I really don't have a problem with it if (a) they disclose their activities and (b) they don't pretend to be anything but commentators. Carville and Begala did both. After all they're Democratic Strategists.
Carville's wife, Mary Matalin, is a GOP Strategist. She was a regular on Crossfire all through 2000, even while she was working for the GOP. In fact, she left Crossfire in Jan 2001 to serve as assistant to President Bush and counselor to Vice President Cheney. Nobody freaked out when she did that, did they?
Instead of working for the man, Mark did what he wanted to do. Now the 'FLOSS-zealot' has written a well-respected book and the manager looks like a selfish loser.
I'd rather be a well-respected author than a manager with no imagination.
Seems like Mark decided to be the change he wanted in the world. Good for him.
Pat Buchanan backed Joe McCarthy and Barry Goldwater, so his idea of right and left is a bit right of center.
Pat Buchannan thought the US should've made a deal with Hitler: Stay out of Western Europe and attack Russia all you want. Or at least that's what it implies here...
FOX news had George W. Bush's first cousin, John Ellis, work the election desk on Election day 2000. This wasn't disclosed until afterward. Ellis had direct control over the results that FOX broadcast. But we already knew that FOX wasn't on the up and up.
It seems to me that Carville and Begala consulting for the Kerry campaign part-time, and cheerfully disclosing it, isn't a horrible conflict of interest. Especially since the show "Crossfile" is meant to be partisan opinion.
The most disturbing trend on _all_ shows is the attempt to take 'opinion' people (like Sean Hannity) and dress them up to be journalists. Talk about making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
David Brinkley did it right. He became a commentator _after_ he hung up his anchor spot.
True, Begala and Carvile are helping Kerry out, but at least they disclose it. Also, Crossfire is an "opinion show" not a "news show".
Their across the aisle partner, Robert Novak, is worse. By outing Valerie Plame, he proved he was willing to help a Bush staffer (Andy Card? Scooter Libby? Joshua Bolton? Carl Rove?) commit a felony.
Let's see, who is more honorable, someone who discloses his interests, or someone who helps others commit a crime?
Seriously, you've never been on a plane where you couldn't switch seats after you sat down? My wife and I travel and when our seats are separated, people usually are very willing to swap seats to put us closer.
I've also flown internationally where there was so many empty seats that we were able to move around and get our own row (in some cases).
Plus, have you ever been to a plane crash? It's not like everyone stays in their seats.
So, if you've got better information, share it. But your vague assurance that it's just for lawsuits is bs.
Once for whatever this is... iLap? iPage? iChart? iDunno?
If this thing comes as described: a tablet with a smallish hard drive running Mac OS X, then I bet the next big thing in Mac land will be the iServe: a headless powerhouse with a big drive to serve up all your music and media files.
Laptop for doing work on the road. iPod for your music on the road. iMac for doing work at home. iTablet for controlling iTunes & surfing the interweb while on the couch.
I know people say there's no such thing as full-screen full-motion video wirelessly, but I'm guessing Apple is hell-bent on making Quicktime work with the limited display resolution of this iTablet. Plug headphones into the iTablet and watch the DVD which is loaded in the iServe.
The US government provides good healthcare, a good retirement plan, and civil service protections that include going home and having a life.
Plus, like the Air Traffic Controllers, many of the original IT gurus are close to retiring.
If you're an intermediate worker bee, you can expect to top out at a GS-12 Step 10, which today pays around $81K in Chicago. Not great, but it's unlikely you'll get laid off.
I think Aftab and Tarbox were business partners and Aftab made a mistake of bullying Katie Jones. I don't think Tarbox was being represented by Aftab, I just think Aftab acted solo as a business partner. I call this the "Aftab Acted Alone" theory.
Of course, if Katie Tarbox stays in league with Aftab, then f*** both of 'em, they got what they deserved.
Penguin is the deep pockets here, and their actions caused this mess (4 years ago). Aftab just made the mistake of pissing off Katie.com and brining the blogosphere to the boiling point.
IMHO, Penguin should fix things for both Katies and Aftab's reputation will probably end up suffering.
I think Aftab and Katie Tarbox were working together on a project, but I don't think Tarbox was part of Aftab's bully tactics. I think Tarbox is a victim in this too (often people victimized as children get victimized as adults).
In otherwords, I'm a backer of the "Aftab acted alone" theory. Aftab is a self-promoter and lawyer. I'm sure she believes this "Kids On-Line Safety" stuff, but I'm also sure she makes a pretty penny from it.
I would not be surprised if Tarbox and Aftab part company. If they don't, Tarbox loses any credibility in this mess.
Meanwhile, can we get Marvel to stop letting Aftab use Ben "The Thing" Grimm as a banner ad on her site?
I am sympathetic to your story. I believe that Penguin, Aftab, and Katie Jones have involved you in a sordid mess. You would do well to settle the growing controversy quickly.
And presto! It's done. I'll take a bow.
As far as I'm concerned, Katie Tarbox is a victim in this also. It's that unspeakable lawyer Aftab and the Thugs at Penguin who are on my real life foes list.
Apple may well be a monopoly (i.e.: A situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service), but they don't seem to be an illegal monopoly (ala Microsoft, convicted illegal monopolist).
Of course, I agree with you, 3 years ago Rio and Creative were the big dogs in MP3 players and Apple was nowhere to be seen. The iPod revolution happened because of two things: it's a superior product and Apple marketed the heck out of it.
iTMS was the icing on the cake: a legal way to get the music you want at a right price. Plus, the labels like it too because of the DRM. And Apple marketed the heck out of it.
The iPod isn't an illegal monopoly, but the iTMS (with it's DRM) may be. The problem is, who wants part of a monopoly with razor-thin profit margins? Can you ever sell enough to make some coin? If 500 people get in the game, will anyone make money?
They should work on making digital distribution of MP3s profitable, then they would have as much as Apple's market as they want.
Benefits aren't everything. You cost a lot more to the business.
There's the cost of rent, utilities for your office, your desk, your phone, your work cell phone, your work blackberry, the fax line, the copier, the copier paper, property taxes, the cost of keeping your parking space free of snow. Some communities charge an employment head tax. Oh, and don't forget hiring a janitor to keep your toilets clean. And some places you need to hire 'overhead' (ie: management) just to keep the yahoos in line.
When I was in consulting we charged the client roughly 2.7x what we were making per hour. (Of course, that was in the rough-and-tumble heady days of consulting (the early 90s).
Your standard IBM programmer probably makes $70K, add in another $40K for benefits, and double it for all the costs associated with hiring the person and you're at $220,000, almost the $250,000 the grandparent claimed.
At my last job, the guy who emptied out the garbage cans (so I guess that makes him the janitor) was a real computer enthusiast. He knew all about firewire, bluetooth, USB2.
He was a janitor in a State Government building, and he was about 40, so I'm guessing he got the job when he was a kid (maybe he bailed out of high school because it was boring) and got this job as a janitor. If I was 10 years or so from a full-ride pension, I'd empty garbage cans all day and hack all night, u'betchum.
Wikipedia does it with watchlists. You decide which articles mean something to you and you add them to your watchlist. Whenever anyone makes a change, your watchlist updates. You just watch the pages you care about.
Recently I saw some confusion about Nat King Cole's Birthday. I did some research (I have a biography of Cole) and came up with a satisfactory answer and improved the article.
With Watchlists, you don't limit yourself to one editor. I often find that when I make an addition, someone else (who obviously saw it on his/her watchlist) makes it better -- either fixing some bad spelling/grammar (take that Grammar Nazi) or fixing my inadequate and cumbersome writing skills. If I were the only editor, the process would (a) slow down until I got around to vetting every change and (b) be limited to _my_ best ability.
At a free computer in Narita Airport (waiting for a connecting flight). Apparently there was free WiFi too, but I didn't bring my laptop.
On my honeymoon in Spain (I remember reading it in Grenada because there was an internet cafe across the street from the hotel).
in Internet Cafes in London (near Swiss Cottage) and Paris (near the Latin Quarter).
the coolest place I didn't read Slashdot was Guam (again, I didn't bring my laptop). I've been to other cool places (like Turkey, Egypt, Russia, Hungary) but that was in the pre-WWW darkness...
Slashdot Mirror
I really don't have a problem with it if (a) they disclose their activities and (b) they don't pretend to be anything but commentators. Carville and Begala did both. After all they're Democratic Strategists.
Carville's wife, Mary Matalin, is a GOP Strategist. She was a regular on Crossfire all through 2000, even while she was working for the GOP. In fact, she left Crossfire in Jan 2001 to serve as assistant to President Bush and counselor to Vice President Cheney. Nobody freaked out when she did that, did they?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
It's probably flamebait, but here goes...
Instead of working for the man, Mark did what he wanted to do. Now the 'FLOSS-zealot' has written a well-respected book and the manager looks like a selfish loser.
I'd rather be a well-respected author than a manager with no imagination.
Seems like Mark decided to be the change he wanted in the world. Good for him.
Pat Buchanan backed Joe McCarthy and Barry Goldwater, so his idea of right and left is a bit right of center.
l
Pat Buchannan thought the US should've made a deal with Hitler: Stay out of Western Europe and attack Russia all you want. Or at least that's what it implies here...
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/patbuchanan1.htm
So, since I've invoked Godwin's law, I'll STFU.
FOX news had George W. Bush's first cousin, John Ellis, work the election desk on Election day 2000. This wasn't disclosed until afterward. Ellis had direct control over the results that FOX broadcast. But we already knew that FOX wasn't on the up and up.
It seems to me that Carville and Begala consulting for the Kerry campaign part-time, and cheerfully disclosing it, isn't a horrible conflict of interest. Especially since the show "Crossfile" is meant to be partisan opinion.
The most disturbing trend on _all_ shows is the attempt to take 'opinion' people (like Sean Hannity) and dress them up to be journalists. Talk about making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
David Brinkley did it right. He became a commentator _after_ he hung up his anchor spot.
True, Begala and Carvile are helping Kerry out, but at least they disclose it. Also, Crossfire is an "opinion show" not a "news show".
Their across the aisle partner, Robert Novak, is worse. By outing Valerie Plame, he proved he was willing to help a Bush staffer (Andy Card? Scooter Libby? Joshua Bolton? Carl Rove?) commit a felony.
Let's see, who is more honorable, someone who discloses his interests, or someone who helps others commit a crime?
My experience differs from yours. But of course I'm using Mac OS X.
Who knows what crap Real will peddle to Windows users...
The BBC made a deal with Real to dejunk their player or else the BEEB would ditch Real.
l
The dejunked player is at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_install.shtm
So, if you must use Real, use this one and thank the BBC.
Seriously, you've never been on a plane where you couldn't switch seats after you sat down? My wife and I travel and when our seats are separated, people usually are very willing to swap seats to put us closer.
I've also flown internationally where there was so many empty seats that we were able to move around and get our own row (in some cases).
Plus, have you ever been to a plane crash? It's not like everyone stays in their seats.
So, if you've got better information, share it. But your vague assurance that it's just for lawsuits is bs.
If we change the name, we can change the pronunciation of SQL to go along with it...
iSQL
YouSQL
WeAllSQL4IceCream
I've had enough of the ess-que-ell vs. sequel debate, let's just call it after the pig that it is:
Squeal.
Young un's forced to play 1 hour/day will be so averse to prison that they'll be good IRL.
Also can you imagine the avatar names: Chuckles Manson, Mr. Goatse...
Sheesh, will Steve have to say this twice?
Once for the new iMac...
Once for whatever this is... iLap? iPage? iChart? iDunno?
If this thing comes as described: a tablet with a smallish hard drive running Mac OS X, then I bet the next big thing in Mac land will be the iServe: a headless powerhouse with a big drive to serve up all your music and media files.
Laptop for doing work on the road. iPod for your music on the road. iMac for doing work at home. iTablet for controlling iTunes & surfing the interweb while on the couch.
I know people say there's no such thing as full-screen full-motion video wirelessly, but I'm guessing Apple is hell-bent on making Quicktime work with the limited display resolution of this iTablet. Plug headphones into the iTablet and watch the DVD which is loaded in the iServe.
Ok, that's my guess and I'm sticking to it.
If political parties send out _real_ unsolicited spam, I would freak out.
If someone just sent unauthorized krap, then I would just delete it like everything else.
The US government provides good healthcare, a good retirement plan, and civil service protections that include going home and having a life.
Plus, like the Air Traffic Controllers, many of the original IT gurus are close to retiring.
If you're an intermediate worker bee, you can expect to top out at a GS-12 Step 10, which today pays around $81K in Chicago. Not great, but it's unlikely you'll get laid off.
I think Aftab and Tarbox were business partners and Aftab made a mistake of bullying Katie Jones. I don't think Tarbox was being represented by Aftab, I just think Aftab acted solo as a business partner. I call this the "Aftab Acted Alone" theory.
Of course, if Katie Tarbox stays in league with Aftab, then f*** both of 'em, they got what they deserved.
Penguin is the deep pockets here, and their actions caused this mess (4 years ago). Aftab just made the mistake of pissing off Katie.com and brining the blogosphere to the boiling point.
IMHO, Penguin should fix things for both Katies and Aftab's reputation will probably end up suffering.
I think Aftab and Katie Tarbox were working together on a project, but I don't think Tarbox was part of Aftab's bully tactics. I think Tarbox is a victim in this too (often people victimized as children get victimized as adults).
In otherwords, I'm a backer of the "Aftab acted alone" theory. Aftab is a self-promoter and lawyer. I'm sure she believes this "Kids On-Line Safety" stuff, but I'm also sure she makes a pretty penny from it.
I would not be surprised if Tarbox and Aftab part company. If they don't, Tarbox loses any credibility in this mess.
Meanwhile, can we get Marvel to stop letting Aftab use Ben "The Thing" Grimm as a banner ad on her site?
Oh, but that's our next crusade!
Penguin should:
A) Pay KatieT.com and Katie.com's August bandwidth bill. (That Aftab can pay her own bill, that butt-in-ski...)
B) Settle with Katie.com for damages.
And presto! It's done. I'll take a bow.
As far as I'm concerned, Katie Tarbox is a victim in this also. It's that unspeakable lawyer Aftab and the Thugs at Penguin who are on my real life foes list.
Apple may well be a monopoly (i.e.: A situation in which a single company owns all or nearly all of the market for a given type of product or service), but they don't seem to be an illegal monopoly (ala Microsoft, convicted illegal monopolist).
Of course, I agree with you, 3 years ago Rio and Creative were the big dogs in MP3 players and Apple was nowhere to be seen. The iPod revolution happened because of two things: it's a superior product and Apple marketed the heck out of it.
iTMS was the icing on the cake: a legal way to get the music you want at a right price. Plus, the labels like it too because of the DRM. And Apple marketed the heck out of it.
The iPod isn't an illegal monopoly, but the iTMS (with it's DRM) may be. The problem is, who wants part of a monopoly with razor-thin profit margins? Can you ever sell enough to make some coin? If 500 people get in the game, will anyone make money?
They should work on making digital distribution of MP3s profitable, then they would have as much as Apple's market as they want.
Especially since KatieT.com is the personal site of Kate Tarbox...
That's child abuse!
:-)
Stay by your computer, and keep your hands in sight, the authorities have been notified...
It was 1984 and one of the guys in the dorm had a Radio Shack TRS-80. He bought the first game in the second Zork Trilogy: Enchanter.
That game taught me how to type (granted the words I learned were useless: "Frotz", "Gnusto", and "Rezrov").
Those Infocom text adventures hold up great (the H2G2 game is close to being as good as the book).
Benefits aren't everything. You cost a lot more to the business.
There's the cost of rent, utilities for your office, your desk, your phone, your work cell phone, your work blackberry, the fax line, the copier, the copier paper, property taxes, the cost of keeping your parking space free of snow. Some communities charge an employment head tax. Oh, and don't forget hiring a janitor to keep your toilets clean. And some places you need to hire 'overhead' (ie: management) just to keep the yahoos in line.
When I was in consulting we charged the client roughly 2.7x what we were making per hour. (Of course, that was in the rough-and-tumble heady days of consulting (the early 90s).
Your standard IBM programmer probably makes $70K, add in another $40K for benefits, and double it for all the costs associated with hiring the person and you're at $220,000, almost the $250,000 the grandparent claimed.
At my last job, the guy who emptied out the garbage cans (so I guess that makes him the janitor) was a real computer enthusiast. He knew all about firewire, bluetooth, USB2.
He was a janitor in a State Government building, and he was about 40, so I'm guessing he got the job when he was a kid (maybe he bailed out of high school because it was boring) and got this job as a janitor. If I was 10 years or so from a full-ride pension, I'd empty garbage cans all day and hack all night, u'betchum.
Wikipedia does it with watchlists. You decide which articles mean something to you and you add them to your watchlist. Whenever anyone makes a change, your watchlist updates. You just watch the pages you care about.
Recently I saw some confusion about Nat King Cole's Birthday. I did some research (I have a biography of Cole) and came up with a satisfactory answer and improved the article.
With Watchlists, you don't limit yourself to one editor. I often find that when I make an addition, someone else (who obviously saw it on his/her watchlist) makes it better -- either fixing some bad spelling/grammar (take that Grammar Nazi) or fixing my inadequate and cumbersome writing skills. If I were the only editor, the process would (a) slow down until I got around to vetting every change and (b) be limited to _my_ best ability.