It's got the current (Dec 2004) Knoppix base (with all its improvements over the already awesome former versions of Knoppix) with some different apps. For example, it doesn't have gimp, but it has Battle for Wesnoth.
And it has 3D support built in. So it's not SuSE, it's the version of Debian called Knoppix, and as they say on their website, "The Unix-AG TU-Kaiserlautern... is kindly providing the infrastructure for this project."
The US patent office once announced that they were done with their work because everything that could possibly be invented was already made
In fact, wasn't this quote made up by a SF writer? Sometime around 1980. Seriously. Can anyone who went to that speech at Worldcon last week give me the reference?
I think you'd actually enjoy the article more if you took it as it was intended: as a challenge.
IMHO, Sawyer hopes to change a world in which there is no new Asimov or Clarke and in which man has not gone to the moon in my lifetime, and tell us all what we should think is possible.
Unfortunately, nearly everyone's response on Slashdot today has been one of derision. Which clearly explains why we have not gone back to the moon. And why not every human being has safe drinking water. And why children still go hungry in the First World. We have proven that these problems have feasable technical solutions, but we all think the economic cost is too high.
Ultimately, our problem is too many politicians, too few dreamers. So I now challenge you to dream along with Mr. Sawyer for a time. Who knows what might be possible...
K
P.S. Thanks again for the favour. The trip is (so far) a success and I'm posting this from my father's place.:)
Low carb hasn't even reached its peak. Come back to me in two years and try to tell me I'm wrong. Deal?
Low carb = cutting out sugars = what your mother always told you, which is to eat your vegetables and don't drink pop. Pretty simple.
As for the question of where are the Asimovs and the Clarkes, we've moved beyond them in some ways, but I will agree that there are far too few SF writers with their magnitude of vision. Maybe if the market were less friendly to yet another book in the Star Wars franchise and far more friendly to hard SF...
Do you suggest, sir, that every modern page requires Flash and Frontpage extensions and streaming video and huge rollover graphics and every little pukey flashy jangly thing you can squeeze into a website? Bleh! http://sfwriter.com is about the content, and in that vein, it had a heck of a lot more content than so many websites that use style to cover up their pathetic lack of substance.
Drak, posting this on a dialup connection from a rural area right now.
Little User who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee logon & bid thee hack. By the watercooler & o'er the back; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing bought online; Gave thee such a tender type, Making all bloggers gripe:
Little User who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Women of the world, enlighten us with your bold new genre of videogames that we need to make especially for you? Seriously, I don't mean to be flip - what exactly DO you want?!?!
If we only knew what we wanted...
But seriously, I think Jad was on to something when he mentioned GTA. Personally, I loved GTA III and Vice City (if you don't believe me, read my review). I'm also a big UT2K3 freak and know of a significant (though still small) female percentage playing that.
But I'm also the only girl I know in RL who likes FPS. And I read Slashdot. Obviously I'm not a representative sample.
Other girls I know who like VGs (such as a designer interning with EA for the summer) love fantasy sword-and-sorcery RPGs. Puzzle games too, even as old as Tetris and Dr. Mario. And in the arcade, everyone loves Dance Dance Revolution. *shrug*
Besides, I'm still waiting for those male skins to show some, well, skin.
Well, now I feel like less of a woman, because a virtual world/game like that sounds downright boring.
That's the fallacy most subscribe to when trying to find the formula for a women's game. Somehow my intuition is telling me pretty dresses aren't going to cut it. However, lots of women play Everquest and I don't think there's any dress shopping in that;)
But I'm interested to know, how well is "There" doing? Thanks!
While Voyager may be the worst offender, the pussifying of the Borg began with the creation of the "Borg Queen" in First Contact.
The reason the Borg before and even in "The Best of Both Worlds" were so chilling was that they were a monolithic, faceless, compassionless, inhuman organism of one mind bent on consuming all to its purpose. But kind of like Communism, when you need a figurhead, you know you're in trouble.
Slashdot Mirror
Done. With both lynx and elinks.
I'm in! Name a date.
I'm sorry, that does suck. :(
It can get worse, but yeah, I wouldn't be very happy right now, either.
I guess you could drown your sorrows by playing Tux Racer...
It's got the current (Dec 2004) Knoppix base (with all its improvements over the already awesome former versions of Knoppix) with some different apps. For example, it doesn't have gimp, but it has Battle for Wesnoth.
And it has 3D support built in. So it's not SuSE, it's the version of Debian called Knoppix, and as they say on their website, "The Unix-AG TU-Kaiserlautern... is kindly providing the infrastructure for this project."
Or it can just take the month of March, if you're participating in the equally hectic NaNoEdMo:
http://nanoedmo.org/
Not since you guys elected Bush.
In fact, wasn't this quote made up by a SF writer? Sometime around 1980. Seriously. Can anyone who went to that speech at Worldcon last week give me the reference?
Thanks!
Wow. This is the reason I read /.
:)
Genuine debate and scathing commentary on what's wrong with our society.
Awesome post.
Hey Roy!
:)
I think you'd actually enjoy the article more if you took it as it was intended: as a challenge.
IMHO, Sawyer hopes to change a world in which there is no new Asimov or Clarke and in which man has not gone to the moon in my lifetime, and tell us all what we should think is possible.
Unfortunately, nearly everyone's response on Slashdot today has been one of derision. Which clearly explains why we have not gone back to the moon. And why not every human being has safe drinking water. And why children still go hungry in the First World. We have proven that these problems have feasable technical solutions, but we all think the economic cost is too high.
Ultimately, our problem is too many politicians, too few dreamers. So I now challenge you to dream along with Mr. Sawyer for a time. Who knows what might be possible...
K
P.S. Thanks again for the favour. The trip is (so far) a success and I'm posting this from my father's place.
Low carb hasn't even reached its peak. Come back to me in two years and try to tell me I'm wrong. Deal?
Low carb = cutting out sugars = what your mother always told you, which is to eat your vegetables and don't drink pop. Pretty simple.
As for the question of where are the Asimovs and the Clarkes, we've moved beyond them in some ways, but I will agree that there are far too few SF writers with their magnitude of vision. Maybe if the market were less friendly to yet another book in the Star Wars franchise and far more friendly to hard SF...
Care to name some titles? Which are the interesting ones and which are the "UNG" ones?
Do you suggest, sir, that every modern page requires Flash and Frontpage extensions and streaming video and huge rollover graphics and every little pukey flashy jangly thing you can squeeze into a website? Bleh! http://sfwriter.com is about the content, and in that vein, it had a heck of a lot more content than so many websites that use style to cover up their pathetic lack of substance.
Drak, posting this on a dialup connection from a rural area right now.
Little User who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee logon & bid thee hack.
By the watercooler & o'er the back;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing bought online;
Gave thee such a tender type,
Making all bloggers gripe:
Little User who made thee
Dost thou know who made thee
Women of the world, enlighten us with your bold new genre of videogames that we need to make especially for you? Seriously, I don't mean to be flip - what exactly DO you want?!?!
If we only knew what we wanted...
But seriously, I think Jad was on to something when he mentioned GTA. Personally, I loved GTA III and Vice City (if you don't believe me, read my review). I'm also a big UT2K3 freak and know of a significant (though still small) female percentage playing that.
But I'm also the only girl I know in RL who likes FPS. And I read Slashdot. Obviously I'm not a representative sample.
Other girls I know who like VGs (such as a designer interning with EA for the summer) love fantasy sword-and-sorcery RPGs. Puzzle games too, even as old as Tetris and Dr. Mario. And in the arcade, everyone loves Dance Dance Revolution. *shrug*
Besides, I'm still waiting for those male skins to show some, well, skin.
Well, now I feel like less of a woman, because a virtual world/game like that sounds downright boring. That's the fallacy most subscribe to when trying to find the formula for a women's game. Somehow my intuition is telling me pretty dresses aren't going to cut it. However, lots of women play Everquest and I don't think there's any dress shopping in that ;)
But I'm interested to know, how well is "There" doing? Thanks!
While Voyager may be the worst offender, the pussifying of the Borg began with the creation of the "Borg Queen" in First Contact.
The reason the Borg before and even in "The Best of Both Worlds" were so chilling was that they were a monolithic, faceless, compassionless, inhuman organism of one mind bent on consuming all to its purpose. But kind of like Communism, when you need a figurhead, you know you're in trouble.