I can almost hear Chuck Berry singing now. If you'll remember, he installed hidden cameras in the womens bathrooms of some restaurant he owned (incidentally, he owns a nice one here in my home town of St. Louis, but I'm always afraid to go in the bathroom). He may be an old pervert, but he's (still) one talented man.
Well, I sure the hell ain't praising Good ol Ronnie and his crack sellin, ex-CIA directin vice-pres George Bush, but Clinton sure the hell knows how to bomb the crap out of innocent people. He's had the highest rate of military activity in his administration since Nixon.
And i though he was a peace candidate. Hell, I voted for him cause he was a draft-dodger.
Oh well, that'll teach me not to vote libertarian!
So, I'm assuming that the components that make up the Amiga Operating Environment won't be GNU, but will they be open-source in some way? Or are these guys just interested in what Linux can do for them, and won't be contributing any back to the community?
My job is pretty cool, though I am stuck in a cubical all day, it's still like collecting a check at the end of the week for doing what I love. Granted, I still make time to go out, and I never work past 6 as a rule, but I always get here at 8 in the morning and work the whole day through, eating lunch at my desk, but I don't even mind it, the stress is low, I get all the soda and juice I can drink, and I can run linux on my box, and noone cares. Sure there are deadlines, but I (and most geeks I think) strive under them.
Now, I know some people are maybe more dedicated, and have a more fun office environment, so they're more likely to stick around for the long hours, and that may burn them out, and ya, maybe someday unions will be the answer (especially in the large corporate environments), but now, there's enough demand that we can take our talent and walk, that is, if we're in a city with enough jobs in our field.
but honestly, this is something distrubing, and all the people who just say, "Find a new job", well, it ain't always just that easy, cuz you're afraid to loose the things you love about the job you've got.
"Thus, in contrast to a conventional computer, quantum registers can perform single operations on combinatorial sets of data, making them far more powerful."
This sounds pretty rad. I used to read all kinds of stuff about quantum physics, and Niels Bohr is one of my heros, I'm glad stuff like this is finding some real practical applications.
'Pirates' was about the personalities behind the PC revolution. My mom spent 10 years working for Apple and being within what she calls the "Apple culture". She has met Woz, Steve Jobs, and all of those CEO's that apple went through. I was able to watch the movie with her and she said that the personalites that were portrayed in the movie were 100% accurate, and that the strange unity/devisiveness within the apple culture was accurate as well.
She was brought aboard apple in 1987 when Apple was phasing(sp?) out the Apple ][ series and trying to convince people to buy these new Macintosh's. Her job was to sell to school districts and to convince them that this was the way to go. Then last year, she was laid off due to the downsizing of the education sales force.
When all is said and done, she says she really liked Woz, that he was indeed a kind human being who was into the art of being a geek, and that Job's was an "arrogant SOB". Plus I got some pretty cool stuff out of growing up in a house where I had lots of cool hardware around me, and going down to the engineers area at the Apple offices was always fun. Plus, I got a dollar bill signed by Woz, which, if you know the story about Woz and $2 bills and the US government coming after him for defacement, it was pretty hard to convince him to sign it. And I got a little nameplate from one of the original Lisa boxes that I have taped to the front of my new G3 (which, incidentally, runs Linux and not MacOS).
Does anyone else remember the Newton? Why did they kill that thing? I always thought it was pretty cool, and the writing style was more natural than that Palm Pilot style.
'He then went on to say that it was a capitalist tradition to screw your competitors over and it was "what the USA was founded on!"'
Well, he's kinda correct
The USA was founded on enslavement, genocide, and the mass accumulation of wealth.
I agree that freedom was a key ideal of the founding fathers, and thank god we've grown past alot of the racism, sexism, bigotry and puritanical religious intolerance that we used to have; but screwing over people is clearly a part of our national heritage.
With open firmware in Linuxppc, I can run my big 20 inch non-multisync monitor in Linuxppc, cause it detects it on startup and sets it to the proper resolution so that the monitor syncs.
I run linuxPPC and macos, and I used to have problems with sleep in macos, when I left my box running the distributed.net client, I'd come back a half hour later and the damn thing would be sleeping, even after I quit all other apps (including the Finder).
Whats more, everybody should be running the rc5 client, nobodies box should have time to sleep! :)
I use mac and linux, and I must say, the Mac UI is pretty dang spiffy. Enlightenment is the only big leap forward in OS UI development since the macintosh, and, we all have to admit, alot of window managers and other OS's are designed to look and act alot like the Mac UI.
You can only do so much with javascript and mouseOver() images. Form widgets, for example, can't be customized with Javascript. I'm not that proficient in javascript, but I've never seen it done. I'd love to see themeable widgets though, that would open up alot of UI possiblilities, we've been stuck with accepting the old plain grey widgets ever since Mosaic.
So, let me get something straight, this canvas thing is what's telling the X server how to spit pixels out to the screen, and this new version supports on the fly anti-aliasing and alpha channel compositing? Neat. So that means that the mouse cursor will be antialiased and icons will be anti-aliased and the edges can be feathered and cool stuff like that?
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I've said it before on/. and I'll say it again, we need to get organized. If we accept the conditions do nothing, then we deserve what we get. I read about a group of workers, at Microsoft of all places, that are forming a pseudo-union in Wired magazine.
And cut the crap, we aren't "professionals" the way doctors and lawyers are professionals, they don't work 60 hours a week for $30,000. We're workers, just like factory hands, and we need to face up to the problems that many in our field are going through.
99% of why I buy a computer is because of whats under the hood. But I keep my towers on my desk, cause I like em there, and everyone likes to have nice looking furniture that is sometimes a conversation piece, and beige boxes just aren't that. Apple struck a big nerve with the iMac.
Whenever I get computers I always end up covering them with stickers (usually obscure punk-rock bands) or something like that, just to lively the thing up.
I don't know cars, so I care how a car looks. I do know computers, so I don't care how they look. I think it pretty much works like that, and as computers get more mainstream, we're gunna see alot more boxes designed to appeal to the eye.
It's like cars, some people just want a good, efficient machine, some people want something that just looks good, others want a nice looking car with a big engine under the hood.
Computers will be the same way in years to come.
I have an ugly G3 minitower, but I cover the thing in punk-rock stickers, so it ends up looking good.
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I can almost hear Chuck Berry singing now. If you'll remember, he installed hidden cameras in the womens bathrooms of some restaurant he owned (incidentally, he owns a nice one here in my home town of St. Louis, but I'm always afraid to go in the bathroom). He may be an old pervert, but he's (still) one talented man.
Well, I sure the hell ain't praising Good ol Ronnie and his crack sellin, ex-CIA directin vice-pres George Bush, but Clinton sure the hell knows how to bomb the crap out of innocent people. He's had the highest rate of military activity in his administration since Nixon.
And i though he was a peace candidate. Hell, I voted for him cause he was a draft-dodger.
Oh well, that'll teach me not to vote libertarian!
Youch, sounds pretty creapy to me.
To quote Jello Biafra, "Welcome to 1984"
So, I'm assuming that the components that make up the Amiga Operating Environment won't be GNU, but will they be open-source in some way? Or are these guys just interested in what Linux can do for them, and won't be contributing any back to the community?
Anyone have any news on this?
Nice way to reply to someone voicing an honest emotional opinion.
Can't you do telnet reboots, or am I just ignorant?
My job is pretty cool, though I am stuck in a cubical all day, it's still like collecting a check at the end of the week for doing what I love. Granted, I still make time to go out, and I never work past 6 as a rule, but I always get here at 8 in the morning and work the whole day through, eating lunch at my desk, but I don't even mind it, the stress is low, I get all the soda and juice I can drink, and I can run linux on my box, and noone cares. Sure there are deadlines, but I (and most geeks I think) strive under them.
Now, I know some people are maybe more dedicated, and have a more fun office environment, so they're more likely to stick around for the long hours, and that may burn them out, and ya, maybe someday unions will be the answer (especially in the large corporate environments), but now, there's enough demand that we can take our talent and walk, that is, if we're in a city with enough jobs in our field.
I'm Lame!
but honestly, this is something distrubing, and all the people who just say, "Find a new job", well, it ain't always just that easy, cuz you're afraid to loose the things you love about the job you've got.
"Thus, in contrast to a conventional computer, quantum registers can perform single operations on combinatorial sets of data, making them far more powerful."
This sounds pretty rad. I used to read all kinds of stuff about quantum physics, and Niels Bohr is one of my heros, I'm glad stuff like this is finding some real practical applications.
'Pirates' was about the personalities behind the PC revolution. My mom spent 10 years working for Apple and being within what she calls the "Apple culture". She has met Woz, Steve Jobs, and all of those CEO's that apple went through. I was able to watch the movie with her and she said that the personalites that were portrayed in the movie were 100% accurate, and that the strange unity/devisiveness within the apple culture was accurate as well.
She was brought aboard apple in 1987 when Apple was phasing(sp?) out the Apple ][ series and trying to convince people to buy these new Macintosh's. Her job was to sell to school districts and to convince them that this was the way to go. Then last year, she was laid off due to the downsizing of the education sales force.
When all is said and done, she says she really liked Woz, that he was indeed a kind human being who was into the art of being a geek, and that Job's was an "arrogant SOB". Plus I got some pretty cool stuff out of growing up in a house where I had lots of cool hardware around me, and going down to the engineers area at the Apple offices was always fun. Plus, I got a dollar bill signed by Woz, which, if you know the story about Woz and $2 bills and the US government coming after him for defacement, it was pretty hard to convince him to sign it. And I got a little nameplate from one of the original Lisa boxes that I have taped to the front of my new G3 (which, incidentally, runs Linux and not MacOS).
Does anyone else remember the Newton? Why did they kill that thing? I always thought it was pretty cool, and the writing style was more natural than that Palm Pilot style.
'He then went on to say that it was a capitalist tradition to screw your competitors over and it was "what the USA was founded on!"'
Well, he's kinda correct
The USA was founded on enslavement, genocide, and the mass accumulation of wealth.
I agree that freedom was a key ideal of the founding fathers, and thank god we've grown past alot of the racism, sexism, bigotry and puritanical religious intolerance that we used to have; but screwing over people is clearly a part of our national heritage.
I thought I saw this on the Hash mailing list about a week ago, pretty cool stuff.
Lots of good things said more eloquently then I could have put them. We definitely need more Taoist quotes in articles too! :)
Go read the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, especially Chapter 17.
No, I just think the indian government has gone to shit in recent years.
With open firmware in Linuxppc, I can run my big 20 inch non-multisync monitor in Linuxppc, cause it detects it on startup and sets it to the proper resolution so that the monitor syncs.
I run linuxPPC and macos, and I used to have problems with sleep in macos, when I left my box running the distributed.net client, I'd come back a half hour later and the damn thing would be sleeping, even after I quit all other apps (including the Finder).
Whats more, everybody should be running the rc5 client, nobodies box should have time to sleep!
:)
Good question.
I dunno, If I got too much time on my hands, or if I'm a masocist.
I use mac and linux, and I must say, the Mac UI is pretty dang spiffy. Enlightenment is the only big leap forward in OS UI development since the macintosh, and, we all have to admit, alot of window managers and other OS's are designed to look and act alot like the Mac UI.
You can only do so much with javascript and mouseOver() images. Form widgets, for example, can't be customized with Javascript. I'm not that proficient in javascript, but I've never seen it done. I'd love to see themeable widgets though, that would open up alot of UI possiblilities, we've been stuck with accepting the old plain grey widgets ever since Mosaic.
So, let me get something straight, this canvas thing is what's telling the X server how to spit pixels out to the screen, and this new version supports on the fly anti-aliasing and alpha channel compositing? Neat. So that means that the mouse cursor will be antialiased and icons will be anti-aliased and the edges can be feathered and cool stuff like that?
I've said it before on /. and I'll say it again, we need to get organized. If we accept the conditions do nothing, then we deserve what we get. I read about a group of workers, at Microsoft of all places, that are forming a pseudo-union in Wired magazine.
And cut the crap, we aren't "professionals" the way doctors and lawyers are professionals, they don't work 60 hours a week for $30,000. We're workers, just like factory hands, and we need to face up to the problems that many in our field are going through.
99% of why I buy a computer is because of whats under the hood. But I keep my towers on my desk, cause I like em there, and everyone likes to have nice looking furniture that is sometimes a conversation piece, and beige boxes just aren't that. Apple struck a big nerve with the iMac.
Whenever I get computers I always end up covering them with stickers (usually obscure punk-rock bands) or something like that, just to lively the thing up.
I don't know cars, so I care how a car looks. I do know computers, so I don't care how they look. I think it pretty much works like that, and as computers get more mainstream, we're gunna see alot more boxes designed to appeal to the eye.
It's like cars, some people just want a good, efficient machine, some people want something that just looks good, others want a nice looking car with a big engine under the hood.
Computers will be the same way in years to come.
I have an ugly G3 minitower, but I cover the thing in punk-rock stickers, so it ends up looking good.
My G3 kicked ass in the DES-II, under macos and linux, doing about 1.3 megakeys a second.