The park you mentioned is in Lynwood, which is outside of Seattle by about a 15 minute drive. However, in the very same Magnuson park where the monolith was erected, they have this sculpture made of retired submarine fins
As another employee of Speakeasy.net, I can verify that this is not any kind of promotion or publicity stunt for the company. Also, I highly doubt that Monolith productions had anything to do with it either.
All the geocities/tripod/ate my balls/family photo/centered text/"Sign my Guestbook!"/*.* webring pages made by the jobless masses on netzero and freei who can't distinguish between a web browser and beer can, and send 50 joke emails to every family member and friend they know each day, along with the latest "AOL VIRUS WARNING". How could we forget them:)
Ok, I admit that I don't really know *that* much about any particular candidate's policies, but I went to http://www.selectsmart.com/PRESIDENT/index.html and this is what I got:
84 Ralph Nader 80 David McReynolds 74 Bill Bradley 68 Albert Gore Jr. 60 John Hagelin 47 Warren Beatty 45 Donald Trump 37 Harry Browne 19 John S. McCain 13 George W. Bush 13 Malcolm (Steve) Forbes Jr. 12 Howard Phillips 8 Orrin Hatch 7 Alan Keyes 6 Gary L. Bauer 6 Patrick J. (Pat) Buchanan
Hehe, kinda funny. I knew that guy had some good ideas. The only surprise is that I apparantly dislike Pat Buchanan more than Orrin Hatch. Maybe I will vote this year;)
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a nice consistant stereotype for geeks, such that we all had the same political views? I've seen posts on slashdot from sysadmins whom I would call idiots for what they were saying, were it not that I knew better.
Anyway, Ralph Nader is the only sane person in politics these days. If you feel the need to vote, you might as well throw him a bone. I dunno, it seems lately like the whole voting thing amounts to which hand you're going to use to hold the gun you shoot yourself in the face with.
I'm sure we've all seen the pictures of starbucks getting thier windows smashed out a hundred times by now, but FOR THE RECORD, there was tear-gas being used as early as 10 am Tuesday, well before any vandalism took place. From first-hand accounts of freinds, gas was used to disperse peaceful, non-violent protesters. They were blocking entrances and streets, but last time I checked, keeping someone from crossing the street wasn't violence, and seems to me pretty civil.
And by the way, the vandals were just capitlizing on the situation, and from the looks of it had nothing to do with any protesting that was going on. (and if they did, I'm not sure what the hell point they were trying to get across). People stealing cell-phone accesories from radio shack in fubu jackets don't exactly fit the profile of "anti-corporate"
For those of us who were actually *in* seattle yesterday, this should've been rated flaimbait.
In Intent, I'm sure thats what the WTO was designed for. With greedy corporations at the helm, however, we get things like imposing sanctions on the EU for refusing to sell genetically altered beef, or as mentioned, preventing the UK from banning asbestos, all because it "hinders trade" == hurts corporate pocketbooks.
A lot of people have not heard of the WTO, because they would like to keep it that way, avoiding as much bad press for the s**t they are pulling as possible.
Add that to the fact that a MAJORITY of my friends and co-workers were tear-gassed at some point during the day. These weren't "anarchists" or vandals mind you, and in fact most of the people here were pretty disgusted at the vandalism that took place. There was so much tear gas in the air you could feel it several blocks away from where any action had occurred.
Yes, I'm sure these thousands of that came from all over the nation to gather here must've just came for the hell of it, and to "relive their glory days"
Want to know one of the easiest changes you can make? Dvorak Dvorak Dvorak. Your fingers actually move something like 60% less with the Dvorak Layout. Your hands kinda feel lazy when you're typing compared to a QWERTY. Took me about 6 weeks to get fluent with it, but I've heard of people transferring over faster. Only problem is if you work on a variety of different computers every day, having to switch back and forth can get confusing.
In my lifetime, I've never met someone who was pissed off about deep linking, that at the root of it, wasn't just pissed off because their banner clicks were getting skipped over. Even in the case of slashdot, this is true.
Personally, if I had a collection of videos/mp3s/etc up, I wouldn't be pissed as hell if someone was linking to them. Thats kind of the point of having them up there right? If you don't want you're browsing to be slow, don't run a server, or limit # of connections.
What I think is really going on here, is that Universal is trying to establish some legal prescedent that "requires" people to at least load the banner before they can look at the trailer. Even though there are a number of technical solutions available to prevent outside linkers, wouldn't it be nice for Universal to have a legal standpoint forcing you to view their advertising?
Specifically on the topic of Metrowerks, which is one of the first vendors to offer a product and specifically support a single distribution: I got an email from them via my user group a while ago, and instantly noticed the "for Red Hat Linux" catch phrase. I sent them an email asking about it, and they had the following to say:
---------------------------------------------- CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux, GNU Edition will support libc or glibc.
The stock answer is that CWfor Red Hat Linux, GNU Edition is designed for Red Hat Linux running on x86 host/targets. We make no claims about supporting other versions of Linux or other versions of hardware.
This is "code" for: Can it be made to work under them? Yes Is it intended to work under them? No Will we support you in the process? No
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Susan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The real answer to your question is the fact that we cannot find a company which will stand behind the Linux support issue so we do not end up supporting the OS and our products. This is a very touchy issue for the open source community but for us its a matter of economic survival."
At 04:46 PM 4/11/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Out of curiosity, will this program run on other versions of Linux besides >Red Hat 5.2? (assuming of course that they are glibc2, etc., and that they >probably will not be officially supported). > >Chris Hunter >President, Linux User Group @ University of Washington >http://students.washington.edu/linuxug/
It seems the issue here is the vendors themselves, and not "big bad" Red Hat cutting inside deals. They are a corporation, but they do seem pretty commited to the open source movement. If a company says they're only going to support Red Hat, obviously Red Hat isn't going to mind, but I don't think they are actively seeking out deals like this.
Trying to cater to everyone's specific Linux installation is a commercial vendor's nightmare. However, I think that failing to recognize that there are a number of systems that are standardized enough that the product should work fine on them is hitting the mark a little short. With as many good alternatives available, I don't know how many Debian/Slack/etc users are going to go out and buy a product when the company isn't going to give them the time of day about it because they don't run Red Hat. Hopefully the LSB will help resolve some of these issues that seem to be popping up now.
Consider the script kiddie phenomenon. If there is one person who can figure out how to bypass the copy protection, It is already done for everyone. You no longer have to be a "techie" to do things that were traditionally techie territory in the past. The "technical battle" will be over before its started.
I'm guessing "Remove RIAA Watermark" will probably be a button in your favorite mp3 player.
When I said "Windows" I meant *any* version of Windows. My last job was as a Windows NT support technician, and I can tell you it does crash, and crashes ugly. Just because you've never crashed it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. NT can be stable with the right hardware and system configuration, but unfortunately nobody does it that way.
"All the unix freeware of interest"? There may exist equivilent imitations or proprietary solutions (IIS instead of Apache? Ugh.) but they usually don't impress me much. Besides that, I did say it was a lousy OS as well. I don't like being tied to microsoft's broken way of doing things.
I've done my time in the trenches, and I learned enough about Windows NT to know I didn't want anything to do with it anymore.
If M$ ever produces IE for Linux, it will be as bloated (like all their products) as a tick on a dog. It will be as slow as a slug sliming its way through the filth and decay of compost pile. It will be as buggy as a malarial swamp, with none of the swamp's beauty
Thats just it. The Linux community is a lot different than the average windows user. If MS makes a crap browser for Linux, nobody will use it. MS knows they are sailing into hostile waters with this one, meaning folks will just use netscape if IE isn't significantly better.
If they don't make a usable product, they will have wasted a lot of time and resources, and most of us have figured out by now that microsoft (other attributes aside) is not stupid.
Yes, but some of us are actually interested in web *design*. Believe it or not, the web exists for other reasons besides being a place for die-hard unix admins to dig up HOWTOs and perl scripts.
Lynx has its uses, and may be the best solution for you, but it is certainly NOT the best for everyone.
does that sound familiar? I use that command often enough that I made an alias for it, and I'm probably not the only one. Can microsoft possibly make a browser for Linux worse than netscape already has? Having seen IE on the macintosh, I'd say they most definately can, but I'm curious to see if they don't. I'm not a microsoft lover by any means, but I like to use good products. IE runs nicely on windows, but unfortunately windows is a lousy platform that crashes frequently. When I use Linux, it seems like netscape is the only thing that ever crashes. Maybe a little competition will encourage netscape to make a product that's a little more stable.
From the article: "Ergonomists point out that QWERTY's bad points (such as unbalanced loads on left and right hand; excess loading on the top row) are outweighed by presumably accidental benefits..."
Since when are accidental benefits a justification for bad design?
I decided a while ago that I should switch to Dvorak, after reading about it quite a while. At the time I had developed tendonitis in both my wrists, thanks to the job I was working. I can say that i agree 100%. The Dvorak keyboard *feels* so much easier to to type on. Your hands feel "lazy" almost, compared to the amount of work they do on a QWERTY. I even went so far as to pry all the keys off of my keyboard and rearrange them. All in all it took me about 6 weeks to get up to speed on Dvorak, and I can say that it was a definate improvement over QWERTY. It really felt like there was a plan behind the layout of the keys, instead of feeling like you were accomidating someone's arbitrary decision.
In the end, I had to switch back as my new line of work found me working on different computers all the time, most of which didn't belong to me. It took me about a week and a half to convert back.
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The park you mentioned is in Lynwood, which is outside of Seattle by about a 15 minute drive. However, in the very same Magnuson park where the monolith was erected, they have this sculpture made of retired submarine fins
As another employee of Speakeasy.net, I can verify that this is not any kind of promotion or publicity stunt for the company. Also, I highly doubt that Monolith productions had anything to do with it either.
All the geocities/tripod/ate my balls/family photo/centered text/"Sign my Guestbook!"/*.* webring pages made by the jobless masses on netzero and freei who can't distinguish between a web browser and beer can, and send 50 joke emails to every family member and friend they know each day, along with the latest "AOL VIRUS WARNING". How could we forget them :)
I think the main point that most people are missing here is that we really just need to get stinking drunk tonight.
Ok, I admit that I don't really know *that* much about any particular candidate's policies, but I went to http://www.selectsmart.com/PRESIDENT/index.html and this is what I got:
;)
84 Ralph Nader
80 David McReynolds
74 Bill Bradley
68 Albert Gore Jr.
60 John Hagelin
47 Warren Beatty
45 Donald Trump
37 Harry Browne
19 John S. McCain
13 George W. Bush
13 Malcolm (Steve) Forbes Jr.
12 Howard Phillips
8 Orrin Hatch
7 Alan Keyes
6 Gary L. Bauer
6 Patrick J. (Pat) Buchanan
Hehe, kinda funny. I knew that guy had some good ideas. The only surprise is that I apparantly dislike Pat Buchanan more than Orrin Hatch. Maybe I will vote this year
Wouldn't it be nice if there was a nice consistant stereotype for geeks, such that we all had the same political views? I've seen posts on slashdot from sysadmins whom I would call idiots for what they were saying, were it not that I knew better.
Anyway, Ralph Nader is the only sane person in politics these days. If you feel the need to vote, you might as well throw him a bone. I dunno, it seems lately like the whole voting thing amounts to which hand you're going to use to hold the gun you shoot yourself in the face with.
I'm sure we've all seen the pictures of starbucks getting thier windows smashed out a hundred times by now, but FOR THE RECORD, there was tear-gas being used as early as 10 am Tuesday, well before any vandalism took place. From first-hand accounts of freinds, gas was used to disperse peaceful, non-violent protesters. They were blocking entrances and streets, but last time I checked, keeping someone from crossing the street wasn't violence, and seems to me pretty civil.
And by the way, the vandals were just capitlizing on the situation, and from the looks of it had nothing to do with any protesting that was going on. (and if they did, I'm not sure what the hell point they were trying to get across). People stealing cell-phone accesories from radio shack in fubu jackets don't exactly fit the profile of "anti-corporate"
For those of us who were actually *in* seattle yesterday, this should've been rated flaimbait.
In Intent, I'm sure thats what the WTO was designed for. With greedy corporations at the helm, however, we get things like imposing sanctions on the EU for refusing to sell genetically altered beef, or as mentioned, preventing the UK from banning asbestos, all because it "hinders trade" == hurts corporate pocketbooks.
A lot of people have not heard of the WTO, because they would like to keep it that way, avoiding as much bad press for the s**t they are pulling as possible.
Add that to the fact that a MAJORITY of my friends and co-workers were tear-gassed at some point during the day. These weren't "anarchists" or vandals mind you, and in fact most of the people here were pretty disgusted at the vandalism that took place. There was so much tear gas in the air you could feel it several blocks away from where any action had occurred.
Yes, I'm sure these thousands of that came from all over the nation to gather here must've just came for the hell of it, and to "relive their glory days"
Even though its undoubtedly being slashdotted as we speak, it loaded before I could blink.
Definately a classic. I just put Trompe Le Monde in the cd player today and was amazed at how good it still sounds.
Drum + Bass all the way.
Ed Rush + Optical; Dillinja; Photek; Dom + Roland; any of that sick, dark stuff. This is music at the speed of thought.
Want to know one of the easiest changes you can make? Dvorak Dvorak Dvorak. Your fingers actually move something like 60% less with the Dvorak Layout. Your hands kinda feel lazy when you're typing compared to a QWERTY. Took me about 6 weeks to get fluent with it, but I've heard of people transferring over faster. Only problem is if you work on a variety of different computers every day, having to switch back and forth can get confusing.
If this is the case, you need to change your technique a little. Try using your arm and elbow more instead of just your wrist.
In my lifetime, I've never met someone who was pissed off about deep linking, that at the root of it, wasn't just pissed off because their banner clicks were getting skipped over. Even in the case of slashdot, this is true.
Personally, if I had a collection of videos/mp3s/etc up, I wouldn't be pissed as hell if someone was linking to them. Thats kind of the point of having them up there right? If you don't want you're browsing to be slow, don't run a server, or limit # of connections.
What I think is really going on here, is that Universal is trying to establish some legal prescedent that "requires" people to at least load the banner before they can look at the trailer. Even though there are a number of technical solutions available to prevent outside linkers, wouldn't it be nice for Universal to have a legal standpoint forcing you to view their advertising?
This issue is more about control than anything.
Specifically on the topic of Metrowerks, which is one of the first vendors to offer a product and specifically support a single distribution: I got an email from them via my user group a while ago, and instantly noticed the "for Red Hat Linux" catch phrase. I sent them an email asking about it, and they had the following to say:
----------------------------------------------
CodeWarrior for Red Hat Linux, GNU Edition will support libc or glibc.
The stock answer is that CWfor Red Hat Linux, GNU
Edition is designed for Red Hat Linux running on
x86 host/targets. We make no claims about
supporting other versions of Linux or other
versions of hardware.
This is "code" for:
Can it be made to work under them? Yes
Is it intended to work under them? No
Will we support you in the process? No
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Susan
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The real answer to your question is the fact
that we cannot find a company which will stand
behind the Linux support issue so we do not end
up supporting the OS and our products. This is a
very touchy issue for the open source community
but for us its a matter of economic survival."
At 04:46 PM 4/11/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Out of curiosity, will this program run on other versions of Linux besides
>Red Hat 5.2? (assuming of course that they are glibc2, etc., and that they
>probably will not be officially supported).
>
>Chris Hunter
>President, Linux User Group @ University of Washington
>http://students.washington.edu/linuxug/
It seems the issue here is the vendors themselves, and not "big bad" Red Hat cutting inside deals. They are a corporation, but they do seem pretty commited to the open source movement. If a company says they're only going to support Red Hat, obviously Red Hat isn't going to mind, but I don't think they are actively seeking out deals like this.
Trying to cater to everyone's specific Linux installation is a commercial vendor's nightmare. However, I think that failing to recognize that there are a number of systems that are standardized enough that the product should work fine on them is hitting the mark a little short. With as many good alternatives available, I don't know how many Debian/Slack/etc users are going to go out and buy a product when the company isn't going to give them the time of day about it because they don't run Red Hat. Hopefully the LSB will help resolve some of these issues that seem to be popping up now.
Consider the script kiddie phenomenon. If there is one person who can figure out how to bypass the copy protection, It is already done for everyone. You no longer have to be a "techie" to do things that were traditionally techie territory in the past. The "technical battle" will be over before its started.
I'm guessing "Remove RIAA Watermark" will probably be a button in your favorite mp3 player.
When I said "Windows" I meant *any* version of Windows. My last job was as a Windows NT support technician, and I can tell you it does crash, and crashes ugly. Just because you've never crashed it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. NT can be stable with the right hardware and system configuration, but unfortunately nobody does it that way.
"All the unix freeware of interest"? There may exist equivilent imitations or proprietary solutions (IIS instead of Apache? Ugh.) but they usually don't impress me much. Besides that, I did say it was a lousy OS as well. I don't like being tied to microsoft's broken way of doing things.
I've done my time in the trenches, and I learned enough about Windows NT to know I didn't want anything to do with it anymore.
If M$ ever produces IE for Linux, it will be as bloated (like all their products) as a tick on a dog. It will be as slow as a slug sliming its way through the filth and decay of compost pile. It will be as buggy as a malarial swamp, with none of the swamp's beauty
Thats just it. The Linux community is a lot different than the average windows user. If MS makes a crap browser for Linux, nobody will use it. MS knows they are sailing into hostile waters with this one, meaning folks will just use netscape if IE isn't significantly better.
If they don't make a usable product, they will have wasted a lot of time and resources, and most of us have figured out by now that microsoft (other attributes aside) is not stupid.
Yes, but some of us are actually interested in web *design*. Believe it or not, the web exists for other reasons besides being a place for die-hard unix admins to dig up HOWTOs and perl scripts.
Lynx has its uses, and may be the best solution for you, but it is certainly NOT the best for everyone.
does that sound familiar? I use that command often enough that I made an alias for it, and I'm probably not the only one. Can microsoft possibly make a browser for Linux worse than netscape already has? Having seen IE on the macintosh, I'd say they most definately can, but I'm curious to see if they don't. I'm not a microsoft lover by any means, but I like to use good products. IE runs nicely on windows, but unfortunately windows is a lousy platform that crashes frequently. When I use Linux, it seems like netscape is the only thing that ever crashes. Maybe a little competition will encourage netscape to make a product that's a little more stable.
From the article: "Ergonomists point out that QWERTY's bad points (such as unbalanced loads on left and right hand; excess loading on the top row) are outweighed by presumably accidental benefits..."
Since when are accidental benefits a justification for bad design?
I decided a while ago that I should switch to Dvorak, after reading about it quite a while. At the time I had developed tendonitis in both my wrists, thanks to the job I was working. I can say that i agree 100%. The Dvorak keyboard *feels* so much easier to to type on. Your hands feel "lazy" almost, compared to the amount of work they do on a QWERTY. I even went so far as to pry all the keys off of my keyboard and rearrange them. All in all it took me about 6 weeks to get up to speed on Dvorak, and I can say that it was a definate improvement over QWERTY. It really felt like there was a plan behind the layout of the keys, instead of feeling like you were accomidating someone's arbitrary decision.
In the end, I had to switch back as my new line of work found me working on different computers all the time, most of which didn't belong to me. It took me about a week and a half to convert back.