At an auction a few years ago I got a 1960's vintage Ampex degausser. It was on the bottom of a skid of gear I got for pennies. It's huge, larger than a 1980's laptop. It's big enough to degauss full 1/2" reels of computer tape.
None of the social media people are describing is even broadcasting. Broadcasting itself is in jeopardy. Who wants to 'watch' a sporting event where there is only one channel to view it through?
Multicasting is the new chosen format. So the people in the stadium are doing nothing wrong if they share. The people who paid big bucks for the increasingly obsolete 'broadcasting rights' for 15 years are the suckers.
Microsoft just needs to figure out a way now to turn the fact that feature-creep means the old files won't open on the new version of their software. They've been doing the opposite of that for so long that all they need to do is declare a 'backwards day.'
Of course, on said 'backwards day,' money flows OUT of Microsoft's bank accounts, instead of in.
They've screwed the public for so long with this tactic that it's just, well, delicious to think that maybe it will bite THEM this time.
Not a lot of people care what you use on your personal computer. That has nothing to do with whether this affects you or not.
Your doctor, the power utility that provides you with electricity, the supermarket that sells you food, the police station that will dispatch a squad car if someone is threatening you with a broken beer bottle, etc..
They don't all use OpenOffice on Linux anyway.
You are a member of a society, and can't just 'tune in, turn on to Linux, drop out, etc.'
We'll see this kind of bullshit so long as software patents exist and IMHO the only way to deal with this is take it out of the realms of rubber stamp patents and back under copyright where it belongs.
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) that would be just as disruptive. Microsoft has built their product line with the assumption that the framework of patents they hold is their property.
I agree that we should all just hand-wave away software patents and the world will become a somewhat better place. But that isn't possible.
It used to be that way. But now, 'troll' has been redefined. All those chat-room kids teemed forward into the online world, as was inevitable. 'Troll' now means 'something bad' and little more.
If the BM organizers were trying to cash in on the event they would sell TShirts like concerts (they don't), they would allow vendors to sell food (they don't), they would charge premiums for better placement of campsites
It's called 'Maximizing value.' That's why the Disney organization carefully controls how and why and where they allow their cherished Mickey images to be displayed. If 'Burning Man' tee-shirts were available at Target, the 'brand' would be diluted.
I mean, get real here. BM has been mocked on The Simpsons(tm). It doesn't need to go past that...
Unless we are talking about some sort of RS-232C converter that transmits over a house's power lines, it is broadband. And it is being carried over power lines. Equivocally.
The reason Netscape failed was because they decided they could 'own' the desktop simply by giving away their browser for free, but salting it with proprietary extensions to HTML that only their Server technology could push out. They chose to take the Web proprietary at just the time when it was growing wild and free. So while Microsoft was being forced open, Netscape was attempting to weave the web shut. Nobody wanted their crummy web servers. Apache killed Netscape. Microsoft just stuck around to pick the bones on the roadkill.
If you are child-less, and thus have little patience for the little monsters, you'd say that dogs *can* be as stupid and annoying as those screaming spoiled rotten two year old brats at McDonalds. Please, parents, stick them in that soundproof screaming chamber area with the playground equipment!
it raised the standard of living of the average person dramatically,
It hardly counts when a country 'raises the standard of living' by starving off entire classes and nationalities, and puts 'difficult' elements within the economy into labor camps. Liquidation may seem like a nice approach... if you're the one doing the liquidating.
and take hundreds of thousands of people down who are innocent of any wrong-doing and would have virtually no recourse.
There is no slavery in the U.S. When you see your company engaging in reckless and/or corrupt behavior that can not sustain it over the long term LEAVE. Go get another job. That's what you are entitled to do.
That your 'solution' is 'regulation' isn't surprising. You want a managed economy. "The new Five Year Plan guarantees we will build 15,000,000 new tractors, and the output from the potato sector will liberating. On with the people's revolution."
It's more accurate to say that the multinational corporations that own Ford and GM are headquartered in the United States.
But the hidden pretext in a lot of this is that Toyota and Honda aren't caught in a throat-hold by the Union Bosses at the UAW. Those dudes have a lot of POWER and a bunch of the clowns in Washington will skip and jump to whatever tune they play.
Actually, we have several years of economic experience (not theory) that electing a majority of Democrats into congress in 2006 has pulled the economy into the tank. Every time something Obama proposes looks like it will fail, the Stock market rallies.
Giving money (tax cuts or whatever) to the poor/disadvantaged
Unfortunately, you can't cut the taxes any further on the large sectors of the population that pay no income tax now anyway. So you're just 'giving money.'
The quickest way to 'stimulate' the economy would be a personal income tax moratorium. Say "income taxes will not be deducted from workers' paychecks for the next 9 months." The problem that comes to be is... government doesn't give up power easily. Those busy people in Washington know better than us what to do with our money, you see.
No, you'd be surprised at how many subtle ways that bikes are discouraged here in the U.S. I've never seen 'bike storage location' advertised as a feature for an apartment rental, and it is not a common thing most place. A sizable majority of the US Population views bikes as either recreational devices or children's toys. Here in the middle of Indiana, the roads are narrow and the pickup trucks whizz past.
Apple has historically BOASTED about their closedness.
The original Macintosh came in a sealed box, and was dubbed 'Hacker Proof' (in the classic sense of people who like access to their stuff) at all the early Press Events. The machine was introduced as a reaction to and against, those of us with our Osbornes and TRS-80's and all the other machines that were thriving in an open community. Then Apple nailed the point down further by suing anybody else who dared adopt a GUI, wiping out all the small players and essentially creating Microsoft's monopoly for them (it took Microsoft and HP's legal heft to come out with a GUI operating system 'for the rest of us.' The small competitors like GEM were run out of the market.)
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At an auction a few years ago I got a 1960's vintage Ampex degausser. It was on the bottom of a skid of gear I got for pennies. It's huge, larger than a 1980's laptop. It's big enough to degauss full 1/2" reels of computer tape.
None of the social media people are describing is even broadcasting. Broadcasting itself is in jeopardy. Who wants to 'watch' a sporting event where there is only one channel to view it through?
Multicasting is the new chosen format. So the people in the stadium are doing nothing wrong if they share. The people who paid big bucks for the increasingly obsolete 'broadcasting rights' for 15 years are the suckers.
We all write our comments in Word. Because the Internet Explorer doesn't have a spell checker.
But SeaMonkey's Composer has a spell checker.
Microsoft just needs to figure out a way now to turn the fact that feature-creep means the old files won't open on the new version of their software. They've been doing the opposite of that for so long that all they need to do is declare a 'backwards day.'
Of course, on said 'backwards day,' money flows OUT of Microsoft's bank accounts, instead of in.
They've screwed the public for so long with this tactic that it's just, well, delicious to think that maybe it will bite THEM this time.
Not a lot of people care what you use on your personal computer. That has nothing to do with whether this affects you or not.
Your doctor, the power utility that provides you with electricity, the supermarket that sells you food, the police station that will dispatch a squad car if someone is threatening you with a broken beer bottle, etc..
They don't all use OpenOffice on Linux anyway.
You are a member of a society, and can't just 'tune in, turn on to Linux, drop out, etc.'
So you're telling me that what makes lawyers 'that way' is they huff burned-capacitor fumes?
It figures...
We'll see this kind of bullshit so long as software patents exist and IMHO the only way to deal with this is take it out of the realms of rubber stamp patents and back under copyright where it belongs.
Unfortunately (for Microsoft) that would be just as disruptive. Microsoft has built their product line with the assumption that the framework of patents they hold is their property.
I agree that we should all just hand-wave away software patents and the world will become a somewhat better place. But that isn't possible.
It used to be that way. But now, 'troll' has been redefined. All those chat-room kids teemed forward into the online world, as was inevitable. 'Troll' now means 'something bad' and little more.
If the BM organizers were trying to cash in on the event they would sell TShirts like concerts (they don't), they would allow vendors to sell food (they don't), they would charge premiums for better placement of campsites
It's called 'Maximizing value.' That's why the Disney organization carefully controls how and why and where they allow their cherished Mickey images to be displayed. If 'Burning Man' tee-shirts were available at Target, the 'brand' would be diluted.
I mean, get real here. BM has been mocked on The Simpsons(tm). It doesn't need to go past that...
Most of the people posting here have never been and will never go..
Obviously. Most of 'these people' have no idea what a Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ) is all about.
However, organized religions grow around TAZ's. That's happened here.
It's a religion.
You're still a True Believer.
He's an apostate.
Grind your teeth, dude.
Unless we are talking about some sort of RS-232C converter that transmits over a house's power lines, it is broadband. And it is being carried over power lines. Equivocally.
Who exactly benefits from mutually assured destruction?
The Users. We should all get big tubs of popcorn and watch Microsoft and Google duke it out.
The reason Netscape failed was because they decided they could 'own' the desktop simply by giving away their browser for free, but salting it with proprietary extensions to HTML that only their Server technology could push out. They chose to take the Web proprietary at just the time when it was growing wild and free. So while Microsoft was being forced open, Netscape was attempting to weave the web shut. Nobody wanted their crummy web servers. Apache killed Netscape. Microsoft just stuck around to pick the bones on the roadkill.
If you are child-less, and thus have little patience for the little monsters, you'd say that dogs *can* be as stupid and annoying as those screaming spoiled rotten two year old brats at McDonalds. Please, parents, stick them in that soundproof screaming chamber area with the playground equipment!
Because Kirk always got the girl in the end.
it raised the standard of living of the average person dramatically,
It hardly counts when a country 'raises the standard of living' by starving off entire classes and nationalities, and puts 'difficult' elements within the economy into labor camps. Liquidation may seem like a nice approach... if you're the one doing the liquidating.
and take hundreds of thousands of people down who are innocent of any wrong-doing and would have virtually no recourse.
There is no slavery in the U.S. When you see your company engaging in reckless and/or corrupt behavior that can not sustain it over the long term LEAVE. Go get another job. That's what you are entitled to do.
That your 'solution' is 'regulation' isn't surprising. You want a managed economy. "The new Five Year Plan guarantees we will build 15,000,000 new tractors, and the output from the potato sector will liberating. On with the people's revolution."
It's more accurate to say that the multinational corporations that own Ford and GM are headquartered in the United States.
But the hidden pretext in a lot of this is that Toyota and Honda aren't caught in a throat-hold by the Union Bosses at the UAW. Those dudes have a lot of POWER and a bunch of the clowns in Washington will skip and jump to whatever tune they play.
"We have 50 years economic theory ...."
Actually, we have several years of economic experience (not theory) that electing a majority of Democrats into congress in 2006 has pulled the economy into the tank. Every time something Obama proposes looks like it will fail, the Stock market rallies.
Giving money (tax cuts or whatever) to the poor/disadvantaged
Unfortunately, you can't cut the taxes any further on the large sectors of the population that pay no income tax now anyway. So you're just 'giving money.'
The quickest way to 'stimulate' the economy would be a personal income tax moratorium. Say "income taxes will not be deducted from workers' paychecks for the next 9 months." The problem that comes to be is... government doesn't give up power easily. Those busy people in Washington know better than us what to do with our money, you see.
No, you'd be surprised at how many subtle ways that bikes are discouraged here in the U.S. I've never seen 'bike storage location' advertised as a feature for an apartment rental, and it is not a common thing most place. A sizable majority of the US Population views bikes as either recreational devices or children's toys. Here in the middle of Indiana, the roads are narrow and the pickup trucks whizz past.
You're so busy calling everybody here a troll that it seems to have slipped your notice how badly you're getting trolled.
So flip around in the bottom of the boat. Your ego is too big for the livewell, so you'll just have to suck air down there.
Tool.
Apple has historically BOASTED about their closedness.
The original Macintosh came in a sealed box, and was dubbed 'Hacker Proof' (in the classic sense of people who like access to their stuff) at all the early Press Events. The machine was introduced as a reaction to and against, those of us with our Osbornes and TRS-80's and all the other machines that were thriving in an open community. Then Apple nailed the point down further by suing anybody else who dared adopt a GUI, wiping out all the small players and essentially creating Microsoft's monopoly for them (it took Microsoft and HP's legal heft to come out with a GUI operating system 'for the rest of us.' The small competitors like GEM were run out of the market.)
Guy Kawasaki? Are you getting into Steve's coke stash again???