No, Apple failed in the 90s for one reason, in two words: Michael Spindler. If Spindler hadn't been replaced, there would be no iMac, iPod, iBook, MacBook etc. etc. We'd be using MP3 players from Creative Labs and plugging them in via parallel port or SCSI or Cardbus on our beige boxes. Running Windows 98SE version 9.9 or something. Spindler's vision was pasting a Power PC chip into an old LC475 motherboard and thunking four times every time data moved through the anemic bus. Just to be cheap. Garbage, sheer garbage.
Gil Amelio had Apple out of its rut and on its way back. Then he brought The Steve back in, and even though it meant his job was toast, in that moment he saved Apple.
Gotta give Amelio 'nuff respect because he doesn't get much. He was the unsung hero in the story of the revival of Apple. The Steve inspired the real audacious moves like the iMac and iBook, but the momentum from a near-stall? Amelio.
Compare this machine to the 20" iMac rather than a lappie. This machine is the result of Dell buying Alienware. It's designed to be lugged to LAN parties rather than used in a typical lappie manner. I suspect it's packing a Core Duo. Someone also mentioned RAID 0...that's a very gamer kind of thing to add to a machine. If this was a Road Warrior lappie I would have instead opted for RAID 1 for data redundancy and "automatic backups." However RAID 1 slows, rather than speeds, disk access so it would be a downer for the gamer crowd.
Is it me or does this machine also seem to be built of sterner stuff than the average Dell lappie? I work at the library at my university and we have Dell lappies exclusively. They are built like plastic pieces of crap. Loose ports are epidemic. I really baby them when I move from place to place because I know that other people don't. The toughness of this machine, I suspect, is another example of Alienware's influence.
If YouTube winds up not being the flavor of the month anymore, that's OK. LiveJournal is infinitely nicer now that it's no longer the hip place to go for all the tweens. The stuff that's the most fun for me, at least, on YouTube is the user-produced content. If the copyrighted content evaporated overnight it would actually improve things.
That said, I think anything that has passed into the public domain or has been issued with a Creative Commons license allowing sharing should be allowed onto YouTube, and the stuff that's public domain which has been mistakenly pulled -- I'm talking about 1948 and prior Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies except for "Lady Play Your Mandolin" and the output of the Fleischer Studios not covered by King Features' trademarks on Popeye and Time- Warner's trademarks on Superman -- should be restored.
YouTube can only get better once it gets more focused.
Then again...I *do* miss the episodes of Dameshta! Power Puff Girls Z. With its status on US Cartoon Network not quite settled yet, not being about to watch it officially is a big bummer. Oh well, it's torrent time for me...
The InkaVote Precinct Reader can be used to physically count votes. However, LA County will NOT be using them for that purpose. In LA County, the physical ballots, marked with ink dots, are the official vote. Period. End of story. The InkaVote Plus units are being used to "proofread" ballots before they get dropped into the bin.
The Reader will kick a ballot out for two reasons and two reasons only: 1.) Blank ballot. Try again, this time push down HARD on the ink stylus. 2.) Overvote. Turn in your botched ballot and get another try. However, you used up one of your three.
I don't know wtf they have reading the votes in Norwalk, where the LA County Registrar/Recorder's office is. But the vote of record is on PAPER. Not on a chip inside the reader. The version of the reader LA got is DUMB. No memory. If there needs to be a recount, it's done by humans. Reading ballots. And the way the system is set up, there is no ambiguity. A mark in the bubble is a mark in the bubble. And the new system warns about overvotes and blank ballots. You can skip a contest, it's your right. As it should be.
I'm going to be a pollworker November 7th. I went for it because of the 2000 and 2004 "Electoral Dysfunctions." I worked the primary in June and it was a grueling 13+ hour day. I was paid chickenshit for it. But it was worth it. I know that if some RoveDroid came sleazing around our precinct I would DOCUMENT IT and REPORT IT to HQs. Los Angeles, CA is not Ohio. We defend the vote here.
...even before the Google takeover. YouTube deleted tons and tons of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies off of the site. They did this even with cartoons that were firmly in the public domain. They also did the same thing for Viacom with regard to Fleischer Popeyes and Fleischer Betty Boops. Much of the Fleischer Studio's output passed into the public domain as well, but did that matter to them? Uh-uh! They got out the broom and swept the cartoons away. Maybe with this agreement YouTube could put these classic cartoons -- at least those owned by TimeWarner -- back.
Everyone seems to be comparing YouTube to Napster, but there is a BIG difference. It takes a lot of doing to download YouTube content. It requires special software and some geeky effort that the average YouTube viewer is not interested in exerting. The average YouTube viewer watches the videos on the web. With the old Napster, (as opposed to Napster/Roxio) files were being offered FOR DOWNLOAD. I think it's more likely that YouTube will come to terms with Big Media than with the old Napster. If anything, the Google Video interface is more threatening to Big Media than the YouTube video interface. With Google Video, you can download things. There is no such provision within YouTube.
1.) I was not parroting. This is something that has affected someone very close to me (my husband) and therefore this is why I was so strong about speaking up.
2.) The Boston Pops, The LA Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, etc. etc. are entities that existed during the golden age of unionization: the 20s through the 40s. People who are good enough musicians to enter the "big leagues" of the big orchestras have a very big advantage over jazz, country, blues, rock, alternative and other musicians: a strong union that negotiated a strong union contract. Usually the contracts between orchestras and the cities that host them date back to that golden age of closed shops, living wages, mandated work rules, health care and pensions. This is a completely different animal you are talking about. However, you can BET that someone other than the musicians get royalties from recordings. Whether it is the city that is the host/patron of the orchestra, or the non-profit organization that manages the orchestra, it's certainly not the individual musicians that get royalties from classical recordings.
3.) During this same "golden age of unionization" that resulted in the sweet contracts for those who are hired onto the orchestra, jazz and blues musicians, most of whom were black, got the same kind of shaft that rock musicians get now from their record companies. They couldn't unionize because the musicians' unions at the time were lily-white and refused "race" musicians entry. By the time the musicians' unions had to integrate, their clout was largely broken.
I get this feeling that you are one of the privileged few who are classical musicians working for a world-class First World orchestra. Hooray for you! Enjoy your very rarified, elite perch. Meanwhile, we who are either rock musicians or the significant others of rock musicians deal with balancing musical gigs, rehearsals, recording dates and so forth and the "day jobs" that mean the difference between eating and having a roof over your head or starving homeless. It sure would be nice if my husband could make the kind of living and have the kind of security you guys have.
Yes, Leto, but tell me where the FUCK the preference is so I can turn it off 100% of the time and click a button to load images when I want to, like I can in Kmail and mail.app and GMail. And like I always could in Eudora. I suspect when Eudora changes to a T-Bird code base it will be different.
It's not obvious how to do this, at least not in the versions of Mozilla and Thunderbird I've used. It should be an obvious choice.
You see, my friend, most "hardworking artists" get bent over and fucked, sans lube, by their labels. Day in. Day out. Even some indies do it too. I know, my husband was in a band that got the royal screw job from an indie that suddenly discovered "creative accounting practices" after their main distributor went belly up thanks to one of the many laws that people like Congressman Howard Berman passed for the RIAA. Remember when you could go to a record store and get higher quality vinyl and CD releases from Japan and Europe than what you could get produced for domestic consumption? You probably don't. You can't now, thanks to the Parallel Importation Act.
But I digress. Anyway, there is a very infinitesimal percentage of well known musical acts who make a living from their music. The rest work day jobs. It's like pro sports. How many people who played high school varsity sports get scouted by colleges and get put on athletic scholarships? And how many of THOSE people make it into the Big Show? And how many of THOSE people survive and make the phat bucks and earn their stack before their bodies give out?
The sports game is tilted in favor of the owners of pro teams. The motion picture game is tilted in favor of the conglomerates that own the studios. The "big leagues" in the music industry is similarly tilted. Twas ever thus. From Edison on down the big recording labels have always screwed the artists. You have to be a Madonna or a Metallica and have Big Fucking Lawyers to not get screwed. Hell, even The Beatles got the royal screw job. Who owns the Beatles' publishing catalogue? Well, maybe when Michael Jackson's money runs out McCartney will be able to buy them back. Until then, the catalog belongs to MJJ Enterprises. Not McCartney. Not Ringo. Neither of the widows either. But Michael Freakin' Jackson. Wacko Jacko. It's probably one of the few things that keeps him in cabana boys in Bahrain or Qatar or wherever he is.
The reason why I *hate* Thunderbird is the same reason why I never used Netscape/Mozilla to get my mail. I DON'T want my email proggie to display MIME mail correctly. I don't want it to show HTML, I don't want it to load pictures, I don't want any of that crap. The reason why Eudora rocked so hard was the fact that it didn't display all that crap. When email viruses started showing up it gave me a security advantage in that Eudora could be directed to IGNORE all that. Thunderbird won't just display the plain text of a message. It INSISTS on giving me all the MIME bells and whistles. And that's why I use mail.app on the Mac OS X side and KMail on the Linux side.
I love Firefox. It's my browser of choice. If only I could convince my University to install it universally all over campus, I could leave IE as a historical relic like it should be. However I can't do that with T-Bird, for this reason.
Anyhow, there is supposedly a Star Wars TV series coming....correct? I think it would be better to keep it as an animated series on Cartoon Network.....
Unfortunately the guy who made the Clone Wars shorts so good, Genndy Tartakovsky, is working for Henson Productions on the sequel to the Dark Crystal. And they are going with CGI instead of traditional/CGI hybrid like the original shorts.
They are working on the new CGI series...in the Phillippines. Not necessarily known as a great hotbed of animation talent. Why they didn't enlist a Japanese studio like Production IG or Madhouse or Sunrise is beyond me.
Oh yeah, with regard to the live-action series, set between Episode III and Episode IV: it's still in pre-production. Not a soul has been cast.
One of my best friends is senior broadcast tech at a Major Network TV Affiliate in the Southeast. Not only are these Incredibly Expensive Systems incredibly expensive, but they are also incredibly fragile. They have to go back to running tapes to the VTR and pressing play when the Electronic Video Store goes down. I get this feeling that even the kludgiest Linux solution would be better. And cheaper. It would be quite hackish but that's the nature of the beast at this point. Theoretically a Linux or even a UNIX solution is going to be better than the proprietary stuff.
Not everyone can be Stephen King. The Bestseller List is a zero-sum game...there are only so many slots and there are a buttload of writers out there. And the Bestseller List is not the place where the cream floats to the top...it is often the place where the familiar trumps the artistic.
Another thing people seem to be having trouble with is the concept of Post-Polio Syndrome. It's a real malady and it's a real mutha to have to deal with. RAW was born before the Polio vaccine. RAW had Polio as a kid, and he got hit with PPS several decades later. He didn't ask to get Polio as a kid, and he didn't ask to get PPS as an adult.
Usually, authors don't get health insurance through their publisher. Authors have to get insurance through providers that deal with individuals, and individuals get hammered in the free market. And if you had Polio as a kid, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get that individual health insurance. Those who live in countries where health care is treated as a public utility instead of a business subject to the laws of the marketplace rightfully look at the American system and go "huh?"
The writing game is a lot like other entertainment games in that only a limited number of people can live on it. The rest have to get crappy day jobs and struggle and eke out as much time as we can to do our art. RAW didn't ask for his predicament. It is probably likely that, as a genre writer, he hasn't made a hell of a lot of money from his work. The man is also fucking DYING, folks. I am fucking ashamed at my fellow Slashdotters today because a lot of you are getting all Republican on his ass. It is a goddamn shame that someone with such skill and has given people so many cool ideas and laughs has to beg at the end of his life. It's an indictment of the system and an indictment of YOU, dammit.
My advice is to vote Republican and/or quit your government job.
Umm...I think you misspelled LIBERTARIAN. Because our current government is brought to you, lock stock and barrel, by the GOP. And that government really, really cares about you, so long as you are either wealthy and a contributor to their campaign warchest, or an underpriveleged male over 18 that they can recruit for cannon fodder in the Sandbox.
AOL owns XDrive now. They are giving away 5GB of space to anyone with an AOHell or AIM account. You can buy 50GB for $100/year. Now I understand why they made the purchase. Actually it even works under Linux if you have a Java Virtual Machine installed and usable by Firefox.
...Tetsuwan Atom, aka Astroboy. The Tezuka estate is probably not too happy about that.
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Wii. Wiimote. Lucas Arts. Jedi. Lightsaber. Game.
It's coming. And it will mean Wii will be the platform to beat. The Lucasfilm presentation at Comic-Con showed some of the other aspects of coming Lucas Arts games, like the Euphoria system which allows for truly unpredictable NPCs, and introduces a little bit of volition in the Player Character as well. The demo only made sense when you thought of it in the context of the Wii and its Wiimote.
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No, Apple failed in the 90s for one reason, in two words: Michael Spindler. If Spindler hadn't been replaced, there would be no iMac, iPod, iBook, MacBook etc. etc. We'd be using MP3 players from Creative Labs and plugging them in via parallel port or SCSI or Cardbus on our beige boxes. Running Windows 98SE version 9.9 or something. Spindler's vision was pasting a Power PC chip into an old LC475 motherboard and thunking four times every time data moved through the anemic bus. Just to be cheap. Garbage, sheer garbage.
Gil Amelio had Apple out of its rut and on its way back. Then he brought The Steve back in, and even though it meant his job was toast, in that moment he saved Apple.
Gotta give Amelio 'nuff respect because he doesn't get much. He was the unsung hero in the story of the revival of Apple. The Steve inspired the real audacious moves like the iMac and iBook, but the momentum from a near-stall? Amelio.
Compare this machine to the 20" iMac rather than a lappie. This machine is the result of Dell buying Alienware. It's designed to be lugged to LAN parties rather than used in a typical lappie manner. I suspect it's packing a Core Duo. Someone also mentioned RAID 0...that's a very gamer kind of thing to add to a machine. If this was a Road Warrior lappie I would have instead opted for RAID 1 for data redundancy and "automatic backups." However RAID 1 slows, rather than speeds, disk access so it would be a downer for the gamer crowd.
Is it me or does this machine also seem to be built of sterner stuff than the average Dell lappie? I work at the library at my university and we have Dell lappies exclusively. They are built like plastic pieces of crap. Loose ports are epidemic. I really baby them when I move from place to place because I know that other people don't. The toughness of this machine, I suspect, is another example of Alienware's influence.
If YouTube winds up not being the flavor of the month anymore, that's OK. LiveJournal is infinitely nicer now that it's no longer the hip place to go for all the tweens. The stuff that's the most fun for me, at least, on YouTube is the user-produced content. If the copyrighted content evaporated overnight it would actually improve things.
That said, I think anything that has passed into the public domain or has been issued with a Creative Commons license allowing sharing should be allowed onto YouTube, and the stuff that's public domain which has been mistakenly pulled -- I'm talking about 1948 and prior Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies except for "Lady Play Your Mandolin" and the output of the Fleischer Studios not covered by King Features' trademarks on Popeye and Time-
Warner's trademarks on Superman -- should be restored.
YouTube can only get better once it gets more focused.
Then again...I *do* miss the episodes of Dameshta! Power Puff Girls Z. With its status on US Cartoon Network not quite settled yet, not being about to watch it officially is a big bummer. Oh well, it's torrent time for me...
This is what LA County is using.
Here's warts-and-all analysis.
The InkaVote Precinct Reader can be used to physically count votes. However, LA County will NOT be using them for that purpose. In LA County, the physical ballots, marked with ink dots, are the official vote. Period. End of story. The InkaVote Plus units are being used to "proofread" ballots before they get dropped into the bin.
The Reader will kick a ballot out for two reasons and two reasons only:
1.) Blank ballot. Try again, this time push down HARD on the ink stylus.
2.) Overvote. Turn in your botched ballot and get another try. However, you used up one of your three.
I don't know wtf they have reading the votes in Norwalk, where the LA County Registrar/Recorder's office is. But the vote of record is on PAPER. Not on a chip inside the reader. The version of the reader LA got is DUMB. No memory. If there needs to be a recount, it's done by humans. Reading ballots. And the way the system is set up, there is no ambiguity. A mark in the bubble is a mark in the bubble. And the new system warns about overvotes and blank ballots. You can skip a contest, it's your right. As it should be.
I'm going to be a pollworker November 7th. I went for it because of the 2000 and 2004 "Electoral Dysfunctions." I worked the primary in June and it was a grueling 13+ hour day. I was paid chickenshit for it. But it was worth it. I know that if some RoveDroid came sleazing around our precinct I would DOCUMENT IT and REPORT IT to HQs. Los Angeles, CA is not Ohio. We defend the vote here.
...even before the Google takeover. YouTube deleted tons and tons of Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies off of the site. They did this even with cartoons that were firmly in the public domain. They also did the same thing for Viacom with regard to Fleischer Popeyes and Fleischer Betty Boops. Much of the Fleischer Studio's output passed into the public domain as well, but did that matter to them? Uh-uh! They got out the broom and swept the cartoons away. Maybe with this agreement YouTube could put these classic cartoons -- at least those owned by TimeWarner -- back.
Everyone seems to be comparing YouTube to Napster, but there is a BIG difference. It takes a lot of doing to download YouTube content. It requires special software and some geeky effort that the average YouTube viewer is not interested in exerting. The average YouTube viewer watches the videos on the web. With the old Napster, (as opposed to Napster/Roxio) files were being offered FOR DOWNLOAD. I think it's more likely that YouTube will come to terms with Big Media than with the old Napster. If anything, the Google Video interface is more threatening to Big Media than the YouTube video interface. With Google Video, you can download things. There is no such provision within YouTube.
1.) I was not parroting. This is something that has affected someone very close to me (my husband) and therefore this is why I was so strong about speaking up.
2.) The Boston Pops, The LA Philharmonic, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, etc. etc. are entities that existed during the golden age of unionization: the 20s through the 40s. People who are good enough musicians to enter the "big leagues" of the big orchestras have a very big advantage over jazz, country, blues, rock, alternative and other musicians: a strong union that negotiated a strong union contract. Usually the contracts between orchestras and the cities that host them date back to that golden age of closed shops, living wages, mandated work rules, health care and pensions. This is a completely different animal you are talking about. However, you can BET that someone other than the musicians get royalties from recordings. Whether it is the city that is the host/patron of the orchestra, or the non-profit organization that manages the orchestra, it's certainly not the individual musicians that get royalties from classical recordings.
3.) During this same "golden age of unionization" that resulted in the sweet contracts for those who are hired onto the orchestra, jazz and blues musicians, most of whom were black, got the same kind of shaft that rock musicians get now from their record companies. They couldn't unionize because the musicians' unions at the time were lily-white and refused "race" musicians entry. By the time the musicians' unions had to integrate, their clout was largely broken.
I get this feeling that you are one of the privileged few who are classical musicians working for a world-class First World orchestra. Hooray for you! Enjoy your very rarified, elite perch. Meanwhile, we who are either rock musicians or the significant others of rock musicians deal with balancing musical gigs, rehearsals, recording dates and so forth and the "day jobs" that mean the difference between eating and having a roof over your head or starving homeless. It sure would be nice if my husband could make the kind of living and have the kind of security you guys have.
Yes, Leto, but tell me where the FUCK the preference is so I can turn it off 100% of the time and click a button to load images when I want to, like I can in Kmail and mail.app and GMail. And like I always could in Eudora. I suspect when Eudora changes to a T-Bird code base it will be different.
It's not obvious how to do this, at least not in the versions of Mozilla and Thunderbird I've used. It should be an obvious choice.
Yes, because it is crass and unseemly when hardworking artists try and look out for their own interests, pay for a decent roof over their family's head, food on the table, have medical and dental costs, perhaps, gasp, a bit of money put aside for when they're older or incapacitated or just want to take some time off from the daly grind.
You see, my friend, most "hardworking artists" get bent over and fucked, sans lube, by their labels. Day in. Day out. Even some indies do it too. I know, my husband was in a band that got the royal screw job from an indie that suddenly discovered "creative accounting practices" after their main distributor went belly up thanks to one of the many laws that people like Congressman Howard Berman passed for the RIAA. Remember when you could go to a record store and get higher quality vinyl and CD releases from Japan and Europe than what you could get produced for domestic consumption? You probably don't. You can't now, thanks to the Parallel Importation Act.
But I digress. Anyway, there is a very infinitesimal percentage of well known musical acts who make a living from their music. The rest work day jobs. It's like pro sports. How many people who played high school varsity sports get scouted by colleges and get put on athletic scholarships? And how many of THOSE people make it into the Big Show? And how many of THOSE people survive and make the phat bucks and earn their stack before their bodies give out?
The sports game is tilted in favor of the owners of pro teams. The motion picture game is tilted in favor of the conglomerates that own the studios. The "big leagues" in the music industry is similarly tilted. Twas ever thus. From Edison on down the big recording labels have always screwed the artists. You have to be a Madonna or a Metallica and have Big Fucking Lawyers to not get screwed. Hell, even The Beatles got the royal screw job. Who owns the Beatles' publishing catalogue? Well, maybe when Michael Jackson's money runs out McCartney will be able to buy them back. Until then, the catalog belongs to MJJ Enterprises. Not McCartney. Not Ringo. Neither of the widows either. But Michael Freakin' Jackson. Wacko Jacko. It's probably one of the few things that keeps him in cabana boys in Bahrain or Qatar or wherever he is.
The reason why I *hate* Thunderbird is the same reason why I never used Netscape/Mozilla to get my mail. I DON'T want my email proggie to display MIME mail correctly. I don't want it to show HTML, I don't want it to load pictures, I don't want any of that crap. The reason why Eudora rocked so hard was the fact that it didn't display all that crap. When email viruses started showing up it gave me a security advantage in that Eudora could be directed to IGNORE all that. Thunderbird won't just display the plain text of a message. It INSISTS on giving me all the MIME bells and whistles. And that's why I use mail.app on the Mac OS X side and KMail on the Linux side.
I love Firefox. It's my browser of choice. If only I could convince my University to install it universally all over campus, I could leave IE as a historical relic like it should be. However I can't do that with T-Bird, for this reason.
Apple does not use AMD chips.
Maybe not now, but never say never...
You mean Spaceballs. May the schwartz be with you.
Anyhow, there is supposedly a Star Wars TV series coming....correct? I think it would be better to keep it as an animated series on Cartoon Network.....
Unfortunately the guy who made the Clone Wars shorts so good, Genndy Tartakovsky, is working for Henson Productions on the sequel to the Dark Crystal. And they are going with CGI instead of traditional/CGI hybrid like the original shorts.
They are working on the new CGI series...in the Phillippines. Not necessarily known as a great hotbed of animation talent. Why they didn't enlist a Japanese studio like Production IG or Madhouse or Sunrise is beyond me.
Oh yeah, with regard to the live-action series, set between Episode III and Episode IV: it's still in pre-production. Not a soul has been cast.
One of my best friends is senior broadcast tech at a Major Network TV Affiliate in the Southeast. Not only are these Incredibly Expensive Systems incredibly expensive, but they are also incredibly fragile. They have to go back to running tapes to the VTR and pressing play when the Electronic Video Store goes down. I get this feeling that even the kludgiest Linux solution would be better. And cheaper. It would be quite hackish but that's the nature of the beast at this point. Theoretically a Linux or even a UNIX solution is going to be better than the proprietary stuff.
HERE. Lots of information on how to use Open Source for video deployment -- and reality hacking. Long live the New Flesh!
They even have PONIES!!!
Not everyone can be Stephen King. The Bestseller List is a zero-sum game...there are only so many slots and there are a buttload of writers out there. And the Bestseller List is not the place where the cream floats to the top...it is often the place where the familiar trumps the artistic.
Another thing people seem to be having trouble with is the concept of Post-Polio Syndrome. It's a real malady and it's a real mutha to have to deal with. RAW was born before the Polio vaccine. RAW had Polio as a kid, and he got hit with PPS several decades later. He didn't ask to get Polio as a kid, and he didn't ask to get PPS as an adult.
Usually, authors don't get health insurance through their publisher. Authors have to get insurance through providers that deal with individuals, and individuals get hammered in the free market. And if you had Polio as a kid, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get that individual health insurance. Those who live in countries where health care is treated as a public utility instead of a business subject to the laws of the marketplace rightfully look at the American system and go "huh?"
The writing game is a lot like other entertainment games in that only a limited number of people can live on it. The rest have to get crappy day jobs and struggle and eke out as much time as we can to do our art. RAW didn't ask for his predicament. It is probably likely that, as a genre writer, he hasn't made a hell of a lot of money from his work. The man is also fucking DYING, folks. I am fucking ashamed at my fellow Slashdotters today because a lot of you are getting all Republican on his ass. It is a goddamn shame that someone with such skill and has given people so many cool ideas and laughs has to beg at the end of his life. It's an indictment of the system and an indictment of YOU, dammit.
Wow, that's one impressive bluescreen. And that's not Diebold, that's NCR. Yikes.
My advice is to vote Republican and/or quit your government job.
Umm...I think you misspelled LIBERTARIAN. Because our current government is brought to you, lock stock and barrel, by the GOP. And that government really, really cares about you, so long as you are either wealthy and a contributor to their campaign warchest, or an underpriveleged male over 18 that they can recruit for cannon fodder in the Sandbox.
AOL owns XDrive now. They are giving away 5GB of space to anyone with an AOHell or AIM account. You can buy 50GB for $100/year. Now I understand why they made the purchase. Actually it even works under Linux if you have a Java Virtual Machine installed and usable by Firefox.
Ceci n'est pas une grande pipe.
You're getting a shareholder lawsuit!
...Tetsuwan Atom, aka Astroboy. The Tezuka estate is probably not too happy about that.
Wii. Wiimote. Lucas Arts. Jedi. Lightsaber. Game.
It's coming. And it will mean Wii will be the platform to beat. The Lucasfilm presentation at Comic-Con showed some of the other aspects of coming Lucas Arts games, like the Euphoria system which allows for truly unpredictable NPCs, and introduces a little bit of volition in the Player Character as well. The demo only made sense when you thought of it in the context of the Wii and its Wiimote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjlFTihRwAk
And Microsoft will discontinue Office for Mac when Apple adds a spreadsheet app to iWork.
NeoOffice? I think you have misspelled iWork.