I didn't know he used the fake steve blog to flame linux?? worse yet, you seem to have believed what you read on a blog with the word Fake in it. First you admit you were uninformed. Then you make an unwarranted assumption that ignores the content of what you've admitted. (Saying something is fake doesn't make it Backwards Day.) You appear to be saying that, just for example, if somebody put up a blog called "Fake Rupert Murdoch" and posted that gordo3000 of Atlanta Georgia who plays RuneScape and posts at Slashdot was a chronic child molester and advocate of public mastication, then that would be okay with you, since of course nobody could believe allegations from a blog with the word "fake" in it. (It doesn't even matter if you're actually the same gordo3000, but given that your posts at/. are all over Google it should be easy for the likes of Perverted Justice to track you down.)
Just because Fox News isn't really news doesn't mean there can't be either the Daily Show or good news programs in existence. equivalently, just because a lot of bloggers are full of shit doesn't mean their can't be extremely informative blogs and blogs that parody people(as all a blog really is is a method of communicating and it's the person on the other end that is at fault for hte quality of that blog). You have quite a facility for stating the obvious (and consider this: what difference is there between a blog under a fake name and postings under a nym?). But while you were extolling the benefits of blogs, benefits that appear to have convinced Lyons of their worth (a point Anil Dash made at the time of Lyons' exposure as Fake Steve), he seems to have embraced the dark side of blogging (the "lynch mob" he warned everybody about in his Forbes cover story) to anonymously slander the very same people he was attacking in his day job (and on his other blog under his real name). Willful abandonment of publicly-stated principles and hypocrisy -- two great tastes that taste great together!
ps: Boy that "gordo3900" on SoundClick was mean to you. What a homophobic a-hole.
many are just people using the cover of being 'unbiased' to flame Hmmm, you're right. He was using the cover of being 'biased' under someone else's name to flame Linux. That's entirely different.
Remember, this guy also wrote the Forbes cover story claiming blogs were "an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective", then turned around and started the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
Putting the content behind that wall made the Times' columnists practically irrelevant. You say that like that's a bad thing. There's not a few people who'd be willing to pay to keep the likes of Maureen Dowd, David Brooks and Thomas Friedman out of the public discourse.
I'll 3 that. Two things in particular: As a documentary, it does a great job of presenting the ideas and people involved, pro and con, in their social context (instead of just as talking heads spewing debate points), and it's got major segments set outside of North America and Europe, showing the global side of the copyright crisis that's rarely considered.
I'm used to documentaries that just rehash issues and facts that would be well-known to someone interested in the subject, with a little bit of entertainment thrown in, and those are great for getting regular people up to speed. Good Copy Bad Copy, though, had genuinely new information for me, and I consider watching it time well-spent.
The fact that Harlan Ellison wrote a good Star Trek episode does not mean that Star Trek episodes by respected sci-fi(I'll cut my own tongue out before I call it speculative fiction) authors have to be good. That's quite true. Writing for media is substantially different from writing prose fiction, and back then they didn't have (relatively) inexpensive CGI so the scenes a writer could imagine that were reproducible on film were severely limited compared to now. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Blade Runner are profoundly different stories even though they're related by blood; likewise Dune and The Shining as movies only grossly resemble their respective source novels.
I might add that Ellison thought Roddenberry completely butchered his original script, and reportedly Sturgeon and Bloch, among others, felt their work had been sausaged by the grinder of 60s network series TV, and in particular the producing and writing staff of Star Trek.
It probably looks better than the real one, which I saw in the SF Hall of Fame last year. Helped me appreciate what it's like to be in an sf movie, pointing a little hand-sculpted piece of painted wood and trying to act like it's something real.
I'll believe in Pixelmator when I see it. For what it's worth, at least two of the promo images here have Photoshop CS3 tags in them.
A free program that does Core Image manipulations is LiveQuartz, which is up to version 1.6.4. I haven't used it, so can't vouch for the interface, or whether its developer is as boy-band cute as Pixelmator's.
It's a pity that the folks at Universal hadn't had the brains to recognize the value in the adage "absense makes the heart grow fonder" when continually creating newer and ever more terrible Star Trek spin-offs. If they had left it at Deep Space 9 and let the whole thing fallow for a few years, we'd probably have a Star Trek series on the air right now. Whether they had the brains or not, they'd've had their asses sued because Star Trek's owned by Paramount (who are quite litigious about things).
2000 people die in Africa from Malaria EVERY DAY. Africans WANT to use DDT, to save their lives. Rich White granola munching hippies in rich countries have decided that dead brown people are unimportant relative to the teachings of the sacred scrolls of the Cult of Gaia. Would you like some soda to go with that strawman? DDT use for malaria has never been banned, not even in the US. Though synthetic pyrethroids are cheaper and less likely to promote the development of resistance.
Perhaps you could consult your sacred scrolls and make a few changes to make them fit your facts better.
The kids suffering right now are those with malaria, which could be counteracted by light local application of DDT in areas where people live (not the widespread spraying that created problems in the past.)
A complete ban of DDT has caused much human suffering. If you know that widespread spraying of DDT for malaria was causing problems (mosquitos were developing resistance to it) then you should also know that spraying of DDT to eradicate malaria has never been banned.
So what "much human suffering" has this nonexistent ban caused?
the idea of refusing to use the corn which otherwise would have actually saved lives is too far In the meantime promotion of the use of corn for ethanol in this country is causing political unrest in Mexico because it's driving up prices for their staple food.
You know, it's almost as though we're all part of the same planet... I remember Ted Nelson's meme from quite a while back, "everything is deeply intertwingled."
in the case of yellow rice for example, a gene for beta carotene was introduced resulting in a rice that can help prevent blindness in third world countries That "golden rice" is patented and requires a license if a farmer or subsequent user of its genetics makes more than USD$10,000 per year. I think that's an economic effect.
Microsoft is one of the few companies that still does all their development in the USA. Of course, they import people on H1B visas to do the work, but they do it in Redmond.
'Tain't true. They also develop in the San Jose area. Also, there was a stink a couple of years ago when they got caught planning to replace American temps with ones in India, though I suppose that could've been outsourcing tech support rather than development.
Still, when he won the 1921 prize in Physics, it was for work in 1905 (the so-called annus mirabilis) that had stood the test of time (ie, was unlikely to come back and bite the Committee by being wrong).
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Somehow modding the above as "flamebait" seems extra-appropriate.
ps: Boy that "gordo3900" on SoundClick was mean to you. What a homophobic a-hole.
Thanks for the correction.
Nice sentiment, but I'd take it less ironically if you had a name.
Let the class action suits against Forbes begin...
Remember, this guy also wrote the Forbes cover story claiming blogs were "an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective", then turned around and started the Fake Steve Jobs blog.
Another triumph for consistency.
Hmmm, are you running Greasemonkey or some other Firefox add-on? 'Cuz I don't get that at all.
Excellent troll.
I'll 3 that. Two things in particular: As a documentary, it does a great job of presenting the ideas and people involved, pro and con, in their social context (instead of just as talking heads spewing debate points), and it's got major segments set outside of North America and Europe, showing the global side of the copyright crisis that's rarely considered.
I'm used to documentaries that just rehash issues and facts that would be well-known to someone interested in the subject, with a little bit of entertainment thrown in, and those are great for getting regular people up to speed. Good Copy Bad Copy, though, had genuinely new information for me, and I consider watching it time well-spent.
I might add that Ellison thought Roddenberry completely butchered his original script, and reportedly Sturgeon and Bloch, among others, felt their work had been sausaged by the grinder of 60s network series TV, and in particular the producing and writing staff of Star Trek.
It probably looks better than the real one, which I saw in the SF Hall of Fame last year. Helped me appreciate what it's like to be in an sf movie, pointing a little hand-sculpted piece of painted wood and trying to act like it's something real.
I'll believe in Pixelmator when I see it. For what it's worth, at least two of the promo images here have Photoshop CS3 tags in them.
A free program that does Core Image manipulations is LiveQuartz, which is up to version 1.6.4. I haven't used it, so can't vouch for the interface, or whether its developer is as boy-band cute as Pixelmator's.
Perhaps you could consult your sacred scrolls and make a few changes to make them fit your facts better.
A complete ban of DDT has caused much human suffering. If you know that widespread spraying of DDT for malaria was causing problems (mosquitos were developing resistance to it) then you should also know that spraying of DDT to eradicate malaria has never been banned.
So what "much human suffering" has this nonexistent ban caused?
You know, it's almost as though we're all part of the same planet... I remember Ted Nelson's meme from quite a while back, "everything is deeply intertwingled."
There's an archaic meaning for "prove" that means "test", as in "the exception that proves the rule".
I would likewise say I was sorry to nitpick, but that would be insincere of me.
That puts a different context on things (though your reply was cryptic enough that I hope I might reasonably be excused for jumping to my conclusion).
I withdraw my remark, and wish you good luck. Nobody should have to deal with such crap.
Microsoft is one of the few companies that still does all their development in the USA. Of course, they import people on H1B visas to do the work, but they do it in Redmond.
'Tain't true. They also develop in the San Jose area. Also, there was a stink a couple of years ago when they got caught planning to replace American temps with ones in India, though I suppose that could've been outsourcing tech support rather than development.
P.S. Are you a Jew? Hm?
Whoa, way to destroy your credibility, putative dude.
It doesn't.
"It seems to me that modern news outlets are far too obsessed with viewpoints reporters want presented."
Definitely true, if by "reporters" you mean "the very rich people who own the media and hire reporters to serve their requirements."
Still, when he won the 1921 prize in Physics, it was for work in 1905 (the so-called annus mirabilis) that had stood the test of time (ie, was unlikely to come back and bite the Committee by being wrong).