Re: Fw: interesting reply

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Agree.  But what it is that yanks my chain is that alot of these guys
>>are journalists who are supposed to be reporting news (i.e. facts,
>>truth, etc..) not uninformed and clearly unresearched opinion.  Like the
>>recent ZDnet article which states that Linus says that Mac OS X "sucks",
>>when the quote is from a discusion of the Mach micro-kernel
>>architecture.   Apparently you can get anything "printed" these days, 
>>isn't it the job of editors to slap up their writers on occasion?  The
>>entire approach by "news" organizations these days drives me batty.
>These people are not journalists. They take press releases and rework
>them so they sound like it's news. Or, they will take discussions from
>the kernel list and make it sound like they interviewed Linus or anyone
>else for that matter.
 
If they aren't journalists what are they?  (Obviously they are mindless minions
of the corprotist oligarchs but I'm referring to their "professional" title?) 
If they write stories about events on behalf of a publication, that makes them
journalists in my book,  but I could be over-simplifying.  I used to write
letters to the "editors", but based on the serious silence I got in response I
currently doubt that these "editors" even exist.

>>And you usually can't make any progress when your in a discussion with
>>someone who presumes omniscience or didn't read the context of a
>>statement.
>And that will put me that much farther ahead in the game. Let these
>people try to sell a MS solution. My customers will be much happier in
>the long run.

And wealthier.
 
>>BTW, my favorite MS commercial these days is the shot of the server room
>>where the guy says that the servers haven't been visited in "days".
>>Quite an achievement, wouldn't you say?

Well, WinY2k hasn't been out that long....  And what I **LOVE** about those
server rooms on TV,  notice if you look real close, the machines aren't plugged
into anything.  My servers could have infinite uptime without any transactions
or users (well, till at least 2038 when the kernel clock crashes).

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