It is a computer in name only.
People are making the same arguments about the Cube that they made about the iMac before it actually shipped. Do you remember how everyone bitch moaned about what lame specs the iMac had -- and still does -- relative to new PCs, not to mention new Macs? These things are *not* about specs. Desktop machines have reached the point, for the time being, where they have far more computrons than people ( the ones who don't sit in front of their computers all the time, with lives ) need or even care about. They are about being blue and having mice that fit perfectly in the hands of seven year olds. It is about owning a product that you imagine having the same cultural and design longevity as those
fifties stainless steel car toasters. With the exception of
the Performa Years, Apple has always understood that better than
anyone else. The hockey pucks suck, they really do, but they'll be all the rage when the kids who've grown up with them hit their thrities. The Cube is the same thing, just for
a different crowd. It's called
lifestyle porn.
Shu Lea Cheang
"Pornography is a common language, and technology is what you make of it. My own sense of technology is always about cracking the codes and accessing the means which are apparent in my approach to the art forms - be it the '80s camcorder movement or the so-called digital revolution of the moment. I claim the body as hard drive, and the pussy as matrix. The beautiful techno-future that I dream of is not plug in and off, jerk in and off but simply, I am the system.' I generate the orgasmic power to advance into a new generation. I am my own portal." see also :
IKU ( glorified screenshots. )
I'm not one for single-issue voting,
but Ambassador Duke's campaign promise to
send yappy dogs back to wherever it is they come from is almost enough to secure my vote this year. (quicktime)
Chris Hubrick
"Be thankful Netscape is building a /free/ (as in speech) browser for you at all. And the free software community is very simple...if you want it done faster... help! (put your money where your mouth is), or at least show some bloody gratitude already." And if you're inclined to think this guy is just a stick in the mud, with no sense of humour,
think again.
CBC : Scientists break speed of light
"It [a light pulse] raced so fast the pulse exited a specially-prepared chamber before it even finished entering it. ... The key to the experiment was that the pulse reformed before it could have gotten there by simply travelling through empty space. This means that, when the waves of the light distorted, the pulse traveled forward in time. " My head hurts.
Gareth Rees : DBO.pm
"is designed to be flexibly extensible in a number of directions - adding new operations on the database, adding new kinds of tables or columns, and applying to new database systems. All extensions can be carriedout by creating new classes that inherit from the classes DBO defines, and by defining new multimethod instances for those classes."