I agree. Think about this: University dorms cost more to live in than rent in an apartment (in 95 I paid $1000/sem to share a dorm room, and the next year I paid half of $450/mo+phone,electric for a 2 br apt.) I fail to see how $500/mo for ONE ROOM has to be subsidized by taxpayers money.
And don't the students pay a technology fee? They started charging us $450/semester for some sort of technology fee. If the AZ students are paying one, then again, I fail to see how it's being subsidized by taxpayers' money.
College students are adults. They can walk down to the porn shop and buy themselves a playboy. They LIVE in the dorm room, and if they didn't, they'd be old enough to get themselves an apartment where they don't HAVE opposite sex rules. This ain't the '50s anymore. This ain't a Mormon (or ) college.
Even without the rules, students would still flunk out, they can find other things to waste their time with, or even buy a freakin dial up account for $12 a month to download their porn with.
Congress passed a law that says that if the computer companies did their due diligence then the customers can't sue. That's why I have to have a y2k voicemail, y2k vacation autoresponder, and keep y2k patch/etc. cds on my person. So yeah it's a foreseeable problem, but they have to prove that the companies did not do their due diligence in preparing for the y2k.
I think I've been around computers too much. I read that as "internet protocol" lawyers... and thought "hmmm didn't there were specialized lawyers for that..."
I propose as the faithful Slashdot community that we take up a bake sale, sell candy bars door to door, put jars for pennies at your local Microcenter, run a telethon, and subscribe to All Advantage for ol' Jim and get him some money for this worthy cause. Who's in with me??
DVD may take over VHS in the future, but it won't be in the near future. People already have lots of their movies on VHS tapes, and DVD doesn't allow you to record your tv shows to watch later. I think it'll be like the cassette tape and the CD. The only thing I use cassette tapes for anymore is to create workout tapes from my CDs, since CD players are cheap now and I have one in my car and a couple in my house. I have a CD burner that I could create mix CDs with, but it's generally faster to make a mix tape, and I need variety, so I tape over the previous tape when I get tired of those songs.
With VHS and DVD, you've got a medium that if it gets a scratch, you've got a ruined $30 movie. Video tape is encased in the hard plastic, and about all that can really happen is it melting in a hot car or the tape getting eaten by the player. You can fix the tape, and even tape it back together, and you just have a little tiny glitch in the movie, but the rest is still viewable. With a DVD, it becomes a useless coaster.
When people start buying only DVDs and only very few people are left who still buy VHS tapes, will we get to the point where DVD will take over. To fully take over, we need a recording medium, and I don't think DVD will cut it. We need something that allows you to record over last night's tv show that you already watched. Maybe once those hard drives get popular.....
I don't really care about the Star Wars trilogy. They were OK. JarJar was annoying, and I don't really want to watch them 101 times. Let Lucas be on his high powerful horse and not release Star Wars to his fans. There are other movies to watch and spend money on.
Hasn't this sort of thing been done before? I'm recalling back to like 7th grade and younger with the LOGO turtle. LT 90, etc... blind and only goes where you tell it to go. (and drew pictures!!)
I want a robot that can pick up my dirty laundry, do my dishes, clean the cat box, water my plants, make me meals, get the mail, wash my clothes, run errands (grocery store, post office, dry cleaners, bank), dust the furniture, do a GOOD job at vaccuuming, and hell, give the cats baths, set the time on the VCR, shovel the snow while we're in "dream" mode.
I'd like to see the Palm come out with one that has a USB port... so I don't have to reboot my computer to plug the huge cradle into it. Also a USB wire would be a lot lighter to lug around with my laptop. With a USB port I could plug a scanner, printer, or a host of other things into my palm too. Ahhh the possibilities...:)
Much as it'd be nice to have a device know where I'm going and tell me when to turn (rather than have someone sit in the passenger seat, looking at a map, going "Oh wait! That was the exit....") I think that it won't be in our lifetimes that we see something like that.
Yes you sketch yourself a b/w map, but say you find that b/w map a year later. You don't know what the hell it's supposed to be, because you only made the map good enough to jog your memory as you were trying to follow the map. To be able to reuse it, you need a GOOD map, so if you pass your exit, you can see that there's another exit not too far up that you can backtrack, that sort of thing. To have more details such as this, color makes it very useful.
I happen to like graffiti. It's kind of changed my handwriting on paper even, and I can write it about as fast as I can write on regular paper. Palm makes keyboards for those people who can't grasp the graffiti thing, and they even have a keyboard touch thing within the Palm that you can press which letter you want.
I'm a big proponent for a PDA that can attach to my mind and read my thoughts. I don't really want the world to know that I'm looking up Brad Pitt's phone number and putting in a date with him for 8 pm on Saturday.
They'd look like a complete moron until everyone was doing it. People talk on cell phones as they walk or drive, and before they became commonplace, they'd get some stares, but now no one pays any attention. What I'd say might be a problem is putting confidential info into it, someone overhearing a phone number, for example.
I might've put Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com as man of the year maybe in 1997 or 1998 but certainly not in 1999. This may be the first year that online shopping becomes more mainstream, but Amazon isn't in the forerunners of new ideas anymore.
I'm not really sure WHO I would pick... lots of things happened in 1999, and I'm not sure who would deserve such an honor. After all, is some rich famous person really that much better than the behind the scenes people who don't get any credit? It's like the Miss America pageant... is some beautiful chick who wants to save the environment really better than an ugly one who is actually DOING something to save the environment. The ideas don't necessarily make the labor.
I think the question is, how come they didn't ask ME to go in there....?
Heh I think this would put new meaning to "If you and I were the last people on earth, and there was no one else left to procreate, would you sleep with me?"
I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second crates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
I just had an argument (well a discussion) the other day with one of my friends. He bought I think a Casseopia that runs on WinCE and has color. He says he chose it over the Palm because he likes the color. He says it runs for 8 hours on the battery, and he sticks it in its cradle every night.
The cradle thing is the reason that I opted for a Palm IIIx (well cost was another factor) over a Palm V. I have enough problems trying to remember to take my cell phone out of my purse to plug it into the wall to charge it, and end up plugging it in at work during the day. I know that I would forget to take the Palm V out of my purse and plug it in at night, and if I did, then I'd forget to take it with me in the morning.
I think that the Palm going color is more like the Game boy phenomenon. You note that you can play the b/w games on the color one, and the color ones on the b/w Game boy. I think they'll make the programs compatible with both, as the color Palm gets more popularity.
Personally, I do think that since I can't browse the web on my Palm, there really is no need for me to have color. The batteries on my Palm last a helluva long time, and make it more convenient than the silly cradle. (stop at a gas station or keep a couple on me if I'm that paranoid).
Of course I'm usually one of the last people to upgrade (read Aug 99 when upgraded Win95B to Win98, and refused to try Win95 until around 96) so YMMV.
I still think that instead of 1+1=2 you're getting 1+1=1.5... more productive than just one person but still not as productive as 2 people coding separately. Yes it's faster, cleaner, better than just one person sitting there and coding their stuff by themselves, but by how much? Certainly not double time. And it's the managers and other kinds of people who say well he's just watching, when he could be programming something else! I wonder if there are any studies done on the subject, rather than just theories and people saying "yeah! I get it done faster/better!"
Actually the difference is, Microsoft is stealing (or buying out things that are already popular), the others are buying things that they think can become popular if someone would take the initiative to do something with it.
Arrgh this lawsuit is stupid. If I go to a car lot and say I'll offer $1000 for that car that you have priced at $2000, isn't this what Priceline is trying to patent? Like they really came up with anything that hasn't been around for millions of years. I think I'm going to go patent selling lemonade at a lemonade stand now.
With infinite resources anyone can write the most beautiful, bug-free code. I agree that 2 pairs of eyes are better than one, but if they can get that 2nd pair of eyes to go program something else, they can get more programmed in the same amount of time. These are the days of companies being shortstaffed and projects having to be done "yesterday". It all sounds great in theory (just like all the good practices you learn in college C++ class), in the real world, things don't work how you'd ideally like them to.
By sealing it up, you're not letting much air pass through, and the thing will eventually heat up (depending on how big the case is). Especially if it's outside and you don't live in Alaska. I don't think that succeeding in this venture of yours will be cheap. I can't imagine that the boat equipment that someone mentioned before runs so fast that it generates a lot of heat... for this to be cheap/feasible you will probably be stuck with sealing up a slow computer.
At first when I checked out his web page and saw the pictures, I thought "Damn what a weirdo", but then after reading some of his writing, I have to say that I'm rather impressed.
Art is not all "happy trees" and weird shapes on paper. Art is for the reaction or feelings that you evoke from people who look at (or hear) your art. You may not even be trying to get a "GOOD" reaction, but rather a reaction of disgust or hate. Notice that everyone has some sort of reaction when they look at Eric's body alterations.
I once saw an art performance where the artist was trying to make a statement about breast cancer. She had a display with photos of all kinds of breasts. She herself had had a masectomy (result of breast cancer), and in the performance, she did a cultural sort of dance, topless, along with another woman who hadn't had a masectomy. There was an initial reaction of suprise at first, because no one really knew what a masectomy looked like, but after the first initial "shock", the general consensus was that we were happy that we hadn't had breast cancer, happy that she survived, and she is still a real person even without her breasts.
I think that this is a similar thing that Eric is trying to evoke from the people who see him. It's "shocking" art, not the beautiful landscape Bob Ross stuff that all of you expect to see when you hear the word "art".
VS's headquarters is based in Columbus OH. They are kind of like Starbucks here. One on every corner.
I wonder if you can buy a car online and save mega$ on sales tax. Or do the dealerships count as brick and mortar? I thought it was just the headquarters that counted as the brick-and-mortar.
Too bad I still had to pay the shipping/delivery charges on my Honda. Hell, I'd drive 30 miles to the Honda factory and pick it up if they would have let me...:)
Well it was funny for the first 5 ad-lib response posts. *Yawns and wonders if tomorrow there will be 600 posts of peoples' adlib responses and wonders if anyone will read them*
If they are just goign to pull the plug on it as you (and the other slashdotters) seem to think, then why are they goign through the trouble to get a Mac port for it?
You don't REALLY think that the CEO makes all those decisions by himself do you? If the Board thought he was doing a shitty job, and making stupid emotional decisions, they could fire him, just like Steve Jobs was fired from Apple. Scott's got more money than he knows what to do with, and Sun's financial performance has been really great. What does he really have to be jealous of BGates for? He cracks on MS because that's the type of personality he has, a jokester, and it sure does get a lot of free publicity, doesn't it? If cracking jokes about the "big monopoly of MS" got you on the front cover of a dozen magazines, with notes about how your company is doing pretty well... and not have to pay for it... you'd do it too.
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I agree.
Think about this:
University dorms cost more to live in than rent in an apartment (in 95 I paid $1000/sem to share a dorm room, and the next year I paid half of $450/mo+phone,electric for a 2 br apt.) I fail to see how $500/mo for ONE ROOM has to be subsidized by taxpayers money.
And don't the students pay a technology fee? They started charging us $450/semester for some sort of technology fee. If the AZ students are paying one, then again, I fail to see how it's being subsidized by taxpayers' money.
College students are adults. They can walk down to the porn shop and buy themselves a playboy. They LIVE in the dorm room, and if they didn't, they'd be old enough to get themselves an apartment where they don't HAVE opposite sex rules. This ain't the '50s anymore. This ain't a Mormon (or ) college.
Even without the rules, students would still flunk out, they can find other things to waste their time with, or even buy a freakin dial up account for $12 a month to download their porn with.
Four photo sizes just in case you want some of those beautiful pictures on the background of your computer!!
Congress passed a law that says that if the computer companies did their due diligence then the customers can't sue. That's why I have to have a y2k voicemail, y2k vacation autoresponder, and keep y2k patch/etc. cds on my person. So yeah it's a foreseeable problem, but they have to prove that the companies did not do their due diligence in preparing for the y2k.
The trolls have migrated back into their dank, dark caves for the holiday, sucking on pieces of bedrock, imagining it was N****** P******
I think I've been around computers too much. I read that as "internet protocol" lawyers... and thought "hmmm didn't there were specialized lawyers for that..."
I propose as the faithful Slashdot community that we take up a bake sale, sell candy bars door to door, put jars for pennies at your local Microcenter, run a telethon, and subscribe to All Advantage for ol' Jim and get him some money for this worthy cause. Who's in with me??
DVD may take over VHS in the future, but it won't be in the near future. People already have lots of their movies on VHS tapes, and DVD doesn't allow you to record your tv shows to watch later. I think it'll be like the cassette tape and the CD. The only thing I use cassette tapes for anymore is to create workout tapes from my CDs, since CD players are cheap now and I have one in my car and a couple in my house. I have a CD burner that I could create mix CDs with, but it's generally faster to make a mix tape, and I need variety, so I tape over the previous tape when I get tired of those songs.
With VHS and DVD, you've got a medium that if it gets a scratch, you've got a ruined $30 movie. Video tape is encased in the hard plastic, and about all that can really happen is it melting in a hot car or the tape getting eaten by the player. You can fix the tape, and even tape it back together, and you just have a little tiny glitch in the movie, but the rest is still viewable. With a DVD, it becomes a useless coaster.
When people start buying only DVDs and only very few people are left who still buy VHS tapes, will we get to the point where DVD will take over. To fully take over, we need a recording medium, and I don't think DVD will cut it. We need something that allows you to record over last night's tv show that you already watched. Maybe once those hard drives get popular.....
I don't really care about the Star Wars trilogy. They were OK. JarJar was annoying, and I don't really want to watch them 101 times. Let Lucas be on his high powerful horse and not release Star Wars to his fans. There are other movies to watch and spend money on.
Hasn't this sort of thing been done before? I'm recalling back to like 7th grade and younger with the LOGO turtle. LT 90, etc... blind and only goes where you tell it to go. (and drew pictures!!)
I want a robot that can pick up my dirty laundry, do my dishes, clean the cat box, water my plants, make me meals, get the mail, wash my clothes, run errands (grocery store, post office, dry cleaners, bank), dust the furniture, do a GOOD job at vaccuuming, and hell, give the cats baths, set the time on the VCR, shovel the snow while we're in "dream" mode.
I'd like to see the Palm come out with one that has a USB port... so I don't have to reboot my computer to plug the huge cradle into it. Also a USB wire would be a lot lighter to lug around with my laptop. With a USB port I could plug a scanner, printer, or a host of other things into my palm too. Ahhh the possibilities... :)
Much as it'd be nice to have a device know where I'm going and tell me when to turn (rather than have someone sit in the passenger seat, looking at a map, going "Oh wait! That was the exit....") I think that it won't be in our lifetimes that we see something like that.
Yes you sketch yourself a b/w map, but say you find that b/w map a year later. You don't know what the hell it's supposed to be, because you only made the map good enough to jog your memory as you were trying to follow the map. To be able to reuse it, you need a GOOD map, so if you pass your exit, you can see that there's another exit not too far up that you can backtrack, that sort of thing. To have more details such as this, color makes it very useful.
I happen to like graffiti. It's kind of changed my handwriting on paper even, and I can write it about as fast as I can write on regular paper. Palm makes keyboards for those people who can't grasp the graffiti thing, and they even have a keyboard touch thing within the Palm that you can press which letter you want.
I'm a big proponent for a PDA that can attach to my mind and read my thoughts. I don't really want the world to know that I'm looking up Brad Pitt's phone number and putting in a date with him for 8 pm on Saturday.
They'd look like a complete moron until everyone was doing it. People talk on cell phones as they walk or drive, and before they became commonplace, they'd get some stares, but now no one pays any attention. What I'd say might be a problem is putting confidential info into it, someone overhearing a phone number, for example.
I might've put Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com as man of the year maybe in 1997 or 1998 but certainly not in 1999. This may be the first year that online shopping becomes more mainstream, but Amazon isn't in the forerunners of new ideas anymore.
I'm not really sure WHO I would pick... lots of things happened in 1999, and I'm not sure who would deserve such an honor. After all, is some rich famous person really that much better than the behind the scenes people who don't get any credit? It's like the Miss America pageant... is some beautiful chick who wants to save the environment really better than an ugly one who is actually DOING something to save the environment. The ideas don't necessarily make the labor.
I think the question is, how come they didn't ask ME to go in there....?
Heh I think this would put new meaning to "If you and I were the last people on earth, and there was no one else left to procreate, would you sleep with me?"
SANTA CLAUS: An Engineer's Perspective
I. There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at least one good child in each.
II. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 967.7 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him, get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh and get on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 108 million stops is evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false, but will accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom
stops or breaks. This means Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles
per second, and a conventional reindeer can run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
III. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium sized Lego set (two pounds), the sleigh is carrying over 500 thousand tons, not counting Santa himself. On land, a conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that the "flying" reindeer could pull ten times the normal amount, the job can't be done with eight or even nine of them-Santa would need 360,000 of them. This increases the payload, not counting the weight of the sleigh, another 54,000 tons, or roughly seven times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
IV. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second crates enormous air resistance-this would heat up the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft reentering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintillion joules of energy per second each. In short, they would burst into flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team would be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or right about the time Santa reached the fifth house on his trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa, as a result of accelerating from a dead stop to 650 m.p.s. in 0.001 seconds, would be subjected to centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force, instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
V. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.
I just had an argument (well a discussion) the other day with one of my friends. He bought I think a Casseopia that runs on WinCE and has color. He says he chose it over the Palm because he likes the color. He says it runs for 8 hours on the battery, and he sticks it in its cradle every night.
The cradle thing is the reason that I opted for a Palm IIIx (well cost was another factor) over a Palm V. I have enough problems trying to remember to take my cell phone out of my purse to plug it into the wall to charge it, and end up plugging it in at work during the day. I know that I would forget to take the Palm V out of my purse and plug it in at night, and if I did, then I'd forget to take it with me in the morning.
I think that the Palm going color is more like the Game boy phenomenon. You note that you can play the b/w games on the color one, and the color ones on the b/w Game boy. I think they'll make the programs compatible with both, as the color Palm gets more popularity.
Personally, I do think that since I can't browse the web on my Palm, there really is no need for me to have color. The batteries on my Palm last a helluva long time, and make it more convenient than the silly cradle. (stop at a gas station or keep a couple on me if I'm that paranoid).
Of course I'm usually one of the last people to upgrade (read Aug 99 when upgraded Win95B to Win98, and refused to try Win95 until around 96) so YMMV.
I still think that instead of 1+1=2 you're getting 1+1=1.5 ... more productive than just one person but still not as productive as 2 people coding separately. Yes it's faster, cleaner, better than just one person sitting there and coding their stuff by themselves, but by how much? Certainly not double time. And it's the managers and other kinds of people who say well he's just watching, when he could be programming something else! I wonder if there are any studies done on the subject, rather than just theories and people saying "yeah! I get it done faster/better!"
Actually the difference is, Microsoft is stealing (or buying out things that are already popular), the others are buying things that they think can become popular if someone would take the initiative to do something with it.
Arrgh this lawsuit is stupid. If I go to a car lot and say I'll offer $1000 for that car that you have priced at $2000, isn't this what Priceline is trying to patent? Like they really came up with anything that hasn't been around for millions of years. I think I'm going to go patent selling lemonade at a lemonade stand now.
With infinite resources anyone can write the most beautiful, bug-free code. I agree that 2 pairs of eyes are better than one, but if they can get that 2nd pair of eyes to go program something else, they can get more programmed in the same amount of time. These are the days of companies being shortstaffed and projects having to be done "yesterday". It all sounds great in theory (just like all the good practices you learn in college C++ class), in the real world, things don't work how you'd ideally like them to.
By sealing it up, you're not letting much air pass through, and the thing will eventually heat up (depending on how big the case is). Especially if it's outside and you don't live in Alaska. I don't think that succeeding in this venture of yours will be cheap. I can't imagine that the boat equipment that someone mentioned before runs so fast that it generates a lot of heat... for this to be cheap/feasible you will probably be stuck with sealing up a slow computer.
At first when I checked out his web page and saw the pictures, I thought "Damn what a weirdo", but then after reading some of his writing, I have to say that I'm rather impressed.
Art is not all "happy trees" and weird shapes on paper. Art is for the reaction or feelings that you evoke from people who look at (or hear) your art. You may not even be trying to get a "GOOD" reaction, but rather a reaction of disgust or hate. Notice that everyone has some sort of reaction when they look at Eric's body alterations.
I once saw an art performance where the artist was trying to make a statement about breast cancer. She had a display with photos of all kinds of breasts. She herself had had a masectomy (result of breast cancer), and in the performance, she did a cultural sort of dance, topless, along with another woman who hadn't had a masectomy. There was an initial reaction of suprise at first, because no one really knew what a masectomy looked like, but after the first initial "shock", the general consensus was that we were happy that we hadn't had breast cancer, happy that she survived, and she is still a real person even without her breasts.
I think that this is a similar thing that Eric is trying to evoke from the people who see him. It's "shocking" art, not the beautiful landscape Bob Ross stuff that all of you expect to see when you hear the word "art".
VS's headquarters is based in Columbus OH. They are kind of like Starbucks here. One on every corner.
:)
I wonder if you can buy a car online and save mega$ on sales tax. Or do the dealerships count as brick and mortar? I thought it was just the headquarters that counted as the brick-and-mortar.
Too bad I still had to pay the shipping/delivery charges on my Honda. Hell, I'd drive 30 miles to the Honda factory and pick it up if they would have let me...
Well it was funny for the first 5 ad-lib response posts. *Yawns and wonders if tomorrow there will be 600 posts of peoples' adlib responses and wonders if anyone will read them*
(-5 Commentary from bitter y2k programmer)
If they are just goign to pull the plug on it as you (and the other slashdotters) seem to think, then why are they goign through the trouble to get a Mac port for it?
You don't REALLY think that the CEO makes all those decisions by himself do you? If the Board thought he was doing a shitty job, and making stupid emotional decisions, they could fire him, just like Steve Jobs was fired from Apple. Scott's got more money than he knows what to do with, and Sun's financial performance has been really great. What does he really have to be jealous of BGates for? He cracks on MS because that's the type of personality he has, a jokester, and it sure does get a lot of free publicity, doesn't it? If cracking jokes about the "big monopoly of MS" got you on the front cover of a dozen magazines, with notes about how your company is doing pretty well... and not have to pay for it... you'd do it too.
It's still there... on Solaris 7 /usr/ucbinclude
/usr/ucb and