> So prepare now by going to Surbeys.com ! it's not too late !
Apparently surbeys.com is already a cyber-squatter of the type that preys on misspellings (I already forget the name coined for this some 39 seconds ago). This assumes that there is a surveys.com (I didn't bother to check). I wonder what it's for... but it doesn't really matter.
I shouldn't be surprised that somebody actually registered this but I suppose surceys, surgeys and pretty much any variation with nearby key is registered. And I also presume that those domains only host a content free website that only has braindead ads, and that they actually make a pretty good living from that. This is so sick. Domain squatters are the lowest of the network lowlifes. Even spammers actually have to *work* to earn their dirty money. It's not like zombie networks build themselves.
Exactly. I mean, when the French stopped using the Eiffel Tower for broadcasting, they tore it down immediately! It went the other way round actually. It was supposed to be torn down (it was just built as a gimmick for a world expo after all) so to save it the engineering firm pointed out it would make a fine broadcasting mast (which it did, and still does).
You cite "Try selling breathing air on Earth and you'll find it won't get you very far" as a failure of capitalism? Sounds like the good ol' invisible hand's working to me. I see... So you failed Economy ?
All the mice work fine in Linux. Something else. That's not a given. I once (before I switched to wireless rodents) plugged in a wired Microsoft mouse into my machine.
Well, it looked like it was behaving, but no sooner had I left my seat that it had leaped in/bin and it started trying to strangle cat(1).
Most of the mice I've seen come with a "driver disk". At least some mice were weird. All "Hayes compatible" modems (were there even others) came with a "driver" that would let Windows know that +++ATH meant hang up. Back then, that was only a few years ago (or a lot, depending on your age), I found this utterly ridiculous (especially when I tried installing a modem without its driver and the $*%ù&# thing would just fail). <windows>like, duh</windows>
(for those who don't know what "hayes compatible" could possibly mean, Hayes used to be a modem company back when we had to spell each character in morse over the phone line and they devised a modem command set which *everyone* used and which the hive mind at wikipedia was nice enough to make a nice page about right there : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set Read it and be lucky you no longer have to memorise all that crap *plus* the network crap.
Okay, we're going a bit offroad here. Medics were paid more (in a way or another) even in the communist states. "Save people, eat every day (eat what you cut), become a doctor ! Join the state medical school today !"
(sorry)
The fundamental difference between capitalism and communism was that capitalism was an ecosystem with different needs and actors, each pulling for its own side, and this combined "pulling" made the system reach a stability (it's a natural stable system). No it's not. Just look at what's happening right now. Without regulation it's a bloody (strictly speaking) mess.
Neither system is perfect. But one is much much much much much more forgiving. The communist system requires more or less perfect people. Therefore it cannot work.
Hopefully some day someone will come with a fresh idea.
"For what it is worth, Yugoslavia under Marshall Tito worked out fairly well."
For a while - until he died and the lid blew off.
One of the reasons that Yugoslavia "worked" is that Tito ruthlessly suppressed sectarianism and ethnicities. Quite. And the kibbutzim were actually a bit smaller than Yugoslavia. I even suspect you could have fitted several inside the territory.
You can't take large populations of ethnically and religiously diverse populations, put them in close contact, and tell them "Get along - or else". It just doesn't work over the long term. It's oh so tempting though... mumblemumblebunchofmoronsmumble
But I can see how just killing them all would be the humane thing to do. Much more fair that way...
(Just kidding, my mom was a refugee from Yugoslavia. Ok, half kidding)
Just to nitpick, capitalism works just in a lack of scarcity. Just what ?
I'll suppose it was supposed to be "just fine".
Well no. It cannot. Try selling breathing air on Earth and you'll find it won't get you very far. You can sell something that you can add value to. Or to rephrase, something which you can make scarce.
DRM and DMCA is a government and legislation thing - capitalism is an economic system. I suspect that you think that economics and politics have nothing to do with one another. Next you're going to say that economy is a science.
Traditional Adam-Smith-Invisible-Hand-esque capitalist economics say MP3s should be free. So ? Aren't they in the current market ? You can get them all over the networks.
What culture does? There's a faint possibility that the people recently revealed in the Amazon basin actually do, but since nobody from the outside is allowed near them we can't be sure. However, one sign is that none of them appears to be running Linux.
Hard drive? That's obsolete. Everyone's using solid state these days. Solid state is so passé... wait a few month before new high density tapes come out and they'll be all the rage.
Data storage on Betamax is the future, that's what insiders at a big company told me. But I've said too much already.
Who gives a shit? (2) From what I've seen, pretty much anyone who's already run Windows CE (or whatever it's called nowadays) on their little gadgets. None of them seemed that eager to repeat the experiment. Admittedly, the consensus was that : 1. it had gotten quite a bit better and 2. it still didn't work properly.
Either way I can't really blame home users when they just copy software in Europe. Since most US editors seem to go with 1 USD = 1.5 EUR when deciding on their prices ("Say, what's the exchange rate for Europe again, wasn't it 1.5 something ? Ah, never mind, I think I got it.")...
I'd probably have to do the same if I wasn't mostly running on FOSS and hadn't done so for years.:-/
Slow news day? I think any story about a major threat to our food supply to be a major one, plus it mentions "Banana Scientists"! What is there not to love? Not to mention that bananas wouldn't go extinct if they'd had a space program ! How much more technical can you get ?
WordPerfect X4 sells for $299. Office 2007 Standard (with more elements to the suite than WP) sells for $399. I wouldn't call that extortionate. Well, here MS Office standard costs 350 euros (retail in a generic discount computer shop). That's more than US$540 in case you wondered. Seems expensive to me. (and you often find in for 100 euros more)
I'm not predicting a better future for ISO, just refusing to believe that all is lost. Yeah, they did refuse to standardize the time cube after all. For some reason (it was a bit clearer and *much* shorter than MooXML wasn't it ?)
*snort*
No organisation wide acknowledgement and reorganisation in reaction to the MS debacle means the ISO has lost it and cannot be trusted. There's no other way to see it. And there's no sign of this so far.
It's a damn shame because there is much in it that would interest people here if they took the time. For one thing it tells us all that we should invest in IBM, Honeywell, and General Electric as soon as possible. You want to be on the corporate overlord's good side.
Just answer the phone with a recording that has a background of screams, fires, stuff falling down and cracking, electrical buzzing and a few sirens...
"Hello, this is the Planet, our servers are down for the moment but we're working on it, thank you for your comprehension... Oh no, Smith is on fire ! Someone get him !!! *click*"
They are known to drop from the trees and surprise foreigners with deadly force. A Møøse once bit my sister...
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Actually, there really will be a grave for Vista, since some Microsoft employee named his daughter after the OS [... ] Oh dear. I hope they didn't figure multitouch would make her more popular as well...
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Apparently surbeys.com is already a cyber-squatter of the type that preys on misspellings (I already forget the name coined for this some 39 seconds ago). This assumes that there is a surveys.com (I didn't bother to check). I wonder what it's for... but it doesn't really matter.
I shouldn't be surprised that somebody actually registered this but I suppose surceys, surgeys and pretty much any variation with nearby key is registered.
And I also presume that those domains only host a content free website that only has braindead ads, and that they actually make a pretty good living from that.
This is so sick. Domain squatters are the lowest of the network lowlifes. Even spammers actually have to *work* to earn their dirty money. It's not like zombie networks build themselves.
Those were Wheelchairs of Mass Destruction !
Because if something people aren't accustomed to it's surbeys.
So prepare now by going to Surbeys.com ! it's not too late !
You could still lead a fruitful life !
So you failed Economy ?
Well, it looked like it was behaving, but no sooner had I left my seat that it had leaped in
Some hardware you just can't trust.
<windows>like, duh</windows>
(for those who don't know what "hayes compatible" could possibly mean, Hayes used to be a modem company back when we had to spell each character in morse over the phone line and they devised a modem command set which *everyone* used and which the hive mind at wikipedia was nice enough to make a nice page about right there : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set
Read it and be lucky you no longer have to memorise all that crap *plus* the network crap.
OTOH, if that disease is catching...
Join the state medical school today !"
(sorry) The fundamental difference between capitalism and communism was that capitalism was an ecosystem with different needs and actors, each pulling for its own side, and this combined "pulling" made the system reach a stability (it's a natural stable system). No it's not. Just look at what's happening right now. Without regulation it's a bloody (strictly speaking) mess.
Neither system is perfect. But one is much much much much much more forgiving.
The communist system requires more or less perfect people. Therefore it cannot work.
Hopefully some day someone will come with a fresh idea.
For a while - until he died and the lid blew off.
One of the reasons that Yugoslavia "worked" is that Tito ruthlessly suppressed sectarianism and ethnicities. Quite. And the kibbutzim were actually a bit smaller than Yugoslavia. I even suspect you could have fitted several inside the territory. You can't take large populations of ethnically and religiously diverse populations, put them in close contact, and tell them "Get along - or else". It just doesn't work over the long term. It's oh so tempting though...
mumblemumblebunchofmoronsmumble
But I can see how just killing them all would be the humane thing to do. Much more fair that way...
(Just kidding, my mom was a refugee from Yugoslavia. Ok, half kidding)
I'll suppose it was supposed to be "just fine".
Well no. It cannot. Try selling breathing air on Earth and you'll find it won't get you very far. You can sell something that you can add value to. Or to rephrase, something which you can make scarce. DRM and DMCA is a government and legislation thing - capitalism is an economic system. I suspect that you think that economics and politics have nothing to do with one another. Next you're going to say that economy is a science. Traditional Adam-Smith-Invisible-Hand-esque capitalist economics say MP3s should be free. So ? Aren't they in the current market ? You can get them all over the networks.
Data storage on Betamax is the future, that's what insiders at a big company told me. But I've said too much already.
None of them seemed that eager to repeat the experiment. Admittedly, the consensus was that : 1. it had gotten quite a bit better and 2. it still didn't work properly.
YMMV though I guess.
Either way I can't really blame home users when they just copy software in Europe. Since most US editors seem to go with 1 USD = 1.5 EUR when deciding on their prices ("Say, what's the exchange rate for Europe again, wasn't it 1.5 something ? Ah, never mind, I think I got it.")...
:-/
I'd probably have to do the same if I wasn't mostly running on FOSS and hadn't done so for years.
*snort*
No organisation wide acknowledgement and reorganisation in reaction to the MS debacle means the ISO has lost it and cannot be trusted. There's no other way to see it. And there's no sign of this so far.
Just answer the phone with a recording that has a background of screams, fires, stuff falling down and cracking, electrical buzzing and a few sirens...
"Hello, this is the Planet, our servers are down for the moment but we're working on it, thank you for your comprehension... Oh no, Smith is on fire ! Someone get him !!! *click*"
That's why I only encrypt in ROT13. Otherwise it would be nasty to underpaid government workers.
Somebody has to think of them after all.
Hey, DesqViewX was pretty good !