That is the case. I'm employed as a Sr. Unix Administrator for a university lab. Before that I worked corporate jobs doing much the same thing. I haven't run Windows at home because Windows knowledge doesn't pay my bills. Also, the software sucks. JMO. But I certainly see and use Windows on a regular basis. Which is why I know it has certain features available for it that I want.
I'm in night school and really want to buy a slab tablet for pen input. Apple doesn't make one, and Mameo (the linux tablet software) just doesn't cut it yet. XP tablet edition sucks too, but at least it's usable for what I want: annotating pdfs and note taking in class. What I really want is to just carry the computer and carry no books or printed essays (with my notes an annotations) at all. Everthing digital. Vista requires significantly more hardware with little benefit for me in attaining these goals. And as for the HD copy protection stuff, MS and the media companies can blow me. I'm fed up with being charged more for something that does less.
I haven't run windows in fifteen years or so. But recently there's some software and features on win that I happen to need. But MS is making it *very* difficult, both by segmenting the market to inflate prices and feature limitations that I just can't justify the purchase. This is annoying. Over time computers are becoming less useful, not more! Who in their right mind would pay more for modern hardware and software to do less? These people are nuts.
How can it be "factually accurate" and "of little factual value" at the same time?
What a fucking good question! I wish I had responded to that first in my previous reply. But I don't have a "real" answer. No wonder people ignore questions like these. They're too fucking deep to answer, because they force us to face conflicting real-world demands with ethics.
I can't change Fox News. But I can say that they appear to act within the realm of accepted journalistic standards. Yhat Plato shit about right and wrong, and all of our shadows played against the wall like life as a play, well - The Prince knows it all comes down to an appropriate application of force. Wait... is that South Park?
Yeah. I own two copies of Outfoxed and presented a showing of the documentary to about fifty people with my digital projector. The first time I saw it I wished I had not agreed to the showing. Producer/Director Robert Greenwald has done some really good work. Outfoxed was not one of them. It was a hit piece, almost competently done. Look to his older work to see professional journalism. One impressive point about Outfoxed was it's budget - wow, was that a cheap documentary to produce. But it shows. Like the Blair Witch Project, it was a good low budget attempt. But it wasn't comprehensive. Greenwald, in particular, mixed opinion programming on Fox with factual news. As a resullt, idiots like O'Rielly took center-stage while real news programming was ignored.
Just one point: The Daily Show is satire and pretends to be nothing more than that. O'Rielly, OTOH, pretends to be serious news under the umbrella of opinion/fact. Compare O'Rielly to the old MSNBC Donahue show and I'll be completely with you. Both were partisan shows which pretended to be news. Neither did anything more than present partisan opinion as fact.
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert make me laugh. They are a million orders of magnitude cooler. Prove me wrong, I dare you! --M
Perhaps Tony Snow was selected is because he's better than both Scott McClellan and Ari Ari Fleischer combined. Although I must admit, Ari was a *very* good press secretary. He really knew how to say *nothing* while speaking.
Well, that's a fair perspective. I happen to know that there are a bunch of really talented people working at Fox, but the publisher (Murdoch) has a position he prefers and his editors tend to follow that. It's like the difference between the LA Times and the Washington Times. Each has an editorial positions to present. But both also write factual news. IMO: though, the LA Times is the best Newspaper in the country for investigative journalism (and I live in Boston), but that's another discussion. Good comment. --M
So does the San Jose Mercury News. Fox (Murdoch) has taken the trouble to hire serious journalistic talent. But, like all news organizations, the publishers exert a measure of bias (or spin) to their publication. This can be seen by viewing the editorial pages. Or, in the case of Fox News, the Cable Television Interview programs like O'Rielly. One guy responded to be understanding my point. I encourage you to read his comment.
Take a journalism course. You'll find that Fox News is about as good as any other television news organization. Compare them to CBS. They're equally as bad. But the problem is not with Fox News, which anyone can see by simply reading their content, but with television as a medium. It's both wide and shallow, while reading is narrow and deep. Anyone who is serious about news must read their material from a variety of sources. And watch C-SPAN. There is no serious alternative.
As for the Fox News opinion shows, they're worthless. I don't watch O'Rielly, Scarborough (Mr. my 28yo female aid got mysteriously killed in my congressional office and I resigned to this cushy TV job) Country, or before that the Donahue show on MSMBC. It's all crap. There's no real discussion. As John Stewart said to Tucker Carlson: "You're hu-u-u-u-u-u rting. America. Hu-u-u-u-u-u-urting America." on Crossfire before his attendance finally killed that piece of shit.
So yeah. I ran out of points to make. Thanks for the reply though. Time to get back to dinner.:) --M
Yeah. What the previous poster said. Cite please. I'm unaware of any attempts by prior administration officials (Republican or Democrat) to directly create and disseminate opinion as news. It's not supposed to happen. Period.
The Onion is satire and makes itself known as such. As does SNL Weekend Update, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. This is not the same as purposefully misrepresenting news in order to present slanted opinion. That broadcast news organizations have been caught actually peddling this stuff from government and private industry sources shows just how far television news ethics has declined. It's bad. I can both argue for Fox News as a legitimate news organization simply because they're just as bad as CBS as a factual source. IOW: TV news really really sucks.
Read a real newspaper if you want to be informed. Actually, read several.
Fox News is a legitimate news organization. This becomes apparent upon reading their print material or watching their actual news reports. Like all the other cable news outlets, if you're watching the interview shows like O'Rielly you're not getting hard news - it's all opinion. But watch the news and -- while it's most definitely slanted toward the administration and Republicans -- it's also factually accurate news. *shrug* Like all TV news it's watered down and of little factual value. If you really want hard news, you must read it.
Hey, I know where to begin this investigation!
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Perhaps they should start at the executive branch of the good 'ol USA. The Bush administration was doing just this to push their Medicare Reform bill a couple years back. They got quite the bad press when it became public. One wonders, have they stopped? Well, certainly *someone* hasn't...
I seem to remember there's a word for this. Uhhh propagation? Proposition? Proletariat? No....
I'm not too impressed with the viability of Einstien as it will always (and can only be) a black and white interface with sixteen shades of grey. The Newton never had internal color support. Without source code (or even real internals documentation) this won't change. I should have noted that I ebayed a Message Pad 2100 and recently compared it with the 770. I love the 770 hardware, but boy does its Linux gnome based interface suck. If you thought gnome was unwieldily as a desktop, try it in a handheld. A 2.6 Linux kernel running a full 'nix distribution with X and Gnome - running on a 250mhz ARM processor with 64MB of RAM. OK - I've seen X kindof run on a 4MB Sun 3/50, it did better with 8MB on a Sun 3/60 and actually ran well with 16MB. But that was with twm as a window manager, an xclock and a few xterms. Nothing else. Add gnome and a web browser... damn, forget it.
And here we get to the crux of the problem. Everyone wants a handheld device that will browse the web well. But a modern web browser has to render a complex markup language with images, (html ain't simple no more), interpret several scripting languages such as javascript, java, and flash, and users even expect it to do this with multiple pages at a time (tabs). Ever wonder why browsers consume so much RAM? Well, add a browser and gnome and you have a s-l-o-w mess on your hands.
The Newton took the alternate approach. Make it do a few very useful things extremely well. The original Palm was like that too, only even more stripped down. These devices did useful stuff for a handheld: make grocery lists and track purchases, calendaring, note taking etc. But browsing the web is really beyond them - and clearly, so is it beyond handheld hardware today. As an example, I used skweezer.com to squeeze a plaintext version of the bbc down even further (remove images) onto my wireless Newton using Newt's Cape (web browser). It took nearly ten minutes to render PLAIN TEXT! The Newton is not a serious web platform. But try to browse the web on the 770. It too is remarkably slow for a device with no moving parts (disks). That's because it's RAM and CPU starved for web browsing. IOW: handheld hardware has not kept up with web feature creep over the last decade, so a decade old Newton is about as bad a web browser in 1997 as a modern Nokia 770 is today.... total stagnation.
Note that I'm generally pleased with the Newton. I've already used it to take notes in class and read ebooks at night. It's a great little (well, big) device. I wish I could get a modern version running on the 770. But Einstein ain't it. Even if it ran it would do so slowly. And no color. Yuck. IMO Newtonites should dump NewtonOS and use the UI and a functional programing environment like smalltalk or scheme to replicate the underlying design philosophy. But... that's JMO.
Do you see those two -1, Troll moderations? They happened for a reason. I could argue that it was clueless moderators who had no idea of the deep relevance inherent in my top post. And were I drunk enough like last night, I might be willing to. But, let's face it. Muh posts were trolls. Shitty lame-ass trolls.
Yeah. Note that the UK doesn't have a written constitution, nor a history of legal checks and balances between the legislature and the courtts like the US.
and the resolution sucks. Which brings up a few points: recently/. had an article on the Samsung Q1 vs. the Newton MP 2100, i.e. a modern UMPC vs. a ten year old brick with great software. Both the Nokia 770 and the Q1 offer nice 800x480 color screens, WiFi, USB, Bluetooth, etc. The Newton has two pcmcia slots which can take cards to offer similar i/o capabilities.
So, other than predictable hardware improvements over the last ten years, why is it that both the Linux handheld 770 and XP Tablet edition Q1 suck so bad at the software? It just seems like we're taking a huge step back in usability in order to gain that "convergence" factor between desktop and handheld. Is it really worth it? After looking at the Newton and comparing it to these competitors, my feeling is that Mameo on the 770 and XP on the Q1 just don't come close to meeting the functionality of a handheld. Convergence seems not worth the trouble. Desktop PCs will always be faster than a handheld, and software bloat always seems to meet -- and exceed -- recent hardware advances. When will handhelds ever have the CPU horsepower to "converge" with their desktop brethren?
The Newton is dead. Documentation and source at Apple are long lost. Perhaps a good alternative would be a small system based on Smalltalk using Squeak. Better yet if it could be hacked paint directly to the framebuffer, rather than using X on the handheld.
I suggest you start with all the original Apple II and Apple II+ systems, every old TRS-80, PET 2001 and ZX81. Never mind them having a CAPS LOCK key - they don't even support lowercase! Not even in the character generation firmware... It's time to take a sledgehammer to those old UPPERCASE violators!
Doubtful. Deathmaze 5000 was released by Med Systems Software in 1980. It was so cool. Like Linux on steroids. Except on the Z80. Without memory protection, preemptive multitasking, or memory management. Because it ran on a 16K TRS-80 loaded from cassette tape.
Hmmmm. I think I need to read that advocacy HOWTO again...
"I'm all for capitalism and the idea of "prizes" to encourage research, but have we really become so jaded that it's a complete shock when someone does something worthwhile merely for its own sake?"
1000 pages is a lot of potential for error. Also, Occam's Razor would suggest it to be a ridiculous outcome. If I believed in this I might as well just believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, or that crazy man on the moon myth! *shrug* Just let me say, I'm much more partial to the Fields Prize in Philosophy than any esoteric discipline like Mathematics. Sometimes in life, ya just gotta take sides! --M
Wow. Great comment. Very detailed. I'd like to know though, this is how it was and now that they've changed the law you disapprove. Right? I must admit, I don't know. But I do think the government has a legitimate case to make in needing these powers. Question: are you a lawyer?
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That is the case. I'm employed as a Sr. Unix Administrator for a university lab. Before that I worked corporate jobs doing much the same thing. I haven't run Windows at home because Windows knowledge doesn't pay my bills. Also, the software sucks. JMO. But I certainly see and use Windows on a regular basis. Which is why I know it has certain features available for it that I want.
I'm in night school and really want to buy a slab tablet for pen input. Apple doesn't make one, and Mameo (the linux tablet software) just doesn't cut it yet. XP tablet edition sucks too, but at least it's usable for what I want: annotating pdfs and note taking in class. What I really want is to just carry the computer and carry no books or printed essays (with my notes an annotations) at all. Everthing digital. Vista requires significantly more hardware with little benefit for me in attaining these goals. And as for the HD copy protection stuff, MS and the media companies can blow me. I'm fed up with being charged more for something that does less.
I haven't run windows in fifteen years or so. But recently there's some software and features on win that I happen to need. But MS is making it *very* difficult, both by segmenting the market to inflate prices and feature limitations that I just can't justify the purchase. This is annoying. Over time computers are becoming less useful, not more! Who in their right mind would pay more for modern hardware and software to do less? These people are nuts.
What a fucking good question! I wish I had responded to that first in my previous reply. But I don't have a "real" answer. No wonder people ignore questions like these. They're too fucking deep to answer, because they force us to face conflicting real-world demands with ethics.
I can't change Fox News. But I can say that they appear to act within the realm of accepted journalistic standards. Yhat Plato shit about right and wrong, and all of our shadows played against the wall like life as a play, well - The Prince knows it all comes down to an appropriate application of force. Wait... is that South Park?
heh...
Yeah. I own two copies of Outfoxed and presented a showing of the documentary to about fifty people with my digital projector. The first time I saw it I wished I had not agreed to the showing. Producer/Director Robert Greenwald has done some really good work. Outfoxed was not one of them. It was a hit piece, almost competently done. Look to his older work to see professional journalism. One impressive point about Outfoxed was it's budget - wow, was that a cheap documentary to produce. But it shows. Like the Blair Witch Project, it was a good low budget attempt. But it wasn't comprehensive. Greenwald, in particular, mixed opinion programming on Fox with factual news. As a resullt, idiots like O'Rielly took center-stage while real news programming was ignored.
*shrug*
Just one point: The Daily Show is satire and pretends to be nothing more than that. O'Rielly, OTOH, pretends to be serious news under the umbrella of opinion/fact. Compare O'Rielly to the old MSNBC Donahue show and I'll be completely with you. Both were partisan shows which pretended to be news. Neither did anything more than present partisan opinion as fact.
John Stewart and Stephen Colbert make me laugh. They are a million orders of magnitude cooler. Prove me wrong, I dare you! --M
Perhaps Tony Snow was selected is because he's better than both Scott McClellan and Ari Ari Fleischer combined. Although I must admit, Ari was a *very* good press secretary. He really knew how to say *nothing* while speaking.
It's also factually accurate. She is probably NOT a terrorist. Duh!
Not trolling. Want to see me really truly trolling?
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heh. It was funny. But I'll fuck my karma to shit if I keep that up.
heh... MAYBE I SHOULD!!!
Well, that's a fair perspective. I happen to know that there are a bunch of really talented people working at Fox, but the publisher (Murdoch) has a position he prefers and his editors tend to follow that. It's like the difference between the LA Times and the Washington Times. Each has an editorial positions to present. But both also write factual news. IMO: though, the LA Times is the best Newspaper in the country for investigative journalism (and I live in Boston), but that's another discussion. Good comment. --M
So does the San Jose Mercury News. Fox (Murdoch) has taken the trouble to hire serious journalistic talent. But, like all news organizations, the publishers exert a measure of bias (or spin) to their publication. This can be seen by viewing the editorial pages. Or, in the case of Fox News, the Cable Television Interview programs like O'Rielly. One guy responded to be understanding my point. I encourage you to read his comment.
:) --M
Take a journalism course. You'll find that Fox News is about as good as any other television news organization. Compare them to CBS. They're equally as bad. But the problem is not with Fox News, which anyone can see by simply reading their content, but with television as a medium. It's both wide and shallow, while reading is narrow and deep. Anyone who is serious about news must read their material from a variety of sources. And watch C-SPAN. There is no serious alternative.
As for the Fox News opinion shows, they're worthless. I don't watch O'Rielly, Scarborough (Mr. my 28yo female aid got mysteriously killed in my congressional office and I resigned to this cushy TV job) Country, or before that the Donahue show on MSMBC. It's all crap. There's no real discussion. As John Stewart said to Tucker Carlson: "You're hu-u-u-u-u-u rting. America. Hu-u-u-u-u-u-urting America." on Crossfire before his attendance finally killed that piece of shit.
So yeah. I ran out of points to make. Thanks for the reply though. Time to get back to dinner.
Yeah. What the previous poster said. Cite please. I'm unaware of any attempts by prior administration officials (Republican or Democrat) to directly create and disseminate opinion as news. It's not supposed to happen. Period.
The Onion is satire and makes itself known as such. As does SNL Weekend Update, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report. This is not the same as purposefully misrepresenting news in order to present slanted opinion. That broadcast news organizations have been caught actually peddling this stuff from government and private industry sources shows just how far television news ethics has declined. It's bad. I can both argue for Fox News as a legitimate news organization simply because they're just as bad as CBS as a factual source. IOW: TV news really really sucks.
Read a real newspaper if you want to be informed. Actually, read several.
Fox News is a legitimate news organization. This becomes apparent upon reading their print material or watching their actual news reports. Like all the other cable news outlets, if you're watching the interview shows like O'Rielly you're not getting hard news - it's all opinion. But watch the news and -- while it's most definitely slanted toward the administration and Republicans -- it's also factually accurate news. *shrug* Like all TV news it's watered down and of little factual value. If you really want hard news, you must read it.
Perhaps they should start at the executive branch of the good 'ol USA. The Bush administration was doing just this to push their Medicare Reform bill a couple years back. They got quite the bad press when it became public. One wonders, have they stopped? Well, certainly *someone* hasn't...
I seem to remember there's a word for this. Uhhh propagation? Proposition? Proletariat? No....
hmmm...
Ah, yes. propaganda!
I'm not too impressed with the viability of Einstien as it will always (and can only be) a black and white interface with sixteen shades of grey. The Newton never had internal color support. Without source code (or even real internals documentation) this won't change. I should have noted that I ebayed a Message Pad 2100 and recently compared it with the 770. I love the 770 hardware, but boy does its Linux gnome based interface suck. If you thought gnome was unwieldily as a desktop, try it in a handheld. A 2.6 Linux kernel running a full 'nix distribution with X and Gnome - running on a 250mhz ARM processor with 64MB of RAM. OK - I've seen X kindof run on a 4MB Sun 3/50, it did better with 8MB on a Sun 3/60 and actually ran well with 16MB. But that was with twm as a window manager, an xclock and a few xterms. Nothing else. Add gnome and a web browser ... damn, forget it.
And here we get to the crux of the problem. Everyone wants a handheld device that will browse the web well. But a modern web browser has to render a complex markup language with images, (html ain't simple no more), interpret several scripting languages such as javascript, java, and flash, and users even expect it to do this with multiple pages at a time (tabs). Ever wonder why browsers consume so much RAM? Well, add a browser and gnome and you have a s-l-o-w mess on your hands.
The Newton took the alternate approach. Make it do a few very useful things extremely well. The original Palm was like that too, only even more stripped down. These devices did useful stuff for a handheld: make grocery lists and track purchases, calendaring, note taking etc. But browsing the web is really beyond them - and clearly, so is it beyond handheld hardware today. As an example, I used skweezer.com to squeeze a plaintext version of the bbc down even further (remove images) onto my wireless Newton using Newt's Cape (web browser). It took nearly ten minutes to render PLAIN TEXT! The Newton is not a serious web platform. But try to browse the web on the 770. It too is remarkably slow for a device with no moving parts (disks). That's because it's RAM and CPU starved for web browsing. IOW: handheld hardware has not kept up with web feature creep over the last decade, so a decade old Newton is about as bad a web browser in 1997 as a modern Nokia 770 is today.... total stagnation.
Note that I'm generally pleased with the Newton. I've already used it to take notes in class and read ebooks at night. It's a great little (well, big) device. I wish I could get a modern version running on the 770. But Einstein ain't it. Even if it ran it would do so slowly. And no color. Yuck. IMO Newtonites should dump NewtonOS and use the UI and a functional programing environment like smalltalk or scheme to replicate the underlying design philosophy. But... that's JMO.
Do you see those two -1, Troll moderations? They happened for a reason. I could argue that it was clueless moderators who had no idea of the deep relevance inherent in my top post. And were I drunk enough like last night, I might be willing to. But, let's face it. Muh posts were trolls. Shitty lame-ass trolls.
Bad maynard! bad!
Yeah. Note that the UK doesn't have a written constitution, nor a history of legal checks and balances between the legislature and the courtts like the US.
and the resolution sucks. Which brings up a few points: recently /. had an article on the Samsung Q1 vs. the Newton MP 2100, i.e. a modern UMPC vs. a ten year old brick with great software. Both the Nokia 770 and the Q1 offer nice 800x480 color screens, WiFi, USB, Bluetooth, etc. The Newton has two pcmcia slots which can take cards to offer similar i/o capabilities.
So, other than predictable hardware improvements over the last ten years, why is it that both the Linux handheld 770 and XP Tablet edition Q1 suck so bad at the software? It just seems like we're taking a huge step back in usability in order to gain that "convergence" factor between desktop and handheld. Is it really worth it? After looking at the Newton and comparing it to these competitors, my feeling is that Mameo on the 770 and XP on the Q1 just don't come close to meeting the functionality of a handheld. Convergence seems not worth the trouble. Desktop PCs will always be faster than a handheld, and software bloat always seems to meet -- and exceed -- recent hardware advances. When will handhelds ever have the CPU horsepower to "converge" with their desktop brethren?
The Newton is dead. Documentation and source at Apple are long lost. Perhaps a good alternative would be a small system based on Smalltalk using Squeak. Better yet if it could be hacked paint directly to the framebuffer, rather than using X on the handheld.
*shrug* - just a thought.
I suggest you start with all the original Apple II and Apple II+ systems, every old TRS-80, PET 2001 and ZX81. Never mind them having a CAPS LOCK key - they don't even support lowercase! Not even in the character generation firmware... It's time to take a sledgehammer to those old UPPERCASE violators!
*bang!*
*bang!*
*bang!*
Doubtful. Deathmaze 5000 was released by Med Systems Software in 1980. It was so cool. Like Linux on steroids. Except on the Z80. Without memory protection, preemptive multitasking, or memory management. Because it ran on a 16K TRS-80 loaded from cassette tape.
Hmmmm. I think I need to read that advocacy HOWTO again...
Yes.
wait! Don't dung beetles roll their dung into balls? And what does that make it? A sphere! There's some connection here, I swear. Whoa...
Yes. But how do you know any one of those steps you've taken is really correct? Whoa. That makes you think twice, doesn't it?
1000 pages is a lot of potential for error. Also, Occam's Razor would suggest it to be a ridiculous outcome. If I believed in this I might as well just believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, or that crazy man on the moon myth! *shrug* Just let me say, I'm much more partial to the Fields Prize in Philosophy than any esoteric discipline like Mathematics. Sometimes in life, ya just gotta take sides! --M
Wow. Great comment. Very detailed. I'd like to know though, this is how it was and now that they've changed the law you disapprove. Right? I must admit, I don't know. But I do think the government has a legitimate case to make in needing these powers. Question: are you a lawyer?