with such a sig as above why would anyone take an obvious *theocrat* seriously on a subject discussing scientific approaches to understanding life, non-superstitious ideas of what reality is?
I really don't think they're going to put out a competing desktop....
But it could be that the best use for RedHat is to have them in part create a very robust OS/environment for ITV applictions. For a device that is part of the "Home Theater" not part of a desk top.
(Or the potential use could be for mobile devices.)
The PC desktop is a battle that is already won and going back and trying to fight it again is incredibly up-hill, but there are new battles emerging over as yet undetermined territory... and AOL/TW might have better odds in these new battles than old ones, if they have RedHat and it's staff.
messing with genetics is the apogee of human arrogance, it tops how we've dealt with the environment. there are many other issues to explore that are less mysterious and far more perplexing, pressing, and fixable.
anyway enough ethics, most don't seem to think ethics is relative to science anyway (except for SF writers, and a few truly smart people),... here's a more practical and useful opinion:
next time you are in Osaka make sure to try Fugu Shabu Shabu.... mmmmm, the best meal i've ever had:)
god this sucks, i'm traveling on business (have to launch a major auto racing web site by 2/1) and am here in atlanta, and this damn ritz-carlton hotel does not carry the sci-fi channel... so even though its being repeted three times each night i'm totally SOL... doh!
An important skill in reading comprehension is understanding who is speaking to whom, and where you fit in relation to that discussion.
The average gamespy audience is not the typical slashdot audience. Is "gamespy" a monolithic corporate voice, or a group of people sharing some common goals with a fair amount of independant expression?
...
Gaming, like porn, could do more than many expect to advance current technology. Especially given that many earthlings next or only computer _may be_ a (game) console device such as a PS2, Indrema, or Dreamcast. After all, going forward the Dreamcast is really best thought of as a WinCE based, Java capable, net console, that also plays some pretty kickass games for a 128bit graphics system with a total of only 24MB of RAM.
so, does anybody know if the distros out there that are _aggressively_ trying to increase the number of linux Users (ppl who spend ~5% of the time as su or root) are using or hiring Usability and Interface professionals, or firms to perform usability and experience testing and user research?
it seems that much of the experience of linux is the result of decisions by The Community who are, of course among the most literate users out there, but are not necessarily the best at creating good user experiences and usable products.
what has been done to date is in fact amazing, but now that linux is getting more attention and companies based on linux are public and worth millions or billions perhaps a great deal of attention can now be placed on the usability of linux by the growing usability/information design/interface design professions.
linux to date has been almost entirely an active group of Root Users, and Super Users. but now there is a growing need and demand for linux by users who spend 95% of their time as Users. (and many of these would-be-Users are reading slashdot and trying to install the current crop of distros.)
the friction between the elite and the plebes has been ever present-- from the western european monks who did not want people to learn to read, and after just reading Steven Levy's Hackers i would say this friction sounds similar to the MIT hackers of the 50s and 60s who did not want deal with the Real World and remain in an esoteric utopia, and similar to the big hardware manufactures of the 70s who _laughed_ at Wozniak's idea of a home computer for the masses... ha!
so does a 'Community Group on Linux User Experience and Usability' sound way to idealistic? how about a weblog about the human side of computer interface? how about a Open Source Usability Group which is funded by various for profit groups? (Do groups like this exist already?)
here's an other history/timeline i found while recently searching for digital subscriber line info...
this timeline of 'of Hypertext History' spans the past five thousand years... and apparently hasn't been update in a while but i find it interesting despite this...
http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.html
-ration8
Wow, the new preferences are COOL!!!!!
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Hey there fellow Slashdot readers did you know that Slashdot's improved preferences allow you to make this site "tag line" compliant?
Why yes, Slashdot's preferences allow registered users incredible personalization, check it out now my funk soul brothers!
I can finally remove Mr. Katz's time-magazine-like puke-- thank you Slashdot, thank you! Now Slashdot's site will be 100% compatible with it's tag line:
new that nerds. stuff that matters.
And ya' know, Slashot may just want to keep Katz as an excellent incentive to motivate ppl to register! now if they could only allow me to get him out of the 'features' section... i just may give out my zip code for that...;)
Katz = verbose form of the "BLINK" tag????
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"The Information Architects of the Web are creating new kinds of wall-less, linked structures never."
Excuse me!!! If he can't control his vowel movements then the only way to deal with him is to buy him some adult diapers and send him off to Time magazine where he can write for print...
I love slashdot.
I find Katz un-useful.
I read the other interesting posts and news articles, most of which offer implicit commentary on what is going on, for those of us who are paying attention.
John Katz writes for some audience that is not the audience that make slashdot, slashdot.
Reading through slashdot and then coming up to a Katz "post" is like those really anoying porn banners that won't go away and spawn new banner windows.
Katz is like spam to slashdot. Spam Katz. Splatz. slashdot has the Splatz.
NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ! NO MORE SPLATZ!
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"...one nation, under God, indivisible..."
with such a sig as above why would anyone take an obvious *theocrat* seriously on a subject discussing scientific approaches to understanding life, non-superstitious ideas of what reality is?
I really don't think they're going to put out a competing desktop....
But it could be that the best use for RedHat is to have them in part create a very robust OS/environment for ITV applictions. For a device that is part of the "Home Theater" not part of a desk top.
(Or the potential use could be for mobile devices.)
The PC desktop is a battle that is already won and going back and trying to fight it again is incredibly up-hill, but there are new battles emerging over as yet undetermined territory... and AOL/TW might have better odds in these new battles than old ones, if they have RedHat and it's staff.
anyway enough ethics, most don't seem to think ethics is relative to science anyway (except for SF writers, and a few truly smart people),... here's a more practical and useful opinion:
next time you are in Osaka make sure to try Fugu Shabu Shabu.... mmmmm, the best meal i've ever had
god this sucks, i'm traveling on business (have to launch a major auto racing web site by 2/1) and am here in atlanta, and this damn ritz-carlton hotel does not carry the sci-fi channel... so even though its being repeted three times each night i'm totally SOL... doh!
An important skill in reading comprehension is understanding who is speaking to whom, and where you fit in relation to that discussion.
The average gamespy audience is not the typical slashdot audience. Is "gamespy" a monolithic corporate voice, or a group of people sharing some common goals with a fair amount of independant expression?
...
Gaming, like porn, could do more than many expect to advance current technology. Especially given that many earthlings next or only computer _may be_ a (game) console device such as a PS2, Indrema, or Dreamcast. After all, going forward the Dreamcast is really best thought of as a WinCE based, Java capable, net console, that also plays some pretty kickass games for a 128bit graphics system with a total of only 24MB of RAM.
when you will be able to have 6 gigs of trax on one of these:
x /specs.html
F COWFCM.html
http://www.nomadworld.com/products/nomad-jukebo
and
http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/elect/0001E
[scroll down the page and look for the Creative/Nomad player]
so, does anybody know if the distros out there that are _aggressively_ trying to increase the number of linux Users (ppl who spend ~5% of the time as su or root) are using or hiring Usability and Interface professionals, or firms to perform usability and experience testing and user research?
it seems that much of the experience of linux is the result of decisions by The Community who are, of course among the most literate users out there, but are not necessarily the best at creating good user experiences and usable products.
what has been done to date is in fact amazing, but now that linux is getting more attention and companies based on linux are public and worth millions or billions perhaps a great deal of attention can now be placed on the usability of linux by the growing usability/information design/interface design professions.
linux to date has been almost entirely an active group of Root Users, and Super Users. but now there is a growing need and demand for linux by users who spend 95% of their time as Users. (and many of these would-be-Users are reading slashdot and trying to install the current crop of distros.)
the friction between the elite and the plebes has been ever present-- from the western european monks who did not want people to learn to read, and after just reading Steven Levy's Hackers i would say this friction sounds similar to the MIT hackers of the 50s and 60s who did not want deal with the Real World and remain in an esoteric utopia, and similar to the big hardware manufactures of the 70s who _laughed_ at Wozniak's idea of a home computer for the masses... ha!
so does a 'Community Group on Linux User Experience and Usability' sound way to idealistic? how about a weblog about the human side of computer interface? how about a Open Source Usability Group which is funded by various for profit groups? (Do groups like this exist already?)
just my 2 pesos, and some ideas...
-neotint
here's an other history/timeline i found while recently searching for digital subscriber line info...
this timeline of 'of Hypertext History' spans the past five thousand years... and apparently hasn't been update in a while but i find it interesting despite this...
http://www.robotwisdom.com/web/timeline.html
-ration8
Hey there fellow Slashdot readers did you know that Slashdot's improved preferences allow you to make this site "tag line" compliant?
;)
Why yes, Slashdot's preferences allow registered users incredible personalization, check it out now my funk soul brothers!
I can finally remove Mr. Katz's time-magazine-like puke-- thank you Slashdot, thank you! Now Slashdot's site will be 100% compatible with it's tag line:
new that nerds. stuff that matters.
And ya' know, Slashot may just want to keep Katz as an excellent incentive to motivate ppl to register! now if they could only allow me to get him out of the 'features' section... i just may give out my zip code for that...
"The Information Architects of the Web are creating new kinds of wall-less, linked structures never."
Excuse me!!! If he can't control his vowel movements then the only way to deal with him is to buy him some adult diapers and send him off to Time magazine where he can write for print...
I love slashdot.
I find Katz un-useful.
I read the other interesting posts and news articles, most of which offer implicit commentary on what is going on, for those of us who are paying attention.
John Katz writes for some audience that is not the audience that make slashdot, slashdot.
Reading through slashdot and then coming up to a Katz "post" is like those really anoying porn banners that won't go away and spawn new banner windows.
Katz is like spam to slashdot.
Spam Katz.
Splatz.
slashdot has the Splatz.
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!
NO MORE SPLATZ!