The Fairness Doctrine has become obsolete and irrelevant. It comes from an era of limited media bandwidth, when broadcast stations had to be doled out as limited resources.
Cable and Satellite television render it irrelevant, and in fact an dangerous intrusion into the Free Press. Do we really want government censors deciding what is 'fair' news coverage?
It is not necessary for the blogs to somehow become 'elevated' for 'traditional journalism' to fall in credibility. 'Journalistic Objectivity' is just so much bullshit. It isn't possible, and it's fraud to pretend it is possible.
That's the point. Not to climb up onto a high-horse. To tell the 'journalists' to get the f off theirs.
'ACTUAL' news, also known as Mainstream News, or MSM, is dying.
Hadn't you heard? Everybody else has. They cashed in so many chips in the recent election that people like Dan Rather may soon need training on the Fry Machine.
Ford wouldn't kill the passenger car if they ceased making them, either. But it would be idiocy for Ford to do so. And if Ford had abruptly quit producing the Model T early in it's run, it surely would have stunted adoption of the automobile. Some feel the same about Red Hat, that they made an idiotic move, and it stunted the desktop market.
I see a whole ton of architectures as being the future of NetBSD, and in fact, the future of any viable cross platform OS. In particular, I don't see any arch. as the 'future.' Cross-platform requirements keep programmers sharp and honest. Any single-platform focus is bad and negative.
I.e. I think an OS 'succeeds' to the degree that it builds on not just latest-greatest. Does it still build properly on the 68K and ARM? If not, why not?
If you're game for a little hardware hacking, you maintain and keep the original hardware running.
Ten years from now, guess whose 'investment' will be worth more? The guy with a Pentium II he has to keep up and running to 'emulate' the old game, or the guy who's kept his old game running in top condition?
Mangling classic console gaming controls to plug them into a printer port on some shitty x86 box is just vandalism against the old hardware.
The Tandy Color Computer was a TRS-80. There were a bunch of different TRS-80 machines, ya know. Like the Model II, which was a 68000 based machine.
The original was the Model I of course. Whatta kludge: criss-crossing the Address and Data lines almost entirely unbuffered to make a Matrix keyboard interface. An RFI nightmare, one might add.
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I have an Altos 586. But it's not what people think when they hear '586'. It's an 8086 based machine with serial ports to support five users. It runs an authentic UNIX, too. Pre-SCO Microsoft Xenix. It's pretty cool, a licensed (System III) UNIX box with an OS ported by Microsoft, that supports five users on an 8086 processor in 512K of RAM.
I have one of those, a Tandy Pocket Computer PC-8.
I got it on eBay several years ago and occasionally use it. It has 2K of memory and programs in BASIC.
Mine still has the battery in it that it had when I acquired it, and I've used it some. I am wondering how long the battery will last. Seems like forever. Which is sorta amazing for a machine from the mid 80's that runs off a button battery.
I also have a HP95LX, which is a nice small MS-DOS machine, with the high quality of an HP Calculator (built by the same HP division, the Corvalis division.) I've got MASM installed on it for writing Assembly Language stuff. It probably could hold Borland Turbo C if I wanted.
But you have to punch a hole in your firewall to participate. And it's a convoluted format. It's clearly not an adequate offering of the source code per the GPL.
My point had nothing to do with efficiency. It has to do with compliance with the GPL regarding source code. Probably it's a non-issue, but it's worth thinking about.
If a Distro is producing and distributing GPL'd works, I would hope that they're making the source code available in a non-convoluted form, like conventional FTP or HTTP. Or on physical media by request.
A 'torrent'-only distribution seems okay, but it sets a dangerous precedent
I voted for Bush because I want to cut the legs out from underneath government bureaucrats. I want whole wings of the government to be forced out of business, and to get REAL jobs in the private sector.
I'm not always happy with the actions that the Bush administration has taken, but it has always, consistently, been better than what was promoted by Dukakis, or Kerry, or Gore or whatever that guy's name was this time around.
So let's recap: War good. Fags bad. Huge deficit good. Personal choice in medical care (abortion) bad.
What a crock of shit. Are you gonna let the other side label the traits and beliefs of the treasonous bastard who YOUR side favored?
There were two people in front of me when I entered my polling place. I had voted and was out of there within five minutes. My vote was tabulated on a big sheet of paper that they read optically. I marked it with a plain black ballpoint pen.
I live in an area where there are more animals (goats, sheep, chickens, horses, etc.) than people.
Except, every 'Linux' distro has it's own userland and/etc hierarchy, all mashed together in a chaotic arrangment depending on who compiled the 'distro.'
The Freenix BSD OSes have base systems and core userlands that arel tracked and version controlled under single organizations.
Which makes a heck of a lot more difference than a casual Linux user would recognize.
It is if Mom won't spring for anything but a cheap Intel clone box, and you're clutching desperately to that Gentoo CD you got free in a Gamer magazine.
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The Fairness Doctrine has become obsolete and irrelevant. It comes from an era of limited media bandwidth, when broadcast stations had to be doled out as limited resources.
Cable and Satellite television render it irrelevant, and in fact an dangerous intrusion into the Free Press. Do we really want government censors deciding what is 'fair' news coverage?
Please go peddle your hysteria somewhere else.
And then what? Suddenly you're somehow better?
It is not necessary for the blogs to somehow become 'elevated' for 'traditional journalism' to fall in credibility. 'Journalistic Objectivity' is just so much bullshit. It isn't possible, and it's fraud to pretend it is possible.
That's the point. Not to climb up onto a high-horse. To tell the 'journalists' to get the f off theirs.
"Journalism" is a fabrication made up after all the hero worship of Woodward and Bernstein kicked off because of Watergate.
The classic newspaper reporter 'worked up through the ranks' and didn't need academic 'credentials' at all.
In fact, J-School is where you go after you flunk Calculus and they won't let you into the English department.
There are yards and yards of spun-up bullshit about 'Journalism' but that's all it is.
'ACTUAL' news, also known as Mainstream News, or MSM, is dying.
Hadn't you heard? Everybody else has. They cashed in so many chips in the recent election that people like Dan Rather may soon need training on the Fry Machine.
Ford wouldn't kill the passenger car if they ceased making them, either. But it would be idiocy for Ford to do so. And if Ford had abruptly quit producing the Model T early in it's run, it surely would have stunted adoption of the automobile. Some feel the same about Red Hat, that they made an idiotic move, and it stunted the desktop market.
only two real screw up's ppl have flailed their arms at them for are "killing the desktop" and "a bad GCC".
Only killing the desktop? Wouldn't the equivalent be Ford deciding to quit selling passenger cars and only continue selling diesel trucks?
I see a whole ton of architectures as being the future of NetBSD, and in fact, the future of any viable cross platform OS. In particular, I don't see any arch. as the 'future.' Cross-platform requirements keep programmers sharp and honest. Any single-platform focus is bad and negative.
I.e. I think an OS 'succeeds' to the degree that it builds on not just latest-greatest. Does it still build properly on the 68K and ARM? If not, why not?
If you're game for a little hardware hacking, you maintain and keep the original hardware running.
Ten years from now, guess whose 'investment' will be worth more? The guy with a Pentium II he has to keep up and running to 'emulate' the old game, or the guy who's kept his old game running in top condition?
Mangling classic console gaming controls to plug them into a printer port on some shitty x86 box is just vandalism against the old hardware.
So what came first? The CPU? Or the computer that built the CPU?
The wire-wrapped board of TTL gates that built the CPU.
It runs a big Assembly Language program. OSes are for dorks.
where the opponent looks like any other civilian and aren't afforded the normal protections of the Geneva Convention.
Don't be redundant.
That would be Circuit Cellar, INK, but it's for the former Techies from Byte, not the general readership.
The Tandy Color Computer was a TRS-80. There were a bunch of different TRS-80 machines, ya know. Like the Model II, which was a 68000 based machine.
The original was the Model I of course. Whatta kludge: criss-crossing the Address and Data lines almost entirely unbuffered to make a Matrix keyboard interface. An RFI nightmare, one might add.
I have an Altos 586. But it's not what people think when they hear '586'. It's an 8086 based machine with serial ports to support five users. It runs an authentic UNIX, too. Pre-SCO Microsoft Xenix. It's pretty cool, a licensed (System III) UNIX box with an OS ported by Microsoft, that supports five users on an 8086 processor in 512K of RAM.
I have one of those, a Tandy Pocket Computer PC-8.
I got it on eBay several years ago and occasionally use it. It has 2K of memory and programs in BASIC.
Mine still has the battery in it that it had when I acquired it, and I've used it some. I am wondering how long the battery will last. Seems like forever. Which is sorta amazing for a machine from the mid 80's that runs off a button battery.
I also have a HP95LX, which is a nice small MS-DOS machine, with the high quality of an HP Calculator (built by the same HP division, the Corvalis division.) I've got MASM installed on it for writing Assembly Language stuff. It probably could hold Borland Turbo C if I wanted.
But you have to punch a hole in your firewall to participate. And it's a convoluted format. It's clearly not an adequate offering of the source code per the GPL.
My point had nothing to do with efficiency. It has to do with compliance with the GPL regarding source code. Probably it's a non-issue, but it's worth thinking about.
I thought his masterpiece was 'brown gerbil.'
Silly me.
If a Distro is producing and distributing GPL'd works, I would hope that they're making the source code available in a non-convoluted form, like conventional FTP or HTTP. Or on physical media by request.
A 'torrent'-only distribution seems okay, but it sets a dangerous precedent
I voted for Bush because I want to cut the legs out from underneath government bureaucrats. I want whole wings of the government to be forced out of business, and to get REAL jobs in the private sector.
I'm not always happy with the actions that the Bush administration has taken, but it has always, consistently, been better than what was promoted by Dukakis, or Kerry, or Gore or whatever that guy's name was this time around.
So let's recap: War good. Fags bad. Huge deficit good. Personal choice in medical care (abortion) bad.
What a crock of shit. Are you gonna let the other side label the traits and beliefs of the treasonous bastard who YOUR side favored?
The American people voted your comments 'bullshit.'
Suck it up, dude.
There were two people in front of me when I entered my polling place. I had voted and was out of there within five minutes. My vote was tabulated on a big sheet of paper that they read optically. I marked it with a plain black ballpoint pen.
I live in an area where there are more animals (goats, sheep, chickens, horses, etc.) than people.
It's nice out here.
He didn't say that he was a Democrat.
Linux is very much like BSD.
/etc hierarchy, all mashed together in a chaotic arrangment depending on who compiled the 'distro.'
Except, every 'Linux' distro has it's own userland and
The Freenix BSD OSes have base systems and core userlands that arel tracked and version controlled under single organizations.
Which makes a heck of a lot more difference than a casual Linux user would recognize.
Lord knows if QuickTime was 'skinnable' all that brushed metal would be tanned and nailed to the door of the barn, at least at my place it would.
the world isn't all about Linux vs MS
It is if Mom won't spring for anything but a cheap Intel clone box, and you're clutching desperately to that Gentoo CD you got free in a Gamer magazine.