What a disappointment. A number of years back I remember Adbusters as being a fairly open-ended 'cultural jamming' organization.
Now it looks like another fax-portal for the standard 'issue of the day' drivel. All the usual 'talking points' and I didn't see much at all that was clever or based deeply in culture.
You're right. They're so far off from Mainstream that the broadcasters would be nuts to run their ads. It would just annoy regular folks who would change the channel.
Microsoft achived their market share by listening to customers, and slowly providing what their customers wanted. Granted, they have a broad and not very tech-savvy customer base. Also, they got their market share with mediocre but very backwards-compatible systems software that has allowed people to slough along with the same old crap for literally decades.
Microsoft's marketing really isn't that good. It's kinda lackluster. They have a captive market and have for most of the history of their company. Microsoft marketing is fat and lazy.
I didn't do anything that fancy. A few 'block images from this server' rightclicks in Mozilla and Slashdot's pages are clean as a whistle. Block images.slashdot.org while you're at it and choose the 'light' option in your preferences.
Orwell's vision is coming true, little by little by little...
George Orwell's vision had come true, in the big noisy clunky physical world, before he even wrote the book '1984.'
It was about Stalinism. I know that most of us had 'new left' influenced teachers in High School, where we were forced to study '1984,' and thus nobody mentioned the 'dirty russkies' (without heavy footnotes to 'McCarthyism, etc'), but the truth stands. Orwell was a disgruntled 'fellow traveller' of the Communists, and the world he described in '1984' was already in existence when he wrote the book.
It's almost a 'Soylent Green Is People' thing to have to bring stuff like this up, because everybody is so afraid to acknowlege what went on in Russia.
Many companies (foreign especially) were caught off guard by the SUV fad.
The SUV fad was the direct result of the auto-safety and environmental lobbies.
Things like bumper crash endurance standards and fuel efficiency were targeted on passenger vehicles. Pickup trucks and utility vehicles were exempted from these requirements. So the SUV became an economical alternative to a big passenger vehicle.
Environmentalists who rave and fume about SUVs created the problem.
they are a nice treat for your dog, not to mention great for keeping them occupied for 3 hours when you have guests over.
And there's nothing more pleasing for your barbeque guests than the dog under the picnic table knawing on entrails.
There's a family story here, sorta. When my dad was growing up there was a neighborhood dog that my grandfather wanted to stop hanging out in his yard. He sent a message to the dogs owners by giving it a deers leg from a hunting trip. The dog hauled the deer's leg home. Reportedly, the dog wasn't allowed to roam freely around the neighborhood after that.
For example there is a 10:1 conversion factor from grain to beef for feedlot cattle and 50:1 for range cattle.
The fallacy in that figure is that range cattle eat grass, not grain.
There are vast areas of land in the world that are optimal for growing grass for cattle grazing. The cow happens to be one of the most efficient ways of converting that grass into protein for human consumption.
A lot of cattle are grain-fed, however, which is wasteful and your point is correct for those cattle.
Where is this gathered and concentrated lye disposed of? It sounds like nasty stuff. It's cool for a few people to experiment with 'alternatives' like this, but they need to be careful, because they could be producing their own personal superfund site.
It's very similar in a way to the 'split wood, not atoms' alternative wood heating movement of the seventies. Wood is an atrociously inefficient and polluting way to heat. A few people can do it in a counter-culture, but places where it is mainstream in the 3rd world are pollution hellholes because of it.
I'm more than nervous driving automatics. They just drive me mad.
Maybe it goes back to an auto-transmission horror story I was forced to drive a few times in my youth. My dad mostly commuted to the airport for a few years so he bought the cheapest light-duty japcar he could find. He got a Datsun 210 with a tiny engine and an automatic transmission. It also had a problem where it would drop out of gear for a second or more between shift ranges. It was a horrible nuckle-clenching experience trying to merge onto the freeway with that car. The engine would drop completely out of commission as you got up to 45 and were merging on the road.
I prefer my 5 speed Saturn now. Even though when I bought it on the used lot at the Saturn dealership it was one of two manual vehicles on the lot to pick from.
Why does it seem like each and every massive pickup truck I see on the road that has the double tires in back look shiny brand new like it's never been used for any form of work? I drive a long commute these days, through a lot of types of traffic, and I never ever can recall seeing one of those quad-rear-tire trucks in an application as an actual working truck. The beat up real tradesmen trucks all seem to be normal single-tires-in-rear vehicles.
I'm starting to feel like it's some sort of a dicksize or inadequacy thing.
Then why didn't you say 'go to Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake's site and look up their formal HCL,' instead of the usual 'cast a few search terms into the noise stream of google.' You made your point, but you made it one message late in the exchange.
Where I'm working contract right now, there are XT, 386, and 486 machines out in the T&E lab doing a lot of productive work. They're driving stepper motors in sequences, etc. The software they're running is GWBasic code on MS-DOS.
It's not an area of the company I have much to do with. But those machines do a hell of a lot of work, and they do it well.
There are a lot of really bad third-party developers of software for Microsoft's OSes. They have no clue how to write an app to Microsoft's security model. Microsoft is somewhat at fault for allowing said developers to claim 'It runs on Windows' on their packaging. An app written for Linux that will only run under root is automatically considered broken. The same should be true for Microsoft OSes.
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I checked out the Adbusters link provided.
What a disappointment. A number of years back I remember Adbusters as being a fairly open-ended 'cultural jamming' organization.
Now it looks like another fax-portal for the standard 'issue of the day' drivel. All the usual 'talking points' and I didn't see much at all that was clever or based deeply in culture.
You're right. They're so far off from Mainstream that the broadcasters would be nuts to run their ads. It would just annoy regular folks who would change the channel.
Freedom of Association is the one that never gets mentioned or championed, though.
It's in there with the other rights. Check into it.
Microsoft achived their market share by listening to customers, and slowly providing what their customers wanted. Granted, they have a broad and not very tech-savvy customer base. Also, they got their market share with mediocre but very backwards-compatible systems software that has allowed people to slough along with the same old crap for literally decades.
Microsoft's marketing really isn't that good. It's kinda lackluster. They have a captive market and have for most of the history of their company. Microsoft marketing is fat and lazy.
In fact most PHBs would probably see the ads and not bother reading the article.
What really, REALLY is gonna promote Linux in a positive light is patronizing attitudes like yours.
I hope my sarcasm is apparent.
I didn't do anything that fancy. A few 'block images from this server' rightclicks in Mozilla and Slashdot's pages are clean as a whistle. Block images.slashdot.org while you're at it and choose the 'light' option in your preferences.
The more interesting question is wether there was a way to detect who was doing it.
Is there a DRM advocate under you bed at night when you are trying to go to sleep?
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Just wondering. .
Orwell's vision is coming true, little by little by little...
George Orwell's vision had come true, in the big noisy clunky physical world, before he even wrote the book '1984.'
It was about Stalinism. I know that most of us had 'new left' influenced teachers in High School, where we were forced to study '1984,' and thus nobody mentioned the 'dirty russkies' (without heavy footnotes to 'McCarthyism, etc'), but the truth stands. Orwell was a disgruntled 'fellow traveller' of the Communists, and the world he described in '1984' was already in existence when he wrote the book.
It's almost a 'Soylent Green Is People' thing to have to bring stuff like this up, because everybody is so afraid to acknowlege what went on in Russia.
The PATRIOT act part comes from the fact that this is a Michael article.
The only surprising part is it's not somehow contrived as a YRO topic.
There are hundreds, even thousands, of 'other peaceful purposes' that can be cited.
Hell, any one of us could rattle off a dozen of them without having to think hard.
Many companies (foreign especially) were caught off guard by the SUV fad.
The SUV fad was the direct result of the auto-safety and environmental lobbies.
Things like bumper crash endurance standards and fuel efficiency were targeted on passenger vehicles. Pickup trucks and utility vehicles were exempted from these requirements. So the SUV became an economical alternative to a big passenger vehicle.
Environmentalists who rave and fume about SUVs created the problem.
they are a nice treat for your dog, not to mention great for keeping them occupied for 3 hours when you have guests over.
And there's nothing more pleasing for your barbeque guests than the dog under the picnic table knawing on entrails.
There's a family story here, sorta. When my dad was growing up there was a neighborhood dog that my grandfather wanted to stop hanging out in his yard. He sent a message to the dogs owners by giving it a deers leg from a hunting trip. The dog hauled the deer's leg home. Reportedly, the dog wasn't allowed to roam freely around the neighborhood after that.
The idea can evolve further, so that we don't all commute to a big central city for work.
Networking and telecommunications are a step toward that.
A further step toward that, of course, is the company dormitories that semi-forced-laborers live in in the third world, of course.
For example there is a 10:1 conversion factor from grain to beef for feedlot cattle and 50:1 for range cattle.
The fallacy in that figure is that range cattle eat grass, not grain.
There are vast areas of land in the world that are optimal for growing grass for cattle grazing. The cow happens to be one of the most efficient ways of converting that grass into protein for human consumption.
A lot of cattle are grain-fed, however, which is wasteful and your point is correct for those cattle.
Now we just need to figure out a use for the stems, man.
Where is this gathered and concentrated lye disposed of? It sounds like nasty stuff. It's cool for a few people to experiment with 'alternatives' like this, but they need to be careful, because they could be producing their own personal superfund site.
It's very similar in a way to the 'split wood, not atoms' alternative wood heating movement of the seventies. Wood is an atrociously inefficient and polluting way to heat. A few people can do it in a counter-culture, but places where it is mainstream in the 3rd world are pollution hellholes because of it.
I'm more than nervous driving automatics. They just drive me mad.
Maybe it goes back to an auto-transmission horror story I was forced to drive a few times in my youth. My dad mostly commuted to the airport for a few years so he bought the cheapest light-duty japcar he could find. He got a Datsun 210 with a tiny engine and an automatic transmission. It also had a problem where it would drop out of gear for a second or more between shift ranges. It was a horrible nuckle-clenching experience trying to merge onto the freeway with that car. The engine would drop completely out of commission as you got up to 45 and were merging on the road.
I prefer my 5 speed Saturn now. Even though when I bought it on the used lot at the Saturn dealership it was one of two manual vehicles on the lot to pick from.
This is offtopic but I feel like asking it:
Why does it seem like each and every massive pickup truck I see on the road that has the double tires in back look shiny brand new like it's never been used for any form of work? I drive a long commute these days, through a lot of types of traffic, and I never ever can recall seeing one of those quad-rear-tire trucks in an application as an actual working truck. The beat up real tradesmen trucks all seem to be normal single-tires-in-rear vehicles.
I'm starting to feel like it's some sort of a dicksize or inadequacy thing.
Then why didn't you say 'go to Red Hat, SuSE, or Mandrake's site and look up their formal HCL,' instead of the usual 'cast a few search terms into the noise stream of google.' You made your point, but you made it one message late in the exchange.
I run Slackware with FVWM2. I have a well-tuned .fvwm2rc and wouldn't be without it. Now that Motif is free, mwm is another decent option.
Been using Slack since the 1.2 kernel days. I tried Red Hat 4.3 but went back to Slack.
Where I'm working contract right now, there are XT, 386, and 486 machines out in the T&E lab doing a lot of productive work. They're driving stepper motors in sequences, etc. The software they're running is GWBasic code on MS-DOS.
It's not an area of the company I have much to do with. But those machines do a hell of a lot of work, and they do it well.
There are a lot of really bad third-party developers of software for Microsoft's OSes. They have no clue how to write an app to Microsoft's security model. Microsoft is somewhat at fault for allowing said developers to claim 'It runs on Windows' on their packaging. An app written for Linux that will only run under root is automatically considered broken. The same should be true for Microsoft OSes.
Yeah, man, yeah.
Well, you bring up an interesting point.
Red Hat has 5 year support cycles now.
They didn't in 2002.
We'll see if they do in 2005, won't we?
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I have a bunch of ripe banannas here. I'll sell them to you cheap. Guaranteed fresh for two months. Until tomorrow.
Microsoft is being forced into deeper service (and increased costs) by the same ruthless market that made them rich.
Yes. They're responding to the marketplace, something Microsoft had done well for years and years.
It means a lot more to most regular people than some hacker scratching an itch.