..they seem to be poor while the less honorable ones seem to profiting....
The same can be said of politicians and pretty much any other profession. Its sad when the less honorable are rewarded for being that way. Its sad when we the sheeple, continue to support their BS by doing business with them, buying their products (gas, oil, energy, current financial system, etc...) At what point does this gravitate toward Fascism from Capitalism...is debatable, with the debate being shaped by the media and talking points utterly controlled by those same not honorable 1%. Personally I think we are already there...Fascism.
In my mind Capitalism requires:
~ livable wages, not just minimum wage...if In-N-Out Burger can pay $10.00 per hour to a high schooler getting his first job, what is the excuse for McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, etc... They could but they do not want too. After all you want people to be able to afford to purchase your products, right. Ford understood this back in 1914, and he was far from a humanitarian:
~ Healthy workers with 100% health care, its more than just a safety net, its required, if your workers are not healthy enough to work, they are not good to anyone, including themselves. And annual health costs of $18,365 - $24,965, ($8.83 – 12.00 per hour) is NOT affordable for anyone earning minimum wage. Don't think you are okay if you are working for someone else as you are paying close to 41% of your health care costs (medical care and perscriptions) which comes to $8,584 annually or $4.13 per hour. Still way too high. Regardless of who is in control, costs are only going to go up as the groups that could prevent that have been weakened by both political parties. Two-party system, what a joke...you have no choice.
~ Flexible work hours, not inflexible work hours where you do not just work 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, but are considered less than perfect if you want to have time with your family instead of putting in 9, 10, or 11 hour days...unpaid hours at that. Get creative, instead of just 20% flex time, give your employees the options of working 3 X 12 hour days, 36 hours per week, get paid for 40 hours and have 4 days off. Just the savings in Gas to/from work commute alone would help your worker and their family. Might even bleed over into helping the economy both directly and indirectly.
~ Ability for two non-professional incomes to afford the costs of a family, all expenses including money left over to invest and save for emergencies and retirement.
~ Secure voting that is 100% verifiable in all city, county, state and
You can't talk about crushing innovation in the abstract.... You can't crush the inevitable.
Per Tom Valone, over 4,000 investors who applied for patents, recieving secretized patents instead, would disagree with you. (scroll to the bottom or search for Tom Valone.
Tom Valone, the person who stated the above fact about the over 4,000 secretized patents, was wrongly fired for daring to put together an energy conference in Washington DC. How dare he put together a conference for inventors to share their discoveries and information on new energy technologies...right? Tom sued, spending over six years in the courts, to get reinstated. He did, get reinstated, and received all six years of back pay.
Obviously the courts believed Tom Valone, so why should not everyone reading this?
Do it for yourself, don't tell anyone but your closest and dearest friends and warn them of the danger in talking about it as well. Financially benefit yourself.
Heck, in the case of Bell and Gray, their patents were submitted on the same day. In fact, there's some pretty damning evidence that Bell had a spy in the patent office who alerted Bell's lawyer of Gray's application and inserted Bell's into the queue before it.
So many misconceptions around patents, especially patents related to electric power generation and alternative energy devices. In spite of their abuse, we have a viable solution, that I mention at the end.
Patents have never been an innovation incentive,
You are right on the money there, today patents are used along with the courts by those with the financial means to put up road blocks to and prevent competition. To prevent individuals from going around them, THEY pay allot of money for political influence up to and including the court systems in the USA. They effectively use our hard earned money against us through our choices and purchases.
Tom Valone, the person who stated the above fact about the over 4,000 secretized patents, was wrongly fired for daring to put together an energy conference in Washington DC. How dare he put together a conference for inventors to share their discoveries and information on new energy technologies...right? Tom sued, spending over six years in the courts, to get reinstated. He did, get reinstated, and received all six years of back pay.
You think Tom Valone had a case....yea me too.
How many of us could or would dare sue to get our jobs back after wrongfully being terminated? Of course if you are in one of the many right to work for less states, you would not be able to sue.
Could you even last six years to pursue such a court case? They have wiped out most if not all of our emergency reserves, haven't they.
These patents are deemed threats to National Security and we all have seen all the laws passed by both Republicans and Democrats in this area over the last 50 years. The Text of Generic Patent Secrecy Order is worth a read and at the bottom of this document, just scroll all the way down. Inventors that dare attempt to get a patent, get a secretized patent gag order and violates it would get over 20 years in federal prison...under penalties of 35 U.S.C (1952) 182, 186. Note the date, 1952.
Imagine if Nikola Tesla had defended the design of the electric motor as viciously as Bell had telecom, the mind boggles...
J.P. Morgan owned all of Tesla's early work, especially related to electricity, As soon as he discovered that a device could be created that would thwart his "electric grid" power monopoly, he shut him down. Since J.P. Morgan owned it (and controlled the print media as of 1917, excerpt from U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917, page 2947 by Congressman Callaway Texas, a member of the -defense appropriations- committee) he would never have sought out patents to develop the device, however it would not surprise me to learn that he filed patents for key pieces that would prevent others from securing patents on technology that would undermine his monopoly.
Forget about creating, buying or selling any energy related invention, as over 4,000 others made that mistake and the government shut them down.
We all have a solution, a personal choice to make. ..
Not to mention that even IF you steal one, good luck arming one. Nukes that are on active standby are heavily guarded and the detonators require pass codes to arm. Talked with someone whose duty was to guard nukes and his orders were, "ONE warning, if you do not get IMMEDIATE compliance, shoot to disable. If you can't shoot to disable, shoot anyway." People working on the weapons accidentally breaking procedure did happen on occasion, where they have to tell everyone to stop everything until the guards can sort everything out. Obviously everyone immediately complies because they know what the guards orders are and know if they get shot it's their own fault. Not unreasonable given what they are working on.
You can't just rip out the pass-coded detonator and wire all the blasting caps on the explosives together, to get the explosive "lens" in an implosion type weapon requires some blasting caps go off before others to take the core super-critical.If that timing is off all you get is a dirty bomb
Weapons that are not on active standby have vital parts removed including, when possible, the nuclear core.
This is done not only for safety, it prevents a saboteur from detonating a warhead. Worrying about a nuke accidentally going off is like me worrying about my car accidentally starting and driving over a little kid while I sit here in my house. Sure my car could accidentally catch fire, the horn could accidentally go off, but for the engine to accidentally start, the transmission accidentally shift into reverse, and the parking brake to accidentally disengage is an event so improbable that it is not worth considering.
They also don't store nukes in downtown New York, even though sometimes I think they should.
Why is this post rated down, it appears to be factual and accurate, so should be rated up based on that alone...at least as informative. With that said, anyone who supports anything Nuclear today is INSANE. Insanity as they expect a different result than Three Mile Island (TMI), Chernobyl (1986; 1:32:59) and Fukushima (2011; 5:49) (which is ongoing and will be with us for the next 10 years releasing radiation all over the world as they have admitted they do NOT have the technology, nor will they in the next 10 to 20 year, to go in, down into the earth below the containment, safely retrieve the melted through cores and make them safe. They have admitted they can not do this and will not be able to do this in the next 10 years, period)
...Talked with someone whose duty was to guard nukes and his orders were, "ONE warning, if you do not get IMMEDIATE compliance, shoot to disable....
This is TRUE. I babysat for a Marine Colonel that was in charge of a nuclear facility. While there was layers of protection before anyone could get to it, the actual storage area was a mile or so rectangular field with two machine guns on two sides...if you did not immediately stop with one warning, they were under orders to shoot. So this is very TRUE.
They also don't store nukes in downtown New York, even though sometimes I think they should.
Insanity! They do not have too! There is a Nuclear plant closer (only 38 miles) to New York City than Fukushima is to Tokyo (200 miles?), I believe its called Indian Point (Vermont Yankee is approximately the distance to New York as Tokyo is to Fukushima) Why the focus on Tokyo, simple, high radiation levels are being measured there and have gotten only higher with each rain fall since the Fukushima Disaster. If that tilting Fukushima Reactor building tumbles (85 X more Cesium than Chernoby
I felt the same after finding out about a root escalation exploit in the Linux kernel, that was over 2 years old, that could be initiated so long as you had terminal access.
Not surprised you posted as Anonymous Coward....
"Terminal Access" or "Local Access" on any security FEAR-porn tactic can not impact you unless you are in the habit of handing your abode/castle/house/apt/trailer keys to someone so they can enter your home and obtain said "Terminal Access" or "Local Access". Only idiots allow a potential impact to their work flow via an exploit that can not possibly happen. Only idiots give their keys to a robber so that they can be robbed.
One of my pet peeves with auto-upgrades and auto-updates...often those that support such practices (that prevent a company from mitigating the risk of downtime and outages due to said auto-upgrades and auto-updates) say that it is necessary to prevent security flaws and issues. Often as in your strawman example, total BS excuse, not a reason.
Its easier... to be lazy and auto-update, auto-upgrade than to actually research to understand why a potential security flaw may or may not be important regardless of your Operating System, I get that. Lets at least be honest about it.
This Microsoft RT attempt at vendor lock-in is the same old BS issue that those that support open source vs proprietary vendor lock-in have been fighting for, for ages. At least be honest here as well. Its not like we need any more examples of their intentions, though they are not shy about reminding us, are they.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Singapore is presently rolling out it's nation wide fiber network and somewhere close to 70% of the households have been fiber connected.
95% of the households islandwide are scheduled/projected to be connected by the end of 2012.
I recently had fiber installed in my home, though 1000Mbps is an option at $319 per month, I opted to go for 100Mbps for $47 per month.
Seems silly to spend money on bandwidth for your home if your provider will not give you even Broadband level bandwidth to begin with. Such would be my decision point when considering Fiber runs to my server rack in my home versus Cat5/Cat6.
You must be one of the lucky few that live in one of less than 30 United States cities/communities that offer Fiber To The Home (FTTH)...I am envious and planning to fix my envy by relocating to/near one of them in the future specifically for Synchronous FTTH, basically you get the same bandwidth upstream as downstream, nothing throttled either upstream or downstream. (FIOS does not qualify, however is better than cable, as long as you resign yourself to living with the scarcity myth and perpetual increases in prices over time for your family. Heck given the throttling/restricting of upstream bandwidth specifically, DSL is better than cable...for the price of one Cable Internet connection you could afford 2 DSL connections, preferably through two different providers.)
If you do not live in one of the communities on that map, how much did it cost you to run your Fiber? How did you get your local Telco to agree, as this is extremely rare and most will not? In fact they spend billions every year to prevent people living in many states (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) 19 US States at last count from even getting FTTH, effectively preventing competition.
I understand costs of a single FTTH run between $1,500.00 and $3,000.00 from your home to the Telco Switching station. The cities that split the cost of the FTTH over the last mile to their townspeople's home see an increase in economic activity, jobs, businesses relocating and springing up for the FTTH infrastructure. Of course this adds $5,000 to the value of the home should you sale it one day, better than most home improvement projects as it actually adds value to the home, assuming you can get it (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) many cannot.
If you do not live in one of the less than 30 communities that have FTTH you should get a DD-WRT, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported router and see your actual bandwidth in real time, as over 90% of Cable Internet providers are throttled to less than Broadband speeds (FCC definition is 768Kbps) except when the customer runs the lying speed test. I see well below 300K/100K the majority of time, often bandwidth is throttled to less than 101K/30K, which is just pathetic and sad as of 2012. One thing is for sure, by any measure/definition, its NOT BROADBAND.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
When Japan got 100Mb/100Mb FTTH back in the year 2000, they determined it cost them approx.50 cents per Gbps to deliver the service. Thus when 1000Mb/1000Mb (1 Gbps) was rolled out a few years later, the price for consumers actually went down, not up.
If Americans started throwing/voting politicians out of offi
I agree, but the terms "Cache" and "Install" predate 2001. They predate personal computers.
So does "administrative privileges", or as they used to be called, "root".
Back in my IBM Mainframe days (IBM 360/Amdhal 470 has 32K of RAM) we called the root user the System Administrator and only SEs or very talented System Administrators could use it. I think the account ID was just Administrator...its been a while. The first one I met in 1979, could read and program in both binary and hexadecimal...impressive.
... Data? Even home connections are getting caps now. I already warned my Comcast local they would lose me if they try it, and they haven't.
I couldn't agree more. It actually might be better to have a DSL connection than a throttled to less than DSL bandwidth cable connection! Something to consider. If you can not get FTTH, get DSL, let Cable die like FLASH!
The #1 issue for me with my next apartment/home is Fiber To The Home (FTTH). With bi-directional synchronous FTTH, the same bandwidth upstream as downstream, CAPS are literally unnecessary as the upstream bandwidth is your cap. If you need to stream more content than you are alloted...
Greater than 10Gb X 60 seconds X 60 minutes X 24 hours X 365 days a year...you just increase your plan from 10Gb/10Gb to 20Gb/20Gb or the next highest plan. Keep in mind that while 1Gb/1Gb has historically cost allot in the USA, in Japan it only costs $55 per month or less for 1Gb/1Gb and has been that low since the year 2000. Even if Google charges $75 per month in Kansas City (due first quarter 2012) it will be so much better than Cable...my guess is Cable subscribers will drop to 0 in all areas where FTTH is available. Considering their anti-American anti-consumer practices over the last 30 years I could care less about Cable companies.
So many people lost their homes through the conservative started, liberal continued redistribution of wealth over the last few years, why would you buy any house that did not offer FTTH today? I would not.
If Reaganomics has taught us anything, its that lower taxes do NOT create jobs and there is no such thing as a 'FREE' market! Something tells me you understand this. (Taxes use to be 90%, dropping to around 70% until the 1950s, between than and now they have dropped to less than 35% with wealthy (over $200K per year) able to pay 0% through their corporations....something a person can never do.) Where are the jobs?
Hey so called Faux News...that is what the 99% and wall street protesters are protesting...jobs! Get it right! Jobs and the lack there of, being fleeced while Corpers deleted jobs did not help either, of course you knew that. Notice how the protests are spreading to other communities outside of New York. No wonder Republican voting states want to move their primaries up to January 1st, they would vote now if it was legal. People know that Corpers have been paying 100% of conservatives, 40 - 60% of liberals to pass job killing legislation, bail out wall street, redistribute wealth to the banks and the uber wealthy 1% who pay 0% in taxes. This definitely cuts across all demographics as most of us regardless of what we call ourselves politically will never have a shot at joining that 1% and by now, even the densest and most dim-witted conservatives who have lost their homes to no fault of their own are waking up to reality that many of us already know.
Before you mod ers mod this down, think hard...can you honestly say that politics and legislation has not supported the Movie Industry, their lame DRM legislation and more? Follow the money... its not going into my pocket either.
...than movie studios could make money in the theater. There they control the product and real copying is much more difficult.
Sadly they have priced not only the tickets, but the popcorn, soda, candy, etc... beyond reason and have made trips to the theatre rare for many. And many of us went weekly and multiple times per week back in the day before ticket prices rose above $7. Now it costs that much for popcorn and soda...what a joke. A bag of popcorn, $1.29, lets me make 5 - 7 Tubs of popcorn and soda is between.77 - $1.00 on sale. I stop purchasing soda over $1.00...its not healthy for me to drink it anyway. So yea, those refreshment stand prices really make a difference.
I would love to see some of the statistics on movie attendance over time and see at what price point attendance really dropped off. But they will probably never release that. I bet the the theatres made more on their refreshment stands back in the day also
If I can not play it on all my Linux computers (handheld 'smart' VoIP phone; netbook; laptop, Desktop, eventually a Linux Tablet) than I will not purchase it.
No Root ~ Not smart! (very few so called smart phones allow root access, therefore they are NOT smart!)
DRM is why I will never purchase a Blu Ray player, 1080p is good enough and even my old Nokia N800 would play that level of high definition video. You can bet my next Android will be rootable or I will not buy it. And the songs and videos I purchase will be DRM free as well.
Two other non-DRM issues impacting consumers ability to consume content are throttling and capping of bandwidth.
Coming fast to a cable Internet provider near you, are bandwidth caps. Back in 2006, they knew a typical household would need a minimum of 300 Gb of bandwidth per month...what was the first cap they considered, only 50 Gb. Duh moment. Now they are settling on 200 Gb or 250 Gb monthly caps. Insanity. (Really can kick your butt when you are forced to auto-update your software, talk about a mistake! Most so called security holes require local access and I do not know about you, but I am not giving anyone the keys to my place, nor the passwords to my computer any time soon.)
As for throttling, restricting, limiting...; this directly impacts the play back of content every day for me. I can not tell you the number of times that I have wanted to watch something on CBS.com or other website only to have the cable Internet provider restrict the 16Mb/2Mb I am paying for to less than 100Kb/30Kb. The only choice was to download the content in order to be able to watch it. I would rather just watch it, but am forced to download in order to stream successfully. Of course its convenient to use my PCs hard drive like a VCR recorder and time swap. (Deciding when its convenient for me to watch it) Here FireFox and DownloadHelper are your friends as is the ability to search for content online. And thankfully Flash is dying, good riddance! There is nothing you can not watch, you just have to find the website...something I might not have done had the Cable Providers not throttled my upstream bandwidth...looking for other sites. Ironically even in this, as with DRM, they are their own worst enemies. Once I get bi-directional synchronous FTTH, I plan to pay for Hulu Plus. But not before I get FTTH, as even with their Hulu's caching, which is fantastic, when my Cable Provider throttles me to under 30Kb/10Kb the content will not stream. Lets face it folks, that is not broadband.
Should a provider be able to call their service "Broadband" if they restrict the bandwidth to below the FCC definition of 768Kb? I think not. In fact I call it FRAUD and honestly believe RICO, Sherman Anti-Trust laws or some anti-fascist-monopoly laws should apply. The FCC definition for Broadband should be 100MB/100MB. The funny thing is, based on monitoring with my DD-WRT firewall/router, they could have kept me in the dark upstream bandwidth wise by allowing for around 400Kb upstream. Had the Cable Providers done that, most of my video content, if not all of it probably would have played fine and I would have been blissfully ignorant. But as with the DRM Media proponents they had to get GREEDY! Talk about ironically stupid.
Yea giving consumers what we want might have been a good idea, but its too late now, they blew it and blew it big time. Now out of frustration has been born a stubborn-ness that will prevent me from ever purchasing Cable TV...never again, no matter what. And if I have my way, none of my children, their friends and their children will ever purchase Cable TV either. Oh yea, I plan to tell way more than 12 - 25 people about this...count on it.
The only solution I see is to move to a place that offers bi-synchronous FTTH, meaning the same bandwidth upstream as downstream....note any service tha
I can't believe the number of people that think the only by-product of fossil fuel is gasoline. Even the roads you would drive your no-fossil-fuel vehicle on are made out of by-products of fossil fuel.
I did not intend to go there, but since you did, I will go a bunch of additional, yet related and intertwined subjects and areas....here we go...
I just do not want to have enrich people who do not live locally to me by buying gas and oil anymore. And most of the manufacturing for those other things is done offshore (out of the United States today – I am against this) they can use foreign oil and not domestic oil. Or did you not think of that.
If enough people (American citizens) had vehicles that did not run on gas/oil but instead ran on fuel that was created locally, what a boon to the economy that would be.
I know a guy in Ca, first hand knowledge, that grows his own fuel and burns it in his truck. His cost is less than $2.00 per gallon. I saw that first hand, have not been fortunate to visit his farm where he grows and creates the fuel yet, but just knowing its possible gives me hope. He had been running on grease but when companies locked up his supply of grease, he had to come up with another option...he has been at it for years...this is NOT NEW technology.
Bare with me, this might not seem related, but trust me it is...
I can pay $8K - 12K for a vertical wind generator that will produce 100% of the power of my home. In many hot and humid states A/C is practically a necessity and your electric bill can run $300 per month. Even the heater in the Winter would keep the electric bill over $200 and that is in a climate with a mild winter. I know because mine did for many, many years. At $8,000 \ $300 = 26,67 months to recover the cost of my investment, or 2.22 years. The life expectancy of that vertical wind generator is 20 years. Since I have read about homes that have solar (some of the new 3D cells work with indirect sunlight) and batteries for nighttime and when the wind is not blowing...I know I can live off the grid 100%. Many people do today and I plan to. This is NOT NEW yet the MainStreamMedia (MSM) will not encourage you to stop putting money in the hands of their corporate sponsors, therefore you will not hear about it except from other ordinary people that are doing it.
One of the many lies is that living off the grid is not possible. That is a lie.
Back on topic, if enough of us (American citizens) used alternative sources for electricity at home, powering are vehicles from those sources. There would be more than enough oil to create gasoline for military use and take our country 100% off foreign oil. It would not take 10 years or 20 years either. I am planning for 5 years and intend to do it on my own...pioneer spirit! Without the need to drill baby drill and kill off yet another food source. After all do any of us believe the Gulf will ever be clean again? BP won a safety award this year too, you gotta be kidding me. What a joke.
I recently found three electric vehicles online that would be good for short trips, one under 40 miles @ 65 mph, another under 100 mile @ 40 mph both on a single charge. Charging time less than 15 minutes. Three others were in between those two ranges of miles per charge and speed. These exist and our for sale today, not tomorrow, not 5 years or more from now. Again not new technology.
Obviously if I charge it at home, off the grid, with my own power setup (wind, solar, ???) than I am not burning fossil fuels in a power plant providing me that electricity.
Two companies, one in Italy and one in Germany produce compressed air vehicles that work. If you want an alternative that is not electric for your vehicle. Again available today, not new technology.
A friend of a friend went to a funeral in Germany last year, came back telling his friends about vehicles that get over 75 miles per gallon. So its possible today. Even the current
The first thought that came to my mind when reading this post were hovercraft over water and maglev trains.... No give me a power source that has nothing to do with fossil fuels and you might have a winner!
... In the event that the Service operates at less than 75% of the Maximum Speed,the Customer shall be
entitled to have its contract migrated to the next most appropriate Service speed (the "Lower Speed Service") and be invoiced the corresponding Charges for this Service. Where the Installation Charges and/or Annual Rental Charges for the Lower Speed Service are lower than the Charges already paid for by the Customer in relation to the previous speed of Service the Customer shall be issued a credit note in respect of the difference. This shall be the sole remedy of the Customer in respect of any failure by Easynet Connect to provide the Service at the Maximum Speed.
At least in the UK you have the potential to have your contract migrated and/or price lowered based on service provided. I wish we had that here in the USA, however the telco-cable-cellular oligopoly would rather spend $1.5M per week lobbying our politicians not to provide Fiber To The Home (FTTH is the ONLY viable long term solution to the bandwidth scarcity myth and the BS price increases that come with it) not to mention net neutrality and all the lies they tell. Consider also that they have received in excess of $200 Billion since 1990 to provide US Customers with one thing FIBER. I have heard numbers as high as $900 Billion since 1990, but could not find the source, so lets assume they have only received $200 Billion of our tax dollars, its still very damning to the industry. Hint: it did not cost EPB in Chattanooga, TN $200 Billion to provide 2500 businesses and 20,000 residential customers FTTH 7 years ahead of schedule. The network has now been built past 140,000 of the 170,000 homes EPB serves in greater Chattanooga. They finished it with an extra $112 Million.
Even if the $112M was in addition to 200M, that would only be 312M
$200,000,000,000 / $312,000,000 = 641 Communities. Way more than 30!
So if every FTTH build out cost between $112M and $312M (some might be more, some might be less American telcos should have provided Fiber To The Home to between 641 and 3,085 communities as of 2010.
Don't forget they are reported to spend $1.5M per week lobbying for laws against competition and not to provide Fiber at all. Heck yes every American should be ANGRY!
But don't be angry, make a STAND!
While we could debate exactly how many communities should have FTTH. for our $200 Billion in tax dollars (tax money + fees + add'l taxes on bills), not to mention the $1.5M per week they spend lobbying against it, one thing is sure, there should be more than 30 communities as of 2010! Its been 20 years, look what Chattanooga did in 3 years!.
WHERE'S THE FIBER?
Its such a racket. Should it be criminal? It's definitely fraud...up to, please, how about above 768Kbps up to something higher! Its amazing with their abuse of trust that anyone uses them...oh that's right, in most markets customers do NOT have viable alternatives.
I was watching a show on Hulu and reading email...which is what brought me here...I doubt anyone here would consider that heavy bandwidth use. But if you do not know, its NOT heavy usage at all, not even close. The video stopped streaming, I checked my DD-WRT 24x7 bandwidth monitoring log (most residential routers do not allow you to see this) and my crappy cable provider that I am paying $60.99 for "up to" 16Mb/2Mb was only allowing me between 30K-60Kb upstream. wi
I got www.infinity.com when I converted....is that what you intended? Here is the first page of that website, sans pagination...not very friendly, lmao.
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Then it was simple as selecting Number conversions, than bits to bytes, total time from start to finish, approx 10 minutes and I do not have any special insight into the subject, topic, though I have worked as an Data Conversion Consultant at one time in my past. Not sure that helped as much as being a programmer and figuring it was in binary....it was a fun excercise...was just wondering if I were right or not?
Here is an except that proves anonymous post is correct:
But even Unabombers are not infallible. Exulting in his apparent mastery of the FBI, the master criminal made his mistake, in the form of a 35,000- word treatise on the "Future of Industrial Society", which he submitted to the Washington Post and New York Times. If they published the rambling, anti-technology manifesto, the writer said, he would cease his campaign. After much soul-searching, the two papers did so on 20 September 1995, on the advice of the FBI.
Relatives in Chicago were struck by similarities between some of Ted Kaczynski's earlier writings and the rambling musings of the Unabomber's tract, and eventually his brother informed the FBI. And so the trail of 18 years, dotted with 200 detained suspects along the way, led to a hand- built cabin near the Continental divide. But the tale may not yet be over.
I recollected that this was how the Unabomber was finally caught, via relatives who read his writings and recognized him... I respect that some mods might not like anonymous cowards, but if they are correct they should not be modded down, at least not to be fair.
Use Google translate. Translate it into Spanish, then into German, then back into English, then into LEET.
It should be simple to obscure the style and weaknesses of the author with this method.
Okay lets try this, setting English to Spanish; than Spanish to German; than German to English...because you don't want to, but you are curious like curious George.
Google Tranlate to Spanish:
Utilizar Google Translate. Traducir al español, luego en alemán, a continuación, de nuevo en Inglés, entonces en LEET.
Debe ser fácil de ocultar el estilo y las debilidades del autor con este método.
Google Translate to German:
Mit Google Translate. Übersetzen ins Spanische, dann Deutsch, dann wieder in Englisch, dann in LEET.
Es sollte einfach den Stil des Autors und Schwächen mit dieser Methode zu verstecken.
Google Tranlate from German to English
With Google Translate. Translate into Spanish, then German, then English, then in LEET.
It should be easy to hide the style of the author and weaknesses with this method
Could not find LEET in Google Translate, it must really be something....
"ugly dwarf or giant," 1610s, from O.N. troll "giant, fiend, demon." Some speculate that it originally meant "creature that walks clumsily," and derives from P.Gmc. *truzlan, from *truzlanan (see troll (v.)). But it seems to have been a general supernatural word, cf. Swed. trolla "to charm, bewitch;" O.N. trolldomr "witchcraft." The old sagas tell of the troll-bull, a supernatural being in the form of a bull, as well as boar-trolls. There were troll-maidens, troll-wives, and troll-women; the trollman, a magician or wizard, and the troll-drum, used in Lappish magic rites. The word was popularized in English by 19c. antiquarians, but it has been current in the Shetlands and Orkneys since Viking times. The first record of it is from a court document from the Shetlands, regarding a certain Catherine, who, among other things, was accused of "airt and pairt of witchcraft and sorcerie, in hanting and seeing the Trollis ryse out of the kyrk yeard of Hildiswick." Originally conceived as a race of giants, they have suffered the same fate as the Celtic Danann and are now regarded in Denmark and Sweden as dwarfs and imps supposed to live in caves or under the ground.
I am pretty sure, without looking...I know very very brave of me - not to look..., that Tolkien (oops violated that one...Good one LordEd) was born sometime after 1610. Either that or he lived to over 300 years old...or there abouts.
On a more serious note, yes hard to believe that any of us would get serious about this topic..., if you enjoyed Tolkien's Trilogy, "Lord of the Rings". I know I did back in the day, you need to visit your nearest book source and read:
Skype is wonderful as a VoIP phone, 3-way video calling tool, but a toolbar from them, no way in you know where.
You are sooo right, tool bars are crap (junk as you put it). Why companies waste their time putting yet another attack vector into their products and on our PCs, laptops, netbooks and smart phones (no root access ~ dumb device...it just ain't smart) is beyond me. A good reason not to purchase their products/services.
Even more unforgivable is auto update, auto upgrade or doing anything with my purchased hardware without my explicit permission, period. Even opensource companies are now making this fatal mistake. Fortunately I can switch to other Linux distros that are not stupidly attempting to control this part of my IT/Internet life. The last thing we need is having a tool bar forced upon us during an upgrade!
Toolbars, Flash, Actionscript,.NET, that put additional scripting into our browsers without allowing us some form of control is just slowing down our surfing and opening up our life to crackers and should be avoided. Bandwidth is at a premium for most of us, they need to stop wasting what little we have. (There is not bandwidth scarcity, this is a myth created by cable/telcos in order to increase our monthly payments)
Lets face it until our Internet providers STOP throttling our upstream bandwidth any excessive additional scripting, javascript, actionscript, crapscript, etc.. only serves to slow down our web surfing. It was bad enough to see "Loading..." that use to be reserved for inferior Flash sites and Yahoo eamil, now we see that crap on Gmail accounts too... ugh.
It would not be a problem if my cable upstream bandwidth which is suppose to be "up to 2Mb" were not throttled to below 10Kb the majority of the time. When scripts stop working, video sputters, web pages will not load, I check my DD-WRT logging software and see my upstream bandwidth has been restricted all the way down to 0 Kbps, with spikes to 4Kbps...pathetic. Digg is unusuable at low upstream bandwidths, as our other social media sites that use frames and extra HTML + CSS + (anything else) and especially TOOLBARS!
One day I will have Synchronous FTTH Internet and a minimum of 10Mb/10Mb and these Cable Internet no service issues will becomes a thing of Christmas past - thank goodness. Even DSL at a promised 384KB upstream is over 300 times faster than 100% of throttled Cable Internet, DSL is cheaper too, even after paying out $200 to get started. Not a fan of AT&T, however they offer an 80% upstream bandwidth guarantee with their DSLExtreme service and the price is right, but I digress.
People take a look at your websites, let the web surfer decide when an event is triggered, stop helping us and automating events we don't care about that only serve to slow us down. It makes your website unusable for many of us and if it gets frustrating enough, we will stop using your site, period.
Does seem like they cancel almost everything, you would think they would re-evaluate their methods. They are obviously not working at all. I know if I were an advertiser I would not pay extra based on that misleading info.
Was talking with a friend about this today. We collectively realized that FX, and AMC specifically seem to cancel great series. Started to wonder if they too were owned by the networks. As for Cable Companies, remember that they all have relationships and percentage ownership of joint projects with telcos, movie companies etc...
I wonder if directors, producers, writers and actors will wise up and start to refuse to work for the studios that constantly cancel their series prematurely based on outdated and obsolete metrics...? While I too agree that Independent development is the answer, I can only hope that they can find a way to make money so that we will have even more content.
I know I would not want my efforts to be shelved and never get made or to have something start only to have the rug pulled out from under me in spite of the growing fan base. My guess is that there are specific studios that cancel and de-fund series more than others. Seems like you would want to avoid those studios.
I have heard rumors that one or two networks might start delaying first run shows for 7 days to a month before releasing it on the Internet. Seems very counter intuitive in all areas to me. Especially with their bread and butter, advertising revenue. If you were an advertiser, would you want to advertise on a show that can only be viewed over a single network, I know I would not. People are simply too busy to expect them to watch a show the same day/night it is aired, therefore delaying its release on the Internet can not help revenue. As more people will stop watching the broadcasts simply because you do not want to watch one or two and have work keep you from watching the next episode. We are just too busy and any system that does not allow for time shifting can only further erode the number of people watching.
Thanks to Hulu and CBS I have noticed that when I watch 1 or 2 commercials that is fine...better if they are funny and entertaining. However when I am forced to watch 3 or more commercials, I tend to find something else to do and miss them. Thus keeping the number of commercials to less than 3 during a break will increase the effectiveness of the advertising in my opinion.
I have also noticed that if the volume is increased during the commercial, I will often tune it out, mute it or turn the sound all the way down to avoid the annoyance, thus that also causes viewer ship of the commercial to drop. You think they would know better, but they obviously do not.
Oh and car manufacturers, stop showing me meaningless bells and whistles that insult my intelligence. If the car does not get 100 mpg or more than I am not going to buy it no matter what you say. Just as I want to be off Cable complete, so do I want to be off direct gas/oil as well. I doubt I will ever be off indirect oil/gas (delivery of food to a market and prices of products are increased when fuel prices increase). But I can set myself up with the location of where I live so that I do NOT have to have a car. Until than, at least I can pay cash for a used vehicle thus do not have to worry about it getting towed away because I lost my job.
I now get 100% of my content via the Internet, I will never go back to Cable TV no matter what. If the current powers that be play games with the on-line distribution of content, all its going to do is further ween me off of watching anything they provide. Good for me, bad for them, but of course they do not care or they think they know what is best....so sad for them.
One last thought, when Hulu skips episodes in a vain attempt to get me to purchase their monthly premium service, well that is not going to work, I will get the skipped episodes elsewhere or simply stop watching that series all together. When I get Fiber To The Home FTTH in the future, I will at that time subscribe to Hulu. The reason I will wait until I have FTTH, is because the Cable company throttles b
"The number one reason why Sun bought StarDivision in 1999 was because, at the time, Sun had something approaching forty-two thousand employees. Pretty much every one of them had to have both a Unix workstation and a Windows laptop. And it was cheaper to go buy a company that could make a Solaris and Linux desktop productivity suite than it was to buy forty-two thousand licenses from Microsoft. (Simon Phipps, Sun, LUGradio podcast.)"
And they wanted Solaris to be a more complete product as well. They chose the open-source license for OpenOffice because it best served their purposes. Buying something and open-sourcing it should be considered just as legitimate an "open-source root" as building it from scratch.
Too many people forget that Sun bought it for the reason you stated and open sourced it. They did not have too!
A very, very huge plus for all of us. As today, and in all honesty, for the last three years we have not needed Microsoft Office, primarily because of OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice. For the last six years we have not needed Windows at all, though admittedly Linux has been even better since 2006. (Today there are open source alternatives/options to anything in the MS tool/app chain)
Other posters have stated that with Linux we do not need.NET or Active Directory, two projects commonly mentioned in posts related to these topics, this is very true. And do not forget about other Embrace projects like Wine, Mono, etc...do not benefit a non-gamer Linux user at all either.
While I still use Windows at SOME client job sites, basically when they insist, I do not need it, primarily thanks to OpenOffice.org, now LibreOffice. Windows 7 is better than Vista (though not XP), but there is absolutely nothing there that I can not do equally or better with not just one, but multiple distros of Linux. At Microsoft focused job sites I have had more than one person tell me that they are sick of the Windows BS, data format changes, and so much more and would love to switch away forever. (seems similar to the way many of us feel about cable Internet access, doesn't it) Some would go with Linux, some with Apple, they just want away from Microsoft, if not for some poor miss-guided person in the IT food/decision chain... Thankfully this has been changing for well over a year now. Some of us have even been at job sites, where someone had a Linux desktop using OpenOffice.org Writer instead of Microsoft Word and no one was the wiser. Funny that many still spread FUD to the contrary.
One bit of FUD is that you do NOT have a choice....WRONG. Some of us have long memories as well!
OpenOffice, now LibreOffice is one more critical app that promises us freedom...
The point is to have options (preferably three or more options: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, FreeBSD...so many more. Pick a Linux distro here or from the Top Ten Major Distro list.) and not get trapped in a place that will only cost you time and money. We use to have OpenOffice.org, now we have LibreOffice, admittedly I need to look for two other Linux friendly Office type packages and have them in my quiver, just in case. I can think of one more off the top of my head. At least I know that LibreOffice guarantees me one option and yes I recently downloaded the source just to be safe. Granted I have not built it in each of the distros I mentioned above yet, though that is on
Rule 6. Carrying a bluff all the way to court, and getting called on it would be devastating for a company like Microsoft. The best thing that could ever happen is Microsoft actually following through with it's threat.
That is why you have to call their bluff, every time...its stop their shit dead...of course one needs somewhat deep pockets, thankfully their are organizations out there providing lawyers, so in reality its all just a matter of time.
Always call their bluff...better yet counter sue for court costs and any damages that apply.
Why was that guy s two posts modded down, they certainly rang true from what I know about our industry.
Meta-moderation is needed on John Sokol s posts please...better check them all as it looks like someone has a vendetta.
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..they seem to be poor while the less honorable ones seem to profiting....
The same can be said of politicians and pretty much any other profession. Its sad when the less honorable are rewarded for being that way. Its sad when we the sheeple, continue to support their BS by doing business with them, buying their products (gas, oil, energy, current financial system, etc...) At what point does this gravitate toward Fascism from Capitalism...is debatable, with the debate being shaped by the media and talking points utterly controlled by those same not honorable 1%. Personally I think we are already there...Fascism.
In my mind Capitalism requires:
In 1914 the Ford Motor Company announced that it would henceforth pay eligible workers a minimum wage of $5 a day (compared to an average of $2.34 for the industry) and would reduce the work day from nine hours to eight, thereby converting the factory to a three-shift day.
The current health care system of Dont get sick... if you get sick Die Quickly is woefully inadequate.
A month later Ford was made chief engineer at the main Detroit Edison Company plant with responsibility for maintaining electric service in the city 24 hours a day. Because he was on call at all times, he had no regular hours and could experiment to his heart's content.
You can't talk about crushing innovation in the abstract. ... You can't crush the inevitable.
Per Tom Valone, over 4,000 investors who applied for patents, recieving secretized patents instead, would disagree with you. (scroll to the bottom or search for Tom Valone.
Tom Valone, the person who stated the above fact about the over 4,000 secretized patents, was wrongly fired for daring to put together an energy conference in Washington DC. How dare he put together a conference for inventors to share their discoveries and information on new energy technologies...right? Tom sued, spending over six years in the courts, to get reinstated. He did, get reinstated, and received all six years of back pay.
Obviously the courts believed Tom Valone, so why should not everyone reading this?
Not only can the US Government crush you they do a great job of assisting corporations in suppression of inventions and patents, especially related to energy. And if they can not suppress you they will make your death look like an accident.
Do it for yourself, don't tell anyone but your closest and dearest friends and warn them of the danger in talking about it as well. Financially benefit yourself.
Heck, in the case of Bell and Gray, their patents were submitted on the same day. In fact, there's some pretty damning evidence that Bell had a spy in the patent office who alerted Bell's lawyer of Gray's application and inserted Bell's into the queue before it.
That does not surprise me at all. Sucks big time. How many of you know that over 4,000 “secretized” patents in the vault at the Patent Office (Park 5 Bldg.). They never receive a patent number and the inventor is rarely, if ever, compensated by the government for use of the invention. This was news to me, therefore I am sure it will be news to many others.
So many misconceptions around patents, especially patents related to electric power generation and alternative energy devices. In spite of their abuse, we have a viable solution, that I mention at the end.
Patents have never been an innovation incentive,
You are right on the money there, today patents are used along with the courts by those with the financial means to put up road blocks to and prevent competition. To prevent individuals from going around them, THEY pay allot of money for political influence up to and including the court systems in the USA. They effectively use our hard earned money against us through our choices and purchases.
Readers should be aware that there are over 4,000 “secretized” patents in the vault at the Patent Office (Park 5 Bldg.). They never receive a patent number and the inventor is rarely, if ever, compensated by the government for use of the invention. This was news to me, therefore I am sure it will be news to many others.
Tom Valone, the person who stated the above fact about the over 4,000 secretized patents, was wrongly fired for daring to put together an energy conference in Washington DC. How dare he put together a conference for inventors to share their discoveries and information on new energy technologies...right? Tom sued, spending over six years in the courts, to get reinstated. He did, get reinstated, and received all six years of back pay.
You think Tom Valone had a case....yea me too.
How many of us could or would dare sue to get our jobs back after wrongfully being terminated? Of course if you are in one of the many right to work for less states, you would not be able to sue.
Could you even last six years to pursue such a court case? They have wiped out most if not all of our emergency reserves, haven't they.
These patents are deemed threats to National Security and we all have seen all the laws passed by both Republicans and Democrats in this area over the last 50 years. The Text of Generic Patent Secrecy Order is worth a read and at the bottom of this document, just scroll all the way down. Inventors that dare attempt to get a patent, get a secretized patent gag order and violates it would get over 20 years in federal prison...under penalties of 35 U.S.C (1952) 182, 186. Note the date, 1952.
Imagine if Nikola Tesla had defended the design of the electric motor as viciously as Bell had telecom, the mind boggles...
J.P. Morgan owned all of Tesla's early work, especially related to electricity, As soon as he discovered that a device could be created that would thwart his "electric grid" power monopoly, he shut him down. Since J.P. Morgan owned it (and controlled the print media as of 1917, excerpt from U.S. Congressional Record February 9, 1917, page 2947 by Congressman Callaway Texas, a member of the -defense appropriations- committee) he would never have sought out patents to develop the device, however it would not surprise me to learn that he filed patents for key pieces that would prevent others from securing patents on technology that would undermine his monopoly.
Forget about creating, buying or selling any energy related invention, as over 4,000 others made that mistake and the government shut them down.
We all have a solution, a personal choice to make. . .
The solution is to realize you can NOT (now
Not to mention that even IF you steal one, good luck arming one. Nukes that are on active standby are heavily guarded and the detonators require pass codes to arm. Talked with someone whose duty was to guard nukes and his orders were, "ONE warning, if you do not get IMMEDIATE compliance, shoot to disable. If you can't shoot to disable, shoot anyway." People working on the weapons accidentally breaking procedure did happen on occasion, where they have to tell everyone to stop everything until the guards can sort everything out. Obviously everyone immediately complies because they know what the guards orders are and know if they get shot it's their own fault. Not unreasonable given what they are working on. You can't just rip out the pass-coded detonator and wire all the blasting caps on the explosives together, to get the explosive "lens" in an implosion type weapon requires some blasting caps go off before others to take the core super-critical.If that timing is off all you get is a dirty bomb Weapons that are not on active standby have vital parts removed including, when possible, the nuclear core. This is done not only for safety, it prevents a saboteur from detonating a warhead. Worrying about a nuke accidentally going off is like me worrying about my car accidentally starting and driving over a little kid while I sit here in my house. Sure my car could accidentally catch fire, the horn could accidentally go off, but for the engine to accidentally start, the transmission accidentally shift into reverse, and the parking brake to accidentally disengage is an event so improbable that it is not worth considering. They also don't store nukes in downtown New York, even though sometimes I think they should.
Why is this post rated down, it appears to be factual and accurate, so should be rated up based on that alone...at least as informative. With that said, anyone who supports anything Nuclear today is INSANE. Insanity as they expect a different result than Three Mile Island (TMI), Chernobyl (1986; 1:32:59) and Fukushima (2011; 5:49) (which is ongoing and will be with us for the next 10 years releasing radiation all over the world as they have admitted they do NOT have the technology, nor will they in the next 10 to 20 year, to go in, down into the earth below the containment, safely retrieve the melted through cores and make them safe. They have admitted they can not do this and will not be able to do this in the next 10 years, period)
...Talked with someone whose duty was to guard nukes and his orders were, "ONE warning, if you do not get IMMEDIATE compliance, shoot to disable. ...
This is TRUE. I babysat for a Marine Colonel that was in charge of a nuclear facility. While there was layers of protection before anyone could get to it, the actual storage area was a mile or so rectangular field with two machine guns on two sides...if you did not immediately stop with one warning, they were under orders to shoot. So this is very TRUE.
They also don't store nukes in downtown New York, even though sometimes I think they should.
Insanity! They do not have too! There is a Nuclear plant closer (only 38 miles) to New York City than Fukushima is to Tokyo (200 miles?), I believe its called Indian Point (Vermont Yankee is approximately the distance to New York as Tokyo is to Fukushima) Why the focus on Tokyo, simple, high radiation levels are being measured there and have gotten only higher with each rain fall since the Fukushima Disaster. If that tilting Fukushima Reactor building tumbles (85 X more Cesium than Chernoby
I felt the same after finding out about a root escalation exploit in the Linux kernel, that was over 2 years old, that could be initiated so long as you had terminal access.
Not surprised you posted as Anonymous Coward....
"Terminal Access" or "Local Access" on any security FEAR-porn tactic can not impact you unless you are in the habit of handing your abode/castle/house/apt/trailer keys to someone so they can enter your home and obtain said "Terminal Access" or "Local Access". Only idiots allow a potential impact to their work flow via an exploit that can not possibly happen. Only idiots give their keys to a robber so that they can be robbed.
One of my pet peeves with auto-upgrades and auto-updates...often those that support such practices (that prevent a company from mitigating the risk of downtime and outages due to said auto-upgrades and auto-updates) say that it is necessary to prevent security flaws and issues. Often as in your strawman example, total BS excuse, not a reason.
Its easier... to be lazy and auto-update, auto-upgrade than to actually research to understand why a potential security flaw may or may not be important regardless of your Operating System, I get that. Lets at least be honest about it.
This Microsoft RT attempt at vendor lock-in is the same old BS issue that those that support open source vs proprietary vendor lock-in have been fighting for, for ages. At least be honest here as well. Its not like we need any more examples of their intentions, though they are not shy about reminding us, are they.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
Singapore is presently rolling out it's nation wide fiber network and somewhere close to 70% of the households have been fiber connected. 95% of the households islandwide are scheduled/projected to be connected by the end of 2012.
I recently had fiber installed in my home, though 1000Mbps is an option at $319 per month, I opted to go for 100Mbps for $47 per month.
Seems silly to spend money on bandwidth for your home if your provider will not give you even Broadband level bandwidth to begin with. Such would be my decision point when considering Fiber runs to my server rack in my home versus Cat5/Cat6.
You must be one of the lucky few that live in one of less than 30 United States cities/communities that offer Fiber To The Home (FTTH)...I am envious and planning to fix my envy by relocating to/near one of them in the future specifically for Synchronous FTTH, basically you get the same bandwidth upstream as downstream, nothing throttled either upstream or downstream. (FIOS does not qualify, however is better than cable, as long as you resign yourself to living with the scarcity myth and perpetual increases in prices over time for your family. Heck given the throttling/restricting of upstream bandwidth specifically, DSL is better than cable...for the price of one Cable Internet connection you could afford 2 DSL connections, preferably through two different providers.)
If you do not live in one of the communities on that map, how much did it cost you to run your Fiber? How did you get your local Telco to agree, as this is extremely rare and most will not? In fact they spend billions every year to prevent people living in many states (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) 19 US States at last count from even getting FTTH, effectively preventing competition.
I understand costs of a single FTTH run between $1,500.00 and $3,000.00 from your home to the Telco Switching station. The cities that split the cost of the FTTH over the last mile to their townspeople's home see an increase in economic activity, jobs, businesses relocating and springing up for the FTTH infrastructure. Of course this adds $5,000 to the value of the home should you sale it one day, better than most home improvement projects as it actually adds value to the home, assuming you can get it (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) many cannot.
If you do not live in one of the less than 30 communities that have FTTH you should get a DD-WRT, Tomato or OpenWRT firmware supported router and see your actual bandwidth in real time, as over 90% of Cable Internet providers are throttled to less than Broadband speeds (FCC definition is 768Kbps) except when the customer runs the lying speed test. I see well below 300K/100K the majority of time, often bandwidth is throttled to less than 101K/30K, which is just pathetic and sad as of 2012. One thing is for sure, by any measure/definition, its NOT BROADBAND.
Fiber is what the countries with the (presently) fastest residential user internet infrastructure in the world are using.
When Japan got 100Mb/100Mb FTTH back in the year 2000, they determined it cost them approx .50 cents per Gbps to deliver the service. Thus when 1000Mb/1000Mb (1 Gbps) was rolled out a few years later, the price for consumers actually went down, not up.
If Americans started throwing/voting politicians out of offi
I agree, but the terms "Cache" and "Install" predate 2001. They predate personal computers. So does "administrative privileges", or as they used to be called, "root".
Back in my IBM Mainframe days (IBM 360/Amdhal 470 has 32K of RAM) we called the root user the System Administrator and only SEs or very talented System Administrators could use it. I think the account ID was just Administrator...its been a while. The first one I met in 1979, could read and program in both binary and hexadecimal...impressive.
... Data? Even home connections are getting caps now. I already warned my Comcast local they would lose me if they try it, and they haven't.
I couldn't agree more. It actually might be better to have a DSL connection than a throttled to less than DSL bandwidth cable connection! Something to consider. If you can not get FTTH, get DSL, let Cable die like FLASH!
The #1 issue for me with my next apartment/home is Fiber To The Home (FTTH). With bi-directional synchronous FTTH, the same bandwidth upstream as downstream, CAPS are literally unnecessary as the upstream bandwidth is your cap. If you need to stream more content than you are alloted...
Greater than 10Gb X 60 seconds X 60 minutes X 24 hours X 365 days a year...you just increase your plan from 10Gb/10Gb to 20Gb/20Gb or the next highest plan. Keep in mind that while 1Gb/1Gb has historically cost allot in the USA, in Japan it only costs $55 per month or less for 1Gb/1Gb and has been that low since the year 2000. Even if Google charges $75 per month in Kansas City (due first quarter 2012) it will be so much better than Cable...my guess is Cable subscribers will drop to 0 in all areas where FTTH is available. Considering their anti-American anti-consumer practices over the last 30 years I could care less about Cable companies.
So many people lost their homes through the conservative started, liberal continued redistribution of wealth over the last few years, why would you buy any house that did not offer FTTH today? I would not.
Desktop apps need not be signed. Metro apps must be signed by Microsoft. Tablets cannot run desktop apps.
A Linux tablet with root access can run desktop apps, enough said.
If there was a real free market...
If Reaganomics has taught us anything, its that lower taxes do NOT create jobs and there is no such thing as a 'FREE' market! Something tells me you understand this. (Taxes use to be 90%, dropping to around 70% until the 1950s, between than and now they have dropped to less than 35% with wealthy (over $200K per year) able to pay 0% through their corporations....something a person can never do.) Where are the jobs?
Hey so called Faux News...that is what the 99% and wall street protesters are protesting...jobs! Get it right! Jobs and the lack there of, being fleeced while Corpers deleted jobs did not help either, of course you knew that. Notice how the protests are spreading to other communities outside of New York. No wonder Republican voting states want to move their primaries up to January 1st, they would vote now if it was legal. People know that Corpers have been paying 100% of conservatives, 40 - 60% of liberals to pass job killing legislation, bail out wall street, redistribute wealth to the banks and the uber wealthy 1% who pay 0% in taxes. This definitely cuts across all demographics as most of us regardless of what we call ourselves politically will never have a shot at joining that 1% and by now, even the densest and most dim-witted conservatives who have lost their homes to no fault of their own are waking up to reality that many of us already know.
Before you mod ers mod this down, think hard...can you honestly say that politics and legislation has not supported the Movie Industry, their lame DRM legislation and more? Follow the money... its not going into my pocket either.
...than movie studios could make money in the theater. There they control the product and real copying is much more difficult.
Sadly they have priced not only the tickets, but the popcorn, soda, candy, etc... beyond reason and have made trips to the theatre rare for many. And many of us went weekly and multiple times per week back in the day before ticket prices rose above $7. Now it costs that much for popcorn and soda...what a joke. A bag of popcorn, $1.29, lets me make 5 - 7 Tubs of popcorn and soda is between .77 - $1.00 on sale. I stop purchasing soda over $1.00...its not healthy for me to drink it anyway. So yea, those refreshment stand prices really make a difference.
I would love to see some of the statistics on movie attendance over time and see at what price point attendance really dropped off. But they will probably never release that. I bet the the theatres made more on their refreshment stands back in the day also
If I can not play it on all my Linux computers (handheld 'smart' VoIP phone; netbook; laptop, Desktop, eventually a Linux Tablet) than I will not purchase it.
No Root ~ Not smart! (very few so called smart phones allow root access, therefore they are NOT smart!)
DRM is why I will never purchase a Blu Ray player, 1080p is good enough and even my old Nokia N800 would play that level of high definition video. You can bet my next Android will be rootable or I will not buy it. And the songs and videos I purchase will be DRM free as well.
Two other non-DRM issues impacting consumers ability to consume content are throttling and capping of bandwidth.
Coming fast to a cable Internet provider near you, are bandwidth caps. Back in 2006, they knew a typical household would need a minimum of 300 Gb of bandwidth per month...what was the first cap they considered, only 50 Gb. Duh moment. Now they are settling on 200 Gb or 250 Gb monthly caps. Insanity. (Really can kick your butt when you are forced to auto-update your software, talk about a mistake! Most so called security holes require local access and I do not know about you, but I am not giving anyone the keys to my place, nor the passwords to my computer any time soon.)
As for throttling, restricting, limiting...; this directly impacts the play back of content every day for me. I can not tell you the number of times that I have wanted to watch something on CBS.com or other website only to have the cable Internet provider restrict the 16Mb/2Mb I am paying for to less than 100Kb/30Kb. The only choice was to download the content in order to be able to watch it. I would rather just watch it, but am forced to download in order to stream successfully. Of course its convenient to use my PCs hard drive like a VCR recorder and time swap. (Deciding when its convenient for me to watch it) Here FireFox and DownloadHelper are your friends as is the ability to search for content online. And thankfully Flash is dying, good riddance! There is nothing you can not watch, you just have to find the website...something I might not have done had the Cable Providers not throttled my upstream bandwidth...looking for other sites. Ironically even in this, as with DRM, they are their own worst enemies. Once I get bi-directional synchronous FTTH, I plan to pay for Hulu Plus. But not before I get FTTH, as even with their Hulu's caching, which is fantastic, when my Cable Provider throttles me to under 30Kb/10Kb the content will not stream. Lets face it folks, that is not broadband.
Should a provider be able to call their service "Broadband" if they restrict the bandwidth to below the FCC definition of 768Kb? I think not. In fact I call it FRAUD and honestly believe RICO, Sherman Anti-Trust laws or some anti-fascist-monopoly laws should apply. The FCC definition for Broadband should be 100MB/100MB. The funny thing is, based on monitoring with my DD-WRT firewall/router, they could have kept me in the dark upstream bandwidth wise by allowing for around 400Kb upstream. Had the Cable Providers done that, most of my video content, if not all of it probably would have played fine and I would have been blissfully ignorant. But as with the DRM Media proponents they had to get GREEDY! Talk about ironically stupid.
Yea giving consumers what we want might have been a good idea, but its too late now, they blew it and blew it big time. Now out of frustration has been born a stubborn-ness that will prevent me from ever purchasing Cable TV...never again, no matter what. And if I have my way, none of my children, their friends and their children will ever purchase Cable TV either. Oh yea, I plan to tell way more than 12 - 25 people about this...count on it.
The only solution I see is to move to a place that offers bi-synchronous FTTH, meaning the same bandwidth upstream as downstream....note any service tha
Does anyone even care what the DRM loving Media moguls think anymore? Hardly. Son, that horse has done left the barn....you all blew it big time!
I can't believe the number of people that think the only by-product of fossil fuel is gasoline. Even the roads you would drive your no-fossil-fuel vehicle on are made out of by-products of fossil fuel.
I did not intend to go there, but since you did, I will go a bunch of additional, yet related and intertwined subjects and areas....here we go...
I just do not want to have enrich people who do not live locally to me by buying gas and oil anymore. And most of the manufacturing for those other things is done offshore (out of the United States today – I am against this) they can use foreign oil and not domestic oil. Or did you not think of that.
If enough people (American citizens) had vehicles that did not run on gas/oil but instead ran on fuel that was created locally, what a boon to the economy that would be.
I know a guy in Ca, first hand knowledge, that grows his own fuel and burns it in his truck. His cost is less than $2.00 per gallon. I saw that first hand, have not been fortunate to visit his farm where he grows and creates the fuel yet, but just knowing its possible gives me hope. He had been running on grease but when companies locked up his supply of grease, he had to come up with another option...he has been at it for years...this is NOT NEW technology.
Bare with me, this might not seem related, but trust me it is...
I can pay $8K - 12K for a vertical wind generator that will produce 100% of the power of my home. In many hot and humid states A/C is practically a necessity and your electric bill can run $300 per month. Even the heater in the Winter would keep the electric bill over $200 and that is in a climate with a mild winter. I know because mine did for many, many years. At $8,000 \ $300 = 26,67 months to recover the cost of my investment, or 2.22 years. The life expectancy of that vertical wind generator is 20 years. Since I have read about homes that have solar (some of the new 3D cells work with indirect sunlight) and batteries for nighttime and when the wind is not blowing...I know I can live off the grid 100%. Many people do today and I plan to. This is NOT NEW yet the MainStreamMedia (MSM) will not encourage you to stop putting money in the hands of their corporate sponsors, therefore you will not hear about it except from other ordinary people that are doing it.
One of the many lies is that living off the grid is not possible. That is a lie.
Back on topic, if enough of us (American citizens) used alternative sources for electricity at home, powering are vehicles from those sources. There would be more than enough oil to create gasoline for military use and take our country 100% off foreign oil. It would not take 10 years or 20 years either. I am planning for 5 years and intend to do it on my own...pioneer spirit! Without the need to drill baby drill and kill off yet another food source. After all do any of us believe the Gulf will ever be clean again? BP won a safety award this year too, you gotta be kidding me. What a joke. I recently found three electric vehicles online that would be good for short trips, one under 40 miles @ 65 mph, another under 100 mile @ 40 mph both on a single charge. Charging time less than 15 minutes. Three others were in between those two ranges of miles per charge and speed. These exist and our for sale today, not tomorrow, not 5 years or more from now. Again not new technology.
Obviously if I charge it at home, off the grid, with my own power setup (wind, solar, ???) than I am not burning fossil fuels in a power plant providing me that electricity.
Two companies, one in Italy and one in Germany produce compressed air vehicles that work. If you want an alternative that is not electric for your vehicle. Again available today, not new technology.
A friend of a friend went to a funeral in Germany last year, came back telling his friends about vehicles that get over 75 miles per gallon. So its possible today. Even the current
The first thought that came to my mind when reading this post were hovercraft over water and maglev trains.... No give me a power source that has nothing to do with fossil fuels and you might have a winner!
... In the event that the Service operates at less than 75% of the Maximum Speed,the Customer shall be entitled to have its contract migrated to the next most appropriate Service speed (the "Lower Speed Service") and be invoiced the corresponding Charges for this Service. Where the Installation Charges and/or Annual Rental Charges for the Lower Speed Service are lower than the Charges already paid for by the Customer in relation to the previous speed of Service the Customer shall be issued a credit note in respect of the difference. This shall be the sole remedy of the Customer in respect of any failure by Easynet Connect to provide the Service at the Maximum Speed.
At least in the UK you have the potential to have your contract migrated and/or price lowered based on service provided. I wish we had that here in the USA, however the telco-cable-cellular oligopoly would rather spend $1.5M per week lobbying our politicians not to provide Fiber To The Home (FTTH is the ONLY viable long term solution to the bandwidth scarcity myth and the BS price increases that come with it) not to mention net neutrality and all the lies they tell. Consider also that they have received in excess of $200 Billion since 1990 to provide US Customers with one thing FIBER. I have heard numbers as high as $900 Billion since 1990, but could not find the source, so lets assume they have only received $200 Billion of our tax dollars, its still very damning to the industry. Hint: it did not cost EPB in Chattanooga, TN $200 Billion to provide 2500 businesses and 20,000 residential customers FTTH 7 years ahead of schedule. The network has now been built past 140,000 of the 170,000 homes EPB serves in greater Chattanooga. They finished it with an extra $112 Million.
How many communities if $200B? How many if $900B?
$200,000,000,000 / $112,000,000 = 1,785 Communities (20,000 Residential, 2,500 Businesses);
$900,000,000,000 / $112,000,000 = 3,085 Communities
Even if the $112M was in addition to 200M, that would only be 312M
$200,000,000,000 / $312,000,000 = 641 Communities. Way more than 30!
So if every FTTH build out cost between $112M and $312M (some might be more, some might be less American telcos should have provided Fiber To The Home to between 641 and 3,085 communities as of 2010.
Don't forget they are reported to spend $1.5M per week lobbying for laws against competition and not to provide Fiber at all. Heck yes every American should be ANGRY!
But don't be angry, make a STAND!
While we could debate exactly how many communities should have FTTH. for our $200 Billion in tax dollars (tax money + fees + add'l taxes on bills), not to mention the $1.5M per week they spend lobbying against it, one thing is sure, there should be more than 30 communities as of 2010! Its been 20 years, look what Chattanooga did in 3 years!.
WHERE'S THE FIBER?
Its such a racket. Should it be criminal? It's definitely fraud...up to, please, how about above 768Kbps up to something higher! Its amazing with their abuse of trust that anyone uses them...oh that's right, in most markets customers do NOT have viable alternatives.
I was watching a show on Hulu and reading email...which is what brought me here...I doubt anyone here would consider that heavy bandwidth use. But if you do not know, its NOT heavy usage at all, not even close. The video stopped streaming, I checked my DD-WRT 24x7 bandwidth monitoring log (most residential routers do not allow you to see this) and my crappy cable provider that I am paying $60.99 for "up to" 16Mb/2Mb was only allowing me between 30K-60Kb upstream. wi
Sincerely
I got www.infinity.com when I converted....is that what you intended? Here is the first page of that website, sans pagination...not very friendly, lmao.
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To get to above, I used the following steps:
This site - www.onlineconversion.com which I found thanks to Google.
Then it was simple as selecting Number conversions, than bits to bytes, total time from start to finish, approx 10 minutes and I do not have any special insight into the subject, topic, though I have worked as an Data Conversion Consultant at one time in my past. Not sure that helped as much as being a programmer and figuring it was in binary....it was a fun excercise...was just wondering if I were right or not?
Here is an except that proves anonymous post is correct:
But even Unabombers are not infallible. Exulting in his apparent mastery of the FBI, the master criminal made his mistake, in the form of a 35,000- word treatise on the "Future of Industrial Society", which he submitted to the Washington Post and New York Times. If they published the rambling, anti-technology manifesto, the writer said, he would cease his campaign. After much soul-searching, the two papers did so on 20 September 1995, on the advice of the FBI.
Relatives in Chicago were struck by similarities between some of Ted Kaczynski's earlier writings and the rambling musings of the Unabomber's tract, and eventually his brother informed the FBI. And so the trail of 18 years, dotted with 200 detained suspects along the way, led to a hand- built cabin near the Continental divide. But the tale may not yet be over.
Here is the article from the Independent.
I recollected that this was how the Unabomber was finally caught, via relatives who read his writings and recognized him... I respect that some mods might not like anonymous cowards, but if they are correct they should not be modded down, at least not to be fair.
Use Google translate. Translate it into Spanish, then into German, then back into English, then into LEET.
It should be simple to obscure the style and weaknesses of the author with this method.
Okay lets try this, setting English to Spanish; than Spanish to German; than German to English...because you don't want to, but you are curious like curious George.
Google Tranlate to Spanish:
Utilizar Google Translate. Traducir al español, luego en alemán, a continuación, de nuevo en Inglés, entonces en LEET.
Debe ser fácil de ocultar el estilo y las debilidades del autor con este método.
Google Translate to German:
Mit Google Translate. Übersetzen ins Spanische, dann Deutsch, dann wieder in Englisch, dann in LEET.
Es sollte einfach den Stil des Autors und Schwächen mit dieser Methode zu verstecken.
Google Tranlate from German to English
With Google Translate. Translate into Spanish, then German, then English, then in LEET.
It should be easy to hide the style of the author and weaknesses with this method
Could not find LEET in Google Translate, it must really be something....
You can't use the word 'Troll' or the Tolkien estate will be after you all.
Nope, prior art....lol...
troll (n.)
"ugly dwarf or giant," 1610s, from O.N. troll "giant, fiend, demon." Some speculate that it originally meant "creature that walks clumsily," and derives from P.Gmc. *truzlan, from *truzlanan (see troll (v.)). But it seems to have been a general supernatural word, cf. Swed. trolla "to charm, bewitch;" O.N. trolldomr "witchcraft." The old sagas tell of the troll-bull, a supernatural being in the form of a bull, as well as boar-trolls. There were troll-maidens, troll-wives, and troll-women; the trollman, a magician or wizard, and the troll-drum, used in Lappish magic rites. The word was popularized in English by 19c. antiquarians, but it has been current in the Shetlands and Orkneys since Viking times. The first record of it is from a court document from the Shetlands, regarding a certain Catherine, who, among other things, was accused of "airt and pairt of witchcraft and sorcerie, in hanting and seeing the Trollis ryse out of the kyrk yeard of Hildiswick." Originally conceived as a race of giants, they have suffered the same fate as the Celtic Danann and are now regarded in Denmark and Sweden as dwarfs and imps supposed to live in caves or under the ground.
I am pretty sure, without looking...I know very very brave of me - not to look..., that Tolkien (oops violated that one...Good one LordEd) was born sometime after 1610. Either that or he lived to over 300 years old...or there abouts.
On a more serious note, yes hard to believe that any of us would get serious about this topic..., if you enjoyed Tolkien's Trilogy, "Lord of the Rings". I know I did back in the day, you need to visit your nearest book source and read:
Good luck putting them down, assuming of course you enjoyed Lord of the Rings.
And if they make those into movies, I sincerely hope they do them justice! How about 6 movies from 3 books, hint, hint...
Skype is wonderful as a VoIP phone, 3-way video calling tool, but a toolbar from them, no way in you know where.
You are sooo right, tool bars are crap (junk as you put it). Why companies waste their time putting yet another attack vector into their products and on our PCs, laptops, netbooks and smart phones (no root access ~ dumb device...it just ain't smart) is beyond me. A good reason not to purchase their products/services.
Even more unforgivable is auto update, auto upgrade or doing anything with my purchased hardware without my explicit permission, period. Even opensource companies are now making this fatal mistake. Fortunately I can switch to other Linux distros that are not stupidly attempting to control this part of my IT/Internet life. The last thing we need is having a tool bar forced upon us during an upgrade!
Toolbars, Flash, Actionscript, .NET, that put additional scripting into our browsers without allowing us some form of control is just slowing down our surfing and opening up our life to crackers and should be avoided. Bandwidth is at a premium for most of us, they need to stop wasting what little we have. (There is not bandwidth scarcity, this is a myth created by cable/telcos in order to increase our monthly payments)
Lets face it until our Internet providers STOP throttling our upstream bandwidth any excessive additional scripting, javascript, actionscript, crapscript, etc.. only serves to slow down our web surfing. It was bad enough to see "Loading..." that use to be reserved for inferior Flash sites and Yahoo eamil, now we see that crap on Gmail accounts too ... ugh.
It would not be a problem if my cable upstream bandwidth which is suppose to be "up to 2Mb" were not throttled to below 10Kb the majority of the time. When scripts stop working, video sputters, web pages will not load, I check my DD-WRT logging software and see my upstream bandwidth has been restricted all the way down to 0 Kbps, with spikes to 4Kbps...pathetic. Digg is unusuable at low upstream bandwidths, as our other social media sites that use frames and extra HTML + CSS + (anything else) and especially TOOLBARS!
One day I will have Synchronous FTTH Internet and a minimum of 10Mb/10Mb and these Cable Internet no service issues will becomes a thing of Christmas past - thank goodness. Even DSL at a promised 384KB upstream is over 300 times faster than 100% of throttled Cable Internet, DSL is cheaper too, even after paying out $200 to get started. Not a fan of AT&T, however they offer an 80% upstream bandwidth guarantee with their DSLExtreme service and the price is right, but I digress.
People take a look at your websites, let the web surfer decide when an event is triggered, stop helping us and automating events we don't care about that only serve to slow us down. It makes your website unusable for many of us and if it gets frustrating enough, we will stop using your site, period.
Does seem like they cancel almost everything, you would think they would re-evaluate their methods. They are obviously not working at all. I know if I were an advertiser I would not pay extra based on that misleading info.
Is there are hope for comcast to save SGU?
Was talking with a friend about this today. We collectively realized that FX, and AMC specifically seem to cancel great series. Started to wonder if they too were owned by the networks. As for Cable Companies, remember that they all have relationships and percentage ownership of joint projects with telcos, movie companies etc...
I wonder if directors, producers, writers and actors will wise up and start to refuse to work for the studios that constantly cancel their series prematurely based on outdated and obsolete metrics...? While I too agree that Independent development is the answer, I can only hope that they can find a way to make money so that we will have even more content.
I know I would not want my efforts to be shelved and never get made or to have something start only to have the rug pulled out from under me in spite of the growing fan base. My guess is that there are specific studios that cancel and de-fund series more than others. Seems like you would want to avoid those studios.
I have heard rumors that one or two networks might start delaying first run shows for 7 days to a month before releasing it on the Internet. Seems very counter intuitive in all areas to me. Especially with their bread and butter, advertising revenue. If you were an advertiser, would you want to advertise on a show that can only be viewed over a single network, I know I would not. People are simply too busy to expect them to watch a show the same day/night it is aired, therefore delaying its release on the Internet can not help revenue. As more people will stop watching the broadcasts simply because you do not want to watch one or two and have work keep you from watching the next episode. We are just too busy and any system that does not allow for time shifting can only further erode the number of people watching.
Thanks to Hulu and CBS I have noticed that when I watch 1 or 2 commercials that is fine...better if they are funny and entertaining. However when I am forced to watch 3 or more commercials, I tend to find something else to do and miss them. Thus keeping the number of commercials to less than 3 during a break will increase the effectiveness of the advertising in my opinion.
I have also noticed that if the volume is increased during the commercial, I will often tune it out, mute it or turn the sound all the way down to avoid the annoyance, thus that also causes viewer ship of the commercial to drop. You think they would know better, but they obviously do not.
Oh and car manufacturers, stop showing me meaningless bells and whistles that insult my intelligence. If the car does not get 100 mpg or more than I am not going to buy it no matter what you say. Just as I want to be off Cable complete, so do I want to be off direct gas/oil as well. I doubt I will ever be off indirect oil/gas (delivery of food to a market and prices of products are increased when fuel prices increase). But I can set myself up with the location of where I live so that I do NOT have to have a car. Until than, at least I can pay cash for a used vehicle thus do not have to worry about it getting towed away because I lost my job.
I now get 100% of my content via the Internet, I will never go back to Cable TV no matter what. If the current powers that be play games with the on-line distribution of content, all its going to do is further ween me off of watching anything they provide. Good for me, bad for them, but of course they do not care or they think they know what is best....so sad for them.
One last thought, when Hulu skips episodes in a vain attempt to get me to purchase their monthly premium service, well that is not going to work, I will get the skipped episodes elsewhere or simply stop watching that series all together. When I get Fiber To The Home FTTH in the future, I will at that time subscribe to Hulu. The reason I will wait until I have FTTH, is because the Cable company throttles b
Well, Sun purchased StarOffice because:
"The number one reason why Sun bought StarDivision in 1999 was because, at the time, Sun had something approaching forty-two thousand employees. Pretty much every one of them had to have both a Unix workstation and a Windows laptop. And it was cheaper to go buy a company that could make a Solaris and Linux desktop productivity suite than it was to buy forty-two thousand licenses from Microsoft. (Simon Phipps, Sun, LUGradio podcast.)"
And they wanted Solaris to be a more complete product as well. They chose the open-source license for OpenOffice because it best served their purposes. Buying something and open-sourcing it should be considered just as legitimate an "open-source root" as building it from scratch.
Too many people forget that Sun bought it for the reason you stated and open sourced it. They did not have too!
A very, very huge plus for all of us. As today, and in all honesty, for the last three years we have not needed Microsoft Office, primarily because of OpenOffice.org and now LibreOffice. For the last six years we have not needed Windows at all, though admittedly Linux has been even better since 2006. (Today there are open source alternatives/options to anything in the MS tool/app chain)
Other posters have stated that with Linux we do not need .NET or Active Directory, two projects commonly mentioned in posts related to these topics, this is very true. And do not forget about other Embrace projects like Wine, Mono, etc...do not benefit a non-gamer Linux user at all either.
While I still use Windows at SOME client job sites, basically when they insist, I do not need it, primarily thanks to OpenOffice.org, now LibreOffice. Windows 7 is better than Vista (though not XP), but there is absolutely nothing there that I can not do equally or better with not just one, but multiple distros of Linux. At Microsoft focused job sites I have had more than one person tell me that they are sick of the Windows BS, data format changes, and so much more and would love to switch away forever. (seems similar to the way many of us feel about cable Internet access, doesn't it) Some would go with Linux, some with Apple, they just want away from Microsoft, if not for some poor miss-guided person in the IT food/decision chain... Thankfully this has been changing for well over a year now. Some of us have even been at job sites, where someone had a Linux desktop using OpenOffice.org Writer instead of Microsoft Word and no one was the wiser. Funny that many still spread FUD to the contrary.
One bit of FUD is that you do NOT have a choice....WRONG. Some of us have long memories as well!
OpenOffice, now LibreOffice is one more critical app that promises us freedom...
The point is to have options (preferably three or more options: Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, FreeBSD...so many more. Pick a Linux distro here or from the Top Ten Major Distro list.) and not get trapped in a place that will only cost you time and money. We use to have OpenOffice.org, now we have LibreOffice, admittedly I need to look for two other Linux friendly Office type packages and have them in my quiver, just in case. I can think of one more off the top of my head. At least I know that LibreOffice guarantees me one option and yes I recently downloaded the source just to be safe. Granted I have not built it in each of the distros I mentioned above yet, though that is on
Rule 6. Carrying a bluff all the way to court, and getting called on it would be devastating for a company like Microsoft. The best thing that could ever happen is Microsoft actually following through with it's threat.
That is why you have to call their bluff, every time...its stop their shit dead...of course one needs somewhat deep pockets, thankfully their are organizations out there providing lawyers, so in reality its all just a matter of time.
Always call their bluff...better yet counter sue for court costs and any damages that apply.
Why was that guy s two posts modded down, they certainly rang true from what I know about our industry.
Meta-moderation is needed on John Sokol s posts please...better check them all as it looks like someone has a vendetta.