I don't imagine that the average person does think of there being "European." But that is what EU is going to change as you all are forced to follow rules and regulations and laws set forth by the EU.
The EU sounded like a nice idea in the beginning, but seems to have turned into an ogre when no one was watching it.
How long will it take until Europe realizes that they aren't "One" country with one set of beliefs and standards and just get on with life? Will Europe now be reduced to an East German-like existence? Will one-half of the populace spy and inform on the other half? When will they begin collecting "scent" samples of all the population? Or will they choose DNA this time? Decisions, decisions.
Listen, it's time to give big government the bum's rush to the garbage tip. The sooner governments are beaten back down, the sooner normal people will be able to get on with their lives without fearing being sent to prison or being fined and taxed into penury.
Yeah. I know I got down voted for mentioning "red chinese," but that the way it is. When you lose control of your nation's manufacturing capability you'd better hope there is never another world war.
The primary reason that the allies won WWII, besides the obvious efforts of all involved, was the US's incredible manufacturing capability.
That won't happen next time. We have little heavy industrial manufacturing left, and less technology producing companies than we started with.
Cool. I don't buy into the aspartame thing. I drink 8-10 liters of diet coke a day. I think I would stop if I could, but it's been over twenty years now, and it is my daily life.
I do, however, object to Amazon's actions. If they were selling the Kindle for USD$100 and giving you a break on the cost of books? Sure, I'd probably not object to that DCMA bullshit.
But at +USD$300 and for the book prices they charge?
It's time for ebook/audiobook producers to realize that files are not paper. Files do not have the costs inherent in paper publishing (ink, paper, warehousing, shipping, brick and mortar, idiots to sell latte, etc.).
Sell me an ebook reader that reads what I want to put on it, has no DRM, no fancy bells and whistles, is not tied to _ONE_ vendor, and does allow me to change my library using USB flash drives, USB-to-computer, or on of the various CF formats. Toss all the bullshit and the price will reach the point where sales skyrocket.
Don't those idiots MBAs and marketers realize how many years people have wanted a usable ebook reader?
Likewise, audiobook prices are ridiulously out of touch with either reality or their true cost.
When Audible can afford to sell you 24 audiobooks at once for USD$229, but then sell you a single book for USD$20 or more, there is something wrong.
Outrageous pricing supports piracy.
I do buy audiobooks and I do buy paper. I've found that paper books are better for relaxing and that audiobooks are excellent for commuting.
I had a bout the same experience with HP. I bought a really hot (at the time) AMD-based laptop and wanted physical media for XP and the bastards wouldn't cough up.
HP? Never again. Nothing.
I bought a Zonbu becasue it was low power and have an eee pc (701). I like tinker with hardware and software and both boxes are pretyt nice for that reason. Did you check out the SheevaPlug from Marvell? That's next for me.
I'm planning to stick a CF-based SATA RAID inside my LINK. I have an old Packard-Bell Media Center Remote on the way right now. LIRC supports it and has a config file on their sourceforge site. I'm planning to hack up the config to control neuros.tv in FF. It won't do much for the keyboard stuff, but it'll be a whiz moving around in the menus and in things like VLC that don't require keyboarding.
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I think that an enterprising person who built a decent voice encryption module for POTUS equipment could make some serious bucks.
With good encryption, who cares if they wiretap?
https://files.dreamhost.com/94381/dl/DamBurst-1.2.exe
http://www.crystalwind.com/DamBurst-1.2.exe
Sieg Heil!
I don't imagine that the average person does think of there being "European." But that is what EU is going to change as you all are forced to follow rules and regulations and laws set forth by the EU.
The EU sounded like a nice idea in the beginning, but seems to have turned into an ogre when no one was watching it.
How long will it take until Europe realizes that they aren't "One" country with one set of beliefs and standards and just get on with life? Will Europe now be reduced to an East German-like existence? Will one-half of the populace spy and inform on the other half? When will they begin collecting "scent" samples of all the population? Or will they choose DNA this time? Decisions, decisions.
Listen, it's time to give big government the bum's rush to the garbage tip. The sooner governments are beaten back down, the sooner normal people will be able to get on with their lives without fearing being sent to prison or being fined and taxed into penury.
Your are neither perceptive nor inquisitive.
You will not go far and have angered the IT gods.
P.S., if you had really, truly looked, you would have seen the mirror.
You are both perceptive and inquisitive.
You will go far, provided you do not anger the gods of IT.
And just in case, I think someone might have placed the keys, here: http://crystalwind.com/index.html
I wonder if it's mirrored here: http://crystalwind.com/index.html
Darn. I forgot about that part. I'll just let them work out who's going to monitor my computer then ;-)
Yeah. I know I got down voted for mentioning "red chinese," but that the way it is. When you lose control of your nation's manufacturing capability you'd better hope there is never another world war.
The primary reason that the allies won WWII, besides the obvious efforts of all involved, was the US's incredible manufacturing capability.
That won't happen next time. We have little heavy industrial manufacturing left, and less technology producing companies than we started with.
Just think how wonderful it will be once the red chinese government puts their own stealthy spyware right into the microcode!
Are you having paranoid thought now?
Try this instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M40_recoilless_rifle
It is much easier to operate. There are plenty of them available as surplus.
Cool. I don't buy into the aspartame thing. I drink 8-10 liters of diet coke a day. I think I would stop if I could, but it's been over twenty years now, and it is my daily life.
I nail four 2 liter bottles during the day and one at home after work.
It's odd about the weight loss. Do you attribute it to the end of the diet coke or the other parts of the change?
No argument, but my view with a 9.6 was a heck of a lot tinier than yours :-)
I sure would have liked to have had ISDN back then.
Yeah, I've been in that boat a couple of times. We'd kill for a couple 100Mbps lines. We're dying for reliable bandwidth.
ISDN for data connectivity was fine back in '95. If anyone could have afforded it. A 128K line rather than 9.6 dialup? Hell yeah.
No, ISDN would have flown had they not made it too expensive for the regular person to buy.
Of course verizon is going to milk its customers for every penny they can squeeze out. That what US telco's do.
Remember the bright star of ISDN? Yeah. Priced out of existence when simply selling in volume could have made them a mint.
Verizon! Bring me a 100Mbps line.
Neither do I.
I do, however, object to Amazon's actions. If they were selling the Kindle for USD$100 and giving you a break on the cost of books? Sure, I'd probably not object to that DCMA bullshit.
But at +USD$300 and for the book prices they charge?
It's time for ebook/audiobook producers to realize that files are not paper. Files do not have the costs inherent in paper publishing (ink, paper, warehousing, shipping, brick and mortar, idiots to sell latte, etc.).
Sell me an ebook reader that reads what I want to put on it, has no DRM, no fancy bells and whistles, is not tied to _ONE_ vendor, and does allow me to change my library using USB flash drives, USB-to-computer, or on of the various CF formats. Toss all the bullshit and the price will reach the point where sales skyrocket.
Don't those idiots MBAs and marketers realize how many years people have wanted a usable ebook reader?
Likewise, audiobook prices are ridiulously out of touch with either reality or their true cost.
When Audible can afford to sell you 24 audiobooks at once for USD$229, but then sell you a single book for USD$20 or more, there is something wrong.
Outrageous pricing supports piracy.
I do buy audiobooks and I do buy paper. I've found that paper books are better for relaxing and that audiobooks are excellent for commuting.
Thank you.
Worldwide distribution is now underway.
Ha! I fart in your general direction!
I had a bout the same experience with HP. I bought a really hot (at the time) AMD-based laptop and wanted physical media for XP and the bastards wouldn't cough up.
HP? Never again. Nothing.
I bought a Zonbu becasue it was low power and have an eee pc (701). I like tinker with hardware and software and both boxes are pretyt nice for that reason. Did you check out the SheevaPlug from Marvell? That's next for me.
I'm planning to stick a CF-based SATA RAID inside my LINK. I have an old Packard-Bell Media Center Remote on the way right now. LIRC supports it and has a config file on their sourceforge site. I'm planning to hack up the config to control neuros.tv in FF. It won't do much for the keyboard stuff, but it'll be a whiz moving around in the menus and in things like VLC that don't require keyboarding.
Plays H.264. I haven't tried on 1080p, yet. I'm waiting on the wall mount before I open the box on the bigger set.