To cop a term from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Apple has great whuffie. People love Apple. They put out decent products which nullifies some of the more unseemly things they do. On the otherhand, Real has horrible whuffie. Almost none. In fact, it might be NEGATIVE whuffie. They used to have a good bit of it back in '96 but have since managed to piss it all away with horrible software.
If you're using a fair bit of Perl on windows you probably want to use Active state Perl. It's pretty nice, and you'll have no problem installing pretty much any module you'll need. If your scripts are written well (i.e. not doing platform specific system calls) then porting will be almost a non-issue.
Virgin Mobile is pretty good if you don't do a whole lot of talking but need some way to quickly contact people or be contacted. I've been using them for a couple months and I don't have any complaints. 25c/min for the first 10 minutes a day, and 10c/min after that. Plus they're just piggybacked on top of sprint's network, which gives me decent coverage even out in weird rural areas. If you can find one, their Kyocera 2255 models are pretty decent/cheap phones as well.
Might be time to rethink that IPO?
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You're kidding me. I can't remember the last time I ever bothered using Yahoo!'s search function. It had to have been sometime back in '98 I'm sure.
I sat down today and had one of those moments where it just seemed too quiet. I thought about it for a bit and then realized that I haven't gotten any telemarketing calls in at least the past week. Very pleasent feeling considering I was getting 4-5 a day before.
Has anyone actually noticed that the picture of the packaging itself looks really really faked? The border of the clock is especially noticable, along with the messed up perspective angle of the sticker on the box. This looks like a simple 3d cube render with some texture on it, and a clock that was halfassed in photoshop. What's the deal with that?
This article came out a little onesided in favor of mozilla (hail the company), but I hardly expect unbiased news reporting from the internet, or anyone for that matter.
All in all, I think it was a fairly bad decision on the part of the mozilla people. It's like they didn't bother to think about the fact that an already prominent OS project existed with the same name and the confusion that's going to cause.
This is just another problem that happens when you start using wacky codenames for your product instead of coming up with an original name that actually somehow relates to your product and defines what it does.
Well, Someone did bother.
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The 1991 "X-Box"
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Fujitsu did it. It was called the FM-Towns Marty and was only in Japan. Powered by a 386, and later a 486. Had a healthy collection of Hentai Games. You can even run Linux on it!
A: It's just a made-up word we used interchangably with "Brownie Points" in high-school. Some people have suggested that it might have come from the Arsenio Hall show's "woof woof woof" noises.
1. I like the size and convenience of the iBook. It has Unix on it and that makes it useful for me to carry to clients' sites and check out their network. Normally I carry a Linux laptop for this but the P-120 laptop (my wife's old machine) is too slow for a useful GUI.
What's "useful" ? I've got a P120 laptop I use pwm on and it's plenty useful. The most I need to do is run some xterms and occassionally netscape. Not particularly resource intensive there.
Re:Doom Patch to follow?
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Oh yeah, like nobody has been doing this for ages. Take The Evolution Control Committee and their 1994 mixtape Gunderphonic for example. You'll find Public Enemy mixes really well on top of Herb Alpert. Also: DJ Z-Trip.
Re:23" Cinema Display is not the largest available
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Perhaps they should put a pink bow and Hello Kitty stickers on it, then? Would that be more to your satisfaction?
However, as long as we're still sitting in front of giant, flat 2D displays and using the same old keyboard & mouse devices, it's not going anywhere.
I dislike sitting in front of a monitor for $x hours a day. I want lightweight glasses with a display in them, I want head movement tracking, I want gloves for manipulating and entering data with tactile feedback. I want to be able to look around my room and have all the screenspace in the world. I want to be able to open xterms on one wall, turn my head and look at my netscape sessions virtually displayed on another wall.
Any concept of a 3D interface with our current display and input methods is screwed from the get-go. Current experiments with it (SGI's 3D filemanager, Xcruise, etc) are cute, but until I have some kind of method as I described above, cute is all they are.
Yes, and if there's anything on the internet worth your righteous indignation, it's IRC! And Slashnet at that!
Listen up kids, it's just IRC. Being kicked/banned/called names on IRC doesn't mean shit in the scheme of things. If you're going to get so upset over this, you should really go outside and re-adjust your priorities.
No one puts a gun to your head to join any certain channel or use any IRC network. If you don't like the people or ops or scenery, don't go there. I don't feel like sitting around watching a bunch of Linux/Open Source zealout weenies, so I don't hang out on slashnet. That easy.
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To cop a term from Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Apple has great whuffie. People love Apple. They put out decent products which nullifies some of the more unseemly things they do. On the otherhand, Real has horrible whuffie. Almost none. In fact, it might be NEGATIVE whuffie. They used to have a good bit of it back in '96 but have since managed to piss it all away with horrible software.
This is why there's a 'double standard' at play.
If you're using a fair bit of Perl on windows you probably want to use Active state Perl. It's pretty nice, and you'll have no problem installing pretty much any module you'll need. If your scripts are written well (i.e. not doing platform specific system calls) then porting will be almost a non-issue.
This is the worst post to be modded up EVER. Congrats.
You are aware Firefox has a search entry box that can use google, right?
Virgin Mobile is pretty good if you don't do a whole lot of talking but need some way to quickly contact people or be contacted. I've been using them for a couple months and I don't have any complaints. 25c/min for the first 10 minutes a day, and 10c/min after that. Plus they're just piggybacked on top of sprint's network, which gives me decent coverage even out in weird rural areas. If you can find one, their Kyocera 2255 models are pretty decent/cheap phones as well.
You're kidding me. I can't remember the last time I ever bothered using Yahoo!'s search function. It had to have been sometime back in '98 I'm sure.
$300 PDA to emulate SNES games vs. $99 GBA to play ported SNES games + new titles. Great buy there, champ.
artpacks.acid.org says hi. Way to re-invent the wheel.
The Spongmonkeys also make a case for the moon. They apparently like it because it is close to us.
I sat down today and had one of those moments where it just seemed too quiet. I thought about it for a bit and then realized that I haven't gotten any telemarketing calls in at least the past week. Very pleasent feeling considering I was getting 4-5 a day before.
Has anyone actually noticed that the picture of the packaging itself looks really really faked? The border of the clock is especially noticable, along with the messed up perspective angle of the sticker on the box. This looks like a simple 3d cube render with some texture on it, and a clock that was halfassed in photoshop. What's the deal with that?
Dialup -- those patches are big
Say what? The patch itself is about 1.2MB. Are people -really- that impatient?
Could someone explain just why your comment is Interesting? Sounds like a terrible waste of mod points to me.
Because The Gimp sucks in comparison to Photoshop. That's why.
The last native IRIX version of Photoshop was 3.0, I believe.
This article came out a little onesided in favor of mozilla (hail the company), but I hardly expect unbiased news reporting from the internet, or anyone for that matter.
All in all, I think it was a fairly bad decision on the part of the mozilla people. It's like they didn't bother to think about the fact that an already prominent OS project existed with the same name and the confusion that's going to cause.
This is just another problem that happens when you start using wacky codenames for your product instead of coming up with an original name that actually somehow relates to your product and defines what it does.
Fujitsu did it. It was called the FM-Towns Marty and was only in Japan. Powered by a 386, and later a 486. Had a healthy collection of Hentai Games. You can even run Linux on it!
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Q: Where does the word Whuffie come from?
A: It's just a made-up word we used interchangably with "Brownie Points" in high-school. Some people have suggested that it might have come from the Arsenio Hall show's "woof woof woof" noises.
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, a super-keen new book just released under creative commons.
1. I like the size and convenience of the iBook. It has Unix on it and that makes it useful for me to carry to clients' sites and check out their network. Normally I carry a Linux laptop for this but the P-120 laptop (my wife's old machine) is too slow for a useful GUI.
What's "useful" ? I've got a P120 laptop I use pwm on and it's plenty useful. The most I need to do is run some xterms and occassionally netscape. Not particularly resource intensive there.
What, you mean like Doom3D or DoomGL?
Oh yeah, like nobody has been doing this for ages. Take The Evolution Control Committee and their 1994 mixtape Gunderphonic for example. You'll find Public Enemy mixes really well on top of Herb Alpert. Also: DJ Z-Trip.
Perhaps they should put a pink bow and Hello Kitty stickers on it, then? Would that be more to your satisfaction?
I like the idea of a 3D interface. really. I do.
However, as long as we're still sitting in front of giant, flat 2D displays and using the same old keyboard & mouse devices, it's not going anywhere.
I dislike sitting in front of a monitor for $x hours a day. I want lightweight glasses with a display in them, I want head movement tracking, I want gloves for manipulating and entering data with tactile feedback. I want to be able to look around my room and have all the screenspace in the world. I want to be able to open xterms on one wall, turn my head and look at my netscape sessions virtually displayed on another wall.
Any concept of a 3D interface with our current display and input methods is screwed from the get-go. Current experiments with it (SGI's 3D filemanager, Xcruise, etc) are cute, but until I have some kind of method as I described above, cute is all they are.
Yes, and if there's anything on the internet worth your righteous indignation, it's IRC! And Slashnet at that!
Listen up kids, it's just IRC. Being kicked/banned/called names on IRC doesn't mean shit in the scheme of things. If you're going to get so upset over this, you should really go outside and re-adjust your priorities.
No one puts a gun to your head to join any certain channel or use any IRC network. If you don't like the people or ops or scenery, don't go there. I don't feel like sitting around watching a bunch of Linux/Open Source zealout weenies, so I don't hang out on slashnet. That easy.