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Six More Tech Cults
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes a humorous look at six 'sects' of fanatical tech loyalists. 'Fandom, devotion, obsession — certain technologies have a way of inspiring an extremely loyal following. So committed are these devotees, you might as well call them technology cults,' Tynan writes in this update to last year's list, which included fans of the Newton, Commodore, and Ruby on Rails, among other technologies. 'Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it's dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all — endlessly and at great length.'"
From article:
By Dan Tynan
Created 2009-05-04
I became suspicious when he predicted the resurgence of palm.
No surprise, the editors put the wrong link in the article. All three links link to last year's article. Here is the new article.
--Obyron
I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but they don't actually issue the real geek cards to people who watch Voyager.
When you're afraid to download music illegally in your own home, then the terrorists have won!
I guess you didn't read the article. He does mention that it's a web framework.
That doesn't make Ruby on Rails a sibling of Ruby.
Unless you count the associative array library I wrote in C as a sibling of C?
No, of course not.
Um...no. The C65 is not a sacred relic.
Yes it is, please check comp.sys.cbm or any Commodore-forum before you try to sound as if you have any idea what you're talking about. There is nothing as sought after as a C65 among Commodore-collectors - not even the Commodore MAX. Last year I offered around US$2000 for one of them, but unfortunately the seller wanted more. Latest C65 on ebay (dec. 2009) went for around US$7800.
It was never even released.
Roughly 500 prototypes were sold after Commodores bankruptcy. There were even ads for them in Commodore magazines.
Having worked both at Amiga and at ESCOM's Amiga Technologies spinoff, I do think that was the last real chance the Amiga had. They actually took their time to study the problem, enlisted me and Andy Finkel to run hardware and software development groups, respectively, and had the right idea about how many people and how much time this was going to take, the right place in the market for new Amigas, etc. No guarantees... as I said, it was a chance.
I don't think any effort to resurrect the Amiga beyond that had a real chance. No one had the right expertise, the right target price point, or could even answer simple things like "how do we sell this new thing to people who've never heard of Amiga Computers".
-Dave Haynie