Oh no, the yellow journalism era was just typical imperialist/industrialist cheerleading. Journalism in the late 1700's and early 1800's was alot more personal and far-out than anything today.
Reading Federalist newspapers railing against Thomas Jefferson and Republican newspapers railing against Washington & Hamilton is really entertaining.
Journalism has nothing to do with public service -- its a mechanism to sell newspapers, commercials or whatever and make money.
If you think that O'Reilly, Rather or any of the talking heads represent a journalistic low, you have no clue. Go to your local library and look at US newspapers from 1775-1815. If you think the ridiculous media support of the various wars the US has been involved in lately is ridiculous, look at the archives at Hearst -- the Spanish-American War was literally created to sell newspapers.
Satellietes cost alot of money to put into space, so they'll be there for a long, long time.
"Solar radiation" might be BS anyway... a USAF combat support router is a target. Its highly likely that enemies of the US will attempt to use laser, emp or other forms of radiation to disable the router in orbit.
There are publicly documented cases of Russian and Chinese space facilities attempting to blind US satellites with lasers...
I agree... I always found it amusing that web addresses are all over the place on billboards, magazines and newspapers, but I have to click on a web advertisement to figure out what company is peddling what.
When you see an "Eat at Joe's" sign next to a train station that you walk through every day, you're more likely to eat there. Likewise, there needs to be a category of web advertisement that builds a brand based on a logo or catchy graphic.
Hell... drug companies advertise and sell drugs without even telling you what the drug does!
I've done that in the past as well, but nowadays I'm working with production boxes where stability is more critical than bein gon the bleeding edge.
I get the impression that the vast majority of Linux deployments are using distro-provided kernels, since the overhead of maintaining a private distro is really high.
And anti-evolutionists won't be satisfied with anything less than watching a scientist pull a rabit out of a hat and seeing it evolve wings and fly away before their eyes.
Actually, religous fanatics would consider such an act a display of gods might, or maybe the influence of an angel! You cannot argue with blind faith.
I'd find it pretty easy to believe that Google is in cahoots with the US Gov't as far as information sharing and data mining go.
Orkut is a great way to find networks of people who are unfriendly to the Iranian regime. Skilled data miners can sift through the social networks and identify people to become CIA agents/informers/whatever.
The problem is that users or consumers don't know about requirements and new software often introduces new business processes that create additional requirements.
Consider email. Once upon a time, your secretary would type up a memo and call a messenger to deliver your memo to whomever you were contacting. Alot of older managers initially envisioned email as a way to eliminate the messenger boy. Then all of the sudden they realized "hey we can eliminate those secretaries too, if only the computers would manage our schedules too!"
They take back anything. Once upon a time I was going on a camping trip, and somehow forgot my tent. I managed to exchange an old, beat-up phone that was in my friends car for a cheapo $30 coleman tent.
As far as the cashiers noticing... forget about it. Wal-Mart keeps the lines long and the cashiers busy... those poor bastards are too tired to notice anything.
Until government enacts and reliably enforces laws to prevent employers from intimidating and abusing their workers, unions are needed.
Society has an obligation to provide more than just a capital environment to improve business. We have a responsibility to improve the lot of our fellow citizen, and the corporations stand opposed to that. IBP, Wal-Mart, McDonalds and Electronic Arts all demonstrate that.
Unions seem to believe that society owes them a living. The problem is that society (except in the form of government) is not a person, and so recognizes no debts. Fighting that is totally ineffective because there is no one to fight.
Why is so wrong for workers to associate and bargain collectively? And why is it ok for airline industry associations, music industry assocations, etc to spend billions lobbying congress and demanding government concessions?
The visionary management at the major airlines have had twenty years to react to deregulation... but chose instead to seek short-term profits.
What was missing from the parent's post was that 80's deregulation created the market for the "discount" airlines.
And the reason that Southwest & JetBlue have lower costs is that they pay their employees dramatically less. Ground handlers and baggage handlers are often paid minimum wage.
The side-effect of low pay is high turnover... so the non-union airlines don't have to fund such high-cost frills such as pension and benefit programs... and things like disability insurance rates stay low because their workforce is young and healthy.
The wise men in government & airline executives are merely converting a "professional" industry into a fast-food like assembly line.
The same process has already taken place in other industries that once paid a living wage... legacy industries like textiles, meat packing and restaurants.
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Oh no, the yellow journalism era was just typical imperialist/industrialist cheerleading. Journalism in the late 1700's and early 1800's was alot more personal and far-out than anything today.
Reading Federalist newspapers railing against Thomas Jefferson and Republican newspapers railing against Washington & Hamilton is really entertaining.
Journalism has nothing to do with public service -- its a mechanism to sell newspapers, commercials or whatever and make money.
If you think that O'Reilly, Rather or any of the talking heads represent a journalistic low, you have no clue. Go to your local library and look at US newspapers from 1775-1815. If you think the ridiculous media support of the various wars the US has been involved in lately is ridiculous, look at the archives at Hearst -- the Spanish-American War was literally created to sell newspapers.
You just made my point -- branding the most important function of advertising. That's why Oracle owns the back cover of every free IT magazine.
Satellietes cost alot of money to put into space, so they'll be there for a long, long time.
"Solar radiation" might be BS anyway... a USAF combat support router is a target. Its highly likely that enemies of the US will attempt to use laser, emp or other forms of radiation to disable the router in orbit.
There are publicly documented cases of Russian and Chinese space facilities attempting to blind US satellites with lasers...
Yes.
Everyone is equal, period. If you want to lose your job, grants or whatever, publish something to the contrary.
I agree... I always found it amusing that web addresses are all over the place on billboards, magazines and newspapers, but I have to click on a web advertisement to figure out what company is peddling what.
When you see an "Eat at Joe's" sign next to a train station that you walk through every day, you're more likely to eat there. Likewise, there needs to be a category of web advertisement that builds a brand based on a logo or catchy graphic.
Hell... drug companies advertise and sell drugs without even telling you what the drug does!
I've done that in the past as well, but nowadays I'm working with production boxes where stability is more critical than bein gon the bleeding edge.
I get the impression that the vast majority of Linux deployments are using distro-provided kernels, since the overhead of maintaining a private distro is really high.
Folks at Red Hat, Suse/Novell or whereever can produce quick patches to their distros, provided that they know of the problem.
Few people are using the "official" kernel these days anyway.
Actually, religous fanatics would consider such an act a display of gods might, or maybe the influence of an angel! You cannot argue with blind faith.
Agreed. WTF do they want to read his mail for anyway?
Microsoft does support NT 4 -- if you have a custom support agreement. There just isn't any more free fixes.
There are military deployments where NT 4 will be running until 2015 at the earliest.
On the flip side, consider also that there is plenty of Sun kit running SunOS 4 laying about as well.
aren't filthy communist sons of bitches.
The thing that is "retarded" is the fact that a huge security hole can slip through the cracks if Linus doesn't check his voluminous email.
Linux isn't just a hobby toy anymore. If Linus is holding on to things too tightly, he's doing himself and the community a disservice.
In the USA, Wikis are for communist sons of bitches.
Every desktop Linux distribution contains a bind caching nameserver and a sendmail engine.
I'd find it pretty easy to believe that Google is in cahoots with the US Gov't as far as information sharing and data mining go.
Orkut is a great way to find networks of people who are unfriendly to the Iranian regime. Skilled data miners can sift through the social networks and identify people to become CIA agents/informers/whatever.
I believe that little elves are responsible for all of the world's ills. Kennedy was killed by an elf, for example.
Even now, the elves are working on igniting a great volcano under yellostone park!
Those experienced third parties are called "consultants".
Their experience and wisdom are often valuable, but often over relied-upon.
The problem is that users or consumers don't know about requirements and new software often introduces new business processes that create additional requirements.
Consider email. Once upon a time, your secretary would type up a memo and call a messenger to deliver your memo to whomever you were contacting. Alot of older managers initially envisioned email as a way to eliminate the messenger boy. Then all of the sudden they realized "hey we can eliminate those secretaries too, if only the computers would manage our schedules too!"
Help files may be useless, but at least there is a Microsoft Help interface.
Unix used man pages, GNU stuff uses that info crap and other projects only supply PDF or HTML docs
Can't be an IBM commercial... he didn't mention that you'll need 50 $200/hr IGS consultants to buy a stick of gum.
They take back anything. Once upon a time I was going on a camping trip, and somehow forgot my tent. I managed to exchange an old, beat-up phone that was in my friends car for a cheapo $30 coleman tent.
As far as the cashiers noticing... forget about it. Wal-Mart keeps the lines long and the cashiers busy... those poor bastards are too tired to notice anything.
Until government enacts and reliably enforces laws to prevent employers from intimidating and abusing their workers, unions are needed.
Society has an obligation to provide more than just a capital environment to improve business. We have a responsibility to improve the lot of our fellow citizen, and the corporations stand opposed to that. IBP, Wal-Mart, McDonalds and Electronic Arts all demonstrate that.
Why is so wrong for workers to associate and bargain collectively? And why is it ok for airline industry associations, music industry assocations, etc to spend billions lobbying congress and demanding government concessions?
The visionary management at the major airlines have had twenty years to react to deregulation... but chose instead to seek short-term profits.
What was missing from the parent's post was that 80's deregulation created the market for the "discount" airlines.
And the reason that Southwest & JetBlue have lower costs is that they pay their employees dramatically less. Ground handlers and baggage handlers are often paid minimum wage.
The side-effect of low pay is high turnover... so the non-union airlines don't have to fund such high-cost frills such as pension and benefit programs... and things like disability insurance rates stay low because their workforce is young and healthy.
The wise men in government & airline executives are merely converting a "professional" industry into a fast-food like assembly line.
The same process has already taken place in other industries that once paid a living wage... legacy industries like textiles, meat packing and restaurants.