When two opposing sides agree on common, verifiable elements, those common elements are facts. When two experts agree on a standard and accepted policy or interpretation, that policy or interpretation is a fact.
Duh! That's because there are more people in the world than there have ever been and there are more "political pundit" TV shows, books, and now movies that basically lie or mislead with the intention of getting people on "their side." Take out all of the political shit in the media and there will be less uproar, and emotionally unstable people can go back to being bad neighbors instead of protestors.
I bet you can't name one Bush policy -- the whole thing -- without looking it up. Even then I'm betting you'll quote or reference your favorite anti-Bush rag. I'm betting you're as politically ignorant as the protestors are, yet you're all charged up to do something about it.
You have to keep in mind that Holland is a totally different culture than the one in the United States. Their people may be able to handle things that ours can't, and vice-versa. It's partially genetic, partially social culture.
Show me evidence to suggest that legalizing drugs *in the United States* will solve more problems than it will create, and then you'll have something worth asking.
I would say that OpenBSD is a better starter server; it's easier to secure and the afterboot man page tells you pretty much everything you have to know to get started with a variety of different services. The man pages in OpenBSD are just outstanding, and the quality of the code is unmatched.
If only it had the desktop apps I need, I'd use it as a desktop machine. As it is, I have it on my laptop so I can learn to do more through the CLI (email, IRC, learning vi, maybe get into C programming).
And this is coming from someone who uses FreeBSD as his main workstation OS.
Magnatune is incredible -- if only they also had Opera, I'd never have cause to listen to anything else.
I listen to the New Age and Electronica shoutcast stations from Magnatune on Rhythmbox petty much all day and night.
For people who like new music -- and it's *good* music, too -- Magnatune is probably the best Internet resource.
You choose what you want to pay for an album ($4 minimum, $8 suggested, the sky is the limit) and 50% goes to the artist. You can download full-quality WAVs, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, and I think there's one more. You can also download all of the album art in PDF format, so you can write your own CDs as they would be from the store, minus the DRM.
I usually get the WAV zip file, then compress it to OGG/Vorbis for my computer and write the WAVs to CD for my car.
No, he was elected. I'm so sick of people saying that "Bush stole the election" and a bunch of other leftist bullshit. You should read this before you go on FUDing the president:
I seem to recall in my research a while ago that Sandia National Laboratories is part of Halliburton. So much for the war in Iraq being "about oil" and Dick Cheney.
No, that is not true. A license cannot violate the laws of your country, and in the U.S. a license cannot take away any of your constitutional rights.
A provision in a license does not give someone superpowers over you. The only remedy legally available to software distributors/makers/developers that have users who are breaking the terms of the license is: termination of the license. There is no way to legally destroy files on a user's machine no matter what they have done to you.
Sounds to me like someone who doesn't like all of the new "security" measures has hacked the list to include people important enough to effect some change. Why else would two prominent congressmen be on a security watch list?
VA Software is highly corporate in its practices; that much no one who is in the know will dispute.
You might not have noticed, but Microsoft pays OSTG for advertising space. Just food for thought.
What I tried to tell you above is, Slashdot is its own separate animal. I have no more control over moderation and content choices than you do. I don't even get a free subscription. Slashdot is to online news what the O'Reilly Factor is to television news. In other words, you'll get the news plus a certain slant and some interesting discussion. The particular slant that all OSTG sites have is toward Linux and open-source software. That's our niche, and we work to fill it. If you want Windows news, go to CNet or MSN. If you don't like the slant that Slashdot takes toward news, then edit your front page preferences or stop reading if it really infuriates you that much. Personally I despise the pro-Apple slant that Slashdot takes, but that's easily fixed by blocking Apple stories.
I didn't notice that the Windows icon was shattered until you mentioned it.
If you want *real* news, in the old sense, you really ought to spend more time on NewsForge and IT Manager's Journal. We have real reporters doing real news there, plus insightful commentary from people like me, Joe Barr, Roblimo, and others, and reviews of Linux software. Slashdot, as I've tried to assert, is a *news discussion* site. The editors find the dozen-or-so stories that they think are most interesting and discussion-worthy and they post them regularly for us to read and talk about. If you really want to protest against an anti-Microsoft slant (which doesn't exist; there are articles that expose problems with linux too, but there just aren't as many problems to report), then your best weapon is to do so with intelligent comments exposing the fallacies in the article. Attacking the editors will accomplish nothing.
Rumors spread with or without Slashdot; it's the unfortunate reality of human communication that misinformation will be spread a certain percentage of the time.
So the moral of the story is this... OSTG has little/nothing to do with what goes on Slashdot -- that's up to the moderator on duty and Rob Malda. The stories posted here are not researched or verified, and the reason why they are not edited is for the sake of preserving the integrity of the submission. That is not at all the case with the other OSTG sites, which employ at least one professional full-time editor to read through every article.
If OSTG doesn't take your suggestions, it's only because what Slashdot is doing now is *working well* and they don't want to mess with it. It's hard to argue with success.
First of all, it's OSTG. Name change happened about three weeks ago.
Anyway, Slashdot is almost completely separate from the rest of the OSTG sites. They all have the same Editor In Chief (Roblimo), but he doesn't dictate content to the writers; our primary requirement is to follow what it says on the masthead. I write for NewsForge and Linux.com and I have never met or spoken with Rob Malda. I don't even know what he looks like. If I write a story for NF and post it to the Slashdot submission bin, I have no more chance of getting it on Slashdot than when all of my content was posted on The Jem Report. Check my recent submissions list if you don't believe me.
Slashdot is not a news site, it is a blog -- a discussion site where people talk about current events in the IT industry and related topics. NewsForge is a news site, IT Manager's Journal is a news site, and Linux.com is really more of a review site -- no news, but very nice business-oriented content. It just so happens that on NF, Lc, and ITMJ we publish some of the industry's best news and reviews. If those three sites were not part of the same parent company as Slashdot, we would still regularly get our stories into the Slashdot submission bin.
The people who have editorial control over these sites are highly professional and are constantly guarding the integrity of each OSTG site. The only agenda that we have is posted on the masthead of each site... the online newspaper for Linux and open source; the enterprise Linux resource; tracking the evolution of IT; news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Little of our work is specifically anti-Microsoft. It just so happens that Microsoft is a pain in the ass, throwing its weight around to harrass smaller software companies, astroturfing (although the worst astroturfing I've seen lately comes from Linux software companies, not Microsoft or SCO), spreading heinous FUD, funding misleading studies and creating monsters like Ken Brown and Rob Enderle. Microsoft hates Linux and free software, and as they continue to fight, we will continue to write about what they're doing.
But it's easier to just pass us all off as a bunch of unprofessional hacks who enjoy manipulating innocent readers into believing our sick and twisted agenda. Because you believe everything you read and can't think critically or make decisions for yourself, right? Gosh I hope so -- otherwise it's curtains for online journalists.
Well, here's the problem: Anandtech has been around forever and has a lot of readers. They don't have a lot of readers because they write good reviews, they have a lot of readers because they have a lot of content and have been around a long time.
I regularly request review hardware for reviews on The Jem Report and Linux.com, but IF I get anything, it's the second batch of samples that comes in a month or more after Anadtech and THG and the other lame gamer/OCer sites get them.
The problem is, the manufacturers think that the OCers and gamers are the whole market. With the exception fo VIA and ATI, hardware companies think Linux doesn't matter.
Some hardware companies (crApple) won't send anything unless they are assured a "win" in the benchmark tests. I told them I was going to test a G5 using BSD and GNU/Linux variants to gauge 64-bit performance and they said they would not send out any hardware to people who would not use OSX as the test platform.
You are totally wrong. The OS X kernel has nothing to do with FreeBSD... OS X is based on Darwin. Darwin is based on Mach and NeXTstep, with many userland programs from FreeBSD. The heart of OS X has little/nothing to do with FreeBSD.
A couple of years ago there was an artificial heart installation in Rochester, NY that gave a "pulseless" heart to an old man. He lived for a little more than a year, then died of something else I think.
There was quite a discussion about that on the AMD64 list. I think it had to do with threading, and I'm pretty sure it's been fixed in CURRENT (which uses linuxthreads by default).
So 5.3-RELEASE should be closer in performance to Mandrake and other GNU/Linux distros.
If anything, the overclocker group is *shrinking*, not growing. Back when there was a huge difference with OCing, it had a following. Nowadays it isn't nearly as popular or as common a practice not necessarily out of technological restriction so much as a lack of need for an insignificant gain in speed.
There IS such a thing as bad publicity, and SCO is proof of that. Their public image is so tarnished that they will never be able to do any significant legitimate business under the SCO name again.
Other examples of bad publicity include reports of violence at clubs and restaurants (that can tank a business like that), or even persistent rumors, which can negatively affect one's career.
Slashdot Mirror
When two opposing sides agree on common, verifiable elements, those common elements are facts. When two experts agree on a standard and accepted policy or interpretation, that policy or interpretation is a fact.
Now quit trolling and RTFA.
-Jem
Duh! That's because there are more people in the world than there have ever been and there are more "political pundit" TV shows, books, and now movies that basically lie or mislead with the intention of getting people on "their side." Take out all of the political shit in the media and there will be less uproar, and emotionally unstable people can go back to being bad neighbors instead of protestors.
I bet you can't name one Bush policy -- the whole thing -- without looking it up. Even then I'm betting you'll quote or reference your favorite anti-Bush rag. I'm betting you're as politically ignorant as the protestors are, yet you're all charged up to do something about it.
-Jem
You have to keep in mind that Holland is a totally different culture than the one in the United States. Their people may be able to handle things that ours can't, and vice-versa. It's partially genetic, partially social culture.
Show me evidence to suggest that legalizing drugs *in the United States* will solve more problems than it will create, and then you'll have something worth asking.
-Jem
I would say that OpenBSD is a better starter server; it's easier to secure and the afterboot man page tells you pretty much everything you have to know to get started with a variety of different services. The man pages in OpenBSD are just outstanding, and the quality of the code is unmatched.
If only it had the desktop apps I need, I'd use it as a desktop machine. As it is, I have it on my laptop so I can learn to do more through the CLI (email, IRC, learning vi, maybe get into C programming).
And this is coming from someone who uses FreeBSD as his main workstation OS.
-Jem
Magnatune is incredible -- if only they also had Opera, I'd never have cause to listen to anything else.
I listen to the New Age and Electronica shoutcast stations from Magnatune on Rhythmbox petty much all day and night.
For people who like new music -- and it's *good* music, too -- Magnatune is probably the best Internet resource.
You choose what you want to pay for an album ($4 minimum, $8 suggested, the sky is the limit) and 50% goes to the artist. You can download full-quality WAVs, MP3, OGG, FLAC, AAC, and I think there's one more. You can also download all of the album art in PDF format, so you can write your own CDs as they would be from the store, minus the DRM.
I usually get the WAV zip file, then compress it to OGG/Vorbis for my computer and write the WAVs to CD for my car.
-Jem
No, he was elected. I'm so sick of people saying that "Bush stole the election" and a bunch of other leftist bullshit. You should read this before you go on FUDing the president:
Recount analysis by NYT (no reg required)
I don't like Bush either, but you don't see me resorting to FUD to try to sway people's opinions.
-Jem
I seem to recall in my research a while ago that Sandia National Laboratories is part of Halliburton. So much for the war in Iraq being "about oil" and Dick Cheney.
-Jem
1-2-3-4-5? That's the combination on my luggage!
No, that is not true. A license cannot violate the laws of your country, and in the U.S. a license cannot take away any of your constitutional rights.
A provision in a license does not give someone superpowers over you. The only remedy legally available to software distributors/makers/developers that have users who are breaking the terms of the license is: termination of the license. There is no way to legally destroy files on a user's machine no matter what they have done to you.
-Jem
Sounds to me like someone who doesn't like all of the new "security" measures has hacked the list to include people important enough to effect some change. Why else would two prominent congressmen be on a security watch list?
-Jem
VA Software is highly corporate in its practices; that much no one who is in the know will dispute.
You might not have noticed, but Microsoft pays OSTG for advertising space. Just food for thought.
What I tried to tell you above is, Slashdot is its own separate animal. I have no more control over moderation and content choices than you do. I don't even get a free subscription. Slashdot is to online news what the O'Reilly Factor is to television news. In other words, you'll get the news plus a certain slant and some interesting discussion. The particular slant that all OSTG sites have is toward Linux and open-source software. That's our niche, and we work to fill it. If you want Windows news, go to CNet or MSN. If you don't like the slant that Slashdot takes toward news, then edit your front page preferences or stop reading if it really infuriates you that much. Personally I despise the pro-Apple slant that Slashdot takes, but that's easily fixed by blocking Apple stories.
I didn't notice that the Windows icon was shattered until you mentioned it.
If you want *real* news, in the old sense, you really ought to spend more time on NewsForge and IT Manager's Journal. We have real reporters doing real news there, plus insightful commentary from people like me, Joe Barr, Roblimo, and others, and reviews of Linux software. Slashdot, as I've tried to assert, is a *news discussion* site. The editors find the dozen-or-so stories that they think are most interesting and discussion-worthy and they post them regularly for us to read and talk about. If you really want to protest against an anti-Microsoft slant (which doesn't exist; there are articles that expose problems with linux too, but there just aren't as many problems to report), then your best weapon is to do so with intelligent comments exposing the fallacies in the article. Attacking the editors will accomplish nothing.
Rumors spread with or without Slashdot; it's the unfortunate reality of human communication that misinformation will be spread a certain percentage of the time.
So the moral of the story is this... OSTG has little/nothing to do with what goes on Slashdot -- that's up to the moderator on duty and Rob Malda. The stories posted here are not researched or verified, and the reason why they are not edited is for the sake of preserving the integrity of the submission. That is not at all the case with the other OSTG sites, which employ at least one professional full-time editor to read through every article.
If OSTG doesn't take your suggestions, it's only because what Slashdot is doing now is *working well* and they don't want to mess with it. It's hard to argue with success.
-Jem
First of all, it's OSTG. Name change happened about three weeks ago.
Anyway, Slashdot is almost completely separate from the rest of the OSTG sites. They all have the same Editor In Chief (Roblimo), but he doesn't dictate content to the writers; our primary requirement is to follow what it says on the masthead. I write for NewsForge and Linux.com and I have never met or spoken with Rob Malda. I don't even know what he looks like. If I write a story for NF and post it to the Slashdot submission bin, I have no more chance of getting it on Slashdot than when all of my content was posted on The Jem Report. Check my recent submissions list if you don't believe me.
Slashdot is not a news site, it is a blog -- a discussion site where people talk about current events in the IT industry and related topics. NewsForge is a news site, IT Manager's Journal is a news site, and Linux.com is really more of a review site -- no news, but very nice business-oriented content. It just so happens that on NF, Lc, and ITMJ we publish some of the industry's best news and reviews. If those three sites were not part of the same parent company as Slashdot, we would still regularly get our stories into the Slashdot submission bin.
The people who have editorial control over these sites are highly professional and are constantly guarding the integrity of each OSTG site. The only agenda that we have is posted on the masthead of each site... the online newspaper for Linux and open source; the enterprise Linux resource; tracking the evolution of IT; news for nerds, stuff that matters.
Little of our work is specifically anti-Microsoft. It just so happens that Microsoft is a pain in the ass, throwing its weight around to harrass smaller software companies, astroturfing (although the worst astroturfing I've seen lately comes from Linux software companies, not Microsoft or SCO), spreading heinous FUD, funding misleading studies and creating monsters like Ken Brown and Rob Enderle. Microsoft hates Linux and free software, and as they continue to fight, we will continue to write about what they're doing.
But it's easier to just pass us all off as a bunch of unprofessional hacks who enjoy manipulating innocent readers into believing our sick and twisted agenda. Because you believe everything you read and can't think critically or make decisions for yourself, right? Gosh I hope so -- otherwise it's curtains for online journalists.
-Jem
And the proof of this is that the parent post was marked as Flamebait...
-Jem
You fool, this is a Mac website! The real reason is so that no one can dis crApple's installed base.
-Jem
Well, here's the problem: Anandtech has been around forever and has a lot of readers. They don't have a lot of readers because they write good reviews, they have a lot of readers because they have a lot of content and have been around a long time.
I regularly request review hardware for reviews on The Jem Report and Linux.com, but IF I get anything, it's the second batch of samples that comes in a month or more after Anadtech and THG and the other lame gamer/OCer sites get them.
The problem is, the manufacturers think that the OCers and gamers are the whole market. With the exception fo VIA and ATI, hardware companies think Linux doesn't matter.
Some hardware companies (crApple) won't send anything unless they are assured a "win" in the benchmark tests. I told them I was going to test a G5 using BSD and GNU/Linux variants to gauge 64-bit performance and they said they would not send out any hardware to people who would not use OSX as the test platform.
I did do some pretty comprehesive testing on AMD64 vs. 1386 on FreeBSD, if it matters to you.
-Jem
You are totally wrong. The OS X kernel has nothing to do with FreeBSD... OS X is based on Darwin. Darwin is based on Mach and NeXTstep, with many userland programs from FreeBSD. The heart of OS X has little/nothing to do with FreeBSD.
-Jem
A couple of years ago there was an artificial heart installation in Rochester, NY that gave a "pulseless" heart to an old man. He lived for a little more than a year, then died of something else I think.
Old news?
-Jem
Actually, Slashcode does work nicely with ispell... in the backend.
-Jem
There was quite a discussion about that on the AMD64 list. I think it had to do with threading, and I'm pretty sure it's been fixed in CURRENT (which uses linuxthreads by default).
So 5.3-RELEASE should be closer in performance to Mandrake and other GNU/Linux distros.
-Jem
Yeah, but Gentoo 2004.0 doesn't work correctly on a lot of AMD64 hardware. Gentoo needs a serious update before it can be usable.
-Jem
I did a 64/32-bit comparison on FreeBSD a while ago, and then did some comparisons in SuSE 9.1.
I haven't gotten around to 3D benchmarking yet, but soon...
-Jem
Lie. Corporate America is all about lying; how it's done, when it's done, and whom to lie to.
Or just twist the facts a little. Doctor your resume. Cook your C.V. Overstate your importance.
Or work on Free Software projects and list them all in your resume.
-Jem
If anything, the overclocker group is *shrinking*, not growing. Back when there was a huge difference with OCing, it had a following. Nowadays it isn't nearly as popular or as common a practice not necessarily out of technological restriction so much as a lack of need for an insignificant gain in speed.
-Jem
Yes, yuppies of the world, rejoice! You can now combine your two most trendy, overpriced possessions...
-Jem
There IS such a thing as bad publicity, and SCO is proof of that. Their public image is so tarnished that they will never be able to do any significant legitimate business under the SCO name again.
Other examples of bad publicity include reports of violence at clubs and restaurants (that can tank a business like that), or even persistent rumors, which can negatively affect one's career.
-Jem