My turn in the bowl, I have read many of the posts and the responses here and it continues to amaze me the level that people will self delude so as to blame their life on any available external source. Do I care if you choose to express yourself with ink and metal, no I do not but if the position requires meeting with my customer base then the answer changes. My interest in a customer is that they pay in full on time so that I can write pay checks to the other 10 oddballs (as good tech's tend to be) that helped to make that deal happen as well as to pay myself, the guy who has put his future in debt to build the company that makes the opportunity. When I evaluate an overly unique person no matter how bright I have to a ask if the upside they may bring is worth the interpersonal issues the free spirit can often cause (been there done that). Most often the answer is no. I can move to the less flamboyant person, not have to deal with the attitude, and alow all the staff to be overall more productive. Good people are worth their weight in gold once found and I will go to great lengths to retain them, but small companies and departments are not in the social justice business and tend to be very conservitive by nature, I have an hour or two to make a decision and am not a sociologist. If you give me any indication that you may be difficult then you will be deamed unworthy of the disruption you may cause. My concerns move from myself to my family, to the people that currently rely on my decisions for their livelyhood, to the rest of the world, Not fair but the way my world works.
If the bloggers are to damaging to your cause just site Campaign finance and shut down all dns to the offending sites based on Campaign law. Great deal for incumbants
This has already begun college campus speech codes, political correctness, hate crimes. The problem in limiting any type of communication regardless of its content the fact that someone else gets to decide the standard that then people with guns will enforce. This is not a left or right issue as both ends of the spectrum are busy trying to outlaw the others communication of there ideas for the good of those that may be fooled by the misinformation.
Most of the support for this Idea seams to come from those that are afraid that the reader will be fooled by incorrect or malicious information, usually with the assumption that there own view is by the power of there own exceptional intelect, unfettered. This is an expansive bit of intellectual arrogance. People are not the automations that the nanny's in our society assume everyone who is not as enlightened as themselves are, and will for the most part divine the truth when it is presented. How inconvenient for the nannies that the poor little lost sheep wish to make there own decisions. This kind of legistration for our own good of coures is always a disaster. But do not expect this to defer the nannies since In the Intellectual community of liberals an ideology's catastrophic failure in the practical arena merely demonstrates its Higher Truth to its anointed. And, more importantly, the anointed's ability to perceive that Higher Truth proves - to there own satisfaction, at least- their moral and intellectual superiority to the common people who allow themselves to be deceived by mere facts. Their right to control the lives of that common populace - for it's own good, of course- follows as their natural consequence.
T.S. Eliot understood such people and their priorities. Writing in 1950, he said: "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
Reading this string I note that these responses are attacks with no intellectual meat. The writer offers no actual argument and insists on flogging the original author with distain for his teaching ability and English skills. The original poster is not writing a dissertation just a post he no doubt lacks the time that an unemployed intellect has to attack actual thoughts with frivolous bashing. As do I.
Due to the business I am in, I have always been more windows than other platforms biased however the new mini changes the rules. The bulk of the Windows OS code needs higher energy chips and equipment to have an acceptable user experience. Even when using the Via mini-Itx boards the heat/energy load to run Windows acceptably requires fans (=Noise) and a trade off on speed and experience. The mini gives users a small quiet low wattage package that provides a user experience in most uses that is comparable to any other hardware. The term that I feel applies is elegance, users will adopt because the device does what they need efficiently without any major drawbacks. This combined with X-Serve has made me have to accept the gloating of my old Mac-head friends as justified.
I have always found the argument that being poisoned by radiation is in some way worse than the thousands of other ways one can be done in living in a modern society such as by chemical, biological, or mechanical means. The effective life of some chemical agents is as long as the worst of the nuclide types. Is it that people are inherently more afraid of that which they don't understand, or just too many badly researched Hollywood productions convincing them that there children will be born as 3 pound hairy eye balls if they are exposed?
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After much messing around I have found the USB2/Firewire 2.5 inch Hotdrive with your choice of 4200rpm drive works in most cases. the odd thing that I have found with these units is the critical nature of the USB cable in the setup. I have gone through many different cables to find one that will power the drive without an external power supply and have found that the only one that consistently works is the old A to Mini B 5 pin I got at radio shack. this has been tested and oddly this cable is the only one I have found that self powers the unit from any machine I currently use or support. As for cases when this is not available I have a 6v removable multiple tip power supply, from Radio shack again, with the "h" tip for this case that works well and with additional tips can power a wide range of USB devices. http://apricorn.com/ has a number of 1.8" units that appear interesting if you want a integrated unit..... Anyone have suggestions on synchronization software for these units? I develop both at home and work and would like to sync from the removable to both locations?
A lot of the posts here assume that the facts were known at the time of the action. while in hindsite the actions may have been harsh in may cases what was known at the time lead to the actions and were resonable by any standard of the time. makes for a fun argument but is a bunch of meaningless static in the larger analysis.
I am a developer also and had a similar need but I went a different direction. In that I was going to have to simulate traffic I decided to short change the hardware on purpose so that the resources available were easier to saturate. The code thus written is more efficient when ramped up to stronger machines. I used micro-itx based systems which are in some cases smaller than the reference books on my shelf they are fleshed out by used laptop parts and have external (read replaceable) power bricks. A possibly even better system for development are the old hp-epcs that can be found on ebay as they have quickly swappable hard drives so a developer could quickly recreate any setup and then keep it separate for the cost of an inexpensive 3.5 inch hard drive.
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Yes I do seem to have jumped the gun on that
so let me see any idea that doesn't fit into your world view is childish, and adult reaction
In that communists theology replaces god with the state any of last centuries Communist uprisings are an example of an atheist group throwing bombs.
My turn in the bowl, I have read many of the posts and the responses here and it continues to amaze me the level that people will self delude so as to blame their life on any available external source. Do I care if you choose to express yourself with ink and metal, no I do not but if the position requires meeting with my customer base then the answer changes. My interest in a customer is that they pay in full on time so that I can write pay checks to the other 10 oddballs (as good tech's tend to be) that helped to make that deal happen as well as to pay myself, the guy who has put his future in debt to build the company that makes the opportunity. When I evaluate an overly unique person no matter how bright I have to a ask if the upside they may bring is worth the interpersonal issues the free spirit can often cause (been there done that). Most often the answer is no. I can move to the less flamboyant person, not have to deal with the attitude, and alow all the staff to be overall more productive. Good people are worth their weight in gold once found and I will go to great lengths to retain them, but small companies and departments are not in the social justice business and tend to be very conservitive by nature, I have an hour or two to make a decision and am not a sociologist. If you give me any indication that you may be difficult then you will be deamed unworthy of the disruption you may cause. My concerns move from myself to my family, to the people that currently rely on my decisions for their livelyhood, to the rest of the world, Not fair but the way my world works.
If the bloggers are to damaging to your cause just site Campaign finance and shut down all dns to the offending sites based on Campaign law. Great deal for incumbants
This has already begun college campus speech codes, political correctness, hate crimes. The problem in limiting any type of communication regardless of its content the fact that someone else gets to decide the standard that then people with guns will enforce. This is not a left or right issue as both ends of the spectrum are busy trying to outlaw the others communication of there ideas for the good of those that may be fooled by the misinformation.
Most of the support for this Idea seams to come from those that are afraid that the reader will be fooled by incorrect or malicious information, usually with the assumption that there own view is by the power of there own exceptional intelect, unfettered. This is an expansive bit of intellectual arrogance. People are not the automations that the nanny's in our society assume everyone who is not as enlightened as themselves are, and will for the most part divine the truth when it is presented. How inconvenient for the nannies that the poor little lost sheep wish to make there own decisions. This kind of legistration for our own good of coures is always a disaster. But do not expect this to defer the nannies since In the Intellectual community of liberals an ideology's catastrophic failure in the practical arena merely demonstrates its Higher Truth to its anointed. And, more importantly, the anointed's ability to perceive that Higher Truth proves - to there own satisfaction, at least- their moral and intellectual superiority to the common people who allow themselves to be deceived by mere facts. Their right to control the lives of that common populace - for it's own good, of course- follows as their natural consequence. T.S. Eliot understood such people and their priorities. Writing in 1950, he said: "Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."
Reading this string I note that these responses are attacks with no intellectual meat. The writer offers no actual argument and insists on flogging the original author with distain for his teaching ability and English skills. The original poster is not writing a dissertation just a post he no doubt lacks the time that an unemployed intellect has to attack actual thoughts with frivolous bashing. As do I.
Due to the business I am in, I have always been more windows than other platforms biased however the new mini changes the rules. The bulk of the Windows OS code needs higher energy chips and equipment to have an acceptable user experience. Even when using the Via mini-Itx boards the heat/energy load to run Windows acceptably requires fans (=Noise) and a trade off on speed and experience. The mini gives users a small quiet low wattage package that provides a user experience in most uses that is comparable to any other hardware. The term that I feel applies is elegance, users will adopt because the device does what they need efficiently without any major drawbacks. This combined with X-Serve has made me have to accept the gloating of my old Mac-head friends as justified.
I have always found the argument that being poisoned by radiation is in some way worse than the thousands of other ways one can be done in living in a modern society such as by chemical, biological, or mechanical means. The effective life of some chemical agents is as long as the worst of the nuclide types. Is it that people are inherently more afraid of that which they don't understand, or just too many badly researched Hollywood productions convincing them that there children will be born as 3 pound hairy eye balls if they are exposed?
After much messing around I have found the USB2/Firewire 2.5 inch Hotdrive with your choice of 4200rpm drive works in most cases. the odd thing that I have found with these units is the critical nature of the USB cable in the setup. I have gone through many different cables to find one that will power the drive without an external power supply and have found that the only one that consistently works is the old A to Mini B 5 pin I got at radio shack. this has been tested and oddly this cable is the only one I have found that self powers the unit from any machine I currently use or support. As for cases when this is not available I have a 6v removable multiple tip power supply, from Radio shack again, with the "h" tip for this case that works well and with additional tips can power a wide range of USB devices. http://apricorn.com/ has a number of 1.8" units that appear interesting if you want a integrated unit..... Anyone have suggestions on synchronization software for these units? I develop both at home and work and would like to sync from the removable to both locations?
A lot of the posts here assume that the facts were known at the time of the action. while in hindsite the actions may have been harsh in may cases what was known at the time lead to the actions and were resonable by any standard of the time. makes for a fun argument but is a bunch of meaningless static in the larger analysis.
I am a developer also and had a similar need but I went a different direction. In that I was going to have to simulate traffic I decided to short change the hardware on purpose so that the resources available were easier to saturate. The code thus written is more efficient when ramped up to stronger machines. I used micro-itx based systems which are in some cases smaller than the reference books on my shelf they are fleshed out by used laptop parts and have external (read replaceable) power bricks. A possibly even better system for development are the old hp-epcs that can be found on ebay as they have quickly swappable hard drives so a developer could quickly recreate any setup and then keep it separate for the cost of an inexpensive 3.5 inch hard drive.