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Comment: Re:Pagemaker over both Photoshop and Quark Xpress (Score 1) 437

by JhohannaVH (#28169361) Attached to: Ten Applications That Changed Computing
Except that I ran Pagemaker & Framemaker on a Sun workstation back in the day. *face palm* It was so long ago, I'll be damned if I can even remember what model - but it was *way* early 90s, 92/93. The experience garnered me what I needed to get a temp job doing graphics illustration on a Macintosh for the Air Force Academy - on a text book on rocketry. :D See, it *IS* rocket science!

Comment: Re:C= 8-bitters instead of the Amiga?! (Score 1) 397

by JhohannaVH (#27835481) Attached to: The Biggest Cults In Tech
I actually had to log in for the first time in 9 months to respond to this. True enough, all too true. I learned to program my OWN games on my Vic20 out of the back of Byte Magazine. And going head to head with the other kids on the playground who had to BUY software for their dad's TRS-80s. Only, my Vic20 was MINE.... not Daddy's - he had no inclination to anything but the bottle. Though I no longer belong to any such cults as so described, my first love will always be Commodores. Tandy's SUCK! :P :P :P I truly miss my Amiga like crazy....but it's long gone the way of the PDP-11. :(
Politics

The Return of the Fairness Doctrine? 732

Posted by kdawson
from the no-fair dept.
Slithe writes "Last week at the National Conference for Media Reform, Ohio congressman Dennis Kucinich (a long-shot candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination) stated that the Fairness Doctrine may be reinstated. Kucinich will be heading up a new House subcommittee that will focus on issues around the FCC. The Fairness Doctrine was an FCC regulation that required broadcast media to present controversial issues in an honest, equal, and balanced manner. The FCC repealed it in 1987 — Democrats at the time tried to forestall this move but were ultimately thwarted by a veto by President Ronald Reagan. Critics of the Fairness Doctrine have stated that it was only used to intimidate and silence political opposition. At the convention, Kucinich said, 'We know the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda. We are now in a position to move a progressive agenda to where it is visible.'" In the interest of fairness, here is a Republican, free-market perspective on the return of the Fairness Doctrine.
Enlightenment

1UP's Top 10 WTF moments of 2006

Submitted by MasterPoof
MasterPoof writes "From Scott Sharkey 1UP's Top 10 : "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but mostly, it was the what the f***iest of times. Barely a day went by this year when something absoludicrous didn't assault us from our own news page. Given the relentless march of progressively more insane events and the dilated nature of internet time some of this stuff has already begun to fade from collective memory. But it happened, no matter how much the shriveled rational halves of our brains try to tell us that it didn't." Though must of you probably know what half of these already are, its still worth a read (or at the very least a cheap laugh)."
The Internet

VirtualCity Launches Street Level Images in Canada

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chris_toronto
chris_toronto writes "The Globe and Mail has an article, as well as the Montreal Gazette about VirtualCity, a website that has been capturing millions of street level photos tied to a map interface (ala A9.com style) throughout Toronto and Montreal. They've tied this together with a neat Ajax interface to explore these cities in detail. The images appear to be in Hi Def and I've seen one of the trucks on the road in Toronto, it looks like the torch has been passed on since A9 pulled BlockView off the market."

QOTD: "He's on the same bus, but he's sure as hell got a different ticket."