You shouldn't really be talking about countries you don't have a clue about. Not everyone lives together in shoe-box size homes.
Where I live is as rural (probably more so) than where I lived in the states yet I have 8 meg broadband here. My old neighbours are still living with dial-up connections that aren't really even acceptable by dial-up standards.
Comparing state economies to some European countries proves that we're looking at comparable economies. The difference is what's being done with that money.
Yet somehow the US did it for electricity and telephone services. Broadband will become as important as those and may even replace the phone. Letting whole chunks of your nation get shoved back into the stone-age is something people expect from 3rd world countries, certainly not world leaders.
That said, the US is quickly losing it it's status as world leader. Between trying to relegate portions of your country to the stone-age and the growing number of religious extremists within its borders, it's starting to look like a 3rd world country.
The registrant lives in the US but he is clearly not running a US-centric website or else there wouldn't be numerous articles about places outside of the US border. Maybe it's time for you to go take a break and jerk off to some Sarah Palin pictures.
Do you honestly believe that your electricity bill or phone bill is higher because they had to provide service to everyone?
Try using your brain and try not being a selfish twat.
Turning the US into some sort of two tier way of life is not what the US is about. If you get off on the idea of having people living like peasants around you then maybe you should go live in Zimbabwe.
If you opt to treat everyone in rural areas like a stone-age piece of shit then no one will want to live there. You can't farm in the city so when everyone moves to the cities to have broadband while increasing the housing prices and population density, the US will become increasingly dependant on other countries for food and you'll be paying more than you ever will to hook up some homes in rural towns.
Just remember as well, it's their land that all that fiber runs across to connect up the coasts. So quite frankly it's the least you can do to allow them to live to the same standard as everyone else.
The Amish do not go without use of electricity. They use it in their shops. They use phones and refrigeration but key is that they have it off their property like paying a neighbour to have a telephone on the neighbour's property for them to come up and use.
I lived around the Amish for some time and it's not like Witness. They're are often inbred and they're a dying breed because it is very hard to live their life style these days and quite frankly most of them rather live like us.
Our whole lifestyle revolves around electricity so it's about as close to a basic human right as something can get without being something like water.
No one should take his opinion seriously because if he really cared then it wouldn't have sold it. Just fork the thing and forget Oracle.
Maybe he's hoping it would stay open source so he could pinch Oracle's improved code an basically have his mysql money and access to the myql code as it improves so he can plug it into his branch.
Yet again they have to be the vil black sheep that ruins it for everyone else. Do they not realise blind people are rolling in cash and should be paying a premium for anything.
It's, tbh, the biggest reason for owning a Wii. Ironically, I think the Wii's digital download content does in fact make it the truest hardcore gamer system because it has all the best classics and remakes and they're not at full game prices.
Doing it wasn't the problem it was talking about it. Now, unfortunately it's going to be around for a long time. I doubt too many people are actually likely to stumble across it. If they do, just be honest and say you were young and stupid and have grow up a lot since then.
Does this mean they're going to filter out all the shit you don't want to download like video ads or ads full stop?
While the internet isn't strictly like TV, the idea of paying for TV based on how long you use it would be silly.
ISPs want the best of everything. They get to offer you the world for a small fee but if you dare use what they offer then they punish you. If they can't provide 20meg connections to all their customers all the time then they should be more realistic and only offer 10 meg or 5 meg connections with unlimited use.
It really annoys me that ISPs aren't held to the same advertising and quality standards as anyone else. They can more or less do what they want and rarely actually come through with what they promise.
If you wanted to build a car or whatever and sell it, whether or not it's based on an open source design it would still be required to meet the same standards.
If you want to mod your own car and make it illegal then you could do that but that would only last one year (assuming you don't get caught) until the inspection.
We do have open source hardware already, one big name being Sparc http://www.opensparc.net/ but I suspect the reason it won't ever take off in a big way has to come down to the fact it's probably harder to recoup your R&D costs if someone comes in with dirt cheap chinese labour to build an exact copy. At least with software everyone is more or less on the same terms with distribution costs on the net.
They had competition in Macromedia and bought them. Paintshop Pro (if it exists) was pretty good but not quite ready to compete, imo. I think everyone is afraid to take on the likes of PS because it would be quite a struggle.
I think the bigger problem is what people will run into. I personally do not look forward to some soccer mom flying around in an SUV-like thing near my house.
I don't blame him for trying it and props to him getting numerous sites to promote it but the editors should have shown more restraint and let this one pass.
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You shouldn't really be talking about countries you don't have a clue about. Not everyone lives together in shoe-box size homes.
Where I live is as rural (probably more so) than where I lived in the states yet I have 8 meg broadband here. My old neighbours are still living with dial-up connections that aren't really even acceptable by dial-up standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_(nominal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Comparing state economies to some European countries proves that we're looking at comparable economies. The difference is what's being done with that money.
And when tv and phone comes over the internet that dial-up connection is pretty fucking useless.
Yet somehow the US did it for electricity and telephone services. Broadband will become as important as those and may even replace the phone. Letting whole chunks of your nation get shoved back into the stone-age is something people expect from 3rd world countries, certainly not world leaders.
That said, the US is quickly losing it it's status as world leader. Between trying to relegate portions of your country to the stone-age and the growing number of religious extremists within its borders, it's starting to look like a 3rd world country.
The registrant lives in the US but he is clearly not running a US-centric website or else there wouldn't be numerous articles about places outside of the US border. Maybe it's time for you to go take a break and jerk off to some Sarah Palin pictures.
And when everyone does that maybe you can ask China nicely to make you some cheap food to go with the cheap toys they send over.
Do you honestly believe that your electricity bill or phone bill is higher because they had to provide service to everyone?
Try using your brain and try not being a selfish twat.
Turning the US into some sort of two tier way of life is not what the US is about. If you get off on the idea of having people living like peasants around you then maybe you should go live in Zimbabwe.
If you opt to treat everyone in rural areas like a stone-age piece of shit then no one will want to live there. You can't farm in the city so when everyone moves to the cities to have broadband while increasing the housing prices and population density, the US will become increasingly dependant on other countries for food and you'll be paying more than you ever will to hook up some homes in rural towns.
Just remember as well, it's their land that all that fiber runs across to connect up the coasts. So quite frankly it's the least you can do to allow them to live to the same standard as everyone else.
The Amish do not go without use of electricity. They use it in their shops. They use phones and refrigeration but key is that they have it off their property like paying a neighbour to have a telephone on the neighbour's property for them to come up and use.
I lived around the Amish for some time and it's not like Witness. They're are often inbred and they're a dying breed because it is very hard to live their life style these days and quite frankly most of them rather live like us.
Our whole lifestyle revolves around electricity so it's about as close to a basic human right as something can get without being something like water.
Some of us watched real porn in '93.
No one should take his opinion seriously because if he really cared then it wouldn't have sold it. Just fork the thing and forget Oracle.
Maybe he's hoping it would stay open source so he could pinch Oracle's improved code an basically have his mysql money and access to the myql code as it improves so he can plug it into his branch.
Yet again they have to be the vil black sheep that ruins it for everyone else. Do they not realise blind people are rolling in cash and should be paying a premium for anything.
I agree which is why I will actually mod them down for using that phrase.
I'd be nice to know the amount of comments and how many are of any value.
I'd give you some of mine when I receive more than one allotment in a week but clearly you can't be trusted with them.
It's, tbh, the biggest reason for owning a Wii. Ironically, I think the Wii's digital download content does in fact make it the truest hardcore gamer system because it has all the best classics and remakes and they're not at full game prices.
Best stick with modern kiddy games that hold you hand and let your health magically reappear if you sit in a corner somewhere.
This is true Contra 4 on the DS is bad ass as is rebirth.
Doing it wasn't the problem it was talking about it. Now, unfortunately it's going to be around for a long time. I doubt too many people are actually likely to stumble across it. If they do, just be honest and say you were young and stupid and have grow up a lot since then.
Does this mean they're going to filter out all the shit you don't want to download like video ads or ads full stop?
While the internet isn't strictly like TV, the idea of paying for TV based on how long you use it would be silly.
ISPs want the best of everything. They get to offer you the world for a small fee but if you dare use what they offer then they punish you. If they can't provide 20meg connections to all their customers all the time then they should be more realistic and only offer 10 meg or 5 meg connections with unlimited use.
It really annoys me that ISPs aren't held to the same advertising and quality standards as anyone else. They can more or less do what they want and rarely actually come through with what they promise.
If you wanted to build a car or whatever and sell it, whether or not it's based on an open source design it would still be required to meet the same standards.
If you want to mod your own car and make it illegal then you could do that but that would only last one year (assuming you don't get caught) until the inspection.
We do have open source hardware already, one big name being Sparc http://www.opensparc.net/ but I suspect the reason it won't ever take off in a big way has to come down to the fact it's probably harder to recoup your R&D costs if someone comes in with dirt cheap chinese labour to build an exact copy. At least with software everyone is more or less on the same terms with distribution costs on the net.
Yep, let's all use old HTML and never move on. That will surely make people want the new technology.
Real Player still exists sadly. The BBC in fact still use it in some instances afaik.
They had competition in Macromedia and bought them. Paintshop Pro (if it exists) was pretty good but not quite ready to compete, imo. I think everyone is afraid to take on the likes of PS because it would be quite a struggle.
I think the bigger problem is what people will run into. I personally do not look forward to some soccer mom flying around in an SUV-like thing near my house.
I don't blame him for trying it and props to him getting numerous sites to promote it but the editors should have shown more restraint and let this one pass.
This article (and the cnet one to be fair) seems more like an advert for for a boring little iPhone app.