One little nugget of the delicious irony is how fast and how completely 'offensive-to-the-groupthink' comments disappear from DemocraticUnderground. The only way at all that they are honest is that they leave the smoking hole behind where the comment once was.
Anybody who uses the term 'Freeper' is just a nut-job of a different flavor.
Disclaimer: I NEVER visit the site 'free republic' and seldom waste any time on 'Democratic Underground' either. Or 'table talk' on Salon, or 'Lucianne.com.' I know _of_ them and I know what kind of polarized bullshit they ALL are.
So, in your summation, 'journalism' is a big shitstorm of biased ranting, endorsed and backed up by a 'community' of whomever has pounded their way into power by establishing a nebulous degree of 'karma' by parroting comments that resonate with the groupthink of the forum?
Yes, the 'crime' Abramoff committed was a 'crime against common sense,' in other words he somehow acted in such a way that partisan forces were able to get 'traction' and make a strong case against him. What he actually did isn't unusual, nor is it anything the average trade union official or industry executive doesn't engage in every week in Washington.
They're all slimy opportunists, and the solution is to take away and limit the power of politicians as much as possible. Take away their toys, cut their funding (taxes) and there won't be 'power' to corrupt them.
However, nobody will want to talk about 'big governemnt' as being the root of the problem. ESPECIALLY not those engaging in the loudest phoney 'hubbub' about this particular case.
"Money buys votes" when it goes the other direction, too. In other words, politicians direct government spending to their buddies. It's really time to shine a bright light on which politicians are 'harvesting' funding for their constituents, and beyond 'their constituents' to the various special interests who support them. Earmarking must end as a practice in politics.
There's far too much cronyism, and it extends deep into the structure of both the Democrat and the Republican political base.
However, instead, opportunists in both 'wings' will try to take advantage of the 'scandal' as usual.
You could never run Windows NT on a PPC Macintosh. You could run NT on a PPC Reference Platform machine, commonly known as a PREP system. There are some PREP systems (if I am not mistaken) that were targeted as Mac clones that could run NT. But when I ran Windows NT PPC, it was on one of the light-duty RS/6000 machines that was a PREP architecture machine. It had integrated S3 Trio 64 graphics, PCI and ISA slots, IDE drives... it was essentially a PC-clone with a different processor. It ran either AIX or NT (and NetBSD, of course, but everything eventually will be capable of running NetBSD). I have one of the Power Computing Mac clones, which I believe is also a PREP system (it will run MacOS, but also has PS/2 keyboard and mouse, PCI slots, IDE drives, etc. etc.,) and (maybe) capable of running NT, but I haven't tried. That machine, actually, I got cheap at an auction and haven't done anything at all with yet.
Well, those of us with deep, rich collections of all the weird variants of x86 processors, do. Not the 'glory days' in terms of performance necessarily. But in the '386 era when hardly anybody was running much '386 code at all anyways (due to Microsoft's crippled legacy-based OS software) a non-Intel 386-workalike was a GOOD value. And it's fun to collect all the weird variants.
I never thought I would have to say pricewatch.com is behind the times. If you wait, within any two week period, you can buy a motherboard bundled with a Sempron 2600 or 2800, from Frys for ~$79.00. I'm not sure anymore why I would pay any attention to pricewatch, at least regarding low-end low cost hardware. Of course, you have to have a local Frys, which we do here now.
Isn't there a whole family of server-class hardware from H-P that uses the Itanium? (as I said in a different comment tonight, not machines you'd buy at your local screwdriver shop) There's probably nary a motherboard at all made in Taiwan that has a socket for an Itanium.
Also, the US Dollar Coin is the same size as the Canadian, but with a different edge design.
I heartily wish that the dollar coin would become mainstream, as it gets tiresome doing the worshipful 'straighten the bill up' thing to get my morning Mountain Dew from that fussy vending machine at work.
When Sears delivered our lawn tractor, the delivery truck broke off the power feed to the house. It was an old feed so it was three separate heavy guage copper wires. The power utility came in and installed a modern feed using aluminum wire. I talked them into letting me keep the wire, which is quite heavy guage copper. I suspect many crews recycle it for beer money. I know my friend who builds cubicles in office towers does that with the copper they remove.
I used to get whole spools of new-old-stock teflon-insulated wire at a surplus place for $1 a pount. It was even silver-plated copper wire (teflon wire has to be silver-tinned because the teflon extrudes at a higher temperature than regular tin-plating will withstand). Scrappers hate the teflon wire because they can't burn/melt the insulation off. And if you DO bring teflon to a heat level where it 'breaks down' it becomes super-nasty toxic stuff.
Your solid nickel Switchcraft connectors are also considerably more expensive than the chintzy gold-plated junk at Wal-Mart. But worth it, for those of us who understand that you buy a connector for life, though the wire comes and goes...
I have always maintained that the poor wear gold plated base-metal jewelry, the wannabe-rich wear gold jewelry, and the ultra-rich wear copper plated gold jewelry.
Man, get a job and pay $500 and get a mini and hook it up to one of your monitors. You will be pleasantly suprised.
I definitely have different priorities than you. $500 would buy a number of useful pieces of test equipment, or a lot of other things. More technical manuals, etc. I definitely wouldn't sink that into a tiny sealed-box Mac. If I want the sealed-box Mac experience I can boot up my SE/30.
Real Unix rocks, btw, esp. when you run it on real Unix hardware.
To see OS X crash, I would have to have a machine that OS X will run on.
While I have a four foot tall pile of pizza-box Sun workstations, a pair of SGI systems, and also quite a few Apple Macintoshes, I don't have a machine that OS X will run on. I don't want to pay the 'full retail at the Apple Store' tax.
I recently got a CD set of NextStep, including the developer tools, for the PA-RISC hardware and have a fine candidate of an HP machine to install it on, so I might see the better ancestor of OS X sometime soon.
I've run Darwin on my Beige G3, but it's nothing special. And AUX on my Quadra 650. Interesting, but again, nothing special.
As to people understanding computers: there's nothing motivating people to 'dig deeper' in a computer anymore. Computers are used to reach out, because the connectivity is so much better. Back when 'Personal Computers' started you had a prompt to stare at and it was up to you to make it do more, and doing so involved figuring out how it works.
No, the planet Earth is resoundingly NOT as self-enclosed as that island.
It is a symptom of anthrocentric conceit to pretend that it is. The whole 'man will destory the Earth' meme is an extension of Manifest Destiny, an egotistical notion that We Control It All.
And your personal insult is not a sign of intelligence, it is a sign of immaturity. Good grief. Grow up.
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Slashcode only works well in 'niche' communities where the topics being discussed are trivial and/or only important to the subculture concerned.
Moderation on Slashdot is a big stinky mess when the topics being discussed cease being 'News for Nerds', which happens a LOT.
One little nugget of the delicious irony is how fast and how completely 'offensive-to-the-groupthink' comments disappear from DemocraticUnderground. The only way at all that they are honest is that they leave the smoking hole behind where the comment once was.
Anybody who uses the term 'Freeper' is just a nut-job of a different flavor.
Disclaimer: I NEVER visit the site 'free republic' and seldom waste any time on 'Democratic Underground' either. Or 'table talk' on Salon, or 'Lucianne.com.' I know _of_ them and I know what kind of polarized bullshit they ALL are.
Maybe said funding should only go to candidates who disavow any association with any organized political party or faction.
So, in your summation, 'journalism' is a big shitstorm of biased ranting, endorsed and backed up by a 'community' of whomever has pounded their way into power by establishing a nebulous degree of 'karma' by parroting comments that resonate with the groupthink of the forum?
Yes, the 'crime' Abramoff committed was a 'crime against common sense,' in other words he somehow acted in such a way that partisan forces were able to get 'traction' and make a strong case against him. What he actually did isn't unusual, nor is it anything the average trade union official or industry executive doesn't engage in every week in Washington.
They're all slimy opportunists, and the solution is to take away and limit the power of politicians as much as possible. Take away their toys, cut their funding (taxes) and there won't be 'power' to corrupt them.
However, nobody will want to talk about 'big governemnt' as being the root of the problem. ESPECIALLY not those engaging in the loudest phoney 'hubbub' about this particular case.
"Money buys votes" when it goes the other direction, too. In other words, politicians direct government spending to their buddies. It's really time to shine a bright light on which politicians are 'harvesting' funding for their constituents, and beyond 'their constituents' to the various special interests who support them. Earmarking must end as a practice in politics.
There's far too much cronyism, and it extends deep into the structure of both the Democrat and the Republican political base.
However, instead, opportunists in both 'wings' will try to take advantage of the 'scandal' as usual.
You could never run Windows NT on a PPC Macintosh. You could run NT on a PPC Reference Platform machine, commonly known as a PREP system. There are some PREP systems (if I am not mistaken) that were targeted as Mac clones that could run NT. But when I ran Windows NT PPC, it was on one of the light-duty RS/6000 machines that was a PREP architecture machine. It had integrated S3 Trio 64 graphics, PCI and ISA slots, IDE drives... it was essentially a PC-clone with a different processor. It ran either AIX or NT (and NetBSD, of course, but everything eventually will be capable of running NetBSD). I have one of the Power Computing Mac clones, which I believe is also a PREP system (it will run MacOS, but also has PS/2 keyboard and mouse, PCI slots, IDE drives, etc. etc.,) and (maybe) capable of running NT, but I haven't tried. That machine, actually, I got cheap at an auction and haven't done anything at all with yet.
Well, those of us with deep, rich collections of all the weird variants of x86 processors, do. Not the 'glory days' in terms of performance necessarily. But in the '386 era when hardly anybody was running much '386 code at all anyways (due to Microsoft's crippled legacy-based OS software) a non-Intel 386-workalike was a GOOD value. And it's fun to collect all the weird variants.
I never thought I would have to say pricewatch.com is behind the times. If you wait, within any two week period, you can buy a motherboard bundled with a Sempron 2600 or 2800, from Frys for ~$79.00. I'm not sure anymore why I would pay any attention to pricewatch, at least regarding low-end low cost hardware. Of course, you have to have a local Frys, which we do here now.
You probably didn't overclock any of them. Nor did you select the fans and case based on the latest blinking LED technology.
Isn't there a whole family of server-class hardware from H-P that uses the Itanium? (as I said in a different comment tonight, not machines you'd buy at your local screwdriver shop) There's probably nary a motherboard at all made in Taiwan that has a socket for an Itanium.
It wasn't ever targeted at the clone/screwdriver shop market. Which isn't to say that makes it good, or bad.
Also, the US Dollar Coin is the same size as the Canadian, but with a different edge design.
I heartily wish that the dollar coin would become mainstream, as it gets tiresome doing the worshipful 'straighten the bill up' thing to get my morning Mountain Dew from that fussy vending machine at work.
When Sears delivered our lawn tractor, the delivery truck broke off the power feed to the house. It was an old feed so it was three separate heavy guage copper wires. The power utility came in and installed a modern feed using aluminum wire. I talked them into letting me keep the wire, which is quite heavy guage copper. I suspect many crews recycle it for beer money. I know my friend who builds cubicles in office towers does that with the copper they remove.
I used to get whole spools of new-old-stock teflon-insulated wire at a surplus place for $1 a pount. It was even silver-plated copper wire (teflon wire has to be silver-tinned because the teflon extrudes at a higher temperature than regular tin-plating will withstand). Scrappers hate the teflon wire because they can't burn/melt the insulation off. And if you DO bring teflon to a heat level where it 'breaks down' it becomes super-nasty toxic stuff.
Your solid nickel Switchcraft connectors are also considerably more expensive than the chintzy gold-plated junk at Wal-Mart. But worth it, for those of us who understand that you buy a connector for life, though the wire comes and goes...
No, you use glass tools, on a benchtop lined with cats-fur. It's the 'equal time' alternative to an anti-static work surface.
I have always maintained that the poor wear gold plated base-metal jewelry, the wannabe-rich wear gold jewelry, and the ultra-rich wear copper plated gold jewelry.
Man, get a job and pay $500 and get a mini and hook it up to one of your monitors. You will be pleasantly suprised.
I definitely have different priorities than you. $500 would buy a number of useful pieces of test equipment, or a lot of other things. More technical manuals, etc. I definitely wouldn't sink that into a tiny sealed-box Mac. If I want the sealed-box Mac experience I can boot up my SE/30.
Real Unix rocks, btw, esp. when you run it on real Unix hardware.
To see OS X crash, I would have to have a machine that OS X will run on.
While I have a four foot tall pile of pizza-box Sun workstations, a pair of SGI systems, and also quite a few Apple Macintoshes, I don't have a machine that OS X will run on. I don't want to pay the 'full retail at the Apple Store' tax.
I recently got a CD set of NextStep, including the developer tools, for the PA-RISC hardware and have a fine candidate of an HP machine to install it on, so I might see the better ancestor of OS X sometime soon.
I've run Darwin on my Beige G3, but it's nothing special. And AUX on my Quadra 650. Interesting, but again, nothing special.
As to people understanding computers: there's nothing motivating people to 'dig deeper' in a computer anymore. Computers are used to reach out, because the connectivity is so much better. Back when 'Personal Computers' started you had a prompt to stare at and it was up to you to make it do more, and doing so involved figuring out how it works.
'Yanks' are still the world government of the Internet, however.
It might be time to change that; I am not 'taking sides' on the issue. Just pointing it out.
Anything with .org is likely to be a non-profit organization.
slashdot.org is a non profit?!?!?!?
(I know all about the 'Va Linux/Va Whatever.we.are.selling.now' story. Having a negative profit is not the same as being a non-profit.)
Yeah. IHBT.
FOAD.
No, the planet Earth is resoundingly NOT as self-enclosed as that island.
It is a symptom of anthrocentric conceit to pretend that it is. The whole 'man will destory the Earth' meme is an extension of Manifest Destiny, an egotistical notion that We Control It All.
And your personal insult is not a sign of intelligence, it is a sign of immaturity. Good grief. Grow up.