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Salon on JWZ/Emacs/Mozilla/AOL and Nightclubs
genehckr writes "Salon has an article about how JWZ has been spending his time since leaving Netscape/AOL/Mozilla -- he's working on buying a nightclub in San Francisco. The article also delves into JWZ's personality, and some of the history behind the JWZ/RMS Lucid Emacs/emacs split -- an interesting read. " Ok, I put it under the Mozilla icon because I don't have a 'San Francisco Nightclub Icon'. Interesting article covering stuff that we don't usually see around here.
skank/tas...just for future reference...
Given jwz's goth/industrial/angstcore leanings musicwise, a bat may be a good icon.
Score.
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On the other hand, I'd love to know if the dance floor is Java 2 compatiable and supports XML.
Personally, I think we might start to see more of this - people just getting fundamentally fed up and choosing whole new careers. I don't know any of the reasons JWZ has made the switch, beyond those reasons he's chosen to give, but I do know that if I had the resources, I'd get out of the politics, back-stabbing and paranoia that makes up so many companies.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
The appearance of Java in Slashdot banners is *not* a welcome new feature! Not only does it add to the page load times, but it kills off a large proportion of the Netscapes currently in use on Linux.
I have three different versions of Netscape running on RedHat 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1, and they *all* die during Java loads. (Yes, I *have* fixed the RH font path omission.)
I know the problem is Netscape's and not Slashdot's, but since Netscape is the browser most used on Linux, the end effect worldwide of this introduction of Java really sucks for Slashdot fans.
"The question of whether machines can think is no more interesting than [] whether submarines can swim" - Dijkstra
..for becoming ridiculously loaded.. Screw working..it's all about videogames & nightclubbing.
I don't know what would be a bigger draw to me, going to an actively open nerd night club, or going to an actively open nerd night club owned by jwz...
If only it were in Chicago...
-I just work here... how am I supposed to know?
I had half expected that he might do something like buying Harlequin, and "open sourcing" Liquid Common Lisp. (Which would have been rather interesting...) Or perhaps seeking to build a Lisp Machine environment to run atop Linux. Or perhaps something more quixotic like building such atop FreeBSD.
It's very interesting that he has instead proceeded to do "political system" hacking. I expect he'll get back to the computer variety at some point.
After all, he appears to be a significant participant here; any time major discussions of Motif or Mozilla come up, he's quite visible in the discussions!
I'm no "clubber," and I'm not entirely convinced he's after something that's unambiguously a good thing, but it's sort of nice to see some action oriented to a local community taking place.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Not unless they can fit in with the existing industro-goth geeks already there. I'll have to stop going to Dekonstrukt if it turns in to a bad horror movie: 'Attack of the poorly-dressed potato people!'
The article spent a couple of paragraphs on generalities. Does there exist a good, non-judgmental (I should be so lucky) article about what really happened, focussing on the operational differences between emacs & Xemacs? If so, could some kind person post a pointer?
TIA
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Excuse me, but Slashdot seems to be clobbering my status bar. I don't really like that. And the java? Please, where are we, a porn site? What's next, pop-up ads?
We have the same issue with afterhours on south beach as they do in san francisco. Maybe jwz can come out here and help us after he's done out there :)
The story really was not about Mozilla but about Jamie. The story mentions Jamie and how he deserted Mozilla but that is about it on the Mozilla front. It also talks about how he forked emacs developement because he did not like some things.
The story is mostly about Jamie's attempt to purchase some club called DNA or something similar. I can't help but remember that Microsoft is touting some "new" technology that they are calling DNA something or another. Think the two are connected?
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I always thought JZW could make it as a Yanni impersonator. It seems that he is not involved with any big hacking project these days. Too bad, the free software community needs him.
Don't say I'm stereotyping, I'm just asking this out of curiosity. But I typically associate San Francisco and the night life there with the gay scene. Is this DNA nightclub a gay haunt?
Perhaps it's the malleability of code that makes some programmers, especially free software programmers, so optimistic that they can fix things, that problems are solvable, that a solution is always waiting to be found. Software can be fixed. Programmers live in a world where reality can be shaped according to their will -- all they have to do is write another line of code.
A fairly interesting insite into why hackers are so powerful. Now only do they think they can fix things... in many instances they actually do. All the hub-bub about the freedom on information, ie the state of "the net" is all about hackers knowing they can change things. Shows like Triumph of the Nerds attempts to document this phenomenon. It also seems to celebrate the power and influence of nerddom as if nerds have something to prove.
don't forget the grits/pants split that I am trying to correct by pouring bowls of hot grits down my pants. thank you.
will probably insist that it be called a GNU/Nightclub. After all, without him, blah, blah, blah.....It would be fun to see Stallman in a nightclub setting, "I told you it's GNU/Linux, you bitch", as the bouncers are dragging him out the door.
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Kitchen appliances are not toys, kids!
That will definitely be something to check out in San Fran when they transfer ownership and do whatever it is they're going to do to it. I picture an exploratorium on lsd with a bar.
How have other clubs integrated technology into the environment to make it fun for hacker/tech types?
No monkeys died as a result of this post. It just simply wasn't worth it.
What? There isn't a jwz icon?
A monkey was tossed into a vat of hot grits where it sank and drowned because of this post.
what's he talking about? the article seemed fairly superficial to me.
So there.
Trust me, you don't want him to... been there...
Remember 3 weeks ago when you were soundly trounced on this same topic? Do you want that to happen again?
In case you do, here's the first taste: What conceivable claim would Stallman have on jwz's nightclub. Even as a joke this makes no sense.
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Jamie Zawinski has a face the camera can only love. Framed beneath lush, long dark hair, his intelligent, expressive eyes and ready, ironic smile draw attention like a magnet. For reporters, his habit of dispensing painfully articulate, often outrageous soundbites is equally attractive -- one reason why the former Netscape programmer steals most of the scenes in "Code Rush," an upcoming PBS documentary that focuses on the hectic lives of a team of Netscape coders during the spring of 1998.
Does anyone else find this slightly sickening. I mean, how much brown-nosing can an article do?
Talk about the only thing constant is change...
This is really so 60s. Suddenly the young, rising rebels discover the changes they're fighting for are so easily done within the system. The ability to fight the establishment, USING the establishment becomes an accepted method and then suddenly they wake up and discover...
My god, I've turned into my parents!
What about the spinning-compass easter egg Netscape showed when pointed at jwz's page? Should be nicely obscure.
I'm using M13 as my main browser now. In a week of(fairly constant) use I've only noticed the following problems:
/. page had the same problem under Netscape and that is fixed in Mozilla.
-Multiple windows don't work independently after about 10 minutes. Refreshing in one window makes both windows unusable.
-Copy and paste (internally OR externally) is totally non-functional.
-No https
-For some reason I couldn't load www.caldera.com
-Occasionally some pages will have large blacked-out areas. Scrolling usually fixes this. However, I also note that the MetaMod
-Minor editing nitpicks (like why can't I put in double spaces?)
Other than these relatively minor issues, M13 is awesome. Very quick rendering (I much prefer the "render as you receive" algorigthm. I like it so much I entered a reminder on my Palm to download M14 as soon as it hits the wire (2/18).
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I was trounced? How? And on what grounds? I love when GNLUSERS like you claim victory when it is not there. Kinda like the cult leader claiming Linux when it is not his.
Please, stop believing your own hype. You are not that bright. I have a strange feeling you listen to those Tony Robbins motivational tapes. Hmmmm. Sad really.
I can't seems to find 1 mention of emacs in that article.....
or xemacs, either. lier.
A monkey suffered a repetitive motion disorder and had his hands amputated because of this post.
...who gives a shit?
JZW vanished up his own ass ages ago.
Geek news...kiss my cack and call me charlie springs to mind....
Kinda OT, but...
I've used (and I still have to use) Lisp in college courses. Most of my peers feel that, as a language, it's a waste of time. I always thought that if I'm going to do text-based programming in Unix, it might as well be with something interesting and natural, like Lisp is in ways. C++ for text based programming is an arduous chore, although it makes your life easier in many ways. On the opposite end, I've used Prolog and although I did get the hang of it eventually, I thought learning it was like trying to dry my hair on a frying pan...
Sadly, I've yet to see anything really practical done with Lisp. I'm not saying that things HAVEN'T been done or CAN'T... they just haven't been called to my attention yet. Specifically, I know that Lisp ain't the fastest car in the garage when it comes to compiled speed, but I think that someone should really try to fancy it up and release a professional IDE/compiler/libraries set that is capable of making real-world appications. (not that you COULDN'T do that kind of stuff already if you really wanted to, but somehow I assume that no one is making any Winamp plugins or network games with it)
It is kind of ludicrous to think of such an idea... anything called "Visual Lisp" might cause some crying and suicidal thoughts. But I would be SOOO curious to see what might come out of some project like that. After all, the way that information flows within Lisp might make certain applications much easier to code. Also, one of the very nice things about Lisp IMHO is that if you're a decent programmer, you'll save massive amounts of debugging time because generally you won't have to worry about broken functions down the line... I find it easier to debug Lisp functions out of the gate as opposed to C++. Of course, this comes at the expense of coding time, but I think the end tradeoff is worth it. (I hate debugging more than coding, so again this is IMHO) Finally, Lisp is somewhat ideal for AI and logic type stuff, so coding those type of elements into programs would probably be quicker and more natural.
Of course, making it a bloated language might not have superb results. Specifically, just throwing something like MFC on top wouldn't improve the programming experience. Still, though, I'm very curious, and if anyone knows a direction in which to point me, I'll take a look. Otherwise, this is DIY country, but it might take a year or two before I would be able to accomplish anything like that. Right now my best talent on a computer is getting record times in Minesweeper...
....that some of us geeks DO have lives!
glad you see it my way.
The article was good readage. Nothing that I didn't already know from visiting jwz home page though.
:)
BUT, anyone else notice the little blurb about a PBS documentary "Code Rush"? Seems like it's going to air March 30th according to the link.
"The specific time period captured on film covers a crucial moment in the history of the "free-software movement" -- that frantic couple of months during which Netscape programmers scrambled to clean up the hitherto proprietary source code to the Navigator Web browser so that it could be released as publicly accessible open-source software."
Hmmm....sounds pretty interesting. I wonder who's going to portray jwz
> Personally, I think we might start to see more of this - people just
> getting fundamentally fed up and choosing whole new careers.
I'm doing that. It's not the computer field that I'm fed up with, it's corporations in general. They really really don't mesh with the way my mind goes. And, I've noticed, ever since I started programming professionally, I stopped programming as a hobby - it wasn't fun anymore. Very depressing.
So, in order to get my Happiness rating back up, I'm going back to school and switching to the psychology field. Freaky, huh?
Eric
it was a joke. Some people have no sense of humor, and take themselves WAY too seriously.
Kinda like cult memebers.
Just think, a place where we can congregate and apply the IRL /. effect on brick-and-mortar businesses. 50 people in line at the quik-e-mart to buy gum!
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[WARNING: THIS SLASHDOT POST WENT UP WITH LUDICROUSLY BAD TIMING FOR ME. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY BITTER RANT. I WILL REGRET POSTING THIS LATER. YA KNOW WHAT? FUCK IT AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE IT.]
Dear Willie:
Damnit! Are you guys ever going to let guys like me have a life?
I'm tired of fighting, Mr. Mayor. I grew up in The City. I sat there at age 14, imagining that when 16 rolled around, gee, I'd finally have to stop asking for rides and start <i>going places</i>. But, whoops, 16 wasn't enough, everything was 18 and over. Fine. I waited. 18 rolled around...whoops again! Can't drink, can't party! Better wait 'til 21. Now I'm 21 and live in Santa Clara, and what do I hear but half the clubs in San Francisco are under attack.
What the hell? Do you own Prozac futures or something? Have you ever stopped for a moment and considered exactly happens when the event economy can support fewer and fewer individuals?
No, Willie, I bet you haven't. I've heard about your parties--you've thrown kinkfests that put a good chunk of the Castro parties to shame, if only because of the straight laced people you've dragged to them--and I've gotta say, I respect your cojones. But guess what--you go ahead and harass and subject and isolate as many people as possible...
And you eliminate me, and people like me.
Take a college town, or take a city spiting its culture to win some votes, and start cracking down. People like me, who used to be more fodder for the party, who might actually turn out to be decently cool, become risk, pure and simple.
Don't invite the geeks. They'll call attention. Watch who you bring; too many and we'll get busted. Leave them to their toys; screw 'em if they want to look back at their youth without regret.
And School Administrators wonder aloud where all these cliques are coming from, and why nobody has any school spirit anymore, and how it is that so many students just don't know eachother.
Man cannot live on bread alone, and geeks cannot survive on mere technology. There's something called a well balanced life, and the systematic limitation of just how many people can enjoy theirs must end.
If residents are complaining, then the failure is the City's and the Zoning Commissions, not people like me who don't Know Everyone like you do. I want to have fun, Mr. Mayor. Yes, I admit it. I want to look back at a month and say, wow, I met some great people. I let myself go. I stopped being stressed about...everything.
I don't want drugs. I don't want pot. And I certainly don't want more f*cking technology. Give me loud music, new people, and an edge of unpredicatability without the constant and truly ridiculous fear and loathing of the police and the government and the city councils and the Self Appointed Fun Police and I'll be happy!
I'll live in your city!
I'll come home!
You ruin my hometown as I just turn 21, and while your Prozac futures might skyrocket, I ain't ever going home, save maybe to campaign against your ass.
Capiche?
Yours Truly,
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too bad you know who has a project named DNA - to get a patent on human genomes mayhaps? ("Hey, we own the patent on GREEN EYES so PAY UP!!! Send your payment to: ...... ) Speak of the devil, the article mentioned programmers coding to scratch an itch - it so happens I'm having a very bad MSFT day - so you can call that stuff: "The curse of a thousand unscratachable itches" - yep, that's msft and their legion of minions, alright; bow to the mighty snake god who owns you all. Howard Roark
coming from someone named Col Klink.
Seig Heil, eh?
Actually, the club used to be owned by Rob Schneider of SNL fame. The big attraction at that point was the Disco night..I won't say anything more about -that-.
Ive been to DNA for the industrial night there..it's up & running, the fight was mostly over his request for an after-hours permit, something the police tend to discourage any way they can.
Arent you? I could swear there was a German computer publication called C'T.
"Reactionaries must be deprived of the right to voice their opinions; only the people have that right." - Mao
You probably think you are "blowing the mind" of a "straight", but actually you are not. I'm fully aware you are a troll who does not really believe the things you are saying. I'm also fully aware that if you were confronted in "the real world" you would turn out to be a spineless loser.
There are two methods for dealing with trolls.
1) Ignore them. This is usually the best route with trolls that make no sense, even superficially.
2) Give them enough rope to hang themselves with. This works when the claim has a superficial plausibility but actually makes no sense underneath. That's what I've been doing with you and it worked twice.
But it looks like you've finally caught on to that and have decided to short-circuit my process by reverted to normal, troll-like, nonsensical behavior. Go ahead, if that amuses you, but you will be losing a playmate when I switch back to strategy #1.
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Please turn to Tony Robbins tape #4 on having a sense of humor.
It is obvious that you really do not have any life or sense of humor.
Nice job there chief. Big talk from a geek with a keyboard.
duh
...I wonder if he could get it open by June when the next JavaOne rolls around and 20,000+ geeks roll into town? Would they all attempt to show up at jwz's place simultaneously? Talk about a /. effect. ;)
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Dave Taylor (formerly of id, founder of crack.com, currently at Transmeta)'s crack.com game Abuse (now open-sourced, I believe) uses LISP as its scripting/scenario engine... That was *really* cool, but couldn't survive the onslaught of the first-person shooters and real time clickfe^H^H^H^H^H^H^H strategy games during 1995 or so...
Harlequin went into receivership late last year and has been bought out by a firm called Global Graphics, who wanted the Scriptworks Postscript RIP (which I used to work on). GG aren't really interested in selling programming languages, so IIRC that arm of the company has been sold off as a different firm, whose name I forget.
However, the really interesting story is Dylan. Harlequin put huge amounts of work into a high-quality Dylan implementation; it's one of the things that sunk the company. When GG took over, they decided that they'd have an impossible task selling the product either to end users or to a company - so they made a *gift* of the source to the developers. They've now set up a company, Functional Objects, to develop it further.
It seems they don't currently plan to open source their implementation; personally I think they're doomed unless they do...
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Abuse had at least the game sequencing written in Lisp.
And a "bloated" Common Lisp implementation looks positively svelte when put beside either a Java or a C++ "IDE" environment.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
... i can't jam at www.schwab.com :( got to do NS 4.7
I'd be pissed as hell if the same thing happened to a club I liked..
The sawmill WM and most of the configuration tools for it (and the dotfiles!) are written in rep, which is Yet Another LISP. Architecturally, sawmill is much like Emacs; whether this is a good or bad thing is left to the reader.
Don't miss this - according to the story there's an upcoming documentary on the the who inside Netscape Mozilla coding scene from '98....
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Dude, I wish you didn't post these AC. It's hillarious and if I where moderator your Karma would be through the roof! :o))
;o)
However, I don't know if it will work, because I'm even considering trolling now to get more of these out of ya.
Thankx for making the best out of otherwise anoying crap.
On the second page of the Salon article, it mentions that Lucid Emacs was a fork of the original Emacs written by Stallman. This is only partially true.
Lucid Emacs was a fork of GNU Emacs. But GNU Emacs was not the original Emacs. Stallman did however, obtain large amounts of code from the original Emacs. But this was done illegally.
The original author of Emacs was James Gosling. Yeah, Oak/Java, etc. He turned the code over to a software publisher called Unipress Software way back in the UUCP-only era (circa 1985). They sold distributions and full source distributions to tons of companies, gov orgs, and universities. They made flenty of feature enhancements, re-writes, etc. They paid Gosling a nice royalty for every sale.
At some point Stallman picked up one of the source distributions and made some modifications. They were good modifications, IMHO. Some of them were lame (e.g.- simply removing the Copyright tags). And then he started giving it away for free. This is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. I believe at some point he did in-fact completely re-write the code. But this was far more recent than you'd expect.
PS: What do you think GNU (as in GNU Emacs) stands for? GNU's Not Unix? Or GNU's Not Unipress?
Who gives a SHIT?? This is not news. It's a link to a stupid article in a shitty magazine.
Please no more articles about this self-obsessed jackass.
I have very little respect for Jamie Zawinski. He seems to have a 'holier-than-thou' attitude about pretty much everything he touches. I'd guess that it was Zawinski's personality more than any technology or license issues that caused the Emacs split. Then his famous 'successful company' rant, which I read as 'anyone who joined Netscape after I did is a wannabe'.
But my biggest problem is the now-infamous rant he published upon leaving Netscape. He seemed determined to damage the company on his way out. I think he single-handedly did more to hurt public perception of Mozilla than any delay, any change of plans, any setbacks that the project itself ever had. Zawinski set the stage for the trade press to prematurely declare Mozilla a failure.
I truly hope that JWZ gets attacked by a rabid lizard. His personal vitriol is Mozilla's most significant liability, even though he's not involved anymore.
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I was at the hearing in support of Jamie. Have you actually emailed your rant to Mayor Willie Brown? If not, then please do. I'm sure my email address has been blocked by now given how many rants I've sent him. ;)
- tokengeekgrrl
At least he's keeping up appearances by removing his anti-linux comments from his website.
it's not rocket science. There's good shit going on in SF, you just need to find it. Yeah, vsf closed. Yeah, 10:15 is sucking big time. Whatever. Both had long runs, and quite frankly needed to be retired. viva the revival!
Join the SFLNC.
Their agenda: Save what's left of San Francisco culture before yuppie dot-commers beat the life out of every remaining late night venue.
As a hacker who lived in Europe and works in California I am dismayed about the "no nothing after 2pm" business that occurs here in California. Maybe JWZ could go even further and lobby the California senate to repeal the 2pm whackiness.
After 2 pm everyone looks at eachother like "What the hell are we gonna do now!?" It ain't natural.
As it is, afterhours clubs in LA stay open after 2pm but since they can't serve any alcohol everyone does hard drugs.
What kind of bullshit puritanism is that anyway!? We need to change this asap!
Oh and he needs to lobby for pot legalization.
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I think jwz buying this club is one of the first of what I believe will be a lot of now rich geeks doing a lot of Big weird things with their money. There's only so many cars and houses you can buy before doing something Big becomes the only thing to do with all the money.
:)
Well, you could always save it but who wants to do that?
Now that I think about it, kimflournoy hits the nail on the head.
The straight crowd is generally more inhibited. We are lame.
Here's my personal take. If I'm wearing black leather pants and a ridiculously tight muscle shirt, I already look silly. I may as well go the whole nine yards and get my groove on.
Breeder boys, unite!
[james-brown-voice]Get up off at thang and dance 'till you fell better![/james-brown-voice]
I'm not what you'd call a club maven, but of all the SOMA clubs I've been to, DNA Lounge was one of the nicest. I was there for Club Slick one year, and was very favorably impressed.
Frankly, I have very limited sympathy for the new area residents. There was a reason their precious, quaint SF loft was (relatively) affordable. They knew there was an all-hours club nearby when they bought the place; why are they suddenly acting all surprised?
I've had the same dream as JWZ, except with me, it was a coffee shop up in Marin. I lacked the money and business acumen to realize it. So I'm pleased to see JWZ pursuing the same goal: Preserving what he thinks is important.
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The real tragedy is that actual working artists, especially young ones, simply can't afford to live here. To sustain a true art scene, you need cheap rent paired with some sort of public space for artists to meet and work. End of story. And the growing wage inequities in the Bay Area make it impossible to find cheap rent in any area metropolitan enough to support an art community.
The situation is escalating, fueled by the "irrational exuberance" and the loss of public funding for the arts, there are no mechanisms for changing it. Artists in the US now work primarily in design and advertising: the invisible hand of the marketplace won't sustain fine arts.
He wanted to get the technology out the door _NOW_ before it was finished. He wanted to make a marketing "splash" NOW, just like all the marketing guys who want to get software out the door by the 1st of September so that they can market it for Christmas, and won't listen to the engineers when they say it ain't ready. He wanted to do this so he could vindicate his push to get mozilla freed.
While I greatly admire his (among others) courage in standing up and advocating releasing the source for Netscape, I think he didn't really understand what he was starting. It takes awhile for developers to get comfortable with a new source code base. And some developers want to wait for a "stable" code base before starting to send patches. And their are a million more reasons why it took a long time to get Mozilla out the door. But the point is, it is about to be released, and I'm sure that it will make a splash with its appearance. JWZ just gave up to soon. But in any case, I think he will be vindicated, even if he's gone.
Jeff
Wasn't that where someone just OD'd & they tossed the bod in the dumpster? Or was it Cats'.. God, I love SF..
Now, if its J.Crew-wearin' SUV-wearin' marketdroids vs. gothpunkindustrogeeks, then yes sir, yes it is.
I hate monkeys.
Another problem my straight (female) friends often complain about is that when they go to a straight club, guys are constantly feeling them up or being generally rude to them. A girl once professed to me that on one occasion she had had at least one hand placed on her ass for literally the entire night. I'm bi, but when I'm looking to meet women I go to gay clubs, because everywhere you look there are eligible women hanging around, just looking to dance and have a good time, not wanting to be pressured or hit on. And of course there's very little competition :). Meanwhile the "straight" clubs are just tons of guys hanging around togther drinking because all the girls have deserted them. Now thats irony for you...
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The board of supervisor's on the other hand, they need to worry. They're coming up for re-election, and San Francisco has switched back to district elections, which is to say that neighborhoods in SF now choose their representation on the board much in the same way that States choose their representation in the US house & senate. It's expected that this will cause a shift in power from the downtown/big money crowd out into the neighborhoods, and sucking up to the housing developers isn't likely to play as well as it has in the past.
Ugh, what an ugly mozilla icon. We really need to get that changed.
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jwz, like most truly talented people, is not a team player. The reason rms and he disagreed so violently, I think, is because they're similar kinds. It wasn't his personality alone that caused the emacs split -- it was BOTH their personalities, and furthermore there was clearly a split in the user base too -- if there hadn't been, then lemacs/xemacs would not have been very popular. Yet everyone didn't go that route either.
As far as Mozilla goes, I think he got a bit too personally involved there -- personally involved in its success, not just its technical success but its worldly success.
Reading between the lines, I think Jamie was way past the time he should have left Netscape when the Mozilla thing came along. It was enough to keep him, but when Mozilla turned out to be, in many ways, still business as usual, it drove him nuts.
Whether he was right or wrong in what he said, he said what he truly thought and felt, IMHO.
I don't know about you, but if I was to go to a nightclub I'd rather the gender ratios didn't resemble those of slashdot.
Did you know in San Francisco 33% of it's inhabitants are gay? So if you are walking down the street and the person to your right isnt gay, then the person to your left is gay... if the person to your left isnt gay either, then you are gay. dun dun
I don't know about the rest of you, but even though times are good for unix gurus and even though I like my job and salary...
I'd like to retire as soon as possible and maintain my current lifestyle or better
I don't want to work 16 hour days 5 days a week when I have kids in highschool. I don't think I can.
People don't complain about the high salaries that sports figures make, so I think **GOOD** IT people are *STILL* seriously undervalued. (NOTE: underqualified lackeys are IMHO currently waay OVERPAID)
when I can afford to retire (which is the GOAL), I won't be working on computers anymore... I'll be doing what I choose to do.. I'll have an Aquarium shop that breeds endangered fish. I'll be racing cars at the local racetrack. I'll be diving in Palau.
Computers are nice, but at some point, I'm going to want my life back!
So, I've got lots of ideas for what I want to do with the club, but I'm always looking for more. And I could certainly use some help!
If you or your company have expertise in audio and/or video webcasting, dealing with ASCAP/BMI, micro-radio, installing networks and computer systems in public places, computer-controlled video mixing and light shows, or anything along those lines, then send me mail! I'm at the stage of the game where I've got a lot of ideas, but I'm still trying to work out which ones are practical, which ones I can afford, and which ones I should do first.
I want to blur the line between real-world and web communities: I want the physical space to be hooked in to the net in a way that hasn't been done before. Most nightclubs, even those that do webcasts, are still just a room, a bar, and a sound system. I want to go beyond that, and make something new.
If you're interested in helping out, or even if you just have suggestions, let me know! What would you like to see? What do you think would move the concept of ``nightclub'' to a new level?
Please don't think of this as an ``internet cafe'' kind of deal: in my experience internet cafes aren't even cafes, what they are is terminal rooms or photocopy stores that happen to sell espresso. What I'm building will definitely be a nightclub, with a lot of live music. But it will also be a web radio station, a web music zine, and a heavily wired physical space.
Help me build it! I think it's going to be a lot of fun...