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Nice to see John still doesn't have a grasp on things. Should've seen that coming after his ever-so-insightful Shadowrun column. I can see it now, imagine the other RPGs!
Alienation of self- Space:1889
Confusion about the coming world- TORG
Separation from Humanity- Cyberpsychos in Cyberpunk 2020
Disillusionment with society- The Prisoner
Give it up, Jon. Please, no one tell him about computer games or comic books or popular music. Then again, an article on society as viewed through N-Sync or Britney Spears could by funny, albeit not intentionally.
1) copy all the data files to a hard drive NOT using DeCSS, and make a DIVX copy without DeCSS? I know there are other ways to strip off the encoding
2) make a copy of the DVD using current technology (bit copies, etc)
and use that to prove that all CSS is for is to limit who can watch the movie?
Steve Albini (he produced Nevermind) did an article entitled "some of your friends are already this f*cked"
, which was what Love pretty much quoted. Great speech, don't get me wrong, but read Albini.
here's one of many mirrors:
http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/ problemwithmusic.html
I have a real fond rememberance of them. They were one of the first 'real' unix boxen I used at Texas A&M. I still remember the specs: 15 MIPS, 2 MegaFlops (wow, eh?:) The A&M NeXT user group was called TexNext. We started out with a couple, eventually wound up with 6 cubes in Herb (H.R.Bright Building, our comp sci area). A couple years later, they spread, due to the 'pizza boxes'. We had a restricted access lab with about 25-30 of them, and another 5 scattered around campus. I remember the 2.88 drives the pizza boxes utilized. Someone else mentioned that they read Windows and Mac. Yup. Very nice, very handy.
The GUI was beautiful. Their version of the Explorer/Finder was excellent. The dock was great. it's amazing how much they packed into a 17" monitor. The programming tools were slick. At one of our demos, they built a fairly simple app in under 5 minutes, needing only one line of code. The rest (all the GUI) they dragged and dropped. Very nice, and I didn't play with it as much as I wanted.
One of things I really liked was Zilla. Hook up 5 machines to a network, run Zilla, and use them for parallel processing! One of the guys in the original lab (5th floor) was using them on his thesis. He could either use the NeXTs and a real language, or COBOL and the Cray Y-MP we had (this was in 1990-1991, so that thing rocked!)
Oh, and the grayscale. I have no idea why, but you didn't miss color at all. Everything made full use of the different shades of gray. Impressive.
All in all, I remember that they were only remotely affordable if you bought them through universities. Ours had a drive and an optical, and several of us were going to split the cost of a disk for it. Considering the hardware it seemed fast. It was Unix, it was elegant, stylish, and very cool. I need to go see if I find a gui to replace what I currently use. And dammit, I hope most of what made it cool makes it to OS X. I can't wait to see it running on ultra-fast hardware!
Mindcraft/Netcraft, the huge thing about SAMBA being better on NT than Linux. Due to the hue-and-cry generated about it (they apparently called the wrong number for Linux tuning advice, so Linux wasn't tuned at all, MS send system engineers, etc, etc), they re-ran the tests, and MS won. And/. posted it.
Slashdot Mirror
Give it up, Jon. Please, no one tell him about computer games or comic books or popular music. Then again, an article on society as viewed through N-Sync or Britney Spears could by funny, albeit not intentionally.
1) copy all the data files to a hard drive NOT using DeCSS, and make a DIVX copy without DeCSS? I know there are other ways to strip off the encoding
2) make a copy of the DVD using current technology (bit copies, etc)
and use that to prove that all CSS is for is to limit who can watch the movie?
Steve Albini (he produced Nevermind) did an article entitled "some of your friends are already this f*cked" , which was what Love pretty much quoted. Great speech, don't get me wrong, but read Albini.
here's one of many mirrors: http://www.arancidamoeba.com/mrr/ problemwithmusic.html
I have a real fond rememberance of them. They were one of the first 'real' unix boxen I used at Texas A&M. I still remember the specs: 15 MIPS, 2 MegaFlops (wow, eh?:) The A&M NeXT user group was called TexNext. We started out with a couple, eventually wound up with 6 cubes in Herb (H.R.Bright Building, our comp sci area). A couple years later, they spread, due to the 'pizza boxes'. We had a restricted access lab with about 25-30 of them, and another 5 scattered around campus. I remember the 2.88 drives the pizza boxes utilized. Someone else mentioned that they read Windows and Mac. Yup. Very nice, very handy.
The GUI was beautiful. Their version of the Explorer/Finder was excellent. The dock was great. it's amazing how much they packed into a 17" monitor. The programming tools were slick. At one of our demos, they built a fairly simple app in under 5 minutes, needing only one line of code. The rest (all the GUI) they dragged and dropped. Very nice, and I didn't play with it as much as I wanted.
One of things I really liked was Zilla. Hook up 5 machines to a network, run Zilla, and use them for parallel processing! One of the guys in the original lab (5th floor) was using them on his thesis. He could either use the NeXTs and a real language, or COBOL and the Cray Y-MP we had (this was in 1990-1991, so that thing rocked!)
Oh, and the grayscale. I have no idea why, but you didn't miss color at all. Everything made full use of the different shades of gray. Impressive.
All in all, I remember that they were only remotely affordable if you bought them through universities. Ours had a drive and an optical, and several of us were going to split the cost of a disk for it. Considering the hardware it seemed fast. It was Unix, it was elegant, stylish, and very cool. I need to go see if I find a gui to replace what I currently use. And dammit, I hope most of what made it cool makes it to OS X. I can't wait to see it running on ultra-fast hardware!
Mindcraft/Netcraft, the huge thing about SAMBA being better on NT than Linux. Due to the hue-and-cry generated about it (they apparently called the wrong number for Linux tuning advice, so Linux wasn't tuned at all, MS send system engineers, etc, etc), they re-ran the tests, and MS won. And /. posted it.