I think you might be surprised what supports OGG. It never says it on the box or, when it comes to car stereos, on the faceplate, but sometimes it is there. My car stereo that supports USB plays ogg, and it surprised me when it worked because there is no information anywhere that it would. It's free so it simply gets put in, and maybe in some cases the bozos in management don't even know it.
I thought they named it that way in order to disassociate it from their PREVIOUS mobile OS disasters. I have a pocket PC and I will never trust MS with a mobile device again. WinCE and all its flavors were disasters. Why should Mobile 7 be any different?
...you forgot something. That's the costs of new personnel because of the ones that quit because they have to learn something new.
This might seem silly to some of you, but it's quite real. I worked on a rollout where a department in a certain U.S. state's government in the mid 90s. People resigned in many offices rather than learn about the new equipment even though it was going to help them out tremendously.
This is one of the problems in government agencies... people are there because it is cushy and when they're expect to perform they scat.
I love the sixth doctor in the Big Finish episodes. BF has really allowed him to dig into the dark side of the character and do some complex stories that JNT would of never allowed. Colin Baker showed up at a really bad time at the franchise when they made some really bad decisions about the direction of the show (i.e... giving the Doctor too many unlikeable properties at once, too much domestic fighting in the Tardis, a horrible costume idea, etc..)
They are human, for god's sake. Maybe they shouldn't be going into making corrections, but I am happy that they are there. They are working to try to help partially fix the massive mistakes the BBC unknowingly made so long ago. They are doing some yeoman like work, so please don't completely diss them.
I really do hope that the public wakes up to what is going on with patents and so-called "intellectual property" in general and the fact that it has degraded to the point that they are simply legal clubs to hit others over the head, but we are in such a state in this country. We've got a totally un-intellectual, shallow thinking populace in the U.S. that I doubt there is any way you can get the public to speak out about it.
This is bullshit. The GOP doesn't really believe in a free market... or, more precisely, they only believe in a free market when it benefits their corporate buddies. When it doesn't (i.e. MPAA, RIAA, etc..) they will regulate the hell out of it.
The fact is they are just for re-regulation where the big guy gets to bully the little guy out of business. No one in the U.S. is for a free market where you have to actually compete on your service and the strength of your product. Ask Comcast...
why SHOULDN'T they be heavily regulated? Most flights take 100s of people up on a potentially dangerous trip, and there are thousands of flights a day. I sure hope someone says they have to be safe and not gamble with my life.
It's a great article in Bloomberg businessweek about how so many companies DON'T want a free market and all the hypocrisy going around about the term...
...screw with football. It will be the ONLY way the know-nothings that comprise the majority of our population will even take of the major issue of patent trolling...
> What is needed here is that they either get in big trouble for taking part in illegal > transactions even if they don't know, or they have to agree to some "common carrier" > like status in which they are not allowed to discriminate against any transaction that is legal.
This would involve the government actually doing their job and REGULATING. Neither political party will do that now... or they will do something like they did with net neutrality yesterday and only make it APPEAR like they doing regulating.
how long before they designate "linux.org" as a hacking site... or other Open Source projects? Or other competitors, for that matter...
There is WAY too much power in hands of corporations right now. At least "big government" still nominally has the power to regulate these behemoths, even if they are paid to not use it.
So.. is this what the next 20 years is going to be like?
Will it be that if you don't play by the corporation's rule they will put you on a black list and you won't even be able to live?
Because that's the direction it looks like it is heading right now. Maybe we're already there as important as the credit reporting agencies already are...
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I think you might be surprised what supports OGG. It never says it on the box or, when it comes to car stereos, on the faceplate, but sometimes it is there. My car stereo that supports USB plays ogg, and it surprised me when it worked because there is no information anywhere that it would. It's free so it simply gets put in, and maybe in some cases the bozos in management don't even know it.
It's wrong and I'll keep reverting the page because I KNOW it can't be Wikipedia's 10th birthday.
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd do a "corrected that for you" post where "Bribes" was changed to "lobbists."
I thought they named it that way in order to disassociate it from their PREVIOUS mobile OS disasters. I have a pocket PC and I will never trust MS with a mobile device again. WinCE and all its flavors were disasters. Why should Mobile 7 be any different?
...you forgot something. That's the costs of new personnel because of the ones that quit because they have to learn something new.
This might seem silly to some of you, but it's quite real. I worked on a rollout where a department in a certain U.S. state's government in the mid 90s. People resigned in many offices rather than learn about the new equipment even though it was going to help them out tremendously.
This is one of the problems in government agencies... people are there because it is cushy and when they're expect to perform they scat.
I love the sixth doctor in the Big Finish episodes. BF has really allowed him to dig into the dark side of the character and do some complex stories that JNT would of never allowed. Colin Baker showed up at a really bad time at the franchise when they made some really bad decisions about the direction of the show (i.e... giving the Doctor too many unlikeable properties at once, too much domestic fighting in the Tardis, a horrible costume idea, etc..)
They are human, for god's sake. Maybe they shouldn't be going into making corrections, but I am happy that they are there. They are working to try to help partially fix the massive mistakes the BBC unknowingly made so long ago. They are doing some yeoman like work, so please don't completely diss them.
sounds like inSANSity to me.
First they came for the iPods, and I did not speak out --
Because I didn't own a crummy iPod
Then they came for the Android phones, and I did not speak out --
Because I don't like Google and I don't have a smart phone
Then they came for the flash drives, and I did not speak out --
Because I still use CD-Rs, so screw it
Then they came for all non-Windows devices -- and Bill Gates just laughed his ass off.
everyone knows the cloud is in the sky. you're a bozo...
I have enough power in my pants already...
*ba dum bum*
thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal....
They aren't on "film" either. They are on tape or digital image. Details *are* important if you are trying to make a point.
Everything Must GO!
Get Bebe Neuwirth and Kim Cattral on the phone!
This is bullshit. You should stop listening to Glen Beck.
I really do hope that the public wakes up to what is going on with patents and so-called "intellectual property" in general and the fact that it has degraded to the point that they are simply legal clubs to hit others over the head, but we are in such a state in this country. We've got a totally un-intellectual, shallow thinking populace in the U.S. that I doubt there is any way you can get the public to speak out about it.
This is bullshit. The GOP doesn't really believe in a free market... or, more precisely, they only believe in a free market when it benefits their corporate buddies. When it doesn't (i.e. MPAA, RIAA, etc..) they will regulate the hell out of it.
Don't forget we live under de facto corporate rule in the U.S... we take what they give us and like it and most of us don't even question it.
The fact is they are just for re-regulation where the big guy gets to bully the little guy out of business. No one in the U.S. is for a free market where you have to actually compete on your service and the strength of your product. Ask Comcast...
why SHOULDN'T they be heavily regulated? Most flights take 100s of people up on a potentially dangerous trip, and there are thousands of flights a day. I sure hope someone says they have to be safe and not gamble with my life.
I sent this in to Slashdot yesterday and it was, of course, not used.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-23/why-businesses-can-t-stand-free-markets-veronique-de-rugy.html
It's a great article in Bloomberg businessweek about how so many companies DON'T want a free market and all the hypocrisy going around about the term...
...screw with football. It will be the ONLY way the know-nothings that comprise the majority of our population will even take of the major issue of patent trolling...
This would require a legislature NOT captured by corporate interests. It would also require the legislature to care.
> What is needed here is that they either get in big trouble for taking part in illegal
> transactions even if they don't know, or they have to agree to some "common carrier"
> like status in which they are not allowed to discriminate against any transaction that is legal.
This would involve the government actually doing their job and REGULATING. Neither political party will do that now... or they will do something like they did with net neutrality yesterday and only make it APPEAR like they doing regulating.
how long before they designate "linux.org" as a hacking site... or other Open Source projects? Or other competitors, for that matter...
There is WAY too much power in hands of corporations right now. At least "big government" still nominally has the power to regulate these behemoths, even if they are paid to not use it.
So.. is this what the next 20 years is going to be like?
Will it be that if you don't play by the corporation's rule they will put you on a black list and you won't even be able to live?
Because that's the direction it looks like it is heading right now. Maybe we're already there as important as the credit reporting agencies already are...