I doubt the hacker community will ever settle for one logo. In this thread I've read comments about the direction it points, the lack of color in the intial design and a half dozen other things. Maybe what we need is a set of specs for hacker logos plural, as opposed to a single logo. Something along the lines of "it must be a grid of X by Y with no more than z colors.."
After all, doing creative things while working within structured systems is a large part of being a hacker.
Just a though..
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Even without the screen shots, I still think this project is fairly cool. It's like the projects that take old video game consoles and try to see what sort of software can be pushed on to them using modern tecniques (reported on Slashdot some time back). It's mnore important for the way of thinking that drives it, rather than the actual project. It shows people still care about making things efficient and samller desipte ever expanding hard drive sizes and rising processors speeds.
Remember when VRML was going to change the Internet? No more text just big 3d world with avatars running around everywhere. When was the last time you visited a VRML site? I don't understand why so many people want to augment or replace simple text and graphics. Sure flash and video and audio add to the web and are great for some applications, but text is trhe real killer app on the web. It is easy and cheap to produce, and thanks to services like babelfish it is easy to translate. Not to mention the problems of getting acurate search results just based on descriptions of viedo or audio.
Long before napster and the Kaza people where freely trading mp3 files via usenet and ftp and small centralized networks. Very few if any legal ripples. Before that people traded copies of CDS on tape ext. and while the RIAA hated it, they didn't knock on many doors. As long as you didn't set up shop selling them you were (mostly) ok. Sadly, the genie is now out of the bottle. I suspect more technical users might start to move away from p2p and back to usenet and more "old fashioned" methods of sharing files. Failing that, those anonymous ISPS that allow users to send a wad of cash in the mail each month might see a big jump in the number of subscribers.
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I doubt the hacker community will ever settle for one logo. In this thread I've read comments about the direction it points, the lack of color in the intial design and a half dozen other things. Maybe what we need is a set of specs for hacker logos plural, as opposed to a single logo. Something along the lines of "it must be a grid of X by Y with no more than z colors.." After all, doing creative things while working within structured systems is a large part of being a hacker. Just a though..
At 8:00 AM EST, the link gives this message: No web site is configured at this address. Even without the screen shots, I still think this project is fairly cool. It's like the projects that take old video game consoles and try to see what sort of software can be pushed on to them using modern tecniques (reported on Slashdot some time back). It's mnore important for the way of thinking that drives it, rather than the actual project. It shows people still care about making things efficient and samller desipte ever expanding hard drive sizes and rising processors speeds.
Remember when VRML was going to change the Internet? No more text just big 3d world with avatars running around everywhere. When was the last time you visited a VRML site? I don't understand why so many people want to augment or replace simple text and graphics. Sure flash and video and audio add to the web and are great for some applications, but text is trhe real killer app on the web. It is easy and cheap to produce, and thanks to services like babelfish it is easy to translate. Not to mention the problems of getting acurate search results just based on descriptions of viedo or audio.
Long before napster and the Kaza people where freely trading mp3 files via usenet and ftp and small centralized networks. Very few if any legal ripples. Before that people traded copies of CDS on tape ext. and while the RIAA hated it, they didn't knock on many doors. As long as you didn't set up shop selling them you were (mostly) ok. Sadly, the genie is now out of the bottle. I suspect more technical users might start to move away from p2p and back to usenet and more "old fashioned" methods of sharing files. Failing that, those anonymous ISPS that allow users to send a wad of cash in the mail each month might see a big jump in the number of subscribers.