The New York Times can define itself however it wants. However, it doesn't change either its content, which is broadly pro-establishment, and nor is the NYT somehow representative of Western Media media. The Times hires occasional leftish commentators, such as Krugman, but has plenty of commentators who espouse right wing positions too. Is the NYT advocating the Democrats pick Sanders for President? Advocating an expansion of social security? Did it carefully analyzed the drumbeat for war in 2001-2003 and ultimately oppose it before it started? Did the NYT not lionize Paul Ryan when he proposed fiscal reforms supposedly to clear the deficit?
The NYT may or may not be right wing, but it's certainly not left wing.
The US media's bias is difficult to measure because there are very few significant papers with national reach, with most of the media concentrated in local publications. And few US newspapers explicitly back a political party. However, the UK is much easier. The main national dailies are:
Conservative: Times, Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star
No party or frequently swinging: Independent, Financial Times
Liberal or left wing: Guardian, Daily Mirror
If you're looking for a picture of media bias in Western Media, that couldn't be better one.
People who can afford to own newspapers rarely want left wing governments.
No, I just know when someone is avoiding giving an answer because of strictly partisan reasons. You've posted this apologia for Corbyn's pro-homeopathy stance multiple times now.
What current UK major party leaders, other than Corbyn, have said they support homeopathy?
It must be strange living in bizarro-world where there's no persistent pro-establishment/right-wing bias in the vast majority of Western Media. Most newspapers are describing Corbyn using terms like "leftist", "left wing extremist", etc - yet he's a fairly conventional liberal from everything I've read about him, just not pro-establishment. Can you imagine any of these newspapers - indeed, any media outside of some self-published left wing newsletters - describing Ron Paul or Donald Trump as "right wing extremists"?
That said, a quote out of context is a smear. The article isn't as big a smear as many critics are suggesting, but the attack on Alexander is out of line.
It was a Yes/No question. I'll ask again: Are any of these other people leaders of their respective political parties? Are any of the other major political parties currently lead by people who have publicly announced support for homeopathy?
Edge is a piece of crap. It's slow. It's buggy. It's not touch friendly (the Metro version of IE11 in Windows 8.1 was actually the gold standard there, too bad they removed it in Windows 10), and it has to hand over to other browsers to render "legacy" content.
Saying "Yes, but it supports standards" doesn't make it good, it just means it supports standards. Whoopidoo.
Quite, we shouldn't expect anything shown in an ad to be accurate. If we buy a so-called "phone" for $600, and it cannot make phone calls, take pictures, or store music, then that's our fault for just assuming it could on the basis that the ads show it doing all those things. We're the idiots, while the advertisers are find upstanding capitalists that are beyond all criticism and whose integrity must not be besmirched by the likes of us.
You're not thinking big enough. Venus is just like Earth only hotter. Mars is teeny tiny and doesn't have the right gravity. Both are far too close to the Sun to be safe when the Sun explodes in six gajillion years.
No, I say we terraform Neptune. And then Saturn. Both have gravities similar to Earth, and they have a lot more space too.
We just need to, uh, thin the atmosphere (that's easy right? How hard could it be?) and do something about the lack of a solid surface on either. Also I guess we probably should do something about the massive radiation coming from inside the planets (I don't know about Neptune, but I know Saturn has a problem there.)
Venus? Pah! Waste of time. Hardly a solution to our overpopulation or whatever it is that means we need to leave Earth at all. No, let's focus on the big planets...;-)
I've had at least two occasions where my usual secure password, over eight characters, mixture of letters and digits, no words whatsoever, and with an algorithmic change per site/entity, wouldn't work but "Password123" did.
Guess what I used as my password with those locations.
Probably worth noting that Windows 10 seems to have apps "disappear" and need restarting on an hourly basis, and that's with light load. "Mail" seems to be the worst.
Also - automatic reboots. If there's one thing worse than having to shut down your power-compromised laptop, and then restart it when you're ready to use it again, it's having the device reboot all by itself and lose much of what you've done in the process.
Just a data point, but my Ubuntu laptop suspends and resumes just fine. But my Windows laptop doesn't and frequently has to be rebooted when that happens.
IIRC my Powerbook used to have similar issues, I think it's just a hard problem for operating designers - who start with operating systems that don't support the feature - to retrofit onto existing systems. I'm kinda surprised Ubuntu does it without problems, but it does.
All of the blog entries The Guardian identified did, actually, include a disclaimer notifying the reader who sponsored the content.
There is no scandal here. There are plenty of cases where marketing groups go overboard and, for example, lobby or fund supposedly unconnected groups in secret (airlines funding anti-train NIMBY campaigns springs to mind), but this isn't one of them. An egg promotion group paid for, publicly and with full disclosure, a campaign to promote eggs, and contacted authors of articles they felt disparaged eggs notifying them of what they saw as inaccuracies.
This is a distraction. If I were a conspiracy theorist, which I'm not (or is that just what I want you to believe?) I'd even say it's a fake scandal designed to discredit, or at least make seem trivial, future revelations of real underhanded secret lobbying campaigns.
Absolutely. In fact, one egg and 2 slices of bacon is what I eat for breakfast if I'm organized enough (which unfortunately I'm not usually) to ensure it's all in the house when I need it, and that I have time to cook it. And I feel physically better and have enough energy in the morning.
By comparison, a bowl of cereal, even a traditional one (ie milk and cornflakes or rice krispies) will ensure I have a sugar crash roundabout 10-11am, and I'm lethargic in the mean time.
The end result? I usually don't eat breakfast... (let's not kid ourselves though, it isn't the most important meal of the day. Nowhere near.)
As for the article, I must admit to thinking a great deal of it is complete crap, with fairly normal and entirely reasonable things spun as being part of a conspiracy. The board that promotes eggs on behalf of the dairy industry saw a commercial threat to eggs and... paid food bloggers to post recipes that used eggs whose funding was disclosed in each post? And was upset about another chef who posted a blog entry that disparaged egg production so contacted him to correct what they saw as wrong information? And someone who didn't work for them but was connected to them advised a company that made Mayonnaise to contact a more suitable body, such as the FDA, about a labeling issue with said rival?
Well my ghasts are truly flabbered. What a scandal you have there Guardian, truly on the same level as the Snowden affair or Cash for Questions. Not.
(The shame is I've seen what are almost certainly campaigns by entrenched industries to destroy competitors that misuse, for example, environmental groups, local media, etc, in secret with no investigation by anyone. Here a group is very open about what they're funding and saying, isn't manipulating the media or independent pressure groups, but apparently that's worthy of treating as scandalous.)
Serious question but does Cyanogen still do that kind of thing? I thought they'd turned into a more closed aimed-at-phone-makers thing. Or have I completely misunderstood what's been going on there lately?
When Google (Android, search) has huge marketshare, it's clear evidence of a superior product
No, it's evidence they're spying on us and are totes teh evil, remember?
Because Google sells our information to advertisers. I know this is true because I read it on Slashdot. Also because in the middle of a Progressive Insurance ad, Flo told me she knew where I live and she got the information from Google because she paid them $5, and bought some advertising, and they gave her a folder with my entire browsing history in it.
Seriously though, if you've been reading Slashdot and the only things you've ever read about Apple or Microsoft were that they're evil, and the only things you've read about Google are that they're awesome, then you're not reading the same Slashdot as we are.
That said, I've not read anyone say anything good about Oracle, but, well, I've not read anyone say anything good about having your fingernails extracted with pliers either, so that's entirely easy to explain.
I'm not sure many people actually believe that. The funny part of that though is that Gates really did have a direct hand in building the first MIcrosoft BASIC interpreter, and indeed was contributing code right up until the version of MS BASIC that made its way into the Tandy portable computers of the 1980s.
To give Jobs some credit, as I understood it, he did demand the plastic case for the Apple II (which might sound completely uninteresting except that it was a major part in making the II look like a professionally designed tool for everyone, rather than something a nerd soldered together in his or her garage.)
It's a troll because it's another pointless slam at systemd, which is entirely off-topic here.
And Pottering isn't announcing anything on his blog, he's discussing improvements he and other systemd developers think could be made to the way GNU/Linux software is distributed. That would make his comments slightly more on-topic here, given snappy is (apparently) a change to the way GNU/Linux software is distributed, but his comments don't directly relate to snappy and appear to be vague concepts.
Nor is there any suggestion that systemd is about to integrate a package manager or package management system replacement - he's obviously interested in how future software distribution systems might work with systemd, but that's not the same as proposing an actual system.
I'm guessing if the topic was diversity in IT, and you found Pottering wrote an article about the topic, you'd have suggested systemd is going to integrate actual black disabled lesbians (using some kind of mind-interface one assumes) into its next release. Right?
Can someone explain to me why an article on a serious change in Ubuntu that has zilch to do with systemd has been hijacked by the systemdaphobes?
Unlike systemd, this change actually appears to have significant negative repercussions, not "I'm not actually an old system admin but I pretend to be on Slashdot because I hated pulseaudio and by god I'm not going to let the author of that replace a crusty, unreliable, set of shell scripts and get away with it" type "trying to find excuses to bash it" type stuff, as we see with systemd, but real concerns about cross-distro compatibility, and change-for-change's sake.
So it'd be nice to have a discussion about it.
These seems to be a theme on Slashdot lately. People want to hijack barely related threads to discuss something that makes them hot under the collar. And, perhaps not surprisingly given the mentality needed to hijack unrelated discussions, it seems that the views they express are generally trollish and slimy.
Can you let us discuss Snappy? Please? It sounds like it has serious ramifications to me. Tell you what, if you STFU, I won't troll - and encourage other Ubuntu users to troll - the next systemd article. Deal?
Java is 21st Century COBOL. PHP is... something else entirely.
Java and COBOL are programming languages that you do massive waterfall projects in. They're both designed to be easily readable and validatable by a reasonably qualified third party. (Yes, I know, Java routinely fails at that, in part because the assumption was that "everyone knows C" and so the syntax was based upon that, without any investigation into C's flaws) They're designed for slow, deliberate, programming by programmers who are reading from a spec.
PHP is much more free form, for better or worse. That's the root of why the two schools look down on one another, with PHP programmers able to point at higher productivity, and Java/COBOL programmers able to point at "right first time" solid code with few security flaws upon the eventual first release of their code.
Not a PHP fan myself, but that's because the syntax and feature list are shitty. A cleaned up PHP-like language would be very valuable, though many would argue that's exactly what Javascript - the language, not the framework built into browsers - is.
Yep. IIRC George W Bush, who is hardly known to be an anti-oil liberal, ultimately ended up agreeing that AGW was a real thing that needed to be dealt with. This was a man who literally gained much of his power from his connections to the oil industry, more so than the majority of AGW-denying Republicans.
There's a point at which the more serious the consequences, the less you can afford to grandstand and tell people what they want to hear. Just as we see every Presidential candidate split into three virtually completely different people at every election - the party's candidate during the primaries, the centrist during the main part of the election, and the establishment figure post-election - we see some politicians, from time to time, feel obliged to split from their base on key issues.
That doesn't always mean they're right. Obama turning from Guantanamo-closer to drone-assassin and whistleblower-hunter overnight seems more to me about preventing himself from having problems with the security services, or possibly fear of being blamed if there's another high profile terror attack, than anything about it being the right thing to do. But seeing people from Thatcher to Bush acknowledge AGW when there was no establishment pressure to do so, and when the consequences of AGW were unlikely to be felt (or, if felt, were unlikely to result in them being blamed) during their regimes is instructive.
I was very excited by 10 until I installed it on my tablet and found that it was something other than an updated Windows. I definitely think the GP should hold off using it if they're happy with Windows 7, which was a high quality operating system.
Issues:
1. It's bug ridden.
2. Can't comment on performance vs Windows 7, but on my tablet it's awful compared to Windows 8.1. UI latency is terrible.
3. Still insists on tying use of apps to Microsoft accounts.
4. Sizable amount of default UI seems to be constantly pushing you to buy or download things.
10 is "big" and has some nice features, but I really wouldn't push anyone to upgrade unless they've test driven it first and like it.
Slashdot Mirror
The New York Times can define itself however it wants. However, it doesn't change either its content, which is broadly pro-establishment, and nor is the NYT somehow representative of Western Media media. The Times hires occasional leftish commentators, such as Krugman, but has plenty of commentators who espouse right wing positions too. Is the NYT advocating the Democrats pick Sanders for President? Advocating an expansion of social security? Did it carefully analyzed the drumbeat for war in 2001-2003 and ultimately oppose it before it started? Did the NYT not lionize Paul Ryan when he proposed fiscal reforms supposedly to clear the deficit?
The NYT may or may not be right wing, but it's certainly not left wing.
The US media's bias is difficult to measure because there are very few significant papers with national reach, with most of the media concentrated in local publications. And few US newspapers explicitly back a political party. However, the UK is much easier. The main national dailies are:
Conservative: Times, Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Star
No party or frequently swinging: Independent, Financial Times
Liberal or left wing: Guardian, Daily Mirror
If you're looking for a picture of media bias in Western Media, that couldn't be better one.
People who can afford to own newspapers rarely want left wing governments.
No, I just know when someone is avoiding giving an answer because of strictly partisan reasons. You've posted this apologia for Corbyn's pro-homeopathy stance multiple times now.
What current UK major party leaders, other than Corbyn, have said they support homeopathy?
It must be strange living in bizarro-world where there's no persistent pro-establishment/right-wing bias in the vast majority of Western Media. Most newspapers are describing Corbyn using terms like "leftist", "left wing extremist", etc - yet he's a fairly conventional liberal from everything I've read about him, just not pro-establishment. Can you imagine any of these newspapers - indeed, any media outside of some self-published left wing newsletters - describing Ron Paul or Donald Trump as "right wing extremists"?
That said, a quote out of context is a smear. The article isn't as big a smear as many critics are suggesting, but the attack on Alexander is out of line.
It was a Yes/No question. I'll ask again: Are any of these other people leaders of their respective political parties? Are any of the other major political parties currently lead by people who have publicly announced support for homeopathy?
Are any of these other people leaders of their respective political parties?
So, in other words, "this is good news for Bitcoin"?
Edge is a piece of crap. It's slow. It's buggy. It's not touch friendly (the Metro version of IE11 in Windows 8.1 was actually the gold standard there, too bad they removed it in Windows 10), and it has to hand over to other browsers to render "legacy" content.
Saying "Yes, but it supports standards" doesn't make it good, it just means it supports standards. Whoopidoo.
Hmm, if the device is designed such that it can run at up to 5GHz in the standard recommended configuration, is it really "overclocking"?
Quite, we shouldn't expect anything shown in an ad to be accurate. If we buy a so-called "phone" for $600, and it cannot make phone calls, take pictures, or store music, then that's our fault for just assuming it could on the basis that the ads show it doing all those things. We're the idiots, while the advertisers are find upstanding capitalists that are beyond all criticism and whose integrity must not be besmirched by the likes of us.
You're not thinking big enough. Venus is just like Earth only hotter. Mars is teeny tiny and doesn't have the right gravity. Both are far too close to the Sun to be safe when the Sun explodes in six gajillion years.
No, I say we terraform Neptune. And then Saturn. Both have gravities similar to Earth, and they have a lot more space too.
We just need to, uh, thin the atmosphere (that's easy right? How hard could it be?) and do something about the lack of a solid surface on either. Also I guess we probably should do something about the massive radiation coming from inside the planets (I don't know about Neptune, but I know Saturn has a problem there.)
Venus? Pah! Waste of time. Hardly a solution to our overpopulation or whatever it is that means we need to leave Earth at all. No, let's focus on the big planets... ;-)
FWIW not all football cheerleaders are women. (Link to somewhat famous example)
Personally I think there are better, less distracting, less sexist, ways to motivate programmers, but I seem to be in a minority here.
I've had at least two occasions where my usual secure password, over eight characters, mixture of letters and digits, no words whatsoever, and with an algorithmic change per site/entity, wouldn't work but "Password123" did.
Guess what I used as my password with those locations.
Probably worth noting that Windows 10 seems to have apps "disappear" and need restarting on an hourly basis, and that's with light load. "Mail" seems to be the worst.
Also - automatic reboots. If there's one thing worse than having to shut down your power-compromised laptop, and then restart it when you're ready to use it again, it's having the device reboot all by itself and lose much of what you've done in the process.
Just a data point, but my Ubuntu laptop suspends and resumes just fine. But my Windows laptop doesn't and frequently has to be rebooted when that happens.
IIRC my Powerbook used to have similar issues, I think it's just a hard problem for operating designers - who start with operating systems that don't support the feature - to retrofit onto existing systems. I'm kinda surprised Ubuntu does it without problems, but it does.
All of the blog entries The Guardian identified did, actually, include a disclaimer notifying the reader who sponsored the content.
There is no scandal here. There are plenty of cases where marketing groups go overboard and, for example, lobby or fund supposedly unconnected groups in secret (airlines funding anti-train NIMBY campaigns springs to mind), but this isn't one of them. An egg promotion group paid for, publicly and with full disclosure, a campaign to promote eggs, and contacted authors of articles they felt disparaged eggs notifying them of what they saw as inaccuracies.
This is a distraction. If I were a conspiracy theorist, which I'm not (or is that just what I want you to believe?) I'd even say it's a fake scandal designed to discredit, or at least make seem trivial, future revelations of real underhanded secret lobbying campaigns.
Absolutely. In fact, one egg and 2 slices of bacon is what I eat for breakfast if I'm organized enough (which unfortunately I'm not usually) to ensure it's all in the house when I need it, and that I have time to cook it. And I feel physically better and have enough energy in the morning.
By comparison, a bowl of cereal, even a traditional one (ie milk and cornflakes or rice krispies) will ensure I have a sugar crash roundabout 10-11am, and I'm lethargic in the mean time.
The end result? I usually don't eat breakfast... (let's not kid ourselves though, it isn't the most important meal of the day. Nowhere near.)
As for the article, I must admit to thinking a great deal of it is complete crap, with fairly normal and entirely reasonable things spun as being part of a conspiracy. The board that promotes eggs on behalf of the dairy industry saw a commercial threat to eggs and... paid food bloggers to post recipes that used eggs whose funding was disclosed in each post? And was upset about another chef who posted a blog entry that disparaged egg production so contacted him to correct what they saw as wrong information? And someone who didn't work for them but was connected to them advised a company that made Mayonnaise to contact a more suitable body, such as the FDA, about a labeling issue with said rival?
Well my ghasts are truly flabbered. What a scandal you have there Guardian, truly on the same level as the Snowden affair or Cash for Questions. Not.
(The shame is I've seen what are almost certainly campaigns by entrenched industries to destroy competitors that misuse, for example, environmental groups, local media, etc, in secret with no investigation by anyone. Here a group is very open about what they're funding and saying, isn't manipulating the media or independent pressure groups, but apparently that's worthy of treating as scandalous.)
So CyanogenMod is no longer developed by Cyanogen? It's an independent project?
Serious question but does Cyanogen still do that kind of thing? I thought they'd turned into a more closed aimed-at-phone-makers thing. Or have I completely misunderstood what's been going on there lately?
No, it's evidence they're spying on us and are totes teh evil, remember?
Because Google sells our information to advertisers. I know this is true because I read it on Slashdot. Also because in the middle of a Progressive Insurance ad, Flo told me she knew where I live and she got the information from Google because she paid them $5, and bought some advertising, and they gave her a folder with my entire browsing history in it.
Seriously though, if you've been reading Slashdot and the only things you've ever read about Apple or Microsoft were that they're evil, and the only things you've read about Google are that they're awesome, then you're not reading the same Slashdot as we are.
That said, I've not read anyone say anything good about Oracle, but, well, I've not read anyone say anything good about having your fingernails extracted with pliers either, so that's entirely easy to explain.
I'm not sure many people actually believe that. The funny part of that though is that Gates really did have a direct hand in building the first MIcrosoft BASIC interpreter, and indeed was contributing code right up until the version of MS BASIC that made its way into the Tandy portable computers of the 1980s.
To give Jobs some credit, as I understood it, he did demand the plastic case for the Apple II (which might sound completely uninteresting except that it was a major part in making the II look like a professionally designed tool for everyone, rather than something a nerd soldered together in his or her garage.)
It's a troll because it's another pointless slam at systemd, which is entirely off-topic here.
And Pottering isn't announcing anything on his blog, he's discussing improvements he and other systemd developers think could be made to the way GNU/Linux software is distributed. That would make his comments slightly more on-topic here, given snappy is (apparently) a change to the way GNU/Linux software is distributed, but his comments don't directly relate to snappy and appear to be vague concepts.
Nor is there any suggestion that systemd is about to integrate a package manager or package management system replacement - he's obviously interested in how future software distribution systems might work with systemd, but that's not the same as proposing an actual system.
I'm guessing if the topic was diversity in IT, and you found Pottering wrote an article about the topic, you'd have suggested systemd is going to integrate actual black disabled lesbians (using some kind of mind-interface one assumes) into its next release. Right?
Can someone explain to me why an article on a serious change in Ubuntu that has zilch to do with systemd has been hijacked by the systemdaphobes?
Unlike systemd, this change actually appears to have significant negative repercussions, not "I'm not actually an old system admin but I pretend to be on Slashdot because I hated pulseaudio and by god I'm not going to let the author of that replace a crusty, unreliable, set of shell scripts and get away with it" type "trying to find excuses to bash it" type stuff, as we see with systemd, but real concerns about cross-distro compatibility, and change-for-change's sake.
So it'd be nice to have a discussion about it.
These seems to be a theme on Slashdot lately. People want to hijack barely related threads to discuss something that makes them hot under the collar. And, perhaps not surprisingly given the mentality needed to hijack unrelated discussions, it seems that the views they express are generally trollish and slimy.
Can you let us discuss Snappy? Please? It sounds like it has serious ramifications to me. Tell you what, if you STFU, I won't troll - and encourage other Ubuntu users to troll - the next systemd article. Deal?
Java is 21st Century COBOL. PHP is... something else entirely.
Java and COBOL are programming languages that you do massive waterfall projects in. They're both designed to be easily readable and validatable by a reasonably qualified third party. (Yes, I know, Java routinely fails at that, in part because the assumption was that "everyone knows C" and so the syntax was based upon that, without any investigation into C's flaws) They're designed for slow, deliberate, programming by programmers who are reading from a spec.
PHP is much more free form, for better or worse. That's the root of why the two schools look down on one another, with PHP programmers able to point at higher productivity, and Java/COBOL programmers able to point at "right first time" solid code with few security flaws upon the eventual first release of their code.
Not a PHP fan myself, but that's because the syntax and feature list are shitty. A cleaned up PHP-like language would be very valuable, though many would argue that's exactly what Javascript - the language, not the framework built into browsers - is.
Yep. IIRC George W Bush, who is hardly known to be an anti-oil liberal, ultimately ended up agreeing that AGW was a real thing that needed to be dealt with. This was a man who literally gained much of his power from his connections to the oil industry, more so than the majority of AGW-denying Republicans.
There's a point at which the more serious the consequences, the less you can afford to grandstand and tell people what they want to hear. Just as we see every Presidential candidate split into three virtually completely different people at every election - the party's candidate during the primaries, the centrist during the main part of the election, and the establishment figure post-election - we see some politicians, from time to time, feel obliged to split from their base on key issues.
That doesn't always mean they're right. Obama turning from Guantanamo-closer to drone-assassin and whistleblower-hunter overnight seems more to me about preventing himself from having problems with the security services, or possibly fear of being blamed if there's another high profile terror attack, than anything about it being the right thing to do. But seeing people from Thatcher to Bush acknowledge AGW when there was no establishment pressure to do so, and when the consequences of AGW were unlikely to be felt (or, if felt, were unlikely to result in them being blamed) during their regimes is instructive.
I was very excited by 10 until I installed it on my tablet and found that it was something other than an updated Windows. I definitely think the GP should hold off using it if they're happy with Windows 7, which was a high quality operating system.
Issues:
1. It's bug ridden.
2. Can't comment on performance vs Windows 7, but on my tablet it's awful compared to Windows 8.1. UI latency is terrible.
3. Still insists on tying use of apps to Microsoft accounts.
4. Sizable amount of default UI seems to be constantly pushing you to buy or download things.
10 is "big" and has some nice features, but I really wouldn't push anyone to upgrade unless they've test driven it first and like it.