The frogpad comments made me curious, but it seems like the FrogPad company is a zombie at this point. There is only one on ebay and their company web site goes to a blank screen.
I have four foot pedals on my work computer for various tasks I need. They are really great. Even more nice is that fact that they can be programmed to any keypress that you want.
Well, yes, but that doesn't mean the other person has the right to over-dramatize the event to the point it takes the other person's rights away.
Secondly, he was wearing a parody shirt, not a shirt that said "OMG! I am going to bomb this plane!!!11!".
We have a right to stop listening to someone like Rush Limbaugh when he says something that we don't like, but we don't have the right to make him stop saying it. Our rights end at his nose.
I don't think that people without decent internet access (not talking broadband necessarily) have the same business opportunity as those with it. Small cities and areas without decent access are not going to get businesses to set up there and it's harder to create a business without it.
There are well-to-do persons living in some of these non-broadband areas. Here in Indiana here quite a number of people what WANT broadband but their only choice is extremely poor satellite connections. The problem is that this is still, to a corporation like AT&T, small demand.
If Internet access isn't on the level of utility now then it will be within five years. This is one of those problems the market can not solve... so it's something we need to push on the outside. I don't mean just government, I mean some local geek co-ops and the like too.
Personally, I would place access to decent internet one of the #1 priorities if you want to get industry and business into a certain area. In those areas it is already a necessity. That's why comments like this one (as well as the belief in some circles that money put into broadband development is wasted) baffle me. If you want quality of life to improve in these areas you need to get them the basics. Decent internet access is now one of those basics.
I guess you haven't noticed, but the trend for the past three or so years has been to put out at least one statement that can be boiled down to "we're the corporation, you're going to take what is given to you" before even attempting to solve the problem with their customers.
Usually it ends up with some half-assed corporate apology, but like we saw with the screwed up U.S. Olympic coverage this year sometimes they never deviate from that.
Corporate asshattery, self-righteousness, and arrogance is at an all time high, and depending on how things play out in November it might be on an upward trend for the next four years. No matter how the corporate types whine they have never had as much power over our society that they have today.
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Sure. Do you want to pay the $50 mil to the congresscritter or shall I?
I love how we've gotten to the point where the assumption is that doing something "for the good of the business" is always the right thing.
What is wrong is wrong, whether you're doing it behind the shield of "it's only business!" or not.
The frogpad comments made me curious, but it seems like the FrogPad company is a zombie at this point. There is only one on ebay and their company web site goes to a blank screen.
I have four foot pedals on my work computer for various tasks I need. They are really great. Even more nice is that fact that they can be programmed to any keypress that you want.
I wonder if this is Mayim Bialik posting.
You still haven't replied to my date request, Mayim, and sorry to hear about the accident.
NTSC: Never Twice the Same Color
SECAM: Something Essentially Contrary to the American Mode
PAL: not really
huh, wot? Academy radio monitors are about out for good...
I am going to wait for CSUHDTV
Crazy Super Ultra High Definition TV.
What kind of idiot doesn't understand parody?
Ooops, sorry. I live in the USA, where at least 51% of population are idiots and don't understand parody. My bad.
Well, yes, but that doesn't mean the other person has the right to over-dramatize the event to the point it takes the other person's rights away.
Secondly, he was wearing a parody shirt, not a shirt that said "OMG! I am going to bomb this plane!!!11!".
We have a right to stop listening to someone like Rush Limbaugh when he says something that we don't like, but we don't have the right to make him stop saying it. Our rights end at his nose.
I find it hard to take anyone seriously that uses the word "retarded" as a synonym of "dumb".
It's not toleration. It's just that it doesn't have anything to do with the Kardashians.
I don't think that people without decent internet access (not talking broadband necessarily) have the same business opportunity as those with it. Small cities and areas without decent access are not going to get businesses to set up there and it's harder to create a business without it.
How is this insightful? The guy is lucky enough that he doesn't have a medical condition that qualified as "pre existing".
There are well-to-do persons living in some of these non-broadband areas. Here in Indiana here quite a number of people what WANT broadband but their only choice is extremely poor satellite connections. The problem is that this is still, to a corporation like AT&T, small demand.
If Internet access isn't on the level of utility now then it will be within five years. This is one of those problems the market can not solve... so it's something we need to push on the outside. I don't mean just government, I mean some local geek co-ops and the like too.
Personally, I would place access to decent internet one of the #1 priorities if you want to get industry and business into a certain area. In those areas it is already a necessity. That's why comments like this one (as well as the belief in some circles that money put into broadband development is wasted) baffle me. If you want quality of life to improve in these areas you need to get them the basics. Decent internet access is now one of those basics.
"Business reasons" seems to be a euphemism for "forcing the user into habits that benefit us."
You know they could just make an *easier to use* OS that people want to use instead of forcing their philosophy on people for profit.
It turns out that Lemmings wasn't a hardy enough platform for a root kit to be inserted. No big whup.
"Lemmings" seems appropriate when you think about Sony executives.
Oh bullshit.
If you really believe in "voting with your feet" then you must be for banning things like long-term contracts that prevent it.
Oh, you're not? So you ARE a corporate sycophant then?
I guess you haven't noticed, but the trend for the past three or so years has been to put out at least one statement that can be boiled down to "we're the corporation, you're going to take what is given to you" before even attempting to solve the problem with their customers.
Usually it ends up with some half-assed corporate apology, but like we saw with the screwed up U.S. Olympic coverage this year sometimes they never deviate from that.
Corporate asshattery, self-righteousness, and arrogance is at an all time high, and depending on how things play out in November it might be on an upward trend for the next four years. No matter how the corporate types whine they have never had as much power over our society that they have today.
A "classic" Libertarian maybe.
Today's Libertarians are corporate anarchists. I can't believe people don't see the difference.
Good thing to do to avoid cat-astrophe.
They are correlated to finding poop in boxes in your home.
Or even think about anything that is copyrighted!
Once you read your copy... you MUST erase it from your mind immediately. And your copy has only been licensed for one reading.