Yes, I know that the slashdot gang gets many article submitions but they could at least read the the one they're gonna post. I've been told that the case is actually AMD's EasyNow! design - thanks to Chris Tom for the head's-up. Wonder why they aren't suing AMD?
This almost sounds like inside info, yet anyone who read the article saw this and its hyperlink. Maybe you should hire Chris Tom to do your proof reading. I wouldn't care but this shit happens all too often usually with misleading titles and summaries. Read one for the Gipper.
(MM note: I don't care if you mark this down, I've got karma to spare.)
Well put, computers look the way they do because of office lighting regulations. Do people like slashdot-terminal live in an modernist like office building with florescent lighting, handicap accesible bathrooms, and cubicles instead of walls? Doubt it, people by nature gravitate towards aestheticly pleasing shapes and colors. Computers are cheap and disposable consumer goods they might as well look good and when they do people react. Especially when this thing is going to be sitting wide open in their home. Its sad that the current crop of good looking electronic cases aren't much appreciated by typical males or so called power-users because our society's macho and intellectual ideals put a taboo on art and expression leaving the market open for women (my girlfriend has this green cellphone) and artists (this graphic desiner loves the new cases) etc.
Maybe slashdot-terminal drives a black model-t around and wears the same suit everyday, but most people demand more than plain looking appliances and from the looks of things, they're coming. Better stockpile those beige cases, cause once people start getting a decent choice in cases and peripherals there ain't gonna be anymore made.
From a design standpoint I can't see how any transluscent computer MUST be an iMac ripoff. Those eMachines were one-piece knockoffs that look a lot like the iMac, but the FishPC and the AMD are strikingly original (well the AMD is, if that is the original) and the CD player is really cool, but they have colored clear plastic so Apple is getting its collective underwear into a bunch. I doubt AMD is going to give two shits about the FishPC, they actually make great hardware at good prices that sell regardless what they look like.
When technology companies talk about protecting their patents who thinks colored plastic panels? Is this all Apple has going for it? Sure sounds like it. These beige boxes are in desperate need of a new design and the industry doesn't need Apple crying foul everytime theres clear plastic involved. Hey Apple, make computers not cases and you might go far.
Crappy games, boring games, dull games, the kind that tempt you to throw the CD or cart against the wall. Please, don't let your children play these games, they could damage the drywall.
Try this link just to see the picture, unless you're a car guy and a suburban covered in giant lipstick kisses floats your boat. Not one electric car in the bunch, only a paragraph on how cars will need bigger batteries and generators for onboard DVD players and other electronic toys.
Sure car customization looks cool, but its still ancient polluting technology. Show me a Mach5 that runs on anything other than unleaded and maybe I'd donate something to their charity. Sounds like some guys wanted to build a Mach 5, didn't have the cash, and managed to get some money under the guise of family auto safety.
If this helps people drive safer all the better, but at shows that are full of tricked out 500+ horsepower cars I don't exactly see safety as a priority. Whats going to affect people more a brochure from a guy in a Speed Racer custome hands out or the long line to the 1,000 lbs car with the V12 engine where grown men drool over chrome and fiberglass?
Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but this fiberglass death-trap selling safety to a bunch of hot-rodders is just to hypocritical to leave alone.
Maybe if people like you stopped treating classical physics and relativity as the unquestionable first coming we could have an intelligent discussion on QM.
Its not about 'getting a grip' its about loosening your grip.
I really don't think its possible to mourn the passing of a complete stranger and be respectful or sincere. Is this the princess Diana for the geek set? Really, give it up you're mourning software, not a real person. You're going to get teary eyed because he wrote a program that let you compress a password protected French Postcards onto one 5.25 disk?
I can't think of a worse legacy than having a bunch of people feel sorry for you not because of any of your personal qualities but because of some program you wrote in the 80s. Its a shame anyone has to die, but have some respect for yourself and dead and don't pretend that you're really sadened and feel a loss.
If all the content is FREE and ONLINE, why the book? Who is this magical demographic who would pay to read this stuff compiled from a hack author when its here to be seen by all the 'moms' in the world? Free, unedited and in its original form. Can't beat that.
This book and posts, regardless of how important you think they are, are definatly niche items, they seem all important to the 'geek' but to the paranoid parents and church ladies its not worth the 10 bucks. To those who are really interested in it, why buy the book when you've read the best parts of it already? Maybe we won't tell them its online, or Rob and company can remove it to help sales.
In the end, this is just an unethical attempt to create a commercial product from the contributions of many people who weren't even considered for their opinions on the matter. If we're going to 'chill out' about something, lets let the ignorant zeal of idealism die down and think about whats really happening here.
If someone doesn't want to be quoted I believe they have the right not to, or is this just the begining of Katz's next book about the horrors of IP?
Screw the sanctimonious idealism here, this thing is going to be a tax write off for its authors/producers while you get absolutly nothing not even your right to protest who's using your writing.
Sue the bastards, after all if the book flops because your post(s) is missing, then the best writing in the book WAS your post and you deserve a piece of the pie, whether you decide to give it to charity is your business. If it is well written book it won't need to rely on your post. By adding all these posts it sounds like it really isn't and posters deserve credit, rights, and royalties.
Regardless of what cprincipe says, writers have rights and its ok to hate Jon Katz.
Anyone stop to think that if George Lucas did call a rock radio station he would at least let the webmaster at www.starwars.com post the same story? AICN just ain't that cool, its a video store clerk's fantasy site and is more fiction than anything else.
How can anyone with even the tiniest love of literature be against preservation and access to books, especially books that belong to the taxpayers?
In the end, after the world's books have gone digital this interview will be a bigger laugh than it is now. If he's so anti-online content what's this interview doing on a webserver, is he trying to make me feel lonely, sad, and arrogant?
It only hurts when the man pulls out and it doesn't even slash off the shlong, it just painfully hooks into it. At this point I'm sure any successful rapist would do his best to beat the crap out of the woman, he's got nowhere to go at this point and is very, very much in pain and angry. Not to mention if you didn't get VD from him yet, you got it now.
What purpose does it serve to hook a rapist's shlong like a fish? Now that they're stuck together which one negotiates how they're going to get over to the phone to call the police. Or maybe she decides this one is too small and throws it back.
Maybe one day lawmakers will put a Moore's law trailer on their 'supercomputer' bills so we won't see crap like this anymore, though I'm sure the people at Sega are getting more than a chuckle out of this. I hate to defend megaconglomerates like Sony, but this could hurt their chances with the American market and in the end consumers have the most to lose.
I always thought this was the case, what's so special about DVD that Lucas can't release a standard version now and when he's closer to death 5(8? 10?) years later he can release his Jar-Jar free version or whatever he's planning. Even Natalie Portman nude scenes aren't worth the wait.
Lucasfilm acts way too much like Disney for my tastes.
This post is just too cynical and uninformed for me to let it go. I can't say I'm a big RATM fan, but I am aware of their obvious donations, in both time and money, to certain social causes that reflect their writing/philosophy.
They seemingly don't have much to stand on when they preach anti-big business while signed to a megaconglomerate like Sony. Whether you care to believe their reply on that often asked question is up to you, but it usually goes like this: Rage could have gone the route of starting their indepedent label and splitting their time running their own business and pushing their message/music, but they chose to put all their effort on the music/message and let Sony worry about promotion and making sure the Tower records in Amsterdam is getting enough copies of Evil Empire.
Its a lot like Abbey Hoffman's 'use the system to decry it' philosophy. In the long wrong exposure from a big label like Sony will turn a lot more heads than a independant start-up ever could. There's a lot of anti-governemnt anti-business bands out there, how many can you name? Have you even ever heard of Negativland, has your average Rage fan? So far, I'd say going with Sony has made them a household name and the alternative would probably have left them no bigger than Negativland.
I'm sure Sony's marketing guys have the same attitude as you do, the anti-marketing market is big etc, but I've found the band to be consistant and not focuses on just the money.
After giving this quote Lars was later seen breaking up a flea market in Decatuar, Illinois because someone was about to trade a beaten cassette of Master of Puppets for 2 pieces of string and a travel iron.
The sad part is after(if?) Napster is banned I won't be able to get some great live and unreleased stuff that anyone who loves music just craves.
Poor Lars, this week's Metallica downloads cost the band about 14 bottles of black nailpolish and 100 throwaway picks that say "Hammet" on them. Will the madness ever end?!
Right now there's a guy who quit his job to become a level 40 dwarf trying to decide if 'Online retailer of enchanted weapons/goods' really looks that bad on a resume.
Geez, somehow she never learned that reporters should try to shed their own prejudices, the difference between criticism and openly mocking, and libertarianism does not equal anarchy.
Then again it wouldn't be Salon without the attitude. Feel free to tell her what you think at ullman@wenet.net.
You're comparing state-sanctioned genocide with market practices? They have nothing to do with each other, unless you're posting another 'outraged' comment as an AC. Same with weapons of war, take your problems with them to your government not to the corporation, which exists only to turn a profit and has no incentive to listen to you.
Enlightening the public and pressuring government is the smartest way to do away with something like this. Not by hoping an process whose only reason to exist is to make money will somehow feel like you do. Corporations may be legal entities but they ain't human.
Most, if not all, of American wealthy-types do give to charity because they're more comforable giving X amount (which will be lost regardless) to an organization they choose to give to than one they're forced to give to, the IRS.
I don't think very many give anything past what isn't deductable.
Napster is just reflecting what people have been complaining about for a long, long time - The cheesy mass-produced music that we just love is too damn expensive. Very few CDs are worth the obligatory $15, IMHO.
If the record industy wasn't such a bloated near-monopoly very few people would bother to copy and distribute copywritten music. Think $4 CD's and Napster becomes the underground/independant savoir it should be. It'll never happen, the music industry doesn't care about selling a quality product at a competive price, it only cares about hyping the next sensation and making teenagers spend mom's last Jackson on some CD that'll be in the discount bin in 18 months.
If there was real competition the radio would be chock-full of the great music that doesn't usually get signed instead of ballads about teenagers in love and the stores would be full of good, cheap CDs. The blame does belong on both the industry and consumers, more so on the industry for targeting their collective crap at the most impressionable demographic and selling some naive idealized love/lust. This isn't a freedom of speech issue, but do you really think anyone would care about Spears or Brandy if it wasn't for the huge amount of advertising bullshit constantly being poured into mass-media?
Real competition just isn't possible with the media control and advertising budgets record companies have, independants suffer and will continue to suffer until something is done. This is business in American in a nutshell. In the mean time why not steal and piss on the companies you don't like, you can still be moral and disobey the law and not be a hypocrite.
Oh course the point is 'tragically' missed here, because your metaphor doesn't work. Slashdot IS moderated, unlike freenet. Goto http://slashdot.org/faq.shtml for more info.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I know that the slashdot gang gets many article submitions but they could at least read the the one they're gonna post.
I've been told that the case is actually AMD's
EasyNow! design - thanks to Chris Tom for the head's-up. Wonder why they aren't suing AMD?
This almost sounds like inside info, yet anyone who read the article saw this and its hyperlink. Maybe you should hire Chris Tom to do your proof reading. I wouldn't care but this shit happens all too often usually with misleading titles and summaries. Read one for the Gipper.
(MM note: I don't care if you mark this down, I've got karma to spare.)
Well put, computers look the way they do because of office lighting regulations. Do people like slashdot-terminal live in an modernist like office building with florescent lighting, handicap accesible bathrooms, and cubicles instead of walls? Doubt it, people by nature gravitate towards aestheticly pleasing shapes and colors. Computers are cheap and disposable consumer goods they might as well look good and when they do people react. Especially when this thing is going to be sitting wide open in their home. Its sad that the current crop of good looking electronic cases aren't much appreciated by typical males or so called power-users because our society's macho and intellectual ideals put a taboo on art and expression leaving the market open for women (my girlfriend has this green cellphone) and artists (this graphic desiner loves the new cases) etc.
Maybe slashdot-terminal drives a black model-t around and wears the same suit everyday, but most people demand more than plain looking appliances and from the looks of things, they're coming. Better stockpile those beige cases, cause once people start getting a decent choice in cases and peripherals there ain't gonna be anymore made.
From a design standpoint I can't see how any transluscent computer MUST be an iMac ripoff. Those eMachines were one-piece knockoffs that look a lot like the iMac, but the FishPC and the AMD are strikingly original (well the AMD is, if that is the original) and the CD player is really cool, but they have colored clear plastic so Apple is getting its collective underwear into a bunch. I doubt AMD is going to give two shits about the FishPC, they actually make great hardware at good prices that sell regardless what they look like.
When technology companies talk about protecting their patents who thinks colored plastic panels? Is this all Apple has going for it? Sure sounds like it. These beige boxes are in desperate need of a new design and the industry doesn't need Apple crying foul everytime theres clear plastic involved. Hey Apple, make computers not cases and you might go far.
Crappy games, boring games, dull games, the kind that tempt you to throw the CD or cart against the wall. Please, don't let your children play these games, they could damage the drywall.
Try this link just to see the picture, unless you're a car guy and a suburban covered in giant lipstick kisses floats your boat. Not one electric car in the bunch, only a paragraph on how cars will need bigger batteries and generators for onboard DVD players and other electronic toys.
Sure car customization looks cool, but its still ancient polluting technology. Show me a Mach5 that runs on anything other than unleaded and maybe I'd donate something to their charity. Sounds like some guys wanted to build a Mach 5, didn't have the cash, and managed to get some money under the guise of family auto safety.
If this helps people drive safer all the better, but at shows that are full of tricked out 500+ horsepower cars I don't exactly see safety as a priority. Whats going to affect people more a brochure from a guy in a Speed Racer custome hands out or the long line to the 1,000 lbs car with the V12 engine where grown men drool over chrome and fiberglass?
Maybe I'm taking this too seriously, but this fiberglass death-trap selling safety to a bunch of hot-rodders is just to hypocritical to leave alone.
Maybe if people like you stopped treating classical physics and relativity as the unquestionable first coming we could have an intelligent discussion on QM.
Its not about 'getting a grip' its about loosening your grip.
I really don't think its possible to mourn the passing of a complete stranger and be respectful or sincere. Is this the princess Diana for the geek set? Really, give it up you're mourning software, not a real person. You're going to get teary eyed because he wrote a program that let you compress a password protected French Postcards onto one 5.25 disk?
I can't think of a worse legacy than having a bunch of people feel sorry for you not because of any of your personal qualities but because of some program you wrote in the 80s. Its a shame anyone has to die, but have some respect for yourself and dead and don't pretend that you're really sadened and feel a loss.
Canadian? Everyone knows the real mafiaboy is italian. Damn you oppressive government, leave our teenagers alone.
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.potentiallawsuit
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If all the content is FREE and ONLINE, why the book? Who is this magical demographic who would pay to read this stuff compiled from a hack author when its here to be seen by all the 'moms' in the world? Free, unedited and in its original form. Can't beat that.
This book and posts, regardless of how important you think they are, are definatly niche items, they seem all important to the 'geek' but to the paranoid parents and church ladies its not worth the 10 bucks. To those who are really interested in it, why buy the book when you've read the best parts of it already? Maybe we won't tell them its online, or Rob and company can remove it to help sales.
In the end, this is just an unethical attempt to create a commercial product from the contributions of many people who weren't even considered for their opinions on the matter. If we're going to 'chill out' about something, lets let the ignorant zeal of idealism die down and think about whats really happening here.
If someone doesn't want to be quoted I believe they have the right not to, or is this just the begining of Katz's next book about the horrors of IP?
Screw the sanctimonious idealism here, this thing is going to be a tax write off for its authors/producers while you get absolutly nothing not even your right to protest who's using your writing.
Sue the bastards, after all if the book flops because your post(s) is missing, then the best writing in the book WAS your post and you deserve a piece of the pie, whether you decide to give it to charity is your business. If it is well written book it won't need to rely on your post. By adding all these posts it sounds like it really isn't and posters deserve credit, rights, and royalties.
Regardless of what cprincipe says, writers have rights and its ok to hate Jon Katz.
Just look at the 'Mac Man' screen:
a c_man.gif
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jimg/pourri/m
Hasbro has a case here, a rip off this close deserves to be punished. Though, the ghost design is pretty neat.
Anyone stop to think that if George Lucas did call a rock radio station he would at least let the webmaster at www.starwars.com post the same story? AICN just ain't that cool, its a video store clerk's fantasy site and is more fiction than anything else.
How can anyone with even the tiniest love of literature be against preservation and access to books, especially books that belong to the taxpayers?
In the end, after the world's books have gone digital this interview will be a bigger laugh than it is now. If he's so anti-online content what's this interview doing on a webserver, is he trying to make me feel lonely, sad, and arrogant?
It only hurts when the man pulls out and it doesn't even slash off the shlong, it just painfully hooks into it. At this point I'm sure any successful rapist would do his best to beat the crap out of the woman, he's got nowhere to go at this point and is very, very much in pain and angry. Not to mention if you didn't get VD from him yet, you got it now.
What purpose does it serve to hook a rapist's shlong like a fish? Now that they're stuck together which one negotiates how they're going to get over to the phone to call the police. Or maybe she decides this one is too small and throws it back.
Maybe one day lawmakers will put a Moore's law trailer on their 'supercomputer' bills so we won't see crap like this anymore, though I'm sure the people at Sega are getting more than a chuckle out of this. I hate to defend megaconglomerates like Sony, but this could hurt their chances with the American market and in the end consumers have the most to lose.
I always thought this was the case, what's so special about DVD that Lucas can't release a standard version now and when he's closer to death 5(8? 10?) years later he can release his Jar-Jar free version or whatever he's planning. Even Natalie Portman nude scenes aren't worth the wait.
Lucasfilm acts way too much like Disney for my tastes.
This post is just too cynical and uninformed for me to let it go. I can't say I'm a big RATM fan, but I am aware of their obvious donations, in both time and money, to certain social causes that reflect their writing/philosophy.
They seemingly don't have much to stand on when they preach anti-big business while signed to a megaconglomerate like Sony. Whether you care to believe their reply on that often asked question is up to you, but it usually goes like this: Rage could have gone the route of starting their indepedent label and splitting their time running their own business and pushing their message/music, but they chose to put all their effort on the music/message and let Sony worry about promotion and making sure the Tower records in Amsterdam is getting enough copies of Evil Empire.
Its a lot like Abbey Hoffman's 'use the system to decry it' philosophy. In the long wrong exposure from a big label like Sony will turn a lot more heads than a independant start-up ever could. There's a lot of anti-governemnt anti-business bands out there, how many can you name? Have you even ever heard of Negativland, has your average Rage fan? So far, I'd say going with Sony has made them a household name and the alternative would probably have left them no bigger than Negativland.
I'm sure Sony's marketing guys have the same attitude as you do, the anti-marketing market is big etc, but I've found the band to be consistant and not focuses on just the money.
After giving this quote Lars was later seen breaking up a flea market in Decatuar, Illinois because someone was about to trade a beaten cassette of Master of Puppets for 2 pieces of string and a travel iron.
The sad part is after(if?) Napster is banned I won't be able to get some great live and unreleased stuff that anyone who loves music just craves.
Poor Lars, this week's Metallica downloads cost the band about 14 bottles of black nailpolish and 100 throwaway picks that say "Hammet" on them. Will the madness ever end?!
Right now there's a guy who quit his job to become a level 40 dwarf trying to decide if 'Online retailer of enchanted weapons/goods' really looks that bad on a resume.
Geez, somehow she never learned that reporters should try to shed their own prejudices, the difference between criticism and openly mocking, and libertarianism does not equal anarchy.
Then again it wouldn't be Salon without the attitude. Feel free to tell her what you think at
ullman@wenet.net.
You're comparing state-sanctioned genocide with market practices? They have nothing to do with each other, unless you're posting another 'outraged' comment as an AC. Same with weapons of war, take your problems with them to your government not to the corporation, which exists only to turn a profit and has no incentive to listen to you.
Enlightening the public and pressuring government is the smartest way to do away with something like this. Not by hoping an process whose only reason to exist is to make money will somehow feel like you do. Corporations may be legal entities but they ain't human.
Most, if not all, of American wealthy-types do give to charity because they're more comforable giving X amount (which will be lost regardless) to an organization they choose to give to than one they're forced to give to, the IRS.
I don't think very many give anything past what isn't deductable.
Napster is just reflecting what people have been complaining about for a long, long time - The cheesy mass-produced music that we just love is too damn expensive. Very few CDs are worth the obligatory $15, IMHO.
If the record industy wasn't such a bloated near-monopoly very few people would bother to copy and distribute copywritten music. Think $4 CD's and Napster becomes the underground/independant savoir it should be. It'll never happen, the music industry doesn't care about selling a quality product at a competive price, it only cares about hyping the next sensation and making teenagers spend mom's last Jackson on some CD that'll be in the discount bin in 18 months.
If there was real competition the radio would be chock-full of the great music that doesn't usually get signed instead of ballads about teenagers in love and the stores would be full of good, cheap CDs. The blame does belong on both the industry and consumers, more so on the industry for targeting their collective crap at the most impressionable demographic and selling some naive idealized love/lust. This isn't a freedom of speech issue, but do you really think anyone would care about Spears or Brandy if it wasn't for the huge amount of advertising bullshit constantly being poured into mass-media?
Real competition just isn't possible with the media control and advertising budgets record companies have, independants suffer and will continue to suffer until something is done. This is business in American in a nutshell. In the mean time why not steal and piss on the companies you don't like, you can still be moral and disobey the law and not be a hypocrite.
Oh course the point is 'tragically' missed here, because your metaphor doesn't work. Slashdot IS moderated, unlike freenet. Goto http://slashdot.org/faq.shtml for more info.