Look, MSGT McPervy, just because you can't look at TnA while working at your avionics bench, doesn't mean you are prevented from the rest of the internet.
As a civilian, I did that job for USN, using SuperScout, I WAS Mister Access Denied, and, backed by regulations, was very strict in sites I blocked. We even had several prosecutions. Do it on your own time.
As a former MTI at Lackland, in the pre-web era, I was used to whining airmen. But, please, you do know the military has a mission other than making sure you can look for Borat videos on YouTube, right?
Buddhism, and I am one, has a huge military history. The problem is, Buddhism as a philosophy, no problem, as a RELIGION, big problem.
Asatru, made up. Modern Asatru as espoused by McNallen, a closetted racist with a completely failed life, Texas to California, is a bastard of a movement that claims to have a lock on the old Nordic/Icelandic god worship. Thorrsen is no better. Heilsa.
Wicca, another made up modern religion based on modern interpretations of odd collections of old stuff.
Both Asatru and Wicca are their "religion's" equivelent of a history class taught by the SCA.
Ever notice how those that have religion are very weak about their belief in it? It's as if a word spoken against it so threatens them that they must defend it vocally and almost violently. In fact, some get very violent about it. Their religion apparently cannot stand up on its own, it always needs the believers to prop it up.
Religionists want their religion to change their world, and they want to change the world to force it to accept their religion.
Many religions have missionaries. Most of them, the missionaries are as obnoxious, if not more so, than the religion itself. And, in many cases, the religion seems to survive in spite of their missionaries.
Now, that was about the OS wars. But, the same could be said about the theological religions as well.
Needless to say, GNU/Linux, etc has ran beautifully on removable media for years.
Needless to say, if anyone really used it, that would be a meaningful statement. Now, Joe User will think MS/SD is the ideal solution.
If Linux users want to be relevant, they need to court Joe User and not try to alienate him. They need to provide stuff he wants, like a huge ready to go software base he can get on his next trip to Costco/Best Buy/WalMart. Careful now, you scoff, and you'll be engaging in the exact behavior that turns Joe User off.
You want to take on MS, then take Joe User away from him. Apple was successful in pulling Artsy Fartsy Franky from MS, Linux needs Joe User.
But, if all this doesn't matter to you, then don't complain when MS does something and people like me let you know you had your chance. Win the war, adopt a strategy that will beat MS.
SciFi must care more about wrestling then anything else.
A&E, ostensibly for "Arts and Entertainment", has become a "lowest common denominator" entertainment channel. It is now targeted to "Cleetus the Slackjawed Yokel". O.k., I'll say it, it is now "A&E for White Trash".
SciFi has done the same thing.
Back in the 70's, "Sci-Fi" was the schlock stuff that hacks turned out. "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and such. "SF" was what Asimov, Heinlein, Dick wrote.
When the Sci Fi channel debutted, a lot of SF fans were horrified with the moniker, but decided they could live with it as long as it was a home for SF. But, it has started to live up to the old definition of "Sci Fi" rather than the higher ideals of SF. We have lost the battle.
Oh, and when did wrestling ever get connected with either Sci Fi or SF? Besides some B grade movies being star vehicles for aging wrestlers.
Pssst...Hey, we are working on some black ops there as well, mud packs and all. Plus the Spooks of SPAWAR are trying to pit the Swedish Spas against the Korean Spas, and we are going to use Japanese Spas as a proxy against the Tuscans.
But, whatever you do, don't tell the folks in Santa Fe, we have really big plans for them.
O.K., I have to call a certain level of bullsh*t here. Last year, during the DevConnections in Orlando, my wife and I spent some time at EPCOT and the China pavillion had a full model of the new Disneyland, and my mailings from Disney (credit card and stock mailings) all mention it.
Is this more akin to Tokyo Disneyland being owned by Orient Land Company?
I think its more, Disney sanctioned, but owned and operated by China. Think "franchise".
Sony has the added security feature in that in a few short years, like Betamax, MiniDisc, etc, the Sony backed format will fail, players and computer devices will disappear and the format will be safe from cracking. Security Through Undesired Format.
As someone from the military, I've seen people respond in/. forums and say they were from the military. One noteable thread about IA had one supposed Army IA contractor talking about their issues and included something that had the guy been telling the truth would have led him to, as a minimum, interview with the Army's investigative services. Its stuff that the IA community would know in general, you could pick up an many SANS conferences, but its also stuff the Army says, you don't need to be telling.
Before anyone cries "rights", when you join the service, you agree that you lose or have limited right to some speech. Depending on your position, you may have a lifetime restriction on what you say or write without prior approval or review. It's the hard facts of national security.
Do they plan to sell this on less capable machines because the drivers just aren't available for the latest and greatest of options? Or, will they still sell you a machine with the hottest hardware, but no ability to use it?
We will now see a bunch of programmers and geeks try to display their scientific understandings and fail miserably. Usually because they read a chapter or 2 of Hawkings, or they know how to spell Fiene...Feinama...that really cool and funny fizicist...phyzi...fiscis...you know, someone who studies how the Universe works.
I think we'd be better off sharing bio-diesel recipes and gossiping about our favorite TV series that are due for cancellation.
Someone's going to hack this thing and put linux on it, probably the OpenWRT or NSLU2-Linux guys.
And then it will require all sorts of special.conf files to configure each action. Lock up when it doesn't like the half written drivers. Refuses to work for returning vets because some military hating geek used GPL3AM (anti-military) for some of his code, and doesn't work in Israel because another driver was written by a Belgian geek with too much political bs on his mind rather than coding. Fails when leaving the U.S. because it contains a compression algo that is considered weapons grade code. Causes death and destruction on the highway because the Brit coder decided that he knows best when telling the arm what side of the road to drive on.
mount -cokecan
No thank you, give me good ol' ATMEL's with code written by experts, not hobbyists.
I choose not to use Windows because as a developer it's not a useful OS in the slightest.
I choose to use Windows because, as a developer, its the most widely installed OS, and God knows, I love the money that comes rolling in from the users of the most widely installed OS. I develop useful applications and web services that don't require my customers to build and learn a new operating system. I let my customers make the choice. (Psst, I also develop on Linux and provide solutions to those customers that make that choice.)
In other words, as someone who likes money and lifestyle, who likes eating, who likes playing, who I choose to go where the money is. Idealism is fine. Personal crusades of windmill tilting are fine, Don. But, in the end, they don't put food on the table, they don't pay for the Hummer, they don't allow you to jet to Fiji for a cool vacation.
I remain flexible, screw idealism and useless and childish OS prejudice.
You would be correct if purse control was all they did. But, they did not. They set a date for withdrawal, that rests only with the President. They control the purse strings, if they want us out, they should cut off funding, final. If the President were to not veto this bill, he would be abdicating the power he has as Executive and Commander-in-Chief.
The greater issue is that Congress has muddied the water by abdicating power. They authorized the President to take action without a declaration of war, and almost every one of the non-kook representitives with along with the idea. This whole cock up should serve as a lesson to future congresses, give nothing away. War Powers Act? An easy way for Congress to through up their hands and say, "It wasn't us."
Congress controls purse strings - constitutional.
Congress orders President to pull troops out of Iraq - unconstitutional.
Congress defunds troops - constitutional and political suicide, but sometimes, if you want to stop playing political games with the troops lives, you have to be willing to lose your political life for whats right. There is not a single one of them that is willing to do that,no one, they like their cushey political jobs.
Between this news and Congress ordering the Prez to withdraw tropps from Iraq this morning, all I can say is that it's about G-D damned time someone stood up to these two. Maybe our country still has a chance?
Congress did nothing of the sort. Democrats in Congress basically said, "Listen to us or we will stamp our little foot and get huffy."
Those savvy enough to know understand that it was show. Pelosi and Co. wanted a show down and wanted Bush to veto this. The bill itself was un-Constitutional. It crossed the lines of separation of powers.
There is a way to accomplish what they want, but this was just a stage show for benefit of cameras.
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Look, MSGT McPervy, just because you can't look at TnA while working at your avionics bench, doesn't mean you are prevented from the rest of the internet.
As a civilian, I did that job for USN, using SuperScout, I WAS Mister Access Denied, and, backed by regulations, was very strict in sites I blocked. We even had several prosecutions. Do it on your own time.
As a former MTI at Lackland, in the pre-web era, I was used to whining airmen. But, please, you do know the military has a mission other than making sure you can look for Borat videos on YouTube, right?
Have you seen how violent the hindus can get?
Buddhism, and I am one, has a huge military history. The problem is, Buddhism as a philosophy, no problem, as a RELIGION, big problem.
Asatru, made up. Modern Asatru as espoused by McNallen, a closetted racist with a completely failed life, Texas to California, is a bastard of a movement that claims to have a lock on the old Nordic/Icelandic god worship. Thorrsen is no better. Heilsa.
Wicca, another made up modern religion based on modern interpretations of odd collections of old stuff.
Both Asatru and Wicca are their "religion's" equivelent of a history class taught by the SCA.
Am a buddhist.
Ever notice how those that have religion are very weak about their belief in it? It's as if a word spoken against it so threatens them that they must defend it vocally and almost violently. In fact, some get very violent about it. Their religion apparently cannot stand up on its own, it always needs the believers to prop it up.
Religionists want their religion to change their world, and they want to change the world to force it to accept their religion.
Many religions have missionaries. Most of them, the missionaries are as obnoxious, if not more so, than the religion itself. And, in many cases, the religion seems to survive in spite of their missionaries.
Now, that was about the OS wars. But, the same could be said about the theological religions as well.
Needless to say, if anyone really used it, that would be a meaningful statement. Now, Joe User will think MS/SD is the ideal solution.
If Linux users want to be relevant, they need to court Joe User and not try to alienate him. They need to provide stuff he wants, like a huge ready to go software base he can get on his next trip to Costco/Best Buy/WalMart. Careful now, you scoff, and you'll be engaging in the exact behavior that turns Joe User off.
You want to take on MS, then take Joe User away from him. Apple was successful in pulling Artsy Fartsy Franky from MS, Linux needs Joe User.
But, if all this doesn't matter to you, then don't complain when MS does something and people like me let you know you had your chance. Win the war, adopt a strategy that will beat MS.
Got to love new tech biting you in the butt.
A&E, ostensibly for "Arts and Entertainment", has become a "lowest common denominator" entertainment channel. It is now targeted to "Cleetus the Slackjawed Yokel". O.k., I'll say it, it is now "A&E for White Trash".
SciFi has done the same thing.
Back in the 70's, "Sci-Fi" was the schlock stuff that hacks turned out. "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and such. "SF" was what Asimov, Heinlein, Dick wrote.
When the Sci Fi channel debutted, a lot of SF fans were horrified with the moniker, but decided they could live with it as long as it was a home for SF. But, it has started to live up to the old definition of "Sci Fi" rather than the higher ideals of SF. We have lost the battle.
Oh, and when did wrestling ever get connected with either Sci Fi or SF? Besides some B grade movies being star vehicles for aging wrestlers.
They have a point, but man, that ranks right up there with:
I'm 10 months into a 2 year contract with Verizon. I'm cancelling as soon as possible.
I also loved Royal's, "If you vote conservative, their will be riots," method.
Well, someone had to use a broad brush stroke. Aren't you glad it was you?
For your info, not all conservatives did that. In fact, I'd say it was only the most publicity seeking ones that tried that little bit of triteness.
Pssst...Hey, we are working on some black ops there as well, mud packs and all. Plus the Spooks of SPAWAR are trying to pit the Swedish Spas against the Korean Spas, and we are going to use Japanese Spas as a proxy against the Tuscans.
But, whatever you do, don't tell the folks in Santa Fe, we have really big plans for them.
O.K., I have to call a certain level of bullsh*t here. Last year, during the DevConnections in Orlando, my wife and I spent some time at EPCOT and the China pavillion had a full model of the new Disneyland, and my mailings from Disney (credit card and stock mailings) all mention it.
Is this more akin to Tokyo Disneyland being owned by Orient Land Company?
I think its more, Disney sanctioned, but owned and operated by China. Think "franchise".
And yet, you contributed to the thread.
Sony has the added security feature in that in a few short years, like Betamax, MiniDisc, etc, the Sony backed format will fail, players and computer devices will disappear and the format will be safe from cracking. Security Through Undesired Format.
Imagine a beo...(hic)...a be...(hic)...imagine a...(hic)...imagine...what was I saying?...(hic)...Imagine...John Lennon was the best Beatle.
As someone from the military, I've seen people respond in /. forums and say they were from the military. One noteable thread about IA had one supposed Army IA contractor talking about their issues and included something that had the guy been telling the truth would have led him to, as a minimum, interview with the Army's investigative services. Its stuff that the IA community would know in general, you could pick up an many SANS conferences, but its also stuff the Army says, you don't need to be telling.
Before anyone cries "rights", when you join the service, you agree that you lose or have limited right to some speech. Depending on your position, you may have a lifetime restriction on what you say or write without prior approval or review. It's the hard facts of national security.
MacWorld is running an analyst who says Vista is more secure than Mac OS X.
Knee jerks begin in 3...2...1...
Do they plan to sell this on less capable machines because the drivers just aren't available for the latest and greatest of options? Or, will they still sell you a machine with the hottest hardware, but no ability to use it?
You've got a physics degree? cool. Quick, read my mind. Do you have one of thos 900 Fortune Telling numbers?
Wait for it...3, 2, 1:
We will now see a bunch of programmers and geeks try to display their scientific understandings and fail miserably. Usually because they read a chapter or 2 of Hawkings, or they know how to spell Fiene...Feinama...that really cool and funny fizicist...phyzi...fiscis...you know, someone who studies how the Universe works.
I think we'd be better off sharing bio-diesel recipes and gossiping about our favorite TV series that are due for cancellation.
And then it will require all sorts of special .conf files to configure each action. Lock up when it doesn't like the half written drivers. Refuses to work for returning vets because some military hating geek used GPL3AM (anti-military) for some of his code, and doesn't work in Israel because another driver was written by a Belgian geek with too much political bs on his mind rather than coding. Fails when leaving the U.S. because it contains a compression algo that is considered weapons grade code. Causes death and destruction on the highway because the Brit coder decided that he knows best when telling the arm what side of the road to drive on.
mount -cokecan
No thank you, give me good ol' ATMEL's with code written by experts, not hobbyists.
I choose to use Windows because, as a developer, its the most widely installed OS, and God knows, I love the money that comes rolling in from the users of the most widely installed OS. I develop useful applications and web services that don't require my customers to build and learn a new operating system. I let my customers make the choice. (Psst, I also develop on Linux and provide solutions to those customers that make that choice.)
In other words, as someone who likes money and lifestyle, who likes eating, who likes playing, who I choose to go where the money is. Idealism is fine. Personal crusades of windmill tilting are fine, Don. But, in the end, they don't put food on the table, they don't pay for the Hummer, they don't allow you to jet to Fiji for a cool vacation.
I remain flexible, screw idealism and useless and childish OS prejudice.
Man, I've been playing with this and it is a developers dream. I love it, well, except for the name.
Easy to use, easy to implement, and it is hot looking.
You would be correct if purse control was all they did. But, they did not. They set a date for withdrawal, that rests only with the President. They control the purse strings, if they want us out, they should cut off funding, final. If the President were to not veto this bill, he would be abdicating the power he has as Executive and Commander-in-Chief.
The greater issue is that Congress has muddied the water by abdicating power. They authorized the President to take action without a declaration of war, and almost every one of the non-kook representitives with along with the idea. This whole cock up should serve as a lesson to future congresses, give nothing away. War Powers Act? An easy way for Congress to through up their hands and say, "It wasn't us."
Congress controls purse strings - constitutional.
Congress orders President to pull troops out of Iraq - unconstitutional.
Congress defunds troops - constitutional and political suicide, but sometimes, if you want to stop playing political games with the troops lives, you have to be willing to lose your political life for whats right. There is not a single one of them that is willing to do that,no one, they like their cushey political jobs.
Congress did nothing of the sort. Democrats in Congress basically said, "Listen to us or we will stamp our little foot and get huffy."
Those savvy enough to know understand that it was show. Pelosi and Co. wanted a show down and wanted Bush to veto this. The bill itself was un-Constitutional. It crossed the lines of separation of powers.
There is a way to accomplish what they want, but this was just a stage show for benefit of cameras.