actually, I think you're wrong here. The way I read those credits, and based on an MTV (yuck) interview with the directors, they actually did just send those 3 people into the woods to film it.
I THINK the sound credits and stuff are for the people who sync'ed up the sound and added a few things later on. I don't think there was an actual "crew" out in the woods with them.
While this article is an entertaining read....it overlooks a few problems with the "Easy PC's with Linux will overthrow Windows".
First, while I'm sure consumers won't care if their "net-only" box runs Windows, I disagree that the Net-only box is going to be popular enough to dethrone Microsoft. There just aren't THAT MANY WebTV boxes out there right now for me to believe that this is the wave of the future. People will still want office apps (at the very least a word processor) that work as well and as easiliy as MS Office. As a long time user of Star Office, Applixware, KLyx and more recently Abi-Word, it's my opinion that we're not there yet. We're getting there...but we just aren't there.
Stop right there oh ye of the itchy flamethrower trigger finger
I'm not not not saying that Linux won't over throw MS in the near future (although "near" is up for debate). I'm merely saying that Internet-only boxes based on Intel's sketch "Easy PC" roadmap is not the way we're going to over through the giant.
To me, it all comes down the same stuff it's always come down to. Stability, Applications, GUI, Ease of Use. And we're already tackling those quite nicely I think.
It's about time. I find it almost hilariously absurd that Yahoo! has a bigger market capitalization (i.e. they're worth more money) than British Airways.
Ideally, you could get it at the offering, sell, and then buy again after the initial surge.
Isn't this the type of behaviour that's likely to get you barred from participating in future IPOs though? I don't really know, but I thought I heard something about that once from my broker (yes...that's right....i'm a/.geek who doesn't use an e-brokerage)
before you completely write off censorware, I have to relate a story that happened to me in college.
In a public computer lab, I sat in the back row, surfing the web with trusty Netscape 1.0. It was a new program and people were really excited that you could see pictures on the web...porn was free...the world was happy.
One row in front of me, some kid was looking at some rather raunchy pictures....he either didn't know I was there, or didn't think I'd care.
Either way, he was making it nearly impossible for me to work....and he was getting alittle TOO much work done if you know what i mean....
How should public computer labs prevent this sort of mis-use. Frankly, I don't think users should have to glace up and see porn in a public lab. It's no different IMHO than allowing peep shows to show pornos to people walking by on the streets of NYC or something.
What do you think? How can you get porn blocked from public labs where all screens are viewable to everyone?
Your bike analogy is pretty good....but it still doesn't quite solve the problem.
Let's say I'm a dad and I say "Son. You're only allowed to visit http://freshmeat.net/ and http://slashdot.org/ No other sites."
If my kid behaves, that's great and he's only seen the best material the web has to offer.:)
BUT....he will also never be able to expand his horizons at all....
I'm not saying I have any bright ideas other than surfing the web together with your children or something.....which sounds great but would have annoyed the fsck out of me as a 12 or 13 year old.
So while I disagree with you that Slashdot is RedHat biassed, you might make a case that they are posting a huge number of stories about them. THis is probably a result of Red Hat being in the news more than those other distros.....and not a result, as you so eloquently put it of Slashdot being "Red Hat's Bitch"....
Answer: NOTHING. Who cares if suits want to pay for things. Let them. Red Hat sells a fine CD/manual/support-package full of GPL'ed stuff you can get from your local Debian mirror.
If people WANT to pay for something they can get for free elsewhere....LET THEM. It'll let Bob Young and RH get richer, and in turn they help out the rest of the community. We all benefit.
Greg Graffin is the lead singer of Bad Religion (at least on: Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator, Recipe for Hate, Stranger Than Fiction and Gray Race).
Brett was the guitarist..and helped write about half their great songs. Greg wrote the other songs. Brett departed sometime around Stranger Than Fiction (but I dont' really remember when).
Wired ignored celebrities. It was addicted to squabbles and arguments. Its cover looked like somebody had thrown up on it. It bristled with ideas and theories, many of them loopy and incomprehensible. Wired was the herald and cheerleader for the digital culture at a time when few non-geeks understood a thing about it, or believed it would amount to much.
Um...what Wired have you read for the past few years? As long as I can remember (admittedly about 3 years) Wired's had celebs (geek celebs are celebs too you know) on its cover. Lucas, Jobs, Gates, Allen, to name a few, but many others.
Other than that, you're right on though. The passing of Wired's online stuff DOES deserve mention. As long as they keep Suck online, I'll be happy. (don't flame...i know, Suck hasn't been owned by Wired for some time now).
Dont blame Harvard. Someone called, threatened to sue and whoever was on the phone probably freaked out and pulled the plug.
What JP doesn't realize is that eventually, this sort of behaviour will chase all his potential viewers away. Without traffic, his VC-funded site will go down the tubes and all will be well again.
The best thing to do is to just ignore him and his site and stop visiting.
First and foremost Red Hat does not sell Software, they give it away for free. ... Red Hat Sells Marketing and packaging...
Everything you say sounds great.
The problem is, nobody has reached this point yet! Red Hat AND SuSE both report that their biggest revenues come from the sales of Software. You're analyzing Red Hat the way they see themselves, or where they wish to be. There's nothing wrong with that, but your presentation made me say "right on!...oh wait...." because I WANT Red Hat to be a service-oriented company...but right now, they're making money by selling CDs full of software...and in my book, that makes them a software company.
So...the real question then becomes, can they GET there? Can they switch from being a company that sells CDs with books for a living to a company that provides all-encompasing enterprise-wide solutions to corprorate problems? ( buzz...)
I think it's going to be a lot harder than people think.
yeah....of course XFS is not an option. HOw could I expect to use a filesystem based entirely on the X Font Server?! ;-)
(I'M KIDDING....don't flame me)
On a serious note....should we rename the 'xfs' that runs in the cron on my Red Hat box? I think newbies are going to get very confused when there are two completedly unrelated LInux terms "xfs" in their manuals.
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I THINK the sound credits and stuff are for the people who sync'ed up the sound and added a few things later on. I don't think there was an actual "crew" out in the woods with them.
In the end, it turns out "The witch" was really just Barney. He comes out and everyone sings "I love you. ..." :)
The movie IS NOT based on a true story. I'm sorry....but it's just not.
First, while I'm sure consumers won't care if their "net-only" box runs Windows, I disagree that the Net-only box is going to be popular enough to dethrone Microsoft. There just aren't THAT MANY WebTV boxes out there right now for me to believe that this is the wave of the future. People will still want office apps (at the very least a word processor) that work as well and as easiliy as MS Office. As a long time user of Star Office, Applixware, KLyx and more recently Abi-Word, it's my opinion that we're not there yet. We're getting there...but we just aren't there.
Stop right there oh ye of the itchy flamethrower trigger finger
I'm not not not saying that Linux won't over throw MS in the near future (although "near" is up for debate). I'm merely saying that Internet-only boxes based on Intel's sketch "Easy PC" roadmap is not the way we're going to over through the giant.
To me, it all comes down the same stuff it's always come down to. Stability, Applications, GUI, Ease of Use. And we're already tackling those quite nicely I think.
Give me a break!
In a public computer lab, I sat in the back row, surfing the web with trusty Netscape 1.0. It was a new program and people were really excited that you could see pictures on the web...porn was free...the world was happy.
One row in front of me, some kid was looking at some rather raunchy pictures....he either didn't know I was there, or didn't think I'd care.
Either way, he was making it nearly impossible for me to work. ...and he was getting alittle TOO much work done if you know what i mean....
How should public computer labs prevent this sort of mis-use. Frankly, I don't think users should have to glace up and see porn in a public lab. It's no different IMHO than allowing peep shows to show pornos to people walking by on the streets of NYC or something.
What do you think? How can you get porn blocked from public labs where all screens are viewable to everyone?
Let's say I'm a dad and I say "Son. You're only allowed to visit http://freshmeat.net/ and http://slashdot.org/ No other sites."
If my kid behaves, that's great and he's only seen the best material the web has to offer. :)
BUT....he will also never be able to expand his horizons at all....
I'm not saying I have any bright ideas other than surfing the web together with your children or something.....which sounds great but would have annoyed the fsck out of me as a 12 or 13 year old.
As of 16:19EST (give or take) this site is completely slashdotted.
Should we be warning people that their sites are about to be completely swamped???
WebAnalyzer is nice....but I still like Wusage better.
- Search for Red Hat reveals 102 stories
- Search for Debian reveals 37 stories
- and a search on SuSE revealed 15 stories.
So while I disagree with you that Slashdot is RedHat biassed, you might make a case that they are posting a huge number of stories about them. THis is probably a result of Red Hat being in the news more than those other distros.....and not a result, as you so eloquently put it of Slashdot being "Red Hat's Bitch"....If people WANT to pay for something they can get for free elsewhere....LET THEM. It'll let Bob Young and RH get richer, and in turn they help out the rest of the community. We all benefit.
Sheesh. The end.
Brett was the guitarist..and helped write about half their great songs. Greg wrote the other songs. Brett departed sometime around Stranger Than Fiction (but I dont' really remember when).
Amen.
You can't say it much better than your third point: THEIR SOURCE IS OPEN. EMBRACE IT.
That said, I don't really find it annoying either.
Do jobs on the left/right coast all go this way? I'm wondering.....what do you all know about it?
Other than that, you're right on though. The passing of Wired's online stuff DOES deserve mention. As long as they keep Suck online, I'll be happy. (don't flame...i know, Suck hasn't been owned by Wired for some time now).
I'm not really sure. If you're being serious, then congrats on finding IceWM...it's nice. if you're being sarcastic, then I might ask "why?"
They each come with a WM, but you're over simplifying the significance of this announcement.
i believe the answer is New jersey.
:)
But what does that have to do with the discussion?
Someone called, threatened to sue and whoever was on the phone probably freaked out and pulled the plug.
What JP doesn't realize is that eventually, this sort of behaviour will chase all his potential viewers away. Without traffic, his VC-funded site will go down the tubes and all will be well again.
The best thing to do is to just ignore him and his site and stop visiting.
The problem is, nobody has reached this point yet! Red Hat AND SuSE both report that their biggest revenues come from the sales of Software. You're analyzing Red Hat the way they see themselves, or where they wish to be. There's nothing wrong with that, but your presentation made me say "right on! ...oh wait...." because I WANT Red Hat to be a service-oriented company...but right now, they're making money by selling CDs full of software...and in my book, that makes them a software company.
So...the real question then becomes, can they GET there? Can they switch from being a company that sells CDs with books for a living to a company that provides all-encompasing enterprise-wide solutions to corprorate problems? ( buzz...)
I think it's going to be a lot harder than people think.
(I'M KIDDING....don't flame me)
On a serious note....should we rename the 'xfs' that runs in the cron on my Red Hat box? I think newbies are going to get very confused when there are two completedly unrelated LInux terms "xfs" in their manuals.
...but we're going to be bringing in more people from the community... Where do we sign up?
;-)
Thanks!