Granted that the Internet is more powerful/speedy, but there's nothing here for group-consciousness building that couldn't be accomplished in pre-Net by spending $20/mo. on Xeroxed snailmail and flyers on phone poles for advertising local groups and rallies.
Check out the history of intellectual movements sometime -- I'm thinking particularly of Barbara Tuchman's analysis of Zionism in _Bible and Sword_, or Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie's history of Catharism in _Montaillou; Promised Land of Errors_. I think you'll find that a postal system and printing press are required equipment for national or global dispersion, but that phones and computers aren't.
I agree with a previous poster that suggested bias is good. I know the leaning of/., and because of it I'm not going to waste time/bandwidth posting positive opinions of hated icons or questions about Nicaragua's economy. By the same token, I'm not going to take anti-MS sentiment too seriously unless it's clearly reasoned and discusses technical issues.
If UC Berkeley had ofered that three years ago, I might have stuck with teaching literature as a career instead of going into the wacky world of computing...
As it was, I ended up butting heads with professors who fell into the DWM or AMW camp (both of which hate sci-fi because it's a living art form). The pomo's would read sci-fi, but who cares what the read since they treat books like rappers treat 70's funk albums.
*DWM = Dead White Male *AMW = Angry Minority Woman
I saw it for $4 at a matinee. It was $3 worth of special effects and sword-fights. Story sucked. Almst as disappointing as Alien 3 which broke my pore lil heart.
Go find a revival of Empire Strikes Back, you'll enjoy it more.
They wouldn't seem "fast enough" after you tried XFce3 -- I like GNOME well enough to overlook its unfortunate number of core dumps, but I use XFCE when I want to get something done.
My company computer is a Thinkpad 760XL, which weighs more than I care to think about. I certainly wasn't interested in transferring notes from paper to keyboard or printing a new contact list every day, so I would bring my laptop to meetings, which sucked. Nothing like having the overheat fan come on when your computer is sitting next to the speakerphone, huh? I also need an electronic calendar which beeps at me. When I'm overworked (always) some of the calendar items just disappear from my memory until days after I was supposed to do whatever.
My Palm III fits in my pocket, does everything I was carrying the TP for (phone numbers, calendar, notes, and quick emails), and weighs practically nothing. Now that the sexy new models are out, it costs $170 on the web. I now carry a cell phone and a Palm into meetings, nothing else.
I felt a surge of agreement with the woman who called in to talk about her Linux machine and how it had taught her to be a batter computer user. But the panelists were right -- in a few years the people who know initimately how computers and networks work will be as rare as people who know how cars and cell phones work today. Steve Sales and Mary Marketing don't give a shit how the box does what it does, they just want the stable, speedy function for a low low cost packaged in a stylish container.
That's barely true anymore in the SF Bay Area, where "geeks" drive the biggest economic boom since WWII. Give it ten years and reverse pejoration (correct term?) will wipe out negative connotations of geek. Give it twenty years and geek == social-inept will be about as valid as geek == chicken-head-biting-circus-freak.
I'm sure he does -- I used to be a member of his ISP (hi David!) and I fondly remember the emails he sent out during an eight-hour power outage: hour 1 - power's out, no big deal hour 8 - houston, we have a problem!
That's how realplayer has acted through three versions of realplayer and two versions of redhat. I can get it to play a stream (with awful quality) by choosing File | Open Location and typing in the full url of the ram file.
Can't say I really care enough to research the solution, though:-)
Yeah, but it could be an embedded special-purpose kernel based on BSD or Linux (or even WinCE, gag) and implemented in three or four ASICs. You see this kind of thing in "appliance" boxes all the time.
Slashdot Mirror
Granted that the Internet is more powerful/speedy, but there's nothing here for group-consciousness building that couldn't be accomplished in pre-Net by spending $20/mo. on Xeroxed snailmail and flyers on phone poles for advertising local groups and rallies.
/., and because of it I'm not going to waste time/bandwidth posting positive opinions of hated icons or questions about Nicaragua's economy. By the same token, I'm not going to take anti-MS sentiment too seriously unless it's clearly reasoned and discusses technical issues.
.02 worth of O2
Check out the history of intellectual movements sometime -- I'm thinking particularly of Barbara Tuchman's analysis of Zionism in _Bible and Sword_, or Emmanuel LeRoy Ladurie's history of Catharism in _Montaillou; Promised Land of Errors_. I think you'll find that a postal system and printing press are required equipment for national or global dispersion, but that phones and computers aren't.
I agree with a previous poster that suggested bias is good. I know the leaning of
My
If UC Berkeley had ofered that three years ago, I might have stuck with teaching literature as a career instead of going into the wacky world of computing...
As it was, I ended up butting heads with professors who fell into the DWM or AMW camp (both of which hate sci-fi because it's a living art form). The pomo's would read sci-fi, but who cares what the read since they treat books like rappers treat 70's funk albums.
*DWM = Dead White Male
*AMW = Angry Minority Woman
I saw it for $4 at a matinee. It was $3 worth of special effects and sword-fights. Story sucked. Almst as disappointing as Alien 3 which broke my pore lil heart.
Go find a revival of Empire Strikes Back, you'll enjoy it more.
They wouldn't seem "fast enough" after you tried XFce3 -- I like GNOME well enough to overlook its unfortunate number of core dumps, but I use XFCE when I want to get something done.
http://www.xfce.org
My company computer is a Thinkpad 760XL, which weighs more than I care to think about. I certainly wasn't interested in transferring notes from paper to keyboard or printing a new contact list every day, so I would bring my laptop to meetings, which sucked. Nothing like having the overheat fan come on when your computer is sitting next to the speakerphone, huh? I also need an electronic calendar which beeps at me. When I'm overworked (always) some of the calendar items just disappear from my memory until days after I was supposed to do whatever.
My Palm III fits in my pocket, does everything I was carrying the TP for (phone numbers, calendar, notes, and quick emails), and weighs practically nothing. Now that the sexy new models are out, it costs $170 on the web. I now carry a cell phone and a Palm into meetings, nothing else.
Casting my vote in your boat :-)
I felt a surge of agreement with the woman who called in to talk about her Linux machine and how it had taught her to be a batter computer user. But the panelists were right -- in a few years the people who know initimately how computers and networks work will be as rare as people who know how cars and cell phones work today. Steve Sales and Mary Marketing don't give a shit how the box does what it does, they just want the stable, speedy function for a low low cost packaged in a stylish container.
That's barely true anymore in the SF Bay Area, where "geeks" drive the biggest economic boom since WWII. Give it ten years and reverse pejoration (correct term?) will wipe out negative connotations of geek. Give it twenty years and geek == social-inept will be about as valid as geek == chicken-head-biting-circus-freak.
Thanks! I've been using webwasher on my Win32 machines and thought I had to wait for them to port to Linux.
I'm sure he does -- I used to be a member of his ISP (hi David!) and I fondly remember the emails he sent out during an eight-hour power outage:
hour 1 - power's out, no big deal
hour 8 - houston, we have a problem!
Jack
That's how realplayer has acted through three versions of realplayer and two versions of redhat. I can get it to play a stream (with awful quality) by choosing File | Open Location and typing in the full url of the ram file.
:-)
Can't say I really care enough to research the solution, though
Yeah, but it could be an embedded special-purpose kernel based on BSD or Linux (or even WinCE, gag) and implemented in three or four ASICs. You see this kind of thing in "appliance" boxes all the time.