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Month: February 2000
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Ask and you shall receive.
Ask and you shall receive. Here is a link to a story about former Apple and Macromedia dudes making a consistent user interface for linux using GNOME 2.0. I have fell in love over the past few days with GNOME/E with the AquaE theme (macosx like interface). I am convinced that the opne-source UI is better than even the Mac, it just needs to be cohesive. What i like about the Mac is that it just feels so GOOOOOD to use, because it is a whole environment. Hopefully the dudes at eazel will see the light and make linux even easier to use.
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Q&A: Bruce Perens on Patents
Q&A: Bruce Perens on Patents and Politics
“I know one guy who works as a researcher for law firms, finding prior art for patents – and he finds it 95 percent of the time. So here we have 95 percent of software patents that aren’t inventions at all.”
Happy Valentines Day!(jpeg) from Shane Collinge with lots of other cartoons.
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Thanks for the link to
Thanks for the link to the academy awards, fozzy, but thre was no need: the academy awards are a sham. Any organization that decides what is ‘the best’ in a given year that passes up Iron Giant for best picture, best acting, best special effects, best music, best screenplay, best adaptation, or anything else i have missed is a SHAM. A SHAM I tell you. The Iron Giant has one of the most profound existential statements ever made (I am not a gun), and with some of the most subtle nuances ever put on film. As far as I’m concerned, the same motion picture academy that made TITANIC its best picture (I liked it but it wasn’t the Fscking best picture) and then skipped Iron Giant completely is worthless.
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What the Linux Community Needs
What the Linux Community Needs to Grok
He is correct about Linux needing to learn from Palm’s example, that is what Joe Six Pack wants. Easy to no installation. Always there.
He is wrong about needing project management. “If you have a problem fix it!” the OpenSource/Linux mantra solves “Hot Lists” when a company wants a feature that is not progressing fast enough, or not at all, they can pay programers to develop the feature. In this case the corporations can follow their own project management practices. See problem solved because it does not exist.
Another one, there already is his Microsoft Word clone out there AbiWord which is going down just this road.
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Oscar Nominees are up. All
Oscar Nominees are up. All I have to say is Iron Giant should be nominated for Pest Picture. Anamated features can also be Best Pictures.
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The Vision Thing: The Secret
The Vision Thing: The Secret Mac OS – What happens when the Internet becomes the OS? We’re about to find out.
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Gimmick Name Generator Your Jedi
Your Jedi name is: Laubr Zifor
Your soap opera name is: Micheal Douglas
Your porn star name is: Bugsie Zimmerma
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Penny Arcade: INterview on TUCOWS
Penny Arcade: INterview on TUCOWS
“Tycho: They’ve got this ride, it’s a really cool ride, I love it, it’s got Indiana Jones!”