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CmdrTaco Speaking at MacHack in June
Apparently I'm Speaking at MacHack
somewhere during the show- June 20-22. No clue what I'm speaking about yet.
Never even been invited to speak at an Apple focused show, so it's certain
to be interesting. It's in Dearborn, MI (near Detroit) if you feel the
need to show up and flame me in person. I'm sure there will be time for Q&A
about Slashdot stuff.
Have you picked a topic yet? Have you had a chance to put your hands on an XServer? What is the connection between you and the Mac croud (except that we read /. a ton)? Does anyone here want to recommend a topic for Taco?
CmdrTaco:
Are you saying you didn't know about this? Usually when someone is supposed to be at an event as a presenter/speaker, they are ASKED about it! It just seems odd, thats all.
I suppose the question should be...if you weren't asked...shouldn't you do something about that? You almost make it sound like you don't want to be there...
-Julius X
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Just make sure that you adjust your glasses in the same manner Steve Jobs does -- sure to be a hit..... Good Luck!
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
CT -- you forgot the and tags.
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
I wonder how many mac users even know what you look like. I think I'll be going to that con as the "real" Malda and demanding my speech money...
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
1) Single-button mice suck
2) PR0N on 23" HD display
3) OS-"EXX" vs OS-TEN
4) Software in a post-9/11 world.
5) Where's the SCSI, you bastards
6) Old NeXT cases can burn in fire!
7) Apple sold out to the man to get IE and Office.
8) Amiga is comming back! Watch out!
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Several hundred dollars of VA stock price collapse later, that's the last anyone in the MacHack world has seen of him. So Taco, if you can butter them up enough, maybe you can leave with a new laptop too.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Linux and Mac OS X have in common that they both caused a major shift in the widespread perception of UNIX.
Linux changed the way developers saw UNIX. Instead of being exclusively a thing of the massive, expensive, big-iron world, UNIX became accessible -- an essential rite of passage for programmers, a domain for tinkerers, and a tool of professionals and hobbyists at all scales. And, perhaps for the first time, "UNIX" came vaguely onto the radar of the general public.
OS X changed the way the general public saw UNIX. Instead of being exclusively a mysterious thing of the geek elite, it was suddenly the foundation of a major consumer OS. Check the records, and you can see the wave of consumer tech columnists praticing saying "UNIX" without flinching. And it changed public perception about Linux, too -- suddenly, UNIX (and thus Linux) on the desktop is not just a pipe dream in the public eye. While Microsoft is trying to discredit UNIX in general and Linux in particular, both have more credibility than ever before.
Who would have imagined the current state of UNIX 20 years ago?
As both a Linux proponent, a developer walking all these lines of professional/hobbyist small, shop/big iron, etc. -- and as somebody at the center of the biggest geek watering hole -- it seems like you (CmdrTaco that is) might have some special insight into the changing public perception of UNIX, and how Apple fits in to it all.
If someone jumps on your posts to say mean things about you or your ideas, they are flaming or maybe trolling. If they travel to a conference to flame you in person, that's stalking. Have fun Taco.
I won't be able to attend in person, so maybe you could answer this online.
Do you actually even use a Mac? If so, which one and what do you do with it?
And, do you like it?
If you had announced this AT MacHack, you would have been greeted with cries of "Marketing!"
I love MacHack because it's usually got a number of great speakers. Last year we had Woz and the entire original Mac development team.
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
And if somebody asks you too hard questions, use your right to correct your glasses, like Steve Jobs...
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Quoth the announcement:
"Malda's achievements have spanned a variety of fields from computer
programming to nuclear physics."
I must have been dozing off but what exactly was that contribution again?
Spread the word about the /. system to the faithful. You could make many points alone with your experience in developing, implementing and observing the social processes of the /code user moderated system and how the system tends to be self controlling. I'm not sure whether there are parallels to be seen in software licencing and the whole DRM agony, but if there ever was a truly democratic forum system /. is it.
don't say what another speaker said a few minutes before you go up. I'm sure the conference attendees will appreciate a repost free conference.