You know what? I'm sick and tired of reading about how everyone hates Jon Katz. Why don't you guys either put up, or shut up. It's easy write a vitriolic comment. But actually make an effort to write something for consumption here takes time, thought, research, and skill.
Maybe you disagree with Katz's opinion, fine, then write a civil, thought-out rebuttal. Dont' bash the guy. If you don't like his writing, filter it out.
"...Katz seems to use Slashdot as his personal soap box."
Katz gets to use Slashdot as his soapbox because he bothers to have an opinion about something that matters to him, and he writes about it. He makes the effort to actually think through his opinion, write it down and offer it up to the Slashdot community. You could too if you wanted to.
He has opinions, and he writes about them. How does that equate to "He seems to think his opinions are the only ones."
"...he gets to submit a lot of movie reviews."
Yeah? So write an articulate movie review that makes a point or two and submit it. What's your beef?
"I understand that he has had a book published, but that does not make him a good writer."
It makes him a good enough writer to get published. It means he's made enough of a commitment to writing that he's actually written A BOOK. It makes him facile enough with language that he can write a coherent article that people can read and form their own opinions.
"Why does he get special treatment? The Slashdot post regulators must have a thing for him."
Sour Grapes? Whatsamatter, your article get rejected? Quit whining.
Let's face it, the political and religious issues that caused these bastards to commit this horrible act are extremely complex. There really are no easy answers. There's no clear enemy to retaliate against. There's no one reason why the terrorists did this.
It's clear that U.S. foreign policy, politically, ecomonically, and militarily is flawed in many ways. But I believe that our government really does try to do the right thing. But they are human, just like the terrorists, just like the people working in the World Trade Center.
The one thing that could have prevented this enormous tradgedy is proper implementation of security measures in the airline industry.
The airline industry has been criticized in the news over the past years for a myriad of things, delayed and cancelled flight, rudeness by personnel, lost luggage, and lax security. It's no secret to us, we've seen the 60 Minutes episodes. And it's no secret to the terrorists of the world.
This outrageous act might have been prevented had we continued the Sky Marshall program, eliminated carry-on luggage, had better training for flight crews, etc.
I say "might have been prevented" because I wasn't on the plane. I don't really know what happened. I have scenarios running through my head, and I'm sure you do too. Who knows?
Again the answers aren't so easy. Getting up on our soapboxes about U.S. policy being evil, or being stalwart patriots isn't really the answer is it? It's not so black and white. The U.S. does a lot of good in the world, but we also do a lot of bad.
Let's not forget history. Here's a couple of notions: Dresden, The Crusades.
Who's right? Who's to blame? It's not that simple.
The best use of our energy is to put into place procedures which make it more difficult for religious and political fanatics from carrying out their mad schemes. And since the spotlight is on the airline industry, let's start there, then move to the intelligence community, then foreign policy, etc.
And if you believe in prayer, say one for the poor victims of the WTC, and one for the insane, deluded maniacs that committed the act, and for the wisdom for the world to respond sensibly to a billion mistakes at a thousand levels.
Art and computers, computer art, the argument is old and over with. Computers are just another medium, like marble, acrylic paint, silver halide. I suggest if your professors are not acknowledging the validity of digital art, then perhaps you need to get some new professors.
There are various journals devoted to art & technology, probably the oldest is Leonardo, the journal of The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology(http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leon ardo/).
Another good one is ArtByte(http://www.artbyte.com).
The difference is someone who has un-framed posters and "genuine oil" paintings on the wall and someone who has lithographs and fine art on his or her walls. The difference is K-Mart computer desk, and Herman Miller.
Ideally you want a blend of form and function. Certainly you don't want a pretty box with a hamster powered abacus inside, but why does your super-computer-by-1960s-standards have to be in one of those fugly generic cases.
Especially these days, when the computer is becoming the focus of entertainment. Computers are becoming ubiquitous, people don't want those bland beige boxes in their living rooms.
I would love to see more computer manufacturers take the design of their cases seriously. Frankly, I've seen better looking servers than home computers, and that seems ironic.
Let's face it, you have a special relationship with your computer. It's a tool, yes, but something you face for many hours out of the day. Should it give you a thrill to look at it? I'll save the girlfriend/wife analogy for later.
You mean back when personal computing was hopelessly geekish? Arcane? Fringe?
Back when programmers were wizards? Guru? Keepers of hidden knowledge?
We're not gonna get back to that paradigm. Nope, every suburban jock has an AOL account now.
Your average Joe just ain't gonna learn BASIC (or Perl, C, C++, Python, or even Visual BASIC. Let's face it, PCs have become the TV of the 21st century.
What's WRONG with bashing the US? I've been doing it since I was a teenager. The US needs bashing. It's okay, maybe even an obligation, for citizens of the US, and even non-citizens, to point out the shortcomings of the US government and it's people.
We're not perfect. Not by a long shot. We as a nation and as a people engage in the same wrongheadedness that any other society on this planet does(Make a list: slavery, human rights abuses, political corruption, racial and economic apartheid, etc.) We want to do better though, don't we?
How else to change, but to have those faults pointed out and confronted.
Those of you who engage in kneejerk, political or social patriotism are not thinking clearly, or critically.
One of coolest things about the Clie was that it was way different looking than the rest of the palm devices out there. Less clunky, more elegant. Not to mention the mem stick & jog dial.
The color one just doesn't have that oomph. I think Handera actually looks cooler.
Lest you dis' my aesthetic bent, let's not forget these things become an accessory. You wouldn't buy a watch that looked like shit would you? Oh yeah, some of us on/. would rather code than make aesthetic decisions. Let's hope their apps are console based.
Ever see one of those olive green timexes? Supposed to be some kind of "military" watch. Ewww!
Well, if it sounds too challenging for ya, go see Shrek.
Good old USA:"Please don't offer me any challenging entertainment, then I might have to think outside my little suburban box. Three's Company & Alladin are all I need."
I am so sick and tired of the pablum Hollywood foists on us. There's certainly a place in the world for mindless entertainment, but could Hollywood offer a variety of levels of intellectual engagement?
And for Pete's sake, no more remakes of old movies, live action cartoons, or comic book movies!
If we want to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or La Femme Nikita, we can watch the originals (with subtitles preferably/if necessary). If we want to see Josie & the Pussycats, we can turn on the Cartoon Network and watch the cartoon. And if we want to enjoy the X-Men, we can read the comics. Even adaptations of books are redundant, we can read the damn books. If people are too lazy, illiterate, or too pressed for time to read the book, then too bad, they should miss out on that particular story.
How about some original content? There must be thousands of original screenplays languishing on peoples' hard drives out there.
Recycle?! Bah, just ship the nuclear waste up to the moon and store it there. Sheesh. All you'd need is some kind of base up there to monitor all the nuclear waste. Heck you could use the base for research too. That'd be cool too. Our first moonbase. We could call it Alpha, for first, huh?
Too bad about your watch. Mightn't that be a warranty issue? Nevertheless, G-Shocks have a great reputation. I'had mine a couple of years, and it's survived multiple swims, though never at anywhere near the rated 200M, and numerous demonstration collisions with the wall across the room. I have a friend who's $450 Seiko diving watch croaked at a tiny fraction of it's rated depth. I think every product is gonna have a failure here and there, that's why manufacturers provide warranties in the first place.
Besides, I think the main point about ruggedizing PDAs, cell phones, and laptops is not so they can survive submersion, but that they are'nt put out of commission by trivial bumps and drops, or get fried because you got caught in a downpour without an umbrella.
The Casio G-Shock Palm is what you're looking for...unfortunately they don't make one. But wouldn't it be cool? The toughness of a G-Shock watch, with the simplicity and versitility of the Palm OS. Color screen would be nice too. Heck, let's even have another proprietary expansion slot of some kind too(water resistant of course). Seems if Handspring & Sony could license the Palm OS, Casio should be able to too. I mean heck, aren't G-Shocks like the most collected thing in Japan.
Yeah, I know Casio has the Casiopeia, and some others. And the industrial handhelds (but like the man says, too pricy for what you get.) But they all run some WindowsPickYourSuffix.
You can run linux on at least one of 'em, I think, but still not G-Shock.
Casio has made a G-Shock(ish) cell phone, but it's ony available in Japan so far.
On a recent hike, twelve-year-old Nicole Wineland-Thompson kept a diary. That's not unusual.
Nicole kept her daily journal on her Blueberry iBook. That's not that unusual either.
This next part, however, is a bit out of the ordinary: Nicole's ten-day "hike" took her to the top of Africa. To the blustery peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, to be exact, a chilly 19,340 feet above sea level. "I put the entire trip in the iBook each day,"she recalls.
What prompted Nicole's hike in Tanzania?Read "Climbing Kilimanjaro," a new story on our website:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2000/11/ki li manjaro/
Feh! Whatta twelve year olds know? Here's a case where I'd definitely be using the PDA+Stowaway. Imagine lugging a laptop up Kilimanjaro! No matter how much I may like Macs, I wouldn't lug an iBook up a mountain. Not even if it had LinuxPPC installed.
This is where Palm OS devices shine. Someone earlier said "Why not just get a laptop?". I'll tell you why. Two AAAs last a couple of weeks on a Palm device, and an extra set only weighs a few ounces, as opposed to a pound or two for laptop batteries.
I'm sick of hearing about this thing. We've been hearing about this thing on/. for over a year, haven't we? All those so-called "photos" look like artist conception renderings to me.
One thing's for sure, you guys (mostly) don't know art. All your blathering about how Kemp's piece "aint art", or is "dumb" shows that you know jack about art. Art no longer needs to be representational. We got over that, oh, when was it, the thirties maybe? If any of you have taken any art appreciation courses as part of your required courses in college, you may remember that there was a movement called abstract?
Yeah, really, it can be considered art if it doesn't have kittens with big eyes, or dogs playing poker. Amazing, aint it? It can be art if the artist is exploring the physical gestures employed in writing language. Wow, pretty high concept, huh?
And Ichimunki, how can you even bother to have an opinion, if you haven't seen the complete work, much less in person? You label it NULL, after having only seen small details. Pfeh! You lack integrity.
Frankly, I expected better from the/. crowd. But this goes to show that the technical crowd are sometimes sadly narrow in their range of knowledge. Yes, you can reprogram the traffic light system to give you green lights from your house to work at a given time, but can't tell the difference between anime and fine art.
The "If I can't understand it, it must be crap" mindset seems like the exact opposite of what you'd expect to find here at/.
"Maybe I'm a business card bigot so take this advice with a grain of salt... For crying out loud, spend the $35 (or less), go to your local printer and have professinally designed and printed business cards."
Good grief! I'd seen those pre-cut business card things, I think Avery makes 'em, and my dad even made some up, but I couldn't imagine someone seriously using the damn things.
I think I'd laugh in someone's face if they handed me one of those.
For God's sake, if you take your work seriously, have some business cards printed up. They're not that expensive, and they're essential to being taken seriously. Same with letterhead.
"I've got a list of about 50 places that I think make cool software and will post them if desired."
Yeah, post 'em, post 'em!
...SimCity for palm? Oh, I'm in trouble. Vindigo looks cool.
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"Dude", the point is, if the only *nix you've ever had the opportunity to use before is Linux, and your forced to mess with a Solaris box...uh, it's a little alien.
Bully for you for all your *nix experience, may it stand you in good stead. Meanwhile, I don't have that background. I need to know how the different *nices are similiar.
And...my mind is made up, I don't know how they're similar.
Yeah, I can copy files, list directories, edit files, etc. In that way, yes, they're similar, but until you mentioned "slice instead of partition..." I had no idea what "slice" was referring to.
I think you've illustrated the point that other people have made. That gurus have gotten to the point of obtuseness in their knowledge.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone though. I can't understand why the user can't figure out how to copy a file to a floppy disk, and I treat them as if they're an idiot, when the truth is, I'm an idiot for assuming everyone else in the world "should" know as much about "insert knowledge specialty here" as I do.
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"huh?" yerself! Sit down and configure a Solaris box when all you know is Linux and see where you end up.
I agree, this book sounds good to me. I'd like to see the underlying similarities in the *nixes.
It seems to me that if you're going to have a "trade" show, you should have it somewhere central, and like others have posted, maybe twice a year, but probably only once a year.
As much as I like Linux, I can't see the reasoning for having more than one big trade show a year for Linux. I mean, how many people do YOU know who run Linux? Of course I don't work in a IT only shop where everyone around me is a geek.
For now, I think we oughta just stick to the big regional areas, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. Cover both coasts and the Midwest. Doesn't have to be those three cities either, they could be rotated. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles one year, Miami, St. Louis, San Francisco the next and/or mix 'em up. Boston, Atlanta, Seattle?
Oughta keep things in perspective, Linux ain't Windows. (Thank goodness!)
It may be a joke, but it sure points to a few problems. Which are illustrated quite cleary in the comments today.
"As if anyone needs an entire Internet's worth of ankle-biting critics jumping on every misplaced punctuation mark. "
"...asking for help in Usenet newsgroups that are mostly populated by rabid mongrels who would rather rip out your throat than answer a simple question."
Amen.
Heat that up and pour it down your pants while yelling a hearty "fuck you!" to Natalie Portman.
What the hell is wrong with Hollywood!? I am so sick and tired of remakes and obvious derivitives. It's so pathetic. Hollywood is drowning in cash and talent and they can't come up with an original screenplay once in a while? Good God, there must be a million hacks out there typing a way like gangbusters and they're going to remake Planet of the Apes?
Why? WHY?!
What, the original wasn't good enough?
I say if you liked the original, boycott the remake. Tell Hollywood you've had enough.Don't waste your hard earned money on something you've already seen, and probably won't be as good as the original anyway.(Seriously, name a remake that was as good or better than the original. Hell name a movie version of a TV show that was better than the original.)
They shouldn't let people who haven't actually ever seen the show write about it, yes? "...potty-mouthed South Park stars: Eric, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny." Ohmigod! They killed Stan! You bastards!
Okay, there were computer graphics, right? Well, who did those graphics? I mean, even the lighting guy must've thought, "Hey, wait a minute..." What, the catering truck driver couldn't have gone up to De Palma, "Excuse me, Mr. De Palma, but this movie is going to suck huge doodies, if you do that..."?
Don't tell me the only person on that set that knew anything about physics was De Palma. Are the only people working on movies art school types who have no clue about math, physics or biology? I mean I know a lot of art school types, and even they know better than some of this junk.
It seems to me that if you were working on the movie, you'd at least laugh out loud on the set. What about Sinise and Robbins, surely they're respected enough that they could open their mouths and say, "Uh, about this dialog, either re-write, or give me another million, because this is humiliating!"
What the hell is wrong with Hollywood?! Are we never going to see another decent SF movie again? I mean that takes place in space. In a galaxy, close, close, right here.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been trying to "Windows Update" a couple of new computers all day, and it seems the Microsoft home page isn't responding. Period.
Does that mean that Redmond is a smoking pile of debris too? God forbid. No, really.
You know what? I'm sick and tired of reading about how everyone hates Jon Katz. Why don't you guys either put up, or shut up. It's easy write a vitriolic comment. But actually make an effort to write something for consumption here takes time, thought, research, and skill.
Maybe you disagree with Katz's opinion, fine, then write a civil, thought-out rebuttal. Dont' bash the guy. If you don't like his writing, filter it out.
"...Katz seems to use Slashdot as his personal soap box."
Katz gets to use Slashdot as his soapbox because he bothers to have an opinion about something that matters to him, and he writes about it. He makes the effort to actually think through his opinion, write it down and offer it up to the Slashdot community. You could too if you wanted to.
He has opinions, and he writes about them. How does that equate to "He seems to think his opinions are the only ones."
"...he gets to submit a lot of movie reviews."
Yeah? So write an articulate movie review that makes a point or two and submit it. What's your beef?
"I understand that he has had a book published, but that does not make him a good writer."
It makes him a good enough writer to get published. It means he's made enough of a commitment to writing that he's actually written A BOOK. It makes him facile enough with language that he can write a coherent article that people can read and form their own opinions.
"Why does he get special treatment? The Slashdot post regulators must have a thing for him."
Sour Grapes? Whatsamatter, your article get rejected? Quit whining.
Let's face it, the political and religious issues that caused these bastards to commit this horrible act are extremely complex. There really are no easy answers. There's no clear enemy to retaliate against. There's no one reason why the terrorists did this.
It's clear that U.S. foreign policy, politically, ecomonically, and militarily is flawed in many ways. But I believe that our government really does try to do the right thing. But they are human, just like the terrorists, just like the people working in the World Trade Center.
The one thing that could have prevented this enormous tradgedy is proper implementation of security measures in the airline industry.
The airline industry has been criticized in the news over the past years for a myriad of things, delayed and cancelled flight, rudeness by personnel, lost luggage, and lax security. It's no secret to us, we've seen the 60 Minutes episodes. And it's no secret to the terrorists of the world.
This outrageous act might have been prevented had we continued the Sky Marshall program, eliminated carry-on luggage, had better training for flight crews, etc.
I say "might have been prevented" because I wasn't on the plane. I don't really know what happened. I have scenarios running through my head, and I'm sure you do too. Who knows?
Again the answers aren't so easy. Getting up on our soapboxes about U.S. policy being evil, or being stalwart patriots isn't really the answer is it? It's not so black and white. The U.S. does a lot of good in the world, but we also do a lot of bad.
Let's not forget history. Here's a couple of notions: Dresden, The Crusades.
Who's right? Who's to blame? It's not that simple.
The best use of our energy is to put into place procedures which make it more difficult for religious and political fanatics from carrying out their mad schemes. And since the spotlight is on the airline industry, let's start there, then move to the intelligence community, then foreign policy, etc.
And if you believe in prayer, say one for the poor victims of the WTC, and one for the insane, deluded maniacs that committed the act, and for the wisdom for the world to respond sensibly to a billion mistakes at a thousand levels.
Art and computers, computer art, the argument is old and over with. Computers are just another medium, like marble, acrylic paint, silver halide. I suggest if your professors are not acknowledging the validity of digital art, then perhaps you need to get some new professors.
n ardo/).
There are various journals devoted to art & technology, probably the oldest is Leonardo, the journal of The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology(http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leo
Another good one is ArtByte(http://www.artbyte.com).
The point? The point is aesthetics. Design.
The difference is someone who has un-framed posters and "genuine oil" paintings on the wall and someone who has lithographs and fine art on his or her walls. The difference is K-Mart computer desk, and Herman Miller.
Ideally you want a blend of form and function. Certainly you don't want a pretty box with a hamster powered abacus inside, but why does your super-computer-by-1960s-standards have to be in one of those fugly generic cases.
Especially these days, when the computer is becoming the focus of entertainment. Computers are becoming ubiquitous, people don't want those bland beige boxes in their living rooms.
I would love to see more computer manufacturers take the design of their cases seriously. Frankly, I've seen better looking servers than home computers, and that seems ironic.
Let's face it, you have a special relationship with your computer. It's a tool, yes, but something you face for many hours out of the day. Should it give you a thrill to look at it? I'll save the girlfriend/wife analogy for later.
You mean back when personal computing was hopelessly geekish? Arcane? Fringe?
Back when programmers were wizards? Guru? Keepers of hidden knowledge?
We're not gonna get back to that paradigm. Nope, every suburban jock has an AOL account now.
Your average Joe just ain't gonna learn BASIC (or Perl, C, C++, Python, or even Visual BASIC. Let's face it, PCs have become the TV of the 21st century.
What's WRONG with bashing the US? I've been doing it since I was a teenager. The US needs bashing. It's okay, maybe even an obligation, for citizens of the US, and even non-citizens, to point out the shortcomings of the US government and it's people.
We're not perfect. Not by a long shot. We as a nation and as a people engage in the same wrongheadedness that any other society on this planet does(Make a list: slavery, human rights abuses, political corruption, racial and economic apartheid, etc.) We want to do better though, don't we?
How else to change, but to have those faults pointed out and confronted.
Those of you who engage in kneejerk, political or social patriotism are not thinking clearly, or critically.
Take an aspirin and go lay down.
One of coolest things about the Clie was that it was way different looking than the rest of the palm devices out there. Less clunky, more elegant. Not to mention the mem stick & jog dial.
/. would rather code than make aesthetic decisions. Let's hope their apps are console based.
The color one just doesn't have that oomph. I think Handera actually looks cooler.
Lest you dis' my aesthetic bent, let's not forget these things become an accessory. You wouldn't buy a watch that looked like shit would you? Oh yeah, some of us on
Ever see one of those olive green timexes? Supposed to be some kind of "military" watch. Ewww!
Well, if it sounds too challenging for ya, go see Shrek.
Good old USA:"Please don't offer me any challenging entertainment, then I might have to think outside my little suburban box. Three's Company & Alladin are all I need."
I am so sick and tired of the pablum Hollywood foists on us. There's certainly a place in the world for mindless entertainment, but could Hollywood offer a variety of levels of intellectual engagement?
And for Pete's sake, no more remakes of old movies, live action cartoons, or comic book movies!
If we want to see Invasion of the Body Snatchers, or La Femme Nikita, we can watch the originals (with subtitles preferably/if necessary). If we want to see Josie & the Pussycats, we can turn on the Cartoon Network and watch the cartoon. And if we want to enjoy the X-Men, we can read the comics. Even adaptations of books are redundant, we can read the damn books. If people are too lazy, illiterate, or too pressed for time to read the book, then too bad, they should miss out on that particular story.
How about some original content? There must be thousands of original screenplays languishing on peoples' hard drives out there.
Recycle?! Bah, just ship the nuclear waste up to the moon and store it there. Sheesh. All you'd need is some kind of base up there to monitor all the nuclear waste. Heck you could use the base for research too. That'd be cool too. Our first moonbase. We could call it Alpha, for first, huh?
Alan!!
Too bad about your watch. Mightn't that be a warranty issue? Nevertheless, G-Shocks have a great reputation. I'had mine a couple of years, and it's survived multiple swims, though never at anywhere near the rated 200M, and numerous demonstration collisions with the wall across the room. I have a friend who's $450 Seiko diving watch croaked at a tiny fraction of it's rated depth. I think every product is gonna have a failure here and there, that's why manufacturers provide warranties in the first place.
Besides, I think the main point about ruggedizing PDAs, cell phones, and laptops is not so they can survive submersion, but that they are'nt put out of commission by trivial bumps and drops, or get fried because you got caught in a downpour without an umbrella.
The Casio G-Shock Palm is what you're looking for...unfortunately they don't make one. But wouldn't it be cool? The toughness of a G-Shock watch, with the simplicity and versitility of the Palm OS. Color screen would be nice too. Heck, let's even have another proprietary expansion slot of some kind too(water resistant of course). Seems if Handspring & Sony could license the Palm OS, Casio should be able to too. I mean heck, aren't G-Shocks like the most collected thing in Japan.
Yeah, I know Casio has the Casiopeia, and some others. And the industrial handhelds (but like the man says, too pricy for what you get.) But they all run some WindowsPickYourSuffix.
You can run linux on at least one of 'em, I think, but still not G-Shock.
Casio has made a G-Shock(ish) cell phone, but it's ony available in Japan so far.
Imagine the Dolphin/Whale conference G-Shock Palm.
From the iMac Update: December 7, 2000
i li manjaro/
On a recent hike, twelve-year-old Nicole Wineland-Thompson kept a diary. That's not unusual.
Nicole kept her daily journal on her Blueberry iBook. That's not that unusual either.
This next part, however, is a bit out of the ordinary: Nicole's ten-day "hike" took her to the top of Africa. To the blustery peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, to be exact, a chilly 19,340 feet above sea level. "I put the entire trip in the iBook each day,"she recalls.
What prompted Nicole's hike in Tanzania?Read "Climbing Kilimanjaro," a new story on our website:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2000/11/k
Feh! Whatta twelve year olds know? Here's a case where I'd definitely be using the PDA+Stowaway. Imagine lugging a laptop up Kilimanjaro! No matter how much I may like Macs, I wouldn't lug an iBook up a mountain. Not even if it had LinuxPPC installed.
This is where Palm OS devices shine. Someone earlier said "Why not just get a laptop?". I'll tell you why. Two AAAs last a couple of weeks on a Palm device, and an extra set only weighs a few ounces, as opposed to a pound or two for laptop batteries.
I'm sick of hearing about this thing. We've been hearing about this thing on /. for over a year, haven't we? All those so-called "photos" look like artist conception renderings to me.
GMate, ship or shut up!
One thing's for sure, you guys (mostly) don't know art. All your blathering about how Kemp's piece "aint art", or is "dumb" shows that you know jack about art. Art no longer needs to be representational. We got over that, oh, when was it, the thirties maybe? If any of you have taken any art appreciation courses as part of your required courses in college, you may remember that there was a movement called abstract?
/. crowd. But this goes to show that the technical crowd are sometimes sadly narrow in their range of knowledge. Yes, you can reprogram the traffic light system to give you green lights from your house to work at a given time, but can't tell the difference between anime and fine art.
/.
Yeah, really, it can be considered art if it doesn't have kittens with big eyes, or dogs playing poker. Amazing, aint it? It can be art if the artist is exploring the physical gestures employed in writing language. Wow, pretty high concept, huh?
And Ichimunki, how can you even bother to have an opinion, if you haven't seen the complete work, much less in person? You label it NULL, after having only seen small details. Pfeh! You lack integrity.
Frankly, I expected better from the
The "If I can't understand it, it must be crap" mindset seems like the exact opposite of what you'd expect to find here at
"Maybe I'm a business card bigot so take this advice with a grain of salt... For crying out loud, spend the $35 (or less), go to your local printer and have professinally designed and printed business cards."
Good grief! I'd seen those pre-cut business card things, I think Avery makes 'em, and my dad even made some up, but I couldn't imagine someone seriously using the damn things.
I think I'd laugh in someone's face if they handed me one of those.
For God's sake, if you take your work seriously, have some business cards printed up. They're not that expensive, and they're essential to being taken seriously. Same with letterhead.
Ah, lookit this!
http://www.openhandheld.org/
GPL'd palm software. That's the ticket!
"I've got a list of about 50 places that I think make cool software and will post them if desired."
Yeah, post 'em, post 'em!
...SimCity for palm? Oh, I'm in trouble. Vindigo looks cool.
"Dude", the point is, if the only *nix you've ever had the opportunity to use before is Linux, and your forced to mess with a Solaris box...uh, it's a little alien.
Bully for you for all your *nix experience, may it stand you in good stead. Meanwhile, I don't have that background. I need to know how the different *nices are similiar.
And...my mind is made up, I don't know how they're similar.
Yeah, I can copy files, list directories, edit files, etc. In that way, yes, they're similar, but until you mentioned "slice instead of partition..." I had no idea what "slice" was referring to.
I think you've illustrated the point that other people have made. That gurus have gotten to the point of obtuseness in their knowledge.
I'm as guilty of it as anyone though. I can't understand why the user can't figure out how to copy a file to a floppy disk, and I treat them as if they're an idiot, when the truth is, I'm an idiot for assuming everyone else in the world "should" know as much about "insert knowledge specialty here" as I do.
"huh?" yerself! Sit down and configure a Solaris box when all you know is Linux and see where you end up.
I agree, this book sounds good to me. I'd like to see the underlying similarities in the *nixes.
It seems to me that if you're going to have a "trade" show, you should have it somewhere central, and like others have posted, maybe twice a year, but probably only once a year.
As much as I like Linux, I can't see the reasoning for having more than one big trade show a year for Linux. I mean, how many people do YOU know who run Linux? Of course I don't work in a IT only shop where everyone around me is a geek.
For now, I think we oughta just stick to the big regional areas, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. Cover both coasts and the Midwest. Doesn't have to be those three cities either, they could be rotated. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles one year, Miami, St. Louis, San Francisco the next and/or mix 'em up. Boston, Atlanta, Seattle?
Oughta keep things in perspective, Linux ain't Windows. (Thank goodness!)
It may be a joke, but it sure points to a few problems. Which are illustrated quite cleary in the comments today.
"As if anyone needs an entire Internet's worth of ankle-biting critics jumping on every misplaced punctuation mark. "
"...asking for help in Usenet newsgroups that are mostly populated by rabid mongrels who would rather rip out your throat than answer a simple question."
Amen.
Heat that up and pour it down your pants while yelling a hearty "fuck you!" to Natalie Portman.
What the hell is wrong with Hollywood!? I am so sick and tired of remakes and obvious derivitives. It's so pathetic. Hollywood is drowning in cash and talent and they can't come up with an original screenplay once in a while? Good God, there must be a million hacks out there typing a way like gangbusters and they're going to remake Planet of the Apes?
Why? WHY?!
What, the original wasn't good enough?
I say if you liked the original, boycott the remake. Tell Hollywood you've had enough.Don't waste your hard earned money on something you've already seen, and probably won't be as good as the original anyway.(Seriously, name a remake that was as good or better than the original. Hell name a movie version of a TV show that was better than the original.)
They shouldn't let people who haven't actually ever seen the show write about it, yes? "...potty-mouthed South Park stars: Eric, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny." Ohmigod! They killed Stan! You bastards!
Okay, there were computer graphics, right? Well, who did those graphics? I mean, even the lighting guy must've thought, "Hey, wait a minute..." What, the catering truck driver couldn't have gone up to De Palma, "Excuse me, Mr. De Palma, but this movie is going to suck huge doodies, if you do that..."?
Don't tell me the only person on that set that knew anything about physics was De Palma. Are the only people working on movies art school types who have no clue about math, physics or biology? I mean I know a lot of art school types, and even they know better than some of this junk.
It seems to me that if you were working on the movie, you'd at least laugh out loud on the set. What about Sinise and Robbins, surely they're respected enough that they could open their mouths and say, "Uh, about this dialog, either re-write, or give me another million, because this is humiliating!"
What the hell is wrong with Hollywood?! Are we never going to see another decent SF movie again? I mean that takes place in space. In a galaxy, close, close, right here.