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The Commercialization Of the Internet
YorickFinn writes "Common Dreams recently posted an article by Norman Solomon on "Denial and the Ravaging of Cyberspace." In short, Solomon argues that the commonly held view of the net as the last bastion of truly democratic mass communication is, in fact, a myth. For instance, he points out that "Websites operated by just four corporations account for 50.4 percent of the time that U.S. users of the Web are now spending online...." Ultimately, Solomon claims that the net may become more like "interactive digital TV," with the decline in the use of browsers and the increasing prominence of technology such as MTV.(The "M" is for Microsoft, formerly WebTV.) All told, his forecast is somewhat bleak, but not entirely unfounded. Worth the read."
The commercialisation of the internet can only
be stopped by converting to Windows XP.
I've been running Windows XP for the last couple of weeks. It's amazingly fast and stable. The interface is clean and intuitive. Truly an amazing Desktop OS, maybe the best yet.
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You wanna mess with GPL? (Yeah)
You can't mess with GPL (why?)
Because we put it on (what?)
Every program we write (oh)
See this buggy thing right here? (uh huh)
Well we're fixing em all the time (what?)
So you'd better get some better OS
and uh, get some better line (d'oh)!
We got the feature set
It doesn't work yet
24/7 coding never get a paycheck
Old school coders writing lines of that Java shit
That bloat shit
Computer runs like it's stuck in a tar pit
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