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Interview with Bruce Sterling
kpost writes "Reason magazine has an
interview
with Bruce Sterling." Fairly lengthy and entertaining interview for you bookworms out there. Covers a lot of different subjects.
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FP!
suckas
I win it for the RBAA
(Rude boys association of Aylesbury)
wooot. fuck you yeah.,
Wow, you managed to post something useful sandwiched between fp attempts. Good job!
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This is a DUPLICATE story!
For "if you have to ask what this means / who this is then this story isn't for you" stories.
Check the links yourself; they're legit. This is just one of many recent troll efforts to get legit posts modded down. Think and check before you mod!
- $3/gigabyte. Far cheaper than other options :) Asks the created of the ad to
- Xserve RAID certified on two versions of linux and Windows XP Pro and Windows 2003 Server.
- We've qualified a bunch of Fibrechannel switches.
- Xserve RAID: 3U. Added new. 3 1/2 Terrabytes. SFP connectors. RAID Set slicing.
- We thought we ought to also update Xserve RAID.
- $2999 - single 1GHz. $3999 Dual 2.0GHz.
- Ships with Panther Server 10.3 - unlimited client license
- Now What they probably wished they could have used were Xserves... but xserves only had G4s in them until today. G5 Xserve. two air vents in the front. 1U. Single and Dual 2.0GHz Processors. ECC Memory. DDR 400 up to 8GB. Up to 750GB of storage. 3 hot pluggable drive modules. Full complement of comm ports.
- Jobs: They looked at everything intel etc... and they fell in love with the G5 and Mac OS X. We expect a few more popping up.
- Assembled in 3 weeks. #3 computer in the world. first academic machine to break 10 Teraflop range ceiling
- Showing Video from Virginia Tech talking about the PowerMac G5
- Can't talk about the G5 without talking about Virginia Tech and their Supercomputer.
- Steve Jobs. So, these are just a few of the apps that have taken us to 10,000 native OS X apps. Next up... the G5.
- Microsoft Rep leaves stage
- MS Technology Guarantee Program. Of you buy a copy of Office 10, you get a free upgrade to Office 2004 when available in the spring
- Demo of Office complete.
- Can share projects with others. On a server/idisk.
- New feature that's integrated across the office suite. Project Center. Can see how your project comes along - overview and other views. Contacts, files, appointments, mail items etc...
- Demoing Excel. Now this is a great looking spreadsheet - but how will it look when it prints? New view in excel called Page Layout view. Can still edit it directly in this view. "Fit To" feature which automatically fits the spreadsheet on the right number of pages.
- Now can record audio while you type.
- Also new too 2004. If you stop using the toolbar pallete, it become transparent (Quartz) so you can see your document well
- Showing Mac-first features. Launching Word. Now all of us take notes. This is an example of how you would do it in an older version. Word Notebook View demo. Makes it easy to take notes and generates regular word files. Looks like a notebook. Quicksearch feature at top of the screen. Just type in the word, and the section tabs on the right had side of the screen higlight blue... to let you quickly find the information you need. Call attention to specific notes with a Note Flag feature.
- Demoing Office 2004
- Microsoft: 20 years of great software for the Mac. Announcing Office 2004 for Mac.
- Microsoft Office 2004 Announced today. Introducing microsoft rep
- FCE 2.0: $299. $99 upgrade. Available today.
- FCE 2.0: RT Extreme Performance, Adjustments are instant. Over 200 filters and effects. Realtime color correction.
- Advanced realtime audio tools, optimized for G5 and Panther, composite up to 5 DV streams in real time. Use filters and transitions etc... Now demoing FCE 2.0
- We've got one too - Final Cut Express 2.0 launching today - pro video editing for everyone
- 10,000 native apps on OS X. And some neat new apps today. Macromedia Director MX, Bioncle, Net Vault.
- This is the fastest OS transition on record that we know of.
- "We made it" refering to the transition from OS 9 to OS X. This is not easy.
- We now have over 9.3 million active Mac OS X users. Approaching 40% of installed base... which is huge.
- People loving Expose. Reviewing iChat AV, new Finder.
- Most advanced OS again, Microsoft copying again (laughter)
- Now... onto Mac OS X
- Giving out 1984 poster
- "20 Years" We are going to make something of this year. Some incredible new products. Some wonderful things that will be announced over the year. It's going to be a great 20th anniversary year.
- "We couldn't help ourselves"
...gets dramatically smaller about a minute after the money shot.
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Aren't republicans supposed to be the "ra ra personal freedom" party, and democrats the "Why is nobody thinking of the children!!!" party?
Stereotypically, Reps are "in favor of economic freedom" and Dems are "in favor of personal freedom."
The fact is, both parties are opposed to both personal & economic freedom.
It just seems like you all simply jump to attack whatever position the opposing party takes, even if your own ideology agrees with it.
Bingo. If GWB changed to the Dems on Jan 21, 2001, yet otherwise did everything else exactly the same as he done, the "Bush haters" would consider him to be one of the top two Presidents in US history.
This is what reaally turns me off with these guys. Their only beef with him is that he has an "R" after his name. They cannot come up with anything substantive, because in order to do so, they would have to repudiate socialism.
One may say, "What about the war in Iraq?" The same people who are "anti-war" today didn't have a problem with war vs. Iraq in 1998 when someone on their team was waging it.