I don't remember that. I remember you could put a card in your Apple ][ that would let it do text in 80-columns (usually with the added advantage of including a mixed-case font), but you didn't get any graphics advantage with that. It was only for text.
In fact, I don't remember any significant upgrade to Apple ][ series graphics until the Apple//c and the late-model Apple//es arrived with the 128K RAM board, which had some kind of hidden feature that allowed you to do Double Hi-Res. Hardly any software supported that mode, though, because the audience was so small.
I did, on the other hand, have a Mockingboard, which was a pluggable sound card that gave you even nicer sounding audio than the C64. Many popular games supported it (some even surprised you by not advertising support).
I recall the government-funded NPR recently fired a black reporter after he made a guest appearance on FOX and said some things NPR did not like. So to answer your question: Yes.
You're referring to Juan Williams, and the remarks he made on Fox had nothing to do with blacks vs. whites. Williams made remarks to the effect that he feared for his safety when he saw someone who looked (to him) like a Muslim board an airplane, and that anyone who wears "Muslim garb" obviously identifies themselves as a Muslim first and an American second (if they are American at all). He was fired because these espoused beliefs were in conflict with his role as an NPR news analyst, where he was regularly called upon to comment on the Middle East conflict, terrorism, immigration, and other issues that concern Muslims and Muslim Americans.
I don't know why you Europeans think nobody gets vacations over in the US. I am a state worker and I get 12 official paid holiday days, and since I have been working here 12 years, I also receive about 4 weeks a year in vacation and sick time. So by my count, I get two more days off than you do.
You don't count very well. 4 weeks vacation equals 20 days off. Add 12 holidays and you have 32 days, total.
In my experience, you're lucky to have been able to work the same job for 12 years to earn all that. But most Europeans get more their first year. In addition, you're lucky to be a state worker. Most Americans with non-government jobs do not get as much.
* it doesn't try to display messages in some ghastly proportional font.
I just don't understand this one. Proportionally spaced fonts are more readable -- that's why they're used in just about everything published in print and, yes, pretty much the entire Web. HTML is everywhere these days. There are no longer any network bandwidth constraints or storage space constraints that make sending HTML mail inefficient. Why do some people still get so fired up about keeping email in plain, unformatted text in a typewriter font? At this point, it seems like some sort of "geek cred" thing to me, which speaks volumes about engineer mentality vs. the value of clear, readable communication.
He's right though. I'm in the tech media business and I've never seen an ad posted for/. anywhere. Especially not on the site itself -- which you'd think might be the obvious place to look. Have you (with your low UID and all)?
There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted.
One problem with that is that you seem to be describing a vicious cycle. If you luck out and have a few submissions accepted, all of a sudden you have a greater chance of having your submissions accepted -- even if you're not necessarily all that interesting.
The other problem with being "consistently ahead of the curve with the news cycle" is that the people who are farthest ahead of the curve are the people who work for the news sites. You can see where that leads.
The goal of giving everyone access to the Firehose was to let the community spot which stories they thought were most interesting. I don't think it really worked, though.
You have a point, but is Microsoft the only one providing virtualization technology?
Is Microsoft providing drivers/code that will make Windows run better as a guest OS on Xen hosts? Nope.
Is Microsoft providing drivers/code that will make Linux run better as a guest OS on Windows hosts? Yep.
Don't you see the difference? One is putting Microsoft's proprietary software on equal footing with Linux free software. The other is making Linux free software subservient to Microsoft proprietary software. It's shocking to me that/. of all forums would be arguing the other way.
Other than the fact that woolly mammoths are known to have been native to Siberia, among other regions, and this carcass has every characteristic of the other mammoths that have been discovered, starting with the long fur? Nobody said they've discovered a new species. Biologists kinda know about this stuff.
BTW, woolly mammoths are believed to have diverged from Asian elephants, not African elephants. Also, young Asian elephants are kind of fuzzy with the same orange-colored fur as found on this carcass.
When you visit a lawyer for the first time, you shouldn't be doing it with a mind to threaten a lawsuit. You're going for advice. You probably have some kind of contract that governs your relationship with the hosting provider. You might not have had a lawyer read it before you signed it; do that now. Then you can ask exactly what the hosting provider may be liable for, and where they may have effectively covered their own asses. If you do think you might want to threaten a lawsuit, it's important first to know whether you have a leg to stand on.
Empty threats to sue may sound like hot air. A letter on an attorney's letterhead that specifies the ways in which the hosting provider is in breach of contract will probably be taken seriously. And 90 percent of the time, the issue will be resolved before it ever gets to court. Nobody wants court.
Also, don't assume this process will lead to you getting absolutely everything you think you deserve. Have some sort of minimum compensation in mind that would allow you to walk away feeling like you've had some justice. Your lawyer will help you figure out this number, too. Negotiations can proceed from there.
But if you won't be happy until the hosting provider is well and thoroughly punished for what they did, you will probably walk away disappointed. Especially if they're a public company, you're not going to be able to shame them into giving you what you want. The civil legal process is there to determine what you may be owed, legally. It's not there to exact vengeance for you. In fact, you'll sleep better at night if you just let that go.
Really, I think the most important thing here is to begin the process of moving to a hosting provider that will give you better service. Everything else is secondary. In fact, I would skip the "negative publicity" part, except in private. Particularly if you're investigating legal options, trash-talking the hosting provider publicly before proceedings begin could work against you. It could even become the source of a counter-suit.
Yeah, except that Zimmerman was a Neighborhood Watch volunteer. If a Neighborhood Watch volunteer is not supposed to report suspicious activity in the neighborhood to police, what is he supposed to do?
The part where he called 911 makes it sound like he thought someone walking around was "an emergency." Maybe that's what you're responding to. But a lot of people call 911 for any police-related matters, from violent crimes to noise complaints. I've even heard police officers recommend using that number, for no other reason than it's harder to remember the non-emergency number. So I don't consider this part to be any big deal.
Everything else that happened after he placed the call sounds like a big deal.
Well you had to choose one at some point. The way to do that the first time is to look around until you can write up a short list of maybe four or five options. Eventually you will narrow that down to one. If you later realize that you made the wrong choice, reassess the other options on your original shortlist and pick a second choice.
I went to school in the United States and I don't remember ever having to pay for textbooks for grades K-12, either. You gave them back at the end of the term, so most classes handed out used books.
When I first saw this story, my initial reaction was, "Oh no, are they making elementary school kids pay for books somewhere?" I can just imagine what it would be like to teach a class in American schools where half the kids don't even have a copy of the book.
Every single contribution to the linux kernel (or any open source project) is inherently self serving. Every one of the companies listed benefits from the contributions they provide. That's the entire point of open source, you modify it to suit your needs. So what if you don't like Microsoft, too fucking bad.
Yes, but unlike Microsoft, most of the companies who contribute hardware drivers to the Linux kernel (such as Broadcom, for example), don't have a history of trying to destroy Linux. In this case, the fact that Slashdot is claiming Microsoft is suddenly "a key Linux contributor" is even more valuable to Microsoft than the actual kernel contributions it has made. Framing the story in this way helps Microsoft craft messaging that subverts Linux.
Fundamentally, what Microsoft is doing here is submitting changes to the Linux kernel that allow Microsoft to maintain a closed, proprietary product line that competes with free alternatives. If Microsoft's proprietary virtualization technology did not work with Linux, it would fail. So Microsoft has made its proprietary virtualization technology work with Linux... by making changes to Linux. There's nothing "wrong" with that, but there's also nothing particularly admirable about it, either -- and to trumpet a headline claiming Microsoft is "a key Linux contributor" only serves Microsoft's anti-Linux marketing goals.
If you make a closed, proprietary system that is not interoperable, then work to change everybody else's system so that it can work with yours, do you really deserve a pat on the back for that? Every action from beginning to end was wholly self-serving.
Last I heard, all of Microsoft's contributions to the Linux kernel have been strictly to improve Linux support for Microsoft products, e.g. to allow Windows Server to be a host for Linux clients. That's fine, but it hardly counts as "key" contributions in my book.
There have been many articles lately about the effects of wealth concentration and the Economist has repeatedly pointed out things like how the American healthcare system is flawed, etc. This is red meat to the American Right.
Errr... don't you mean the American Left? The Right are the ones who defend wealth concentration as Manifest Destiny and have attacked any and all attempts to reform the American healthcare system.
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That's true! Sprite boards... I remember seeing ads for those. They sounded like a great idea, but nothing really supported them.
Back then the Apple II had swappable video cards.
I don't remember that. I remember you could put a card in your Apple ][ that would let it do text in 80-columns (usually with the added advantage of including a mixed-case font), but you didn't get any graphics advantage with that. It was only for text.
In fact, I don't remember any significant upgrade to Apple ][ series graphics until the Apple //c and the late-model Apple //es arrived with the 128K RAM board, which had some kind of hidden feature that allowed you to do Double Hi-Res. Hardly any software supported that mode, though, because the audience was so small.
I did, on the other hand, have a Mockingboard, which was a pluggable sound card that gave you even nicer sounding audio than the C64. Many popular games supported it (some even surprised you by not advertising support).
I recall the government-funded NPR recently fired a black reporter after he made a guest appearance on FOX and said some things NPR did not like. So to answer your question: Yes.
You're referring to Juan Williams, and the remarks he made on Fox had nothing to do with blacks vs. whites. Williams made remarks to the effect that he feared for his safety when he saw someone who looked (to him) like a Muslim board an airplane, and that anyone who wears "Muslim garb" obviously identifies themselves as a Muslim first and an American second (if they are American at all). He was fired because these espoused beliefs were in conflict with his role as an NPR news analyst, where he was regularly called upon to comment on the Middle East conflict, terrorism, immigration, and other issues that concern Muslims and Muslim Americans.
I don't know why you Europeans think nobody gets vacations over in the US. I am a state worker and I get 12 official paid holiday days, and since I have been working here 12 years, I also receive about 4 weeks a year in vacation and sick time. So by my count, I get two more days off than you do.
You don't count very well. 4 weeks vacation equals 20 days off. Add 12 holidays and you have 32 days, total.
In my experience, you're lucky to have been able to work the same job for 12 years to earn all that. But most Europeans get more their first year. In addition, you're lucky to be a state worker. Most Americans with non-government jobs do not get as much.
Come on, man, be serious. Are you a tech guy? For real?
1. plain-text is readable by anything, and is easily grepped, piped, manipulated by standard tools, and otherwise *used*.
And HTML isn't? It's practically XML. XHTML is XML. If you can't grep and pipe that shit, what are you good for, man?
2. log file lines, programs, and tabulated data are all unreadable in proportional font.
So I'll use a <pre> tag, for fuck's sake. Every email reader I've ever seen supports it.
3. 80 columns (72-78 is typical) is the standard for email.
On what? Your WYSE terminal? Besides, if it's a proportionally spaced font, your measurement has no meaning.
3. 80 columns (72-78 is typical) is the standard for email.
Again, according to whom? Your CASIO Usenet watch?
You're just being silly, honestly.
* it doesn't try to display messages in some ghastly proportional font.
I just don't understand this one. Proportionally spaced fonts are more readable -- that's why they're used in just about everything published in print and, yes, pretty much the entire Web. HTML is everywhere these days. There are no longer any network bandwidth constraints or storage space constraints that make sending HTML mail inefficient. Why do some people still get so fired up about keeping email in plain, unformatted text in a typewriter font? At this point, it seems like some sort of "geek cred" thing to me, which speaks volumes about engineer mentality vs. the value of clear, readable communication.
This is hardly a new story.
He's right though. I'm in the tech media business and I've never seen an ad posted for /. anywhere. Especially not on the site itself -- which you'd think might be the obvious place to look. Have you (with your low UID and all)?
But where would that leave the Grammar Nazi faction?
There ought to be a way for longer term community members or those who consistently are ahead of the curve with the news cycle to accrue a greater chance of having their article submissions accepted.
One problem with that is that you seem to be describing a vicious cycle. If you luck out and have a few submissions accepted, all of a sudden you have a greater chance of having your submissions accepted -- even if you're not necessarily all that interesting.
The other problem with being "consistently ahead of the curve with the news cycle" is that the people who are farthest ahead of the curve are the people who work for the news sites. You can see where that leads.
The goal of giving everyone access to the Firehose was to let the community spot which stories they thought were most interesting. I don't think it really worked, though.
You have a point, but is Microsoft the only one providing virtualization technology?
Is Microsoft providing drivers/code that will make Windows run better as a guest OS on Xen hosts? Nope.
Is Microsoft providing drivers/code that will make Linux run better as a guest OS on Windows hosts? Yep.
Don't you see the difference? One is putting Microsoft's proprietary software on equal footing with Linux free software. The other is making Linux free software subservient to Microsoft proprietary software. It's shocking to me that /. of all forums would be arguing the other way.
Other than the fact that woolly mammoths are known to have been native to Siberia, among other regions, and this carcass has every characteristic of the other mammoths that have been discovered, starting with the long fur? Nobody said they've discovered a new species. Biologists kinda know about this stuff.
BTW, woolly mammoths are believed to have diverged from Asian elephants, not African elephants. Also, young Asian elephants are kind of fuzzy with the same orange-colored fur as found on this carcass.
When you visit a lawyer for the first time, you shouldn't be doing it with a mind to threaten a lawsuit. You're going for advice. You probably have some kind of contract that governs your relationship with the hosting provider. You might not have had a lawyer read it before you signed it; do that now. Then you can ask exactly what the hosting provider may be liable for, and where they may have effectively covered their own asses. If you do think you might want to threaten a lawsuit, it's important first to know whether you have a leg to stand on.
Empty threats to sue may sound like hot air. A letter on an attorney's letterhead that specifies the ways in which the hosting provider is in breach of contract will probably be taken seriously. And 90 percent of the time, the issue will be resolved before it ever gets to court. Nobody wants court.
Also, don't assume this process will lead to you getting absolutely everything you think you deserve. Have some sort of minimum compensation in mind that would allow you to walk away feeling like you've had some justice. Your lawyer will help you figure out this number, too. Negotiations can proceed from there.
But if you won't be happy until the hosting provider is well and thoroughly punished for what they did, you will probably walk away disappointed. Especially if they're a public company, you're not going to be able to shame them into giving you what you want. The civil legal process is there to determine what you may be owed, legally. It's not there to exact vengeance for you. In fact, you'll sleep better at night if you just let that go.
Really, I think the most important thing here is to begin the process of moving to a hosting provider that will give you better service. Everything else is secondary. In fact, I would skip the "negative publicity" part, except in private. Particularly if you're investigating legal options, trash-talking the hosting provider publicly before proceedings begin could work against you. It could even become the source of a counter-suit.
Yeah, except that Zimmerman was a Neighborhood Watch volunteer. If a Neighborhood Watch volunteer is not supposed to report suspicious activity in the neighborhood to police, what is he supposed to do?
The part where he called 911 makes it sound like he thought someone walking around was "an emergency." Maybe that's what you're responding to. But a lot of people call 911 for any police-related matters, from violent crimes to noise complaints. I've even heard police officers recommend using that number, for no other reason than it's harder to remember the non-emergency number. So I don't consider this part to be any big deal.
Everything else that happened after he placed the call sounds like a big deal.
Well you had to choose one at some point. The way to do that the first time is to look around until you can write up a short list of maybe four or five options. Eventually you will narrow that down to one. If you later realize that you made the wrong choice, reassess the other options on your original shortlist and pick a second choice.
The way I remember it, Yahoo was "the king" in maybe ... 1998?
Walking around aimlessly? Really? thats why you called 911? Because a guy is walking around aimlessly?
When you consider that some people call 911 because they get the wrong order at Burger King, this sounds forgivable.
I went to school in the United States and I don't remember ever having to pay for textbooks for grades K-12, either. You gave them back at the end of the term, so most classes handed out used books.
When I first saw this story, my initial reaction was, "Oh no, are they making elementary school kids pay for books somewhere?" I can just imagine what it would be like to teach a class in American schools where half the kids don't even have a copy of the book.
Every single contribution to the linux kernel (or any open source project) is inherently self serving. Every one of the companies listed benefits from the contributions they provide. That's the entire point of open source, you modify it to suit your needs. So what if you don't like Microsoft, too fucking bad.
Yes, but unlike Microsoft, most of the companies who contribute hardware drivers to the Linux kernel (such as Broadcom, for example), don't have a history of trying to destroy Linux. In this case, the fact that Slashdot is claiming Microsoft is suddenly "a key Linux contributor" is even more valuable to Microsoft than the actual kernel contributions it has made. Framing the story in this way helps Microsoft craft messaging that subverts Linux.
Red Hat's involvement is also self-serving.
Your point?
How is that the same thing?
Fundamentally, what Microsoft is doing here is submitting changes to the Linux kernel that allow Microsoft to maintain a closed, proprietary product line that competes with free alternatives. If Microsoft's proprietary virtualization technology did not work with Linux, it would fail. So Microsoft has made its proprietary virtualization technology work with Linux ... by making changes to Linux. There's nothing "wrong" with that, but there's also nothing particularly admirable about it, either -- and to trumpet a headline claiming Microsoft is "a key Linux contributor" only serves Microsoft's anti-Linux marketing goals.
Still, MS works to maintain some compatibility when they really have no reason to.
No reason at all? Are you sure you've thought this through?
If you make a closed, proprietary system that is not interoperable, then work to change everybody else's system so that it can work with yours, do you really deserve a pat on the back for that? Every action from beginning to end was wholly self-serving.
Last I heard, all of Microsoft's contributions to the Linux kernel have been strictly to improve Linux support for Microsoft products, e.g. to allow Windows Server to be a host for Linux clients. That's fine, but it hardly counts as "key" contributions in my book.
There have been many articles lately about the effects of wealth concentration and the Economist has repeatedly pointed out things like how the American healthcare system is flawed, etc. This is red meat to the American Right.
Errr... don't you mean the American Left? The Right are the ones who defend wealth concentration as Manifest Destiny and have attacked any and all attempts to reform the American healthcare system.
The basics of supply and demand that you've been taught since high school aren't really a complete theory of economics.