Comment Re:Alternatives? (Score 1) 386
The media is a big part of the message.
newsbueter + elinks make the webs a noticeably different place.
Comment Re:I'm waiting for the calls... (Score 1) 186
WRT Datagram, the data center isn't in the basement, the generator is.
Comment Re:Just seems like a well thought out list (Score 1) 373
Stooges.
Comment Re:Mozilla may not want Google (Score 1) 182
Ummm... maybe someone could mod parent up?
Submission + - Could you pass Harvard's entrance exam from 1869? (nytimes.com) 3
erfnet writes: "The New York Times remembers back to when "college was a buyer's bazaar" and digs up 19th-century classified ads from Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and others. In competitive efforts to attract students from the limited pool of qualified candidates, applications were taken as late as September for an October freshman class. Vassar offered lush room accommodations. The expectations were high: Latin, Greek, Virgil, Caesar's Commentaries; Harvard's entrance exam from 1869 is posted (PDF): http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/education/harvardexam.pdf. Could any of us pass the exam today?"
Comment Mr. Hands (Score 5, Funny) 222
Irony.
Comment Re:This is why I have given up on Adobe (Score 2) 272
Th
If you're a small company, just starting out, and you're not locked into Photoshop for some reason, there's no reason to start producing files in that format. I
But when you want to hire employees or freelancers or accept files from clients or send files to a printer or basically do anything beyond doodling in your bedroom you are locked into the Photoshop/Indesign/Illustrator/PDF/EPS Adobe ecosystem because it's the defacto standard in the creative market.
Which is a main point of TFA.
Comment Re:Why? Rupert likes to keep money moving around (Score 5, Informative) 305
Great theory but Newscorp does not own the New York Times, it owns the New York Post.
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