DataPlay is also in discussions with movie studios to release films in its format. Though first generation products won't have the same picture quality as DVDs, they will be able to store a 2-hour movie that would be suitable for electronics that have small screens.
Now all we need is quarter-sized screens to view the movies on - talk about the benefits of miniaturization!
Reynolds had done a number of commercial voice-overs before, including a Microsoft webcast of a U2 concert. She heard about the potential gig at MSN through her talent agency.
She really must have worked on her Bono impression for a long time.
When she came in to record her voice, she told Cooperman, the MSN executive, that she didn't know anything about the Internet, and he responded, "Perfect."
"...neither do we. Can you help me figure out what happens when I click on this here thingie?"
There's nothing you can code that can't be gcc'ed,
Nothing you can commit that can't be forked,
Nothing you can `make`, but you can learn how to gdb
It's easy...
There's nothing you can RPM that can't be tarred,
Nothing you can grep that can't use awk,
Nothing you can post that folks will listen to anyway
It's easy...
All you need is love, All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love and procmail
There's nothing you can 'make clean' without some SOAP,
Nothing you can ps that can't be killed
Nothing you can edit unless you learn how to use vi
It's easy...
All you need is love, All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love and procmail
Another tool along that line would be Squeak Smalltalk. Yeah, it's a bit, uhm, eccentric, but it has some cool animation stuff that works out of the box (comes with a demo Energizer bunny that you can do fun Ren & Stimpy things with) and takes little contextual knowledge of Smalltalk or computing in general. And Smalltalk was designed for kids to learn with few syntactic oddities and layers of rules to learn.
Now I'm not going to try and start a vi vs. emacs war - I use and enjoy them both. But to agree with Raskin's "modal==bad" and then to adore vi is to offer a fairly stark contradiction. Let's face it - vi is nothing if not modal. Unless you are keenly aware of whether you're in insert vs. command mode, you either a) can't get anything done or b) can really dork up your file by accident.
With the exception of the universal undo, it sounds a lot like the interface for the Palm OS. No filesystem, the same widgets do the same thing, keep it extremely simple. In short, it's simply obvious what to do as soon as you turn the thing on the first time.
And in other news, recent developments seen on Sourceforge include SQL over carrier pigeon and SQL over pnuematic tube. Combined with holographic storage, room temperature fusion, and a beowulf cluster of Ximian-driven network degraders, this promises to be the future of computing.
Getting a bit more real, Espra looks to be shaping up as a tasty music-sharing layer for freenet. It's a GUI-licious as a fresh dreamsicle.
To: sbwest@microsoft.com
From: Eponymous, Showered
Hello -
I frequently purchase and send requests for PCs without any operating system.
You see, I build Linux systems for friends and local non-profit organizations so they aren't caught on the expensive Microsoft upgrade treadmill that they'll eventually fall off of. I'm hoping to persuade our local library to switch to Linux as well.
Thus, I'd like to enroll myself in the RFPs and Qs contest. Since the Microsoft game titles will not function on my Linux computers, please send the Fossil watch. If you can't do that, then I'll accept the games. I suspect I can get a few dollars for them on eBay. Thanks for such an excellent contest - my fellow open source users and I will certainly enjoy the prizes.
How about the web-based application that Purdue students use to get class schedules, vote on issues and student elections, order concert tickets, get grades, get transcripts, get exam schedules, arrange for housing, and pretty much do all of their interaction with the university that doesn't include actually attending class? Yep, it's SSINFO and it's all (VisualWorks) Smalltalk, all on the web. The project is expanding over the course of 9 years to include financial aid and a host of other applications. Come to Purdue - home of Gene Spafford and some serious cutting edge software development.
Last I checked, here in this representative democracy, it was the job of the executive and judiciary branches of our government to determine who is and is not following the law, not a corporation whose interests are its profits and not necessarily the law (except as it benefits their bottom line). So, while I suspect you intended to be sarcastic, I'll say it, sans sarcasm:
Damn them for choosing to selectively police others for legal compliance as it suits them.
$cienos are required to use cult-developed filters to access the net. AFAIK, these are the opt-in type where you can only access pre-approved sites that have the cult, inc's blessing. I have a sneaking suspicion/. isn't on that opt-in list.
Are you suggesting that Mexico has somehow moved to Africa? Or that the long awaited polar reversal has finally occurred? I thought I was feeling a bit topsy-turvy today.
There are a lot of negative insinuations and misconceptions about private schools in the article and comments including the above.
Private schools are indeed businesses. A faulty conclusion is that their policies are profit driven. I am (volunteer) treasurer of a private school that my daughter attends here in central Indiana and we are a non-profit (and probably about to go out of business, unfortunately) corporation. All of our business and curriculum decisions are made on the basis of what we (where the "we" includes the students) believe is best for our kids/students. We are trying to provide an atmosphere that is the opposite of the school in the article and a real alternative to the factory public schools in our area. We accept no funds from any government agency (though we're looking at how to do so and retain our integrity in order to survive).
Private schools have come a long way from prep/boarding schools and are often a good option for parents of all incomes and social classes who want something better than what public schools have to offer (and are often attractive to those with a libertarian bent...)
New Palms will support CF. Saw it in a powerpoint of a recent presentation somewhere on Palm's site. That and some other apparently-standard card. Unfortunately, they're also talking about SDMI.
You obviously haven't considered the synergy that you get when you combine full color pr0n and your Palm. I can save 30-40 seconds per, uhm, session with 8 bit color over greyscale. Let's not even talk about the 1 bit Palms. Too bad I didn't spring for the Visor Prism's 16 bit color. I could be done before I start.
In a highly scientific test, I measured the speed that my right-click menu comes up running netscape 4.75 on this PIII/733: Goddamn fast. So fast, it happens before I finish pushing the button all the way down. You must be running Windows 3.1 on a 486, G.
I've thought about this analogy quite a bit and now I think it does not fit (even having defended crypto with it a few times). I believe an envelope is more of a container than a security device. Why do I mail a letter to my granny in an envelope? Because I have more to say than fits on a postcard. If I don't, I use a postcard. An envelope provides a convenient place to put a stamp and an address. Otherwise I'd have to scotch tape all the pages together and be sure and leave a place for the address and stamp on one of the pages. More practically, I use envelopes to pay my bills since it gives me a good place to put the check and the bill stub. I really don't care if the mail carrier knows I paid $47.36 for electricity this month. I think privacy is a (beneficial) side effect of envelopes.
That said, I am glad that an envelope provides privacy when I mail sensitive materials (an order to Vivid DVD, for example). I wish that encryption were more widely used so that privacy was more standard in the electronic domain. I can't get my tech-savvy friends to use PGP, much less my parents. Public key crypto is still beyond most folks understanding and probably ought to be as a poor understanding of security is probably worse than none at all.
Remailers are great, but also have a very high PITA factor as well.
I am convinced crypto needs to happen at a lower level. If all the ISPs could agree to encrypt traffic between themselves (and tell the FBI to stick the carnivore up their collective asses) then we'd have much less to fret over.
Note that if Bush does pull off a victory in Florida (which at this point, I suspect is likely), then we will conclusively be able to say that Al Gore cost Ralph Nader the
election. Had Gore not been running, most of his 49% in Florida would have gone to Gore, giving the Green Party the presidency.
Slashdot Mirror
Now all we need is quarter-sized screens to view the movies on - talk about the benefits of miniaturization!
2 words. Portable. Pr0n.
Can you tell me if ColorForth has a spell checker? If so, what was the rational for building it? Is it compiled into the kernal?
I totally agree with your sentiments here. Wanna go to that Flesh Faire next weekend with me and my friends?
There's nothing you can code that can't be gcc'ed,
Nothing you can commit that can't be forked,
Nothing you can `make`, but you can learn how to gdb
It's easy...
There's nothing you can RPM that can't be tarred,
Nothing you can grep that can't use awk,
Nothing you can post that folks will listen to anyway
It's easy...
All you need is love,
All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love and procmail
There's nothing you can 'make clean' without some SOAP,
Nothing you can ps that can't be killed
Nothing you can edit unless you learn how to use vi
It's easy...
All you need is love,
All you need is love,
All you need is love, love,
Love and procmail
(She'll flame you, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Another tool along that line would be Squeak Smalltalk. Yeah, it's a bit, uhm, eccentric, but it has some cool animation stuff that works out of the box (comes with a demo Energizer bunny that you can do fun Ren & Stimpy things with) and takes little contextual knowledge of Smalltalk or computing in general. And Smalltalk was designed for kids to learn with few syntactic oddities and layers of rules to learn.
I don't really want immortality. I do wonder, however, if his ring could help an antichrist like me get more karma (in the /. sense, of course).
Mr Chiu?
Might I also suggest .shn, which is what is used by the etree crowd.
Now I'm not going to try and start a vi vs. emacs war - I use and enjoy them both. But to agree with Raskin's "modal==bad" and then to adore vi is to offer a fairly stark contradiction. Let's face it - vi is nothing if not modal. Unless you are keenly aware of whether you're in insert vs. command mode, you either a) can't get anything done or b) can really dork up your file by accident.
With the exception of the universal undo, it sounds a lot like the interface for the Palm OS. No filesystem, the same widgets do the same thing, keep it extremely simple. In short, it's simply obvious what to do as soon as you turn the thing on the first time.
And in other news, recent developments seen on Sourceforge include SQL over carrier pigeon and SQL over pnuematic tube. Combined with holographic storage, room temperature fusion, and a beowulf cluster of Ximian-driven network degraders, this promises to be the future of computing.
Getting a bit more real, Espra looks to be shaping up as a tasty music-sharing layer for freenet. It's a GUI-licious as a fresh dreamsicle.
To: sbwest@microsoft.com From: Eponymous, Showered Hello - I frequently purchase and send requests for PCs without any operating system. You see, I build Linux systems for friends and local non-profit organizations so they aren't caught on the expensive Microsoft upgrade treadmill that they'll eventually fall off of. I'm hoping to persuade our local library to switch to Linux as well. Thus, I'd like to enroll myself in the RFPs and Qs contest. Since the Microsoft game titles will not function on my Linux computers, please send the Fossil watch. If you can't do that, then I'll accept the games. I suspect I can get a few dollars for them on eBay. Thanks for such an excellent contest - my fellow open source users and I will certainly enjoy the prizes.
How about the web-based application that Purdue students use to get class schedules, vote on issues and student elections, order concert tickets, get grades, get transcripts, get exam schedules, arrange for housing, and pretty much do all of their interaction with the university that doesn't include actually attending class? Yep, it's SSINFO and it's all (VisualWorks) Smalltalk, all on the web. The project is expanding over the course of 9 years to include financial aid and a host of other applications. Come to Purdue - home of Gene Spafford and some serious cutting edge software development.
Last I checked, here in this representative democracy, it was the job of the executive and judiciary branches of our government to determine who is and is not following the law, not a corporation whose interests are its profits and not necessarily the law (except as it benefits their bottom line). So, while I suspect you intended to be sarcastic, I'll say it, sans sarcasm:
Damn them for choosing to selectively police others for legal compliance as it suits them.
Tell it to the judge, Micros~1.
$cienos are required to use cult-developed filters to access the net. AFAIK, these are the opt-in type where you can only access pre-approved sites that have the cult, inc's blessing. I have a sneaking suspicion /. isn't on that opt-in list.
You could extrapolate from this and maybe find some practical, real-world use.
Are you suggesting that Mexico has somehow moved to Africa? Or that the long awaited polar reversal has finally occurred? I thought I was feeling a bit topsy-turvy today.
Mexico
There are a lot of negative insinuations and misconceptions about private schools in the article and comments including the above.
Private schools are indeed businesses. A faulty conclusion is that their policies are profit driven. I am (volunteer) treasurer of a private school that my daughter attends here in central Indiana and we are a non-profit (and probably about to go out of business, unfortunately) corporation. All of our business and curriculum decisions are made on the basis of what we (where the "we" includes the students) believe is best for our kids/students. We are trying to provide an atmosphere that is the opposite of the school in the article and a real alternative to the factory public schools in our area. We accept no funds from any government agency (though we're looking at how to do so and retain our integrity in order to survive).
Private schools have come a long way from prep/boarding schools and are often a good option for parents of all incomes and social classes who want something better than what public schools have to offer (and are often attractive to those with a libertarian bent...)
New Palms will support CF. Saw it in a powerpoint of a recent presentation somewhere on Palm's site. That and some other apparently-standard card. Unfortunately, they're also talking about SDMI.
In a highly scientific test, I measured the speed that my right-click menu comes up running netscape 4.75 on this PIII/733: Goddamn fast. So fast, it happens before I finish pushing the button all the way down. You must be running Windows 3.1 on a 486, G.
I've thought about this analogy quite a bit and now I think it does not fit (even having defended crypto with it a few times). I believe an envelope is more of a container than a security device. Why do I mail a letter to my granny in an envelope? Because I have more to say than fits on a postcard. If I don't, I use a postcard. An envelope provides a convenient place to put a stamp and an address. Otherwise I'd have to scotch tape all the pages together and be sure and leave a place for the address and stamp on one of the pages. More practically, I use envelopes to pay my bills since it gives me a good place to put the check and the bill stub. I really don't care if the mail carrier knows I paid $47.36 for electricity this month. I think privacy is a (beneficial) side effect of envelopes.
That said, I am glad that an envelope provides privacy when I mail sensitive materials (an order to Vivid DVD, for example). I wish that encryption were more widely used so that privacy was more standard in the electronic domain. I can't get my tech-savvy friends to use PGP, much less my parents. Public key crypto is still beyond most folks understanding and probably ought to be as a poor understanding of security is probably worse than none at all.
Remailers are great, but also have a very high PITA factor as well.
I am convinced crypto needs to happen at a lower level. If all the ISPs could agree to encrypt traffic between themselves (and tell the FBI to stick the carnivore up their collective asses) then we'd have much less to fret over.
Another way would be to go to CNN.com
Note that if Bush does pull off a victory in Florida (which at this point, I suspect is likely), then we will conclusively be able to say that Al Gore cost Ralph Nader the election. Had Gore not been running, most of his 49% in Florida would have gone to Gore, giving the Green Party the presidency.