Stupidity knows no bounds, does it? The Rifter blog is Peter Watts' own blog, and there he states exactly that he found the trial fair and that very statement was quoted on the site.
So why you find his quoted statement on a newspaper's site interesting and the very same words on his own blog uninteresting and biased is a true mystery.
Is it because he's SHOCK!!!!! LIBERAL or even worse LEFT WING????
I would love to know why the reading comprehension of the moderators is so bad, because it clearly states that he was NOT charged with assault. He was charged with resisting a lawful order.
Your country has a national debt of over a trillion dollars, and started too invasions of other countries this past decade in wars that have coincidentally cost just over said trillion dollars. On top of that, the Chinese own a very large part of the US national debt, and if they decide to collect, your country will be in severe difficulties.
Possibly, getting less involved in ruinous foreign wars would help solve the problems of debt and being hated. Personally, I think you're a stupid bastard. Not because you're American - there are stupid bastards in most parts of this world, but because you're simply digging up an old cliche that lost its validity after the Vietnam war.
I live in Switzerland. I was in the US soon after 911. I will never go back there, neither to visit nor for business. The place is too arbitrary and egocentric for my liking.
He got out of the car after being hit in the face THEN he asked what was happening and refused to get back in. Great going. You can't even read, Is that SOP as well?
With all the idiots fighting over the usual crap no one mentioned that it doesn't seem to support the canvas element. Microsoft has specifically tried to get the canvas element removed from the HTML5 spec. (as per here). And I know why Microsoft doesn't want the canvas element in there: because it's a direct threat to Silverlight.
I'm sorry you got modded flambait for what is a perfectly valid observation. I'm a Mac system administrator, I'm typing this on my personal Mac Pro, and yet I have to say that while I agree that Apple's model probably IS better for the consumer, who simply do not care how an app is developed, and most certainly like the ease of use the AppStore provides, Apple is generally as bad if not worse than Microsoft in its business dealings.
In addition to that you have fallen foul of the dreaded Slashdot Mac crowd, and from my daily dealings with my Mac users, I have seen many, many Mac users who have no idea how their computer or OS works read or hear some piece of computer hearsay (the article on why Flash would not work on the iPad was one such totally uninformed piece which was picked up and repeated ad nauseam by the Apple faithful). In general the Apple user base is extremely defensive about any criticism of their platform (read company) and will fight any such criticism, be it valid or not.
More on topic: The iPhone developer agreements and more importantly the utter control that Apple exerts on what the developers may code or not is a two edged sword. On the one hand it prevents malware from getting onto the platform (such as that on the HTC Android handy being shipped with malware on it) and ensures a generally high standard of software quality, but on the other hand makes a lot of developers lives a living nightmare. A friend of mine who is a Mac developer got his app cancelled, a tool to aid colour-blind people judge colours in every day life by overlaying a circle on the camera feed and telling the user which colour was within the circle. Apple cancelled it because it used live camera data, which Apple does not allow.
If that isn't plain downright malicious, then I don't know what it.
Well, I own a Mac Pro (posting from it right now, in Windows from the dual boot) and you can fit any PCI Graphics card in it you like on the Windows side. At Work we have two of our CAD machines are Mac Pros (early 2008 like mine here at home), running Vista 64 with Nvidia FX 4600 and FX 4800 cards. Works like a dream. The joke is that the Mac Pro makes a better and more stable Windows machine than most of the Lenovo and HPs we've had before. We only boot them into OSX once every few months to check on driver updates, but it's a pain as you have to swap out the graphic cards before you do so.
The rest of Apple's line? The Mac Book Pro and the bigger iMacs are ok at games but they are nowhere near the performance of Windows gaming rigs. I play eve-online, the 3D space MMO, and I play it in Windows because the Mac port is simply crap, with reduced graphics quality and fps performance. The funny is that every now and again in eve there'll be some Mac player complaining about this or that problem in eve that doesn't exist on the Windows side.
I suppose that's why Google's server farms are built on Mac OS X Server and Windows 2008 Server?
Well, no, they aren't. I am a system administrator for a bunch of Mac clients and Mac servers. Mac OS X server is good at exactly one thing compared to Linux and that's the ease of shared SMB/NFS and AFP sharepoints, in other words File sharing. OSX server is simply not very good at anything else. It's extremely difficult to customize and God help you if you have problems because, as opposed to Linux the support is terrible. MacOSX is a fantastically robust OS for the client, but the server offerings are poor at best. Good luck customizing your OSX Email server (hint: There's a reason why the single most popular Email server software for Mac OSX Server is Kerio, a third party software), and good luck if you need a more comprehensive LDAP implementation than Open Directory provides. Not only this, but Apple's Server GUI is so braindead it overwrites any changes made in the server config files.
This is one of thereasons why many large shops run their Oracle and DB2 on Linux. The markets are different, but saying that Linux has no commercial uptake sounds to much to me like yet another clueless Mac user who heard some technical term somewhere and from thereon uses it as a mantra to ward off evil, very much like the same bunch of die-hard Mac users were going on about PCs being DOS based years after Win NT had come out and most companies were ditching Macs for Windows, because they were tired of the Classic Mac OS crashing on them numerous times a day.
Things have changed radically in the past 9 years of Mac OSX, but a lot of that Mac culture-with-blinders still lives on.
It looks like the boss's son isn't using the same files the designer is using, so there may be another solution.
Get a second hard drive, if the machine is a Mac Pro, or an external HD if the machine is an iMac or Mac Book Pro. Put all the files there. Share it over the net with AFP/SMB etc Let the boss' son work from that drive and the designer from the internal drive. The designer can copy the files over to his internal drive and copy them back to the second drive when he's finished, since he seems to have more discipline than the boss' son. It's like a small file server.
If the designer is working with the Adobe Suite, they will have Version Queue installed. Get a third machine and get both boss' son and designer to work from a Version Queue DB on that machine.
The new branding looks very, very good. Purists may complain that this has nothing to do with Linux or its popularity, but the truth of the matter is that branding matters. Very much.
The new website, CD cover design, store and goodies and the new smoother lighter themes are part of the things that will attract people to Ubuntu. I love the new design and think its much clearer and simpler and above all more consistent than either Windows 7, Microsoft's site (which is chaotic on a good day) and Mac OSX (and I say that typing this on a Mac Pro). People like shiny, and it will make a difference, even to corporate IT where the PHBs will be attracted to (or at least not put off by) the design, even if they know nothing about the technicalities of Linux.
Now, if only they could provide some input into better IDEs for developers, then I think it will be on a much better track.
The one thing that puzzles me is how on earth do they expect apps for the current number of mobile OSes out there to fit into one store. The mobile OSes I can think of off hand are Bada (Samsung only, Linux based C++ toolkit), Symbian (the majority of the world's current handies, but truly shitty to write apps for), MeeGo (Linux based, but who knows with what kind of UI), Android (rapidly becoming the next Symbian, apps in Java compiled down to native with a special compiler), Windows 7 phone, a.k.a. Windows Mobile 7 (.Net based, but too new to be able to say how it will go except that samsung and sony ericsson are rumoured to be basing new phones on it) and of course Apple's iPhone OS, which doesn't really fit in the near two hundred off topic comments above because this isn't even about Apple.
I just can't see this working at all. There is simply too much competition and differing platforms to get it work, even if it were only one company doing it, let alone a dozen. Personally, I think that the market will thin out eventually to be just Android, iPhone OS and Windows Mobile.
The Foundation Trilogy was one of the first major SF books I read, back in the late 70's. I had the trilogy with the Chris Foss covers. Those covers evoked in me a deep feeling of time and distance and that was what put me onto SF as a genre. The very first Star Wars, with the minimalist desert scenes filmed in Tunisia, also had some of that. While I enjoyed ID4 and Stargate as mindless feel good SF action films, almost everything Emmerich does is exactly the same thing, huge disasters with a strange lack of coherence between the characters shallow, happy smiling faces and the tragedy of what is happening around them.
I am devastated that Roland Emmerich will be murdering one of my childhood icons with his facile plots. It makes me truly sad.
I would like to see Neil Blomkamp produce and direct the trilogy. he's one of the few directors who hasn't been corrupted by the Hollywood feel-good virus and will let his hero be a loser. I would really like to be amazed again.
I find it particularly strange that Islamists of the more radical type have a special hatred for the West in general and the USA in particular "because they support the Zionist oppressors in Palestine" yet none of them say one single word about the Chinese suppression of Muslims in Xinjiang where Muslims truly are oppressed, where they are only allowed to pray when and where the state allows them to.
The setting of this precedent means that any grouping of people can hold anything they find objectionable on the internet hostage. This means that Google can hold Microsoft Hostage, Microsoft can object to Apple's ads and bearded Linux ogres can object to Bill Gates taking a bath more than once a month.
At the company where I work, we have mostly Macs (around 40) and some PCs (4 CAD and 10 Lenovo Laptops). The consultants have free use of their machines and can install software if they ok it with me. One thing I always have to do is warn them about using iTunes on Windows. iTunes on the Mac is fine, obviously, and doesn't intrude on resources when people are working, but on Windows, it is an abomination. It manages to slow the most powerful laptop down to a crawl. It is that bad. It launches many background services which grab resources and add to the general feeling of sloth. I used to hate Microsoft with a passion (I'm writing this on my Mac Pro) but I have Windows 7 running on my lenovo laptop, and while it isn't quite up there with OS X yet, dual booting that with Ubuntu makes me feel happier these days.
Please. You expect way too much sense from an Apple hater.
A tip to the GP: Displaying your ignorance and stupidity to the world does not actually reflect poorly on Apple.
People using the word "haters" usually brings to mind some over-defensive Microsoft fan ranting at the criticism of his favourite OS. When does the same thing, only in a far more deeply paranoid manner that smacks of hysterical terror going on at Apple, the Apple goons trump out the very same phrasing.
Sad, very sad, and I say this as I write this post on my Mac Pro (early 2008)
Happened to me at school as well. I was born crippled and while most kids will leave you alone, there are people who will try to take advantage of that. One day, a guy from one of the moron classes threw a duster at me in front of all his pals and the stick hit me in the eye. I grabbed the stick and the guy and, in front of all his friends who were jeering at me, proceeded to jam the stick into his stomach while holding him against a wall.
I never had problems at school again, and years later, I heard from one of the guys in that crowd that people at school were scared of me after that.
I agree that unmanned fighters should be, and probably are being developed as they have none of the physical limitations of the humans body. The real problem is that in a high tech war, there would be a very real chance of satellite signals being jammed and that leaves you either with no fighter if the software is unable to fend for itself well enough, or with a fighter that risks breaking the rules of engagement if the software is too good. I suppose, however, that a default evasion mode of operation could be built to get the fighter back in case of contact being lost to it.
That said, unmanned planes have never been in a high tech battlefield and no one knows how well they fare against electronic warfare and skilled human pilots.
I'm neither Indian, Chinese nor American, but I truly hate the attitude so many American slashdotters have when the US loses out on some international comparison. I am doubtful that India will make it by 2016 unless they use re-engineered Russian technology, but the mere fact that India is trying while America is both staring at its own navel and running around like a headless chicken speaks volumes.
The American debt is truly staggering. At $1.34 Trillion it's pretty bad and honestly, with a crippled US economy and over 10% jobless rate, coupled with a world that is increasingly independent of the US economy (China and most of Asia haven't really suffered much at all in the current recession), and two horribly expensive wars, I don't see how the US is going to recover economically any time soon.
The sad thing is that the war in Iraq has cost over $1 Trillion alone. If we hadn't all fallen for Bush's rubbish back in 2003, there would have been a lot more money around to deal with some more pressing problems.
That said, it's happened and the money has been spent.
I personally don't think that cutting NASA's manned space programme is going to solve anything, and I think that Obama is making a huge mistake. I also now think I see why the Europeans have started their own manned space programme, after decades of not wanting to spend any money on it: They know they won't be getting any more free rides into space by NASA.
It'll be sad to see the US watch with envy when the Chinese get to the moon in 2025 or so and the US only has private companies that can lift people into LEO and no further. It'll be even more ironic to see the Russians get to Mars orbit in only a little bit more time.
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Stupidity knows no bounds, does it? The Rifter blog is Peter Watts' own blog, and there he states exactly that he found the trial fair and that very statement was quoted on the site.
So why you find his quoted statement on a newspaper's site interesting and the very same words on his own blog uninteresting and biased is a true mystery.
Is it because he's SHOCK!!!!! LIBERAL or even worse LEFT WING????
You're the one who's biased.
I would love to know why the reading comprehension of the moderators is so bad, because it clearly states that he was NOT charged with assault. He was charged with resisting a lawful order.
Your country has a national debt of over a trillion dollars, and started too invasions of other countries this past decade in wars that have coincidentally cost just over said trillion dollars. On top of that, the Chinese own a very large part of the US national debt, and if they decide to collect, your country will be in severe difficulties.
Possibly, getting less involved in ruinous foreign wars would help solve the problems of debt and being hated. Personally, I think you're a stupid bastard. Not because you're American - there are stupid bastards in most parts of this world, but because you're simply digging up an old cliche that lost its validity after the Vietnam war.
I live in Switzerland. I was in the US soon after 911. I will never go back there, neither to visit nor for business. The place is too arbitrary and egocentric for my liking.
He got out of the car after being hit in the face THEN he asked what was happening and refused to get back in. Great going. You can't even read, Is that SOP as well?
With all the idiots fighting over the usual crap no one mentioned that it doesn't seem to support the canvas element. Microsoft has specifically tried to get the canvas element removed from the HTML5 spec. (as per here). And I know why Microsoft doesn't want the canvas element in there: because it's a direct threat to Silverlight.
I'm sorry you got modded flambait for what is a perfectly valid observation. I'm a Mac system administrator, I'm typing this on my personal Mac Pro, and yet I have to say that while I agree that Apple's model probably IS better for the consumer, who simply do not care how an app is developed, and most certainly like the ease of use the AppStore provides, Apple is generally as bad if not worse than Microsoft in its business dealings.
In addition to that you have fallen foul of the dreaded Slashdot Mac crowd, and from my daily dealings with my Mac users, I have seen many, many Mac users who have no idea how their computer or OS works read or hear some piece of computer hearsay (the article on why Flash would not work on the iPad was one such totally uninformed piece which was picked up and repeated ad nauseam by the Apple faithful). In general the Apple user base is extremely defensive about any criticism of their platform (read company) and will fight any such criticism, be it valid or not.
More on topic: The iPhone developer agreements and more importantly the utter control that Apple exerts on what the developers may code or not is a two edged sword. On the one hand it prevents malware from getting onto the platform (such as that on the HTC Android handy being shipped with malware on it) and ensures a generally high standard of software quality, but on the other hand makes a lot of developers lives a living nightmare. A friend of mine who is a Mac developer got his app cancelled, a tool to aid colour-blind people judge colours in every day life by overlaying a circle on the camera feed and telling the user which colour was within the circle. Apple cancelled it because it used live camera data, which Apple does not allow.
If that isn't plain downright malicious, then I don't know what it.
Well, I own a Mac Pro (posting from it right now, in Windows from the dual boot) and you can fit any PCI Graphics card in it you like on the Windows side. At Work we have two of our CAD machines are Mac Pros (early 2008 like mine here at home), running Vista 64 with Nvidia FX 4600 and FX 4800 cards. Works like a dream. The joke is that the Mac Pro makes a better and more stable Windows machine than most of the Lenovo and HPs we've had before. We only boot them into OSX once every few months to check on driver updates, but it's a pain as you have to swap out the graphic cards before you do so.
The rest of Apple's line? The Mac Book Pro and the bigger iMacs are ok at games but they are nowhere near the performance of Windows gaming rigs. I play eve-online, the 3D space MMO, and I play it in Windows because the Mac port is simply crap, with reduced graphics quality and fps performance. The funny is that every now and again in eve there'll be some Mac player complaining about this or that problem in eve that doesn't exist on the Windows side.
I suppose that's why Google's server farms are built on Mac OS X Server and Windows 2008 Server?
Well, no, they aren't. I am a system administrator for a bunch of Mac clients and Mac servers. Mac OS X server is good at exactly one thing compared to Linux and that's the ease of shared SMB/NFS and AFP sharepoints, in other words File sharing. OSX server is simply not very good at anything else. It's extremely difficult to customize and God help you if you have problems because, as opposed to Linux the support is terrible. MacOSX is a fantastically robust OS for the client, but the server offerings are poor at best. Good luck customizing your OSX Email server (hint: There's a reason why the single most popular Email server software for Mac OSX Server is Kerio, a third party software), and good luck if you need a more comprehensive LDAP implementation than Open Directory provides. Not only this, but Apple's Server GUI is so braindead it overwrites any changes made in the server config files.
This is one of thereasons why many large shops run their Oracle and DB2 on Linux. The markets are different, but saying that Linux has no commercial uptake sounds to much to me like yet another clueless Mac user who heard some technical term somewhere and from thereon uses it as a mantra to ward off evil, very much like the same bunch of die-hard Mac users were going on about PCs being DOS based years after Win NT had come out and most companies were ditching Macs for Windows, because they were tired of the Classic Mac OS crashing on them numerous times a day.
Things have changed radically in the past 9 years of Mac OSX, but a lot of that Mac culture-with-blinders still lives on.
You don't have to hit 'em, mate. Just find another crowd that's brighter.
It looks like the boss's son isn't using the same files the designer is using, so there may be another solution.
Get a second hard drive, if the machine is a Mac Pro, or an external HD if the machine is an iMac or Mac Book Pro. Put all the files there. Share it over the net with AFP/SMB etc Let the boss' son work from that drive and the designer from the internal drive. The designer can copy the files over to his internal drive and copy them back to the second drive when he's finished, since he seems to have more discipline than the boss' son. It's like a small file server.
If the designer is working with the Adobe Suite, they will have Version Queue installed. Get a third machine and get both boss' son and designer to work from a Version Queue DB on that machine.
The new branding looks very, very good. Purists may complain that this has nothing to do with Linux or its popularity, but the truth of the matter is that branding matters. Very much.
The new website, CD cover design, store and goodies and the new smoother lighter themes are part of the things that will attract people to Ubuntu. I love the new design and think its much clearer and simpler and above all more consistent than either Windows 7, Microsoft's site (which is chaotic on a good day) and Mac OSX (and I say that typing this on a Mac Pro). People like shiny, and it will make a difference, even to corporate IT where the PHBs will be attracted to (or at least not put off by) the design, even if they know nothing about the technicalities of Linux.
Now, if only they could provide some input into better IDEs for developers, then I think it will be on a much better track.
Small Autocannons and smartbombs FTW!!!!
Problem solved.
The one thing that puzzles me is how on earth do they expect apps for the current number of mobile OSes out there to fit into one store. The mobile OSes I can think of off hand are Bada (Samsung only, Linux based C++ toolkit), Symbian (the majority of the world's current handies, but truly shitty to write apps for), MeeGo (Linux based, but who knows with what kind of UI), Android (rapidly becoming the next Symbian, apps in Java compiled down to native with a special compiler), Windows 7 phone, a.k.a. Windows Mobile 7 (.Net based, but too new to be able to say how it will go except that samsung and sony ericsson are rumoured to be basing new phones on it) and of course Apple's iPhone OS, which doesn't really fit in the near two hundred off topic comments above because this isn't even about Apple.
I just can't see this working at all. There is simply too much competition and differing platforms to get it work, even if it were only one company doing it, let alone a dozen. Personally, I think that the market will thin out eventually to be just Android, iPhone OS and Windows Mobile.
The Foundation Trilogy was one of the first major SF books I read, back in the late 70's. I had the trilogy with the Chris Foss covers. Those covers evoked in me a deep feeling of time and distance and that was what put me onto SF as a genre. The very first Star Wars, with the minimalist desert scenes filmed in Tunisia, also had some of that. While I enjoyed ID4 and Stargate as mindless feel good SF action films, almost everything Emmerich does is exactly the same thing, huge disasters with a strange lack of coherence between the characters shallow, happy smiling faces and the tragedy of what is happening around them.
I am devastated that Roland Emmerich will be murdering one of my childhood icons with his facile plots. It makes me truly sad.
I would like to see Neil Blomkamp produce and direct the trilogy. he's one of the few directors who hasn't been corrupted by the Hollywood feel-good virus and will let his hero be a loser. I would really like to be amazed again.
I find it particularly strange that Islamists of the more radical type have a special hatred for the West in general and the USA in particular "because they support the Zionist oppressors in Palestine" yet none of them say one single word about the Chinese suppression of Muslims in Xinjiang where Muslims truly are oppressed, where they are only allowed to pray when and where the state allows them to.
The setting of this precedent means that any grouping of people can hold anything they find objectionable on the internet hostage. This means that Google can hold Microsoft Hostage, Microsoft can object to Apple's ads and bearded Linux ogres can object to Bill Gates taking a bath more than once a month.
At the company where I work, we have mostly Macs (around 40) and some PCs (4 CAD and 10 Lenovo Laptops). The consultants have free use of their machines and can install software if they ok it with me. One thing I always have to do is warn them about using iTunes on Windows. iTunes on the Mac is fine, obviously, and doesn't intrude on resources when people are working, but on Windows, it is an abomination. It manages to slow the most powerful laptop down to a crawl. It is that bad. It launches many background services which grab resources and add to the general feeling of sloth. I used to hate Microsoft with a passion (I'm writing this on my Mac Pro) but I have Windows 7 running on my lenovo laptop, and while it isn't quite up there with OS X yet, dual booting that with Ubuntu makes me feel happier these days.
Please. You expect way too much sense from an Apple hater.
A tip to the GP: Displaying your ignorance and stupidity to the world does not actually reflect poorly on Apple.
People using the word "haters" usually brings to mind some over-defensive Microsoft fan ranting at the criticism of his favourite OS. When does the same thing, only in a far more deeply paranoid manner that smacks of hysterical terror going on at Apple, the Apple goons trump out the very same phrasing.
Sad, very sad, and I say this as I write this post on my Mac Pro (early 2008)
Happened to me at school as well. I was born crippled and while most kids will leave you alone, there are people who will try to take advantage of that. One day, a guy from one of the moron classes threw a duster at me in front of all his pals and the stick hit me in the eye. I grabbed the stick and the guy and, in front of all his friends who were jeering at me, proceeded to jam the stick into his stomach while holding him against a wall.
I never had problems at school again, and years later, I heard from one of the guys in that crowd that people at school were scared of me after that.
Movies and television. I live in Germany and exclusively watch US TV because German TV is shit.
True
(And German IT sites for that matter).
heise.de Probably the best IT site out there. Period.
I agree that unmanned fighters should be, and probably are being developed as they have none of the physical limitations of the humans body. The real problem is that in a high tech war, there would be a very real chance of satellite signals being jammed and that leaves you either with no fighter if the software is unable to fend for itself well enough, or with a fighter that risks breaking the rules of engagement if the software is too good. I suppose, however, that a default evasion mode of operation could be built to get the fighter back in case of contact being lost to it.
That said, unmanned planes have never been in a high tech battlefield and no one knows how well they fare against electronic warfare and skilled human pilots.
I'm neither Indian, Chinese nor American, but I truly hate the attitude so many American slashdotters have when the US loses out on some international comparison. I am doubtful that India will make it by 2016 unless they use re-engineered Russian technology, but the mere fact that India is trying while America is both staring at its own navel and running around like a headless chicken speaks volumes.
The American debt is truly staggering. At $1.34 Trillion it's pretty bad and honestly, with a crippled US economy and over 10% jobless rate, coupled with a world that is increasingly independent of the US economy (China and most of Asia haven't really suffered much at all in the current recession), and two horribly expensive wars, I don't see how the US is going to recover economically any time soon.
The sad thing is that the war in Iraq has cost over $1 Trillion alone. If we hadn't all fallen for Bush's rubbish back in 2003, there would have been a lot more money around to deal with some more pressing problems.
That said, it's happened and the money has been spent.
I personally don't think that cutting NASA's manned space programme is going to solve anything, and I think that Obama is making a huge mistake. I also now think I see why the Europeans have started their own manned space programme, after decades of not wanting to spend any money on it: They know they won't be getting any more free rides into space by NASA.
It'll be sad to see the US watch with envy when the Chinese get to the moon in 2025 or so and the US only has private companies that can lift people into LEO and no further. It'll be even more ironic to see the Russians get to Mars orbit in only a little bit more time.