Most people in the Western media are certainly classifying attacks on US troops in Iraq,...... as terrorist.
No, most American media does. The reports I've seen here (Canada) mostly refer to them as attacks on American troops, not as terrorist attacks, leaving the moral payload to the viewer. They're an occupying force in a foreign country.
What was valid about it? To Enderle the best a Linux user can be is a 'Pro', defined as one who doesn't care one way or another. From that starting point each increase in enthusiasm bring a person one step close to Ground Zero. In short, the more enthusiastic one is about Linux the closer they are to terrorist fanaticism. What grain of truth is there in these sentences such as:
The Linux Zealots generally hide behind phony names on the Internet -- often, in fact, names of male body parts. The Zealots are rude and crude, and the sentence "two beers short of a six-pack" defines them well.
Who uses a real name on the Internet? How many Slashdot subscribers are posting today with genitally-derived names? Or this one:
These Zealots have been the primary reason that I've come to believe SCO will likely win its lawsuit -- because if the Zealots are lying about facts I know to be true, they must be lying about facts I don't know about.
What possible relation could there be between Internet postings and the operation of the American Judicial system? In a word: none. He's literally saying: I don't believe it because you do. This is logic? (A side note, I'd love to hear Enderle's 'truths' about the SCO case which make him so certain.) All Enderle has demonstarted is that he's an anti-Linux Zealot and a piss-poor journalist, baiting in the grand old tradition of race-baiting. To paraphrase Enderle, "Were I a technology news editor, the apparent fact that this Zealot is a walking human-resource disaster would probably keep me up at night."
I concur with folks expressing the opinion that legislating Open Source alternatives into government budgets is incorrect, because it is on principle - at no time should we ever, as a society, legislate any single thing as the "right way". Only GM for cars? Only Apple for music? Only MS-terminals for voting? We'd all revolt against this.
Wrong analogy. Try only one gauge of rail track, only one correct means to modulate an FM signal, only one proper side of the road to drive. Massachusetts made a choice about type of software, not manufacturer.
Until my iMac and AOL grandomther can use Linux, it won't be widely implimented. Not everyone "gets" technology, or has a BS in comp sci, or even knows the difference between AOL and the internet.
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Odds are low that your Gram's will be loading software for Massachusetts state government. People who don't know AOL from the Internet will be just as confused by Word as by OpenOffice. It's a non-issue in an Enterprise environment.
Short answer: no. Cost is only one factor. Documents serve a government for decades, locking them in to a single manufacturer's proprietary document format and filesystem is against the best interests of the electorate. The next round of DRM will make it worse. Your analysis also considers only short term costs - the next bid - and ignores the skyrocketing cost of vertically integrated MS solutions.
Finally, how is this a 'cheat'? You make it sound like the decision was made by one of 'Slashdot's Linux Zealots' instead of being the result of a considered and researched analysis by the Massachusetts state government. Labelling it as one, and focusing you discussion only on Microsoft when all prorietary software is affected, makes your denial much less convincing.
It's popular to think of Linux + GNU + apps as a single entity but it leads to nonsensical comparisons like the one Gates made. If you're going to include all the third party apps available for Linux, be fair and include patch response times for all the third party apps available for Microsoft.
A truly fair comparison is to assemble a list of packages that comprise a functional equivalent to a shipping Windows OS - say Linux + Apache + Mozilla + Linuxconf or Webmin, but not Sendmail, SSH, etc. - and compare patch/vulnerability histories.
And you don't find blaming the sins of the neighbour's great-grandparents on 'us' bigotry? Tell me again why generational hatred is ripping the middle east apart.
Wrong. This discussion has occurred numerous times in audiophile circles. Many reviewers and audio manufacturer honchos have been musicians for decades and know very well the signature characteristics of Brand X guitar through Brand Y amp and Z distortion pedal. An audio system still has to correctly reproduce these musical 'distortions' to be accurate. Some argue it's analogous to being able to differentiate a violin's maker from a recording.
Since the Lamarckian EE inheritance seems a little lacking, in normal usage:
Warmth = emphasis in the 100-300 Hz range, lower male voice
Depth = The ability to clearly differentiate sonic event which occur at the back of the concert hall. Most of these guys attend live performances religiously and are intimately familiar with orchestral arrangements, physical placement, etc.
Presence = Like warmth, but higher in frequency, usually at the top of the vocal range, say 1,500 to 5,000 Hz.
These terms are covered in audiophile magazines usually every couple of years. Yes, there's snake oil in the business (not at all like case mods, the latest miracle CPU cooler or beta video card drivers of course) but that you'd confuse green CD pens with decades old standard audio and musical terms, and score +5 karma for it, shows how little typical Slashdot posters know about audio.
And yes, I am an EE working in audio and know plenty of others making wads of cash who use these terms regularly.
The reviewers are describing how the music felt as a performance. Some equipment can make a piece sound flat or dull through, as examples, compression of loudness peaks or the inability to reproduce frequency extremes. It's easy for the video-driver-benchmarking type to forget that how music impacts you emotionally is the the end goal of real audiophile pursuits.
The pissy hypocritical posturing on this forum every time an audio related article appears is pathetic. It seems like the only opportunity some of you get to feel superior.
Computer reviewers consistently mismatch equipment so as not to limit the device under test, like using a FX5900 to benchmark mid-line CPUs and motherboards. It's standard testing practice in many fields. Do you yuk it up reading those articles too laffing boy?
At work we still use three TRS-80 Model 100 portables (introduced in the mid-eighties) running DOS to set up satellite receivers, a task requiring a COM port and terminal software. I have one in my office with its original case and manuals. They're perfect for the task and will probably stay in service until they break. At least we don't have to worry about them being stolen.
Karamchand, your post could serve as the illustrative example for Webster's definition of 'irony'. In a completely unsupported and subjective manner you blame 'Slashdot' (whatever that means. the editors? an editor? the users? including you?) for being too subjective. It was either a very clever troll or you need to think this through a bit more. My recommendation would be to start with the content of Enderle's works instead of your perception of the personalities.
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Take the red pill.
It says more about the nature of government paranoia than the value of 40 year old technology.
For twice the price, half the speed and a quarter the capacity? Bring the noise.
None.
No, most American media does. The reports I've seen here (Canada) mostly refer to them as attacks on American troops, not as terrorist attacks, leaving the moral payload to the viewer. They're an occupying force in a foreign country.
I think you proved his point.
The Linux Zealots generally hide behind phony names on the Internet -- often, in fact, names of male body parts. The Zealots are rude and crude, and the sentence "two beers short of a six-pack" defines them well.
Who uses a real name on the Internet? How many Slashdot subscribers are posting today with genitally-derived names? Or this one:
These Zealots have been the primary reason that I've come to believe SCO will likely win its lawsuit -- because if the Zealots are lying about facts I know to be true, they must be lying about facts I don't know about.
What possible relation could there be between Internet postings and the operation of the American Judicial system? In a word: none. He's literally saying: I don't believe it because you do. This is logic? (A side note, I'd love to hear Enderle's 'truths' about the SCO case which make him so certain.) All Enderle has demonstarted is that he's an anti-Linux Zealot and a piss-poor journalist, baiting in the grand old tradition of race-baiting. To paraphrase Enderle, "Were I a technology news editor, the apparent fact that this Zealot is a walking human-resource disaster would probably keep me up at night."
Godwin was wrong. Threads really terminate when Godwin is invoked, not Nazis.
Wrong analogy. Try only one gauge of rail track, only one correct means to modulate an FM signal, only one proper side of the road to drive. Massachusetts made a choice about type of software, not manufacturer.
Odds are low that your Gram's will be loading software for Massachusetts state government. People who don't know AOL from the Internet will be just as confused by Word as by OpenOffice. It's a non-issue in an Enterprise environment.
Finally, how is this a 'cheat'? You make it sound like the decision was made by one of 'Slashdot's Linux Zealots' instead of being the result of a considered and researched analysis by the Massachusetts state government. Labelling it as one, and focusing you discussion only on Microsoft when all prorietary software is affected, makes your denial much less convincing.
Oh wait...this is slashdot...
Indeed.
Linux app patches = pears
It's popular to think of Linux + GNU + apps as a single entity but it leads to nonsensical comparisons like the one Gates made. If you're going to include all the third party apps available for Linux, be fair and include patch response times for all the third party apps available for Microsoft.
A truly fair comparison is to assemble a list of packages that comprise a functional equivalent to a shipping Windows OS - say Linux + Apache + Mozilla + Linuxconf or Webmin, but not Sendmail, SSH, etc. - and compare patch/vulnerability histories.
I initially read it as 'racketing up', a more apt description of the process.
And you don't find blaming the sins of the neighbour's great-grandparents on 'us' bigotry? Tell me again why generational hatred is ripping the middle east apart.
No headache here.
Warmth = emphasis in the 100-300 Hz range, lower male voice
Depth = The ability to clearly differentiate sonic event which occur at the back of the concert hall. Most of these guys attend live performances religiously and are intimately familiar with orchestral arrangements, physical placement, etc.
Presence = Like warmth, but higher in frequency, usually at the top of the vocal range, say 1,500 to 5,000 Hz.
These terms are covered in audiophile magazines usually every couple of years. Yes, there's snake oil in the business (not at all like case mods, the latest miracle CPU cooler or beta video card drivers of course) but that you'd confuse green CD pens with decades old standard audio and musical terms, and score +5 karma for it, shows how little typical Slashdot posters know about audio.
And yes, I am an EE working in audio and know plenty of others making wads of cash who use these terms regularly.
The reviewers are describing how the music felt as a performance. Some equipment can make a piece sound flat or dull through, as examples, compression of loudness peaks or the inability to reproduce frequency extremes. It's easy for the video-driver-benchmarking type to forget that how music impacts you emotionally is the the end goal of real audiophile pursuits.
The pissy hypocritical posturing on this forum every time an audio related article appears is pathetic. It seems like the only opportunity some of you get to feel superior.
Computer reviewers consistently mismatch equipment so as not to limit the device under test, like using a FX5900 to benchmark mid-line CPUs and motherboards. It's standard testing practice in many fields. Do you yuk it up reading those articles too laffing boy?
At work we still use three TRS-80 Model 100 portables (introduced in the mid-eighties) running DOS to set up satellite receivers, a task requiring a COM port and terminal software. I have one in my office with its original case and manuals. They're perfect for the task and will probably stay in service until they break. At least we don't have to worry about them being stolen.
Yep, I only went as far back as I thought people here would catch. :)
Wow, a Dock. Innovation a la 1998 Afterstep.
America's Army uses OpenGL, otherwise there couldn't be a Linux client.
BTW, Enderle isn't from Microsoft.
Linux=kernel. Distro!= kernel. Configuration UI's are third party apps.