It won’t be long until there is only Linux, BSD/OSX, WinBlows
the other propritery OS (AIX, IRIX, HP-UX, SCO, Solaris, TRU-64) go the way of the dodo

George Will certainly doesn’t like the sounds of that.

Proving himself less principled than Bill Clinton regarding the free-trade principles that are indispensable to world prosperity and comity, President Bush has done what Clinton refused to do. In the name of providing *breathing space* for the U.S. steel industry, which has been on the respirator of protection for decades, Bush has cooked up an unpalatable confection of tariffs and import quotas that mock his free-trade rhetoric.

I think it’s a tough call. While I agree that free trade is the right answer in the long run, what do you say to the steel workers and their families when they can’t find a job because of the recession?

Andy Ihnatiko loves the new iMac!

Only Apple seems to get the idea that a Great Idea is only a Great Idea when it’s shaped by an understanding of how people interact with technology and what they expect out of their machines.

If Bill Gates figured out that Implications Inform Implementations, bad karma wouldn’t cling to the guy like sweat to an Amazon rainforest field researcher.

But I chiefly put forth that mumbo-jumbo for the Pulitzer committee. To you folks, I simply say: It’s cool, it’s cool, it’s cool, oh GAWD …

Hey Pulitzer dudes… are you listening???

I guess the new version of The Time Machine kinda sucks!

As the TIME MACHINE ended in the theater here in Austin last night, a group of film fans instantly assembled to tear the film to shreds…
There are moments of beauty, seconds of awe and over an hour of mediocrity and tripe. Had you a time machine, I recommend skipping the time it takes to see this movie.

I guess I’ll wait for the DVD 🙂

LINUX was used for much of the computer animation seen in Fellowship of the Ring.

Tolkien’s weird and wonderful cast of Middle-earth creatures will be vastly enhanced in parts two and three of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy using software that runs on a free operating system.

But while the improvement in computer-generated fantasy figures may wow audiences, their production is hurting high-performance computing giant Silicon Graphics Inc.

Isn’t open source software wonderful 🙂