Most of what I'm going to say, somebody else said first. That's because I'm a journalist at heart. There is very little fact checking here, because I fancy myself a tech journalist. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (Hassan i Sabbah?) I didn't even know that applied to journalism as much as it does to politics and religion, but after working a bit in the field and doing a bunch of reading I found that journalism is exactly like reality. It is flawed, fuzzy, and hard to define.
When was the last time you read a story online where there were more than two sources? It has been awhile hasn't it? That is becase 90% of the stories you read are press releases anyway. No need to check facts, it's a press release. If there is a story with some hard-hitting quote, the quote usually comes from an anonymous source. Is it because the sources are cowards, or the writers and editors are weak? It is probably the latter.
Slashdot is a journalistic endeavor. It brings information to its readers. The only differences are that its readers can respond instantly to what they read, and the rag divulges its sources to complete the story. Slashdot must stick to the same standards as print journalists: accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
It's a crappy job. Be accurate, but be aware that there is no truth. That's why we drink so much. That is also why they teach us in school to get 10 sources for every story, and back up every fact with two sources. How many "tech journalists" went to school to ply their trade, I wonder.
What troubles me most about tech journalism is that the writing just sucks. It consists of bad spelling, poor editing, rampant use of the passive voice, and the deliberate mis-use of grammar in an attempt so make a point. It fails. Click to view a satirical portrayal of what I describe.
This is much more important. If you want to understand a journalist's mentality in the face of a crumbling infrastructure, read The rum diary By Hunter S. Thompson (who by the way would make a great tech journalist: paranoid, incoherent, greedy). ISBN: 0684856476
Journalists have low self esteem. We hide it by trying to become pundits. But really all we have is good words and no real aim to apply them. Otherwise we'd be politicians.
We're the pilot fish scavenging the scraps of big business. They throw us parties because they know we'll come. We come because we know there will be booze, and maybe girls. The writing is just the price we have to pay to get the goods.
Anyway I'm supposed to be writing a book right now, but it's all fact and no fabrication (and no parties). Needless to say bombarding/. with rubbish is much more fun.
How is stealing and decrypting the signal going to keep you from being bomarded from EM? And while you're at it maybe you should start stealing from the various sattelite internet providers, communication sattelite, and, oh yeah, THE SUN.
Using Apache as a benchmark between LinuxPPC and Mac OS X Beta would be a bit flawed anyway. Linux is designed as a server OS, OS X as a client. Now when somebody ports gimp...
One quick question - is the GUI integrated into the OS? If you're running X on it, will you need to load Apple's GUI (for lack of a better term), as well as X? Can you forego a GUI entirely?
In DP4 you can install X. Damn I wish I could find the link. Once you install it you have to log in as user console with password console. That disables Aqua. Then you log in for real, and startx.
>C'mon Apple--build a better (and CHEAPER) mouse trap and we will >come knocking at your door. Heh, I'd settle for a better MOUSE. That said, Irix is hell to use. I've seen people try to install modems on Irix boxes. Even their $150.00/hr consultants said, "Um... you don't want to do THAT." Buid yourself a new AMD box every three years. I spend $200-$600 on an upgrade card for my (fugly) PowerMac 7500 bought in '95 and have a new computer every couple years.
Slashdot Mirror
Most of what I'm going to say, somebody else said first. That's because I'm a journalist at heart. There is very little fact checking here, because I fancy myself a tech journalist. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." (Hassan i Sabbah?) I didn't even know that applied to journalism as much as it does to politics and religion, but after working a bit in the field and doing a bunch of reading I found that journalism is exactly like reality. It is flawed, fuzzy, and hard to define.
/. with rubbish is much more fun.
When was the last time you read a story online where there were more than two sources? It has been awhile hasn't it? That is becase 90% of the stories you read are press releases anyway. No need to check facts, it's a press release. If there is a story with some hard-hitting quote, the quote usually comes from an anonymous source. Is it because the sources are cowards, or the writers and editors are weak? It is probably the latter.
Slashdot is a journalistic endeavor. It brings information to its readers. The only differences are that its readers can respond instantly to what they read, and the rag divulges its sources to complete the story. Slashdot must stick to the same standards as print journalists: accuracy, accuracy, accuracy!
It's a crappy job. Be accurate, but be aware that there is no truth. That's why we drink so much. That is also why they teach us in school to get 10 sources for every story, and back up every fact with two sources. How many "tech journalists" went to school to ply their trade, I wonder.
What troubles me most about tech journalism is that the writing just sucks. It consists of bad spelling, poor editing, rampant use of the passive voice, and the deliberate mis-use of grammar in an attempt so make a point. It fails. Click to view a satirical portrayal of what I describe.
This is much more important. If you want to understand a journalist's mentality in the face of a crumbling infrastructure, read The rum diary By Hunter S. Thompson (who by the way would make a great tech journalist: paranoid, incoherent, greedy). ISBN: 0684856476
Journalists have low self esteem. We hide it by trying to become pundits. But really all we have is good words and no real aim to apply them. Otherwise we'd be politicians.
We're the pilot fish scavenging the scraps of big business. They throw us parties because they know we'll come. We come because we know there will be booze, and maybe girls. The writing is just the price we have to pay to get the goods.
Anyway I'm supposed to be writing a book right now, but it's all fact and no fabrication (and no parties). Needless to say bombarding
They set up the "cluster" in one hour. That lowers the TCO substantially.
Natural Law Party
How is stealing and decrypting the signal going to keep you from being bomarded from EM? And while you're at it maybe you should start stealing from the various sattelite internet providers, communication sattelite, and, oh yeah, THE SUN.
Using Apache as a benchmark between LinuxPPC and Mac OS X Beta would be a bit flawed anyway. Linux is designed as a server OS, OS X as a client. Now when somebody ports gimp ...
One quick question - is the GUI integrated into the OS? If you're running X on it, will you need to load Apple's GUI (for lack of a better term), as well as X? Can you forego a GUI entirely?
In DP4 you can install X. Damn I wish I could find the link. Once you install it you have to log in as user console with password console. That disables Aqua. Then you log in for real, and startx.
>C'mon Apple--build a better (and CHEAPER) mouse trap and we will >come knocking at your door. Heh, I'd settle for a better MOUSE. That said, Irix is hell to use. I've seen people try to install modems on Irix boxes. Even their $150.00/hr consultants said, "Um... you don't want to do THAT." Buid yourself a new AMD box every three years. I spend $200-$600 on an upgrade card for my (fugly) PowerMac 7500 bought in '95 and have a new computer every couple years.
Go to http://www.doubleclick.net/optout/default.as and set your cookie to OPT_OUT. You lose your PID and its relationship to the Abacus database.