Frankly, Apple needs the support. I equate it to giving charity to your favourite free software developer, in the case of Apple.
Steve Jobs does not need your charity:
Apple's Steve Jobs got last year's mightiest pay package, valued by FORTUNE at $381 million. (For the purposes of calculating his 2000 package, we have valued his monstrous options grant at one-third the exercise price of the shares optioned. And, of course, we've included the $90 million Gulfstream the Apple board gave him.) How big is that? The last time the public got furious over CEO pay was in 1992, when reports of huge numbers for 1991 sparked a flurry of reform efforts. Yet the 14 highest-paid CEOs then, including such legendary mega-earners as Coca-Cola's Roberto Goizueta, Philip Morris' Hamish Maxwell, GE's Welch, and ITT's Rand Araskog, together earned less than Steve Jobs did last year all by himself (even without the plane!). Yes, it's true that Jobs has paid himself only $1 a year since he returned to Apple as CEO in 1997. And, yes, he deserves to be rewarded--handsomely--for bringing Apple back from the dead. But still...
You mean the "obviously not a mother" comment? Well, uh, chalk it up to sexism or whatever but I kind of agree with that.
Anyway, one poster here is arguing that is has no bearing on Jenkins' complaint about the framing of the debate, and our argument of that point in this thread. I think it may be germaine, however-- particularily with respect to gender politics and in light of Donahue's demographics. To be consistent with my previous argument, I would insist that if Jenkins wants to act the concerned parent, he really needs to claim that position strongly and talk about his children. That would certainly keep attentive viewers from making unwarranted inferrences about his parental status. In summary, Jenkins had an opportunity to speak in a public forum and he rather flubbed it. He seems quick to blame the producers of the show and the media at large, but never questions the political implications of the position he's staked out for himself.
Concerned mothers are identified as "concerned mothers" because that clearly defines their stake in the issue. Jenkins, on the other hand, uses his credentials as a researcher to argue his point of view. That makes him a "researcher" (and an extremely biased one at that). I don't see any presumption of childlessness here. If Jenkins wants to argue on behalf of intelligent parents, he must drop the pretense of being a professional researcher. As it is, his position is already compromised by the fact that he has engaged in "sponsored research." This is a rhetorical fact: You have to talk like who you claim to be. And while academics of Jenkins's ilk may bemoan the polemical nature of popular discourses and long for more nuanced intellectual exchanges, from the outside it just looks like some ivory tower dweeb got a whupping in a public debate. Instead of pointing fingers at Circus Media, a wiser man would inquire into the privileged status of his views, and the political implications of his isolation. How does somebody get through life thinking that everybody's on his side, or would be if only people would listen to him?
Sometimes I've avoided voting for a candidate or a ballot initiative because of my ignorance of the issues. But it doesn't take full-time research to find out where most candidates stand. Your local governments probably put out an election guide, and that's a great place to start. Also, check your local deadtree newspapers in the weeks prior to an election. If you're not willing to subscribe, just go to a local library and ask a librarian if you need help. An hour in the periodicals room should give some insight into the issues and candidates.
For non-partisan info on the web see Project Vote Smart or The League of Women Voters. You may find links to local chapters here. And if you have an active local chapter, they almost certainly put out a voter's guide and may even sponsor debates.
Blame Lieberman and Democrats in Congress, but don't blame Clinton's SEC.
Arthur Levitt, the SEC chair appointed by Clinton, was adamantly opposed to the accounting firms and their shenanigans. See the Frontline interview for some eye-openers.
And from the horse's mouth:
"These people ran on responsibility, but as soon as you scratch them, they go straight to blame," Clinton told WJLA-TV, an ABC News affiliate in Washington, referring to Republican leaders. "It's factually wrong. There was corporate malfeasance both before [Bush] took office and after. The difference is, I actually tried to do something about it, and their party stopped it."
Well, take that with a grain of salt. It's from the Chicago Tribune (reg. required), quoted in a Washington Post piece called Battle of the Bubble-heads, a critical overview of the political blame game.
Yeah, but the point of Microsoft's deception was to give the appearance of continuous growth. They were anticipating future lulls in earnings, so they delayed booking earnings from very good quarters. The techniques were different, but the intention was the same as Enron's and WorldComs. The parent is right. "Error" is being used as a euphemism for "a lie told to shareholders in order to inflate the value of a publicly traded equity."
If they find that pop-up/under is not working, they will come up with new ways to be intrusive
That's true as long as everybody uses popups or in-your-face marketing. But the tide is shifting. Isps and web portals are finding that they're losing customers to less annoying competitors.
I'd like to see fewer popups because I want to see the net realize its full potential as a communications medium, and that won't happen as long as ordinary people feel disgruntled about the juggernaut of spam.
Is anybody else feeling a bit of schadenfreude over stories like this? I really enjoy seeing sucky companies admit that they're losing money because they treat people like garbage. Duh.
Why are so many slashdotters keen on blaming Mugabe for this famine?
Is Mugabe the President of Swaziland?
Is Mugabe the President of Lesotho?
Is Mugabe the President of Malawi?
Is Mugabe the President of Zambia?
Is Mugabe the President of Mozambique?
No, Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe, only one of many countries in Southern Africa faced with famine.
By the way, other sources report that a settlement has been reached between Zimbabwe and the United States. Let's hope they get it milled and distributed ASAP.
On a lesser note, nobody has pointed out that Africans prefer their own varieties of maize to American maize because American maize makes lousy nsima (nshima in Shona). Crosspollination is a real concern for everybody, not just the exporters. If the US intends merely to provide assistance, they should just go ahead and mill the stuff. Or send rice.
The most pessimistic estimates show that all flavors of MSIE combined have a 93.7% share. MSIE 5 and greater comprise about 90%, and that's really the relevant number because nobody codes explicitly for outdated versions of MSIE. If you're coding for current versions of MSIE only, and you violate w3c recommendations in such a way as to exclude other browsers, you're cutting off at least 10% of your potential readership, which is twice 5%--a huge difference.
Note that other sources at Upsdell's claim significantly less than 93.7% for all versions of MSIE combined. Why would you choose the most extreme number and then round up, unless you were trying to justify decisions made for other reasons, or carelessly spreading fud and hype. The wise thing to do would be to pick a middle-of-the-road estimate, or to average various estimates. Quoting numbers like 95% makes no sense at all.
The variety of agents and platforms currently in use should testify to the fact that change and diversity is part of the global computing environment. Open standards enable communications between any and all programs that implement them. Proprietary "standards" are an obstacle to the global communications infrastucture, and should be viewed as such. MSIE html appears as a "de-facto" standard only by suppressing equally compelling facts, including the temporal horizon, which ought to be in the forefront of any serious thinking about software developmnet.
Ideology sucks. I'm a registered Green but I routinely scan Libertarian campaign sites and sometimes vote for Libertarians, as well as Democrats and less often Republicans. My reason for not registering independant is pragmatic: I want Greens to be on the ballot because I am sick of the tyranny and corruption of the status quo, and the Greens are a "third" party that makes sense to me.
To get back on topic, Greens have been talking about Open Source and Free Software. Some examples:
http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=115 http://www.flora.org/green/green-hacker.phtml h ttp://www.gpomc.org/nocss/server.shtml
Libertarians are likely to be anti-drm, anti-dmca. I'm waiting to see a Libertarian candidate who is outspokenly Pro-Free-Software. I really want to see these issues debated and am willing to (provisionally) support any candidate who puts them on the table.
Well, Appleworks is "okay," I said, which is not the same as "good," and to be more precise Appleworks is perfectly adequate until it messes up one little thing when it imports.docs from a particular teaching assistant and the wife says "I miss Abiword. It didn't have this problem," and "What's it going to take get Abiword again?" which is wifespeak for "Fix this soon or I'm going to do it and you know it would be much easier for you to do it now than to have to explain to me again what fink is and show me where to the find that terminal program again...." --which is not to imply that the wife is clueless, far from it, it is probably smarter for her to just have me do it--but my gosh Apple is supposed to be userfriendly and if the wife asks again "So how much is Yellowdog?" I think maybe the credit cards are coming out, because it's better than Microsoft Office and yeah, in closing, fink looks pretty good but it's not my machine and practically speaking I don't want to be responsible for it and can't be experimenting with it I just want the fewest possible headaches in the long run and I'm hoping against hope that Appleworks puts out an update that fixes this thing with the import filter or the ta drops out or changes programs but my gut tells me that sooner or later I'll have to choose between fink and Linux--Because GNOME properly configured is not only the apotheosis of desktop goodness but more germaine to the discussion, better than OSX with either Appleworks or MS Office (the latter being both too expensive and distasteful).
You can still read and write your Microsoft Office documents.
With Appleworks? It's okay, but it's not as good as Abiword. StarOffice doesn't do Mac, and OpenOffice for OSX is (AFAIK) still beta. So, to adequately import.docs you need to fink or else install xdarwin and a window manager, but there are issues with drivers etc.,and you're giving up pretty Aqua, so you may as well be using Yellowdog or Debian, because if all you want is a nice looking desktop that doesn't tie you to Microsoft and gives you some great free apps, Linux is still the best way to go.
Or were you thinking that one could Switch® to OSX and then pay US $499 for Microsoft Office: Mac. Hmm. They say "Switch" but I hear "Bait and Switch."
p.s. Mozilla works great on OSX, and Chimera's just been updated so you all can drag that Explorer into the trash any time now.
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Steve Jobs does not need your charity:
Get the full story from Fortune.
Still feel like giving? How about donating to a real 503(c) like the Gnome Foundation.
You mean the "obviously not a mother" comment? Well, uh, chalk it up to sexism or whatever but I kind of agree with that.
Anyway, one poster here is arguing that is has no bearing on Jenkins' complaint about the framing of the debate, and our argument of that point in this thread. I think it may be germaine, however-- particularily with respect to gender politics and in light of Donahue's demographics. To be consistent with my previous argument, I would insist that if Jenkins wants to act the concerned parent, he really needs to claim that position strongly and talk about his children. That would certainly keep attentive viewers from making unwarranted inferrences about his parental status. In summary, Jenkins had an opportunity to speak in a public forum and he rather flubbed it. He seems quick to blame the producers of the show and the media at large, but never questions the political implications of the position he's staked out for himself.
Bad Intellectual! Bad! Bad!
Bogus point.
Concerned mothers are identified as "concerned mothers" because that clearly defines their stake in the issue. Jenkins, on the other hand, uses his credentials as a researcher to argue his point of view. That makes him a "researcher" (and an extremely biased one at that). I don't see any presumption of childlessness here. If Jenkins wants to argue on behalf of intelligent parents, he must drop the pretense of being a professional researcher. As it is, his position is already compromised by the fact that he has engaged in "sponsored research." This is a rhetorical fact: You have to talk like who you claim to be. And while academics of Jenkins's ilk may bemoan the polemical nature of popular discourses and long for more nuanced intellectual exchanges, from the outside it just looks like some ivory tower dweeb got a whupping in a public debate. Instead of pointing fingers at Circus Media, a wiser man would inquire into the privileged status of his views, and the political implications of his isolation. How does somebody get through life thinking that everybody's on his side, or would be if only people would listen to him?
Sometimes I've avoided voting for a candidate or a ballot initiative because of my ignorance of the issues. But it doesn't take full-time research to find out where most candidates stand. Your local governments probably put out an election guide, and that's a great place to start. Also, check your local deadtree newspapers in the weeks prior to an election. If you're not willing to subscribe, just go to a local library and ask a librarian if you need help. An hour in the periodicals room should give some insight into the issues and candidates.
For non-partisan info on the web see Project Vote Smart or The League of Women Voters. You may find links to local chapters here. And if you have an active local chapter, they almost certainly put out a voter's guide and may even sponsor debates.
If you want to surf some more, try starting with Google's Directory.
Finally, to follow the money check out Open Secrets.
Arthur Levitt, the SEC chair appointed by Clinton, was adamantly opposed to the accounting firms and their shenanigans. See the Frontline interview for some eye-openers.
And from the horse's mouth:
Well, take that with a grain of salt. It's from the Chicago Tribune (reg. required), quoted in a Washington Post piece called Battle of the Bubble-heads, a critical overview of the political blame game.
Yeah, but the point of Microsoft's deception was to give the appearance of continuous growth. They were anticipating future lulls in earnings, so they delayed booking earnings from very good quarters. The techniques were different, but the intention was the same as Enron's and WorldComs. The parent is right. "Error" is being used as a euphemism for "a lie told to shareholders in order to inflate the value of a publicly traded equity."
Moderators: parent is topical and kind of funny.
Has anybody gotten rid of their "IE only" sites?
t us =RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&resolution=FIXED&produ ct=Tech+Evangelism
Well, it wasn't just me, but:
http://www.sharp-usa.com
Some other site fixes at bugzilla:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_sta
If they find that pop-up/under is not working, they will come up with new ways to be intrusive
That's true as long as everybody uses popups or in-your-face marketing. But the tide is shifting. Isps and web portals are finding that they're losing customers to less annoying competitors.
I'd like to see fewer popups because I want to see the net realize its full potential as a communications medium, and that won't happen as long as ordinary people feel disgruntled about the juggernaut of spam.
Is anybody else feeling a bit of schadenfreude over stories like this? I really enjoy seeing sucky companies admit that they're losing money because they treat people like garbage. Duh.
Dude, you're playing Tetris on Redhat? Ximian, or did you compile gnome games from source?
Why are so many slashdotters keen on blaming Mugabe for this famine?
- Is Mugabe the President of Swaziland?
- Is Mugabe the President of Lesotho?
- Is Mugabe the President of Malawi?
- Is Mugabe the President of Zambia?
- Is Mugabe the President of Mozambique?
- No, Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe, only one of many countries in Southern Africa faced with famine.
By the way, other sources report that a settlement has been reached between Zimbabwe and the United States. Let's hope they get it milled and distributed ASAP.On a lesser note, nobody has pointed out that Africans prefer their own varieties of maize to American maize because American maize makes lousy nsima (nshima in Shona). Crosspollination is a real concern for everybody, not just the exporters. If the US intends merely to provide assistance, they should just go ahead and mill the stuff. Or send rice.
Ideology sucks. I'm a registered Green but I routinely scan Libertarian campaign sites and sometimes vote for Libertarians, as well as Democrats and less often Republicans. My reason for not registering independant is pragmatic: I want Greens to be on the ballot because I am sick of the tyranny and corruption of the status quo, and the Greens are a "third" party that makes sense to me.
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h ttp://www.gpomc.org/nocss/server.shtml
To get back on topic, Greens have been talking about Open Source and Free Software. Some examples:
http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=11
http://www.flora.org/green/green-hacker.phtml
Libertarians are likely to be anti-drm, anti-dmca. I'm waiting to see a Libertarian candidate who is outspokenly Pro-Free-Software. I really want to see these issues debated and am willing to (provisionally) support any candidate who puts them on the table.
Well, Appleworks is "okay," I said, which is not the same as "good," and to be more precise Appleworks is perfectly adequate until it messes up one little thing when it imports .docs from a particular teaching assistant and the wife says "I miss Abiword. It didn't have this problem," and "What's it going to take get Abiword again?" which is wifespeak for "Fix this soon or I'm going to do it and you know it would be much easier for you to do it now than to have to explain to me again what fink is and show me where to the find that terminal program again...." --which is not to imply that the wife is clueless, far from it, it is probably smarter for her to just have me do it--but my gosh Apple is supposed to be userfriendly and if the wife asks again "So how much is Yellowdog?" I think maybe the credit cards are coming out, because it's better than Microsoft Office and yeah, in closing, fink looks pretty good but it's not my machine and practically speaking I don't want to be responsible for it and can't be experimenting with it I just want the fewest possible headaches in the long run and I'm hoping against hope that Appleworks puts out an update that fixes this thing with the import filter or the ta drops out or changes programs but my gut tells me that sooner or later I'll have to choose between fink and Linux--Because GNOME properly configured is not only the apotheosis of desktop goodness but more germaine to the discussion, better than OSX with either Appleworks or MS Office (the latter being both too expensive and distasteful).
With Appleworks? It's okay, but it's not as good as Abiword. StarOffice doesn't do Mac, and OpenOffice for OSX is (AFAIK) still beta. So, to adequately import .docs you need to fink or else install xdarwin and a window manager, but there are issues with drivers etc.,and you're giving up pretty Aqua, so you may as well be using Yellowdog or Debian, because if all you want is a nice looking desktop that doesn't tie you to Microsoft and gives you some great free apps, Linux is still the best way to go.
Or were you thinking that one could Switch® to OSX and then pay US $499 for Microsoft Office: Mac. Hmm. They say "Switch" but I hear "Bait and Switch."
p.s. Mozilla works great on OSX, and Chimera's just been updated so you all can drag that Explorer into the trash any time now.