You're the one full of shit here. You're totally unqualified to assess a profession in which you have zero experience.
I am a journalist, and there IS no story if the facts are wrong. Anyone who publishes a story they know to be false or even have doubts about is behaving unethically and this sort of practice is not the rule but the exception in the industry.
Again, take off your tin foil hat and recognize that those who write for a living are professionals just like you; they are not out to fool you into thinking like them, they are not out to get you somehow.
-Jem
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Vi and/or Emacs are included in every GNU/Linux distribution on the market. Pico, Nano and other easier-to-use editors are not -- so since you might be stuck using Vi or Emacs and since they are the most user-unfriendly things on the face of the planet with sermon-like help files, it would pay to add a quick list of important commands for each (save, edit, find, quit).
-Jem
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Too bad you're completely unqualified to make a statement like that.
What do you know of the field of journalism? What do you know about writing, freelancing, working for a news company? What do you know of integrity?
The very fact that Jayson Blair (and others like him) are found, fired, and publicly condemned for unethical journalism is proof that the industry does not tolerate such practices.
But you, the random nobody on someone else's blog site, happen to know the dark and dirty secrets of journalism. You don't need the facts -- you have the truth! All journalists suck because they're biased! Just like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore and Gordon Liddy and Ken Brown and Darl McBride and Al Franken know the truth in spite of the facts. Journalists, despite your bleak and uneducated assessment, are people obsessed with the facts regardless of what the drooling, feebly tutored folk-minds believe based on their faiths and fantasies.
Is your life so boring that you need to invent conspiracy theories to make it more interesting? Why don't you try using your imagination for more active purposes?
I've been meaning to change the order a bit, and I need to add X.org information and a crash course on Emacs anf Vi. Just have to find the time to do it.
Or you can do it and submit the changes. The SXW is here:
I don't know how anyone can write anything meaningful with a PDA -- too awkward and slow. I've found a nice paper notebook to be far more effective for quick notes and story/character ideas. When PDAs can do better handwriting translation without having to change the way you form letters, then it'll be useful to me.
Wouldn't that information be better contained in a good PIM on a laptop system?
I wouldn't trust any important data to a PDA. Too fragile... and if the mainboard dies or the screen breaks, I can't easily remove the hard drive and recover the data with another system.
My point is, the Microsoft people are taking the number of reported security vulnerabilities in Windows 2003 and comparing that to the number of security vulerabilities that have been reported in Red Hat Linux 7.2 and using that difference to "prove" that Windows is more secure than Linux. It's a combination of straw-man tactics and begging the question.
They claim that Windows is more secure because they compare Windows 2003 (new product, not a lot of time to find security holes) to Red Hat 7.2, which has not only been around for years but it's been unsupported for years, having been replaced many times over.
You can prove anything through selective analysis.
No, but if history holds true, this makes McDonalds a target for an SCO lawsuit. Both Chrysler and Autozone were former SCO UnixWare customers who switched to GNU/Linux.
It's funny -- you can lock down a player all you want, but not the output. Nothing stops you from running a standard audio cable from the output (headpone or speaker jack) of the DRM'd device into the input of an unrestricted device, thereby allowing you to copy the music.
Sure it's analog (unless you use S/PDIF), and there will be a slight reduction in quality, but it will definitely be a useable recording.
Yet another DRM technology defeated by a simply workaround.
I'd like to see this technology used extensively. Only then, when it's absolutely ridiculous, can there be the kind of angry, widespread non-cooperation that can bring down or properly declaw (regulate) the RIAA.
Things are bad now, but they're not bad enough to spark a revolt against the RIAA. They don't realize it, but they're bringing about their own doom.
Hmm... perhaps I meant more of an official representative. The ones we currently have are very bad at getting their point across without looking like wackos.
I admire RMS very much. Although I think ESR has personality problems (some say RMS does too, but I have not experienced this), I do respect him for what he's achieved on many levels. But they're both too political for their own good... they're fanatically political. They're making all Free Software users, developers and supporters look bad, as this NYT article suggests.
What you are seeing is the negative side-effect of one Eric Steven Raymond and his public voice. He "seems" to speak for the OSS community and that means that when the Times is looking for a way to pigeonhole OSS people, they assume his insane political beliefs apply to everyone.
People do the same with RMS sometimes, calling us all "communists" instead, even though Stallman is not truly a communist.
What the Free Software world needs is a nonpolitical leader, like Linus only more public. Maybe Bruce Perens?
We also need to downplay and minimize ESR's influence and publicity. At this point I think he's doing more harm than good.
Yeah, except you get better support from the companies you mentioned. Sun's support (at least the standard offering) is outsourced to India.
Who cares if it's Sun or RedHat or the community providing updates? The only track record for updates that I know of from Sun is with Solaris, and they only release updates quarterly (or monthly if you use Software Express).
JDS is a good *idea* but the way they implemented it is stupid. The kernel is so old that you can't run a lot of the hardware that is being sold today (or even last year, or even three or four years ago!).
Right-brained people are left-handed; left-brained people are right-handed. This is not always true, but it generally is.
Each hemisphere has its own duties, and usually the more structured part is the left hemisphere, and that's the one we want for motor tasks because it involves simple instructions in a proper order. Some people are "backwards" and their right hemisphere wants to handle writing and similar tasks.
Still there are others whose division of duties is scrambled -- not necessarily a bad thing, but people like this tend to have a totally different organizational structure. I believe this may be me; there are things I can't do right-handed (it took a long time to learn to shoot pool with my right hand, and it's still not comfortable), and there are some things I can't do left-handed (mousing). I'll also occasionally write a word backwards by accident if I'm handwriting (a right-handed task).
It's been a few years since I read up on this, but if you want to know more, there's a really good book called "How To Learn Anything Quickly" by Ricki Linksman. It explains brain hemispheric and sense preferences and how they assist you in learning and remembering.
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You're the one full of shit here. You're totally unqualified to assess a profession in which you have zero experience.
I am a journalist, and there IS no story if the facts are wrong. Anyone who publishes a story they know to be false or even have doubts about is behaving unethically and this sort of practice is not the rule but the exception in the industry.
Again, take off your tin foil hat and recognize that those who write for a living are professionals just like you; they are not out to fool you into thinking like them, they are not out to get you somehow.
-Jem
I say what I do because *I am* a journalist.
You insensitive clod.
-Jem
Vi and/or Emacs are included in every GNU/Linux distribution on the market. Pico, Nano and other easier-to-use editors are not -- so since you might be stuck using Vi or Emacs and since they are the most user-unfriendly things on the face of the planet with sermon-like help files, it would pay to add a quick list of important commands for each (save, edit, find, quit).
-Jem
Too bad you're completely unqualified to make a statement like that.
What do you know of the field of journalism? What do you know about writing, freelancing, working for a news company? What do you know of integrity?
The very fact that Jayson Blair (and others like him) are found, fired, and publicly condemned for unethical journalism is proof that the industry does not tolerate such practices.
But you, the random nobody on someone else's blog site, happen to know the dark and dirty secrets of journalism. You don't need the facts -- you have the truth! All journalists suck because they're biased! Just like Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore and Gordon Liddy and Ken Brown and Darl McBride and Al Franken know the truth in spite of the facts. Journalists, despite your bleak and uneducated assessment, are people obsessed with the facts regardless of what the drooling, feebly tutored folk-minds believe based on their faiths and fantasies.
Is your life so boring that you need to invent conspiracy theories to make it more interesting? Why don't you try using your imagination for more active purposes?
-Jem
I've been meaning to change the order a bit, and I need to add X.org information and a crash course on Emacs anf Vi. Just have to find the time to do it.
Or you can do it and submit the changes. The SXW is here:
http://www.thejemreport.com/TLLG.sxw
-Jem
Too bad more beginners don't know about it:
Linux Learner's Guide (PDF)
-JemAmazing how many imaginary inferences you've made from my post, and how angry you are as a result of your own misconceptions.
Take a vacation or something. Or see a therapist.
-Jem
I don't know how anyone can write anything meaningful with a PDA -- too awkward and slow. I've found a nice paper notebook to be far more effective for quick notes and story/character ideas. When PDAs can do better handwriting translation without having to change the way you form letters, then it'll be useful to me.
-Jem
Wouldn't that information be better contained in a good PIM on a laptop system?
I wouldn't trust any important data to a PDA. Too fragile... and if the mainboard dies or the screen breaks, I can't easily remove the hard drive and recover the data with another system.
-Jem
Does anyone here actually use a PDA for anything remotely interesting or useful (beyond impressing your techie friends with your new toy)?
I'd have bought one long ago if I thought I could actually use it for something meaningful.
My father has a Palm PDA of some kind... battery died about a year and a half ago and he hasn't bothered to replace it.
-Jem
Maybe because you paid $2k or more for it when it first came out?
Hard to part with all that cash. And that's 1989 money too.
-Jem
My point is, the Microsoft people are taking the number of reported security vulnerabilities in Windows 2003 and comparing that to the number of security vulerabilities that have been reported in Red Hat Linux 7.2 and using that difference to "prove" that Windows is more secure than Linux. It's a combination of straw-man tactics and begging the question.
-Jem
No, you're not the only one who thinks Apple hardware looks lame.
I want a machine, not a toy.
-JemThey claim that Windows is more secure because they compare Windows 2003 (new product, not a lot of time to find security holes) to Red Hat 7.2, which has not only been around for years but it's been unsupported for years, having been replaced many times over.
You can prove anything through selective analysis.
-Jem
I smell an astroturfer.
Two reputable reviewers found major problems with JDS2, and some AC on Slashdot negates them? Hmmm...
-Jem
No, but if history holds true, this makes McDonalds a target for an SCO lawsuit. Both Chrysler and Autozone were former SCO UnixWare customers who switched to GNU/Linux.
-Jem
Okay. How is it so much better than GNU/Linux at the high end? Give specific examples because presently I have no way of verifying your claims.
-Jem
According to the company, it's:
SOO-suh
-Jem
So then, to totally lock down a device you'd have to completely eliminate analog output.
Heh. Good luck there, RIAA.
-Jem
It's funny -- you can lock down a player all you want, but not the output. Nothing stops you from running a standard audio cable from the output (headpone or speaker jack) of the DRM'd device into the input of an unrestricted device, thereby allowing you to copy the music.
Sure it's analog (unless you use S/PDIF), and there will be a slight reduction in quality, but it will definitely be a useable recording.
Yet another DRM technology defeated by a simply workaround.
-Jem
I'd like to see this technology used extensively. Only then, when it's absolutely ridiculous, can there be the kind of angry, widespread non-cooperation that can bring down or properly declaw (regulate) the RIAA.
Things are bad now, but they're not bad enough to spark a revolt against the RIAA. They don't realize it, but they're bringing about their own doom.
-Jem
Hmm... perhaps I meant more of an official representative. The ones we currently have are very bad at getting their point across without looking like wackos.
I admire RMS very much. Although I think ESR has personality problems (some say RMS does too, but I have not experienced this), I do respect him for what he's achieved on many levels. But they're both too political for their own good... they're fanatically political. They're making all Free Software users, developers and supporters look bad, as this NYT article suggests.
-Jem
What you are seeing is the negative side-effect of one Eric Steven Raymond and his public voice. He "seems" to speak for the OSS community and that means that when the Times is looking for a way to pigeonhole OSS people, they assume his insane political beliefs apply to everyone.
People do the same with RMS sometimes, calling us all "communists" instead, even though Stallman is not truly a communist.
What the Free Software world needs is a nonpolitical leader, like Linus only more public. Maybe Bruce Perens?
We also need to downplay and minimize ESR's influence and publicity. At this point I think he's doing more harm than good.
-Jem
Yeah, except you get better support from the companies you mentioned. Sun's support (at least the standard offering) is outsourced to India.
Who cares if it's Sun or RedHat or the community providing updates? The only track record for updates that I know of from Sun is with Solaris, and they only release updates quarterly (or monthly if you use Software Express).
JDS is a good *idea* but the way they implemented it is stupid. The kernel is so old that you can't run a lot of the hardware that is being sold today (or even last year, or even three or four years ago!).
-Jem
Right-brained people are left-handed; left-brained people are right-handed. This is not always true, but it generally is.
Each hemisphere has its own duties, and usually the more structured part is the left hemisphere, and that's the one we want for motor tasks because it involves simple instructions in a proper order. Some people are "backwards" and their right hemisphere wants to handle writing and similar tasks.
Still there are others whose division of duties is scrambled -- not necessarily a bad thing, but people like this tend to have a totally different organizational structure. I believe this may be me; there are things I can't do right-handed (it took a long time to learn to shoot pool with my right hand, and it's still not comfortable), and there are some things I can't do left-handed (mousing). I'll also occasionally write a word backwards by accident if I'm handwriting (a right-handed task).
It's been a few years since I read up on this, but if you want to know more, there's a really good book called "How To Learn Anything Quickly" by Ricki Linksman. It explains brain hemispheric and sense preferences and how they assist you in learning and remembering.
-Jem