OK, once again, that Madonna interview thing is a column by Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame. Trudeau's name probably got removed by that right-wing AOL filter.
Also, my vote for best musician who's, like, way into God 'n stuff goes to J. S. Bach.
When the residents of Baker house at MIT dropped a piano off their roof (only about 5 stories, as I recall), they also declared the "Bruno" to be an official unit of measurement. One Bruno is the amount of sound energy (ie, noise) generated when a piano is dropped off of Baker house.
As far as stuff on the Dome, the cow was OK, but my three favorites have been
The campus police squad car from a few years back. Inside the CP car were an inflatable woman in a CP uniform (driver's seat) and a box of donuts (passenger seat).
The working telephone booth. When the men came to take it down, they rang the phone.
Turning the Great Dome into the Great Pumpkin by putting big black triangular jack-o-lantern features on it and shining orange-colored lights on it so it glowed orange at night
Quake III Arena tests OpenGL performance through the scientific use of a rail gun and gibbed body bits. It uses advanced features such as curved surfaces and high-polygon models to bring your video card to its knees.
Think I could get a grant from the NSF if I wanted to conduct research featuring "scientific use of gibbed body bits"?
We had a lovely little BBS called Crunchland going in the Washington, DC area. Once it became blindingly obvious that everything was moving to the web, we started looking around for ways to move the BBS onto the web. Now, it runs at www.crunchland.com on UBBS, which has been pretty good to us.
A few thoughts on what is good, bad, new, missing, or otherwise different after the big switch:
Messaging is pretty similar, ultimately. We just added private messages, but people aren't using them too much, because you can always just e-mail on the web. Now the messages have embedded HTML tricks instead of stupid ANSI tricks, of course.
No formal "who's on" feature. We have a page listing everybody's ICQ number, and have used that at times to get a similar effect.
We miss the BBS games. LORD and Popwords especially. We've tried writing a few little web-based diversions, but they aren't the same. Sooner or later, one of use will find or code something cool to take it's place.
Individual web pages stored at the BBS. This is new and cool, and really adds to the flavor of the place. Probably the best new feature. Those who have their own sites elsewhere can at least link from the Users page.
The geography thing is interesting. Those of us in the DC area still get together (Bowling Night coming up, LAN parties pretty regularly, a boatload of happy hours etc.), which preserves the local community feeling. But we have some regular posters who live elsewhere. It's also been easier for users to keep in touch after they move out of town.
We'd pretty much let the file area die down anyway (in the old days, Crunchland was a big source of unprotects), and certainly don't feel any need for it now with the whole web doing that job. If we want to direct everybody's attention to a cool download, we'll just link to it somewhere else.
So, basically, a successful transition, and we've got as many users as ever.
What are the specific combinations of M$ holdings, products, and so forth that give them "monopoly power"? For example, in the FOF it is pointed out that M$ pressured Apple to de-emphasise Netscape for Mac by threatening to discontinue development of Office for Mac. That's a "monopolistic" abuse that doesn't even rely on M$ owning Windows.
Assuming it is given that certain M$ products give it monopolistic powers, does that strongly suggest that splitting up M$ is a solution, or is it more likely that M$ will be given a kind of probation, with detailed restrictions on the kinds of actions they are allowed to take?
There are several different arenas in which M$ uses it's leverage to arguably unfair advantage. Alternate OS's, hardware vendors, developers of Windows software, developers of thin-client systems, etc. Are any of these areas especially targeted by the FOF, and what implications does that have for any solution?
Does the highly technical nature of the subject make it more difficult to appeal? It seems like the judge really learned the computer business -- are other judges (or the Supreme Court) likely to simply "take his word for it", rather than spend weeks and weeks educating themselves on the industry?
The word you're looking for is "nomad". Nate's a nomad. As far as Things We Like: 1)Special Guests, I don't care one way or the other. 2)The theme music is really annoying, and I always turn down my volume until it's over. 3)Often the best parts of the show are the most off-topic, silly, and generally geeky (in a good way...). We read/. itself for the informative stuff, and listen to the show for the dumb jokes.
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Also, my vote for best musician who's, like, way into God 'n stuff goes to J. S. Bach.
As far as stuff on the Dome, the cow was OK, but my three favorites have been
My favorite part of the review:
Think I could get a grant from the NSF if I wanted to conduct research featuring "scientific use of gibbed body bits"?
We had a lovely little BBS called Crunchland going in the Washington, DC area. Once it became blindingly obvious that everything was moving to the web, we started looking around for ways to move the BBS onto the web. Now, it runs at www.crunchland.com on UBBS, which has been pretty good to us.
A few thoughts on what is good, bad, new, missing, or otherwise different after the big switch:
So, basically, a successful transition, and we've got as many users as ever.
The word you're looking for is "nomad". Nate's a nomad. As far as Things We Like: 1)Special Guests, I don't care one way or the other. 2)The theme music is really annoying, and I always turn down my volume until it's over. 3)Often the best parts of the show are the most off-topic, silly, and generally geeky (in a good way...). We read /. itself for the informative stuff, and listen to the show for the dumb jokes.