OK folks, time to come out swinging. As a tech writer, I hereby swear to do something worthwhile for the Linux Documentation Project by the end of the month.
Gotta agree--from my limited experience with Mozilla 0.9.3, it's just as good as IE for most of my browsing needs.
Even as I type, I'm using my Power Mac G4 to browse through Slashdot with IE 5.0 and Mozilla 0.9.3. As far as rendering time & general performance, there's been no perceptible differences between the two. Only that the default font is 12 point on Moz and I should really change it to 10 points (my preference). But big deal, right?:)
As I actually use Mozilla 0.9.3 to file this message, I've got to believe the Mozilla folks over the naysayers.
The Broken Sword is indeed great fantasy and well worth your time. But there was another print run of Sword: Lin Carter reprinted the book as part of his Adult Fantasy series of paperbacks, which he did for Ballentine Books back in the '70s. A year or three ago, I got lucky and found a copy from this print run in a Wasington DC used bookstore.
Additionally, if you like Sword, I highly recommend Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga, his retelling of a Danish saga that is related to Beowulf. This story features Hrothgar, and Beowulf is essentially a footnote in Hrolf Kraki's tale. Operation Chaos is also a good fantasy by Anderson, much in the spirit of Heinlein's Magic, Inc. --
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Leggy Starlitz vs. Jerry Cornelius.....
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Zeitgeist's Leggy Starlitz is heavily influenced by Michael Moorcock's amoral '60s boho wanderer Jerry Cornelius. Sterling has confirmed this in at least one interview. Fans of Zeitgeist should check out Moorcock's The Cornelius Quartet, which includes the first four novels about Jerry C: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, and The Condition of Muzak. --
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Unlimited Dream Company by J.G. Ballard
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Another great book about divinity in the modern era. In this case, Ballard takes a small-time crook and gives him the powers of a pagan god. Imagine what the author of "Crash" would do with divine powers and you get the idea. Well worth reading. --
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
At a December 2000 charity event titled "The Funniest Celebrities in DC," Pat Schroeder was asked to do some stand-up comedy. Well, Ms. No Fair Use decided to read the Revocation of Independence joke email as part of her set.
Well, until they reduce the price of new books, I don't have much sympathy for the publishers or the authors. Right now, the prices are totally absurd!
For example, I was going to get my dad a copy of Witold Rybczynski's One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw for Christmas. My dad is into the history of technology, so I thought he'd like it.
However, the hardcover edition is $22 US for a slim 176 pages! Are they mad? I ended up going to the bargain bins (or the "remaindered" books) and buying him three books for the price of that book alone! And the authors don't get royalties for remaindered books either, if I remember correctly.
So perhaps the publishers and the authors should significantly reduce prices on new books. Then maybe they'll have some moral and ethical ground to stand on.
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
1. Mike, your Republican-style overkill rhetoric is tiring. If pursuing a case through the court system is unconstitutional, I wonder what is unconstitutional. Burning the American flag and having an abortion, perhaps? Not yet, me boyo.
2. If you actually paid attention to the Florida Supreme Court decision, it wasn't partisan in the least. It reconciled two conflicting sections of Florida voting law. Open up your mind and think, OK?
3. Bush, not Gore, was the first one to let loose the attack lawyers. Additionally, Bush had plans to contest the election if he had the popular vote and not the electoral vote (as the Republicans originally forecast). So the idea that Gore was the only candidate to use (or even plan to use) lawyers is silly.
4. There were recounts in other counties, including Republican ones.
5. Texas law allows for hand counts in close elections, and allows dimpled ballots to be counted in certain cases.
6. Bush has been arguing against state's rights in the Florida & federal courts, when all the time he's claims that he wants to empower the states. He's lying to America right now and he's not even President yet!
7. According to mike, lawyers are un-American. On the other hand, screaming mobs of Republican partisans are democracy in action, I suppose.
8. Gore's laywer is named David Boies.
9. Yes, I voted for Gore.
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Yeah, but they were using the powers of oligopoly to defend the mom-and-pops. That's just plain wrong.
Come to think of it, I'd bet that an even bigger price fixing suit could follow. What about plain old collusion instead? Why are all CDs ridiculously expensive? That's a good question for the FCC and the states to ask....
sphere
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
They are on the Dischord Records, a big independent non-RIAA label from Washington DC.
Fugazi's their best-known act (over a million recordings sold without major-label assistance!), but they've put out plenty of other acts, including they some classic hardcore punk (esp. Minor Threat & the Flex Your Head compilation).
If you like alterna-rock & punk rock, try Dischord's Web home. You might be surprised....
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Wait just a second here. Corporations *created* popular culture. You can't go back now and claim that we want corporate-created popular culture but without the corporations.
WHAT? You think that corporations created popular culture? Thanks what Nike, Coke & the rest want you to think.
"Popular culture" originally was an academic term used to describe the art, music, and traditions of "the masses" in contrast to "high culture," the arts, music and traditions of the aristocracy.
Eventually, corporations realized that there was plenty of profit in exploiting and creating popular culture, so they learned how to become part of it. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Music is a great example of this. Even though the major labels essentially own the airwaves, no one holds a patent on the blues. Or rock music. Or any other genre you care to name. Not yet anyways. But Napster threatened to return us back to the old days when pop culture wasn't mediated by corporate culture.
As Philip Kennicott has said in this great Washington Post article on Napster and popular culture:
A century ago, music that was shared by millions of listeners, that seemed an inseparable part of daily life, that could be used to immediately establish a bond of familiarity between strangers, would have been called folk music. Music of the people, its origins dim or forgotten. The very notion of possessing it, of controlling who could hear it and exchange it, of making a profit from it, would have been ridiculous.
The demise of Napster--if that's the effect of Wednesday's preliminary injunction shutting down access to the Internet music-exchange site as of midnight tonight--has arrested the evolution of popular music into a new kind of folk music. Temporarily, that is.
But with Gnutella, OpenNap, & FreeNet, we can return control of popular music to the people. And since labels are still selling millions of CDs, I don't think they'll be hurt--unless the RIAA boycott hits them hard. Here's hoping.... -- "Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
I think you can count Courtney Love in the pro-Napster camp. Though I can't find a reference online, I've read several articles that feature pro-Napster comments from her.
Of course John Perry Barlow, EFF cofounder & Grateful Dead lyricist, is foursquare for Napster too....
-- "Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
I figured it only would be a short amount of time before a band (that has money) came out and sued Napster. After all, the trading mp3s is affecting how much in royalties they get. The no-name bands don't really mind so much because it gets their name out there so they can sell concert tickets and band paraphenelia, but the bands that already have a name don't need the publicity.
As far as Metallica is concerned, I'd bet cash that their most recent CD with the San Francisco Philharmonic isn't getting much play on Napster....
-- "Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Back in high school (many moons ago 'cause I'm old now), my friends were pretty weird. They drew pentagrams on their lockers--one was named "Hell Locker" and the other was named "Satan Locker"--and one friend drew a pentagram inside my copy of "Canterbury Tales."
Finally, I asked that friend why he was drawing pentagrams everywhere. He paused, smiled and burst out laughing. "Satan is so FUNNY!" he finally said. And no one at the high school ever said anything. The pentagrams simply vanished.
So where are they now? All doing just fine, thank you. One of them became a VP of Information Management at a big company; another became a programmer/consultant; others turned to acting and poetry. No psychopathic behavior, no nothing.
But if W.A.V.E. was around then, my friends & I could've been locked up or medicated. Then all that talent would've gone to waste. Is that what America wants? I hope not.
-- "Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Beg pardon, but this message sounds like you're in a kneejerk anti-Katz mode. Yes, we can't really categorize _every_ single web site on the Net. But categories are useful when you want to simplify and comprehend complex situations. Katz's categories aren't perfect, but I think that they are interesting, useful, and thought-provoking.
In fact, this list of "Nine Continents" was one of the most interesting and thoughtful pieces that Katz has done on Slashdot. I agree with other posters that this piece should've been a lot longer. It would've been useful to hear how he came up with this list. Good job Jon Katz! -- "Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Well, "Ramadan" is definitely my favorite issue. And the twist at the end is masterful.
2nd place: "The Golden Boy," part of the "World's End" series. (it involved 70s-era DC character The Prez and Boss Smiley). A wonderful eyes-wide-open paean to idealism....
I agree with witz. If you take a careful look at the actual Gartner Group report here, you'll see that this report isn't really "anti-Linux propaganda." They simply believe that Linux won't replace Windows as the most-used desktop OS in the land (at least by 2004 the way that Linux is currently going).
IMHO, and this is not intended as a flame, this whole tempest-in-a-teapot was blown up by ComputerWorld journalist Ellen Cresswell. She says that Gartner "painted an unflattering picture of Linux" in their report when the actual report isn't really that critical on Linux, It simply raises issues that have been discussed on Slashdot as real live problems with Linux. But Cresswell blew up this report as Gartner's "slam" on Linux when the report wasn't any such thing. Let's not let Cresswell benefit from a useless and pointless flamewar between Gartner and the Linux community.
And even though Gartner obviously has substantial reservations about the success of Linux in the mainstream (if you thought the desktop OS report was bad, check this Gartner server-oriented Linux report out), we shouldn't flame them. Instead we should prove them wrong, right?
So let's prove them wrong!
Rob Thornton
Re:Bob Shaw got there first
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From what I remember, the whole "slow glass" idea doesn't really have much to do with nanotech. From what I remember, those Shaw stories were centered around a hypothetical type of glass which slows down the light that passes through it. Nothing to do with nano at all, really....
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OK folks, time to come out swinging. As a tech writer, I hereby swear to do something worthwhile for the Linux Documentation Project by the end of the month.
What are you doing?
Even as I type, I'm using my Power Mac G4 to browse through Slashdot with IE 5.0 and Mozilla 0.9.3. As far as rendering time & general performance, there's been no perceptible differences between the two. Only that the default font is 12 point on Moz and I should really change it to 10 points (my preference). But big deal, right? :)
As I actually use Mozilla 0.9.3 to file this message, I've got to believe the Mozilla folks over the naysayers.
C'mon in folks, the water's fine!
"All that really matters is the story."
Poul Anderson, Hrolf Kraki's Saga
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Additionally, if you like Sword, I highly recommend Anderson's Hrolf Kraki's Saga, his retelling of a Danish saga that is related to Beowulf. This story features Hrothgar, and Beowulf is essentially a footnote in Hrolf Kraki's tale. Operation Chaos is also a good fantasy by Anderson, much in the spirit of Heinlein's Magic, Inc.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Zeitgeist's Leggy Starlitz is heavily influenced by Michael Moorcock's amoral '60s boho wanderer Jerry Cornelius. Sterling has confirmed this in at least one interview. Fans of Zeitgeist should check out Moorcock's The Cornelius Quartet, which includes the first four novels about Jerry C: The Final Program, A Cure for Cancer, The English Assassin, and The Condition of Muzak.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Another great book about divinity in the modern era. In this case, Ballard takes a small-time crook and gives him the powers of a pagan god. Imagine what the author of "Crash" would do with divine powers and you get the idea. Well worth reading.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
And without any attribution either.
I heard it all on C-SPAN Radio over the holidays.
Hypocrite.
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
For example, I was going to get my dad a copy of Witold Rybczynski's One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw for Christmas. My dad is into the history of technology, so I thought he'd like it.
However, the hardcover edition is $22 US for a slim 176 pages! Are they mad? I ended up going to the bargain bins (or the "remaindered" books) and buying him three books for the price of that book alone! And the authors don't get royalties for remaindered books either, if I remember correctly.
So perhaps the publishers and the authors should significantly reduce prices on new books. Then maybe they'll have some moral and ethical ground to stand on.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
2. If you actually paid attention to the Florida Supreme Court decision, it wasn't partisan in the least. It reconciled two conflicting sections of Florida voting law. Open up your mind and think, OK?
3. Bush, not Gore, was the first one to let loose the attack lawyers. Additionally, Bush had plans to contest the election if he had the popular vote and not the electoral vote (as the Republicans originally forecast). So the idea that Gore was the only candidate to use (or even plan to use) lawyers is silly.
4. There were recounts in other counties, including Republican ones.
5. Texas law allows for hand counts in close elections, and allows dimpled ballots to be counted in certain cases.
6. Bush has been arguing against state's rights in the Florida & federal courts, when all the time he's claims that he wants to empower the states. He's lying to America right now and he's not even President yet!
7. According to mike, lawyers are un-American. On the other hand, screaming mobs of Republican partisans are democracy in action, I suppose.
8. Gore's laywer is named David Boies.
9. Yes, I voted for Gore.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Come to think of it, I'd bet that an even bigger price fixing suit could follow. What about plain old collusion instead? Why are all CDs ridiculously expensive? That's a good question for the FCC and the states to ask....
sphere
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
They are on the Dischord Records, a big independent non-RIAA label from Washington DC. Fugazi's their best-known act (over a million recordings sold without major-label assistance!), but they've put out plenty of other acts, including they some classic hardcore punk (esp. Minor Threat & the Flex Your Head compilation).
If you like alterna-rock & punk rock, try Dischord's Web home. You might be surprised....
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
WHAT? You think that corporations created popular culture? Thanks what Nike, Coke & the rest want you to think.
"Popular culture" originally was an academic term used to describe the art, music, and traditions of "the masses" in contrast to "high culture," the arts, music and traditions of the aristocracy.
Eventually, corporations realized that there was plenty of profit in exploiting and creating popular culture, so they learned how to become part of it. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Music is a great example of this. Even though the major labels essentially own the airwaves, no one holds a patent on the blues. Or rock music. Or any other genre you care to name. Not yet anyways. But Napster threatened to return us back to the old days when pop culture wasn't mediated by corporate culture.
As Philip Kennicott has said in this great Washington Post article on Napster and popular culture:
A century ago, music that was shared by millions of listeners, that seemed an inseparable part of daily life, that could be used to immediately establish a bond of familiarity between strangers, would have been called folk music. Music of the people, its origins dim or forgotten. The very notion of possessing it, of controlling who could hear it and exchange it, of making a profit from it, would have been ridiculous.
The demise of Napster--if that's the effect of Wednesday's preliminary injunction shutting down access to the Internet music-exchange site as of midnight tonight--has arrested the evolution of popular music into a new kind of folk music. Temporarily, that is.
But with Gnutella, OpenNap, & FreeNet, we can return control of popular music to the people. And since labels are still selling millions of CDs, I don't think they'll be hurt--unless the RIAA boycott hits them hard. Here's hoping....
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
I think you can count Courtney Love in the pro-Napster camp. Though I can't find a reference online, I've read several articles that feature pro-Napster comments from her.
Of course John Perry Barlow, EFF cofounder & Grateful Dead lyricist, is foursquare for Napster too....
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
As far as Metallica is concerned, I'd bet cash that their most recent CD with the San Francisco Philharmonic isn't getting much play on Napster....
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
If you want to look at another link, Yahoo has a press release on WAVE America. Check it out here.
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"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Back in high school (many moons ago 'cause I'm old now), my friends were pretty weird. They drew pentagrams on their lockers--one was named "Hell Locker" and the other was named "Satan Locker"--and one friend drew a pentagram inside my copy of "Canterbury Tales."
Finally, I asked that friend why he was drawing pentagrams everywhere. He paused, smiled and burst out laughing. "Satan is so FUNNY!" he finally said. And no one at the high school ever said anything. The pentagrams simply vanished.
So where are they now? All doing just fine, thank you. One of them became a VP of Information Management at a big company; another became a programmer/consultant; others turned to acting and poetry. No psychopathic behavior, no nothing.
But if W.A.V.E. was around then, my friends & I could've been locked up or medicated. Then all that talent would've gone to waste. Is that what America wants? I hope not.
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
In fact, this list of "Nine Continents" was one of the most interesting and thoughtful pieces that Katz has done on Slashdot. I agree with other posters that this piece should've been a lot longer. It would've been useful to hear how he came up with this list. Good job Jon Katz!
--
"Deep in the ocean are treasures beyond compare,
Well, "Ramadan" is definitely my favorite issue. And the twist at the end is masterful.
2nd place: "The Golden Boy," part of the "World's End" series. (it involved 70s-era DC character The Prez and Boss Smiley). A wonderful eyes-wide-open paean to idealism....
Rob Thornton
I agree with witz. If you take a careful look at the actual Gartner Group report here, you'll see that this report isn't really "anti-Linux propaganda." They simply believe that Linux won't replace Windows as the most-used desktop OS in the land (at least by 2004 the way that Linux is currently going).
IMHO, and this is not intended as a flame, this whole tempest-in-a-teapot was blown up by ComputerWorld journalist Ellen Cresswell. She says that Gartner "painted an unflattering picture of Linux" in their report when the actual report isn't really that critical on Linux, It simply raises issues that have been discussed on Slashdot as real live problems with Linux. But Cresswell blew up this report as Gartner's "slam" on Linux when the report wasn't any such thing. Let's not let Cresswell benefit from a useless and pointless flamewar between Gartner and the Linux community.
And even though Gartner obviously has substantial reservations about the success of Linux in the mainstream (if you thought the desktop OS report was bad, check this Gartner server-oriented Linux report out), we shouldn't flame them. Instead we should prove them wrong, right?
So let's prove them wrong!
Rob Thornton
From what I remember, the whole "slow glass" idea
doesn't really have much to do with nanotech. From what I remember, those Shaw stories were centered around a hypothetical type of glass which slows down the light that passes through it. Nothing to do with nano at all, really....