If you RTFA, you should know the difference between military analysts, most of whom had ties with military contractors, had access to information granted by the Pentagon, and exempted from the same ethical rules set by the networks that hired them, and other journalists.
I am from China and have been living in the US for 10 years. For the recent Jack Cafferty remarks, I do feel that it's not as simple as criticizing the Chinese government.
If you read Jack Cafferty's entire remarks, you will find that he talked about things like "import junk" and Chinese workers earning "one dollar a month". These words indicate Chinese people are some kind of cheap laborers with low quality of life. It's very hard to believe he clearly meant Chinese government, or he himself has clear distinction between country, government or people as some people suggested in this thread.
And it's not just Jack Cafferty. Since Chinese people and Chinese Americans spoke up against Jack Cafferty's comments, some Americans said these protests were somehow backed by Chinese government. Well, the Chinese government did also demand apology, but that's not the same as everybody who speaks up on this is taking orders from the Chinese government. We live in the US and want to be part of America, and are exercising our rights to be able to live in this country without being racially discriminated.
Also, it can be argued what Jack Cafferty's real meaning was. However, people tend to tolerate the words and give the benefit of doubt as long as they are not being attacked themselves. But even if there is any ambiguity in Jack Cafferty's original comments, they are inappropriate and Jack or CNN is accountable and should apologize. Just imagine what would happen if he said anything like this to African Americans. Why would Chinese Americans have to put up with this? Because they are all communists?
This is simply not true. I bought a laptop from Dell last year and I could choose almost everything differently. I consider this is great advantage and one of the reasons I chose Dell.
I want to try beta 5 out (especially after I found Tab Mix Plus is actually supported). But my main worry is how they react to bugs found in the beta. Are they continuously releases security updates for betas the same way as the official released version? Or I'd have to wait patiently for the final release which is more than 2 months away?
Also, every time I uninstall firefox 3, I could no longer click links in outlook unless I reset default browser to IE and switch back. This is very irritating.
See, they should not have chosen the company name. What else did they expect? Of course people will hack on their drivers so they can be called "creative hacker" or something. If they had chosen a name like "egghead" I bet no one would have touched their code.
I submitted my fair share of news, and got my fair share of rejections too.
Yes, I do think the front page is a scarce resource. The more crap is put there, the less valuable news is there. And just to clarify, it's the editor's fault other than the submitters.
I am wondering what went wrong to force Microsoft to change kernel and break drivers at the last minute. Because of a design flaw that compromised security? Or DRM?
Not that I care too much about how my comment is modded (let me just say I don't feel sorry for other people's stupidity), but it's still a bit sad to see that a comment with _material_ (no matter what the opinion is) gets this kind of treatment.
Well, his direct manager knew about this, so he cannot be in violation of his terms of employment. I mean, if he did, and his manager was still OK, it's his manager's fault more than his own, and if Cisco fires him, he could sue the heck out of this, couldn't he?
Now, I said the above purely from a logistical point. Having worked at Cisco before (as an engineer), I feel Cisco is a pretty open-cultured company, and given the positive publicity of this blog, I'm pretty sure Cisco wouldn't mind it.
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If you RTFA, you should know the difference between military analysts, most of whom had ties with military contractors, had access to information granted by the Pentagon, and exempted from the same ethical rules set by the networks that hired them, and other journalists.
I am from China and have been living in the US for 10 years. For the recent Jack Cafferty remarks, I do feel that it's not as simple as criticizing the Chinese government.
If you read Jack Cafferty's entire remarks, you will find that he talked about things like "import junk" and Chinese workers earning "one dollar a month". These words indicate Chinese people are some kind of cheap laborers with low quality of life. It's very hard to believe he clearly meant Chinese government, or he himself has clear distinction between country, government or people as some people suggested in this thread.
And it's not just Jack Cafferty. Since Chinese people and Chinese Americans spoke up against Jack Cafferty's comments, some Americans said these protests were somehow backed by Chinese government. Well, the Chinese government did also demand apology, but that's not the same as everybody who speaks up on this is taking orders from the Chinese government. We live in the US and want to be part of America, and are exercising our rights to be able to live in this country without being racially discriminated.
Also, it can be argued what Jack Cafferty's real meaning was. However, people tend to tolerate the words and give the benefit of doubt as long as they are not being attacked themselves. But even if there is any ambiguity in Jack Cafferty's original comments, they are inappropriate and Jack or CNN is accountable and should apologize. Just imagine what would happen if he said anything like this to African Americans. Why would Chinese Americans have to put up with this? Because they are all communists?
At which point did the Soviet Union violate US territory during the Cuban missile crisis?
This is simply not true. I bought a laptop from Dell last year and I could choose almost everything differently. I consider this is great advantage and one of the reasons I chose Dell.
Also, every time I uninstall firefox 3, I could no longer click links in outlook unless I reset default browser to IE and switch back. This is very irritating.
See, they should not have chosen the company name. What else did they expect? Of course people will hack on their drivers so they can be called "creative hacker" or something. If they had chosen a name like "egghead" I bet no one would have touched their code.
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
When something gets popular it wants to take over more of the market share and expand into other segments.
It's not difference if it's firefox or IE, Mozilla or Microsoft.
They get tax benefit!
Everything is give and take, no matter how you look at it. A good system keeps the wheels running, a bad system does not.
You need to pass WGA to post on slashdot
from uninstalling the driver and disabling the device yourself?
So basically, Vista wouldn't suck it you got it for free?
Yes, I do think the front page is a scarce resource. The more crap is put there, the less valuable news is there. And just to clarify, it's the editor's fault other than the submitters.
I thought it was obvious, no?
What's next? Do we need a cron job to submit the same Google news every other week now? Or can we get SOME valuable news here?
is a death will.
Now we know how slow Slashdot editors are.
Except that Google's software is always in beta.
I am wondering what went wrong to force Microsoft to change kernel and break drivers at the last minute. Because of a design flaw that compromised security? Or DRM?
See grandparent, the one marked as Troll.
Not that I care too much about how my comment is modded (let me just say I don't feel sorry for other people's stupidity), but it's still a bit sad to see that a comment with _material_ (no matter what the opinion is) gets this kind of treatment.
Last time I checked, the firefox 2.0.0.12 vulnerability was still not fixed. Funnily enough, more than one people in that thread said "given it's firefox/open source/blah blah, we should expect a fix within 24 hours". Like that had happened. And all the other wonderful things to say when you find bugs in an open source project.
Well, his direct manager knew about this, so he cannot be in violation of his terms of employment. I mean, if he did, and his manager was still OK, it's his manager's fault more than his own, and if Cisco fires him, he could sue the heck out of this, couldn't he?
Now, I said the above purely from a logistical point. Having worked at Cisco before (as an engineer), I feel Cisco is a pretty open-cultured company, and given the positive publicity of this blog, I'm pretty sure Cisco wouldn't mind it.
Bond, Hydrogen Bond.
Google to hire Microsoft to port Office to Linux!
I am sorry but this "theory" is pretty silly. Why wouldn't it be that Google grabs most of it, at least at the 50:10 ratio?
Many things have become true, or look like they'll become true after 911.