The animated Slashdot writer "Jon Katz" is dumb and muddled, despite some entertaining moments and liberal use of the word "geek". This class of writer -- at least the Wired/Salon kind-- is becoming dangerously unimaginative and predictable. They rant on and on, and hold their opinion as truth and law. Almost anyone reading could figure out what these authors have to say by their trite little titles. CmdrTaco, who clobbered "Katz" in postings last week, is more informative.
"Jon Katz" is a addle-pated disappointment.
One of the striking things about Slashdot is that it holds the daring notion to present completely vapid content as news for nerds, which is curious to us as it is usually so 5 minutes ago. Because content here is a blank, posters run amok imagining pouring hot grits down Natalie Portmann's pants.
Most recent writers, animated or dead, including the Mother-of-All-Poseurs (Jon Katz) construct their articles around the premise of absolutely nothing, presented with great volume and fervor. They always have grandiose, if unreliable prose and puns that delight us in all too inconsistent bursts or analogies that fall flat.
Some of the writing is good, and if you're into it, worth the read. But the style is becoming numbingly familiar, the genre dangerously predictable: brash and irreverant writers seething with Natalie/grits issues and soon to square off against the relentless and very smart trolls (like Border Collies, they are naked and petrified), which had gone bezerk 1 year ago when Katz went to a place called the "hellmouth", which threatens the trolls with abuse of geekdom. Yes, you probably have figured out by now that the headstrong Katz is the least hope for the future of Slashdot.
Why demogoge Klebold and Harris? It isn't because of anything they did when they were alive, but because of one word: Geek. For some reason, leaving the topic of Columbine alone is not something that Katz likes to do. Helping him along is the stigma of the game "DOOM" and the revelation (made by Katz) that they were geeks, damnit! This leads to the sticky wicket of millions of hits to slashdot, and the purchase of the site by Andover.net.
The well-equipped Slashdot is advanced enough to create a popular community, but they haven't quite figured out how to fill the site with anything to keep down the unedited, flambait content. Although the future of Slashdot is on the line, Katz never loses site of his real goal in life -- coming to terms with being called a poseur by Slashdotters.
This writer, while entertaining and warm-hearted, isn't funny or clever enough. The special absent content/useless opinion bar is being raised all the time, and Katz's articles aren't any different. Andover expected male teenagers to adore this author, but according to the amount of trolls, they don't. Neither did anybody else. Perhaps they sensed that the subjects were lame. That the writer strayed from the hot grits that make Slashdot so great. That there are too many turns of phrase and abused cliche references too many different places for us to understand or care about any of them. And the point....well, it's past time for some new ideas in the geek-trolled-by-smarter-humans-than-him armed with natalie portman hot-grits troll-guns. Almost anybody reading this could recite the theme by heart without reading past the first paragraph. If you're into dull content and the word geek, read JonKatz. Otherwise, Stuff hot grits down your petrified shorts. It's more entertaining.
As promised, I've given up on Karma. have a nice day.
Hehe. I actually work with IBM's logical volume manager, and I found it funny that this "dublin" character thinks this is what enterprises use. LVM is ok as long as you only have 1 hdd per vg. Removing that drive breaks quorum, and it makes life a living hell to simply put your filesystem back up. A failed drive means no quorum as well. ouch. Under AIX we use raid in hardware, or we use a SSA array. while we could mount the whole ssa array as one 128gb vg, we'd rather not do this, as a failure in the middle makes JFS VERY angry. This is especially true if the missing volume is the pdisk you send your log to. ouch. Stay away from IBM's JFS!
And this month's discover has a symbiotic blue/yellow led that produces white light with no heat. Heat is where a good part of the spectrum from white light bulbs goes to. This may have practical applications very shortly.
Dude, I never even smoked a CIGARETTE, let alone a joint. However, I am sympathetic to their cause. That is possible without being a user. Also, I was referring more to the doublethink issue than to the drug one.
Discover's 2000 awards (the link on their site doesn't show the finalists) included a scientific team that came up with a white led comprised of blue and yellow leds that feed off of each other to make white light. It even puts off no heat, as it does not actually make white light directly, but by the mixing of two colors. nifty tech.
Let's not forget society's doublethink that prohibition of alcohol in the earlier part of our century didn't work, started the mob out in the US, etc., but the prohibition of recreational drugs is a good thing because they think it STOPS such activity.
Well, under AIX, under which the power4 chip will likely run, you can pull the plug, and it will replay its journal. Also, on this kinda iron (H&J 50s and above) you usually have your disks in a separate case running ssa. You can shut down the CPU without losing much data because (at least in my company's case) the machines are configged to flush ~1sec. Of course this is a 8-proc machine with power to spare for such things.
Not to mention THIS! My dad, my sister and I went to see this one. Needless to say, we left the theatre saying "what the fuck?" Not a surprise that alec baldwin sucked in this movie too. I really wish the "fat baldwin" would go on a diet.
JMS wanted to be called "eiben scrood" for the duration of b5:crusade for all the mucking that tnt did. He actually has the name registered to the guild.
I like to split the difference and use VIM. It has an open input mode + all of the VIisms you know and love. In Windows (at work) I use Notepad or dos edit. I just wish I could hack them to 80 colums like pine and pico. It makes editing easier.
I do understand the technology. It is easy to add, you just do a ssi on most sites, and they build the content dynamically from a database. Doubleclick uses an iframe most of the time, and/.'s ad app runs just fine, and it describes every ad, though sometimes poorly. On sites that just have the quick and dirty ads, they probably have very little control over their server.
Advocating a site that does not have the core competency of making clothes seems ok to me. Companies that deliberately emblazon their logo on to products under their name are another story. In other words, think geek makes the shirt, not slashdot or mcdonalds clothing..
One thing I don't get is the mention of walmart being everywhere. They rarely buy more billboards in my area than target, but they have more tv commercials in my area than target.. I kinda think everyone involved above is equally guilty.
I had no problems getting there, even when I block all cookies save for a few sites. Junkbuster should tell you why the address was blocked and give you a REGEX.
Same people, different product. I use Junkbuster for my Windows machine at work (it's pretty invisible) and my Windows/Debian machine at home. I use this file for my settings, and I have cookies off except for my ISP's mail system,/., LinuxToday, and cnchost.com. It works great, and it doesn't require a restart to make it bust new addresses.
CNet killing doubleclick. At least CNet doesn't track your every move, on or off their site. To say the least, at least CNet offers some fairly decent services.
Nah, they just hook you into the site so they can monitor you. They rarely even link to the sites they are talking about in their articles (news.com) and you usually end up going other places to find all the dirt. Arstechnica and linuxtoday and/. do a much better job at this.
Not meaning this as a flame, but on most websites, the only thing you ever see moving is the stupid banner. This wouldn't be so bad if they weren't flashing, acting like user interfaces, or simply wasting bandwidth. I don't click on them, I don't know anyone who does, and I wonder who in this Ponzi scheme makes out? Obviously it's the banner companies, not the advertisers. When advertisers could go for more proven broadband media such as radio or tv, I wonder why anybody would bother with banners.Generally:
They don't mention their product by name
They waste bandwidth with superflous animation (x10)
They usually don't have alt tags
they are usually offtopic to the site.
Since I run Junkbuster proxy on most of the systems I use, I have no problem avoiding them. Currently,/.'s banner says "click here for 3000+ mg of caffeine!" which tells me nothing. I know what the ad is for only by clicking it. Just like I wouldn't a link that goes to "file:///nul" at work, I wouldn't click on an ad that leaves me hanging.
So there are no COUNTRIES running under this style? I see a company, a few anarchys (which by definition are randomly democratic) and a rebellious order. While they are currently active democracies (thank you for the info, I shall study them further) they do not have the same scale as a parliment or a senate or a bund. They are collectives for the most part. Though in the case of the spanish mondragon concern, they seem to be very effective in their space.
A representative republic is a form of democracy. I know of no place where this "democracy" thing happens in full force. If you know of one, let me know.
Slashdot Mirror
In JonKatz logic, "tofu"=="geek"
The animated Slashdot writer "Jon Katz" is dumb and muddled, despite some entertaining moments and liberal use of the word "geek". This class of writer -- at least the Wired/Salon kind-- is becoming dangerously unimaginative and predictable. They rant on and on, and hold their opinion as truth and law. Almost anyone reading could figure out what these authors have to say by their trite little titles. CmdrTaco, who clobbered "Katz" in postings last week, is more informative.
"Jon Katz" is a addle-pated disappointment.
One of the striking things about Slashdot is that it holds the daring notion to present completely vapid content as news for nerds, which is curious to us as it is usually so 5 minutes ago. Because content here is a blank, posters run amok imagining pouring hot grits down Natalie Portmann's pants.
Most recent writers, animated or dead, including the Mother-of-All-Poseurs (Jon Katz) construct their articles around the premise of absolutely nothing, presented with great volume and fervor. They always have grandiose, if unreliable prose and puns that delight us in all too inconsistent bursts or analogies that fall flat.
Some of the writing is good, and if you're into it, worth the read. But the style is becoming numbingly familiar, the genre dangerously predictable: brash and irreverant writers seething with Natalie/grits issues and soon to square off against the relentless and very smart trolls (like Border Collies, they are naked and petrified), which had gone bezerk 1 year ago when Katz went to a place called the "hellmouth", which threatens the trolls with abuse of geekdom. Yes, you probably have figured out by now that the headstrong Katz is the least hope for the future of Slashdot.
Why demogoge Klebold and Harris? It isn't because of anything they did when they were alive, but because of one word: Geek. For some reason, leaving the topic of Columbine alone is not something that Katz likes to do. Helping him along is the stigma of the game "DOOM" and the revelation (made by Katz) that they were geeks, damnit! This leads to the sticky wicket of millions of hits to slashdot, and the purchase of the site by Andover.net.
The well-equipped Slashdot is advanced enough to create a popular community, but they haven't quite figured out how to fill the site with anything to keep down the unedited, flambait content. Although the future of Slashdot is on the line, Katz never loses site of his real goal in life -- coming to terms with being called a poseur by Slashdotters.
This writer, while entertaining and warm-hearted, isn't funny or clever enough. The special absent content/useless opinion bar is being raised all the time, and Katz's articles aren't any different. Andover expected male teenagers to adore this author, but according to the amount of trolls, they don't. Neither did anybody else. Perhaps they sensed that the subjects were lame. That the writer strayed from the hot grits that make Slashdot so great. That there are too many turns of phrase and abused cliche references too many different places for us to understand or care about any of them. And the point....well, it's past time for some new ideas in the geek-trolled-by-smarter-humans-than-him armed with natalie portman hot-grits troll-guns. Almost anybody reading this could recite the theme by heart without reading past the first paragraph. If you're into dull content and the word geek, read JonKatz. Otherwise, Stuff hot grits down your petrified shorts. It's more entertaining.
As promised, I've given up on Karma. have a nice day.
Hehe. I actually work with IBM's logical volume manager, and I found it funny that this "dublin" character thinks this is what enterprises use. LVM is ok as long as you only have 1 hdd per vg. Removing that drive breaks quorum, and it makes life a living hell to simply put your filesystem back up. A failed drive means no quorum as well. ouch. Under AIX we use raid in hardware, or we use a SSA array. while we could mount the whole ssa array as one 128gb vg, we'd rather not do this, as a failure in the middle makes JFS VERY angry. This is especially true if the missing volume is the pdisk you send your log to. ouch. Stay away from IBM's JFS!
The LED Light has a flashlight with 4 led and it runs 700 hrs on a set of Li batteries. 30 days on standard batteries. not bad.
And this month's discover has a symbiotic blue/yellow led that produces white light with no heat. Heat is where a good part of the spectrum from white light bulbs goes to. This may have practical applications very shortly.
Dude, I never even smoked a CIGARETTE, let alone a joint. However, I am sympathetic to their cause. That is possible without being a user. Also, I was referring more to the doublethink issue than to the drug one.
Discover's 2000 awards (the link on their site doesn't show the finalists) included a scientific team that came up with a white led comprised of blue and yellow leds that feed off of each other to make white light. It even puts off no heat, as it does not actually make white light directly, but by the mixing of two colors. nifty tech.
The reason we have the 11th in life expectancy are multifold.
within those three points, you can see that the healthcare already has it's hands full. No wonder heart diseas is so pevalent in this country.
Let's not forget society's doublethink that prohibition of alcohol in the earlier part of our century didn't work, started the mob out in the US, etc., but the prohibition of recreational drugs is a good thing because they think it STOPS such activity.
duh. The war on drugs is a joke.
Well, under AIX, under which the power4 chip will likely run, you can pull the plug, and it will replay its journal. Also, on this kinda iron (H&J 50s and above) you usually have your disks in a separate case running ssa. You can shut down the CPU without losing much data because (at least in my company's case) the machines are configged to flush ~1sec. Of course this is a 8-proc machine with power to spare for such things.
I always got "assface" by looking at him.
Not to mention THIS! My dad, my sister and I went to see this one. Needless to say, we left the theatre saying "what the fuck?" Not a surprise that alec baldwin sucked in this movie too. I really wish the "fat baldwin" would go on a diet.
JMS wanted to be called "eiben scrood" for the duration of b5:crusade for all the mucking that tnt did. He actually has the name registered to the guild.
I like to split the difference and use VIM. It has an open input mode + all of the VIisms you know and love. In Windows (at work) I use Notepad or dos edit. I just wish I could hack them to 80 colums like pine and pico. It makes editing easier.
And what value does a EU country add for the VAT? That is something nobody has ever been able to answer me.
Value added indeed. Orwell's Big brother would be proud.
I do understand the technology. It is easy to add, you just do a ssi on most sites, and they build the content dynamically from a database. Doubleclick uses an iframe most of the time, and /.'s ad app runs just fine, and it describes every ad, though sometimes poorly. On sites that just have the quick and dirty ads, they probably have very little control over their server.
Old navy is a subsidiary of the gap, if I recall correctly.
Ayn Rand's objectivism is about doubting everything. Nazi-ism is as dogmatic a "philosophy" as you can come across, and is rooted in ignorance.
Advocating a site that does not have the core competency of making clothes seems ok to me. Companies that deliberately emblazon their logo on to products under their name are another story. In other words, think geek makes the shirt, not slashdot or mcdonalds clothing..
One thing I don't get is the mention of walmart being everywhere. They rarely buy more billboards in my area than target, but they have more tv commercials in my area than target.. I kinda think everyone involved above is equally guilty.
I had no problems getting there, even when I block all cookies save for a few sites. Junkbuster should tell you why the address was blocked and give you a REGEX.
Same people, different product. I use Junkbuster for my Windows machine at work (it's pretty invisible) and my Windows/Debian machine at home. I use this file for my settings, and I have cookies off except for my ISP's mail system, /., LinuxToday, and cnchost.com. It works great, and it doesn't require a restart to make it bust new addresses.
CNet killing doubleclick. At least CNet doesn't track your every move, on or off their site. To say the least, at least CNet offers some fairly decent services.
Nah, they just hook you into the site so they can monitor you. They rarely even link to the sites they are talking about in their articles (news.com) and you usually end up going other places to find all the dirt. Arstechnica and linuxtoday and /. do a much better job at this.
Not meaning this as a flame, but on most websites, the only thing you ever see moving is the stupid banner. This wouldn't be so bad if they weren't flashing, acting like user interfaces, or simply wasting bandwidth. I don't click on them, I don't know anyone who does, and I wonder who in this Ponzi scheme makes out? Obviously it's the banner companies, not the advertisers. When advertisers could go for more proven broadband media such as radio or tv, I wonder why anybody would bother with banners.Generally:
Since I run Junkbuster proxy on most of the systems I use, I have no problem avoiding them. Currently, /.'s banner says "click here for 3000+ mg of caffeine!" which tells me nothing. I know what the ad is for only by clicking it. Just like I wouldn't a link that goes to "file:///nul" at work, I wouldn't click on an ad that leaves me hanging.
So there are no COUNTRIES running under this style? I see a company, a few anarchys (which by definition are randomly democratic) and a rebellious order. While they are currently active democracies (thank you for the info, I shall study them further) they do not have the same scale as a parliment or a senate or a bund. They are collectives for the most part. Though in the case of the spanish mondragon concern, they seem to be very effective in their space.
A representative republic is a form of democracy. I know of no place where this "democracy" thing happens in full force. If you know of one, let me know.