I'm sorry, but I would imagine that most people would be somewhat pissed if they knew that something they created out of a labour of love was being used, indirectly, as a murder weapon.
This is particularly poignant because many consider this war to be an act of aggression by the United States. In short, if this war were a single murder, it would be considered a homicide, rather than a justifiable homicide. There's no "defense" about this. This is wholesale slaughter, pure and simple, without reason or purpose. We have no objectives to achieve, no goal to strive for.
The war continues simply because the war continues.
No, we don't want more soldiers killed. We don't want more Iraqis killed either. Nor do we want things we strive for to be used in a manner which enables soldiers to kill more effectively in a situation where killing more effectively is not justified.
Give us a real enemy and a real goal and a war with a purpose and many people would be proud to know - even if a little uncomfortable - that their technology helped minimize casualties. Even purely offensive technologies help minimize killing because the longer a war continues, the more casualties there will be. But this is war without end, war where victory cannot be achieved because there's no definition of what victory is. So there can be no goodness about this technology.
Yeah - it might indeed be my setup or even my hardware. I can't really explain it. I do know that the CDs worked when I was using the 64-bit version, so I don't know what is up with that...
-- Brian
Incidentally, I don't think Harper's government would pass it. Canadians actually follow the news, and this would be a deathknell for conservative governance in Canada. I could be wrong, but American politics is different from Canadian politics because - no offense to Americans - Canadians generally are more civically engaged.
I would have loved to test ATI, unfortunately, neither of the computers had ATI cards - that's just how it worked out.
I do have an HP Laserjet 1020 - it's a small little number, a personal-sized laser printer, NOT a full-sized behemoth. It's what I had to test with. And if you read the article, you'll notice I did have quite a few problems with it (but eventually it worked.)
And I will let you know that the HP Laserjet 1020 does not work in Vista, at all.
If you support Linux, you can complain about it being FUD or you can get off your bottoms and start coding to solve the problem.
If you support Linux, you can complain about it being FUD or you can get off your bottoms and start coding to solve the problem. I'm a liberal arts major.
Until Linux is coded in Iambic Pentameter, I don't think I can help you there.
I'm the editor of the article, and many of these comments are mean-spirited and shortsighted.
Where, exactly, in the article, is there any indication that either Jim (or I) have any disdain or hatred for Linux. The article is essentially saying "I've tried using Linux in the workplace for ten years and it hasn't worked yet, partially because business needs to work with Exchange, and most workers do not have any say in what backend they are forced to work with. It's enough to make you give up on it, but I've got such a love for Open Source I keep going back to it."
This is not Microsoft astroturfing (I'm actually working on a freelance article talking about how Ubuntu Linux works in the home - I prefer Ubuntu Linux to Windows for day to day home productivity, personally,) and I'm insulted by the insinuation that it is.
This details a real problem towards Linux adoption in the workplace. If you support Linux, you can complain about it being FUD or you can get off your bottoms and start coding to solve the problem.
-- Brian Boyko -- Editor, Network Performance Daily. -- Questions about the article will be addressed at brian dot boyko at netqos dot com.
I saw one of these on Burnet Road in Austin about three weeks ago. I didn't know what it was, but the first thing that popped into my head? "Guerilla Advertising Campaign." Not bomb.
I'd like to do this set up to reduce the amount of energy I take from the grid, but I rent and I move around frequently. Are there any apartment complexes that use this?
I'm paid by my company to blog (Specifically, I'm hired as the editor of Network Performance Daily, which is the NetQoS blog) and I'm worried that even though my blog is NOT political in nature, we have covered political events in the past... for example, we did a series on Net Neutrality which garnered over 5,000 unique visitors.
Under S.1, would I have to register? I'm going to call up my representative and find out.
I'm the editor of Network Performance Daily, and I agree.
But the original article just simply was not fair to Prof. Yoo nor accurate as to what his views were, and although we debated whether or not to leave the original article up, we decided that it was best to our readers to take it down.
However, I left my contact information up, and anyone who wants to e-mail me directly can request the original article so that they can see what was changed. I thought this was the most optimal solution to the problem.
So far, no one has. If you wish to see it, you can e-mail me at brian.boyko at netqos dot com.
-- Brian Boyko -- Editor, Network Performance Daily
Mostly because the optimal solution to "win" the war in Iraq is to increase the number of troops to around 400,000. Furthermore, many of the people supporting the war are in positions where neither they nor their families would need to look at the military as a solution out of economic problems - whereas many people who think the war is a bad idea are forced into the military due to economic considerations.
Universal healthcare is not held back by an insufficient number of doctors, and the poor aren't forced by circumstance to risk their lives becoming doctors.
There was only one company that told me why they didn't hire me. (out of maybe 400 I applied to and 20 that I interviewed for.)
That's Wired Magazine. I applied for a Gadgets internship, and got to the phone-interview stage. While they were impressed with my credentials (and offered to forward my application over to the Editorial internship) they simply had another candidate with more gadgets experience (the bulk of my experience was as a computer reviewer, and I was unemployed at the time and had no money for the latest gadgets!)
What I really hate, though, was that I traveled 26 hours (by car) from Virginia to Vermont to interview for a dinky little paper in Vermont. I was pretty sure I had the job - I did the work well, and they kept me on for a full day as a "test run" - so I worked 8 hours for them, unpaid.
I would surely like to know what I did wrong, because they were willing to let me keep working for 8 hours, but they weren't willing to actually give me a job. I was told weeks later that they had given the job to an "internal candidate."
I'm thinking that maybe they brought me in as an 'external candidate' really just to justify it to the corporate owners that they're looking for other people, and maybe the editor's friend snatched up the job.
8 hours of work, unpaid, plus 26 hours of travel, plus gas, expenses, etc...
I'm really burned about that and would have liked some goddamn feedback for my time.
Case in point, I reviewed the Dell Dimension XPS 400 for HardOCP. It had a ton of "craplets" on it - and they caused unbelievably slow performance, and they often prevented other apps (such as Sims2 and Quake4) from running, but the OS never went down hard.
I can see how Microsoft can be concerned - I bet you Intel is too - as at the time, Dell's practices (which have since changed) made their processors look slow - when it was really the craplets. (At the time, Dell was only using Intel, but AMD was the choice of boutiques and the home builder.)
At the end, though, if an OEM puts a program on a computer and it is not at the customer's bequest, then the OEM has to take responsibility for testing to make sure that the system shipping is stable and functional.
I don't know. In 1994, when I was 14, I thought Wired Magazine was the coolest thing ever. In 2007, now that I'm 27, I still think that Wired Magazine is pretty cool.
Did not know that. Still, I'm a little ticked that I can only get 300 messages at a time. (might be a timeout thing, but I can't figure out how to set it.)
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You know what, just to cover my ass, the above comment does NOT necessarily represent the views of my current employer.
I'm sorry, but I would imagine that most people would be somewhat pissed if they knew that something they created out of a labour of love was being used, indirectly, as a murder weapon.
This is particularly poignant because many consider this war to be an act of aggression by the United States. In short, if this war were a single murder, it would be considered a homicide, rather than a justifiable homicide. There's no "defense" about this. This is wholesale slaughter, pure and simple, without reason or purpose. We have no objectives to achieve, no goal to strive for.
The war continues simply because the war continues.
No, we don't want more soldiers killed. We don't want more Iraqis killed either. Nor do we want things we strive for to be used in a manner which enables soldiers to kill more effectively in a situation where killing more effectively is not justified.
Give us a real enemy and a real goal and a war with a purpose and many people would be proud to know - even if a little uncomfortable - that their technology helped minimize casualties. Even purely offensive technologies help minimize killing because the longer a war continues, the more casualties there will be. But this is war without end, war where victory cannot be achieved because there's no definition of what victory is. So there can be no goodness about this technology.
Zeitgeist: You fail it.
There really are people this dumb these days. They're called "Regular Fox Viewers."
Yeah - it might indeed be my setup or even my hardware. I can't really explain it. I do know that the CDs worked when I was using the 64-bit version, so I don't know what is up with that... -- Brian
You've summed up 10,000 words in less than 25. As the "random guy" in question, I salute you without sarcasm.
New Zealand's still nice.
Incidentally, I don't think Harper's government would pass it. Canadians actually follow the news, and this would be a deathknell for conservative governance in Canada. I could be wrong, but American politics is different from Canadian politics because - no offense to Americans - Canadians generally are more civically engaged.
If sheep have human brains, does that mean they can finally consent?
I'm getting really ticked off at the whole "Baa means no!" crowd.
(I'm the author)
I would have loved to test ATI, unfortunately, neither of the computers had ATI cards - that's just how it worked out.
I do have an HP Laserjet 1020 - it's a small little number, a personal-sized laser printer, NOT a full-sized behemoth. It's what I had to test with. And if you read the article, you'll notice I did have quite a few problems with it (but eventually it worked.)
And I will let you know that the HP Laserjet 1020 does not work in Vista, at all.
I'm the editor of the article, and many of these comments are mean-spirited and shortsighted.
Where, exactly, in the article, is there any indication that either Jim (or I) have any disdain or hatred for Linux. The article is essentially saying "I've tried using Linux in the workplace for ten years and it hasn't worked yet, partially because business needs to work with Exchange, and most workers do not have any say in what backend they are forced to work with. It's enough to make you give up on it, but I've got such a love for Open Source I keep going back to it."
This is not Microsoft astroturfing (I'm actually working on a freelance article talking about how Ubuntu Linux works in the home - I prefer Ubuntu Linux to Windows for day to day home productivity, personally,) and I'm insulted by the insinuation that it is.
This details a real problem towards Linux adoption in the workplace. If you support Linux, you can complain about it being FUD or you can get off your bottoms and start coding to solve the problem.
-- Brian Boyko
-- Editor, Network Performance Daily.
-- Questions about the article will be addressed at brian dot boyko at netqos dot com.
I saw one of these on Burnet Road in Austin about three weeks ago. I didn't know what it was, but the first thing that popped into my head? "Guerilla Advertising Campaign." Not bomb.
I'd like to do this set up to reduce the amount of energy I take from the grid, but I rent and I move around frequently. Are there any apartment complexes that use this?
I'm paid by my company to blog (Specifically, I'm hired as the editor of Network Performance Daily, which is the NetQoS blog) and I'm worried that even though my blog is NOT political in nature, we have covered political events in the past... for example, we did a series on Net Neutrality which garnered over 5,000 unique visitors.
Under S.1, would I have to register? I'm going to call up my representative and find out.
I'm the editor of Network Performance Daily, and I agree.
But the original article just simply was not fair to Prof. Yoo nor accurate as to what his views were, and although we debated whether or not to leave the original article up, we decided that it was best to our readers to take it down.
However, I left my contact information up, and anyone who wants to e-mail me directly can request the original article so that they can see what was changed. I thought this was the most optimal solution to the problem.
So far, no one has. If you wish to see it, you can e-mail me at brian.boyko at netqos dot com.
-- Brian Boyko
-- Editor, Network Performance Daily
Mostly because the optimal solution to "win" the war in Iraq is to increase the number of troops to around 400,000. Furthermore, many of the people supporting the war are in positions where neither they nor their families would need to look at the military as a solution out of economic problems - whereas many people who think the war is a bad idea are forced into the military due to economic considerations.
Universal healthcare is not held back by an insufficient number of doctors, and the poor aren't forced by circumstance to risk their lives becoming doctors.
There was only one company that told me why they didn't hire me. (out of maybe 400 I applied to and 20 that I interviewed for.)
That's Wired Magazine. I applied for a Gadgets internship, and got to the phone-interview stage. While they were impressed with my credentials (and offered to forward my application over to the Editorial internship) they simply had another candidate with more gadgets experience (the bulk of my experience was as a computer reviewer, and I was unemployed at the time and had no money for the latest gadgets!)
What I really hate, though, was that I traveled 26 hours (by car) from Virginia to Vermont to interview for a dinky little paper in Vermont. I was pretty sure I had the job - I did the work well, and they kept me on for a full day as a "test run" - so I worked 8 hours for them, unpaid.
I would surely like to know what I did wrong, because they were willing to let me keep working for 8 hours, but they weren't willing to actually give me a job. I was told weeks later that they had given the job to an "internal candidate."
I'm thinking that maybe they brought me in as an 'external candidate' really just to justify it to the corporate owners that they're looking for other people, and maybe the editor's friend snatched up the job.
8 hours of work, unpaid, plus 26 hours of travel, plus gas, expenses, etc...
I'm really burned about that and would have liked some goddamn feedback for my time.
Hell no - it's the OEM.
Case in point, I reviewed the Dell Dimension XPS 400 for HardOCP. It had a ton of "craplets" on it - and they caused unbelievably slow performance, and they often prevented other apps (such as Sims2 and Quake4) from running, but the OS never went down hard.
I can see how Microsoft can be concerned - I bet you Intel is too - as at the time, Dell's practices (which have since changed) made their processors look slow - when it was really the craplets. (At the time, Dell was only using Intel, but AMD was the choice of boutiques and the home builder.)
At the end, though, if an OEM puts a program on a computer and it is not at the customer's bequest, then the OEM has to take responsibility for testing to make sure that the system shipping is stable and functional.
That's not a math error. We're hoping to "shock and awe" the Martians.
Now Thunderbird offers in-place spell-check and other features which were considered very advanced just a few years ago. Evolution in action.
No - Evolution is a different client.
Corrected.
Monday, we're going to get an interview with Art Brodsky at Public Knowledge tomorrow, who will present a pro-Net-Neutrality argument.
That's what they said in 1994...
I gotta try this with my apartment complex and my rabbit-ear TV reception... think it would work?
I don't know. In 1994, when I was 14, I thought Wired Magazine was the coolest thing ever. In 2007, now that I'm 27, I still think that Wired Magazine is pretty cool.
Did not know that. Still, I'm a little ticked that I can only get 300 messages at a time. (might be a timeout thing, but I can't figure out how to set it.)