I'm not trying to rip warmi, there's nothing wrong with your post, but is it funny? It doesn't sound like you're trying to be funny. Slashdot moderators are getting really weird.
This will be moderated to (Score:0, flamebait), no doubt.
My 7100/66 (running MacOS 8.5) is as stable as a rock! This thing runs rings around the first generation PCI Macs in terms of stability. I admit, things were a bit shakey durning the dark emulation days, but since 8.0, the thing has just been unsinkable.
So, you'd run right out and buy one if you could get to a Linux command prompt of X session? And what, pray tell, would you do, one you got there? Run SETI@home on it? Really now, it's a TV recording device, and I'd much rather control it through it's own polished, considered interface rather than through some wodgy command line app running in fuzz-o-vision on my TV screen.
What you don't understand is that for the target audience of this machine, artists, 3D modellers, publishing folks, web designers, Photoshop tests *are* usefull benchmarks. I spend all day in Photoshop, and let me tell you, I don't care ONE BIT about SEPCthis or ThatMark, those don't tell me anything about it. But doing Photoshop filters twice as fast, addressing 1.5 gigs of memory, now THAT's usefull data!
This machine isn't for you! It's for me! They aren't marketing it with you in mind, as well they shouldn't! You won't buy one no matter what, but I might! I personally don't care if it runs BeOS, LinuxPPC, or whatever. I want a machine that runs Photoshop. (and a handfull of other high end apps)
I hope this helps you understand this machine (and Apple in general) a bit.
Rejemy, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
For a moment, let's consider the opposite question. Don't ask "Why don't more women program?", ask "Why do all these men program?".
I think the answer goes something like this: Most men who become geeks, computer nerds, programmers, warez dorks, etc start out as the "unpopular loner" or quasi-loner in junior-high. For whatever reason, some guys are "popular" and some are the "outsiders". The outsiders don't have lots of friends, don't have a reputation, don't have full social calanders, just lots of empty evening with themselves. The computer is a natural companion, even though it's a difficult friend to get along with. It crashes, hangs, gives weird errors, it barks, it drools, it sleeps above the covers....
I digress.
But seriously, how often has your school jock or ladykiller also been a a computer geek? I imagine it happens everynow and then, but not often.
So why don't women outsiders get into computers as much? Not being a woman, I can't really say. Maybe women are better at socializing and don't ever fall so low as to spend lonely nights in front of the cruel glowing screen. Maybe they're all smart enough to realize that programming is really just a cruel and unusual punishment dragged out until you're 35, when you become unhirable, something that us dumb guys don't realize until it's too late!
If any genuine women outsiders out there want to comment on the behaviors and activities of the female outcast, feel free to fill in the blanks!
P.S. I'm not fealing sorry for myself for one second, given the chance I wouldn't trade my life with a "more popular" one no matter what! It's a lonely road to geekdome, but I wouldn't pick any other one!
P.P.S. In my computer engineering classes at Case Western, out of a class of 120 or so, I remember there being about 5 girls. They all sat togeather, in the front row.
What's the second easiest way for a big company to inspire hate within the linux community? Don't release any source code!
What's the easiest way to get the linux community to hate you? Release your source code!
No matter who you are or what you do, if you need to make money off your code, the Open Source People will blindy hate you, so kudos to Sun and others for doing it anyway. Hey, aren't we due for another round of Apple bashing about now?
OK look, why do you care that the networks will know about your watching habits? Are you worried that they'll be judgmental about how all you/.ers rack up them "Adult TV" hours? I for one would LOVE the chance to make my TV watching count for something. I always watch the underdog shows (Brisco County, Buffy tVS, anyone?) and it always bothers me that my shows fold because few in the rediculously small Neilson sampling watched them with me. Just think of it as a TV "hit counter". (Hey, looks like our show just hit it's 3 millionth viewer!)
The ideal solution of course would be TVs that have the option of reporting your watching, or not, depending on your level of privacy wonkiness. And those Homo Superioris in the audience don't have to have a TV at all, and then we could all be happy.
Yahoo has been placing sites near the top of their lists for a while - Internally, they refer to it as "topping off" a site. Before this, it wasn't an official policy, you had to ask the right person and maybe some money changed hands. My company did some work for Yahoo, and in addition to our regular payments, we got topped off as a bonus. It's actually nicer to have the policy stated and understood.
Unfortunatly, it's not legal, since I'm pretty much the only one who's seen it.
A year ago I programmed something that's pretty much exactly what's described in the patent: A server that manages multiple clients in multiple zones, and synchronizes only the information that needs to be synchronized. It even handles seamless interaction between zone boundries. If they sue me when I release my game.... There will be blood.
Of course, it will be easy to prove that my code in no way is derived from theirs, as it depends on absolutly no external libraries, and I have all the source code nice and readable. But I'd still have to go to court, and I'd rather code than deal with that shit.
Incidentally, are there any artists out there who want to help with graphics for an Ultima 6 styled massive multiplayer game? (There will be a Linux version... and Win32, MacOS, BeOS) : )
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I'm not trying to rip warmi, there's nothing wrong with your post, but is it funny? It doesn't sound like you're trying to be funny. Slashdot moderators are getting really weird.
This will be moderated to (Score:0, flamebait), no doubt.
My 7100/66 (running MacOS 8.5) is as stable as a rock! This thing runs rings around the first generation PCI Macs in terms of stability. I admit, things were a bit shakey durning the dark emulation days, but since 8.0, the thing has just been unsinkable.
So, you'd run right out and buy one if you could get to a Linux command prompt of X session? And what, pray tell, would you do, one you got there? Run SETI@home on it? Really now, it's a TV recording device, and I'd much rather control it through it's own polished, considered interface rather than through some wodgy command line app running in fuzz-o-vision on my TV screen.
The 400 shipping now is Yikes, the 450 and 500 available in october will be Sawtooth. Definatly wait for Sawtooth!
What you don't understand is that for the target audience of this machine, artists, 3D modellers, publishing folks, web designers, Photoshop tests *are* usefull benchmarks. I spend all day in Photoshop, and let me tell you, I don't care ONE BIT about SEPCthis or ThatMark, those don't tell me anything about it. But doing Photoshop filters twice as fast, addressing 1.5 gigs of memory, now THAT's usefull data!
This machine isn't for you! It's for me! They aren't marketing it with you in mind, as well they shouldn't! You won't buy one no matter what, but I might! I personally don't care if it runs BeOS, LinuxPPC, or whatever. I want a machine that runs Photoshop. (and a handfull of other high end apps)
I hope this helps you understand this machine (and Apple in general) a bit.
Rejemy, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off.
For a moment, let's consider the opposite question. Don't ask "Why don't more women program?", ask "Why do all these men program?".
I think the answer goes something like this: Most men who become geeks, computer nerds, programmers, warez dorks, etc start out as the "unpopular loner" or quasi-loner in junior-high. For whatever reason, some guys are "popular" and some are the "outsiders". The outsiders don't have lots of friends, don't have a reputation, don't have full social calanders, just lots of empty evening with themselves. The computer is a natural companion, even though it's a difficult friend to get along with. It crashes, hangs, gives weird errors, it barks, it drools, it sleeps above the covers....
I digress.
But seriously, how often has your school jock or ladykiller also been a a computer geek? I imagine it happens everynow and then, but not often.
So why don't women outsiders get into computers as much? Not being a woman, I can't really say. Maybe women are better at socializing and don't ever fall so low as to spend lonely nights in front of the cruel glowing screen. Maybe they're all smart enough to realize that programming is really just a cruel and unusual punishment dragged out until you're 35, when you become unhirable, something that us dumb guys don't realize until it's too late!
If any genuine women outsiders out there want to comment on the behaviors and activities of the female outcast, feel free to fill in the blanks!
P.S. I'm not fealing sorry for myself for one second, given the chance I wouldn't trade my life with a "more popular" one no matter what! It's a lonely road to geekdome, but I wouldn't pick any other one!
P.P.S. In my computer engineering classes at Case Western, out of a class of 120 or so, I remember there being about 5 girls. They all sat togeather, in the front row.
What's the second easiest way for a big company to inspire hate within the linux community? Don't release any source code!
What's the easiest way to get the linux community to hate you? Release your source code!
No matter who you are or what you do, if you need to make money off your code, the Open Source People will blindy hate you, so kudos to Sun and others for doing it anyway. Hey, aren't we due for another round of Apple bashing about now?
HA HA
OK look, why do you care that the networks will know about your watching habits? Are you worried that they'll be judgmental about how all you /.ers rack up them "Adult TV" hours? I for one would LOVE the chance to make my TV watching count for something. I always watch the underdog shows (Brisco County, Buffy tVS, anyone?) and it always bothers me that my shows fold because few in the rediculously small Neilson sampling watched them with me. Just think of it as a TV "hit counter". (Hey, looks like our show just hit it's 3 millionth viewer!)
The ideal solution of course would be TVs that have the option of reporting your watching, or not, depending on your level of privacy wonkiness.
And those Homo Superioris in the audience don't have to have a TV at all, and then we could all be happy.
Rejemy
Yahoo has been placing sites near the top of their lists for a while - Internally, they refer to it as "topping off" a site. Before this, it wasn't an official policy, you had to ask the right person and maybe some money changed hands. My company did some work for Yahoo, and in addition to our regular payments, we got topped off as a bonus. It's actually nicer to have the policy stated and understood.
Rejemy
Unfortunatly, it's not legal, since I'm pretty much the only one who's seen it.
A year ago I programmed something that's pretty much exactly what's described in the patent: A server that manages multiple clients in multiple zones, and synchronizes only the information that needs to be synchronized. It even handles seamless interaction between zone boundries. If they sue me when I release my game.... There will be blood.
Of course, it will be easy to prove that my code in no way is derived from theirs, as it depends on absolutly no external libraries, and I have all the source code nice and readable. But I'd still have to go to court, and I'd rather code than deal with that shit.
Incidentally, are there any artists out there who want to help with graphics for an Ultima 6 styled massive multiplayer game? (There will be a Linux version... and Win32, MacOS, BeOS) : )