And with that 22" costing $2500, you can just imagine how many people will buy their monitors elsewhere.
1998: And with USB devices costing 3x as much as their serial counterparts, you can imagine how many people will buy their monitors elsewhere.
1998: And with floppies being the most popular sneakernet standard, you can imagine how many people will have to buy $100 floppy drives for their iMac.
2000: And with Firewire being an unused standard, you can imagine how many people will pay $300 for a Firewire->SCSI adaptor.
This is Apple's schtick. They take a costly and cool technology and produce it in such incredible quantity that it becomes affordable. Flat screens are expensive now because they're not being produced in enough quantity. (In part.) Once Apple ups the demand by 10x monthly, I'm guessing prices will drop in a huge way.
"Now that eighteen-year-olds have the right to vote, it is obvious that they must be allowed the freedom to form their political views on the basis of uncensored speech before they turn eighteen, so that their minds are not a blank when they first exercise the franchise. And since an eighteen-year-old's right to vote is a right personal to him rather than a right to be exercised on his behalf by his parents, the right of parents to enlist the aid of the state to shield their children from ideas of which the parents disapprove cannot be plenary either. People are unlikely to become well- functioning, independent-minded adults and responsible citizens if they are raised in an intellectual bubble."
You're right, of course. I must admit that I don't know the origins of Beta Bridge, but I've enjoyed the ever-changing messages on there in the past decade or so that I've been paying attention. I think that the only thing that makes the City chalkboard different is that it's intended for less-intensive messages. That is, it takes a lot less work, for better or for worse, to write something on a chalkboard.
Anyhow, yes, UVa definitely gets the prize for doing this far, far ahead of C'ville. I feel foolish for not thinking of that.
BTW, let it not be thought that I liked this article. Maybe I agree with it and I can't see that, but that would be because I find the author's tone somewhat upsetting. I've known a few of the Ximian guys for years, so I'm a bit defensive of them.
CmdrTaco wrote:
I tend to think that some points are over beaten (lack of binaries for example. So what? Anyone can compile and distribute their own).
Remember that one of the points of Ximian Gnome is to make Linux less frightening to our mothers. I don't know about you, but telling my mother that she just needs to "uncompress the tarball, configure, make, and make install" won't really get us very far. OTOH, if I can e-mail her a single command (ie, rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.ximian.com/directory/to/rpm/distro.rpm), then we're doing pretty well.
Why wait for the Red Hats of the world to provide binaries? Instead of stopping the simplification process after the UI design, they should follow through, IMHO.
That's a wonderful idea. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but quite helpful. I'll run a quick filter on my logs and figure out what the most common first name being tried is. Then I'll set up procmail to block the user.
Not the ideal solution, but an excellent one none the less.
Well, I'll say it explicitly now: this is mail to local users. You're right, it would be stupid of me to permit relaying so, of course, I don't allow it. If my server is example.com, I would see attempts to send mail that look like this:
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find evidence that he ever actually said this, but I can't find it. I can find lots of references to it, including one in a book, but no solid record that he wrote this.
Is this a Mac urban legend, or is it the real deal?
That's a great, great idea. I can't believe that it never crossed my mind. The nature of my company doesn't permit me to act on this right now, but any future contracting that I do will definitely include a clause of this nature; probably something in the neighborhood of 10% off.
Yeah, I'm sure. It was a quasi-arbitrary standard that was established after C4K got a large donation of a whole mess of 133s.:)
Waldo
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You can set emacs, vi, and lpr to all make tabs equal whatever your preference is, in terms of size. Why force everybody to indent code with the same number of spaces when tabs let everybody make their code look like whatever they want?
Computers 4 Kids has a minimum simply because 486s can't effectively run Windows 95. No other reason than that. Also, we get such a large number of donations now that, happily, we can be picky enough to only accept higher-quality machines. (Plus, a lot of people would "donate" -- that is, dump -- XTs, 286s, etc., which is what happened when C4K first started. It's a pain, getting rid of dozens or hundreds of these old things.)
Here in Charlottesville, the community created Computers 4 Kids, a non-profit organization that takes just such computers and gets them into the hands of disadvantaged kids. (Sometimes via other non-profits, such as the Boys and Girls club.) I think that this solution works well, as difficult as it is to accomplish: create an organization for a community that gets volunteers to fix up these machines.
Our minumum specs, BTW, is a P133 w/ 16MB of RAM and a 1GB HDD. (I say 'our' -- I just volunteer there every week or two.) Most of the machines that we give out aren't much better than that. We put Win95 on most boxes (I'd love to put Linux on there, but we want these kids to know how to use systems as a eventual job skill, not as a primary skillset), which works just fine.
If the kids' machines break, they bring them back and a volunteer fixes it. Without a group like this, it would be pretty well impossible for systems to be effectively reused in central Virginia. But the result is that these kids have resources that they would never otherwise have access to.
I guess I don't understand why people need to call other people "funny" because of they're beleifs.
It's my belief that I should quack like a duck while juggling bowling balls while completely naked, in the middle of Times Square.
That's funny. It might be my belief, but it's still funny. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I also think it's funny to take "apocalypse," which is commonly defined as the end of the world, all living things die, etc., etc., and redefine it to be a good thing. In the strict sense, Larry Wall is right. Merriam-Webster says:
apocalypse Etymology: Middle English, revelation, Revelation, from Late Latin apocalypsis, from Greek apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover -- more at HELL
Date: 13th century
1a: one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 B.C. to A.D. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom b capitalized: REVELATION 3
2a: something viewed as a prophetic revelation b: ARMAGEDDON
But I think it's funny to take the opportunity to take what everybody thinks of as a bad thing and turn it into a good thing, in the Christian definition. That's the Christian thing to do, I guess, is recruit more Christians. Larry Wall took advantage of an unusual opportunity to do so, and I think it's funny.
I know that this isn't terribly helpful, but I actually found this out a few months ago. The bummer is that I can't find it again. It was a page affiliated with Tim Berners-Lee or the W3C. (Or was it on CERN's site?) But it was the #1, very first, no-question-about-it page on the web. It exists. It's out there. Anybody know where?
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And with that 22" costing $2500, you can just imagine how many people will buy their monitors elsewhere.
1998: And with USB devices costing 3x as much as their serial counterparts, you can imagine how many people will buy their monitors elsewhere.
1998: And with floppies being the most popular sneakernet standard, you can imagine how many people will have to buy $100 floppy drives for their iMac.
2000: And with Firewire being an unused standard, you can imagine how many people will pay $300 for a Firewire->SCSI adaptor.
This is Apple's schtick. They take a costly and cool technology and produce it in such incredible quantity that it becomes affordable. Flat screens are expensive now because they're not being produced in enough quantity. (In part.) Once Apple ups the demand by 10x monthly, I'm guessing prices will drop in a huge way.
Waldo
"Now that eighteen-year-olds have the right to vote, it is obvious that they must be allowed the freedom to form their political views on the basis of uncensored speech before they turn eighteen, so that their minds are not a blank when they first exercise the franchise. And since an eighteen-year-old's right to vote is a right personal to him rather than a right to be exercised on his behalf by his parents, the right of parents to enlist the aid of the state to shield their children from ideas of which the parents disapprove cannot be plenary either. People are unlikely to become well- functioning, independent-minded adults and responsible citizens if they are raised in an intellectual bubble."
American Amusement Machine Assoc. v. Kendrick No. 00-3643 (7th Cir., March 23, 2001). http://laws.findlaw.com/7th/003643.html
You're right, of course. I must admit that I don't know the origins of Beta Bridge, but I've enjoyed the ever-changing messages on there in the past decade or so that I've been paying attention. I think that the only thing that makes the City chalkboard different is that it's intended for less-intensive messages. That is, it takes a lot less work, for better or for worse, to write something on a chalkboard.
Anyhow, yes, UVa definitely gets the prize for doing this far, far ahead of C'ville. I feel foolish for not thinking of that.
-Waldo
I think I am the local 2600 group. :) And, yes, I fully intend to write DeCSS (the short, 4-line one) on there 1st thing. :)
-Waldo
Sorry, /. didn't log me in when I posted. It was I. :)
-Waldo
A slap with a wet salmon to whatever fool modded this up as "Funny."
-Waldo
BTW, let it not be thought that I liked this article. Maybe I agree with it and I can't see that, but that would be because I find the author's tone somewhat upsetting. I've known a few of the Ximian guys for years, so I'm a bit defensive of them.
-Waldo
CmdrTaco wrote:
, then we're doing pretty well.
I tend to think that some points are over beaten (lack of binaries for example. So what? Anyone can compile and distribute their own).
Remember that one of the points of Ximian Gnome is to make Linux less frightening to our mothers. I don't know about you, but telling my mother that she just needs to "uncompress the tarball, configure, make, and make install" won't really get us very far. OTOH, if I can e-mail her a single command (ie, rpm -Uvh ftp://ftp.ximian.com/directory/to/rpm/distro.rpm)
Why wait for the Red Hats of the world to provide binaries? Instead of stopping the simplification process after the UI design, they should follow through, IMHO.
-Waldo
This is a joke, isn't it?
Please?
-Waldo
Ah, but could you repost that in Spanish?
;)
Hi, Aaron.
-Waldo
That's a wonderful idea. It's somewhat counter-intuitive, but quite helpful. I'll run a quick filter on my logs and figure out what the most common first name being tried is. Then I'll set up procmail to block the user.
Not the ideal solution, but an excellent one none the less.
-Waldo
Well, I'll say it explicitly now: this is mail to local users. You're right, it would be stupid of me to permit relaying so, of course, I don't allow it. If my server is example.com, I would see attempts to send mail that look like this:
david@example.com
dan@example.com
mike@example.com
bill@example.com
And so on. It really bugs me.
Waldo
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find evidence that he ever actually said this, but I can't find it. I can find lots of references to it, including one in a book, but no solid record that he wrote this.
Is this a Mac urban legend, or is it the real deal?
Waldo
For those looking to get started, I recommend that you check out The Ruby Cookbok. (Not dead trees, just web-based.) It's quite helpful.
-Waldo
That's a great, great idea. I can't believe that it never crossed my mind. The nature of my company doesn't permit me to act on this right now, but any future contracting that I do will definitely include a clause of this nature; probably something in the neighborhood of 10% off.
-Waldo
Yeah, I'm sure. It was a quasi-arbitrary standard that was established after C4K got a large donation of a whole mess of 133s. :)
Waldo
You can set emacs, vi, and lpr to all make tabs equal whatever your preference is, in terms of size. Why force everybody to indent code with the same number of spaces when tabs let everybody make their code look like whatever they want?
Waldo
Um...'94? I signed up in...what...'98? And look at my user number.
No way.
Waldo
Computers 4 Kids has a minimum simply because 486s can't effectively run Windows 95. No other reason than that. Also, we get such a large number of donations now that, happily, we can be picky enough to only accept higher-quality machines. (Plus, a lot of people would "donate" -- that is, dump -- XTs, 286s, etc., which is what happened when C4K first started. It's a pain, getting rid of dozens or hundreds of these old things.)
Waldo
Here in Charlottesville, the community created Computers 4 Kids, a non-profit organization that takes just such computers and gets them into the hands of disadvantaged kids. (Sometimes via other non-profits, such as the Boys and Girls club.) I think that this solution works well, as difficult as it is to accomplish: create an organization for a community that gets volunteers to fix up these machines.
Our minumum specs, BTW, is a P133 w/ 16MB of RAM and a 1GB HDD. (I say 'our' -- I just volunteer there every week or two.) Most of the machines that we give out aren't much better than that. We put Win95 on most boxes (I'd love to put Linux on there, but we want these kids to know how to use systems as a eventual job skill, not as a primary skillset), which works just fine.
If the kids' machines break, they bring them back and a volunteer fixes it. Without a group like this, it would be pretty well impossible for systems to be effectively reused in central Virginia. But the result is that these kids have resources that they would never otherwise have access to.
Waldo
Gordon Moore has hit the maximum age of employment at Intel. As of May, he'll only be an honorary employee.
That's a shame -- his efficiency doubles every 18 months, I'm told. Think of all he could accomplish!
Waldo
I guess I don't understand why people need to call other people "funny" because of they're beleifs.
It's my belief that I should quack like a duck while juggling bowling balls while completely naked, in the middle of Times Square.
That's funny. It might be my belief, but it's still funny. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I also think it's funny to take "apocalypse," which is commonly defined as the end of the world, all living things die, etc., etc., and redefine it to be a good thing. In the strict sense, Larry Wall is right. Merriam-Webster says:
apocalypse
Etymology: Middle English, revelation, Revelation, from Late Latin apocalypsis, from Greek apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover -- more at HELL
Date: 13th century
1a: one of the Jewish and Christian writings of 200 B.C. to A.D. 150 marked by pseudonymity, symbolic imagery, and the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil and raises the righteous to life in a messianic kingdom b capitalized: REVELATION 3
2a: something viewed as a prophetic revelation b: ARMAGEDDON
But I think it's funny to take the opportunity to take what everybody thinks of as a bad thing and turn it into a good thing, in the Christian definition. That's the Christian thing to do, I guess, is recruit more Christians. Larry Wall took advantage of an unusual opportunity to do so, and I think it's funny.
-Waldo
I know that this isn't terribly helpful, but I actually found this out a few months ago. The bummer is that I can't find it again. It was a page affiliated with Tim Berners-Lee or the W3C. (Or was it on CERN's site?) But it was the #1, very first, no-question-about-it page on the web. It exists. It's out there. Anybody know where?
-Waldo
http://www.copyleft.net/item.phtml?dynamic=1&page= product_1051_front.phtml
Yes, but a Porche has sex. Let's not underestimate the value of sex.