Archive for August, 2007

New Zealand: Don’t get your hopes up and you’ll love it…

30. August 2007 General 3 Comments

Recently people on the blogosphere and in the more mainstream media have been taking a look at what we’ve been doing on “Super-Mega-Ultra Revolutionary Desktop Environment Paradigm 4″ and asking questions such as “Will it live up to the hype?”. Speaking frankly, we don’t know where this idea that Super-Mega-Ultra Revolutionary Desktop Environment Paradigm4 would […]

We Are Not The Real Revolutionaries

16. August 2007 General 0 Comments

Someone called Troy posted a link to Kathy Sierra’s diagram about incremental vs revolutionary improvements and said it explained why KDE4 was so important, why the Ubuntu and GNOME release methodology was doomed to failure and the meaning of life.

 
Now, to me, the diagram is worthless (and pretty ugly…) unless the “Big Frickin’ Wall” (1) […]

Lest we forget…

15. August 2007 General 2 Comments

GNOME is 10…wooo
But the 3rd birthday of GoneME passed without  a mention.
Belated Happy Birthday GoneME!

15. August 2007 General 0 Comments

The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by

Obit. II

08. August 2007 General 0 Comments

We are sorry to announce the sad news…
Satire has died once again at Aug 08 2007, 10:01:41 AM PDT
The funeral will take place on Thursday, 1pm PDT from Mr Burridge’s house.
Thank you

Doing addition: Computers and paper

06. August 2007 General 1 Comment

The Mystery
Some time ago I had a chance to talk with a carrot about the differences between mathematics in schools and mathematics in the future. The carrot was showing impressive demos using tiny fractions. One of the subjects we started arguing about was using CPU hardware to perform calculations as opposed to in the 1930s, […]