I think Katz is right on. Get off yer high horses. He is not generalizing about geeks. Maybe it's you who thinks your in the box.
You want reality? anecdotes? Here's some.
Me and all my geeky freinds LOVE the Matrix. We think it is one of the most important Sci Fi movies ever made. We've been talking about the movie and its literary allusions for weeks. I've seen it three times.
I haven't seen Phantom yet. We _might_ see it this weekend. Frankly, I am annoyed by the hype. I proudly went to see Midsummer Night's Dream instead of Phantom on opening week. You think that's lame? Get a clue! Midsummer is a great movie and knocks the socks off of Phantom, I'll bet.
The great thing about Matrix and Midsummer is the humanity. They are great stories about people you can relate to. Can you say that about Phantom? Are you obsessed with technology? If you think that you are identified...
>In short, Mac users need to know what's available > in order to possibly request needed features for future MacOS versions.
Yea but, I think it goes both ways. The fact is, KDE is derivative. KDE has a much to gain from studying MacOS. For example, I am not really satisfied with the drag and drop capabilities of KDE yet.
On the other hand, I wish Mac had a less opaque way of handling file types.
Further, I like the appreciate that KDE uses MIME types. I just wish that there was a faster way to set it up. How about if a modified drag onto the app automatically set the MIME type up (and updated the icon too).
I think that it is clear that KDE rocks.... but it lacks some of the polish of MacOS.
Funny you should mention MacII. Booting a MacII under was my first linux experience, last year. I learned alot. Now I run LinuxPPC on my G3 Mac, in an AppleTalk network with that old MacII. It is running another free OS; MacOS System 7.5.5. I'll keep it that way too, because of all those old proprietary nubus cards in the MacII.
I've got Ghostscript under MacOS too, so I can print to a StyleWriterII without rebooting the G3.
No problem there. Apple is a hardware company. I run LinuxPPC on my G3 and love it. I could go on and on about this. Let's just say that Linux rocks on a G3.
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Sorry, I just don't get it. I read those books.
They were great books. What more were you expecting of Matrix?
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proclus
I thought that it was disturbing how the climax
of Matrix presaged the Littleton shootings.
Did you notice the black trenchcoats, the guns,
the death and destruction?
Really, I loved the Matrix. I just don't know
what to think about this.
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proclus
Well, at least geek movie of the season! I think it is a great movie. See my other post, unfairly moderated down. Regards, proclus
I think Katz is right on. Get off yer high horses. He is not generalizing about geeks. Maybe it's you who thinks your in the box.
You want reality? anecdotes? Here's some.
Me and all my geeky freinds LOVE the Matrix. We think it is one of the most important Sci Fi movies ever made. We've been talking about the movie and its literary allusions for weeks. I've seen it three times.
I haven't seen Phantom yet. We _might_ see it this weekend. Frankly, I am annoyed by the hype. I proudly went to see Midsummer Night's Dream instead of Phantom on opening week. You think that's lame? Get a clue! Midsummer is a great movie and knocks the socks off of Phantom, I'll bet.
The great thing about Matrix and Midsummer is the humanity. They are great stories about people you can relate to. Can you say that about Phantom? Are you obsessed with technology? If you think that you are identified...
Then you Are identified.
Regards,
proclus
Regards,
proclus
Yea, sit on your Alpha and PPC boxes, like a snail
on a mushroom. How impressive. At least I can do
real stuff with my x86!
(yea right)
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proclus
Can you spell SARCASM?
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proclus
Exactly. The real racism is that shootings in
black neighborhoods do not receive equal coverage.
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proclus
I tried that type of strategy once. It was a pain sometimes to transfer files from one cartridge to the other.
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proclus
>In short, Mac users need to know what's available
> in order to possibly request needed features for
future MacOS versions.
Yea but, I think it goes both ways. The fact is, KDE is derivative. KDE has a much to gain from studying MacOS. For example, I am not really satisfied with the drag and drop capabilities of KDE yet.
On the other hand, I wish Mac had a less opaque way of handling file types.
Further, I like the appreciate that KDE uses MIME types. I just wish that there was a faster way to set it up. How about if a modified drag onto the app automatically set the MIME type up (and updated the icon too).
I think that it is clear that KDE rocks.... but it lacks some of the polish of MacOS.
Regards,
proclus
I thought the article was cute.
Funny you should mention MacII. Booting a MacII under was my first linux experience, last year. I learned alot. Now I run LinuxPPC on my G3 Mac, in an AppleTalk network with that old MacII. It is running another free OS; MacOS System 7.5.5. I'll keep it that way too, because of all those old proprietary nubus cards in the MacII.
I've got Ghostscript under MacOS too, so I can print to a StyleWriterII without rebooting the G3.
I love Apple _and_ Linux.
Regards,
proclus
No problem there. Apple is a hardware company. I run LinuxPPC on my G3 and love it. I could go on and on about this. Let's just say that Linux rocks on a G3.
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