Ummm... what the hell are you talking about? Im running the Aureal drivers for my MX300 right now.
Have you been living in a cave somewhere? Here's the link man, enjoy:
http://linux.aureal.com/
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I dont know about anyone else's experience in landing a job, but I know I had to work the crap jobs for 2 years before I have had companies consider my resume. Its hard if you have no experience, only a degree. Its even harder if, like me, you have no Computer Science degree. I went to college for Philosophy fer cripes sake. But if you do have a CS degree, its gonna be a lot easier. Take those crap jobs. Get your bastard lessons, take your lumps, do your time. Keep your eyes on the job postings. Sooner than later you'll get a crack at a good job. Best of luck.
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Hear hear. If I see one more ridiculous job posting like "PC technician - requirements: BSCS and MCSE" Im gonna friggin puke. You know some pointed-haired HR dumbass writes the requirements.
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Word format. I submit most of my resumes in Word format from StarOffice for one reason - I've found most places wont even look at your resume unless its in Word format. HR people do Word. Like it or not, its a standard in business. I like to eat and make my rent and car payments.
As to the guy who blocks IE on his website, you're shooting yourself in the foot. That kind of arrogance wont get you a job. And IE doesnt run on only Windows. Tomorrow I find out if I got myself a sys admin job working with NT and Mac OS X servers in a 90% Mac shop. Guess what the guy that took my resume and interviewed me uses on his Mac? Internet Explorer. And MS Word. Software is a tool. Software does not have any intrinsic moral value, only instrumental value. People use what works, and what they prefer. Its that whole CHOICE thing OSS is all about. You just alienated a lot of people who may have been willing to give you a job, just because they happen to prefer IE over Netscape. Bad move.
When was the last time you went to a party caucus? Ever volunteer your time for a tax payers rights group? Ever write your Congressmen? Ever made your opinion known by writing an OpEd for the local newspaper? Ever VOTE?
If you dont do anything, you have no grounds to bitch.
PS: corporations are run by people. corporations have an interest in not having the government tax them out of existence just like you. Obviously the people on Boards of Directors are a lot smarter than you, because they make their voice heard.
"Private industry couldn't fund the rail system in the 19th century, it took tax dollars to do that in the form of land grabbing from farmers and massive infusion of money into the rail monopolies."
Nonsense. Government funding of railroad construction amounted to 10% of total cost. What's more, those railroads that recieved federal funding were the most likely to go bankrupt. Three continental railroads that were built with government assistance went bankrupt within 20 years. James Jerome Hill built the Great Northern from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound without a single penny of government money and the railroad didnt go belly up.
Most of the original stretches of roadway in the US were built with private funds, collected by members of car clubs, like the AAA. The problem with privately funded highways is that there is no means of collecting a return on the investment without exacting tolls. Besides, as Adam Smith wrote in Wealth of Nations, there are some projects that are worthy of great nations in encouraging development. The building of roads, airports, public utilities, etc are direct benefits to everyone, and contribute to even more indirect benefits.
Public expense to support private profits is bad? Do you live in a major city? Ever think how that milk got to you? Ever thought how much you'd be paying for it if it wasnt for the highway system? Have you ever gotten a package from UPS or the USPS? Ever consider how long it would have taken that package to reach you if it wasnt for the highway system or federally subsidized airports? What anti-capitalist flamers like yourself always seem to forget is that companies get their profits from individuals forking over their cash for products they want. Greedy evil companies provide a service, if they dont provide a service that someone is willing to pay for, they arent in business anymore.
>That's idiotic. Vulgarity and obscenity are not >so much in the words themselves, but how you use >them. For instance, a "ram" is an animal. An >"ass" is an animal. But if I say I want to ram >your ass, that means something entirely >different. That means either I want to buttfuck >you, or hit your donkey with my Ford truck.
Actually, to be more descriptively accurate, it would be "or hit your donkey with my Dodge truck." Dodge builds the Ram.
Keep yer environmental blathering on track there skippy. They would be MACHINES. MACHINES dont have to worry about global warming, carrying capacity, animal extinctions, degradation of the environment, etc etc name your favorite eco cause here. A MACHINE would have no reason to worry. A MACHINE could thrive perfectly happy on a dead planet. What makes you think an intelligent machine wouldnt be WORSE than humans?
Yes and it was a very bad attempt as far as Philosophy goes. Interesting premise - appearance and reality. Then they mucked it up with all sorts of incoherent and inconsistent shite about fate. They royally screwed the whole free will/determinism dichotomy.
Medical ethics are, IMO, more interesting that speculating about nanites and robots snuffing us out.
For instance, medicine has this nasty habit these days of trying to preserve a person's life, irregardless of the persons stated wishes or the quality of life that person may expect. Does a doctor have a moral right to extend a failing life when such extension is futile and only extends the suffering of the patient? Is it MORE ethical, with the consent of the individual in question, to end that life? Premature infants are another case in point. Extremely premature infants, around 3 months premature, will be preserved whether the parents wish to or not. The STATE overrides all parental considerations, preserves the life of the child, and then hands it off to the parents, along with the bill. Does medicine, and especially the State, have moral responsibility to preserve a life whose quality may be less than fair (extremely premature children are susceptible to all manner of problems, including downs syndrome), and what more damn the parents to caring for a terminally handicapped child, against their wishes?
These are interesting ethical questions. And immediately applicable. To hell with the Unabomber. Lets discuss Kevorkian.
"And if Ishmael grabs your attention, don't stop there! Go on to The Story Of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond Civilization. All good stuff, assuming you can open your mind enough..." LOL! Open your mind enough. Ishmael is moronic hippie stoner-circle material. Givers and Takers indeed. This is the same kind of material that enthusiastically makes a case for american indians having been some sort of eco warrior race. Get out of Oregon while you still have clue.
PRC = autocratic xenophobic state that is hell bent on "liberating" and "uniting" the Chinese "motherland." Irregardless of the sentiments of those that live there Tibet & Taiwan. Never mind that Formosa has never historically been a part of China.
Taiwain = successful island nation of nationalist refugees from the chinese civil war, the "other" Chinese government. fledgling democratic tradition.
Now as I remember, that whole "1996 incident" occurred at the last Taiwanese election, where China was launching missiles over Formosa to intimidate the population into not voting for independence. The "state-to-state thing" was only recent - this past year.
Let us not get into the subject of Israel flaunting US support in the face of its neighbors, who have invaded it not once, not twice, but three times in the past 45 odd years since its inception. Check your assumptions...
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"> You CAN do something about it.
No, I cannot.
Neither can you.
Neither can a Posters' Liberation Army.
You see, the solution to Slashdot's moderation and troll problems is both, at once, simple and impossible: prevent illiterate, ignorant trolls from posting articles -- i.e. CmdrTaco, Jon Katz, Hemos, etc.
They set the tone.
That tone, in addition to being ignorant and illiterate, is adolescent. It therefore attracts and encourages the same.
The ridiculously baroque moderation system in place here is absurd. It is only necessary because the posters most in need of moderation are the ones posting articles."
Well you are entirely wrong. You CAN do something about it. Dont read Slashdot. If it gets yer panties in such a bundle pal, why the hell do you continue to make the kind of postings you say you dislike, ie ignorant, illiterate, and adolescent. Stop wasting my time with your idiotic postings.
Frankly I dont know why anyone would drink Budweiser anyway, the piss in a bottle is good for nothing but a good throbbing headache. And Im an American.
Remember that Bud is not typical of American beers, mass produced American beer maybe, but there are a lot of good micros out there. If you are ever in Pennsylvania, try Yeungling, a nice smooth lager that has always put a smile on my face. Brooklyn Brewing's Brown ale is a good sip too. Dont malign us Americans because you may not be able to get the good micros which often arent even exported out of their home state, like Yeungling. Shiner Bock here in Texas is a fair drink as well.
And for the most part Ive always been able to get Guinness on tap. But Im a bar snob that wont drink at an establishment that has Budweiser or Old Milwaukee on tap.:::shudders:::
"Free food? Ever hear of the food bank? Various other organizations with similar missions? Free rent? Ever hear of habitat for humanity?" Costs. Who supports these charities? Are their resources great enough to feed and house everyone? Of course not. There is no free ride. Unless youre a total louse that takes food from a food bank so you can write your FreeSoftware. Anyone who does so, let me know, I dont want your free software. Id rather pay Microshaft than patronize a leach.
"Yes, we live in a world where in order to live and survive you have to possess strong qualitites of GREED and you must LOVE MONEY more than anything else in the universe. A reality where we destroy all that is good around us for the benefit of our greedy selves. *I* can hold valuable things from our brothers and sisters so that only *I* can benefit.
Such a wonderful reality, certainly not worth changing. Keep clinging to the greed and love for money--eventually we may all be lucky and exterminate outselves."
Either you live with your mom or you have a trust fund. This is such a troll.
Reality check: there is no FreeFood movement. There is no FreeRent movement. There is no FreeVehicle movement.
This belies a deep ignorance of economics. Lets make this easy for you. There are many wants and needs and a limited amount of resources to satisfy those wants and needs. The allocation of resources requires the expenditure of energy and resources. Cost benefit analysis. Anything that satisfies a want or need has an intrinsic cost measured in the time, energy, and resources expended in its procurement and/or production. IE: there is no such thing as free anything. Anything that is "free" is actually a cost to the individual who produced it, it is cost in time, energy, and resources. If an individual chooses to write free software out of altruistic motives, that is their free choice. But it comes at a cost, if only cost measured in time, energy, and the monetary equivelent of the coffee and donuts they consumed in writing it. NOW, if all software was free, what exactly would be the motivation and source of income for a software company? Aside from those dandy foundation (ie millionaire) funded Projects, how is a software company going to pay its hackers? How are said programmers going to pay their rent? All this talk of free software is grand, but for all its altruistic motivations it is the hallmark of Marxian Exploitation.
"It is unfair to benchmark IE/Win against Netscape/Win, since it is impossible to cleanly remove IE from Win. (Prof Felton's hacked, IE-free version of win runs marginally faster than normal win - imagine what MS could do)" What are you talking about man? Is Prof Felton that egghead at the DOJ hearings that couldnt do a simple task like replacing the Win98 shell with the Win95 shell? Ooops. With testimony like that, its a wonder MS lost. Its very easy to do. The most bothersome part about it is you have to install Notepad from win95 because the 98 notepad wont use the win95 shell. Other than that, Win98 Lite is a breeze to accomplish. There was a guide on how to do it on sysopt.com for a looong time. The prosecution for the DOJ should have read it. So much for integration.
Nonsense. Im running Win98 Lite on my windoze box and IE4 is still faster than Netscape 4.5. Ive had far fewer problems with IE crashing than Netscape. Integration has nothing to do with it. For the record however, Ive found that Opera is the fastest of the three. And Ive never had Opera crash... Im dying to see a decent graphical browser on Linux. And one that will do Java for chrisakes. Netscape runs for the hills as soon as it gets a whiff of Java running on my Linux box. Im hoping that Opera on Linux will fill the need, and Im definately looking forward to Mozilla being usable full time.
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Well, this is a bit off topic, but neither the AOL sheep or the rest of us elect the President of the United States. The Electoral College elects the President. Who are they? Beats me. I never voted for an "Electoral College Representative." The popular vote is a sham, especially today when tallying a popular vote *is* possible, and on election day. Your vote doesnt mean squat for the Prez elections. As far as there being many venues of info, sure for those of us who have the desire to do our own research and come to our own conclusions. But the average person is content to turn on CNN or the nightly network news station, or read TIME, or what have you. Guess what, those venues are owned by 3 companies. Most people believe what they see on TV.....
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Time Warner being one of the largest cable service providers is precisely one of the things that make the deal so appetizing to AOL. Not only does AOL acquire an existing cable infrastructure and customer base, but it also acquires the single largest venue of content. AOL and CNN would be one, which is scary in and of itself, "this is Wolf Blitzer, for AOL-CNN Online." LOL! Derek
Sprint offers wireless Internet now. It is not a totally wireless net, of course, but its a look at the beginning. It's still tied to land lines, I know don't flame me. But its still cool, and a step towards a widespread wireless internet.
This is a fairly representative case with NSI. If something can be screwed up, they'll screw it up for sure, with bells on. It has been my personal experience working at an ISP that to get something done requires one to get on the phone and yell at NSI at the top of one's lungs, and bombard them with email until they get it done. Nothing else seems to work. Yelling is especially potent, it seems. The more people you yell at, the faster things get done at NSI. I mean really, a five day delay? For what? Setting up a special account? LOL! Really, and what did that require, clicking on an extra two or three checkboxes? Please. These people are incompetent. Look in the friggin dictionary under incompetent and it says, "See Network Solutions, Inc." Derek
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Ummm... what the hell are you talking about? Im running the Aureal drivers for my MX300 right now.
Have you been living in a cave somewhere? Here's the link man, enjoy:
http://linux.aureal.com/
I dont know about anyone else's experience in landing a job, but I know I had to work the crap jobs for 2 years before I have had companies consider my resume. Its hard if you have no experience, only a degree. Its even harder if, like me, you have no Computer Science degree. I went to college for Philosophy fer cripes sake. But if you do have a CS degree, its gonna be a lot easier. Take those crap jobs. Get your bastard lessons, take your lumps, do your time. Keep your eyes on the job postings. Sooner than later you'll get a crack at a good job. Best of luck.
Hear hear. If I see one more ridiculous job posting like "PC technician - requirements: BSCS and MCSE" Im gonna friggin puke. You know some pointed-haired HR dumbass writes the requirements.
In response to other posts:
Word format. I submit most of my resumes in Word format from StarOffice for one reason - I've found most places wont even look at your resume unless its in Word format. HR people do Word. Like it or not, its a standard in business. I like to eat and make my rent and car payments.
As to the guy who blocks IE on his website, you're shooting yourself in the foot. That kind of arrogance wont get you a job. And IE doesnt run on only Windows. Tomorrow I find out if I got myself a sys admin job working with NT and Mac OS X servers in a 90% Mac shop. Guess what the guy that took my resume and interviewed me uses on his Mac? Internet Explorer. And MS Word. Software is a tool. Software does not have any intrinsic moral value, only instrumental value. People use what works, and what they prefer. Its that whole CHOICE thing OSS is all about. You just alienated a lot of people who may have been willing to give you a job, just because they happen to prefer IE over Netscape. Bad move.
Another thing too.
Corporations dont vote.
If you dont like the way your representative is doing things, vote him out. Try the next schmuck politician on for size. Or, run for office!
When was the last time you went to a party caucus? Ever volunteer your time for a tax payers rights group? Ever write your Congressmen? Ever made your opinion known by writing an OpEd for the local newspaper? Ever VOTE?
If you dont do anything, you have no grounds to bitch.
PS: corporations are run by people. corporations have an interest in not having the government tax them out of existence just like you. Obviously the people on Boards of Directors are a lot smarter than you, because they make their voice heard.
Love that Freedom of Speech thing.
"Private industry couldn't fund the rail system in the 19th century, it took tax dollars to do that in the form of land grabbing from farmers and massive infusion of money into the rail monopolies."
Nonsense. Government funding of railroad construction amounted to 10% of total cost. What's more, those railroads that recieved federal funding were the most likely to go bankrupt. Three continental railroads that were built with government assistance went bankrupt within 20 years. James Jerome Hill built the Great Northern from the Great Lakes to Puget Sound without a single penny of government money and the railroad didnt go belly up.
Most of the original stretches of roadway in the US were built with private funds, collected by members of car clubs, like the AAA. The problem with privately funded highways is that there is no means of collecting a return on the investment without exacting tolls. Besides, as Adam Smith wrote in Wealth of Nations, there are some projects that are worthy of great nations in encouraging development. The building of roads, airports, public utilities, etc are direct benefits to everyone, and contribute to even more indirect benefits.
Public expense to support private profits is bad? Do you live in a major city? Ever think how that milk got to you? Ever thought how much you'd be paying for it if it wasnt for the highway system? Have you ever gotten a package from UPS or the USPS? Ever consider how long it would have taken that package to reach you if it wasnt for the highway system or federally subsidized airports? What anti-capitalist flamers like yourself always seem to forget is that companies get their profits from individuals forking over their cash for products they want. Greedy evil companies provide a service, if they dont provide a service that someone is willing to pay for, they arent in business anymore.
Derek
>That's idiotic. Vulgarity and obscenity are not >so much in the words themselves, but how you use >them. For instance, a "ram" is an animal. An >"ass" is an animal. But if I say I want to ram >your ass, that means something entirely >different. That means either I want to buttfuck >you, or hit your donkey with my Ford truck.
Actually, to be more descriptively accurate, it would be "or hit your donkey with my Dodge truck." Dodge builds the Ram.
Carry on.
Keep yer environmental blathering on track there skippy. They would be MACHINES. MACHINES dont have to worry about global warming, carrying capacity, animal extinctions, degradation of the environment, etc etc name your favorite eco cause here. A MACHINE would have no reason to worry. A MACHINE could thrive perfectly happy on a dead planet. What makes you think an intelligent machine wouldnt be WORSE than humans?
Yes and it was a very bad attempt as far as Philosophy goes. Interesting premise - appearance and reality. Then they mucked it up with all sorts of incoherent and inconsistent shite about fate. They royally screwed the whole free will/determinism dichotomy.
Medical ethics are, IMO, more interesting that speculating about nanites and robots snuffing us out.
For instance, medicine has this nasty habit these days of trying to preserve a person's life, irregardless of the persons stated wishes or the quality of life that person may expect. Does a doctor have a moral right to extend a failing life when such extension is futile and only extends the suffering of the patient? Is it MORE ethical, with the consent of the individual in question, to end that life? Premature infants are another case in point. Extremely premature infants, around 3 months premature, will be preserved whether the parents wish to or not. The STATE overrides all parental considerations, preserves the life of the child, and then hands it off to the parents, along with the bill. Does medicine, and especially the State, have moral responsibility to preserve a life whose quality may be less than fair (extremely premature children are susceptible to all manner of problems, including downs syndrome), and what more damn the parents to caring for a terminally handicapped child, against their wishes?
These are interesting ethical questions. And immediately applicable. To hell with the Unabomber. Lets discuss Kevorkian.
"And if Ishmael grabs your attention, don't stop there! Go on to The Story Of B, My Ishmael, and Beyond Civilization. All good stuff, assuming you can open your mind enough..." LOL! Open your mind enough. Ishmael is moronic hippie stoner-circle material. Givers and Takers indeed. This is the same kind of material that enthusiastically makes a case for american indians having been some sort of eco warrior race. Get out of Oregon while you still have clue.
Support of certain right-wing figures? Huh?
Let's outline the situation.
PRC = autocratic xenophobic state that is hell bent on "liberating" and "uniting" the Chinese "motherland." Irregardless of the sentiments of those that live there Tibet & Taiwan. Never mind that Formosa has never historically been a part of China.
Taiwain = successful island nation of nationalist refugees from the chinese civil war, the "other" Chinese government. fledgling democratic tradition.
Now as I remember, that whole "1996 incident" occurred at the last Taiwanese election, where China was launching missiles over Formosa to intimidate the population into not voting for independence. The "state-to-state thing" was only recent - this past year.
Let us not get into the subject of Israel flaunting US support in the face of its neighbors, who have invaded it not once, not twice, but three times in the past 45 odd years since its inception. Check your assumptions...
Thank you, caetin. Saved me a rant.
"> You CAN do something about it.
No, I cannot.
Neither can you.
Neither can a Posters' Liberation Army.
You see, the solution to Slashdot's moderation and troll problems is both, at once, simple and impossible: prevent illiterate, ignorant trolls from posting articles -- i.e. CmdrTaco, Jon Katz, Hemos, etc.
They set the tone.
That tone, in addition to being ignorant and illiterate, is adolescent. It therefore attracts and encourages the same.
The ridiculously baroque moderation system in place here is absurd. It is only necessary because the posters most in need of moderation are the ones posting articles."
Well you are entirely wrong. You CAN do something about it. Dont read Slashdot. If it gets yer panties in such a bundle pal, why the hell do you continue to make the kind of postings you say you dislike, ie ignorant, illiterate, and adolescent. Stop wasting my time with your idiotic postings.
Frankly I dont know why anyone would drink Budweiser anyway, the piss in a bottle is good for nothing but a good throbbing headache. And Im an American.
:::shudders:::
Remember that Bud is not typical of American beers, mass produced American beer maybe, but there are a lot of good micros out there. If you are ever in Pennsylvania, try Yeungling, a nice smooth lager that has always put a smile on my face. Brooklyn Brewing's Brown ale is a good sip too. Dont malign us Americans because you may not be able to get the good micros which often arent even exported out of their home state, like Yeungling. Shiner Bock here in Texas is a fair drink as well.
And for the most part Ive always been able to get Guinness on tap. But Im a bar snob that wont drink at an establishment that has Budweiser or Old Milwaukee on tap.
The mention of Joe Firmage totally makes me not take anything you say seriously.
"Free food? Ever hear of the food bank? Various other organizations with similar missions? Free rent? Ever hear of habitat for humanity?" Costs. Who supports these charities? Are their resources great enough to feed and house everyone? Of course not. There is no free ride. Unless youre a total louse that takes food from a food bank so you can write your FreeSoftware. Anyone who does so, let me know, I dont want your free software. Id rather pay Microshaft than patronize a leach.
"Yes, we live in a world where in order to live and survive you have to possess strong qualitites of GREED and you must LOVE MONEY more than anything else in the universe.
A reality where we destroy all that is good around us for the benefit of our greedy selves. *I* can hold valuable things from our brothers and sisters so that only *I* can benefit.
Such a wonderful reality, certainly not worth changing. Keep clinging to the greed and love for money--eventually we may all be lucky and exterminate outselves."
Either you live with your mom or you have a trust fund. This is such a troll.
Reality check: there is no FreeFood movement. There is no FreeRent movement. There is no FreeVehicle movement.
This belies a deep ignorance of economics. Lets make this easy for you. There are many wants and needs and a limited amount of resources to satisfy those wants and needs. The allocation of resources requires the expenditure of energy and resources. Cost benefit analysis. Anything that satisfies a want or need has an intrinsic cost measured in the time, energy, and resources expended in its procurement and/or production. IE: there is no such thing as free anything. Anything that is "free" is actually a cost to the individual who produced it, it is cost in time, energy, and resources. If an individual chooses to write free software out of altruistic motives, that is their free choice. But it comes at a cost, if only cost measured in time, energy, and the monetary equivelent of the coffee and donuts they consumed in writing it. NOW, if all software was free, what exactly would be the motivation and source of income for a software company? Aside from those dandy foundation (ie millionaire) funded Projects, how is a software company going to pay its hackers? How are said programmers going to pay their rent? All this talk of free software is grand, but for all its altruistic motivations it is the hallmark of Marxian Exploitation.
"It is unfair to benchmark IE/Win against Netscape/Win, since it is impossible to cleanly remove IE from Win. (Prof Felton's hacked, IE-free version of win runs marginally faster than normal win - imagine what MS could do)" What are you talking about man? Is Prof Felton that egghead at the DOJ hearings that couldnt do a simple task like replacing the Win98 shell with the Win95 shell? Ooops. With testimony like that, its a wonder MS lost. Its very easy to do. The most bothersome part about it is you have to install Notepad from win95 because the 98 notepad wont use the win95 shell. Other than that, Win98 Lite is a breeze to accomplish. There was a guide on how to do it on sysopt.com for a looong time. The prosecution for the DOJ should have read it. So much for integration.
Nonsense. Im running Win98 Lite on my windoze box and IE4 is still faster than Netscape 4.5. Ive had far fewer problems with IE crashing than Netscape. Integration has nothing to do with it. For the record however, Ive found that Opera is the fastest of the three. And Ive never had Opera crash... Im dying to see a decent graphical browser on Linux. And one that will do Java for chrisakes. Netscape runs for the hills as soon as it gets a whiff of Java running on my Linux box. Im hoping that Opera on Linux will fill the need, and Im definately looking forward to Mozilla being usable full time.
Well, this is a bit off topic, but neither the AOL sheep or the rest of us elect the President of the United States. The Electoral College elects the President. Who are they? Beats me. I never voted for an "Electoral College Representative." The popular vote is a sham, especially today when tallying a popular vote *is* possible, and on election day. Your vote doesnt mean squat for the Prez elections. As far as there being many venues of info, sure for those of us who have the desire to do our own research and come to our own conclusions. But the average person is content to turn on CNN or the nightly network news station, or read TIME, or what have you. Guess what, those venues are owned by 3 companies. Most people believe what they see on TV.....
Time Warner being one of the largest cable service providers is precisely one of the things that make the deal so appetizing to AOL. Not only does AOL acquire an existing cable infrastructure and customer base, but it also acquires the single largest venue of content. AOL and CNN would be one, which is scary in and of itself, "this is Wolf Blitzer, for AOL-CNN Online." LOL! Derek
Sprint offers wireless Internet now. It is not a totally wireless net, of course, but its a look at the beginning. It's still tied to land lines, I know don't flame me. But its still cool, and a step towards a widespread wireless internet.
http://www.sprintbroadband.com/index.html
Derek
This is a fairly representative case with NSI. If something can be screwed up, they'll screw it up for sure, with bells on. It has been my personal experience working at an ISP that to get something done requires one to get on the phone and yell at NSI at the top of one's lungs, and bombard them with email until they get it done. Nothing else seems to work. Yelling is especially potent, it seems. The more people you yell at, the faster things get done at NSI. I mean really, a five day delay? For what? Setting up a special account? LOL! Really, and what did that require, clicking on an extra two or three checkboxes? Please. These people are incompetent. Look in the friggin dictionary under incompetent and it says, "See Network Solutions, Inc." Derek