://www.newsweek.com/n w-srv/printed/us/in/in1014_1.htm

" ... the Administration must redefine its objectives. NATO cannot survive if it now abandons the campaign without achieving its objective of ending the massacres. The Rambouillet agreement should therefore be stripped of its more esoteric components. The terms for ending the air war should be: an immediate ceasefire; the withdrawal of Serbian forces introduced after the beginning of the negotiations at Rambouillet, and the immediate opening of negotiations over autonomy for Kosovo. These negotiations are likely to be prolonged and bitter. But, at their end, Kosovar independence in some form is inevitable unless NATO insists by force on the kind of Serbian suzerainty which the President has promised--a course neither the alliance nor the American public will support.

If a ceasefire on such terms is rejected by Milosevic, there will be no alternative to continuing and intensifying the war, if necessary introducing NATO combat ground forces--a solution which I have heretofore passionately rejected but which will have to be considered to maintain NATO credibility. Whatever the outcome, stationing of some NATO ground forces in either Macedonia or Kosovo will be necessary, to serve not so much as peacekeepers as to prevent the Balkan conflict from widening. I have consistently warned against such an outcome. But, as a result of hesitations and confusions, NATO now has little choice if it wants to avoid a larger war."

There are going to be more... Milosevic got nothing to loose. And NATO can't back out either. My only hope is that US wont use a-bomb, like they did with Japan in 1945.

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