This is just a progression of the screwed up state of affairs our intellectual property laws are in. When anyone can patent anything with or without prior art and the media companies can sue 70 year old women who don't own a computer. And now politicians are trying to add more legislation like the ACTA.
Than again all our politicians such but we are too stupid to do anything about it. Whatever happened to the 70s when we would all get up and protest any time the government did anything retarded. It's like we gave up.
But seriously there isn't anything you can do. Talk to your ISP. They have all the power in this situation. But than again not sure if they can fix it. Obviously your the ISP is getting their internet from Canada and even though your registered router is in Canada most Geo Location sites are only region specific and don't do an accurate trace.
They just try try to find the general area you live because doing a full trace for targeted ad is resource intensize. So pretty much no sites (besides adult friend finder) will get your location right.
Why is everyone flaming DARPA. DARPA doesn't invent new bombs or kill people. That is the DoD's job. All DARPA does is try to find the "next" innovative technology and buy it. They INVENTED the internet. The first real internet was the ARPAnet and then the usenet was set out be the "poor mans ARPAnet". They sparked it.
So what's the big deal. If you want to make bombs and viruses the DoD always has positions. But DARPA has never been involved.
Just my 2 cents. Just kind of tired with everyone's one sided way of looking at things.
Um. of course microsoft kinda forget what happened to the last person who said that:P
although on another note they did make one hell of an improvement visually over the last cake. Its now more colorful and everythings all rounded....just hope its not as weak taste wise as the last....
If the person who gave them this computer simply changed the name on the account than i really doubt there is an "IT" department to begin with.
I know a lot of people who work on the government and it's pretty hard to fire someone unless you quote, "look at porn or kill someone". One of my friends told me a coworker brought a gun into her job as at the education department and didn't get fired. It really doesn't matter how incompetent your set and to get anything changed you need to go through so much red tape.
Government desk jobs are among the most inefficient and unproductive jobs. If they didn't screw up and gave the guy anti-virus than this wouldn't have happened. Now the guy's life is ruined and he will have to live in shame for the rest of his life and will be required to tell everyone on his block that he is a sex offender. Than everytime he does anything are is even walking home people are going to question him and treat him like a criminal.
And btw it is pretty common for these pay-per-click things to come up. If your computer is surfing 40 sites a minute on high pay-out childporn sites than that will rake in a TON of money for the botnet owner.
Just think 1 cent per click (because child porn sites will pay a shit load for clicks) and 40 times a minute. Thats 2 dollars every 5 minutes.....thats f***load of money.
but I definitely agree that the cuirrent direction of the evolution is towards more and more user generated content. (personally, I think that at some point, the balance will start to swing back a bit as people realise that well written, well edited content is worth something) </quote> Yep I agree after a while there will be a larger need for less user generated content and more professionally written content. But this also begs the question....what is user generated content. Is a blog considered user generated? After all a lot of blogs have well written and well edited contents (some big name blogs like engaget, the huffington post, etc.) while others are more thrown together and just talking about what the author had for breakfast.
Right now I'm kinda getting sick of the lack of innovation a lot of "web 2.0" sites are. Like it's just a mashup of simple ideas. Like I'm not a big digg fan. They have so many stories on their front page that its really not worth going on.
Slashdot is a good site in the sense that there is only like 4 or 5 stories a day. You can check slashdot twice a day and that's it.
This thing is a massive waste of money. I once bought a $700 "All-in-one" coffee maker (built in grinder, water, etc) but the coffee tasted horrible so I returned it and got a $50 Mr. Coffee maker.
Now I have a $170 tassimo where you put a pod in and click a button. It worked well, never breaks, and has never been hacked. This begs the question if your so lasy that you can't get up and make your own coffee than maybe you got some pretty bad underlying problems.
If getting up and walking to your break room and waiting a couple minutes for your coffee to brew than you really should just shoot yourself.
If your company spends that much money on a damn coffee maker than it deserves to get hacked.
I am just waiting for the coffee maker to break down and having to pull out the "auxilary" coffee maker. One of those stove top coffee makers.
Than again I'm cuban and we really value our coffee. I used to have one of those $500 commercial espresso makers. Coffee is an art, at least espresso is.
What I meant was this whole idea of web 2.0 in general. Web 2.0 is a rather new idea. Before everything was basically content handed to you by a content creator now in days users make the content. And yes your right online communities have been around for more than 3-5 years. What I should have said was the Web 2.0 has only been around for 3-5 years.
So yea we all make mistakes:P "Musta been a typo a typo a typo".
I almost put 5-10 years that seems more reasonable.
I completely agree. I am part of a sports nutrition business and although we do have a monthly newsletter and for that we use constant contact and it is opt-in. But we originally started doing weekly emails but it really didn't help us and people didn't like it. So now we limit ourselves to a monthly newsletter and the occasional email if there is an event (like our grand opening).
Customer service really really really is key now in days. A little tiny bit of effort will pay dividends. Heck a travel agency is 100% customer service...because you are providing a professional service. You aren't selling a physical product.
Another thing we do and so does Nordstrom is to send a personalized email. And by personalized I mean the salesman has to sit down and write out and email based out the customer's experience in the store (usually what they buy).
You notice how while everyone else is losing money Nordstrom is opening up more stores and raking it in....you know why because people will pay a premium for service. People love service.:P
Thanks and remember being a douchbag (to your customers at least) is not the way to business. We have doing some cutthroat things to other businesses who compete against us. But as our customers are concerned we service them and give them advice and sell them nutrition products at the same price as everyone else. We don't claim to compete on price and in fact many of or stuff is MUCH CHEAPER online but thats not our market. We have 50% margins and so does every other nutrition place.
What an amazing visionary. Well I guess he was right on the button. Heck that basically describes web 2.0 before web 0.1 was invented. He is right on target.
This kind of reminds me of the guy who wrote a 10 page article on the year 2008. He was right about a lot of things but was wrong about a ton of things (trailer homes, bubbles, going 300 mph in a computer driven car).
But I must say this guy is a genius. He was 70 years ahead of his time because the whole concept of "online communities" is a rather new idea (about 3 to 5 years at the most)
Yep you are probobly right. I remember when people had napster and would brag about all the music they downloaded....oh we were so innocent back than. We only downloaded music...movies, games, and shows were simply a pipe dream.
Um because than they have to unlock it....but thats not hard at all considering you can get a 8 dollar chip. (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12167).
So I guess that could be viable. Although thats pretty stupid that you can't just buy the damn thing.
The problem with Verizon is verizon is very obsessed with locking down their phones and making you use their services and using "VCast" and buying their games and software. If you could just download games than why would you buy the horrible games Verizon sells.
At&t was the only carrier that would let iPhone be whatever Apple wanted (extremely rare) and completely designed by Apple without AT&T software or hardware input. But in exchange they earned an exclusive for the iPhone.
AT&T allowing the iPhone was probably the only decision that I've agreed with lol.
ight now there is alot of problems without jailbreakers eating up their 10 dollar unlimited plan. Considering low of a price the unlimited a plan is and how little regular iPhone users use thier internet (they can't really do anything besides download YouTube) vs people with unlocked iPhones who download apps and everything they can get their hands on.
But they should have opened it up to more people in Europe. Europeans are used to having open phones because in Europe you buy your phone and pick an carrier. They should have done the samewith the iPhone. Americans are used to having exclusive phones but Europeans are used to buying their phones without contracts and only doing the contract thing if they want a free phone.
Omg that was an amazing post....if i was a mod I would give you a 6 for epicness and length. wow jeeze its sooo funny cause your completely right...this is the way the country is heading.
It is a slippery slope into a police state (not that we don't already have one)....things are only going to get worse.
If these statistics are based on surveys obviously they are going to be low. If I got a survey saying "do you pirate RIAA music over P2P" obviously everyone is going to say no. No one is going to admit to doing something illegal on a survey.
You mind as well send out a survey asking "do you sell, traffic, or push Illegal Drugs", I wonder what the actual "infringers" are going to mark as an answer?
Pretty everyone I know has pirated some music. Even the mos moral guys have pirated an album or two because hey weren't able to buy it or just really wanted it.
So in actual people who have pirated anything in their lifetime I'm guessing its pretty high (50% at least). But people who are casual pirates who download one or two things whenever they feel like it (maybe once a week) or moderate pirates who download stuff whenever they want it.(maybe an album ever 3 days).
Than you have the serious guys who never have their computer going without downloading something (eg me:P). Especially people with a usenet connection. Just leave your computer running for a couple hours and download stuff.
I am slowly making a shift to usenet because it has no logs whatsoever. Even if the RIAA begin fighting usenet they aren't going to able to fight the users.
The battle for usenet will be a big corporation vs another big corporation battle. Considering their are only a few usenet companies and all of them are massive conglomerates such as giganews, usenet.com, astraweb.com (my fav...real cheap).
So they are just trying to chip away and do some fear mongering. But they will never defeat piracy. It has become almost cultural and most people with a computer have pirated something. Heck i remember when kazaa came out and people would have a computer dedicated to kazaa just because of all the Spyware:P
Thank god for soldering irons. As long as we got soldering irons we will still have a weapon to wield against consoles.
But either way the most effective copy protection by any standards are consoles. PC copy protections will always be broken easily even some multi player games (namely steam games, quake, etc) have cracked servers that people with pirated copies of games can use.
Consoles on the other hand must be chipped. Right now the only console that can be effectively chipped is the Wii. Even still that is a pretty large barrier and at the most 1% of wii users are going to chip their wii because it takes some skill and has a lot of cost.
Personally I chip other people's Wiis and now with the wii-clip its pretty darn easy. But it isn't chepa and my cheapest chip costs 40 dollars just in parts (D2CKey and Wii Clip V1). And of course isn't easy to solder and sometimes you screw things up.
I have almost 150 bucks invested in soldering mats etc. It is just a rather hard pitch to mess with someone's wii. But anyways I digress.
The xbox 360 is near impossible and you can't play on the internet (kinda essential to 360 gameplay:P). On top of that the 360 is known to break every couple months.
Unlike the wii the PS3's and Xbox's warranty gets voided simply for opening it.
Basically I think in the Game Publishers are trying to make a shift to consoles which are pretty solid. Mod chips are not a very popular thing. 1 out of 5 kids will talk to you about a game they pirated but maybe 1 out of 80 kids you talk to will have chipped console (and 1 out of 1 thousand if its not a wii).
Radiohead produce their own music without any help from a label (recording studio, backup people, ass wipers etc)
Last time I checked it pretty darn hard to create your own factory:P
But I think that radio head is quite progressive and that they really aren't trying to douchebags.
Heck remember when prince sent DMCA letters for a cover of THEIR song. Radiohead called them out and said "tell youtube to put it back up it isn't prince's song to begin with". I think that was pretty cool thing to do. Well...it was really helping prince after all it's not like he was losing any money since it isn't even his song to begin with and he can't sell it. What does he expect? Every single person in the world to go to that one concert so they can see a cover.
Or maybe, they decided they like money more than integrity.
Um so your basically saying that simply by selling their albums on iTunes they have no integrity. After all they did release them in DRM Free format and have never gone after filesharing. Heck radiohead doesn't even have a Music Label and don't have to listen to the RIAA or anyone about P2P.
If they want to give people th option to buy their music over iTunes...why not. It's not like they can put them on iTunes for free even if they wanted to....So what you want them to stop selling CDs also because you don't think they have integrity simply for selling something.
Obviously they give people the option of getting it for free on P2P or buying it. If you want to support them buy it if not don't. They aren't saying don't download our music TPB they just turn a blind eye to it. So cmon why must selling something be considered a lack of integrity?
ReiserFS is created by mad men...mad men I tell yah. Next thing you know every computer with ReiserFS is going to becomes alive and go on a murderous rampage. Watch for the hail of CDs and floppy diskettes (yes linux computer still have those:P).
They are even coming out with a secret weapon...the ZIP DISK, tun tun tuuuun.
Remmber guys
"Hold your hat and hang on to your soul Something's coming to eat the world whole"
WATEVER THEY OFFER YOU....though it sounds really awesome and effient
Well I guess you can if you write it off as a business expense. Like saying that prostitutes are a business expense because they increase productivity:P
Yah obviously its not a good idea to have a million companies because of the infrastructure. But having a monopoly is disastrous. As we can all see now monopolies are simply disastrous. Competition is needed in ordered provide accountability. I'm actually not a fan of regulation I think the free market should decide everything.
But obviously the problem here is not the free market it's the lack there of. If thier was some choice than there would be hey our ISP is cheaper and faster. Or the other ISP throttles but we have provide unfettered access.
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This is just a progression of the screwed up state of affairs our intellectual property laws are in. When anyone can patent anything with or without prior art and the media companies can sue 70 year old women who don't own a computer. And now politicians are trying to add more legislation like the ACTA.
Than again all our politicians such but we are too stupid to do anything about it. Whatever happened to the 70s when we would all get up and protest any time the government did anything retarded. It's like we gave up.
Now you can use Canadian torrent sites :P
But seriously there isn't anything you can do. Talk to your ISP. They have all the power in this situation. But than again not sure if they can fix it. Obviously your the ISP is getting their internet from Canada and even though your registered router is in Canada most Geo Location sites are only region specific and don't do an accurate trace.
They just try try to find the general area you live because doing a full trace for targeted ad is resource intensize. So pretty much no sites (besides adult friend finder) will get your location right.
Why is everyone flaming DARPA. DARPA doesn't invent new bombs or kill people. That is the DoD's job. All DARPA does is try to find the "next" innovative technology and buy it. They INVENTED the internet. The first real internet was the ARPAnet and then the usenet was set out be the "poor mans ARPAnet". They sparked it.
So what's the big deal. If you want to make bombs and viruses the DoD always has positions. But DARPA has never been involved.
Just my 2 cents. Just kind of tired with everyone's one sided way of looking at things.
Um. of course microsoft kinda forget what happened to the last person who said that :P
although on another note they did make one hell of an improvement visually over the last cake. Its now more colorful and everythings all rounded....just hope its not as weak taste wise as the last....
If the person who gave them this computer simply changed the name on the account than i really doubt there is an "IT" department to begin with.
I know a lot of people who work on the government and it's pretty hard to fire someone unless you quote, "look at porn or kill someone". One of my friends told me a coworker brought a gun into her job as at the education department and didn't get fired. It really doesn't matter how incompetent your set and to get anything changed you need to go through so much red tape.
Government desk jobs are among the most inefficient and unproductive jobs. If they didn't screw up and gave the guy anti-virus than this wouldn't have happened. Now the guy's life is ruined and he will have to live in shame for the rest of his life and will be required to tell everyone on his block that he is a sex offender. Than everytime he does anything are is even walking home people are going to question him and treat him like a criminal.
And btw it is pretty common for these pay-per-click things to come up. If your computer is surfing 40 sites a minute on high pay-out childporn sites than that will rake in a TON of money for the botnet owner.
Just think 1 cent per click (because child porn sites will pay a shit load for clicks) and 40 times a minute. Thats 2 dollars every 5 minutes.....thats f***load of money.
but I definitely agree that the cuirrent direction of the evolution is towards more and more user generated content. (personally, I think that at some point, the balance will start to swing back a bit as people realise that well written, well edited content is worth something)
</quote>
Yep I agree after a while there will be a larger need for less user generated content and more professionally written content. But this also begs the question....what is user generated content. Is a blog considered user generated? After all a lot of blogs have well written and well edited contents (some big name blogs like engaget, the huffington post, etc.) while others are more thrown together and just talking about what the author had for breakfast.
Right now I'm kinda getting sick of the lack of innovation a lot of "web 2.0" sites are. Like it's just a mashup of simple ideas. Like I'm not a big digg fan. They have so many stories on their front page that its really not worth going on.
Slashdot is a good site in the sense that there is only like 4 or 5 stories a day. You can check slashdot twice a day and that's it.
This thing is a massive waste of money. I once bought a $700 "All-in-one" coffee maker (built in grinder, water, etc) but the coffee tasted horrible so I returned it and got a $50 Mr. Coffee maker.
Now I have a $170 tassimo where you put a pod in and click a button. It worked well, never breaks, and has never been hacked. This begs the question if your so lasy that you can't get up and make your own coffee than maybe you got some pretty bad underlying problems.
If getting up and walking to your break room and waiting a couple minutes for your coffee to brew than you really should just shoot yourself.
If your company spends that much money on a damn coffee maker than it deserves to get hacked.
I am just waiting for the coffee maker to break down and having to pull out the "auxilary" coffee maker. One of those stove top coffee makers.
Than again I'm cuban and we really value our coffee. I used to have one of those $500 commercial espresso makers. Coffee is an art, at least espresso is.
What I meant was this whole idea of web 2.0 in general. Web 2.0 is a rather new idea. Before everything was basically content handed to you by a content creator now in days users make the content. And yes your right online communities have been around for more than 3-5 years. What I should have said was the Web 2.0 has only been around for 3-5 years.
:P "Musta been a typo a typo a typo".
So yea we all make mistakes
I almost put 5-10 years that seems more reasonable.
I completely agree. I am part of a sports nutrition business and although we do have a monthly newsletter and for that we use constant contact and it is opt-in. But we originally started doing weekly emails but it really didn't help us and people didn't like it. So now we limit ourselves to a monthly newsletter and the occasional email if there is an event (like our grand opening).
:P
Customer service really really really is key now in days. A little tiny bit of effort will pay dividends. Heck a travel agency is 100% customer service...because you are providing a professional service. You aren't selling a physical product.
Another thing we do and so does Nordstrom is to send a personalized email. And by personalized I mean the salesman has to sit down and write out and email based out the customer's experience in the store (usually what they buy).
You notice how while everyone else is losing money Nordstrom is opening up more stores and raking it in....you know why because people will pay a premium for service. People love service.
Thanks and remember being a douchbag (to your customers at least) is not the way to business. We have doing some cutthroat things to other businesses who compete against us. But as our customers are concerned we service them and give them advice and sell them nutrition products at the same price as everyone else. We don't claim to compete on price and in fact many of or stuff is MUCH CHEAPER online but thats not our market. We have 50% margins and so does every other nutrition place.
What an amazing visionary. Well I guess he was right on the button. Heck that basically describes web 2.0 before web 0.1 was invented. He is right on target.
This kind of reminds me of the guy who wrote a 10 page article on the year 2008. He was right about a lot of things but was wrong about a ton of things (trailer homes, bubbles, going 300 mph in a computer driven car).
But I must say this guy is a genius. He was 70 years ahead of his time because the whole concept of "online communities" is a rather new idea (about 3 to 5 years at the most)
God that was so funny I cried a little (damn I have had my contacts on for 1 1/2 months ..this is bad) and drooled a little.
....lol the guy was like "this feels great on my ass".
That was so funny people working while on the cair they looked like total idiots. LIke they were hanging on to their keyboard for dear life!
If you can sit, you can get fit! OMG that was so terrible >>.<<
I LMAOed
Yep you are probobly right. I remember when people had napster and would brag about all the music they downloaded....oh we were so innocent back than. We only downloaded music...movies, games, and shows were simply a pipe dream.
Well see how we have progressed!
Um because than they have to unlock it....but thats not hard at all considering you can get a 8 dollar chip. (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12167).
So I guess that could be viable. Although thats pretty stupid that you can't just buy the damn thing.
The problem with Verizon is verizon is very obsessed with locking down their phones and making you use their services and using "VCast" and buying their games and software. If you could just download games than why would you buy the horrible games Verizon sells.
At&t was the only carrier that would let iPhone be whatever Apple wanted (extremely rare) and completely designed by Apple without AT&T software or hardware input. But in exchange they earned an exclusive for the iPhone.
AT&T allowing the iPhone was probably the only decision that I've agreed with lol.
ight now there is alot of problems without jailbreakers eating up their 10 dollar unlimited plan. Considering low of a price the unlimited a plan is and how little regular iPhone users use thier internet (they can't really do anything besides download YouTube) vs people with unlocked iPhones who download apps and everything they can get their hands on.
But they should have opened it up to more people in Europe. Europeans are used to having open phones because in Europe you buy your phone and pick an carrier. They should have done the samewith the iPhone. Americans are used to having exclusive phones but Europeans are used to buying their phones without contracts and only doing the contract thing if they want a free phone.
Omg that was an amazing post....if i was a mod I would give you a 6 for epicness and length. wow jeeze its sooo funny cause your completely right...this is the way the country is heading.
It is a slippery slope into a police state (not that we don't already have one)....things are only going to get worse.
If these statistics are based on surveys obviously they are going to be low. If I got a survey saying "do you pirate RIAA music over P2P" obviously everyone is going to say no. No one is going to admit to doing something illegal on a survey.
:P). Especially people with a usenet connection. Just leave your computer running for a couple hours and download stuff.
:P
You mind as well send out a survey asking "do you sell, traffic, or push Illegal Drugs", I wonder what the actual "infringers" are going to mark as an answer?
Pretty everyone I know has pirated some music. Even the mos moral guys have pirated an album or two because hey weren't able to buy it or just really wanted it.
So in actual people who have pirated anything in their lifetime I'm guessing its pretty high (50% at least). But people who are casual pirates who download one or two things whenever they feel like it (maybe once a week) or moderate pirates who download stuff whenever they want it.(maybe an album ever 3 days).
Than you have the serious guys who never have their computer going without downloading something (eg me
I am slowly making a shift to usenet because it has no logs whatsoever. Even if the RIAA begin fighting usenet they aren't going to able to fight the users.
The battle for usenet will be a big corporation vs another big corporation battle. Considering their are only a few usenet companies and all of them are massive conglomerates such as giganews, usenet.com, astraweb.com (my fav...real cheap).
So they are just trying to chip away and do some fear mongering. But they will never defeat piracy. It has become almost cultural and most people with a computer have pirated something. Heck i remember when kazaa came out and people would have a computer dedicated to kazaa just because of all the Spyware
Good times!
Thank god for soldering irons. As long as we got soldering irons we will still have a weapon to wield against consoles.
:P). On top of that the 360 is known to break every couple months.
But either way the most effective copy protection by any standards are consoles. PC copy protections will always be broken easily even some multi player games (namely steam games, quake, etc) have cracked servers that people with pirated copies of games can use.
Consoles on the other hand must be chipped. Right now the only console that can be effectively chipped is the Wii. Even still that is a pretty large barrier and at the most 1% of wii users are going to chip their wii because it takes some skill and has a lot of cost.
Personally I chip other people's Wiis and now with the wii-clip its pretty darn easy. But it isn't chepa and my cheapest chip costs 40 dollars just in parts (D2CKey and Wii Clip V1). And of course isn't easy to solder and sometimes you screw things up.
I have almost 150 bucks invested in soldering mats etc. It is just a rather hard pitch to mess with someone's wii. But anyways I digress.
The xbox 360 is near impossible and you can't play on the internet (kinda essential to 360 gameplay
Unlike the wii the PS3's and Xbox's warranty gets voided simply for opening it.
Basically I think in the Game Publishers are trying to make a shift to consoles which are pretty solid. Mod chips are not a very popular thing. 1 out of 5 kids will talk to you about a game they pirated but maybe 1 out of 80 kids you talk to will have chipped console (and 1 out of 1 thousand if its not a wii).
By the time you hear the zip-disk click it is already to late. You are already dead, you just haven't realized it yet.
:P
Thats when you life flashes before your eyes
Radiohead produce their own music without any help from a label (recording studio, backup people, ass wipers etc)
:P
Last time I checked it pretty darn hard to create your own factory
But I think that radio head is quite progressive and that they really aren't trying to douchebags.
Heck remember when prince sent DMCA letters for a cover of THEIR song. Radiohead called them out and said "tell youtube to put it back up it isn't prince's song to begin with". I think that was pretty cool thing to do. Well...it was really helping prince after all it's not like he was losing any money since it isn't even his song to begin with and he can't sell it. What does he expect? Every single person in the world to go to that one concert so they can see a cover.
Or maybe, they decided they like money more than integrity.
Um so your basically saying that simply by selling their albums on iTunes they have no integrity. After all they did release them in DRM Free format and have never gone after filesharing. Heck radiohead doesn't even have a Music Label and don't have to listen to the RIAA or anyone about P2P.
If they want to give people th option to buy their music over iTunes...why not. It's not like they can put them on iTunes for free even if they wanted to....So what you want them to stop selling CDs also because you don't think they have integrity simply for selling something.
Obviously they give people the option of getting it for free on P2P or buying it. If you want to support them buy it if not don't. They aren't saying don't download our music TPB they just turn a blind eye to it. So cmon why must selling something be considered a lack of integrity?
Wow this is perhaps one of the weirdest comments I have ever seen (and thats saying something!)
Please sir do me a favor and get off my internets....
Go use usenet or something under "misc.news.WTF?!".
ReiserFS is created by mad men...mad men I tell yah. Next thing you know every computer with ReiserFS is going to becomes alive and go on a murderous rampage. Watch for the hail of CDs and floppy diskettes (yes linux computer still have those :P).
They are even coming out with a secret weapon...the ZIP DISK, tun tun tuuuun.
Remmber guys
"Hold your hat and hang on to your soul
Something's coming to eat the world whole"
WATEVER THEY OFFER YOU....though it sounds really awesome and effient
DONT INSTALL REISERFSSSSSS
Well I guess you can if you write it off as a business expense. Like saying that prostitutes are a business expense because they increase productivity :P
I was making a point. I mean seriously I would like it if any company started making chips even the horrible, despicable, and evil microsoft :P
Yah obviously its not a good idea to have a million companies because of the infrastructure. But having a monopoly is disastrous. As we can all see now monopolies are simply disastrous. Competition is needed in ordered provide accountability. I'm actually not a fan of regulation I think the free market should decide everything.
But obviously the problem here is not the free market it's the lack there of. If thier was some choice than there would be hey our ISP is cheaper and faster. Or the other ISP throttles but we have provide unfettered access.
LOL I would love to see how that panned out. Um city writes a check to itself for 6 million dollars.
The only person who benefits...the paper company who makes the darn check.