The problem with Open Source's initiative is that it expects people to care.
It's all about choice right? Well, most people don't care enough to make a choice. Hell, most people don't care enough to vote for who leads the United States, you expect them to give a crap about which browser they use?
Heck, I don't care. I have a wife and 2 kids to deal with. How can I expend brain cycles caring which browser I read a web page with?
Anyone have a good reason why I (or anyone) should care? I can see security, but Internet Exploder and $afari and Kram and Firefux are all the same in that regard at this point.
Browse the web without ads? Who cares, my eyes aren't so sensitive that a Ford ad on their new car is going to damage my rarified retinas.
See, that's the problem, it's all about choice, and the vast majority of the world doesn't care.
The article links to the site to download it, and one of their faqs is asking about supporting nvidia, and they said something to the affect that Nvidia doesn't have as many pipelines or something. My nvidia card (7950, really 2 7900's put together) is a pretty nice card. I'm wondering if it really isn't worth it to optimize to the nvidia, or if there is some bias from the guys who wrote this.
If war crimes are actually being committed, then the UN should step in, defuse the situation, and bring those who committed said crimes to trial. The universal code of military justice gives clear guidelines that make it extremely clear that soldiers cannot commit war crimes. Any solider is allowed to disobey an order if obeying the order would result in the commission of a war crime.
I don't disagree at all. I also think that building car bombs to kill civilians and killing civilians based on their religion is a war crime. Do you? Where's your outrage for the guys in Iraq killing Iraqis because they aren't sunni or shiite or whateverthefuck version of Islam?
Thats, ok, I'm sure it's all fault of the $20/year grunt.
Following orders is how it works. If the American people don't want our soldiers there, they have the tools at their disposal to fix the situation. The soliders are there at the will of the civilian government.
You clearly speak as someone without the ability for complex reasoning, so I'll explain it for you.
I wasn't trained to commit mass murder, I was trained to decontaminate people (military and civilian) in the event of an NBC attack. These skills directly translate to emergency response work (chemical plant fires, train derailments, etc).
I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess he isn't in the UK and so cannot participate in your NHS. Medicare and so forth cover stuff like "oh my god my head's on fire" but I don't think they do a whole lot of advanced treatment stuff. I could be wrong though, I have health insurance.
Soldiers are there to defend the country. It's not really their fault if some jackass president wants to send them half way around the world to take out the guy that tried to assassinate his daddy, is it?
I was in the Army, mainly to turn my life around and get some direction and focus. College wasn't an option for me at the time. My brother hates standardized education and wanted to do something besides work at a McJob so he joined the Maries. My uncle joined the Navy during Vietnam so he could learn to fly planes. My grandfathers both fought in WWII against Nazi Germany. My Great Grandfathers found in WWI against the evil huns. Further down the line my family served in the American Civil War on the side of the North. Another offshoot of my family happened to have founded some of the concepts of modern calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gabriel_Stokes
Or heat for that matter. My geforce 7900 raises my box temp by 4 degrees C just doing 2d windows xp desktop work. I can't imagine running a gpu at 100% and cpu at 100% for hours on end. Better have good cooling. (granted mine does suck, but stuff).
I'm sure I'm far from alone in not liking the direction the US is heading in. But what to do about it? Does writing in to a congressman or senator whose campaign is paid for by businesses rather than individuals really help? I started doing that a few years ago and I always get back an "I agree with you" letter or a "I don't agree" letter. Did that help things? At all?
At what point, what watershed point do we reach, where our founding fathers would say "Screw it, time for open revolt"? When the government restricts the rights for citizens to gather in peaceful assembly (can't demonstrate without a permit or you get arrested), when is the time for civil disobedience? When is the time for open revolt?
The problem here is each change that sucks is a small one. Look at them all over the last 5 years and it REALLY sucks, but each little nick and chip, here and there, doesn't raise any public alarm. Is there ever a tipping point when each erosion of rights and liberty is so small that few if any notice?
I wish I knew, I can't see how any small action will ever raise enough alarm with the general populace. Did it ever with Germany when Hitler began is raise to power? I'm not educated enough on the goings on of 20-30s Germany to know that one I guess.
The only problem I have with buying CD's is that a portion of the funds go to pay for the RIAA, new copy protection schemes, and companies that used to put out good music but now produce garbage. I don't really feel like I should have to contribute to the legal quagmire that copyrights has become just because I'm missing a Beatles track I like.
I guess this is Microsoft wanting to get their player popular, but to have a public company say "Sure, violate DRM" is sort of flabberghasting, especially coming from Microsoft.
Think of the liability this opens them up to, didn't edonkey get shut down for enabling those evil hackers from trading music and movies?
Hopefully this will point to a market trend, an admission that copyrights are out of control to a large degree. I hate buying music from Itunes because of all the stupid license rules associated with it. It'd be nice to just be allowed to buy some.mp3 files and do with them as I feel. I don't even need a lossless format, my damaged ears can't tell the difference anyway.
The point of my little satire wasn't that there's no point to evaluative thinking, argumentation, and the cogent presentation of ideas. The point was that this little tempest in a teapot is about students evolving the same techniques that are appropriate in business: do as little work as necessary to produce a valid result.
Maybe that's how YOU work, and maybe even most people for that matter. But I've found raises and bonuses don't go up very much for those who do enough to get by. I always take a project at work as my own, and try to do the best job given the requirements, tools at hand, etc. I've found this is much more rewarding both in terms of career growth and financial gain.
Parent is pretty solid advice. When I ran my own company, I didn't do residential because of all the issues surrounding it. I eventually got pulled into it some, but I required the user giving me their PC so I could work on it at my workshop at home, rather than sit on site for hours watching a virus scanner run or whatnot.
Be prepared for lots of payment issues. You'll need to be able to accept credit card payments, check out the quicken site, they have an online store that will link in with your quickbooks install and they'll handle all the fraud issues for you. If you do market to the low end, parent is right, you'll have people slow pay/no pay, accuse you of 'hacking' them when they don't pay (that was a treat, guy basically wanted more free service under the threat of legal action), etc. Humanity is a cess pool, you'll be at the bottom when you're performing services in people's homes.
I actually ran my own computer consulting business and I found the term 'nerd' and 'geek' have pretty negative meanings to the average user. While it might imply technical skill, it also implies a lack of communication skills, manners, and to some extent reliability. I actually was doing pretty well by marketing above the nerd/geek level.
"Awkward situations created by devices like this will be scenes in the sit-coms of tomorrow."
Lol no doubt, I can see it now:
Some hot chick appears on the billboard and says in a sultry voice: "Hello John Smith, did you need a refill on your last order of Teeny-Weeny condoms?"
I'm impressed to see such a harsh but true write up on CNN about this. None of this liberal 'think about her feelings, criminals have rights too' bullshit here. The article was totally on target.
And I agree with the other OP's here, lying and incompetent go hand in hand, apparently she's both. I mean, I give her credit for fighting off breast cancer and melanoma, that's impressive, but her running of the HP board, uh, isn't.
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I dunno, the MS tags at least have color, don't look as weird as the nokia ones.
Heh, won't be long before there are shirts with Microsoft Tag for lemonparty.org and 2girls1cup.com Goatsex anyone? Ew.
The problem with Open Source's initiative is that it expects people to care.
It's all about choice right? Well, most people don't care enough to make a choice. Hell, most people don't care enough to vote for who leads the United States, you expect them to give a crap about which browser they use?
Heck, I don't care. I have a wife and 2 kids to deal with. How can I expend brain cycles caring which browser I read a web page with?
Anyone have a good reason why I (or anyone) should care? I can see security, but Internet Exploder and $afari and Kram and Firefux are all the same in that regard at this point.
Browse the web without ads? Who cares, my eyes aren't so sensitive that a Ford ad on their new car is going to damage my rarified retinas.
See, that's the problem, it's all about choice, and the vast majority of the world doesn't care.
At least, that's how I see it.
This is good proof that security through obscurity doesn't work.
Anyone care to explain?
Read your own link. That's not an invocation of the War Powers Act. It's permission from congress for a brushfire engagement.
I don't disagree at all. I also think that building car bombs to kill civilians and killing civilians based on their religion is a war crime. Do you? Where's your outrage for the guys in Iraq killing Iraqis because they aren't sunni or shiite or whateverthefuck version of Islam?
Thats, ok, I'm sure it's all fault of the $20/year grunt.
I'd like to know when this will happen so I can move to, say, Canada.
Following orders is how it works. If the American people don't want our soldiers there, they have the tools at their disposal to fix the situation. The soliders are there at the will of the civilian government.
I wasn't trained to commit mass murder, I was trained to decontaminate people (military and civilian) in the event of an NBC attack. These skills directly translate to emergency response work (chemical plant fires, train derailments, etc).
In conclusion, you=stupid.
I was in the Army, mainly to turn my life around and get some direction and focus. College wasn't an option for me at the time. My brother hates standardized education and wanted to do something besides work at a McJob so he joined the Maries. My uncle joined the Navy during Vietnam so he could learn to fly planes. My grandfathers both fought in WWII against Nazi Germany. My Great Grandfathers found in WWI against the evil huns. Further down the line my family served in the American Civil War on the side of the North. Another offshoot of my family happened to have founded some of the concepts of modern calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gabriel_Stokes
Does that make my family a bunch of thugs?
Or heat for that matter. My geforce 7900 raises my box temp by 4 degrees C just doing 2d windows xp desktop work. I can't imagine running a gpu at 100% and cpu at 100% for hours on end. Better have good cooling. (granted mine does suck, but stuff).
I guess the question comes in "if you turn a paper in for grades is it now the property of the school/prof?" much the same as email/mail/faxes.
At what point, what watershed point do we reach, where our founding fathers would say "Screw it, time for open revolt"? When the government restricts the rights for citizens to gather in peaceful assembly (can't demonstrate without a permit or you get arrested), when is the time for civil disobedience? When is the time for open revolt?
The problem here is each change that sucks is a small one. Look at them all over the last 5 years and it REALLY sucks, but each little nick and chip, here and there, doesn't raise any public alarm. Is there ever a tipping point when each erosion of rights and liberty is so small that few if any notice?
I wish I knew, I can't see how any small action will ever raise enough alarm with the general populace. Did it ever with Germany when Hitler began is raise to power? I'm not educated enough on the goings on of 20-30s Germany to know that one I guess.
The only problem I have with buying CD's is that a portion of the funds go to pay for the RIAA, new copy protection schemes, and companies that used to put out good music but now produce garbage. I don't really feel like I should have to contribute to the legal quagmire that copyrights has become just because I'm missing a Beatles track I like.
Well, I don't buy music on iTunes. I'm just frustrated that there is no legitimate means of purchasing music that doesn't suck.
Think of the liability this opens them up to, didn't edonkey get shut down for enabling those evil hackers from trading music and movies?
Hopefully this will point to a market trend, an admission that copyrights are out of control to a large degree. I hate buying music from Itunes because of all the stupid license rules associated with it. It'd be nice to just be allowed to buy some .mp3 files and do with them as I feel. I don't even need a lossless format, my damaged ears can't tell the difference anyway.
Maybe that's how YOU work, and maybe even most people for that matter. But I've found raises and bonuses don't go up very much for those who do enough to get by. I always take a project at work as my own, and try to do the best job given the requirements, tools at hand, etc. I've found this is much more rewarding both in terms of career growth and financial gain.
Be prepared for lots of payment issues. You'll need to be able to accept credit card payments, check out the quicken site, they have an online store that will link in with your quickbooks install and they'll handle all the fraud issues for you. If you do market to the low end, parent is right, you'll have people slow pay/no pay, accuse you of 'hacking' them when they don't pay (that was a treat, guy basically wanted more free service under the threat of legal action), etc. Humanity is a cess pool, you'll be at the bottom when you're performing services in people's homes.
I actually ran my own computer consulting business and I found the term 'nerd' and 'geek' have pretty negative meanings to the average user. While it might imply technical skill, it also implies a lack of communication skills, manners, and to some extent reliability. I actually was doing pretty well by marketing above the nerd/geek level.
Lol no doubt, I can see it now:
Some hot chick appears on the billboard and says in a sultry voice: "Hello John Smith, did you need a refill on your last order of Teeny-Weeny condoms?"
Lets give the RIAA a few million IP addresses to pay people to sift through!
And I agree with the other OP's here, lying and incompetent go hand in hand, apparently she's both. I mean, I give her credit for fighting off breast cancer and melanoma, that's impressive, but her running of the HP board, uh, isn't.