War is certainly interesting, but big wars mostly occur because of conflicting social pressures and management failures of government in not forseeing and dealing with those pressures.
ritual warfare (war as sport) comes into vogue when ruling elites can be reasonably sure they won't get hurt. (knights in armour beating up peasants)
when they're as likely as not to bleed too they get much more cautious.
Linus has made a series of very serious mistakes over bitkeeper.
He's not a saint, watching the slashdot fanboys work themselves into a lather because people are pointing out that Linus is wrong, and badly wrong, is very disapointing.
I thought you people were better than the microsofties wetting themselves over Bill Gates.
But I was wrong.
However good on the editors for being brave enough to join in the well deserved booting Linus is getting over this.
Huge problems with the antenna and they become quite directionally sensitive. You've got to point it in the right direction when it's down at that size.
which is why you don't see many AM players that size.
People traditionally didn't buy big blue for the snaziest gear, they bought it so if something went wrong a reassuring man would arrive very quickly and fix it.
in a comoditised software world that model (with the hardware) will be more powerfull than ever.
IBM's PC's have been apalling for years (at least in the australian market)
But none of the big OEM's are good, simply beacuse they're big enough to customise the hardware, and they don't do that to make it better, they do it to make it cheaper.
My employer buys from local beige box OEM's these days. This has two effects:
1) Quality known brand components
2) If there's a problem we can take the box to the shop, no messing around with call centres and freight services.
blogging software's just a convenient way to manage a series of web-pages over time.
now, no-one's paying attention to what little Thaliyah-Britnney's blogging in her livejournal about Beyonce from Bumfluff Nebraska.
Blogs that are being read have built up credibility and trust over time.
They've got as much to lose as say Jayson Blair over at the New York Times.
But good blogs are few and far between.
Some friends and I run a slashlike site covering local news and events in our City of Canberra.
We recently had an interesting story involving the police and local politics.
It was interesting enough to get the local TV, radio, and print media running the story.
Did the local blogs want to touch it? (even though there were some serious issues about the dangers of hosting anonymous comment in our town)
Nope.
All too busy re-hashing whatever orthodoxy they'd already come to the party with.
The point I'm trying to make is that crap blogs don't matter. No-one reads them anyway.
Just like in the early days of the printing press there were pamphleteeers putting out all sorts of crap. People only read what they've come to trust.
It's a lot like open source software. There's a lot of crap but that's not to say some of it won't be as good or better than the proprietary alternatives.
What's good is that the barrier to entry has been lowered so people who do have something to say can now be heard.
Just take it with a grain of salt untilt he author has established your trust.
The New York Times wasn't the journal of record on its first day of publication either.
Slashdot Mirror
Eben Moglen's done pretty well getting millions out of the industry to set up various FSF affiliated foundations.
Industry knows the value of the GPL quite well.
Stared too long into the abyss, gave way to despair, betrayed his realm.
Lunckily Gandalf/Stallman is going to install a new king for us...
You should have seen the double standing ovation Eben Moglen got at linux.conf.au this morning.
He's planning on making badges saying "STALLMAN WAS RIGHT"
FSF has the high ground in the community now, linus has blown himself out of the water.
i think they use the headphones as mics,
although if you've got that far you should be able to plug a mic in.
War is certainly interesting, but big wars mostly occur because of conflicting social pressures and management failures of government in not forseeing and dealing with those pressures.
ritual warfare (war as sport) comes into vogue when ruling elites can be reasonably sure they won't get hurt. (knights in armour beating up peasants)
when they're as likely as not to bleed too they get much more cautious.
Your comments have some merit but you need to work on your analogies.
Very few people like war, it's best practitioners least of all. It occurs for reasons far more complicated than preference.
Any machines bought from now will get the tiger upgrade free when it ships.
Linus has made a series of very serious mistakes over bitkeeper.
He's not a saint, watching the slashdot fanboys work themselves into a lather because people are pointing out that Linus is wrong, and badly wrong, is very disapointing.
I thought you people were better than the microsofties wetting themselves over Bill Gates.
But I was wrong.
However good on the editors for being brave enough to join in the well deserved booting Linus is getting over this.
Huge problems with the antenna and they become quite directionally sensitive. You've got to point it in the right direction when it's down at that size.
which is why you don't see many AM players that size.
OK can a real physicist shoot me down?
This thing is near the galactic core where things are older and funkier. Does this it have to be necessarily fusing hydrogen in there?
Could the parent star be buggering up any spectrum analysis?
And remember the penguin which bit Linus lives at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra.
If you're on a budget you'll get a bus to Canberra from Sydney.
Yhe trip is shorter than to many cities from "their" airport. (I'm looking at you Narita)
But Qantas run damn near an air-bridge Sydney Canberra. The flights leave every 30 mins and only take half an hour (including all the fiddling around)
And the weather at this time of year is glorious.
Sounds like a classic (and rather well written) shot in a blog war.
You're one of us now Michael.
Enjoy the ride and don't worry, the blogger-shagging is great fun.
There's no catastrophe (short of a true globe buster) which would make this world less inhabitable than mars.
That is, it'd be easier to fix here than teraform mars.
Which is not to say we shouldn't expand and explore.
true but if you try to keep a cat on the number of mice you'll have in your house ni a year it'll be once skinny cat.
Unless you live on a farm.
Most of us don't have that many bags of rice and grain lying around either.
Also, having told the cat to fend for itself, it's pretty hard to be choosy what it'll get stuck into.
Whoa!
Siccing your cat onto the native wildlife is bad, bad, bad environmental news.
well podcasters looking to distribute their shows on freebie CD's will be all over this.
plenty of office use for a cheap easy way to put a good looking label on CDR's as well.
lots of archival value as well as you don't have to worry about labels fading.
in fact anyone who's burning a lot of CD's for anything other than personal use will be very keen.
internet radio streaming is cool, if you don't have any listeners or plans to get them.
even if you can get decent sound down at 24kbps thats still an extra 24kbps you have to add for every simultaneous listener.
podcasting's the way to go if you want to do your own audio broadcasts.
tie it in with blogtorrent and you're good to go.
and lots and lots of services.
People traditionally didn't buy big blue for the snaziest gear, they bought it so if something went wrong a reassuring man would arrive very quickly and fix it.
in a comoditised software world that model (with the hardware) will be more powerfull than ever.
Yes but we have boosters that can lift payloads into interplanetary space.
and these asteroids are not a hard target.
they have no countermeasures, their course is fixed, and we've got no plans to retrieve any payload we send out there.
Newton's Third Law.
Forget vaporising it, the high velocity ejection of particles would move the course a long, long way.
Unless things are so desperate they're trying to pop it in close orbit you won't need much of a deviation to see it off.
For bulk rollouts (100+?) you're probably right.
IBM's PC's have been apalling for years (at least in the australian market)
But none of the big OEM's are good, simply beacuse they're big enough to customise the hardware, and they don't do that to make it better, they do it to make it cheaper.
My employer buys from local beige box OEM's these days. This has two effects:
1) Quality known brand components
2) If there's a problem we can take the box to the shop, no messing around with call centres and freight services.
with the tiny storage on the XM i don't think it'd be too onerous to play it out overnight onto your HD.
then wipe the internal memory and start fresh, twiddle with the music now on Your HD at your leisure at full digital speed.
If a blog posts in the forest does anybody care?
there's a lot of pages on the internet.
blogging software's just a convenient way to manage a series of web-pages over time.
now, no-one's paying attention to what little Thaliyah-Britnney's blogging in her livejournal about Beyonce from Bumfluff Nebraska.
Blogs that are being read have built up credibility and trust over time.
They've got as much to lose as say Jayson Blair over at the New York Times.
But good blogs are few and far between.
Some friends and I run a slashlike site covering local news and events in our City of Canberra.
We recently had an interesting story involving the police and local politics.
It was interesting enough to get the local TV, radio, and print media running the story.
Did the local blogs want to touch it? (even though there were some serious issues about the dangers of hosting anonymous comment in our town)
Nope.
All too busy re-hashing whatever orthodoxy they'd already come to the party with.
The point I'm trying to make is that crap blogs don't matter. No-one reads them anyway.
Just like in the early days of the printing press there were pamphleteeers putting out all sorts of crap. People only read what they've come to trust.
It's a lot like open source software. There's a lot of crap but that's not to say some of it won't be as good or better than the proprietary alternatives.
What's good is that the barrier to entry has been lowered so people who do have something to say can now be heard.
Just take it with a grain of salt untilt he author has established your trust.
The New York Times wasn't the journal of record on its first day of publication either.