some of the speeches were really amazing. i especially loved the talk about hyper-relativity given by the guy from Olympus Mons U's department of temporal aesthetics.
the snacks were a little anemic, though. i would have hoped the food planning to be a little better.
holy christ i hope this never happens in the united states. RFID tags on license plates, convicted felon tracking, always-on monitoring. feh. oh boy, wireless everywhere. but the price is just too awful to consider.
because linux doesn't have a pushy megalomaniacal madman like steve jobs to steer it in a coherent direction. it's steve's madness that keeps OS X a great experience.
by most accounts Jobs is most certainly a jerk. read 'insanely great' or 'the next best thing'... get a sense of the management-by-terror that The Steve is famous for.
ps- i still have a couple of your cerebus phone books, ben. hee hee hee
give me a break. comparing lucas's treatment of the vader story in episodes 1 & 2 to robert caro's biography of lyndon johnson is a staggeringly unfair thing to do.
caro's books are gorgeously executed studies of the nature of power and control, and he is a master of singleminded dramatic buildup in biography. lucas no longer knows how to tell a story, and he certainly doesn't know how to demonstrate cause and effect in a character study with any degree of subtlety at all.
to me this suggests that you have not read the lbj books, or have read maybe the first chapters, or read reviews of them. to mock the books because they are exhaustive and long is a grotesque oversimplification-- something that i have realized over the past few years of katzness on slashdot that you are more likely than not to indulge in.
i used to be a katz defender. now i just hit ignore, and i get angry when i get suckered into reading your articles.
I would hope that the machine knows when the display is being moved... that display coupled with a QTVR object movie would be sooooo cooool.... shift around the display to examine different sides of objects in question.
What fixed wireless providers remain in the country-- specifically on the East Coast? The wonderful guys who host my space (mia.net!) provide it locally to them in Wisconsin, but I don't know of anyone who does it in New York. Any suggestions?
They can do both. Do they want MS to have the leading browser platform, and all of the potential for evil-doing that it brings, or do they want to have it themselves?
If AOL/Netscape puts the right sort of people, energy and funds into the creation of the killer browser, they would get it right.
I fear that AOL's management has cold feet about the open-sourceness of Mozilla, and has been sticking with NS4 because they are unable to make up their mind about what is worse- the open-source developer community or just letting Microsoft win the browser war once and for all.
What a bunch of rat bastards. I am really impressed by how stupid the PR people in the graphics card industry have been acting this week. First ATI's stupidity- and yes, it is stupidity- haven't they dealt with Steve Jobs enough to know that if they break a product release announcement before The Man they're going to get bitchslapped?- and now word of nVidia's asshole behavior. Aren't there any smart people working in this sector? Oh wait- we're talking about PR people. I rest my case.
Come on. Go back and look at my post. His lab was using straight-out Bell Labs UNIX in the seventies. Linux is mentioned only in the context of switching operating systems NOW. Before you get snarky, make sure you have a leg to stand on, l0ser.
He's not terrified of the FBI, he's terrified of the crackers. He's caught in a terrible situation.
This is a mirror of the NYT crack. Go look at the source code. You'll see that the crackers revealed a lot of personal information- phone numbers, social security info, etc- of journalists who they think crossed them. Do you think that those same people are going to forgive him just because the FBI said "jump"?
My father, who has been a network user since the 70s, when he had an Arpanet address, has resisted moving his entire department to Linux for one reason- the lack of a useful reference manager like Endnote.
To my knowledge, there is still no comparable feature in Star Office. This is the dealbreaker, as far as he's concerned. You'd convert yet another chunk of the government to Linux usage if you could point out a program with this functionality that can connect to a GUI word processor in the environment.. How 'bout it?
Oh AAARGH- I am so tired of the application of the open-source ethos to everything. No, music should not be free like software. Unlike software, music created by groups gets worse with every added decision maker. It becomes art catering to the lowest common denominator.
Max is no longer sold or maintained by Opcode, which has been absorbed into the Giant Sucking Sound that is Gibson, Inc. Instead, David Zicarelli, one of the original developers of the application, has re-taken control of the software. Downloads, information, pricing and ordering stuff can be found at Cycling '74.
Also, there's a fantastic DSP addon to Max called MSP, which manipulates waveforms and ADSR info the same way Max manipulates MIDI information. This is the multimedia development environment of the future. Share the joy!
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Because World of warcraft is a 640x480 sprite based game.
WoW's not sprite-based, it's hardware 3d, you ignorant clod.
some of the speeches were really amazing. i especially loved the talk about hyper-relativity given by the guy from Olympus Mons U's department of temporal aesthetics.
the snacks were a little anemic, though. i would have hoped the food planning to be a little better.
but definitely a worthy event. glad i went.
holy christ i hope this never happens in the united states. RFID tags on license plates, convicted felon tracking, always-on monitoring. feh. oh boy, wireless everywhere. but the price is just too awful to consider.
because linux doesn't have a pushy megalomaniacal madman like steve jobs to steer it in a coherent direction. it's steve's madness that keeps OS X a great experience.
- Where's the firewire?
- How about a larger drive?
- How about PAL *AND* NTSC?
- etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
stupid. could have been a great product, but it's crippled.by most accounts Jobs is most certainly a jerk. read 'insanely great' or 'the next best thing'... get a sense of the management-by-terror that The Steve is famous for.
ps- i still have a couple of your cerebus phone books, ben. hee hee hee
give me a break. comparing lucas's treatment of the vader story in episodes 1 & 2 to robert caro's biography of lyndon johnson is a staggeringly unfair thing to do.
caro's books are gorgeously executed studies of the nature of power and control, and he is a master of singleminded dramatic buildup in biography. lucas no longer knows how to tell a story, and he certainly doesn't know how to demonstrate cause and effect in a character study with any degree of subtlety at all.
to me this suggests that you have not read the lbj books, or have read maybe the first chapters, or read reviews of them. to mock the books because they are exhaustive and long is a grotesque oversimplification-- something that i have realized over the past few years of katzness on slashdot that you are more likely than not to indulge in.
i used to be a katz defender. now i just hit ignore, and i get angry when i get suckered into reading your articles.
bah.
maybe each photosensor could have a proximity sensor next to it as well. you could test for distance at the moment of the beam cut.
it's the ultimate chick game. my wife must have played it for more than 200 hours before she finally came to her senses.
I would hope that the machine knows when the display is being moved... that display coupled with a QTVR object movie would be sooooo cooool.... shift around the display to examine different sides of objects in question.
PS2 grand tourismo edition all the way, baby.
xbox is doomed to failure
gamecube doesn't have any games
and check it out, you can actually find ps2s in stores this holiday!
What fixed wireless providers remain in the country-- specifically on the East Coast? The wonderful guys who host my space (mia.net!) provide it locally to them in Wisconsin, but I don't know of anyone who does it in New York. Any suggestions?
No, no! It IS slashdot.com! Try it!
Moderate this hubristic sucker DOWN, people!
They can do both. Do they want MS to have the leading browser platform, and all of the potential for evil-doing that it brings, or do they want to have it themselves?
If AOL/Netscape puts the right sort of people, energy and funds into the creation of the killer browser, they would get it right.
I fear that AOL's management has cold feet about the open-sourceness of Mozilla, and has been sticking with NS4 because they are unable to make up their mind about what is worse- the open-source developer community or just letting Microsoft win the browser war once and for all.
What a bunch of rat bastards. I am really impressed by how stupid the PR people in the graphics card industry have been acting this week. First ATI's stupidity- and yes, it is stupidity- haven't they dealt with Steve Jobs enough to know that if they break a product release announcement before The Man they're going to get bitchslapped?- and now word of nVidia's asshole behavior. Aren't there any smart people working in this sector? Oh wait- we're talking about PR people. I rest my case.
Come on. Go back and look at my post. His lab was using straight-out Bell Labs UNIX in the seventies. Linux is mentioned only in the context of switching operating systems NOW. Before you get snarky, make sure you have a leg to stand on, l0ser.
This is a mirror of the NYT crack. Go look at the source code. You'll see that the crackers revealed a lot of personal information- phone numbers, social security info, etc- of journalists who they think crossed them. Do you think that those same people are going to forgive him just because the FBI said "jump"?
If I were him, I'd be freaked out.
My father, who has been a network user since the 70s, when he had an Arpanet address, has resisted moving his entire department to Linux for one reason- the lack of a useful reference manager like Endnote.
To my knowledge, there is still no comparable feature in Star Office. This is the dealbreaker, as far as he's concerned. You'd convert yet another chunk of the government to Linux usage if you could point out a program with this functionality that can connect to a GUI word processor in the environment.. How 'bout it?
Oh AAARGH- I am so tired of the application of the open-source ethos to everything. No, music should not be free like software. Unlike software, music created by groups gets worse with every added decision maker. It becomes art catering to the lowest common denominator.
Think about it.
Aaaaargh... I hope you're just trying to be funny. Otherwise, moderate DOWN for being an idiot.
Platform advocacy warfare rises to a new asanine level:
"P4s are better!"
"No, g4s!"
"No, P4s!"
"G4!"
"P4!"
"G4!"
"P4!"
"You suck!"
"I hate you!"
"Waaaaaah!"
What a load of garbage.
If Sony had its way no matter what, we'd all be listening to MiniDisc players and popping Memory Sticks into our systems.
MiniDiscs, despite billions of dollars of promotions, remain firmly entrenched in the theatrical design ghetto.
Do you really believe that the Memory Stick has a future?
wug
Also, there's a fantastic DSP addon to Max called MSP, which manipulates waveforms and ADSR info the same way Max manipulates MIDI information. This is the multimedia development environment of the future. Share the joy!
wug
God, please moderate that up.