Maybe I could do some graphic design with a stylus
Not with a capacitive touch-screen, you won't. The kind of stylus available for cap touchscreens has the dimensions of a crayon. Sure, you can do technical drawing with a crayon using popup menus and well-defined snaps, etc., but it sure isn't intuitive.
From the point of view of vendors adopting a Linux desktop, it's NOT good that G/Linux users have numerous choices. The market is used to competing on a level playing field with regard to the OS installed on the hardware they sell. The 'slick operators' so far who have tried to roll out an OEM standard version of Linux have pretty much failed. So the market remains fragmented. Good for nerds like us, but not for the kind of industry-wide adoption needed to compete in the same market as MS.
Acer makes some fairly decent Android tablets, so they aren't completely chained to Microsoft. The 10" Iconia even has a USB host plug, so you can transfer data in and out of it with a conventional thumb drive. Connectivity is important for those of us who haven't sipped enough Google kool-aide and don't want to push all our data into the fog.
This is Slashdot, not Forbes.com or daytrader forum.
We like the tech guys. Some of us have direct experience dealing with the marketing scum at places we've worked.
Woz was the guy who thought up designs involving TTL gates, then put them on a circuit board and made them do things.
Jobs was the guy who figured out how to cash the ideas in, and even in the beginning ripped his partner off, keeping the lions share of the loot in one of the first sizable deals they got.
There have been so many tie-ins to Star Wars content that it hasn't even been necessary to go to any of the films after the first one to know the whole deal.
When cultural observers say 'Humanity is rich and complex' they don't always mean in an attractive way. Lord help us if we were all as homogenized and happy as the characters in disney flicks.
The best thing they could do is, out of great remorse, cease making all the 'themed kit' crap and just make the big tubs of generic blocks that encourage kids to be creative.
Nobody's gonna flame them for their generic blocks, they should just shitcan all the little kits.
Most Evangelical Christians rant on about only wanting to read the 'original bible' before it was corrupted. By this, they generally mean the King James Version.
And yes, however unbelievable that may seem to us - there are people out there who've managed to live through the last couple of decades without actually watching or having any interest in Star Wars.
Believe it or not, we're even on Slashdot! I went to see Star Wars in 1977 in a theater. I've not seen any of the sequels (or whatever else you want to call them.) I have seen the Christmas Special, though, does that count? The Jefferson Starship video is the best part.
There has never seemed to be a point to see any of the other films. I like real Science Fiction.
To the point where many of the books about Tesla are published by the same sort of small publishers who print books by Alestar Crowley and other occult crap.
One of the big differences that breaks down your equivalence theory is that Edison really did invent some things, just not everything he claimed. Jobs, not so much. He was pretty much entirely a braggart/thief.
Also, Edison was a notorious eccentric slob. Jobs, you get the feeling he always wore a fresh black turtleneck each day.
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I sysoped a WWIV bbs for quite a while. The version I ran (3.2.1) was only distrubuted as Turbo Pascal 3.0 suorce code.
Apple 2? I had Multiplan on Xenix.
The old Xenix Microsoft produced before the PC. I still have an Altos box that runs it.
Maybe I could do some graphic design with a stylus
Not with a capacitive touch-screen, you won't. The kind of stylus available for cap touchscreens has the dimensions of a crayon. Sure, you can do technical drawing with a crayon using popup menus and well-defined snaps, etc., but it sure isn't intuitive.
From the point of view of vendors adopting a Linux desktop, it's NOT good that G/Linux users have numerous choices. The market is used to competing on a level playing field with regard to the OS installed on the hardware they sell. The 'slick operators' so far who have tried to roll out an OEM standard version of Linux have pretty much failed. So the market remains fragmented. Good for nerds like us, but not for the kind of industry-wide adoption needed to compete in the same market as MS.
Acer makes some fairly decent Android tablets, so they aren't completely chained to Microsoft. The 10" Iconia even has a USB host plug, so you can transfer data in and out of it with a conventional thumb drive. Connectivity is important for those of us who haven't sipped enough Google kool-aide and don't want to push all our data into the fog.
Minecraft isn't infinite. You can build up to 256, dig down to bedrock (near zero) and travel x and y to new sectors.
Me too. 250 years? I'm supposed to wait 250 years???
Being as we're all geeks here, I think we'd vote for the guy who knew how to use a wire-wrap gun over the slick marketing guy.
You don't have to like everything about a company, even if you like the products they produce.
This is Slashdot, not Forbes.com or daytrader forum.
We like the tech guys. Some of us have direct experience dealing with the marketing scum at places we've worked.
Woz was the guy who thought up designs involving TTL gates, then put them on a circuit board and made them do things.
Jobs was the guy who figured out how to cash the ideas in, and even in the beginning ripped his partner off, keeping the lions share of the loot in one of the first sizable deals they got.
He was doing it long before being diagnosed with cancer.
It sounds to me like a bureaucratic fight between the guys who cement in the posts and the guys who paint the signs.
There have been so many tie-ins to Star Wars content that it hasn't even been necessary to go to any of the films after the first one to know the whole deal.
When cultural observers say 'Humanity is rich and complex' they don't always mean in an attractive way. Lord help us if we were all as homogenized and happy as the characters in disney flicks.
True, but all those stacked-together motherboards flashing away in his lair? Dude is a nerd. We should all be outraged.
What's the Lego Group going to do?
The best thing they could do is, out of great remorse, cease making all the 'themed kit' crap and just make the big tubs of generic blocks that encourage kids to be creative.
Nobody's gonna flame them for their generic blocks, they should just shitcan all the little kits.
Most Evangelical Christians rant on about only wanting to read the 'original bible' before it was corrupted. By this, they generally mean the King James Version.
And yes, however unbelievable that may seem to us - there are people out there who've managed to live through the last couple of decades without actually watching or having any interest in Star Wars.
Believe it or not, we're even on Slashdot! I went to see Star Wars in 1977 in a theater. I've not seen any of the sequels (or whatever else you want to call them.) I have seen the Christmas Special, though, does that count? The Jefferson Starship video is the best part.
There has never seemed to be a point to see any of the other films. I like real Science Fiction.
Correct. That era is over. From now on, The Mouse will be laser cauterizing people over Star Wars stuff.
Lenin still hasn't lost. Near as I can tell, his carcass is still on display on Red Square.
From a wiring closet? Wow. I want to put wi-fi routers all over the place. For when I go on lunch break.
Also known as the Taiwan Autonomous Region (sound of Central Committee member in background clearing throat)
Without Woz, Jobs would have been that annoying fuck trying to sell you a cellphone at Radio Shack when you went in looking for a 10k resistor.
And further frustrating that Apple is now slipping down the drain right as the movie is about to come out.
Tesla was also batshit crazy in his later years.
To the point where many of the books about Tesla are published by the same sort of small publishers who print books by Alestar Crowley and other occult crap.
One of the big differences that breaks down your equivalence theory is that Edison really did invent some things, just not everything he claimed. Jobs, not so much. He was pretty much entirely a braggart/thief.
Also, Edison was a notorious eccentric slob. Jobs, you get the feeling he always wore a fresh black turtleneck each day.