I thought open source was terrorism! I guess we have to wait for the al-Qaeda version of OpenOffice. Soon the world's mujahideen will have the full open suite of office productivity tools they need to destroy the Zionist-Crusader alliance.
Rolling Stone magazine? Give me a break. Despite its counterculture reputation and its focus as a music/gossip magazine, Rolling Stone is consistently one of the better sources of news analysis available. This article is an excellent example of that, if you actually bother to read it (and it has already generated quite a bit of attention outside of slashdot, whether or not you agree with Klein's political leanings). An even finer example, IMHO, is Wallace-Wells' critique of the war on drugs.
Its always baffled me why Stonehenge gets all the attention, when there's a much more impressive stone circle and causeway monument four times the size only 20 miles away at Avebury - and its hardly been investigated! Well, it's obvious why. Stonehenge spent a lot more money on advertising and product placement.
Canadians begin talking like that as soon as they enter this city. Scientists and linguists have so far been unable to explain this phenomenon satisfactorily.
AEK II was my favorite keyboard ever; I still have one of these in the closet for old times sake, but of course they never made a USB version. My second favorite is the current generation of wired Mac keyboards -- the thin silver things. Great tactile response but without the overly loud clickage.
Do not go to the Netherlands! We have the highest number of wiretaps... Even worse, they've outlawed the sale of psychedelic mushrooms, they are curtailing the red light districts, and they're trying to do something about that whole pot thing too.
Without the drugs and hookers, why else would you go to Amsterdam? To see the Waag?? You might as well stay in the U.S.; at least we have Las Vegas and California.
Not sure about the details, I assumed it was X10, I don't remember if it said what kind of camera they connected or whether they were making it all up, but I certainly didn't make it up myself (though you may be right about my memory). There were cell phones in those days, as I recall, just not as popular as they are now - this was early 1990s; it may have been a pager that he calls back into. But the control of the Mac all took place through hypercard, that's what I remember thinking was so cool about all this -- he talked to hypercard through a modem and then hypercard controlled the other actions; you could control other programs through hypercard.
As for the guy doing a cost benefit analysis, you might be right, but lots of people smart enough not to sell drugs still sell drugs, what can we say about that...
That virus sounds interesting; I remember there were a couple of viruses out there for HyperCard; I remember dissecting one of the disinfectant programs and realizing that it worked by trapping the "set" command which (as I recall) was used to infect other stacks or change the info in them. For someone who knew little about computers it was amazing to be able to figure out what an application was doing and how, and even make your own. I made an application to help with writing papers that could store little bits of information (mostly quotations) along with bibliographic citations to use by copying and pasting into a word processor. (I probably should have been just writing the papers at the time but writing the program was way cooler).
One of the coolest apps I remember reading about was from an article in High Times about a guy who was growing weed remotely; he had his garden monitored by X-10 cameras all connected to a Mac plus. He'd dial into his mac from anywhere and connect to a HyperCard stack; from the stack he could see whichever camera angle he wanted and control when the water and/or lights would turn on. He could tell if a light had burned out or whatever, and there was some kind of motion detector that would tell the stack to call his cell if someone entered the facility. All in all, it was pretty clever app illustrating some of HyperCard's possibilities; I can only imagine what could have been done with HyperCard and the Web.
I don't think it's just the price he's referring to in terms of it being available to "the masses," but the fact that it came preinstalled on every mac, along with basic programming instructions. You could not only download stacks you wanted to use, but you could easily look at the code and see how they did what they did, and change it to your liking. Even at $49, who actually uses Revolution? And for what?
Obviously there are limits to such an analogy. I don't imagine Apple-manufactured tanks, made of polycarbonate and brushed alumninum rolling into Eastern Europe. Of course not. Those babies are going to roll into Redmond.
That's exactly why I am an advocate of a new punctuation mark, I call it 'The Garrett'. It's the tilde(~). See sig. You forgot to end your sentence with a ~. ~
Brilliant my man! I'm sure this radical new shift in punctuation will catch on like wildfire, and we'll see this in usage manuals within the next couple of years. ~
This would have been in the mid '90s. I have been wracking my brain over finding it since then. Wow, man, you've been wracking your brain since the mid-90s?
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I thought open source was terrorism! I guess we have to wait for the al-Qaeda version of OpenOffice. Soon the world's mujahideen will have the full open suite of office productivity tools they need to destroy the Zionist-Crusader alliance.
To be fair, he didn't explain at all; he just said "trust me, it's funny."
Luckily, the tapes were all 8-track tapes so the authorities have said not to worry, nobody will be able to do anything with them.
So why isn't it just called GNUbuntu?
Canadians begin talking like that as soon as they enter this city. Scientists and linguists have so far been unable to explain this phenomenon satisfactorily.
"should we eat it, fuck it, or kill it?"
10 million minus 1.7 million means Apple is 8.3 million iPhones in the hole!!! This company is clearly beleaguered!!!
AEK II was my favorite keyboard ever; I still have one of these in the closet for old times sake, but of course they never made a USB version. My second favorite is the current generation of wired Mac keyboards -- the thin silver things. Great tactile response but without the overly loud clickage.
Without the drugs and hookers, why else would you go to Amsterdam? To see the Waag?? You might as well stay in the U.S.; at least we have Las Vegas and California.
Not sure about the details, I assumed it was X10, I don't remember if it said what kind of camera they connected or whether they were making it all up, but I certainly didn't make it up myself (though you may be right about my memory). There were cell phones in those days, as I recall, just not as popular as they are now - this was early 1990s; it may have been a pager that he calls back into. But the control of the Mac all took place through hypercard, that's what I remember thinking was so cool about all this -- he talked to hypercard through a modem and then hypercard controlled the other actions; you could control other programs through hypercard. As for the guy doing a cost benefit analysis, you might be right, but lots of people smart enough not to sell drugs still sell drugs, what can we say about that...
That virus sounds interesting; I remember there were a couple of viruses out there for HyperCard; I remember dissecting one of the disinfectant programs and realizing that it worked by trapping the "set" command which (as I recall) was used to infect other stacks or change the info in them. For someone who knew little about computers it was amazing to be able to figure out what an application was doing and how, and even make your own. I made an application to help with writing papers that could store little bits of information (mostly quotations) along with bibliographic citations to use by copying and pasting into a word processor. (I probably should have been just writing the papers at the time but writing the program was way cooler).
One of the coolest apps I remember reading about was from an article in High Times about a guy who was growing weed remotely; he had his garden monitored by X-10 cameras all connected to a Mac plus. He'd dial into his mac from anywhere and connect to a HyperCard stack; from the stack he could see whichever camera angle he wanted and control when the water and/or lights would turn on. He could tell if a light had burned out or whatever, and there was some kind of motion detector that would tell the stack to call his cell if someone entered the facility. All in all, it was pretty clever app illustrating some of HyperCard's possibilities; I can only imagine what could have been done with HyperCard and the Web.
I don't think it's just the price he's referring to in terms of it being available to "the masses," but the fact that it came preinstalled on every mac, along with basic programming instructions. You could not only download stacks you wanted to use, but you could easily look at the code and see how they did what they did, and change it to your liking. Even at $49, who actually uses Revolution? And for what?
Perhaps not, but it would quickly become the new standard.
Supernovas all look the same at birth but it's proper form to smile politely and congratulate the parents anyway.
Yeah that's right, another dupe from slashdot; this story was covered 97 million years ago when it actually happened.
called "Urine Idiot"
It doesn't take a whiz to see that this video game will soon become number one.
Brilliant my man! I'm sure this radical new shift in punctuation will catch on like wildfire, and we'll see this in usage manuals within the next couple of years. ~