Q: Can the Tablet PC store the value of Pi to 1.24 trillion digits? A: No.
Q: Does the scribble recognition software in the Tablet PC work? A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is 'just barely'.
Q: So does the Tablet PC increase productivity and make busy professionals more reliable at their work? A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is "Does a 12 cylinder car get you from Philly to New York any faster than a 6 cylinder auto?". The answer to that query, of course, is 'no'; all drivers must obey the same speed limit.
I'm still trying to finish up my very own personal hobbit hole!
Re:Another victory for The People's Bugtracker!
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People:
We are for superior, free software. But so long as U.S. imperialism refuses to give up its arrogant and unreasonable demands and its scheme to extend aggression, the only course for us as Open Source pioneers is to remain determined to go on fighting. Not that we are warlike. We are willing to stop the war at once and leave the remaining questions for later settlement. However, U.S. imperialism is not willing to do so. All right then let the fighting go on. However many years U.S. imperialism wants to fight, we are ready to fight right up to the moment when it is willing to stop, right up to the moment of complete victory for the Open Source and Free Software peoples.
Down with Microsoft; long live Free Software!
-- Eric "Mao" Krout
Another victory for the Bugzilla software
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People, we should be rejoicing here; this is excellent news!
Bugzilla has allowed developers from all over the world to collaborate via TCP/IP and a standard Web interface in hopes of creating a superior browser for users on all computing platforms.
The identification, analysis, design, implementation, and testing for this latest DHTML fix would simply not have been possible using anything other than Bugzilla. Bugzilla allows simple collaborative tools, regression testing, notes, attachments, and dependencies to be tracked automatically. As we all know from being coders, it's sometimes difficult to isolate problematic code for such a large-scale project as Mozilla is.
We should be proud that Linux 2.6 is utilizing the Bugzilla software as well for its bug tracking database. Without it, Linux would probably contain more holes than your proverbial slice of swiss cheese.
So, I'd like to give a hearty "Thank you" shout-out to the Bugzilla team for their great invention, and also mad props to the Mozilla developers for producing a fix so quickly.
I wish development were this easy on the Windows side of the fence!
Is why a revision point release of a browser is all that big of a deal.
In all honesty, I would normally agree with you. Point releases for nearly any software project aren't really deserving of front page Slashdot linkage.
However, in this case, it is deserving because the latest 1.2 release of Mozilla had a huge error that caused improper rendering of any Web page that contains DHTML-specific code.
1) Spend several years researching Sony's Playstation 2 entertainment console 2) Enlist a few smart friends to help you build a mod chip that allows Divx movies to be decoded 3) Get some recognition for your hack by posting a story to the most popular geek news site in the world 4) Get phone call from Sony's lawyers 5) Get phone call from Web host's sysadmin 6) Learn that you're the defendant in a billion dollar lawsuit 7) Learn that your Web server's disk died, bringing all of your research from the past couple of years down with it 8) Shoot self.
I recently learned about Zipf's Law, which uses a very simple formula to predict quantities of all sorts of things.
It's truly amazing. For example, it accurately predicts the populations of the 10 most populous cities, the number of appearances of the 10 most oft-used words on the entire Web, etc.
From a quick Google query: "Zipf's law, named after the Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), is the observation that frequency of occurrence of some event ( P ), as a function of the rank ( i) when the rank is determined by the above frequency of occurrence, is a power-law function Pi ~ 1/ia with the exponent a close to unity."
Solaris is a great operating system, but SUN Microsystems' hardware is ungodly expensive, and the only multimedia software that's compatible with the Solaris operating system is GIMP;-)
Before I finished up my studies at Yale Law School, I had to study the details of Microsoft's settlement agreement.
Specialized price cuts are strictly prohibited by order of the government of the United States of America.
I urge any Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) here to report these crimes if Microsoft representatives try to make you "an offer you can't refuse".
Sure, you may save a few thousand dollars, but you're helping Microsoft break the law.
Advisory: Never underestimate the power of Linux
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Back in high school, every computer in the entire building was running Windows 98. Of course, we had a Novell-backed network to do all the dirty work like user authentication and email, but from a desktop standpoint, it was Windows all the way.
I found out about Gentoo from an Internet Web site and soon began investigating the feasibility of converting most of the existing machines over to Linux.
Years later, I saved my old school probably $5,000+ and they're all running highly-optimized, natively-compiled Linux systems courtesy of the Gentoo creators. I initially considered Slackware and Debian since they're rock-solid, but I felt that Gentoo had a more active community and a quicker turn-over in the development cycle.
Regardless, though, Linux was the right choice, and I urge potential Microsoft customers to seriously consider Open Source solutions. Do not let these meager price cuts deceive you!
I've already converted three business over to a stricly Linux platform on the backend. I converted, in total, 120 servers over to Linux from Windows NT, saving the companies thousands and thousands of dollars in the process.
No 20, 30, or even 50% discount could have changed the minds of the CTOs for whom I worked. Now, all the mail, Web, etc. servers are running Linux, and these companies are happier than ever.
I'm sorry for the rant, but for the last couple of years Slashdot has become a swamp. Half the articles are from someone pushing their personal agenda ("Microsoft sucks", "Apple rules", "Person X is a bastard", etc.), and the other half are simply wrong. The readers then comment on the Slashdot "news items" without even bothering to read the original articles (thus propagating the ignorance) and finally the moderators mod things as "interesting" or "insightful" without bothering to see if they're even remotely true.
802.11b is a security nightmare. Ask any network administrator worth his salt and he'll tell you the same thing.
Between LEAP and every other 4 letter acronym that's supposed to be more secure, it's hard to even deploy a fairly secure wireless network without nearly shitting one's pants due to fear of such poor security.
Not to mention the fact that regardless of the fact that all the _clients_ are without wires, you still have to put dozens and dozens of the box transmitters all around, in the perfect locations, or else your entire wireless network will be _useless_.
People, I honestly don't know if I've ever seen anything as pathetic as this hobbit hole project.
A vivid, creative imagination is a great thing -- don't get me wrong. But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.
First off, I doubt any of us live on grounds that are vast and mountainous enough to actually build one of these holes. And, chances are that the city of New York wouldn't approve of dozens of hobbit holes scattered throughout Central Park.
So, I urge you all to instead watch "Titanic" and imagine being a hero and saving everyone from a death by drowning. Curl up with your girlfriend as you watch "What Women Want" and imagine that you're a sexy, long-haired Mel Gibson. Order a bunch of pizza with your boys and watch "Hackers", all the time imagining that you're a prolific computer programmer.
"Set realistic goals" is basically what I urge of you all. Don't spend your _real_ lives imagining the impossible. Instead, live your life rather than trying to live through movies or Internet chat rooms, message boards, etc.
You all are wonderful people. It goes without saying that you're all really smart to boot. And, with some polish, I'm sure all of us here can be really nice, sweet gentlemen.
So rise to the occassion, and join me -- _in the real world_!
Call me old school, but I've always been from the school of thought that feels that the best job done is a job done by yourself.
I've been involved in dozens and dozens of group projects throughout my renowned education, and for each and every one have written every line of code myself. Occassionally I would give some thought to suggestions from others, but when it came down to it, I was responsible for typing every single semi-colon at the end of every line of code because: 1) I'm not a fast food restaurant. You'll get your software my way, or you won't get the damn thing. 2) I've never met someone who was more skilled at composing correct, easy-to-read code than myself. So why should I let anyone else alter my source?!
Spielberg's filmography is nothing short of amazing. Both the quality _and_ quantity of work that he has done is fabulous.
Believe it or not, he didn't even get accepted to the better film schools as a prospective college student, and he ended up at a public university in California. But he showed them who really had the talent, and his life in progress is a tribute to his dedication to follow his dream through thick and thin, bad and good, richer and poorer.
His filmography, below, is listed in more detail at http://www.filmmakers.com/artists/spielberg/filmog raphy/index.htm
* Director - filmography
* Catch Me If You Can (2002)
* Minority Report (2002)
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
* The Unfinished Journey (1999)
* Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* Amistad (1997)
* The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
* Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair (1996) (Video Game)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* Jurassic Park (1993)
* Hook (1991)
* Always (1989)
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
* Empire of the Sun (1987)
* The Color Purple (1985)
* Amazing Stories (1985) TV Series (3 episodes)
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 2)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* 1941 (1979)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
* Jaws (1975)
* The Sugarland Express (1974)
* Savage (1973) (TV)
* Something Evil (1972) (TV)
* Duel (1971) (TV)
* Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1971) TV Series (1 episode)
* Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV)
* The Psychiatrist (1971) TV Series (2 episodes)
* Night Gallery (1970) TV Series (1 episode)
* Night Gallery (1969) (TV)
* Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) TV Series (1 episode)
* Amblin (1968)
* The Name of the Game (1968) TV Series (1 episode)
* Firelight (1964)
* Battle Squad (1961)
* Escape to Nowhere (1961)
* The Last Gun (1959)
* Producer - filmography
* Taken (2002) TV Series (executive)
* Men in Black 2 (2002) (executive)
* Catch Me If You Can (2002) (producer)
* Price for Peace (2001) (executive)
* We Stand Alone Together (2001) TV (executive)
* Band of Brothers (2001) TV Series (executive)
* Jurassic Park III (2001) (executive producer)
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (producer)
* Semper Fi (2001) TV (executive)
* Shooting War (2000) TV (executive)
* Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Toonsylvania (1998) TV Series (executive)
* The Last Days (1998) (executive)
* Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* The Mask of Zorro (1998) (executive)
* Deep Impact (1998) (executive)
* Invasion America (1998) TV Series
* Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Toonsylvania (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Amistad (1997)
* Men in Black (1997) (executive)
* Twister (1996) (executive)
* High Incident (1996) TV Series (executive)
* Balto (1995) (executive)
* Freakazoid! (1995) TV Series (executive)
* Casper (1995) (executive)
* Pinky and the Brain (1995) TV Series (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery (1995) (TV) (executive)
* ER (1994) TV Series (executive: 1994)
* The Flintstones (1994) (executive)
* I'm Mad (1994) (executive)
* Yakko's World: An Animaniacs Singalong (1994) (V) (executive)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* SeaQuest DSV (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Family Dog (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Animaniacs (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Class of '61 (1993) (TV) (executive)
* SeaQuest DSV (1993) (TV) (executive)
* Trail Mix-Up (1993) (executive)
* We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) (executive)
* The Habitation of Dragons (1992) (TV)
* The Water Engine (1992) (TV) (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (V) (executive)
* An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
* A Wish for Wings That Work (1991) (TV) (executive)
* Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) (executive)
* Arachnophobia (1990) (executive)
* Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) (executive)
* Back to the Future Part III (1990) (executive)
* Yume (1990) (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) TV Series (executive)
* Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (executive)
* Always (1989)
* Back to the Future Part II (1989) (executive)
* Tummy Trouble (1989) (executive)
* Dad (1989) (executive)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (executive)
* The Land Before Time (1988) (executive)
* *batteries not included (1987) (executive)
* Empire of the Sun (1987)
* Innerspace (1987) (executive)
* An American Tail (1986) (executive)
* The Money Pit (1986) (executive)
* The Color Purple (1985)
* Amazing Stories (1985) TV Series (executive)
* Back to the Future (1985) (executive)
* The Goonies (1985) (executive)
* Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) (executive)
* Gremlins (1984) (executive)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Poltergeist (1982)
* Continental Divide (1981) (executive)
* Used Cars (1980) (executive)
* I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) (executive)
* Screenwriter - filmography
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
* Poltergeist (1982)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
* Firelight (1964)
* Escape to Nowhere (1961)
People, even though I'm called a bit "cruel" or "callous" by others, I strongly believe in Darwinism in all aspects of life.
Whether one's talking about social situations or, as in this case, Web site profit margins, Darwin always applies. I don't feel that people deserve handouts, Salon.com included. They already have a subscription model for their site, yet they still cannot seem to move into the black from the red.
There once was a small site called Slashdot where all kinds of computer fanatics would propagate to every morning at work. It was also very popular with computer science majors at colleges. It began to have its own atmosphere, and many inside jokes were traded and laughed at amongst members. Essentially, Slashdot became a very valuable entity, and as such, other profit-making companies became interested in it. One day, a software company made an offer to Rob Malda that he couldn't refuse.
The rest is history, people. Rob and Co. are doing great now and control the site in every aspect, while still bringing home nearly six figure salaries each fiscal year.
And Slashdot isn't the only successful site. Many other sites, such as Yahoo!, make a ton of profit because they're smart and employ low-cost solutions (FreeBSD on all servers, which means they only pay for hardware and bandwidth). This is the future. Darwin is alive and breathing in all aspects, both in nature and on the World Wide Web.
While I admire donations, I say this to Salon: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em (merge with another company) or go home (auction away your assets and hope to not lose everything).
I'll never forget my first boot into the 1.x series many, many years ago.
From that day on, I never looked at a computer the same way. Whenever friends would talk about the latest cool games or case modifications, I was never really interested; what truly grabbed my attention was exploring the depths of the Linux kernel and just learning, learning, learning.
The rest is, as they say, history. I've gained a lot from using Linux, moreso than any other person or thing that I've used so far in my short life. With that being said, I decided to donate, once again, to Linux and its related movements just as a simple "Thank You" for all the time and dedication that so many, like Linus, put into the Free/Open software movement.
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With war and hatred so predominant these days, it's hard to believe that during the Holiday season, people are actually discouraging kindness.
Q: Can the Tablet PC store the value of Pi to 1.24 trillion digits?
A: No.
Q: Does the scribble recognition software in the Tablet PC work?
A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is 'just barely'.
Q: So does the Tablet PC increase productivity and make busy professionals more reliable at their work?
A: The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is "Does a 12 cylinder car get you from Philly to New York any faster than a 6 cylinder auto?". The answer to that query, of course, is 'no'; all drivers must obey the same speed limit.
I'm still trying to finish up my very own personal hobbit hole!
People:
We are for superior, free software. But so long as U.S. imperialism refuses to give up its arrogant and unreasonable demands and its scheme to extend aggression, the only course for us as Open Source pioneers is to remain determined to go on fighting. Not that we are warlike. We are willing to stop the war at once and leave the remaining questions for later settlement. However, U.S. imperialism is not willing to do so. All right then let the fighting go on. However many years U.S. imperialism wants to fight, we are ready to fight right up to the moment when it is willing to stop, right up to the moment of complete victory for the Open Source and Free Software peoples.
Down with Microsoft; long live Free Software!
-- Eric "Mao" Krout
People, we should be rejoicing here; this is excellent news!
Bugzilla has allowed developers from all over the world to collaborate via TCP/IP and a standard Web interface in hopes of creating a superior browser for users on all computing platforms.
The identification, analysis, design, implementation, and testing for this latest DHTML fix would simply not have been possible using anything other than Bugzilla. Bugzilla allows simple collaborative tools, regression testing, notes, attachments, and dependencies to be tracked automatically. As we all know from being coders, it's sometimes difficult to isolate problematic code for such a large-scale project as Mozilla is.
We should be proud that Linux 2.6 is utilizing the Bugzilla software as well for its bug tracking database. Without it, Linux would probably contain more holes than your proverbial slice of swiss cheese.
So, I'd like to give a hearty "Thank you" shout-out to the Bugzilla team for their great invention, and also mad props to the Mozilla developers for producing a fix so quickly.
I wish development were this easy on the Windows side of the fence!
Is why a revision point release of a browser is all that big of a deal.
In all honesty, I would normally agree with you. Point releases for nearly any software project aren't really deserving of front page Slashdot linkage.
However, in this case, it is deserving because the latest 1.2 release of Mozilla had a huge error that caused improper rendering of any Web page that contains DHTML-specific code.
"Magnets: Not just for your fridge anymore."
1) Spend several years researching Sony's Playstation 2 entertainment console
2) Enlist a few smart friends to help you build a mod chip that allows Divx movies to be decoded
3) Get some recognition for your hack by posting a story to the most popular geek news site in the world
4) Get phone call from Sony's lawyers
5) Get phone call from Web host's sysadmin
6) Learn that you're the defendant in a billion dollar lawsuit
7) Learn that your Web server's disk died, bringing all of your research from the past couple of years down with it
8) Shoot self.
I recently learned about Zipf's Law, which uses a very simple formula to predict quantities of all sorts of things.
It's truly amazing. For example, it accurately predicts the populations of the 10 most populous cities, the number of appearances of the 10 most oft-used words on the entire Web, etc.
From a quick Google query: "Zipf's law, named after the Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), is the observation that frequency of occurrence of some event ( P ), as a function of the rank ( i) when the rank is determined by the above frequency of occurrence, is a power-law function Pi ~ 1/ia with the exponent a close to unity."
Here is some more information: http://linkage.rockefeller.edu/wli/zipf/
Solaris is a great operating system, but SUN Microsystems' hardware is ungodly expensive, and the only multimedia software that's compatible with the Solaris operating system is GIMP ;-)
This is not the kind of story one should forward to their spouse!
Someone help me rip this bird face off my head! I knew I should've waited 'till the 1.0 release...
But hobbits shouldn't be raising human children!
Before I finished up my studies at Yale Law School, I had to study the details of Microsoft's settlement agreement.
Specialized price cuts are strictly prohibited by order of the government of the United States of America.
I urge any Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) here to report these crimes if Microsoft representatives try to make you "an offer you can't refuse".
Sure, you may save a few thousand dollars, but you're helping Microsoft break the law.
Back in high school, every computer in the entire building was running Windows 98. Of course, we had a Novell-backed network to do all the dirty work like user authentication and email, but from a desktop standpoint, it was Windows all the way.
I found out about Gentoo from an Internet Web site and soon began investigating the feasibility of converting most of the existing machines over to Linux.
Years later, I saved my old school probably $5,000+ and they're all running highly-optimized, natively-compiled Linux systems courtesy of the Gentoo creators. I initially considered Slackware and Debian since they're rock-solid, but I felt that Gentoo had a more active community and a quicker turn-over in the development cycle.
Regardless, though, Linux was the right choice, and I urge potential Microsoft customers to seriously consider Open Source solutions. Do not let these meager price cuts deceive you!
I've already converted three business over to a stricly Linux platform on the backend. I converted, in total, 120 servers over to Linux from Windows NT, saving the companies thousands and thousands of dollars in the process.
No 20, 30, or even 50% discount could have changed the minds of the CTOs for whom I worked. Now, all the mail, Web, etc. servers are running Linux, and these companies are happier than ever.
I'm sorry for the rant, but for the last couple of years Slashdot has become a swamp. Half the articles are from someone pushing their personal agenda ("Microsoft sucks", "Apple rules", "Person X is a bastard", etc.), and the other half are simply wrong. The readers then comment on the Slashdot "news items" without even bothering to read the original articles (thus propagating the ignorance) and finally the moderators mod things as "interesting" or "insightful" without bothering to see if they're even remotely true.
-- Rui del-Negro
I read that in Soviet Russia, hospitals brought down networks.
802.11b is a security nightmare. Ask any network administrator worth his salt and he'll tell you the same thing.
Between LEAP and every other 4 letter acronym that's supposed to be more secure, it's hard to even deploy a fairly secure wireless network without nearly shitting one's pants due to fear of such poor security.
Not to mention the fact that regardless of the fact that all the _clients_ are without wires, you still have to put dozens and dozens of the box transmitters all around, in the perfect locations, or else your entire wireless network will be _useless_.
People, I honestly don't know if I've ever seen anything as pathetic as this hobbit hole project.
A vivid, creative imagination is a great thing -- don't get me wrong. But when a grown adult man daydreams about living in an underground wizard cave instead of about girls, money, and cars, I believe that there is a problem.
First off, I doubt any of us live on grounds that are vast and mountainous enough to actually build one of these holes. And, chances are that the city of New York wouldn't approve of dozens of hobbit holes scattered throughout Central Park.
So, I urge you all to instead watch "Titanic" and imagine being a hero and saving everyone from a death by drowning. Curl up with your girlfriend as you watch "What Women Want" and imagine that you're a sexy, long-haired Mel Gibson. Order a bunch of pizza with your boys and watch "Hackers", all the time imagining that you're a prolific computer programmer.
"Set realistic goals" is basically what I urge of you all. Don't spend your _real_ lives imagining the impossible. Instead, live your life rather than trying to live through movies or Internet chat rooms, message boards, etc.
You all are wonderful people. It goes without saying that you're all really smart to boot. And, with some polish, I'm sure all of us here can be really nice, sweet gentlemen.
So rise to the occassion, and join me -- _in the real world_!
Call me old school, but I've always been from the school of thought that feels that the best job done is a job done by yourself.
I've been involved in dozens and dozens of group projects throughout my renowned education, and for each and every one have written every line of code myself. Occassionally I would give some thought to suggestions from others, but when it came down to it, I was responsible for typing every single semi-colon at the end of every line of code because:
1) I'm not a fast food restaurant. You'll get your software my way, or you won't get the damn thing.
2) I've never met someone who was more skilled at composing correct, easy-to-read code than myself. So why should I let anyone else alter my source?!
Spielberg's filmography is nothing short of amazing. Both the quality _and_ quantity of work that he has done is fabulous.
g raphy/index.htm
Believe it or not, he didn't even get accepted to the better film schools as a prospective college student, and he ended up at a public university in California. But he showed them who really had the talent, and his life in progress is a tribute to his dedication to follow his dream through thick and thin, bad and good, richer and poorer.
His filmography, below, is listed in more detail at http://www.filmmakers.com/artists/spielberg/filmo
* Director - filmography
* Catch Me If You Can (2002)
* Minority Report (2002)
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
* The Unfinished Journey (1999)
* Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* Amistad (1997)
* The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
* Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair (1996) (Video Game)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* Jurassic Park (1993)
* Hook (1991)
* Always (1989)
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
* Empire of the Sun (1987)
* The Color Purple (1985)
* Amazing Stories (1985) TV Series (3 episodes)
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 2)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
* 1941 (1979)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
* Jaws (1975)
* The Sugarland Express (1974)
* Savage (1973) (TV)
* Something Evil (1972) (TV)
* Duel (1971) (TV)
* Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1971) TV Series (1 episode)
* Columbo: Murder by the Book (1971) (TV)
* The Psychiatrist (1971) TV Series (2 episodes)
* Night Gallery (1970) TV Series (1 episode)
* Night Gallery (1969) (TV)
* Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) TV Series (1 episode)
* Amblin (1968)
* The Name of the Game (1968) TV Series (1 episode)
* Firelight (1964)
* Battle Squad (1961)
* Escape to Nowhere (1961)
* The Last Gun (1959)
* Producer - filmography
* Taken (2002) TV Series (executive)
* Men in Black 2 (2002) (executive)
* Catch Me If You Can (2002) (producer)
* Price for Peace (2001) (executive)
* We Stand Alone Together (2001) TV (executive)
* Band of Brothers (2001) TV Series (executive)
* Jurassic Park III (2001) (executive producer)
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001) (producer)
* Semper Fi (2001) TV (executive)
* Shooting War (2000) TV (executive)
* Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Toonsylvania (1998) TV Series (executive)
* The Last Days (1998) (executive)
* Saving Private Ryan (1998)
* The Mask of Zorro (1998) (executive)
* Deep Impact (1998) (executive)
* Invasion America (1998) TV Series
* Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Toonsylvania (1998) TV Series (executive)
* Amistad (1997)
* Men in Black (1997) (executive)
* Twister (1996) (executive)
* High Incident (1996) TV Series (executive)
* Balto (1995) (executive)
* Freakazoid! (1995) TV Series (executive)
* Casper (1995) (executive)
* Pinky and the Brain (1995) TV Series (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures: Night Ghoulery (1995) (TV) (executive)
* ER (1994) TV Series (executive: 1994)
* The Flintstones (1994) (executive)
* I'm Mad (1994) (executive)
* Yakko's World: An Animaniacs Singalong (1994) (V) (executive)
* Schindler's List (1993)
* SeaQuest DSV (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Family Dog (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Animaniacs (1993) TV Series (executive)
* Class of '61 (1993) (TV) (executive)
* SeaQuest DSV (1993) (TV) (executive)
* Trail Mix-Up (1993) (executive)
* We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) (executive)
* The Habitation of Dragons (1992) (TV)
* The Water Engine (1992) (TV) (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (V) (executive)
* An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
* A Wish for Wings That Work (1991) (TV) (executive)
* Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) (executive)
* Arachnophobia (1990) (executive)
* Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) (executive)
* Back to the Future Part III (1990) (executive)
* Yume (1990) (executive)
* Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) TV Series (executive)
* Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) (executive)
* Always (1989)
* Back to the Future Part II (1989) (executive)
* Tummy Trouble (1989) (executive)
* Dad (1989) (executive)
* Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (executive)
* The Land Before Time (1988) (executive)
* *batteries not included (1987) (executive)
* Empire of the Sun (1987)
* Innerspace (1987) (executive)
* An American Tail (1986) (executive)
* The Money Pit (1986) (executive)
* The Color Purple (1985)
* Amazing Stories (1985) TV Series (executive)
* Back to the Future (1985) (executive)
* The Goonies (1985) (executive)
* Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) (executive)
* Gremlins (1984) (executive)
* Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
* E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
* Poltergeist (1982)
* Continental Divide (1981) (executive)
* Used Cars (1980) (executive)
* I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) (executive)
* Screenwriter - filmography
* Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
* Poltergeist (1982)
* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
* Firelight (1964)
* Escape to Nowhere (1961)
Spielberg is the best of the best.
Glad to see this announcement.
People, even though I'm called a bit "cruel" or "callous" by others, I strongly believe in Darwinism in all aspects of life.
Whether one's talking about social situations or, as in this case, Web site profit margins, Darwin always applies. I don't feel that people deserve handouts, Salon.com included. They already have a subscription model for their site, yet they still cannot seem to move into the black from the red.
There once was a small site called Slashdot where all kinds of computer fanatics would propagate to every morning at work. It was also very popular with computer science majors at colleges. It began to have its own atmosphere, and many inside jokes were traded and laughed at amongst members. Essentially, Slashdot became a very valuable entity, and as such, other profit-making companies became interested in it. One day, a software company made an offer to Rob Malda that he couldn't refuse.
The rest is history, people. Rob and Co. are doing great now and control the site in every aspect, while still bringing home nearly six figure salaries each fiscal year.
And Slashdot isn't the only successful site. Many other sites, such as Yahoo!, make a ton of profit because they're smart and employ low-cost solutions (FreeBSD on all servers, which means they only pay for hardware and bandwidth). This is the future. Darwin is alive and breathing in all aspects, both in nature and on the World Wide Web.
While I admire donations, I say this to Salon: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em (merge with another company) or go home (auction away your assets and hope to not lose everything).
I'll never forget my first boot into the 1.x series many, many years ago.
From that day on, I never looked at a computer the same way. Whenever friends would talk about the latest cool games or case modifications, I was never really interested; what truly grabbed my attention was exploring the depths of the Linux kernel and just learning, learning, learning.
The rest is, as they say, history. I've gained a lot from using Linux, moreso than any other person or thing that I've used so far in my short life. With that being said, I decided to donate, once again, to Linux and its related movements just as a simple "Thank You" for all the time and dedication that so many, like Linus, put into the Free/Open software movement.
Here are some quick donation links:
- FSF
- Mandrake
- KDE
- Apache