That the best browser in this situation comes on the world's most dangerous platform. So many things- PhotoShop, Games, all kinds of apps are only available in the OS that's been show to be taken over by nefarious means more than any other.
There ain't no feature of Windows that makes it ok to lose $30,000 of my life's savings, ya know...
I think he meant 'religious' scientists, referring to the idea that consensus makes reality. (See also: ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) where, whether it gets colder or hotter, it's happening because of global warming. And CO2 is the only cause, never the sun, the only real source of heat in our solar system.)
The climate can only be "right" the way it was at noon on the day of the International Geophysical Year...or we're all being plunged into hell from whose grasp we can be saved by sending money to our (bloated) governments. The same governments paying scientists to post corrupted work.
Now, I *am* religious...Christian, specifically. I don't consider myself a scientist, but given my understanding of why we're here, it's ridiculous to assume we'll use up all the resources by which to live, until He decides it's over. And that's "fire" of some sort. We tend to take care of ourselves; we're a little smarter than germs, who use everything up, then die.
Yet somehow, the 'enlightened' around us ignore that the fossil record counter-indicates CO2 being involved, and push the mantra, anyway. I'm just enjoying the show!
Go scientists! I'll pay you to say I'm 10 feet tall and ripped!:>
Look around at Congress. If they want something shut down, or to control it themselves, it's DONE.
Health insurance: make the startup so rigorous that almost no one can deal with it (unless your friend is a congressman) so that only a handful of companies can compete. They make tons of money because, hey: nearly a monopoly...and congress blames capitalism and "this industry needs oversight by congress..."
Lenders just went through this.
Car makers just did this. Congress had the BALLS to decided how many showrooms were "enough" and "too many" (since they have such a long track record in doing things), and when it was done, people lost their LIFE SAVINGS because they gave control of the company to the unions, who invested NOTHING.
So now lets look at nuclear power. I stood on an unemployment line next to reactor people. JUST TO DOCUMENT A CRANK HANDLE took them two weeks in paperwork. Not to mention all the sign-offs. I know it's important, but this kind of over-regulation is ridiculous!
So if you don't have nuclear power ('cause, notice, France was able to get 75% of their power from nukes...) it's because of congress: the same problem America's had since Regan.
(And maybe longer: It was Nixon who got congress to stop arguing whether the USPS would have grey uniforms with blue stripes, or blue uniforms with grey stripes...)
If so, give it up. Microsoft will "partner" you so fast it isn't funny. Try to find a way to keep it out of their hands, and get an 'angel' investor. If any part of it takes place on Windows, kiss your investors goodbye.
What am I sayin'? It's been this way for 25 years!
Well, if the numbers are also wrong, who would be surprised? State-run media wants you to shrug and think, "The economy's down: must be George Bush' fault." So why would the numbers be right?
And just because you voted for Obama, don't mod me down again: Hear me out.
This isn't Republican versus Democrat; it's Liberal versus Conservative. And the Liberals have put us behind the 8-ball.
Remember "The most transparent administration in history"? Remember "All legislation would spend 5 days in the public before voting on it"? Remember "Earmarks will be outlawed"?
I remember "Don't read it, just vote on it!" by Pellozi. I remember TARP came with something like 8,000 earmarks. I remember Obama talking about "his version" of healthcare reform which he doesn't have.
TARP was suppossed to get us out of mad debt by offering a TRILLION dollars on things like monuments and ACORN (whose founders believe everyone on Welfare is utopia) doesn't help America. This is clearly against what's been proven SIX TIMES ALREADY.
Six times now America has learned that supply-side economics is the way out of a recession. Only the THIRD time it was tested did anyone call it "Reganomics". Point is: not experimental; not opinion.
Clearly posting accurate numbers are now a way of life. (Well, they match what the state-run media has been told to portray)
But this hypocrisy isn't out of place; it's part of the plan:
The pattern's pretty clear: 1. Congress writes code making the life of companies in an industry crazy. 2. Parts of that industry collapse. (like 74 banks this year) 3. Congress swoops in to "save" the industry with bailout money with "congressional oversight" because "capitalism ran wild" and:
-Bailout means congress OWNS that industry
-Congress decides how much money people make there
-Democrat buddies get perks, the rest get screw out of life savings
Step the above pattern on mortgage companies, then banks, and now car makers.
When it was done to lenders via the Community Re-investment Act, *any* ethnic person could ask for a $200,000 loan while jobless, then cry to congress when he gets turned down. That ethnic person could contact a congressman to shut down the bank, all assisted by ACORN. So what happened? Those banks started giving away money in buckets. Capitalism gone wild! (not)
But Obama's just the current Bobble-Head doll at the helm: the five, 1,000+ page units of legislation couldn't have been written in the months since he arrived. It's the Democrat-controlled congress. They've wanted to take these country-changing steps for decades.
Please, Slashdot-Army of Neos: think this out. The Fed can't cross it's legs without spending a million dollars and getting it wrong. These people need to pass NOTHING this term. Look at the dismal state of Medicare, Medicade, Social Security all broke by billions. And most recently the incompentence of Cash for Clunkers.
These are not the people to do these things. They've never done anything right, ever. Don't expect them to tell you how wrong they are with a "transparency website".
As a matter of performance, this is fine- the only arguable things are small, and that's as it should be. Other things make these two comparisons no contest.
Only one of these OS's will have 2,500,000 viruses, malware and other 'commodity' problems, to go along with the natural level of exploits and usual problems.
Only one OS here will not require a *second purchase* of people who did NOT write the OS, to make sure it gets through the day.
And on only one OS you won't have to worry about 'doing the mob's laundry'.
I appreciate comparisons like this; it's flattery to be compared. Let's just not forget how desolate a place the computing environment has gotten on the proprietary side. It's just too easy to get to too many computers.
Sure- much less with Mac; a good company who actually cares about it's users...but it's becoming a problem there, too.
If you want life without weirdness, life without paying someone [or wasting your own time] getting rid of viruses, there's no choice in this comparison. If you don't want to lift a finger to keep your system running day to day, only one of these OS's will win the competition.
Everyone: let's thank the Microsoft Corporation for funding the first 10 years of prankery to permit this current level of cybercrime. Without it, we wouldn't have Windows 7, and Russian Mobsters wouldn't be making stealth fighters for India.
I have several friends that have had cannons before. Sure, the *antique* kind, not the "40mm" kind that fires at a high rate per minute...
I've seen these at civil war re-enactments. And ya know what? In *thousands* of these per year, the people are more likely to get hurt due to the SUN and the BOOZE they sneak in, than the cannons.
Is the concern that someone's gonna hold up an ATM with a 700 pound cannon that fires once a minute? Is that REALLY your concern? You really need to turn off the TV, watch it too long and it'll rot your brain AND your voting.
Who says techies are lazy?
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This is a great scam: "OK, the mold is at work- I need silence and more BEER!":>
As has been suggested by others, this will change Marvel. Rather than paint smiley faces on Silver Surfer and the rest, it might just make it darker; more characters might have to become gay, and doing story lines never conceived by mortal man.
But other things might happen too, if they're smart.
Remember that AOL/Time-Warner owns Bugs Bunny and friends, despite their legendary acceptance and self-identification, yet AOL never though to theme itself with the characters: how blind can these folks be?
So while this might be an attempt to buy the bigger names, many of them will go unused. One thing's certain: it's gonna be interesting!
...unless we change our way of life, and send every spare cent to our governments.
No thanks- we've been doing that since the ComingIceAge of 1978 or so, the KillerBees, TheOzoneHole, ManMadeGlobalWarming, and a host of other hoaxes meant to separate us from our money AND OUR CALM.
Go away, Henny Penny: sky's not falling, here. Ocean's not racing 100ft, here. Don't need to start using poisonous light bulbs, here.
After 20 years of the Windows product line, change has been very limited. And not just change to the components of Microsoft products. Understand I was wire-wrapping sockets back in 1978. I quite literally grew up with DOS and Windows. Several things happened to bitter me against it.
- Windows comes by default on almost all machines. An alternative is just now becoming regularly available. How many car companies are there? How many brands of beer?
- No admin that loves sleep would ever just load Windows without an A/V program made by someone else. Got a Ford engine in that Chevy car? Did you buy a Frigidair compressor to put in your Whirlpool fridge? Nothing else is this fragile, and still sells.
- American culture has become accustomed to the concept of the reboot. Where did this come from? From not knowing why the machine failed, and trying the last thing we know how to do. What 20th century product taught us that?
- Not so long ago we had the concept of The Killer App. But since the MS team decided to screw every business partner dumb enough to work with them, you just can't get investment money for Microsoft-based projects, and you haven't for about 10-15 years. Technology pauses.
- A large and growing number of people are spending time in courtrooms all around the world, because of the lavish 'underground' society MS let grow. After all, they needed a harsh environment to sell the support contracts, now, didn't they? Microsoft is one environment in which it's possible to lose $30,000 and spend 5+ years in court trying to get it back.
- Malware. 2,000,000 viruses in the wild and growing by about 100,000 a month. Think that's still being done by two kids in Indonesia? I bet they also have offices in Redmond.
The spell that computer users have been under is just insane; they keep getting bit by MS problems, paying $100 to get their machines flushed and filled over and over and over...but whatever marketing voodoo they bought when they sold their souls is rather complete, don't you think?
You're visualizing running Windows in any project...doesn't the question of security go out the window when the logo comes up?
2,000,000 viruses, malware in regimental quantities...it's not exactly the team that's trying hard to clean up it's act.
You still have to buy someone ELSE's antivirus program to expect it to make it through the day, and even then most corporations have each machine flush-n-fill every night. This has been the environment of Windows for 20 years. And you ask how it changes security?
Watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. You'll see the founder of GreenPeace talk about how his organization has been taken over by whackos, how the IPCC *claims* to have support of scientists who actually dissent from their findings, and how fossil records dispute it, too.
Let's not forget how we were told 'life as we know it will end' because of: Killer Bees, Acid Rain and the Ozone Hole. Same people, more money on the line this time.
No, really; watch it. It's on a torrent site near you. These people have no monetary value for speaking out- quite the opposite. They risk their careers.
But as has been said many times here, "agreement isn't science". See the history of the hoax, how it gets the money from people, and where the money is going. It's enlightening.
Much like the transportation industries, adding new safety gear after a huge loss of life, the network is still based on capitalist concerns.
Ever wonder why there are places in America without cellphone coverage? It's because, in a zone where not even ONE phonecall will happen for 10 years, there's zero financial reason to invest the money: it won't nearly pay for itself, and it'll likely go unused for the term, until it needs updating. So what's the point?
In the ISP business, things are kinda cut-throat. If there's no force to make them do it, it won't get done. There are tight margins in this business.
Remember the 286? People cheered: "Hurray for protected mode!" (or was it real mode?) But no one wrote an OS for it for a long time. It's why the 386 was created, so it could switch between modes. Those modes were unarguably better: it just required a need.
So don't expect someone to write a standard for the internet and just have them follow it voluntarily. Remember how.com was for commercial entities,.org for organizations and.net were intended for ISPs? How long did that last?
When we start to run out, it'll be the hot ticket to get on IPv6. It's unarguably better. But since most people deal with the mediocrity of Windows there's no pressure to make the move. One person in 500 even knows what this is. Don't worry: it'll come.
You're talking about weigh stations...I'm talking about the scales they put in the cars. Ever see those? They're about 3-4" tall, about two feet square? They're checking seals, lights...
The point is that if you give the fed (OUR fed, Sweden's Fed, Anyone's Fed) the power to do something, they'll take every possible liberty from the new, untapped industry. Don't think so? Try to find something that isn't taxed, someplace. We've GOT to take our country back; we've been too lazy, too long.
Are you old enough to remember when seat belts were added to cars? That whole, "Unsafe at any speed", Ralf Nader period? As a kid, I remember the decade just after. They were still a little controversial. Most folks felt disturbed that, now they were required to be onboard, not a nice thing manufacturers might add.
The idea was pure, simple, and saved LOTS of lives- I don't have an issue with it.
But because we permitted the Fed there, they started adding even more things. Recently there was a lot of issue with air bags killing people, early on. But no- we had to have it. Fuel selection was federally dictated, and now there's so much red tape at the top it's not funny.
My only concern is that they'll pose the idea, "Well, we're defending the net, we should get paid for it" (taxing, control, regulation: they're inept at it.)...and it's at that time people on the net will start paying attention to politics again.
Ever hear of a bad memory? Clearly I'm confusing it with another story. The point is that a tiny idea turns into a huge department with thousands of people, hundreds of buildings and tera-reams of paper soaking up container-ships of money.
So I have to be a "Right Wing Extremeist" if I don't like the Federal Government out of control over our daily lives? That sounds like a person who's highly informed, just not paying attention. None of this stuff is in the Constitution, and no place in history has it ever been successful at anything but allowing politicians to take over.
"Seig Heil" to your DNC, your world-controlling buffoonery from the Fed. (Or however you big-government-knows-best-types greet each other...) I won't be helping the movement.
When the Republicans came in, I hated their standards on the web. But then, they weren't conservative, either.
Democratic folks seem to have us in mind, understand the need, but as has just been seen played out, they'd really love to cage us all.
Having them 'step in' for this much is a very dangerous thing. Ever hear of the Interstate Commerce Commission? It started as a lawsuit over about FOUR TRUCKS and to whom they would pay tax. A few decades later and now it's about weighing each and every truck, stopping them on the road all across the USA, a whole new level of taxing, and pork for political friends all over.
It won't end here. Obama or whoever, once the Fed gets it, it's time to get crazy because "I don't pay attention to politics; I'm a moderate". (Attack of the lazy voter!)
Nvidia has a long history of working hard to keep their drivers working for as many distros as they can. When they can't, they make smart installers to get it done. In a case like this, I don't mind a proprietary blob. It's also why I never buy ATI.
And you're right: Id has a long and storied history of helping Linux; I remember talking to Darryl Strauss several years ago about the Voodoo GPU work he was doing on Titanic. These are not people liable to sell us out.
This could all change, if they do, but both of these groups have done well by us for a long time, and giving them the benefit of the doubt's the right thing to do.
Besides, with Saurbraten, OpenArena, Nexius and all the rest, there's plenty for me to do in OpenSource while I wait for Id to port it.:>
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You are not wrong, sir. Part of the problem with space is that while American has the tech (though others are quickly catching up) they also have the bureaucracy. And not the good kind that gets things organized- the bad kind that requires an 18 year delay to permit the sales of Coke in India. (THAT kind.)
I'm just so happy that the settlers didn't decided it was too big to get across the USA back in the 1800s- that a government agency was needed. If it were, we'd be up to about Ohio, just about now.
It's time to do with NASA, what needs to be done with ALL federal power: snip it to a standards-authority. Take all that mindless, money-burning power of a congressman and divert it to only a job for setting standards, not impeding progress.
Obama just happens to be the president presiding; the congress is where the real issues are, and like *every* directly-controlled agency of the Congress, NASA suffers from bloat and waste to insane quantities.
Can anyone name a single, federally-run activity that *isn't* a dismal failure?
Yeah, the use of drugs, the casual nature by which we let our young people take that express lane to misery? Yeah. That needs ended.
The lie is that pot is a victimless crime and has no downside. IT CHANGES PEOPLE.
Show me one Olympic athlete that uses pot, alcohol to improve his game. It only degrades; it's all trouble.
Get to an AA ot NA meeting sometime. Just about everyone smokes, almost everyone there will have smoked pot, and all of them know true misery. You only think drugs are a peaceful friend.
OK, so scientists....who get their truths by NOT KNOWING WHAT WILL HAPPEN...are going to start an unproven singularity. HOW CAN THAT GO WRONG?!?!?!?
I always wondered how the world would end. If it's by starting out the same way 90% of the lame, one-named titles running on "SyFy" do, I'll be quite disappointed.
Does everyone here have such blind faith in these over-educated dorks? Ya know they're not gonna do this in deep space- it'll probably be done in France. Isn't that, too, an unsafe distance from the planet?:>
Right now they're trying to decide the right time to spring the "Fairness Doctrine" on AM radio. A lot of Conservatives listen there; almost no liberals. This is because Liberals tend to only use the radio for music.
When Air America failed, it had nothing to do with ideology, because of the demographic of people tuning in. Nevermind that the talent of these humorless, hateful people wasn't anything to listen to.
But the FCC need only decide to do so, and all the sudden worthless Liberal coverage must start taking 50% of the airtime, even though no one wants it. It also means Conservative shows will necessarily cost more, and many will go away.
Say what you will about the Bush administration. He never opened a 'snitch' email or flotilla of websites for propaganda. He never told a company with whom the government had a contract, that it wouldn't be honored. And Bush never told anyone how much money they were permitted to make.
All of these are being attempted by the Left, right now. So Freedom of Speech? That'd only permit dissent to blossom! They've got a big list of rights to take away under the guise of healthcare, because they're smarter than us!
Ask yourself: Other than the military, who get to make their own decisions about how the money is actually spent, can you name ONE federal organization that isn't spewing taxpayer money down the toilet for a useful, efficient purpose?
Why would you let this HISTORICALLY inept body decide your healthcare?
I remember a couple of guys, seems like they were in Minnesota- they were blabbing about a candidate, and it was in the pre-vote window, and they were taken to court....I just don't remember hearing any more.
Seems like a place known as the citadel for liberty, where "Freedom of Speech" has been made so well known, that we'd never permit such a bill. Or the one coming up where the FCC can decide to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine again and render AM radio worthless. It did, before.
Without it, this disaster of a 'healthcare reform' might have made it. The disaster of the immigration bill would have, too. And it's not the Conservative's fault that the Liberals don't listen to talk radio.
So don't think this is only a Japanese thing; it's coming to a Democracy near you.
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That the best browser in this situation comes on the world's most dangerous platform. So many things- PhotoShop, Games, all kinds of apps are only available in the OS that's been show to be taken over by nefarious means more than any other.
There ain't no feature of Windows that makes it ok to lose $30,000 of my life's savings, ya know...
I think he meant 'religious' scientists, referring to the idea that consensus makes reality. (See also: ManMadeGlobalWarming(TM) where, whether it gets colder or hotter, it's happening because of global warming. And CO2 is the only cause, never the sun, the only real source of heat in our solar system.)
The climate can only be "right" the way it was at noon on the day of the International Geophysical Year...or we're all being plunged into hell from whose grasp we can be saved by sending money to our (bloated) governments. The same governments paying scientists to post corrupted work.
Now, I *am* religious...Christian, specifically. I don't consider myself a scientist, but given my understanding of why we're here, it's ridiculous to assume we'll use up all the resources by which to live, until He decides it's over. And that's "fire" of some sort. We tend to take care of ourselves; we're a little smarter than germs, who use everything up, then die.
Yet somehow, the 'enlightened' around us ignore that the fossil record counter-indicates CO2 being involved, and push the mantra, anyway. I'm just enjoying the show!
Go scientists! I'll pay you to say I'm 10 feet tall and ripped! :>
Look around at Congress. If they want something shut down, or to control it themselves, it's DONE.
Health insurance: make the startup so rigorous that almost no one can deal with it (unless your friend is a congressman) so that only a handful of companies can compete. They make tons of money because, hey: nearly a monopoly...and congress blames capitalism and "this industry needs oversight by congress..."
Lenders just went through this.
Car makers just did this. Congress had the BALLS to decided how many showrooms were "enough" and "too many" (since they have such a long track record in doing things), and when it was done, people lost their LIFE SAVINGS because they gave control of the company to the unions, who invested NOTHING.
So now lets look at nuclear power. I stood on an unemployment line next to reactor people. JUST TO DOCUMENT A CRANK HANDLE took them two weeks in paperwork. Not to mention all the sign-offs. I know it's important, but this kind of over-regulation is ridiculous!
So if you don't have nuclear power ('cause, notice, France was able to get 75% of their power from nukes...) it's because of congress: the same problem America's had since Regan.
(And maybe longer: It was Nixon who got congress to stop arguing whether the USPS would have grey uniforms with blue stripes, or blue uniforms with grey stripes...)
If so, give it up. Microsoft will "partner" you so fast it isn't funny. Try to find a way to keep it out of their hands, and get an 'angel' investor. If any part of it takes place on Windows, kiss your investors goodbye.
What am I sayin'? It's been this way for 25 years!
You know what to do. Get it done.
Well, if the numbers are also wrong, who would be surprised? State-run media wants you to shrug and think, "The economy's down: must be George Bush' fault." So why would the numbers be right?
And just because you voted for Obama, don't mod me down again: Hear me out.
This isn't Republican versus Democrat; it's Liberal versus Conservative. And the Liberals have put us behind the 8-ball.
Remember "The most transparent administration in history"? Remember "All legislation would spend 5 days in the public before voting on it"? Remember "Earmarks will be outlawed"?
I remember "Don't read it, just vote on it!" by Pellozi. I remember TARP came with something like 8,000 earmarks. I remember Obama talking about "his version" of healthcare reform which he doesn't have.
TARP was suppossed to get us out of mad debt by offering a TRILLION dollars on things like monuments and ACORN (whose founders believe everyone on Welfare is utopia) doesn't help America. This is clearly against what's been proven SIX TIMES ALREADY.
Six times now America has learned that supply-side economics is the way out of a recession. Only the THIRD time it was tested did anyone call it "Reganomics". Point is: not experimental; not opinion.
Clearly posting accurate numbers are now a way of life. (Well, they match what the state-run media has been told to portray)
But this hypocrisy isn't out of place; it's part of the plan:
The pattern's pretty clear:
1. Congress writes code making the life of companies in an industry crazy.
2. Parts of that industry collapse. (like 74 banks this year)
3. Congress swoops in to "save" the industry with bailout money with "congressional oversight" because "capitalism ran wild" and:
-Bailout means congress OWNS that industry
-Congress decides how much money people make there
-Democrat buddies get perks, the rest get screw out of life savings
Step the above pattern on mortgage companies, then banks, and now car makers.
When it was done to lenders via the Community Re-investment Act, *any* ethnic person could ask for a $200,000 loan while jobless, then cry to congress when he gets turned down. That ethnic person could contact a congressman to shut down the bank, all assisted by ACORN. So what happened? Those banks started giving away money in buckets. Capitalism gone wild! (not)
But Obama's just the current Bobble-Head doll at the helm: the five, 1,000+ page units of legislation couldn't have been written in the months since he arrived. It's the Democrat-controlled congress. They've wanted to take these country-changing steps for decades.
Please, Slashdot-Army of Neos: think this out. The Fed can't cross it's legs without spending a million dollars and getting it wrong. These people need to pass NOTHING this term. Look at the dismal state of Medicare, Medicade, Social Security all broke by billions. And most recently the incompentence of Cash for Clunkers.
These are not the people to do these things. They've never done anything right, ever. Don't expect them to tell you how wrong they are with a "transparency website".
As a matter of performance, this is fine- the only arguable things are small, and that's as it should be. Other things make these two comparisons no contest.
Only one of these OS's will have 2,500,000 viruses, malware and other 'commodity' problems, to go along with the natural level of exploits and usual problems.
Only one OS here will not require a *second purchase* of people who did NOT write the OS, to make sure it gets through the day.
And on only one OS you won't have to worry about 'doing the mob's laundry'.
I appreciate comparisons like this; it's flattery to be compared. Let's just not forget how desolate a place the computing environment has gotten on the proprietary side. It's just too easy to get to too many computers.
Sure- much less with Mac; a good company who actually cares about it's users...but it's becoming a problem there, too.
If you want life without weirdness, life without paying someone [or wasting your own time] getting rid of viruses, there's no choice in this comparison. If you don't want to lift a finger to keep your system running day to day, only one of these OS's will win the competition.
Everyone: let's thank the Microsoft Corporation for funding the first 10 years of prankery to permit this current level of cybercrime. Without it, we wouldn't have Windows 7, and Russian Mobsters wouldn't be making stealth fighters for India.
I have several friends that have had cannons before. Sure, the *antique* kind, not the "40mm" kind that fires at a high rate per minute...
I've seen these at civil war re-enactments. And ya know what? In *thousands* of these per year, the people are more likely to get hurt due to the SUN and the BOOZE they sneak in, than the cannons.
Is the concern that someone's gonna hold up an ATM with a 700 pound cannon that fires once a minute? Is that REALLY your concern? You really need to turn off the TV, watch it too long and it'll rot your brain AND your voting.
This is a great scam: "OK, the mold is at work- I need silence and more BEER!" :>
As has been suggested by others, this will change Marvel. Rather than paint smiley faces on Silver Surfer and the rest, it might just make it darker; more characters might have to become gay, and doing story lines never conceived by mortal man.
But other things might happen too, if they're smart.
Remember that AOL/Time-Warner owns Bugs Bunny and friends, despite their legendary acceptance and self-identification, yet AOL never though to theme itself with the characters: how blind can these folks be?
So while this might be an attempt to buy the bigger names, many of them will go unused. One thing's certain: it's gonna be interesting!
...unless we change our way of life, and send every spare cent to our governments.
No thanks- we've been doing that since the ComingIceAge of 1978 or so, the KillerBees, TheOzoneHole, ManMadeGlobalWarming, and a host of other hoaxes meant to separate us from our money AND OUR CALM.
Go away, Henny Penny: sky's not falling, here. Ocean's not racing 100ft, here. Don't need to start using poisonous light bulbs, here.
After 20 years of the Windows product line, change has been very limited. And not just change to the components of Microsoft products. Understand I was wire-wrapping sockets back in 1978. I quite literally grew up with DOS and Windows. Several things happened to bitter me against it.
- Windows comes by default on almost all machines. An alternative is just now becoming regularly available. How many car companies are there? How many brands of beer?
- No admin that loves sleep would ever just load Windows without an A/V program made by someone else. Got a Ford engine in that Chevy car? Did you buy a Frigidair compressor to put in your Whirlpool fridge? Nothing else is this fragile, and still sells.
- American culture has become accustomed to the concept of the reboot. Where did this come from? From not knowing why the machine failed, and trying the last thing we know how to do. What 20th century product taught us that?
- Not so long ago we had the concept of The Killer App. But since the MS team decided to screw every business partner dumb enough to work with them, you just can't get investment money for Microsoft-based projects, and you haven't for about 10-15 years. Technology pauses.
- A large and growing number of people are spending time in courtrooms all around the world, because of the lavish 'underground' society MS let grow. After all, they needed a harsh environment to sell the support contracts, now, didn't they? Microsoft is one environment in which it's possible to lose $30,000 and spend 5+ years in court trying to get it back.
- Malware. 2,000,000 viruses in the wild and growing by about 100,000 a month. Think that's still being done by two kids in Indonesia? I bet they also have offices in Redmond.
The spell that computer users have been under is just insane; they keep getting bit by MS problems, paying $100 to get their machines flushed and filled over and over and over...but whatever marketing voodoo they bought when they sold their souls is rather complete, don't you think?
How does this mesh with the laptop searches "anytime, anywhere" from just a couple of weeks ago? Why would they JUST look at those at the border?
You're visualizing running Windows in any project...doesn't the question of security go out the window when the logo comes up?
2,000,000 viruses, malware in regimental quantities...it's not exactly the team that's trying hard to clean up it's act.
You still have to buy someone ELSE's antivirus program to expect it to make it through the day, and even then most corporations have each machine flush-n-fill every night. This has been the environment of Windows for 20 years. And you ask how it changes security?
Now *that's* funny.
Watch The Great Global Warming Swindle. You'll see the founder of GreenPeace talk about how his organization has been taken over by whackos, how the IPCC *claims* to have support of scientists who actually dissent from their findings, and how fossil records dispute it, too.
Let's not forget how we were told 'life as we know it will end' because of: Killer Bees, Acid Rain and the Ozone Hole. Same people, more money on the line this time.
No, really; watch it. It's on a torrent site near you. These people have no monetary value for speaking out- quite the opposite. They risk their careers.
But as has been said many times here, "agreement isn't science". See the history of the hoax, how it gets the money from people, and where the money is going. It's enlightening.
Much like the transportation industries, adding new safety gear after a huge loss of life, the network is still based on capitalist concerns.
Ever wonder why there are places in America without cellphone coverage? It's because, in a zone where not even ONE phonecall will happen for 10 years, there's zero financial reason to invest the money: it won't nearly pay for itself, and it'll likely go unused for the term, until it needs updating. So what's the point?
In the ISP business, things are kinda cut-throat. If there's no force to make them do it, it won't get done. There are tight margins in this business.
Remember the 286? People cheered: "Hurray for protected mode!" (or was it real mode?) But no one wrote an OS for it for a long time. It's why the 386 was created, so it could switch between modes. Those modes were unarguably better: it just required a need.
So don't expect someone to write a standard for the internet and just have them follow it voluntarily. Remember how .com was for commercial entities, .org for organizations and .net were intended for ISPs? How long did that last?
When we start to run out, it'll be the hot ticket to get on IPv6. It's unarguably better. But since most people deal with the mediocrity of Windows there's no pressure to make the move. One person in 500 even knows what this is. Don't worry: it'll come.
You're talking about weigh stations...I'm talking about the scales they put in the cars. Ever see those? They're about 3-4" tall, about two feet square? They're checking seals, lights...
The point is that if you give the fed (OUR fed, Sweden's Fed, Anyone's Fed) the power to do something, they'll take every possible liberty from the new, untapped industry. Don't think so? Try to find something that isn't taxed, someplace. We've GOT to take our country back; we've been too lazy, too long.
Are you old enough to remember when seat belts were added to cars? That whole, "Unsafe at any speed", Ralf Nader period? As a kid, I remember the decade just after. They were still a little controversial. Most folks felt disturbed that, now they were required to be onboard, not a nice thing manufacturers might add.
The idea was pure, simple, and saved LOTS of lives- I don't have an issue with it.
But because we permitted the Fed there, they started adding even more things. Recently there was a lot of issue with air bags killing people, early on. But no- we had to have it. Fuel selection was federally dictated, and now there's so much red tape at the top it's not funny.
My only concern is that they'll pose the idea, "Well, we're defending the net, we should get paid for it" (taxing, control, regulation: they're inept at it.) ...and it's at that time people on the net will start paying attention to politics again.
Ever hear of a bad memory? Clearly I'm confusing it with another story. The point is that a tiny idea turns into a huge department with thousands of people, hundreds of buildings and tera-reams of paper soaking up container-ships of money.
So I have to be a "Right Wing Extremeist" if I don't like the Federal Government out of control over our daily lives? That sounds like a person who's highly informed, just not paying attention. None of this stuff is in the Constitution, and no place in history has it ever been successful at anything but allowing politicians to take over.
"Seig Heil" to your DNC, your world-controlling buffoonery from the Fed. (Or however you big-government-knows-best-types greet each other...) I won't be helping the movement.
When the Republicans came in, I hated their standards on the web. But then, they weren't conservative, either.
Democratic folks seem to have us in mind, understand the need, but as has just been seen played out, they'd really love to cage us all.
Having them 'step in' for this much is a very dangerous thing. Ever hear of the Interstate Commerce Commission? It started as a lawsuit over about FOUR TRUCKS and to whom they would pay tax. A few decades later and now it's about weighing each and every truck, stopping them on the road all across the USA, a whole new level of taxing, and pork for political friends all over.
It won't end here. Obama or whoever, once the Fed gets it, it's time to get crazy because "I don't pay attention to politics; I'm a moderate". (Attack of the lazy voter!)
Nvidia has a long history of working hard to keep their drivers working for as many distros as they can. When they can't, they make smart installers to get it done. In a case like this, I don't mind a proprietary blob. It's also why I never buy ATI.
And you're right: Id has a long and storied history of helping Linux; I remember talking to Darryl Strauss several years ago about the Voodoo GPU work he was doing on Titanic. These are not people liable to sell us out.
This could all change, if they do, but both of these groups have done well by us for a long time, and giving them the benefit of the doubt's the right thing to do.
Besides, with Saurbraten, OpenArena, Nexius and all the rest, there's plenty for me to do in OpenSource while I wait for Id to port it. :>
You are not wrong, sir. Part of the problem with space is that while American has the tech (though others are quickly catching up) they also have the bureaucracy. And not the good kind that gets things organized- the bad kind that requires an 18 year delay to permit the sales of Coke in India. (THAT kind.)
I'm just so happy that the settlers didn't decided it was too big to get across the USA back in the 1800s- that a government agency was needed. If it were, we'd be up to about Ohio, just about now.
It's time to do with NASA, what needs to be done with ALL federal power: snip it to a standards-authority. Take all that mindless, money-burning power of a congressman and divert it to only a job for setting standards, not impeding progress.
Obama just happens to be the president presiding; the congress is where the real issues are, and like *every* directly-controlled agency of the Congress, NASA suffers from bloat and waste to insane quantities.
Can anyone name a single, federally-run activity that *isn't* a dismal failure?
Yeah, the use of drugs, the casual nature by which we let our young people take that express lane to misery? Yeah. That needs ended.
The lie is that pot is a victimless crime and has no downside. IT CHANGES PEOPLE.
Show me one Olympic athlete that uses pot, alcohol to improve his game. It only degrades; it's all trouble.
Get to an AA ot NA meeting sometime. Just about everyone smokes, almost everyone there will have smoked pot, and all of them know true misery. You only think drugs are a peaceful friend.
OK, so scientists....who get their truths by NOT KNOWING WHAT WILL HAPPEN...are going to start an unproven singularity. HOW CAN THAT GO WRONG?!?!?!?
I always wondered how the world would end. If it's by starting out the same way 90% of the lame, one-named titles running on "SyFy" do, I'll be quite disappointed.
Does everyone here have such blind faith in these over-educated dorks? Ya know they're not gonna do this in deep space- it'll probably be done in France. Isn't that, too, an unsafe distance from the planet? :>
Right now they're trying to decide the right time to spring the "Fairness Doctrine" on AM radio. A lot of Conservatives listen there; almost no liberals. This is because Liberals tend to only use the radio for music.
When Air America failed, it had nothing to do with ideology, because of the demographic of people tuning in. Nevermind that the talent of these humorless, hateful people wasn't anything to listen to.
But the FCC need only decide to do so, and all the sudden worthless Liberal coverage must start taking 50% of the airtime, even though no one wants it. It also means Conservative shows will necessarily cost more, and many will go away.
Say what you will about the Bush administration. He never opened a 'snitch' email or flotilla of websites for propaganda. He never told a company with whom the government had a contract, that it wouldn't be honored. And Bush never told anyone how much money they were permitted to make.
All of these are being attempted by the Left, right now. So Freedom of Speech? That'd only permit dissent to blossom! They've got a big list of rights to take away under the guise of healthcare, because they're smarter than us!
Ask yourself: Other than the military, who get to make their own decisions about how the money is actually spent, can you name ONE federal organization that isn't spewing taxpayer money down the toilet for a useful, efficient purpose?
Why would you let this HISTORICALLY inept body decide your healthcare?
I remember a couple of guys, seems like they were in Minnesota- they were blabbing about a candidate, and it was in the pre-vote window, and they were taken to court....I just don't remember hearing any more.
Seems like a place known as the citadel for liberty, where "Freedom of Speech" has been made so well known, that we'd never permit such a bill. Or the one coming up where the FCC can decide to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine again and render AM radio worthless. It did, before.
Without it, this disaster of a 'healthcare reform' might have made it. The disaster of the immigration bill would have, too. And it's not the Conservative's fault that the Liberals don't listen to talk radio.
So don't think this is only a Japanese thing; it's coming to a Democracy near you.