I think I said professional journalist rather than writer? Unless you mean you prefer the term writer to journalist when describing the same thing...
Jon is both a journalist (I mean he writes about the latest hot current affairs in his domain of interest) and a personality - we all know who Jon Katz is, though I am sorry to say that I haven't heard of Paul Dunne, even though I have quite possibly read and enjoyed your work.
I have seen a number of posts recently slating/. for lack of professional journalism. In this case, professional journalism has suckered/. along with the rest of the media.
Jon Katz did what professional journalists do in a hype situation: proliferate and legitimise the hype. When this thing went down, I learnt the value of the author exclusion user preferences. I couldn't take any more self-righteous commentary or me-too posts. Jon's work is the only thing I filter, and that keeps me happy.
I had a rough time at school, and I would guess that most/. regulars did too. We all know this, but we don't all feel the need to vent about it whenever the chance arises, even exploiting tragic events for the purpose.
Jon is a serious media man, and the only 'professional' journalist writing for/. AFAIK. Which for me makes his reportage less credible - the raw, almost candid reports posted 'from the field' have more real substance, and less media agenda.
Several other people have already made this point, but there is a good analysis of this over at The Register. Microsoft are not proposing to make hardware, they are proposing an 'open' hardware spec that Dell etc, could choose to manufacture, and subsequently pay WinCE licenses for. The aim is to gain a big slice of the OS market for the expected market for combined set-top box and games console unit. It remains to be seen whether this market will truly suceed - unlike Sega, Sony has not announced network connectivity for the PSX2.
Will the box shifters be prepared to risk supporting the console end of the market? Or will they fear that it will reduce the number of full PCs they can sell, and choose to leave this thing still-born?
Fantastic news! Last week there was a lot of speculation in the British media that BillG was going to 'save' it by funding some restoration and building an MS 'campus' on some of the land. That would have been a real insult to the achievements of Bletchley Park and the role of military intelligence in the defeat of the Axis.
Reading this reminded me to go to the Samba website and get 2.0.3. While there, I trawled through their press-releases. They cite this ZDNet/Sm@rt Reseller article that shows quite the opposite result. They provide very little set up info for their test procedure, but they show Linux/Samba outperforming NT consistently, in a test bed with 32 clients, measured by the same benchmarking software - NetBench 5. I don't know about the Sm@rt Reseller test, but I do think that Microsoft told these guys what to find - they have done it before - and these guys then looked for configurations to support those 'findings'.
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I see that most of the posters have pro-GM attitudes. I suppose that the majority of them are from the USA. Here in Britain, public opinion swings the other way. Our Prime Minister, who is a glove puppet for the USA's President Clinton, is having a difficult time selling GM to the public. Monsanto et. al. have spent a lot of money supporting US politicians' election campaigns (of both main parties) and lobbying the houses. Furthermore, their aims are closely tied to the aims of US foreign policy - to dominate the world through control of food supply and technology. the 'Terminator Gene' is the most frightening prospect yet. The plan is to sell seeds which produce superior yields to the Third World, until they have no unmodified seed to self-subsist upon, then to exercise US political will through trade restriction. If the environmental effect of other genetic modifications makes it more difficult for other suppliers' seeds to produce useful yields, so much the better.
Genetic 'Engineering' - good for the USA, bad for everyone else.
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I think I said professional journalist rather than writer? Unless you mean you prefer the term writer to journalist when describing the same thing...
Jon is both a journalist (I mean he writes about the latest hot current affairs in his domain of interest) and a personality - we all know who Jon Katz is, though I am sorry to say that I haven't heard of Paul Dunne, even though I have quite possibly read and enjoyed your work.
I have seen a number of posts recently slating /. for lack of professional journalism. In this case, professional journalism has suckered /. along with the rest of the media.
Jon Katz did what professional journalists do in a hype situation: proliferate and legitimise the hype. When this thing went down, I learnt the value of the author exclusion user preferences. I couldn't take any more self-righteous commentary or me-too posts. Jon's work is the only thing I filter, and that keeps me happy.
I had a rough time at school, and I would guess that most /. regulars did too. We all know this, but we don't all feel the need to vent about it whenever the chance arises, even exploiting tragic events for the purpose.
Jon is a serious media man, and the only 'professional' journalist writing for /. AFAIK. Which for me makes his reportage less credible - the raw, almost candid reports posted 'from the field' have more real substance, and less media agenda.
Several other people have already made this point, but there is a good analysis of this over at The Register. Microsoft are not proposing to make hardware, they are proposing an 'open' hardware spec that Dell etc, could choose to manufacture, and subsequently pay WinCE licenses for. The aim is to gain a big slice of the OS market for the expected market for combined set-top box and games console unit. It remains to be seen whether this market will truly suceed - unlike Sega, Sony has not announced network connectivity for the PSX2.
Will the box shifters be prepared to risk supporting the console end of the market? Or will they fear that it will reduce the number of full PCs they can sell, and choose to leave this thing still-born?
Fantastic news! Last week there was a lot of speculation in the British media that BillG was going to 'save' it by funding some restoration and building an MS 'campus' on some of the land. That would have been a real insult to the achievements of Bletchley Park and the role of military intelligence in the defeat of the Axis.
Reading this reminded me to go to the Samba website and get 2.0.3. While there, I trawled through their press-releases. They cite this ZDNet/Sm@rt Reseller article that shows quite the opposite result. They provide very little set up info for their test procedure, but they show Linux/Samba outperforming NT consistently, in a test bed with 32 clients, measured by the same benchmarking software - NetBench 5. I don't know about the Sm@rt Reseller test, but I do think that Microsoft told these guys what to find - they have done it before - and these guys then looked for configurations to support those 'findings'.
I see that most of the posters have pro-GM attitudes. I suppose that the majority of them are from the USA. Here in Britain, public opinion swings the other way. Our Prime Minister, who is a glove puppet for the USA's President Clinton, is having a difficult time selling GM to the public. Monsanto et. al. have spent a lot of money supporting US politicians' election campaigns (of both main parties) and lobbying the houses. Furthermore, their aims are closely tied to the aims of US foreign policy - to dominate the world through control of food supply and technology. the 'Terminator Gene' is the most frightening prospect yet. The plan is to sell seeds which produce superior yields to the Third World, until they have no unmodified seed to self-subsist upon, then to exercise US political will through trade restriction. If the environmental effect of other genetic modifications makes it more difficult for other suppliers' seeds to produce useful yields, so much the better.
Genetic 'Engineering' - good for the USA, bad for everyone else.