The ultimate irony then is Spyglsss/Disney releasing this film. Adams need only sit back and watch it be ruined.
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that author when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the
first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that author down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and
VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this author wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
Owner: No no! 'E's pining for the fjords!
Mr. Praline: 'PINING FOR THE FJORDS???? E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This author is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e
rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the
bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-AUTHOR!!
For news, and timely information certainly the internet is the place I turn. The evening "News" is so corporate owned and supported that I don't really consider it a reliable source for information. Besides, I don't really know exactly what I get out of keeping up with how many people were murdered or died in fires in the tri-state NY metro area (there is a LOT of that on the news). So, I've just stopped watching. I was never much of a newspaper reader, but of course there is always the New York Times and many other newspapers that bring the information to you with a nice bow on it so you don't have to go scouring elsewhere. But if scouring is your style and you are a real information junky, the scouring certainly isn't that hard.
But if I am going to learn anything in-depth certainly books -dead tree media- is the way to be. My upper limit of reading an article on the crt is about 10 pages. Your mileage will vary there, of course it's highly individual. But maybe that's why places where the information is in digested for you allowing you to scan many stories at once and sample them all, because lengthy readings on a computer monitor are more tedious than kicking back and reading a book.
I hope that information will someday be " free as in beer " for everyone. Now if you are born poor you will most likely stay poor... and this is changing. The internet has been a great gift to everyone... it brings people of all income levels to an even playing field.
To quote Qeen Victoria:
"Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them"
Can the same be said for information? Which would you think is better for society?
Star Trek has always been about merchandising. Leonard Nimoy's famous falling out with Saint Gene started when he wouldn't wear some Junior Star Fleet item they were merchandising. Even all that fancy philosophising is just marketing -- Roddenbery wanted to be studio mogul, not a Great Thinker. Alas, he had no talent for either.
I remember reading this story in Shatner's ST:Memories autobiog. The item in question was the IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infitite Combinations), and Nimoy and Shatner ultimately caved and went with it. If I remember correctly both Shatner and Nimoy threatened to walk off the set over this, but Roddenberry refused to back down. Roddenberry was just beginning to realize that there was money to be made at these Sci-Fi cons and saw it as a cheesy way to make a fast buck which both Shatner and Nimoy saw through immediately. It happened on the 3rd and last season of trek when G.R. had almost no involvement in trek anymore and had moved his offices off the paramount lot over to another studio (Fox?) where he was working on a non sci-fi movie project that was supposed to have some big stars in it. But the movie never went anywhere, and died quietly without many people notcicing.
It was nothing more than a cynical marketing ploy.But the IDIC has turned up in every incarnation of Trek ever since.
I heard a story about this on the radio this morning. A representative for the RIAA stated that "If a hacker is really determined, he's obviously going to figure it out". It's good, I suppose that they are at least bright enough to realize this. But my question is if they do aleady realize this, why are they even bothering? Are there any "determined hackers" out there who may be reading this? How long's it gonna take...probably not much longer than it will for me to finish this sente...
I don't even have a PC because i can do everything i need with my current Amiga.
Let me guess. Just taking a wild guess, you're not anywhere in the Good Ole USofA, and somewhere across the pond. Somewhere where you can either take the "chunnel" to the main contenent (or vice versa) or somesuch place where there are "Biergartens" everywhere.
If BSD is dead, what the heck is AmigaOS? It was a great platform for it's time, however. Please don't misunderstand me to be an "Amiga Basher".* Who else was preemptively multitasking with a desktop OS back in 1990? No one, at least not on a commercial scale so large. And let's not forget AMIX, the Amiga Unix! The integration with video and sound was unprecedented. ASTOUNDING, even! Sexy machines they were way back when. And those CHIPS! Those wonderful lusty CHIPS!!!**
But, alas, it would seem a decade's worth of lack of software and hardware development renders it about as irrelevant as you can get.
And since Amiga OS 4 is Linux based, why do we need to PAY for Linux based "Amiga" OS? We can just cut out the middleman and run Linux on the hardware. But the new Amiga hardware is sorta spendy, so why not just buy an Intel box and install Linux there? And you can emulate the Amiga environment on top of Linux just fine to boot. Which is really what they're doing with OS 4 , I'm afraid!
If you're a real Amiga enthusiast out of a sense of nostalgia, there's always eBay. I think nostalgia is a perfectly fine reason to be collecting hardware, I can totally appreciate that sentiment. What I would most definitely *NOT* do is try to use this old hardware to get any real work done. I know what time it is!;)
But is this new Amiga hardware really "Amiga" just because a buncha German folk are saying it is? To me, what makes an Amiga is chips. Chips that are highly specialized and each of them doing their jobs very well, robustly and with gusto. Does this new Amiga board have modern analogue of those wonderful old chips? I have to say, I really have an honestly hard time understanding a country who can't stop using an outmoded computer brandname amd who considers David Hasselhoff to be a major pop music sensation! I think I can actually understand the odd French peoccupation with Jerry Lewis a tad bit better than either of those two traits.
*Despite the fact that bash does run under OS 4.
**And so were the names of the chips. Denise, Paula, Amber, Alice, Gayle, Lisa, Akiko, Grace. Those names had style. Even Gary and Budgie and Ramsey had class, tho not "sexy" names per se like the aforementioned.;) I tell you what though, those chips are *FUN TO PROGRAM* even in this day and age.
Isn't Quicksilver the model of an Apple G4? Stop confusing us!
:::sound of slashdot crickets:::
Sorry this comment didn't quite rate a "+5 Funny". But it may not be that Slashdot is trying to confuse your poor little mellon. It may be more the case that in this wonderful little essay Stephenson wrote about a few years back Stephenson reveals himself to have been at one time a real Apple fiend.
In it, he describes how he sadly left the Apple fold after his beloved blackbird powerbook ate a story he was working on. It was (according to him) irretrievably lost. He then embarked on a journey through other operating systems (including BeOS and WinNT)that culminated into a real enthusiasm for Linux.
But that essay was written a while ago, so maybe since the move to OS X he's come back to Apple.
Perhaps he was writing his new book on his new Apple hardware and thinking to himself "Title...title...hmmmm...what to all this wonderful new story of mine...ah-HA!"
Yeah, but I figured that the blatant comparisons to Jesus Christ would be enough ego-tripping for Lucas.
Then again, that only offended a handful of Christians. Maybe he's thinking bigger now, so he's throwing Moses into the mix to get the Jews and Muslims pissed too. > According to this article in Salon Lucas stated for Time magazine in 1977 that Star Wars was "just for fun". But as the movie became a pop culture milestone, he began dropping Joseph Campbell's name (in the author of the Salon articles supposition) to lend the movie a bit more "legitamacy".
The article also supposes that Campbell himself (who was to that point a somewhat obscure Sarah Lawrency academic) was pleased as punch to have his name linked to the Hollywood blockbuster. Certainly couldn't hurt the sales of some of his books, now could it?
Ever since then Lucas has been shamelessly borrowing these grand mythological archetypes. Though in the case of "the immaculate conception" yes, Jesus was one of the more obvious choices. But this motif has run through many different cultures over the centuries, not just referring our homeboy J.C.
We already know how the movie franchise ends. Vader dies, balance is restored. See this link for more about it.
Weisenheimer! If you read a little more carefully you'll see that I said:I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Note, what I did NOT say is that Ep III is how the story will end. But, again, unless Lucas changes his mind* THIS is how the movie franchise will end. You wanna pick nits? Let's pick some nits! Yeeeeeaah! C'MOWN!!! How ya like me now???;P
*Of note is that therobot 4-LOM stood for "For love of Money". And where money is the motivating factor, I don't think we can entirely rule out the last trilogy ever being made.
Apparently, TheForce.net has taken it upon themselves to produce Episode VII. After the prequels, how badly could it suck? Might be worth a read for the diehard...
here is a quick taste of what the story for episode III might be like (either taken from Lucas' journal in 1983, or just a fake from an insider way back then)."
Hmmm...Where have I known that taste before? Ah yes! The well familiar taste of bullshit! And when this guy was done writing "Ep III" he might well have tried his hand at another brand of fan fiction.
Lucas' stroytelling prowess seems to have diminished with the ensuing decades after Jedi, but have they diminished this much? I sincerely doubt it. Even taking Ep I into consideration.
Face it folks. We're waiting until the release date.
AS much as my enjoyment of the franchise has diminished with age (damn you adulthood!!!) I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Until Lucas changes his mind and decides once more to make the last trilogy
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In an age where clusters are becoming more prevalent for parallel computing I've often wondered where the parallel processor was. How about you?"
Danny Hillis, the guy who founded ThinkingMachines designed a mchine called The Connection Machine, (this story has a cooler, more sci-fi lookin' pic of the old beastie) the central design philosophy was to achieve MASSIVE computing power through parallelism. It had 65,535 procs, each of lived on a wafer with dram thereon and a high bandwidth connection to up to (if I remember correctly) up to 4 other of the procs. Young sir Danny wrote a book on his exploits, well worth checking out (seemingly, it's been calling to me from my bookshelf for about a year now).
I remember readsing back in the early '90s an article comparing the computer technology of the Apollo moon missions to the consumer grade tech then in use. It said that even a "relatively low powered 486 laptop had more power than all of the computer technology in use by NASA as a whole during the Apollo era".
It would be interesting to see how various tech now in common use would stack up against that criteria. It's the sort of thing that fires the imagination. For instance, I wonder how much more processing power a PS2 or even PS1 or an outdated 1GHz Athlon has in comparison to something as mindblowing as sending humans to the moon and returning them safely to Earth.
From the story: "When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
Who knew that Slashdot trolls were writing articles at FoxNews?
This sounds really wonderful for the implementation of Apple Hardware by Uncle Sam. But one Gov't market the likley won't be able to penetrate is that of the Navy/Marine Corp intranet! That is one bigass contract they are not going to be able to take advantage of because of the decision to standardize on Windoze 2000. "Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!"
As reported in this older/. story it's the largest federal IT project ever undertaken! The goal is to get as many people as they could up to a reasonable level of modernity. Some of those sorry fuckers are STILL using wordstar and the tech of similar vintage! So I guess that even Win2k would be somewhat of an improvementin those select cases. I'll bet however that some of the other branches are going to have to give up their brand new Apple hardware due to the new standardization (those mil outfits are a true tower of Babel!) are going to be *reeeealllly* unhappy!
The Navy/Marine Corps intranet is being used as a template for the tech that the "Dept. Of Homeland Security" will use. Fortunatley, for the time being anyway, that department seems as largely fictional as the name is ominous. Fictional in the sense that the departments that are supposed to be talking to one another in a free flow of information...aren't. Not even to mention that in true 'big gov't' fashion the project is massively over budget and deadlines keep getting pushed back further and further.
If you love this stuff like I do, and want a very nice replica of an "Altair Style" retrobox, the Imsai has been made available again(albeit at a slightly exorbitant price)....
I for one will definitely pony up the $2bux this guy is asking for his Apple replica long before I can afford one of those old Imsais. Much as I want one, I ain't exactly rolling in dough sadly. Just pricked my finger, noticed my blood ain't blue enough.:(
given that.Net is really just Redmon-sanctified Java? Given that this is the case, how yummy could an MS targeted development platform get? Of course, my.Net is Java. On OS X. Thanks MS, but no thanks.
I seeO'Reilly has a book on this topic on the way. I wonder how it'll stack up. At least we can be reasonably sure that it'll be up to date. O'Reilly usually gets it right. Guess we'll just have to see. I personally looking forward to see how it'll stack up.
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The ultimate irony then is Spyglsss/Disney releasing this film. Adams need only sit back and watch it be ruined.
Mr. Praline: Look, I took the liberty of examining that author when I got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had been sitting on its perch in the first place was that it had been NAILED there.
(pause)
Owner: Well, o'course it was nailed there! If I hadn't nailed that author down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee!
Mr. Praline: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this author wouldn't "voom" if you put four million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
Owner: No no! 'E's pining for the fjords!
Mr. Praline: 'PINING FOR THE FJORDS???? E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This author is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-AUTHOR!!
For news, and timely information certainly the internet is the place I turn. The evening "News" is so corporate owned and supported that I don't really consider it a reliable source for information. Besides, I don't really know exactly what I get out of keeping up with how many people were murdered or died in fires in the tri-state NY metro area (there is a LOT of that on the news). So, I've just stopped watching. I was never much of a newspaper reader, but of course there is always the New York Times and many other newspapers that bring the information to you with a nice bow on it so you don't have to go scouring elsewhere. But if scouring is your style and you are a real information junky, the scouring certainly isn't that hard.
But if I am going to learn anything in-depth certainly books -dead tree media- is the way to be. My upper limit of reading an article on the crt is about 10 pages. Your mileage will vary there, of course it's highly individual. But maybe that's why places where the information is in digested for you allowing you to scan many stories at once and sample them all, because lengthy readings on a computer monitor are more tedious than kicking back and reading a book.
OF COURSE they use Linux in Hollywood! It's the natural choice of evil supergeniuses everywhere! What's that? Still not convinced? Allow me to present exhibit 'A'!
I hope that information will someday be " free as in beer " for everyone. Now if you are born poor you will most likely stay poor... and this is changing. The internet has been a great gift to everyone... it brings people of all income levels to an even playing field.
To quote Qeen Victoria:
"Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them"
Can the same be said for information? Which would you think is better for society?
Would everyone who just though of mentioning SCO's markup of 699% please add their post below.
And before the trolls turn up, I know 699% of nothing is nothing, but it was the best I could do at this time of night.
Slight error in the above figure. I believe the 10th power and 1st power are upside-down.
Not Matrix or SW related. But there is ST themed really high quality and ambitious fan fiction that you may enjoy. That is, if fan fictioning is your kick.
Star Trek has always been about merchandising. Leonard Nimoy's famous falling out with Saint Gene started when he wouldn't wear some Junior Star Fleet item they were merchandising. Even all that fancy philosophising is just marketing -- Roddenbery wanted to be studio mogul, not a Great Thinker. Alas, he had no talent for either.
I remember reading this story in Shatner's ST:Memories autobiog. The item in question was the IDIC (Infinite Diversity in Infitite Combinations), and Nimoy and Shatner ultimately caved and went with it. If I remember correctly both Shatner and Nimoy threatened to walk off the set over this, but Roddenberry refused to back down. Roddenberry was just beginning to realize that there was money to be made at these Sci-Fi cons and saw it as a cheesy way to make a fast buck which both Shatner and Nimoy saw through immediately. It happened on the 3rd and last season of trek when G.R. had almost no involvement in trek anymore and had moved his offices off the paramount lot over to another studio (Fox?) where he was working on a non sci-fi movie project that was supposed to have some big stars in it. But the movie never went anywhere, and died quietly without many people notcicing.
It was nothing more than a cynical marketing ploy.But the IDIC has turned up in every incarnation of Trek ever since.
I heard a story about this on the radio this morning. A representative for the RIAA stated that "If a hacker is really determined, he's obviously going to figure it out". It's good, I suppose that they are at least bright enough to realize this. But my question is if they do aleady realize this, why are they even bothering? Are there any "determined hackers" out there who may be reading this? How long's it gonna take...probably not much longer than it will for me to finish this sente...
I don't even have a PC because i can do everything i need with my current Amiga.
Let me guess. Just taking a wild guess, you're not anywhere in the Good Ole USofA, and somewhere across the pond. Somewhere where you can either take the "chunnel" to the main contenent (or vice versa) or somesuch place where there are "Biergartens" everywhere.
I keed, I keed because I love...
If BSD is dead, what the heck is AmigaOS? It was a great platform for it's time, however. Please don't misunderstand me to be an "Amiga Basher".* Who else was preemptively multitasking with a desktop OS back in 1990? No one, at least not on a commercial scale so large. And let's not forget AMIX, the Amiga Unix! The integration with video and sound was unprecedented. ASTOUNDING, even! Sexy machines they were way back when. And those CHIPS! Those wonderful lusty CHIPS!!!**
;)
;) I tell you what though, those chips are *FUN TO PROGRAM* even in this day and age.
But, alas, it would seem a decade's worth of lack of software and hardware development renders it about as irrelevant as you can get.
And since Amiga OS 4 is Linux based, why do we need to PAY for Linux based "Amiga" OS? We can just cut out the middleman and run Linux on the hardware. But the new Amiga hardware is sorta spendy, so why not just buy an Intel box and install Linux there? And you can emulate the Amiga environment on top of Linux just fine to boot. Which is really what they're doing with OS 4 , I'm afraid!
If you're a real Amiga enthusiast out of a sense of nostalgia, there's always eBay. I think nostalgia is a perfectly fine reason to be collecting hardware, I can totally appreciate that sentiment. What I would most definitely *NOT* do is try to use this old hardware to get any real work done. I know what time it is!
But is this new Amiga hardware really "Amiga" just because a buncha German folk are saying it is? To me, what makes an Amiga is chips. Chips that are highly specialized and each of them doing their jobs very well, robustly and with gusto. Does this new Amiga board have modern analogue of those wonderful old chips? I have to say, I really have an honestly hard time understanding a country who can't stop using an outmoded computer brandname amd who considers David Hasselhoff to be a major pop music sensation! I think I can actually understand the odd French peoccupation with Jerry Lewis a tad bit better than either of those two traits.
*Despite the fact that bash does run under OS 4.
**And so were the names of the chips. Denise, Paula, Amber, Alice, Gayle, Lisa, Akiko, Grace. Those names had style. Even Gary and Budgie and Ramsey had class, tho not "sexy" names per se like the aforementioned.
Isn't Quicksilver the model of an Apple G4? Stop confusing us!
:::sound of slashdot crickets:::
Sorry this comment didn't quite rate a "+5 Funny". But it may not be that Slashdot is trying to confuse your poor little mellon. It may be more the case that in this wonderful little essay Stephenson wrote about a few years back Stephenson reveals himself to have been at one time a real Apple fiend.
In it, he describes how he sadly left the Apple fold after his beloved blackbird powerbook ate a story he was working on. It was (according to him) irretrievably lost. He then embarked on a journey through other operating systems (including BeOS and WinNT)that culminated into a real enthusiasm for Linux.
But that essay was written a while ago, so maybe since the move to OS X he's come back to Apple.
Perhaps he was writing his new book on his new Apple hardware and thinking to himself "Title...title...hmmmm...what to all this wonderful new story of mine...ah-HA!"
Yeah, but I figured that the blatant comparisons to Jesus Christ would be enough ego-tripping for Lucas.
Then again, that only offended a handful of Christians. Maybe he's thinking bigger now, so he's throwing Moses into the mix to get the Jews and Muslims pissed too.
>
According to this article in Salon Lucas stated for Time magazine in 1977 that Star Wars was "just for fun". But as the movie became a pop culture milestone, he began dropping Joseph Campbell's name (in the author of the Salon articles supposition) to lend the movie a bit more "legitamacy".
The article also supposes that Campbell himself (who was to that point a somewhat obscure Sarah Lawrency academic) was pleased as punch to have his name linked to the Hollywood blockbuster. Certainly couldn't hurt the sales of some of his books, now could it?
Ever since then Lucas has been shamelessly borrowing these grand mythological archetypes. Though in the case of "the immaculate conception" yes, Jesus was one of the more obvious choices. But this motif has run through many different cultures over the centuries, not just referring our homeboy J.C.
We already know how the movie franchise ends. Vader dies, balance is restored. See this link for more about it.
;P
Weisenheimer! If you read a little more carefully you'll see that I said: I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Note, what I did NOT say is that Ep III is how the story will end. But, again, unless Lucas changes his mind* THIS is how the movie franchise will end. You wanna pick nits? Let's pick some nits! Yeeeeeaah! C'MOWN!!! How ya like me now???
*Of note is that therobot 4-LOM stood for "For love of Money". And where money is the motivating factor, I don't think we can entirely rule out the last trilogy ever being made.
Apparently, TheForce.net has taken it upon themselves to produce Episode VII. After the prequels, how badly could it suck? Might be worth a read for the diehard...
here is a quick taste of what the story for episode III might be like (either taken from Lucas' journal in 1983, or just a fake from an insider way back then)."
Hmmm...Where have I known that taste before? Ah yes! The well familiar taste of bullshit! And when this guy was done writing "Ep III" he might well have tried his hand at another brand of fan fiction.
Lucas' stroytelling prowess seems to have diminished with the ensuing decades after Jedi, but have they diminished this much? I sincerely doubt it. Even taking Ep I into consideration.
Face it folks. We're waiting until the release date.
AS much as my enjoyment of the franchise has diminished with age (damn you adulthood!!!) I am intrigued to see how the movie franchise will end.
Until Lucas changes his mind and decides once more to make the last trilogy
In an age where clusters are becoming more prevalent for parallel computing I've often wondered where the parallel processor was. How about you?"
Danny Hillis, the guy who founded ThinkingMachines designed a mchine called The Connection Machine, (this story has a cooler, more sci-fi lookin' pic of the old beastie) the central design philosophy was to achieve MASSIVE computing power through parallelism. It had 65,535 procs, each of lived on a wafer with dram thereon and a high bandwidth connection to up to (if I remember correctly) up to 4 other of the procs. Young sir Danny wrote a book on his exploits, well worth checking out (seemingly, it's been calling to me from my bookshelf for about a year now).
And as someone pointed out, it seems we've seen this topic before. I'd have modded him up, (hint, hint) but I really like mentioning the connection machine where appropriate.
I remember readsing back in the early '90s an article comparing the computer technology of the Apollo moon missions to the consumer grade tech then in use. It said that even a "relatively low powered 486 laptop had more power than all of the computer technology in use by NASA as a whole during the Apollo era".
It would be interesting to see how various tech now in common use would stack up against that criteria. It's the sort of thing that fires the imagination. For instance, I wonder how much more processing power a PS2 or even PS1 or an outdated 1GHz Athlon has in comparison to something as mindblowing as sending humans to the moon and returning them safely to Earth.
What to buy...what to buy...hmmm...hmmm...just can't decide how much I'd like to spend! I need to get my hands on a copy of BSD to host my site! Stat!
It really is a Joy to leave Sun. ...
Thank you, I'll be here all evening. :-)
:::sound of slashdot crickets:::
From the story:
"When reporters visited teh apartment last night, Brianna -- who her mom says is an honors student -- was helping her brother with his homework."
Who knew that Slashdot trolls were writing articles at FoxNews?
IANAS, but:
- Graphical representation of turbulance systems?
- Wheather analysis?
- Any graphical representation of Chaotic systems?
Like I said, IANAS, but there HAS to be a reason, methinks.This sounds really wonderful for the implementation of Apple Hardware by Uncle Sam. But one Gov't market the likley won't be able to penetrate is that of the Navy/Marine Corp intranet! That is one bigass contract they are not going to be able to take advantage of because of the decision to standardize on Windoze 2000. "Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!"
/. story it's the largest federal IT project ever undertaken! The goal is to get as many people as they could up to a reasonable level of modernity. Some of those sorry fuckers are STILL using wordstar and the tech of similar vintage! So I guess that even Win2k would be somewhat of an improvementin those select cases. I'll bet however that some of the other branches are going to have to give up their brand new Apple hardware due to the new standardization (those mil outfits are a true tower of Babel!) are going to be *reeeealllly* unhappy!
As reported in this older
The Navy/Marine Corps intranet is being used as a template for the tech that the "Dept. Of Homeland Security" will use. Fortunatley, for the time being anyway, that department seems as largely fictional as the name is ominous. Fictional in the sense that the departments that are supposed to be talking to one another in a free flow of information...aren't. Not even to mention that in true 'big gov't' fashion the project is massively over budget and deadlines keep getting pushed back further and further.
Go Uncle Sam! *yeesh*
If you love this stuff like I do, and want a very nice replica of an "Altair Style" retrobox, the Imsai has been made available again(albeit at a slightly exorbitant price)....
I for one will definitely pony up the $2bux this guy is asking for his Apple replica long before I can afford one of those old Imsais. Much as I want one, I ain't exactly rolling in dough sadly. Just pricked my finger, noticed my blood ain't blue enough.
given that .Net is really just Redmon-sanctified Java? Given that this is the case, how yummy could an MS targeted development platform get? Of course, my .Net is Java. On OS X. Thanks MS, but no thanks.
I seeO'Reilly has a book on this topic on the way. I wonder how it'll stack up. At least we can be reasonably sure that it'll be up to date. O'Reilly usually gets it right. Guess we'll just have to see. I personally looking forward to see how it'll stack up.