Moore is a yellow "journalist" that turns "the high drama of life into a cheap melodrama that leads to stories being twisted into the forms best suited for sales by the hollering newsboy."
If that was "yellow journalism", then these are sunny, sunny days for the vast majority of the media.
As someone pointed out earlier, at least he gives references to the stuff he's slinging instead of: You should trust me and what I say, because it's the patriotic thing to do...
...some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world.
As opposed to their lack of isolation now?
The difference is that Microsoft is smart enough to put this into standard kernel. Linus is not.
Vive la difference! I for one, don't need someone else's opinion of how many kitchen sinks need to be in my installation. If you need lots of hand-holding setting up your servers, I can understand how you'd want to outsource those decisions.
Unfortunately, I have to admid that Microsoft seems to be getting more secure than Linux during next year.
When you're at the bottom, there's only one way to go. "getting more secure" != "secure". But kudos to them for finally recognizing a problem and starting to deal with it.
OSS people still think security situation in "far superior", even after FSF, Debian, Sendmail, OpenSSH, OpenSSH, FSF, Gentoo,...
That's right. Of course, it always comes down to competent administration. That said, feel free to compare security track records. Oh, and don't forget to compare how Microsoft deals with security issues vs. the previously mentioned projects.
Thing is, what you're bringing up isn't about digital replacement -- it's about any replacement. Even if they build another pipe organ as closely as they can to the original, it won't "accurately recreate" the sound of the original.
It would be interesting to hear the opinions of people who have actually heard it and have better hearing than me 8^)
Why does dd always come up when folks are looking for a Ghost-like product?
My understanding is that it only does blockwise copies, allowing you to copy a hard drive to the same or larger size hard drive only. Also, my understanding is that it can't turn a drive/partition into a file for storage or mass replication...
From an article on port80's website called 'Which Web Server is "Winning"':
Netcraft utilizes a logarithmic formula to "correct" for parked domains in their survey. For example, Netcraft reported that futuresite.register.com's 1,414,626 sites were whittled down with their formula to only 515 "active" sites in the July 2000 report. Similarly, the 44.9 million sites found in the November 2003 survey are reduced to less than 20 million "active" sites. The obvious problem is that, even in Netcraft's "corrected" numbers, Register.com's choice of Apache is still being counted 515 times as opposed to Disney's choice of IIS being counted only once.
So, actually, it does seem to be weighted. Personally, I don't like the inaccuracy, but port80's method seems even more questionable. Look through the list of the 'Top 1000' that they use. Way too many of them wouldn't be on the radar if popularity or traffic was used as criteria.
Observe this quote from the article in the 'prestigious' Sound On Sound magazine:
The AGNULA project, the name of which is an acronym for A GNU/Linux Audio Distribution, has been created to design and build
aversion of Linux specifically for professional musicians and recording engineers. (emphasis mine)
Clearly, we are being threatened yet again by the BSA/SCO/CompTIA FUD-brigade.
So.. rather than saying "Should vonage be regulated"... the question should be "What is different about Vonage that they should not be bound by the regulation the phone company is?
Most obvious in my mind: They don't have a monopoly on the "last mile".
... And you and your octogenarian geek-relic friends have to ditch your 802.11sux network you've been proudly and lovingly keeping alive, because the new FlanKist MoonNet needs your frequencies.
Patrick Cable II writes "I got an interesting letter from Microsoft today at work. Microsoft has started a "Fresh Start" program for educational instutions that basically makes it so schools who have had computers donated to them without licenses or media can get media and a letter stating the computer is licensed to use a Windows operating system
Now, if someone would be interested in taking all the PCs in a school district, and then donate them back to the district. That would be just peachy, it being so expensive to upgrade from Windows 95 and all. Thanks.
It sure seems like the public would eventually realize that the system was supposed to elect representatives from your area that would vote for the will of their constituents.
Yet year after year we send off representatives that, by and large, dutifully follow the directions of the party whip.
Perhaps the mistreated developers should move on to other projects or maybe grow into adults and learn to take the heat, it's just software, it's not like you should be taking the flames seriously.
This is wrong in so many ways, I don't know where to begin. Suffice to say, the ends do not justify the means.
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As someone pointed out earlier, at least he gives references to the stuff he's slinging instead of: You should trust me and what I say, because it's the patriotic thing to do...
Curious: Does Italy have the concept of "Jury Nullification" as we in the US do (though mostly unknown to the unwashed masses)?
Reference:
http://www.fija.org/
...some experts warn that China risks isolating itself if it creates standards that are incompatible with the rest of the world. As opposed to their lack of isolation now?
The difference is that Microsoft is smart enough to put this into standard kernel. Linus is not.
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Vive la difference! I for one, don't need someone else's opinion of how many kitchen sinks need to be in my installation. If you need lots of hand-holding setting up your servers, I can understand how you'd want to outsource those decisions.
Unfortunately, I have to admid that Microsoft seems to be getting more secure than Linux during next year.
When you're at the bottom, there's only one way to go. "getting more secure" != "secure". But kudos to them for finally recognizing a problem and starting to deal with it.
OSS people still think security situation in "far superior", even after FSF, Debian, Sendmail, OpenSSH, OpenSSH, FSF, Gentoo,
That's right. Of course, it always comes down to competent administration. That said, feel free to compare security track records. Oh, and don't forget to compare how Microsoft deals with security issues vs. the previously mentioned projects.
Buh-bye, Microsoft fanboi.
Inclement weather degraded my Cable signal consistently worse than my DirectTV. I've only faded once during a particularly heavy rain.
Well now... let me be the first, then! Having a real user account for FTP access is, in certain environments, a security risk.
Of course, if you're still using FTP for non-anonymous access instead of SCP/SFTP, I'd guess that security isn't one of your priorities.
...which ties in nicely with the previous mention of the Tiger Gold Card
that is used to finance the PC.
Thing is, what you're bringing up isn't about digital replacement -- it's about any replacement. Even if they build another pipe organ as closely as they can to the original, it won't "accurately recreate" the sound of the original.
It would be interesting to hear the opinions of people who have actually heard it and have better hearing than me 8^)
Actually, they're dead-on. Just like new versions of Windoze don't make it onto my production boxes until SP1 at the earliest.
Why does dd always come up when folks are looking for a Ghost-like product?
My understanding is that it only does blockwise copies, allowing you to copy a hard drive to the same or larger size hard drive only. Also, my understanding is that it can't turn a drive/partition into a file for storage or mass replication...
So, actually, it does seem to be weighted.
Personally, I don't like the inaccuracy, but port80's method seems even more questionable. Look through the list of the 'Top 1000' that they use. Way too many of them wouldn't be on the radar if popularity or traffic was used as criteria.
That was beautiful. Thank you.
I notice that you once got a 'funny' mod for one of your posts.
My advise to you is to try and recapture that bouyant spirit that you seem to have lost...
Clearly, we are being threatened yet again by the BSA/SCO/CompTIA FUD-brigade.
Most obvious in my mind: They don't have a monopoly on the "last mile".
... And you and your octogenarian geek-relic friends have to ditch your 802.11sux network you've been proudly and lovingly keeping alive, because the new FlanKist MoonNet needs your frequencies.
Now, if someone would be interested in taking all the PCs in a school district, and then donate them back to the district. That would be just peachy, it being so expensive to upgrade from Windows 95 and all. Thanks.
...or, in reading through this, does Greg 'groggy' Lehey come off as a bit of a prick?
The two-party political system in the US.
It sure seems like the public would eventually realize that the system was supposed to elect representatives from your area that would vote for the will of their constituents.
Yet year after year we send off representatives that, by and large, dutifully follow the directions of the party whip.
...you insensitive clods. 8^P
Have a fish:
Babelfish Translation to English of: www.m-fey.de
Doesn't help much with those buttons, but the "prescriptions" (recipes) come out reasonably well...
Tell all those fake blondes you know to lay off for a bit...
Suffice to say, the ends do not justify the means.
OMG! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!
[ 8^p ]
Carly's power-color wardrobe is red.
The story mentions Red Hat.
It's all perfectly logical.