'Look out honey, we're using technology' is a line from a iggy and the stooges song 'search and destroy' I believe. where Iggy pulls it off, in the context of plastic withouth raging guitars in the background it's just plain dorky sounding.
I apologize for my math un-geekedness but how the hell do you say 3,000,000,000,000,000? from the pdf file it seem like Buchanan was about a million times more likeley to get hit by lightning than get 3,407 votes in palm beach.
it's nice to see technology and art convergence covered on slashdot but honestly the work produced is really uremarkable. Just using new tools to make what is a rather uniteresting large doodle. This is less interesting than someone doing the same thing with macpaint. for a better example of tech(specifically the web) and art combo look at adaweb
IMHO, it's not just Fox that are at fault here, it's commerical "web design" in general. Ever notice how places like PCWeek, Altavista, mp3.com, and many -- many -- others use pages replete with br and such to force the 640x480 look on people? Most of the time it's not even centred, forcing me to stare at the left 30% of my monitor.
basically the reason that pages are scrunched to somewhat narrow widths is due to text readability. if you stretch out text too far it becomes hard to read. usability test show that your eyes have a hard time keeeping track what line they are on when the page is really wide.
personally I like 'stretchy' sites as opposed to fixed width and I just narrow the window when I have a-lot of text(and usually bump up the font size)
I would love to have a 6 slot pci with umpteen drive bay Macintosh. As it is I am still using my old power computing clone with a slew up upgrades in it.. Unfortunately I think that the steve jobs era apple will try to kill any attemps of hardware makers to create a mac 'clone' or any machine that will run the mac os with some alteration of the mac os. hardware is where apple is raking it in these day and they will try to protect that in some way
It's good to see that there will now be g3/g4 desktops produced by someone besides apple. The article seemed to take the tone that linuxpc is somehow in competition with the macos. I don't think the majority of the mac users out there are going to go bolting to linuxppc because you can buy a g3 with it on it(speaking for myself I use both, but would only buy a non apple g3/g4 if I could run the macos on it as well). If ibm puts out a cheaper chrp box than apple,and they most definitley will be cheaper than the motorola altivec g4s, they might compete with the tiny macosx server market. I'm sure apple will try to do something that will prevent the macos from running on the ibm machines
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'Look out honey, we're using technology' is a line from a iggy and the stooges song 'search and destroy' I believe. where Iggy pulls it off, in the context of plastic withouth raging guitars in the background it's just plain dorky sounding.
I apologize for my math un-geekedness but how the hell do you say 3,000,000,000,000,000? from the pdf file it seem like Buchanan was about a million times more likeley to get hit by lightning than get 3,407 votes in palm beach.
it's nice to see technology and art convergence covered on slashdot but honestly the work produced is really uremarkable. Just using new tools to make what is a rather uniteresting large doodle. This is less interesting than someone doing the same thing with macpaint. for a better example of tech(specifically the web) and art combo look at adaweb
IMHO, it's not just Fox that are at fault here, it's commerical "web design" in general. Ever notice how places like PCWeek, Altavista, mp3.com, and many -- many -- others use pages replete with br and such to force the 640x480 look on people? Most of the time it's not even centred, forcing me to stare at the left 30% of my monitor.
basically the reason that pages are scrunched to somewhat narrow widths is due to text readability. if you stretch out text too far it becomes hard to read. usability test show that your eyes have a hard time keeeping track what line they are on when the page is really wide.
personally I like 'stretchy' sites as opposed to fixed width and I just narrow the window when I have a-lot of text(and usually bump up the font size)
from netcraft: www.macaddict.com is running Netscape-Enterprise/2.0a on IRIX
FYI this has been done before at the village voice by austin bunn
http://villagevoice.com/features/9846/bunn.shtml
http://www.macintouch.com/
I would love to have a 6 slot pci with umpteen drive bay Macintosh. As it is I am still using my old power computing clone with a slew up upgrades in it.. Unfortunately I think that the steve jobs era apple will try to kill any attemps of hardware makers to create a mac 'clone' or any machine that will run the mac os with some alteration of the mac os. hardware is where apple is raking it in these day and they will try to protect that in some way
It's good to see that there will now be g3/g4 desktops produced by someone besides apple. The article seemed to take the tone that linuxpc is somehow in competition with the macos. I don't think the majority of the mac users out there are going to go bolting to linuxppc because you can buy a g3 with it on it(speaking for myself I use both, but would only buy a non apple g3/g4 if I could run the macos on it as well). If ibm puts out a cheaper chrp box than apple,and they most definitley will be cheaper than the motorola altivec g4s, they might compete with the tiny macosx server market. I'm sure apple will try to do something that will prevent the macos from running on the ibm machines