You and I aren't too far apart so don't take too much offense where I disagree with you. Also I am being brief out of necessity.
It's not the school bus driver or the principal. It's the kid in the seat next to them with the portable radio.
And kids will hear bad stuff, agreed. But a parent can dampen the awfulness of what they hear; and should. Kids do not have to hear the kind of schtick Stern peddles unless I do bury my head in the sand.
I will not support any platform that lays it's foundation upon the argument that your first ammendment rights stretch to filling my children's ears with filth.
I do agree with you that there needs to be a clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. But I can't beleive that describing oral sex, in great detail, to an 8 year old girl can in any sane society be considered anything else than indecent.
I've never been able to understand the love afair with the mouse and the pretty icon. 10 fingers + 101 keys VERSUS three fingers and some pretty pictures. You do the math.
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Well, now I'm depressed after reading the first paragraph. Do I dare read the entire review?
If my computer hadn't broken I wouldn't have upgraded it. If I hadn't of upgraded it I wouldn't have given it to my daughter. If I hadn't have given it to my daughter I wouldn't have bought a new one. Then I wouldn't have discovered the joys of multimedia beyond listening to music. The new machine came with WinME which if it hadn't been crap I wouldn't have had to mess with it to find out how much spyware Microsoft had put on it, I wouldn't have gone 100% linux, I wouldn't have picked up additional kudos for my resume, and I wouldn't have had so much fun wasting my time polishing my OS. Then I wouldn't have discovered gentoo and what it means to craft an operating system that was what I wanted and not what someone else wanted.
Because spyware and junkmail isn't a crime committed upon us by little criminals. Microsoft includes spyware in their products. The government passed a codicle excusing the junkmail they spew. O'Reilly pages are loaded with links to doubleclick. And Barnes&Noble sells your electronic soul to akamai.
Just a thought: But what do you use your computer for, that you DON'T mind handing control of it over to Microsoft, Hollywood, and the Government? Playing games? Buying baubles off of the internet? As a portal for dronish entertainment?
I use my computer to manage my personal private data, for sharing information with people around the world, for finding out what's happening beyond the pale of Big Media, to reading literature in the public domain, and to listening to music not spoon fed to me by the RIAA cartel.
I use my computer to protect my freedom; just as much as any NRA advocate uses his gun. And I'll hand over my gun to the government faster than I'll hand over my computer to DRM and Palladium.
Don't try to force me to compute the way you, and Hollywood, and the Government want me to compute. NO DRM. None. Nada. At all.No proprietary formats; I've already lost enough productivity, and personal data thinking to rely on Microsoft proprietary formats.
Don't sneak information off of my computers like I have caught you doing in the past. I'm as Microsoft free as I can possibly be after I installed a firewall and found out my Microsoft Works software, which I NEVER used, was ET-phoning-home every single week for supposed updates (which updates I was never offered in over two years of ET-phoning home. This is what began my rabid antiMicrosoft proselytizing.
It's MY computer. I don't lease it. I don't run it at your good
pleasure, or under your benevolent supervision, or to your tune, or at your permission. It's MINE.
Trying to convince your bosses that you have to maintain compliance with two functionally identicall GUI environments will not go over very well.
I don't get it. Where I work if we chose Debian (or any other distro) a mandate would come down from on high that the entire shop would be Debian with XXX (insert Gnome or KDE or twm; whichever you think would be the stupidest decision). So, unless I am missing something else, that argument can be disposed of.
Think about it. If a bill is so poor that it cannot command two-thirds of your consents, is it not likely it would make a poor law? And if a law is disliked by as many as one-third is it not likely that you would be better off without it?
Alienating one third of your market at the outset is NOT "a good thing".
Did you read the article? Who gives a crap about spelling? I'm talking about comprehendible writing. There's at least 5 postings on this page complaining that the author has said exactly the opposite of what he meant to say, or that the article contains numerous sentences written so poorly that they have become meaningless. My veiled complaint: That seems to be the norm for OSNews articles. And I don't like being directed, through links, to such a poorly written journal.
You're a troll to try and make this out to be a cultural issue.
If OSNews is published by people for whom english is a second language then fine, I'll not complain about the difficulty I have reading thier articles. Otherwise, I'd really rather Slashdot not link to OSNews, Cowardous Troll.
I don't want to be a jerk about another OSNews article but will somebody please either tell me that OSNews is published in a nonEnglish speaking country or explain to me why Slashdot continues to link to thier articles? I consider content more important than style, but I find OSNews articles barely readable.
I'm confused. What's the overhead on selling me an album? You've got the store: the store's costs (utilities, labor, insurance), the store's markup, the materials, the packaging, the shipping, the production; all that cost versus the cost of selling me two songs online. Can the store really be so cost effective that the artists make out better by selling me an album rather than by me downloading a couple of songs for a couple of bucks?
All of this is rather academic as I am not having any difficulty in boycotting the RIAA. I haven't bought an album this year.
I don't hate stupid open source industry decisions because the open source industry isn't trying to cram DRM up my ^H^H^H^H^H^Hdown my throat. The open source industry doesn't hire ATF bigshots to scare me into tolerating their monopoly. And the open source industry doesn't demand a 50 dollar OS-that-I'll-never-use-tax on my wallet. No, I'll for-the-most-part tolerate, if with a little grumbling, stupid open source industry decisions.
On the other hand I'll unabashedly glory in every stupid decision that comes out of Hollywood and Redmond.
Yes, there's nothing so rare as a good leader. But since they are rare, and since there's nothing so gawd awful and destructive, yet dime-a-dozen plentiful, than a bad leader the concept of foisting a leader, any leader, on every team is assinine.
It would be far wiser for our upper management to leave the coders alone...and kick the non productive ones in the ass.
I've seen it work. It can work. But now I'm living in the Scott Adams Project Managed Hell.
I work in this industry in Tech Support. I work for a very large and prosperous company that has a completely disfunctional IT department, so my sample space may not be representative of the norm. But from where I sit, from what I've seen, ALL offshore work is crap. Software and Support, complete unmitigated crap.
EDS tried to grow lowbuck coders in the 80's. They got lowbuck code. Business today is trying to import low buck code. And that's what they're getting.
I'm not too prejudiced about very much, but I really beleive the best software is written in a backyard hotrod, garage tinkering society.
Oh, and before I foget to add, most of our "project managers" have the tech savy of my grandmother. Our end customers are 4 out of 5 times more knowledgable than the people we get to manage our projects. I was once part of a twenty man team that built an IBM mainframe computer center from scratch, and consolidated 3 centers down to it, in a 4 month period, start to finish. And in that 4 months we changed all of our 2000 user's ids (for performance reasons). We brought the datacenters down Friday PM and brought online the new datacenter Monday AM. Zero problems. That was without project managers; just a kickass director of IT and twenty "empowered" guys accountable for their work. Today? Well I'm currently working on a team that is taking 4 months to install a network diagnostic system to fix a problem that has been plaguing us for 14 months! But I guarantee you we are project managed up the ass.
Sorry..... I feel better now. Thank you for listening...
I'm paranoid as ****, I know this, but reading the proMicosoft comments has got me wondering: If I was Microsoft I would want to place some Spin Drs on Slashdot and at other traditionally counter-microsoft forums. Has anyone at Slashdot, with access to the historical posts, ever run an analysis to find posters that only ever commented proMicrosoft? If I found a subscriber with 50+ proMicrosoft posts and 0 nonMicrosoft posts I'd be awful suspicious.
Just wondering.
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You and I aren't too far apart so don't take too much offense where I disagree with you. Also I am being brief out of necessity.
It's not the school bus driver or the principal. It's the kid in the seat next to them with the portable radio.
And kids will hear bad stuff, agreed. But a parent can dampen the awfulness of what they hear; and should. Kids do not have to hear the kind of schtick Stern peddles unless I do bury my head in the sand.
I will not support any platform that lays it's foundation upon the argument that your first ammendment rights stretch to filling my children's ears with filth.
I do agree with you that there needs to be a clear and objective standard as to what is indecent. But I can't beleive that describing oral sex, in great detail, to an 8 year old girl can in any sane society be considered anything else than indecent.
This was my post. I didn't mean to anonymize it. I'll take the kick in the karma for it.
Thomas Jefferson would have shot Stern.
I've never been able to understand the love afair with the mouse and the pretty icon. 10 fingers + 101 keys VERSUS three fingers and some pretty pictures. You do the math.
Well, now I'm depressed after reading the first paragraph. Do I dare read the entire review?
This racism is nauseating. Timothy, you should be ashamed.
Are you telling me all the rocks on mars are NOT blue on one side and red on the other?
Absolutely.
If my computer hadn't broken I wouldn't have upgraded it. If I hadn't of upgraded it I wouldn't have given it to my daughter. If I hadn't have given it to my daughter I wouldn't have bought a new one. Then I wouldn't have discovered the joys of multimedia beyond listening to music. The new machine came with WinME which if it hadn't been crap I wouldn't have had to mess with it to find out how much spyware Microsoft had put on it, I wouldn't have gone 100% linux, I wouldn't have picked up additional kudos for my resume, and I wouldn't have had so much fun wasting my time polishing my OS. Then I wouldn't have discovered gentoo and what it means to craft an operating system that was what I wanted and not what someone else wanted.
Waste my time some more.
Because spyware and junkmail isn't a crime committed upon us by little criminals. Microsoft includes spyware in their products. The government passed a codicle excusing the junkmail they spew. O'Reilly pages are loaded with links to doubleclick. And Barnes&Noble sells your electronic soul to akamai.
Just a thought: But what do you use your computer for, that you DON'T mind handing control of it over to Microsoft, Hollywood, and the Government? Playing games? Buying baubles off of the internet? As a portal for dronish entertainment?
I use my computer to manage my personal private data, for sharing information with people around the world, for finding out what's happening beyond the pale of Big Media, to reading literature in the public domain, and to listening to music not spoon fed to me by the RIAA cartel.
I use my computer to protect my freedom; just as much as any NRA advocate uses his gun. And I'll hand over my gun to the government faster than I'll hand over my computer to DRM and Palladium.
Our experiences were the same, but you expressed yourself better. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, I do hear myself. But will Microsoft hear me?
Kiss my wife, drive my car, scold my child, kick my dog, manipulate the data on my computer -- and I'll kick your ass.
I know exactly what I sound like.
Don't try to force me to compute the way you, and Hollywood, and the Government want me to compute. NO DRM. None. Nada. At all.No proprietary formats; I've already lost enough productivity, and personal data thinking to rely on Microsoft proprietary formats.
Don't sneak information off of my computers like I have caught you doing in the past. I'm as Microsoft free as I can possibly be after I installed a firewall and found out my Microsoft Works software, which I NEVER used, was ET-phoning-home every single week for supposed updates (which updates I was never offered in over two years of ET-phoning home. This is what began my rabid antiMicrosoft proselytizing.
It's MY computer. I don't lease it. I don't run it at your good pleasure, or under your benevolent supervision, or to your tune, or at your permission. It's MINE.
I don't get it. Where I work if we chose Debian (or any other distro) a mandate would come down from on high that the entire shop would be Debian with XXX (insert Gnome or KDE or twm; whichever you think would be the stupidest decision). So, unless I am missing something else, that argument can be disposed of.
In The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress Heinlein wrote, Alienating one third of your market at the outset is NOT "a good thing".
You got it all wrong. It's:
:)
VIle.
Did you read the article? Who gives a crap about spelling? I'm talking about comprehendible writing. There's at least 5 postings on this page complaining that the author has said exactly the opposite of what he meant to say, or that the article contains numerous sentences written so poorly that they have become meaningless. My veiled complaint: That seems to be the norm for OSNews articles. And I don't like being directed, through links, to such a poorly written journal.
You're a troll to try and make this out to be a cultural issue.
If OSNews is published by people for whom english is a second language then fine, I'll not complain about the difficulty I have reading thier articles. Otherwise, I'd really rather Slashdot not link to OSNews, Cowardous Troll.
I don't want to be a jerk about another OSNews article but will somebody please either tell me that OSNews is published in a nonEnglish speaking country or explain to me why Slashdot continues to link to thier articles? I consider content more important than style, but I find OSNews articles barely readable.
I'm confused. What's the overhead on selling me an album? You've got the store: the store's costs (utilities, labor, insurance), the store's markup, the materials, the packaging, the shipping, the production; all that cost versus the cost of selling me two songs online. Can the store really be so cost effective that the artists make out better by selling me an album rather than by me downloading a couple of songs for a couple of bucks?
All of this is rather academic as I am not having any difficulty in boycotting the RIAA. I haven't bought an album this year.
Speaking as an atypical linux zealot:
I don't hate stupid open source industry decisions because the open source industry isn't trying to cram DRM up my ^H^H^H^H^H^Hdown my throat. The open source industry doesn't hire ATF bigshots to scare me into tolerating their monopoly. And the open source industry doesn't demand a 50 dollar OS-that-I'll-never-use-tax on my wallet. No, I'll for-the-most-part tolerate, if with a little grumbling, stupid open source industry decisions.
On the other hand I'll unabashedly glory in every stupid decision that comes out of Hollywood and Redmond.
Thank you.
I once sat in a meeting with 200 company officers (of which I am sad to say I am one). The CIO told us in so many words that:
1) IT is hard
2) But he figured out a way to make our next set of decisions by paying 2! companies over a million to come in and evaluate us.
and 3) They both, amazingly, came up with the same suggestions!
so 4) Don't you think they are probably right?
Scott Adams is a god!
Yes, there's nothing so rare as a good leader. But since they are rare, and since there's nothing so gawd awful and destructive, yet dime-a-dozen plentiful, than a bad leader the concept of foisting a leader, any leader, on every team is assinine.
It would be far wiser for our upper management to leave the coders alone...and kick the non productive ones in the ass.
I've seen it work. It can work. But now I'm living in the Scott Adams Project Managed Hell.
I work in this industry in Tech Support. I work for a very large and prosperous company that has a completely disfunctional IT department, so my sample space may not be representative of the norm. But from where I sit, from what I've seen, ALL offshore work is crap. Software and Support, complete unmitigated crap.
EDS tried to grow lowbuck coders in the 80's. They got lowbuck code. Business today is trying to import low buck code. And that's what they're getting.
I'm not too prejudiced about very much, but I really beleive the best software is written in a backyard hotrod, garage tinkering society.
Oh, and before I foget to add, most of our "project managers" have the tech savy of my grandmother. Our end customers are 4 out of 5 times more knowledgable than the people we get to manage our projects. I was once part of a twenty man team that built an IBM mainframe computer center from scratch, and consolidated 3 centers down to it, in a 4 month period, start to finish. And in that 4 months we changed all of our 2000 user's ids (for performance reasons). We brought the datacenters down Friday PM and brought online the new datacenter Monday AM. Zero problems. That was without project managers; just a kickass director of IT and twenty "empowered" guys accountable for their work. Today? Well I'm currently working on a team that is taking 4 months to install a network diagnostic system to fix a problem that has been plaguing us for 14 months! But I guarantee you we are project managed up the ass.
Sorry..... I feel better now. Thank you for listening...
I'm paranoid as ****, I know this, but reading the proMicosoft comments has got me wondering: If I was Microsoft I would want to place some Spin Drs on Slashdot and at other traditionally counter-microsoft forums. Has anyone at Slashdot, with access to the historical posts, ever run an analysis to find posters that only ever commented proMicrosoft? If I found a subscriber with 50+ proMicrosoft posts and 0 nonMicrosoft posts I'd be awful suspicious. Just wondering.