Their sensory abilities, rerouted to other I/O devices due to outages on those ports (/dev/eyes) illustrate the range of ability humans have to take in and process information.
The context is cool, because it is modern, and not shiny-happy-flowers-special-olympiad plastic.
These are real, modern, *technologically-in-tune* people. And they shine.
They might still be around, and I really hope that there can be a need for a $450 word processor when there are 50 that can be downloaded and used for free.
That means that the $450 package will be either; supported, robust, proprietary, or niche. I'd pay $750 for Photoshop if it ran on Linux, rather than the warez'd copy I'm using right now.
The point is right now they are the norm, rather than the exception, when it need not be that way any more.
But really - how long can you expect anyone, no matter how mild-mannered, level-headed, etc., they may be - to tolerate such behavior on such a SCALE?
This is a seed that has been germinating in the computing underbelly since Linus posted to comp.minix.announce.
The world's largest, most influential software manufacturers are duking it out over one of the next major milestones in computing.
It's a noble thing to ignore spit, sticks, and stones,, but nobler still to stand your ground and speak the truth when the time is right.
Ask *them* why they are paying for software. They just don't know that it's out there for free. It grows on the only tree they are aware of - CompUSA, BestBuy, etc.
Mention "no more" in connection to these items: Ad ware Spy ware $450 word processors Viruses (mostly) and most importantly, you can look under the hood to see what and who is doing what with the computer in *YOUR* living room.
FYI:Record labels like Warner Brothers, Sony, etc., sign mostly major Pop bands, and these are the RIAA's cash cow - hence the big push to preserve their profit. They sign bands like Britney Spears, Bryan Adams, and 99% of the Country drivel you might hear on the radio.
OTOH: There INDEPENDENT record labels that aren't part of some Multinational Conglomerate, that aspire to shed light on, and simultaneously elevate bands in certain genres. Some of these include SubPop, Matador, and so on. A little research should provide a healthy list of "indy" labels that are friendly to the "digital" segment of the population. Many even distribute in MP3 or other digital format. Warp records (Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, and Squarepusher just to name a few (one?) artists that *cater* to the notion that people want that control over their purchase.
Sometimes, these labels were the labels America's favorite bands start out on, and therefore release their best material with. Like mentioned about Nirvana. Soundgarden and Sonic Youth started there too. Along with most good "alternative" artists.
2: Is Internet connectivity a necessity, or nicety?
2a: Is dial-up satisfactory?
3: Can battery or otherwise low-wattage/DC solutions do the job, or do you need AC power?
If you take into consideration that you'll be in an apparently stripped-down environment, you might be happier and more productive in the long run if you have a stripped-down computer to match. I lived in the country with a radically altered computer situation, with 28.8 the absolute BEST I could do, without springing for ISDN, and I found that a powerful PDA - as long as it had a typeable surface was enough to suit my needs. However, I didn't need to compile anything, host any databases, or do any kind of "9 to 5" (as you mention) thing with that setup.
Diesel (generator) is a great idea. Is it practical for your situation? Solar is also a worthy power factor to consider, but not starting in January:), nor February, and questionably March, as well. Pedal-power works in any light condition, and since you're in the country, your access to citified diversion is limited as well, so maybe a little treadmill or excercycle computing would probably benefit you. (As it would any geek!!
My suggestions:
8/16 Bit Wonder of your choice & TV (portable, handheld, console, whatever - can be modified to run on straight DC)
2nd/3rd Generation Palm/WinCE Device
Apple Newton 130 or eMate 300 at minimum,preferably 2100/2000U (WiFi/MP3/web server/etc. capability plus EXCELLENT power usage)
Psion or compatible device (Has keyboard and multi-tone display)
Modern, power-concious laptop (used Transmeta-powered devices are in the stream, now)
Standard, off the shelf laptop. IBM or Toshiba, if you're going to be out there for a while! (Maybe a Toughbook?)
It's all out there. Lego, books, etc. Old computers and everything. Fuck your private museum, and the clutter that goes along with it.
I took all my out of date - but still valuable - books to the Library. They were grateful, and who knows how many future geeks will benefit from my old Linux and Cisco admin books?!
All those Apple ]['s, Macs and C 64's ain't worth a hill o' beans. Lose 'em. There's a reason why you are the only one who picked them up - they're useless. NEAT-O, but utterly useless.
Make room within your apartment, and YOURSELF for better, more valuable information and maybe - just MAYBE, you'll set yourself free from whatever it is that's been keeping you from getting a date.
It's a vicious cycle: No date, stay home and eat pizza and fiddle with VIC-20. Get fatter, so chance of date decreases, self-image goes down, fewer dates (fewer reasons to go out of the house period), more pizza, more VIC-20s, fewer dates, more pizza, more Amigas, and so on.
WHY?! Because you're a geek? Get a damned GEEK PRIDE tattoo! Hell, get the Apple I schematic tattooed as a swingin' back-piece! A portrait of a PPC Amiga 4000! A friggin' Data General if it makes you happy.
In the same way the PC was limited then, it is limited now.
What the Amiga did then was point out the limitations of the PC, and overcome them with a series of ingenious solutions, that were remarkably powerful then.
This article proves that it was robust and flexible enough to endure 4 or 5 generations in Home Computing by virtue of its design.
What I think the world is expecting from the "New Amiga" is some kind of breakthrough, or at least an execution on par with the "Classic".
Basically, what they're saying at this point is that you have to send in the discs, and promise not to run OS X on the unsupported computer you originally installed it on.
With.2, and.3 on the way, why would you want to run 10.0-10.1 on a machine that can handle all the nice new stuff that makes OS X run right?
Let's go back to 1998, shall we? This is when the original announcements were made about OS X. Come about 1999, OS X made it into public beta, and soon after, it was released. Apple's hype wave crashed down on its customers when the product failed to deliver.
Think about it: You run a Mac shop - graphics, prepress, video, audio, whatever. You're constantly stop-starting in regards to X, its release date, whether it will run on your machine, what software will be available/ready/usable. You buy a Beige G3 in anticipation of OS X, which is promised to perform on it. It doesn't. It's barely usable. It's taken another 2 years for it to become usable, and in that time, the machines have become obsolete. It's taken rewriting and increasing the requirements of so much of the OS (Quartz Extreme/Open GL) that the hardware it was originally designed to support isn't up to the task.
Do we deserve a fair shake? Hell mutha fuckin yeah!
In this hand, I have a pipe wrench. In the other hand, I have a can of baked beans.
They will both pound the nail in to some degree, maybe one blow will puncture the baked beans. Neither are a very good hammer, but they will both do that particular job.
Now say I have a clogged grease trap from cleaning up after a big home donut fiesta. Will the baked beans help me here?
Not to say that I expect (or would want) any Photoshop Bake Off style benchmarks, nor any compiler-specific hard benchmarks.
I'm just wondering what the outcome of an architectural face off would be.
Hell, it might even need to be purely hypothetical.
Just for shits-n-grins, I'd like to see some sgi vs. apple rendering/modeling benchmarks.
Seems to me that sgi's only real computational advantages show up in the data modeling arenae; weather, molecules, etc...
They've both got their plusses and minuses, the most impressive of which differ greatly between machines. Where's the overlap?! That's what I wanna know. How close is Apple *really* to taking on sgi's last vestiges of profitability?
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However, think about geek culture's fondness for cyclic-redundancy, counter-common names, and hidden meanings, and Ol' Yeller may be an asset..
Their sensory abilities, rerouted to other I/O devices due to outages on those ports (/dev/eyes) illustrate the range of ability humans have to take in and process information.
The context is cool, because it is modern, and not shiny-happy-flowers-special-olympiad plastic.
These are real, modern, *technologically-in-tune* people. And they shine.
I should have specified that I want a *native* version.
The warezd copy I have used is running through cxoffice. Running Windows programs on Linux with WINE, etc., is not much better than "pretending".
They might still be around, and I really hope that there can be a need for a $450 word processor when there are 50 that can be downloaded and used for free.
That means that the $450 package will be either; supported, robust, proprietary, or niche. I'd pay $750 for Photoshop if it ran on Linux, rather than the warez'd copy I'm using right now.
The point is right now they are the norm, rather than the exception, when it need not be that way any more.
But really - how long can you expect anyone, no matter how mild-mannered, level-headed, etc., they may be - to tolerate such behavior on such a SCALE?
This is a seed that has been germinating in the computing underbelly since Linus posted to comp.minix.announce.
The world's largest, most influential software manufacturers are duking it out over one of the next major milestones in computing.
It's a noble thing to ignore spit, sticks, and stones,, but nobler still to stand your ground and speak the truth when the time is right.
Ask *them* why they are paying for software. They just don't know that it's out there for free. It grows on the only tree they are aware of - CompUSA, BestBuy, etc.
Mention "no more" in connection to these items:
Ad ware
Spy ware
$450 word processors
Viruses (mostly)
and most importantly, you can look under the hood to see what and who is doing what with the computer in *YOUR* living room.
The times - they are a changin'..
FYI:Record labels like Warner Brothers, Sony, etc., sign mostly major Pop bands, and these are the RIAA's cash cow - hence the big push to preserve their profit. They sign bands like Britney Spears, Bryan Adams, and 99% of the Country drivel you might hear on the radio.
OTOH: There INDEPENDENT record labels that aren't part of some Multinational Conglomerate, that aspire to shed light on, and simultaneously elevate bands in certain genres. Some of these include SubPop, Matador, and so on. A little research should provide a healthy list of "indy" labels that are friendly to the "digital" segment of the population. Many even distribute in MP3 or other digital format. Warp records (Aphex Twin, Richard D. James, and Squarepusher just to name a few (one?) artists that *cater* to the notion that people want that control over their purchase.
Sometimes, these labels were the labels America's favorite bands start out on, and therefore release their best material with. Like mentioned about Nirvana. Soundgarden and Sonic Youth started there too. Along with most good "alternative" artists.
AFAIK, Copland didn't make it into the hands of many :(
There's a little out there, though:
Here and here were 2 googled-up quickies.
The Wayback Machine only goes back to '96, after the NeXT deal had been made.
Some questions:
1: How long will you be in "the boonies"
2: Is Internet connectivity a necessity, or nicety?
2a: Is dial-up satisfactory?
3: Can battery or otherwise low-wattage/DC solutions do the job, or do you need AC power?
If you take into consideration that you'll be in an apparently stripped-down environment, you might be happier and more productive in the long run if you have a stripped-down computer to match. I lived in the country with a radically altered computer situation, with 28.8 the absolute BEST I could do, without springing for ISDN, and I found that a powerful PDA - as long as it had a typeable surface was enough to suit my needs. However, I didn't need to compile anything, host any databases, or do any kind of "9 to 5" (as you mention) thing with that setup.
Diesel (generator) is a great idea. Is it practical for your situation? Solar is also a worthy power factor to consider, but not starting in January :), nor February, and questionably March, as well. Pedal-power works in any light condition, and since you're in the country, your access to citified diversion is limited as well, so maybe a little treadmill or excercycle computing would probably benefit you. (As it would any geek!!
My suggestions:
8/16 Bit Wonder of your choice & TV (portable, handheld, console, whatever - can be modified to run on straight DC)
2nd/3rd Generation Palm/WinCE Device
Apple Newton 130 or eMate 300 at minimum,preferably 2100/2000U (WiFi/MP3/web server/etc. capability plus EXCELLENT power usage)
Psion or compatible device (Has keyboard and multi-tone display)
Modern, power-concious laptop (used Transmeta-powered devices are in the stream, now)
Standard, off the shelf laptop. IBM or Toshiba, if you're going to be out there for a while! (Maybe a Toughbook?)
I dunno.You need a tabletop/cocktail version, then! You can enjoy your frozen pizza, beer, or whathaveyou.
(I wanna pop, pop! I wanna - Shas-ta!)
Ever wonder why you have all that crap?
It's all out there. Lego, books, etc. Old computers and everything. Fuck your private museum, and the clutter that goes along with it.
I took all my out of date - but still valuable - books to the Library. They were grateful, and who knows how many future geeks will benefit from my old Linux and Cisco admin books?!
All those Apple ]['s, Macs and C 64's ain't worth a hill o' beans. Lose 'em. There's a reason why you are the only one who picked them up - they're useless. NEAT-O, but utterly useless.
Make room within your apartment, and YOURSELF for better, more valuable information and maybe - just MAYBE, you'll set yourself free from whatever it is that's been keeping you from getting a date.
It's a vicious cycle: No date, stay home and eat pizza and fiddle with VIC-20. Get fatter, so chance of date decreases, self-image goes down, fewer dates (fewer reasons to go out of the house period), more pizza, more VIC-20s, fewer dates, more pizza, more Amigas, and so on.
WHY?! Because you're a geek? Get a damned GEEK PRIDE tattoo! Hell, get the Apple I schematic tattooed as a swingin' back-piece! A portrait of a PPC Amiga 4000! A friggin' Data General if it makes you happy.
Just. Let. It. Go!
In the same way the PC was limited then, it is limited now.
:)
What the Amiga did then was point out the limitations of the PC, and overcome them with a series of ingenious solutions, that were remarkably powerful then.
This article proves that it was robust and flexible enough to endure 4 or 5 generations in Home Computing by virtue of its design.
What I think the world is expecting from the "New Amiga" is some kind of breakthrough, or at least an execution on par with the "Classic".
It's still cool, though!
I knew someone else would be annoyed by that.
The generic Apple would have been better, but since it's a "hardware" thing, CPU, specifically, we got the G Fo'.
Time to submit a snazzy G5 icon!
An auger would be too big for the holes perforating the G5. The QS G4 speedholes are more auger-sized.
There's nothing solid yet - RTA.
.2, and .3 on the way, why would you want to run 10.0-10.1 on a machine that can handle all the nice new stuff that makes OS X run right?
Basically, what they're saying at this point is that you have to send in the discs, and promise not to run OS X on the unsupported computer you originally installed it on.
With
You were thinking "Hmmm.. Upgrades"
That was supposed to be incorporated in the first point release.
It wasn't. Neither was the DVD player.
I know I'll be sending my 10.0 and 10.1 upgrade discs in for my refund. I feel a little guilty about it though. That is, if they refund the full $129.
How much will they have to refund? $2M? $100M?
10,000 dissatisfied users @ $129 = $1,290,000
Apple's got what, $4B in the bank still?
310,000 returned copies of OS X would cost them about $40M. Seems like a decent guess, and not too hard of a hit on the coffer.
Let's go back to 1998, shall we? This is when the original announcements were made about OS X. Come about 1999, OS X made it into public beta, and soon after, it was released. Apple's hype wave crashed down on its customers when the product failed to deliver.
Think about it: You run a Mac shop - graphics, prepress, video, audio, whatever. You're constantly stop-starting in regards to X, its release date, whether it will run on your machine, what software will be available/ready/usable. You buy a Beige G3 in anticipation of OS X, which is promised to perform on it. It doesn't. It's barely usable. It's taken another 2 years for it to become usable, and in that time, the machines have become obsolete. It's taken rewriting and increasing the requirements of so much of the OS (Quartz Extreme/Open GL) that the hardware it was originally designed to support isn't up to the task.
Do we deserve a fair shake? Hell mutha fuckin yeah!
Akamai's delivery system
Apple's techno-savvy and style
The Gap peoples' uncanny ability to corral or at least profitize from the natural tendencies of teenagers
A big slap in the face to the traditional recording industry
Could it equal a shake-up severe enough to shift the paradigm?
I'd *really* like to see another company like Fractal Design or Metacreations pick it up and run, run, run with it.
It's ugly, because the Numero Uno, Most Stinkinest, Slimiest company to many here has the Fed as its biggest customer.
They aren't selling toilet paper or office supplies, you know.
Okay. Imagine this scenario:
I have a nail that needs insertion.
In this hand, I have a pipe wrench.
In the other hand, I have a can of baked beans.
They will both pound the nail in to some degree, maybe one blow will puncture the baked beans. Neither are a very good hammer, but they will both do that particular job.
Now say I have a clogged grease trap from cleaning up after a big home donut fiesta. Will the baked beans help me here?
Not to say that I expect (or would want) any Photoshop Bake Off style benchmarks, nor any compiler-specific hard benchmarks.
I'm just wondering what the outcome of an architectural face off would be.
Hell, it might even need to be purely hypothetical.
Just for shits-n-grins, I'd like to see some sgi vs. apple rendering/modeling benchmarks.
Seems to me that sgi's only real computational advantages show up in the data modeling arenae; weather, molecules, etc...
They've both got their plusses and minuses, the most impressive of which differ greatly between machines. Where's the overlap?! That's what I wanna know. How close is Apple *really* to taking on sgi's last vestiges of profitability?
PublicIntegrity has a review of the PATRIOT Act II, as well as the full text.
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This jerkcity guy. I dunno. Looks like a blatant rip to me. http://jimwoodring.com