Re:Screw Katz ... I LIKED Antitrust!
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Yeah fuck Katz.
If you went in with an ego about the movie because it's a movie about geeks then you've already set yourself up to hate it. I thought the writing meshed well with the technological standpoint of the whole movie. It communicated on a few different levels to different audiences.
The flaws I did see, being a native Portlander, are the fact that there is no show titled "Good Morning Portland", I've never seen rowhouses of that architecture anywhere in town, and there are no self-serve gas stations. Now Washington and/or Seattle is another matter...
BTW the giant PORTLAND sign hangs on the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, not a restaurant. There are a few classy joints up and down Broadway near the Schnitz though.
Even if I was completely computer iliterate I would have enjoyed it. They did a good job and the acting was excellent.
Those were two things I was going to comment on, the.java extensions are obviously Java. The burners used across the movie were ZipCD's, which are rewritable drives. So if you're merely re-writing something onto a CDRW it takes sheer moments. The fact that they were external, and possibly USB, means that if they were actually burning anything they were using the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. Wow, that would have been funny to see a SIGSEGV or something fly on screen.
Man, where is everyone, the GameCube was unveiled weeks ago, read IGN for christ's sake.
www.nintendose.com has lots of good information as well.
or go pick up the new issue of EGM!
damn.
I don't think this is about the fact that it runs Linux as on OS so why shouldn't it support it. I think the idea was to use it as an embedded OS, this is an APPLIANCE, remember. Linux is used for all the software routing through the device I'm sure, and the fact that it's open source saves HP and the end consumer licensing fees. If it ran NT, or Novell it would cost much more, much more I'm sure.
I belive the oldest would be UNICS, from September 1969. Grandpappy to UNIX Time Sharing System, System V, BSD, Linux, plan9, Minix, NeXTSTEP, Darwin and of course OS X.
Course I could be wrong. What about the enigma?
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Yeah fuck Katz. If you went in with an ego about the movie because it's a movie about geeks then you've already set yourself up to hate it. I thought the writing meshed well with the technological standpoint of the whole movie. It communicated on a few different levels to different audiences. The flaws I did see, being a native Portlander, are the fact that there is no show titled "Good Morning Portland", I've never seen rowhouses of that architecture anywhere in town, and there are no self-serve gas stations. Now Washington and/or Seattle is another matter... BTW the giant PORTLAND sign hangs on the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, not a restaurant. There are a few classy joints up and down Broadway near the Schnitz though. Even if I was completely computer iliterate I would have enjoyed it. They did a good job and the acting was excellent.
Those were two things I was going to comment on, the .java extensions are obviously Java. The burners used across the movie were ZipCD's, which are rewritable drives. So if you're merely re-writing something onto a CDRW it takes sheer moments. The fact that they were external, and possibly USB, means that if they were actually burning anything they were using the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel. Wow, that would have been funny to see a SIGSEGV or something fly on screen.
Man, where is everyone, the GameCube was unveiled weeks ago, read IGN for christ's sake. www.nintendose.com has lots of good information as well. or go pick up the new issue of EGM! damn.
I don't think this is about the fact that it runs Linux as on OS so why shouldn't it support it. I think the idea was to use it as an embedded OS, this is an APPLIANCE, remember. Linux is used for all the software routing through the device I'm sure, and the fact that it's open source saves HP and the end consumer licensing fees. If it ran NT, or Novell it would cost much more, much more I'm sure.
I belive the oldest would be UNICS, from September 1969. Grandpappy to UNIX Time Sharing System, System V, BSD, Linux, plan9, Minix, NeXTSTEP, Darwin and of course OS X. Course I could be wrong. What about the enigma?
Another good quote... "Even a boisterous sea of Liberty is never without a wave." - Thomas Jefferson
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