Look for him on Fark.com. He posts there a bit and has his onw tag, for news stories about Wil Wheaton. Only other person with his own tag is Chris Walken. Two cool dudes, making the rest of us look lame.
He was a regular doctor who had a drink related incident in Georgia and joined Star Fleet to get off planet (or was sent there by the courts, they way they used to offer military service for problem teens.
Spock: Upper classman (grad student) in charge of recruits Kirk and McCoy. -Orlando Bloom (already has pointy ears)
McCoy: Older doctor run out of town for drinking related incident. -Steven Baldwin (gets him away from the snakes)
Kirk: Smart Ass punk, like that Irish guy he beat up on 'Shore Leave' -generic young Tom Cruise actor (could even switch out actors and have Kirk being vain and always going to plastic surgery booths, to find a face that helps him pick up women)
Oh, and it would be nice if people who are submitting articles would actually summarize the story rather than posting verbatim what the writer of the referenced article says.
Ha-ha! You expect slashdotters to produce original work and apply original thought.
Actually, I was introduced to Macs, back in '86, by a friend's wife (artist who made money with graphic design) who was using a 20MHz machine with 18 MB RAM, producing full color magazine pages. Later, she went on to managing/supporting Macs and SGI's at a local television station.
Still, most of the art teachers I had in school (am art school drop out-fixing computers=more $$$) are pretty out there. Especially the one professor who had pics of himself in his classroom, standing naked, spread armed, with feathered wings attached and lit candles balanced on top of his 'wings'. I have no idea WTF that was supposed to be but apparently, it was art. I made myself popular at school by vocalizing that the emperor literally had no clothes.
Apple fans are the perfect audience. Most are technically non-savvy arty types who are easier to FUD.
My Mac users are mostly faculty at a small college. They range all the way from the CompSci prof who just started installing Macs in his lab (wife got a Mac for Xmas and he liked it) to a fine art professor who has difficulty sending.jpgs in email and didn't know what an iPod was but she bought it with her laptop 'cus the guy at the Apple store said there would be a discount buying them together (really, she's that clueless).
The biggest problem I see is that a lot of people have been switching to Macs, believing that they are totally secure. They don't follow basic secure practices, clicking on anything they receive in email. I've seen proof of concept Applescript apps that, while asking for a user's password, go and wipe out their user directory and a html link that would fire up the terminal app and then list the user's directory (could have done much worse in user land, of course).
Until people stop walking around thinking they have a titanium dick and sticking it into every hole they see, there will be vulnerabilities.
I hate my users. Won't someone give me a job for surfing the web, watching movies and drinking beer?
...now 2% less beleaguered! Oh, woe is me. Do you have any idea what kinda' influence Apple could have on the world if they had 5% market share? A democrat might actually win an electoral race or something. Gah! The War on Tourism might be called off! What would I use my.50 cal for, then?
Larry Niven wrote it, as a locked planet mystery story. It's in whatever the current collection of his short stories (N-Space?) is at B&N (picked up last year, now packed away).
The iMac wasn't the first PC to have USB (invented at Intel) but was the first PC to totally rely on it for peripheral expansion. Apple dropped all support for SCSI (external storage and scanners), Serial (printers, LAN, and modems), and ADB (Apple Desktop Bus-input devices). This forced the major periph vendors (HP and Epson) to get off their asses and start making USB devices en-mass. Once the snow ball started rolling, others also started producing USB equipment.
Due to multiple hardware manufacturers in the X86 world, there was not much drive to leave legacy connection tech.
Oh yeah, the first iMacs didn't have Firewire. That came with the B/W G3 towers.
The people that don't buy CD's anymore are the ones who are downloading MP3's for free.
Not all of us. I've only d/l'd one.mp3 off a news group, back in 97 or 98, when the format was just taking off (opening song from Conan the Barbarian ST). Once storage prices dropped and iTunes came along and made archiving cd's easily, I ripped my collection and then started adding to it with various pay services.
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Look for him on Fark.com. He posts there a bit and has his onw tag, for news stories about Wil Wheaton. Only other person with his own tag is Chris Walken. Two cool dudes, making the rest of us look lame.
In space they can't get alimony payments...
I was making a rather lame attempt at being funny. Am not familiar with young male actors to make an attempt at casting.
Wil Wheaton
He was a regular doctor who had a drink related incident in Georgia and joined Star Fleet to get off planet (or was sent there by the courts, they way they used to offer military service for problem teens.
Or there was a war and he joined up/drafted in?
Spock: Upper classman (grad student) in charge of recruits Kirk and McCoy. -Orlando Bloom (already has pointy ears)
McCoy: Older doctor run out of town for drinking related incident. -Steven Baldwin (gets him away from the snakes)
Kirk: Smart Ass punk, like that Irish guy he beat up on 'Shore Leave' -generic young Tom Cruise actor (could even switch out actors and have Kirk being vain and always going to plastic surgery booths, to find a face that helps him pick up women)
Oh, and it would be nice if people who are submitting articles would actually summarize the story rather than posting verbatim what the writer of the referenced article says.
Ha-ha! You expect slashdotters to produce original work and apply original thought.
Oh yeah, the PowerMac 4400 (Introduction Date: November 15, 1996, Discontinued Date: October 11, 1997). What a babe!
Uh...yeah, he wasn't an elephantoplasty but a membrane of Applet's Devolving Corruption...or something.
Actually, I was introduced to Macs, back in '86, by a friend's wife (artist who made money with graphic design) who was using a 20MHz machine with 18 MB RAM, producing full color magazine pages. Later, she went on to managing/supporting Macs and SGI's at a local television station.
Still, most of the art teachers I had in school (am art school drop out-fixing computers=more $$$) are pretty out there. Especially the one professor who had pics of himself in his classroom, standing naked, spread armed, with feathered wings attached and lit candles balanced on top of his 'wings'. I have no idea WTF that was supposed to be but apparently, it was art. I made myself popular at school by vocalizing that the emperor literally had no clothes.
Apple fans are the perfect audience. Most are technically non-savvy arty types who are easier to FUD.
.jpgs in email and didn't know what an iPod was but she bought it with her laptop 'cus the guy at the Apple store said there would be a discount buying them together (really, she's that clueless).
My Mac users are mostly faculty at a small college. They range all the way from the CompSci prof who just started installing Macs in his lab (wife got a Mac for Xmas and he liked it) to a fine art professor who has difficulty sending
The biggest problem I see is that a lot of people have been switching to Macs, believing that they are totally secure. They don't follow basic secure practices, clicking on anything they receive in email. I've seen proof of concept Applescript apps that, while asking for a user's password, go and wipe out their user directory and a html link that would fire up the terminal app and then list the user's directory (could have done much worse in user land, of course).
Until people stop walking around thinking they have a titanium dick and sticking it into every hole they see, there will be vulnerabilities.
I hate my users. Won't someone give me a job for surfing the web, watching movies and drinking beer?
...now 2% less beleaguered! Oh, woe is me. Do you have any idea what kinda' influence Apple could have on the world if they had 5% market share? A democrat might actually win an electoral race or something. Gah! The War on Tourism might be called off! What would I use my .50 cal for, then?
I have some variety to my thoughts:
boobs, boobs, ass, beer, boobs, tv, boobs, boobs, game, boobs, pizza, beer, boobs, whiskey, boobs, where the hell did all my money go?
Don't forget the SciFi channel direct to video: Anasquitto vs. Pythlack Hole!
So, if we put a cat in a box and chucked it into a Mac-Mini Black Hole...
Larry Niven wrote it, as a locked planet mystery story. It's in whatever the current collection of his short stories (N-Space?) is at B&N (picked up last year, now packed away).
I only buy sword fight movies, porn and sf books.
Now that is a classic boobie. Firm looking, pale (can't stand that orange tanning room look) and alert. Just the way a boobie should be.
You mean that porn chicks will look all flabby and stretch marked? NSFW
The iMac wasn't the first PC to have USB (invented at Intel) but was the first PC to totally rely on it for peripheral expansion. Apple dropped all support for SCSI (external storage and scanners), Serial (printers, LAN, and modems), and ADB (Apple Desktop Bus-input devices). This forced the major periph vendors (HP and Epson) to get off their asses and start making USB devices en-mass. Once the snow ball started rolling, others also started producing USB equipment.
Due to multiple hardware manufacturers in the X86 world, there was not much drive to leave legacy connection tech.
Oh yeah, the first iMacs didn't have Firewire. That came with the B/W G3 towers.
Yeah, how does a piddley 2% white box manufacturer have any influence on the computer industry?
Boobie links as fark.com
The people that don't buy CD's anymore are the ones who are downloading MP3's for free.
.mp3 off a news group, back in 97 or 98, when the format was just taking off (opening song from Conan the Barbarian ST). Once storage prices dropped and iTunes came along and made archiving cd's easily, I ripped my collection and then started adding to it with various pay services.
Not all of us. I've only d/l'd one
GIS for 'boobies'. Hmmm...looks pretty natural to me. NSFW
'Course I doubt everyone has the same definition of good-looking. Lets hear it for floppy boobed, hairy hippie chicks with wide hips! NSFW
Hang them from a string and twirl them in a sunbeam. Cool!