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A Short Documentary About 81-Year-Old Commodore Amiga Artist, Programmer Samia Halaby (youtube.com)
erickhill shares a short documentary about Samia Halaby, an 81-year-old Commodore Amiga artist and programmer: Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old. She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum, Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few.
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If she was 50 in 1985, as stated in TFS, then she is not an 81 year old artist.
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... how this so very well and elegantly puts into perspective all those todays whiny girlie brats who cry about "gender discrimination" and "equal pay" but couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag?
This lady has a working brain and used it when the Amiga came about and saw the future. She is way more a digital native than most teens today. Cudos to you, ma'am.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
... probably knows more about computers than the supposed "digital natives" generation, whose IT abilities consist mainly of knowing how to prod a touchscreen to update the latest trivia about their tedious lives on social meeja.
...after the company that built it disappeared?
Steemit.com has a voting feature that can cause sufficiently down-voted comments and posts to be grayed out and reduced to a minimum amount of screen space. But, back on topic, I'm a former Amigan and I was inspired by this mini-documentary. It's too bad that Amiga magazine didn't realize the human-interest angle of the content Samia sent them. I would have loved to know about her and her art - and I'd love to help her continue with it.
Fuck you, sand n1gger. Evolve and create your own internet, and stay away from American resources, you stupid piece of terrorist shit.
The computer that never dies. There will be Amiga users still alive and kicking after nobody uses PCs anymore.
You're right. I also wondered why she didn't move beyond the Amiga, since she does her stuff in C. But I figure there is a solid amount of Amiga love involved as well. When she talks about the Amiga it clearly shows.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I had wondered why, as an Anonymous Coward, my comments would frequently dissappear entirely. They're not... well, they're not at all whatever that post is... but they're certainly not inflammatory. Maybe the comedy is poor, maybe my judgement is poor. Maybe I just come off as socially awkward online as I do sometimes in real life.
Having read this I now understand the burden AC's such as myself lay upon the modpoint privileged. It's probably about time I registered an account. It's been a decade or so, this site is probably on the up and up.
I would like that slashdot remembers, for a non logged in users, the score at which comments are cut off. Because I waste time at each story with the sliders, but there's also a built-in solution to reading the whole discussion without "n1ggers", just read at zero (or 1, or 1 shown and zero abrevatied)
I'd be all for a sort of '-2' that suppresses the sort of trash we're talking about from anybody who doesn't explicitly desire to see it. Would go a long way towards making our comments sections not look like a dumpster fire to random passers-by. To avoid being completely offtopic, I will note that I unfortunately grew up in a PC household :( I look back and think of all the fun I might have had if we'd had Amiga/Atari/Mac, but who knows for sure.
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Methods to remove, control and restrict unnecessary speech is something that people require.
What is comment score filtering?
Slashdot should consider permanently IP banning or even better shadow-banning off-topic posts like the above one, because they are boring and dull as an expression of personal sentiment and do not contribute anything useful to the thread. Their only purpose is to derail discussion. IP banning and shadow banning of AC off-topic posts can solve this issue.
You have seen that little slidey bar that allows you to read at whatever level you want? I cut off everything below 2 when I'm not moderating and otherwise don't see that crap. Those bizarre wipes get to post what they want, and I decide what I'm going to see. Not perfect, but not far from it.
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I'd be all for a sort of '-2' that suppresses the sort of trash we're talking about from anybody who doesn't explicitly desire to see it. Would go a long way towards making our comments sections not look like a dumpster fire to random passers-by. To avoid being completely offtopic, I will note that I unfortunately grew up in a PC household :( I look back and think of all the fun I might have had if we'd had Amiga/Atari/Mac, but who knows for sure.
See that slide bar right above the comments? There ya go.
The Amiga was an absolute blast to use and work with. I started with a 500, then went to a 2000, a 3000 (my favorite) and finally a 4000 with a Video Toaster. Used them up until 2001 when I went to non-linear editing on a Mac. I had the chance to use one again a couple years back, and the GUI is still better than modern Windows, fluid and responsive. A pity that the wy they ran the company was so bad.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
In general, a woman is about as honest about her age as a man is about the length of his penis. The overvaluation of both pieces of information despite the likelihood for inaccuracy is mind-boggling.
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you managed to take a clever and talented woman's story and twist it into a screed against equal pay for equal work.
The takeaway isn't "girls should stop complaining because they can write code too" it's "girls should complain because they can write code too and multiple studies show they're paid less for it".
And it's not "men are paid more" it's "Women are paid less". That's the important distinction everybody misses. The point is _always_ to pay workers less.
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It could be misused though. People are already routinely marking posts they disagree with as "troll". The idea could work if you're only allowed to use that -2 vote once in a while. Say once a day for anonymous posts or once a week for member posts.
I saw this article last night and wanted to see what slashdot had to say, and there were only 3 posts so far, two of them being filth. Public opinion about slashdot is pretty low I think from what my friends have said. Maybe it's time for slashdot to get some adult diapers.
IP banning just doesn't work anymore, thanks to NAT...
It's not uncommon to have millions of mobile subscribers behind a small pool of addresses, ban one and you ban every user of the same provider.
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