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  1. Re:Tune in, Log on, Drop out. on Drugs, Computers & Cyberculture · · Score: 1

    I tended to forget what I was doing, finding the light and shadow around the CRT very intertaining, or the feedback from the keyboard sending senations all over my body. Graphics programs and fractals were more fun than bang bangs. Bryce is a hoot.

    I wonder why they don't talk like this at "The Gate"?

  2. Re:Most drugs are like human stack smashers. on Drugs, Computers & Cyberculture · · Score: 1

    You don't need drugs to rave, but if you want to rave on durgs, be creative. My fav was weed laced with peyote. some nights, it was just caffeine. The endorphines were the thing. A lot of long distance bikers and runners hit the raves. We knew the buzz, we craved the buzz. We danced with complete abandon. You could fuck on the dance floor, it didn't matter, it was the music, it was the movement. We were high and hot, it wasn't a converted icehouse, it was colors and sounds, it was sweat tits, lips toes spit and semem.

    I wasn't thinking of goto's or loops, I was into something more BASIC. ARF speeding across your prof's screen didn't matter. Neither did his username and password taped to the monitor. Three lines of BASIC and the cup runneth over. Rave on.

  3. Re:anyone else catch this? on Drugs, Computers & Cyberculture · · Score: 1

    What stood out for me was something I agree with completely, that the alteration of reality is the revelation.

  4. Re:Drugs are a risk on Drugs, Computers & Cyberculture · · Score: 1

    We used to eat pot all the time. That was back when we grew it in our garden. Too expensive now. Parrots love to chew on the leaves. It is hard to tell if a parrot is stoned.

    You know that the Nashville music scene is powered by pot. Even the big haired bimbos get a buzz, it's all a scam. Don't know about Reba. she probably smokes parsley and thinks she's got a buzz. Good ol Nashville, gay cowboys on drugs Yee Haa!!!!

    Drugs are everywhere, they will never be eliminated. The drug laws crimialize human nature.

    When I looked in the mirror I saw God. Look in the mirror and you will see God too. When you close your eyes, God disappears. You can create and destroy God in the blink of an eye.

  5. Re:drugs == bad on Drugs, Computers & Cyberculture · · Score: 2

    sorry about your friends. I am sure they were totally unaware that smack could kill them.

    Been around junkies all my life. They just don't care, they're dead anyway. Junk kills all pain, so they are one step away form death. I guess if that is how one wants to live and die, that's their business. The risk is the buzz. The buzz is the reward.

    I have used drugs most of my life, mostly weed, but also used LSD, MDA, DMT, peyote, Chot(Kat) opium, Uppers downer, coke smack, even coleus.
    It is not what you use, but how you use it.

    There is nothing spiritual about it, only if you attach some spiritual message to it.

    I agree the revelation is in the alteration of reality. It is a touch of death, it is a touch of insanity. The idea is to touch, not embrace.

    Sorry your friends found an embrace when they only needed to touch.

    Keep your head.

  6. Re: have to put my foot: how to get rid of that ad on Petition Apple for Linux QuickTime · · Score: 1

    Here's how you get rid of that QuickTime ad. Change the date on your machine to some time in the future, like 2010. Launch quicktime. Close QuickTime. reset the date to the present. that should get rid of that ad. QuickTime was set as the default, I don't see that it would be hard to cahnge it to something different.

    They have some good music on QuickTime. I am listening to GoGaGa radio at this time. I think the sound quality is fine.

  7. Re:Out of touch? on Mac OS X Desktop and GUI Design · · Score: 1

    I click and hold. that brings up the contextual menu. About the round mouse. It just takes fingetips, three fingers. It is very light and intuitive. It took me a time to get used to it, but I now like it. What goes on in your head and on the screen are important. Anything that distracts from that is a drag on productivity. To make the device disappear is a noble pursuit. Give the round mouse a chance. The keyboard is OK. It's best for thoses with average to small hands. It works well. I am using a Turbomouse and an Art Pad. Their cool too.

  8. Re:It's "Window Manager", not "Windows Manager" on Linux is Window Manager's Product of the Year · · Score: 1

    I'd love to read the flames he will get for saying something nice about Linux, and criticizing M$.


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  9. Re:Name *ONE* technology Microsoft's developed on Apple Gets Testy About GUI · · Score: 1

    I guess you never saw the DrawingPaper theme developed by Apple Japan, or the various DSG themes.

    Check these out. ResExcellence

    This is DSG: these guys are good
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  10. Re:Name *ONE* technology Microsoft's developed on Apple Gets Testy About GUI · · Score: 1

    That ugly little hourglass? The blue screen of death? Herpes?

  11. Re:Too Bad... on Caldera and Microsoft Settle Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I think that there is more to this story than what we know. Remember when M$ settled with Apple? Apple got some assurances from M$, Maybe Caldera got some concessions too.

    We don't know if there is more, because there could be a non disclosure agreement.

  12. Re:It does indeed have to be full moon... on Full Lunar Eclipse for North America · · Score: 2

    Here's more on the subject.
    Astronomy magazine

    check it out, but do dress warm.

  13. Re:need quiet case on The Quest For Cool Cases Continues · · Score: 1

    The new iMacs are so quiet. go to the comp store and put your hand over the vents, you can feel the current. The design team at Apple deserves all the praise heaped on them.

    The new voiceprint password benefits from the fanless iMac.

  14. Re:No no please, allow me to laugh first.. on Mac OS X Officially Previewed · · Score: 1

    Be looking for Apple to go after the high end 3D market. Jobs has a lot of pull in Hollywood now a days. I heard some months ago that many of the high end 3D SGI apps were being ported to OSX. Apple now has the OS, and now with Multi G4's and soon the G5's, they could be the platform of choice in Hollywood. You add QuickTime, FireWire, and the bandwidth supplied by Akamai and Lucent, Apple could have the content creation and delivery market.

    Look at how they are marketing the iMac for clues to their direction.

    This could be fun to watch.

  15. Re:other mac sites not reporting this on Apple Open Sources OS X?/Jobs Permanent CEO · · Score: 1

    There is no way Apple would give up the crown jewels. If they were on the ropes, maybe, but not now.

    I am going to put OSX on my box, but I will keep my LinuxPPC on my external. Just love that Penguin. I do believe TOP will be available in OSX. I also believe one can gain access to a terminal. I wonder if Xbill is hidden somewhere deep in its BSD soul?

  16. Re:Mghtz on Laptop Pentium IIIs · · Score: 1

    My butthrtz

  17. Re:Batteries my friend on Laptop Pentium IIIs · · Score: 1

    Is this another "innovation" that was borrowed from Apple? Or is it just Microsoft that clones Apple technology then trumpets it as an Innovation?

  18. Re:yup on Mac OS9 Flood Attack · · Score: 1

    There is such a climate of secrecy, it is amazing any info leaks out. Their secrecy is so frustrating, but understandable. If it is to work, it has to be company wide, and consistent.

    I am skipping OS9. I am willing to wait for OSX.

  19. Re:This smells of "port" on Microsoft looking for FreeBSD Skills · · Score: 1

    But will they bring the security holes, the bloatware that we all know and love? will the quality of work be up to snuff? Will the software be made to work, or made to make money?

  20. Re:Call mr. S Jobs on SGI Steps out of the Visual Workstation Market · · Score: 1

    SGI getting out of the visual workstation could also have something to do with many of the 3D applications being ported to OSX. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, SGI beat feet. Instead of the movies being made on SGI, It will be G4's running OSX. Right now Jobs is a very powerful man in Hollywood. He will grab the content creation in Hollywood, and with QuickTime and FireWire, the delivery. Wonder what the Apple Cinema Display portents? Read the Motley Fool Microsoft vs Linux article. Jobs is doing basically the same thing. He's doing an end run around MS.

  21. Re:This is a farce on Free Software for Developing Countries · · Score: 1

    As I remember, Lucent Technology and some other concern will be wiring Africa to provide high speed internet.

    My love goes out to my brothers and sisters of Eritrea. I miss you.

  22. Re:Economic vs political systems on Linux Use in China - a View From Beijing · · Score: 1

    Thak you. Too often we confuse capitalism with democracy, when they are totally different things.

    Is our congress democracy in action or capitalism in action?

  23. Re:Hm. Appealed forever? on Slashdot's "Instant" Legal Analysis of the MS Ruling · · Score: 1

    all this action, Linux being loaded on IBM's Dells, and such would not have been possible before the trial. Gates had such a strangle hold on the PC vendors, that they feared would lose their license if they even tried to sell PC's with any other OS.

    The competition you see now is the result of the trial. MS had to be on it's best behavior for the judge. It didn't work, the judge ruled against MS. Just think of all that money Gates gave to charity. Where was all that giving before the trial? Gates is a scumbag.

    MS gave the 150 million to Apple to prop them up to make the appearance that they were not a monopoly. You know Jobs gave him that idea.;)

  24. Tux on the cover. on Linux on a Magazine Cover? · · Score: 1

    Have ol Tux reaching out of the monitor to shake the hand of the user. I think that best describes the relationship between Linux and the user.


  25. Re:Anti-Trust? huh? on Caldera vs. Microsoft Goes to Jury Trial · · Score: 1

    One case that didn't get dismissed is the DOJ case. the judge is supposed to give his verdict today. Hold onto your hats ladies and gentlemen. the stock market could get real nervous today.