>An other problem I've found is explaining that the mouse being jerky while the email client is downloading a 14MB load of Emails through a WIFI network connected a WinME machine running a DirectPC link isn't a computer problem.
Since the other two guys didn't notice the problem, let me help you fix it:-)
Move the mouse onto a separate USB root that isn't connected to the USB port the WiFi is (assumedly) on. If the computer doesn't have one, I guess you'd have to buy one.
>>He formed Microsoft with the intent to break the law >I dislike MS for their business tactics and bullying just like everyone else, but, jezz, come on, this is just moronic...
You are dispelling the previous past of Microsoft. Let's look at what has happened between Internet Explorer and DOS.
- Alleged intent to monopolize the desktop network market by destroying Novell
- Alleged intent to monopolize the word processor market by destroying Wordperfect
- Criminal intent to monopolize the DOS market by destroying DR-DOS (not alleged -- proven)
- Alleged intent to monopolize the spreadsheet market by destroying Lotus
Yes, in many of these cases these companies made their own poor decisions, but it can be shown that Microsoft has stepped all over many of these companies just like all monopolies do. In fact, IIRC, Microsoft has lost in lawsuits to the effect of them having driven people out of business by using Antitrust powers.
>but that wont make most of the peopl working there *evil* per see
Yes. That's why I blame it squarely on the man founding the company, and directing the company through most of these actions: Bill Gates. The people working under him were nothing but pawns (well, except for Steve Ballmer, who seems to be following the footsteps of Bill Gates perfectly).
>From their point of view they're just defending their position in the market.
So's any other company, but you don't see Sony TVs popping up error messages because they're hooked into RCA VCRs, do you? Things like that are Antritrust, and illegal for a very good reason. And most companies aren't silly/big enough to feel comfortable stepping over that line, unlike Microsoft, who do it on a consistent basis, with a straight face.
>Yeah, right, all those guys actually running profitable software companies are so much stupider than you.
Yeah. That's why they went out of business, you know. Most software companies in the last few years have gone out of business. I'm sorry if that makes your job outlook bleak, but it's the truth, and I can back it up with statistics if you like.
>They just don't understand they can make money with the GPL. Neither do the people running those loss-making GPL-software firms.
Spot on.
>They must be incredibly stupid to have spent so much time and VC money on GPL software, only to still be losing money.
Yes. What do you need Venture Capital for a software company for? Two, you can't use the GPL to be a software company. That's not it's intent.
The intent of the GPL is to redefine software companies into service companies. Your service is to install your software on the company's boxes, to sell precompiled binaries, and to sell customized upgrades and improvements to software. This was how software companies functioned previous to Bill Gates' open letter, and these software companies worked on far more than the wing and a prayer of today's software companies. And, this is how every single other business on earth that deals with commodities functions. Unfortunately, software companies have failed to realise that their software is nothing more than a commodity nut protected by a proprietary thread. The fact is in the software business you can and will be replaced at a whim. Your only protection against this is to stop believing you have the special thread that wins them all. The moment software companies get a clue and stop selling their thread rather than their product and service will be the moment the software industry stabilizes. And the GPL is there to make this happen.
The business ideal of GPL software is _not_ for you to create a piece of software and give it away and just expect money to happen. That's inane and incorrect business strategy.
Ask RMS sometime. Look at the GNU website. Ask me for business strategy examples. You'll find just how correct I am.
>Ooh, ownership of illicit vehicles! You haven't got a clue what evil is if you think that qualifies.
Wow, you read the last line of what I said? Good for you!
There's a lot more there if you discover your reading abilities.
>corporations and governments across the world are enslaving, torturing and killing people left and right, and you Slashwanks get worked up about things like "illicit vehicles" and not being nice to those poor little Netscape millionaires.
There are many shades of grey to the word evil. You will learn that when you grow up.
>Slashdotters would be pathetic if they weren't so funny. Thankfully those of us who can actually think don't take Slashdot rants seriously.
Thankfully, those of us who think for ourselves understand the way the world works. You will discover this the first time you're screwed over on thousands or millions of dollars. You will discover that what Bill Gates does is no different than a spouse that marries only for the alimony, but gives half of it away to a charity to defray taxes and pressure from the neighbours. Evil and rotten to the core, even if it is a grey shade of evil.
>And WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE? >Judge not, lest ye be judged.
What are the people of a country supposed to do with someone who lies outright to their court system? If a judge has his hands tied because he gets nothing but lies from someone, the people of the country are left to judge the man alone.
The entire problem here is that the company selling you service is the same as the company owning the satellites. This is no different from when long distance service was sold to you by the same people who sold you your (overpriced) monopoly landline phone service.
What North America needs is separation of these two areas. (Standard) DVB could do this and still provide the same service level North American currently enjoys. A satellite would be blasted into orbit by an actual telecomms company, a satellite TV station would rent time from them to put their station on the air, and, if necessary, they would encrypt the channel and sell the service to North America in general if they felt Advertising revenue wouldn't cover their rental costs (note: In most cases it would -- A large percentage of what you see on DSS has already been broadcast in the clear on one or two satellites before it makes it to you, largely commercial free). You could buy individual channels that you want (assuming those aren't free), you wouldn't worry about DishNet having UPN and DirectTV not, and there's no middle-man. Not to mention you'd be able to use the huge amount of GREAT DVB gear out there, including computer capture cards. And the freedom of any company being able to broadcast TV as long as they can pony up the cash necessary to do it would be excellent.
Right now we have two companies with a pile of hardly used birds up in the sky. There's complete overlap on four of them, making two useless. Another one broadcasts the (largely unreceived) HDTV content, and so on.
When will this happen?
Beats me. My bets are on 20 or 30 years into the future, or maybe when the current birds run out of fuel. I do know it has to happen sometime. It's inevtitable.
>He's no more evil than any other big business out there.
How many other businesses in the US have been convicted of illegally running a monopoly at similar levels as Microsoft?
Let's see... Well, recently, according to this 6. If that's common, then I'd love to see what isn't.
>You are the typical linux biggot who believes anything profitable is bad.
You are the typical anonymous coward that has to insult anyone who is more intelligent than yourself.
Bill Gates lies to judges, and you think he is not an evil man? He had more than enough opportunity to plead the fifth, but instead chose to repeatedly commit perjury even after being warned. He deserves to rot in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penetentary for a week for that alone.
You know who else tends to lie constantly and through their teeth in court? A Mobster.
I won't even get into the fact that Bill Gates has been accused by the police (it's an obscure reference that is hard to find... but quite possible) of being an insane driver which led to that ever-so-popular jailhouse picture. Not to mention his alleged ownership of illicit vehicles.
>Why can't you grow up and realize that just because somebody is related to an organization you don't happen to like, it doesn't make them evil?
Why can't you realize that being the mastermind of a convicted criminal organization is probably an evil thing to do?
He formed Microsoft with the intent to break the law. And he wasn't doing it out of some form of civil disovedience, just for the illegally wrought cash. He lies to judges, and he lies to his consumers. How much more evidence do you need to show he is an evil man?
You don't have to physically abuse someone before you can be tagged evil, you know.
>An evil person wouldn't make the donations that Bill Gates does of his own accord.
Your turn to grow up!. What's the name of that preacher who raised millions for his church in the name of god again?
You can't buy your way out of being an evil man. At least, you can't in my book.
Once Bill Gate's pays the time for his company's crimes, I'll consider his debt repaid. So far his company just sqirms and squeals like a stuck pig.
Nope. Communist thieves steal from businesses, and steal from the intelligent by ensuring they don't make enough money.
>and communists would likely strongly support open source.
Nope -- at least if you're talking about the GPL as in open source. The GPL was specifically made business friendly -- it's just that a lot of stupid businesses can't wrap their minds around just how easy it is to make money using the GPL.
Even open source in general isn't a communist idea. Few open source licenses reuiqre you to redistribute your patches (including the GPL). This would be a basic requirement for a communist development model.
I think the word you want to use is "socialism". The difference is quite a lot...
It's about time he gave back the fortune he illegally stole from the American public by illegally running and supporting a monopoly.
He isn't donating, he simply making reparations. He's taken the money from people illegally and at least now he's putting it somewhere useful. Took him a hell of a long time to grow a conscience!
You are quite right about a decent transport system being so important. After being in England, coming back here is always a drag when I see that there's no way to get to certain places without having to drive.
If the system here is ever fixed, I might actually be able to use it (the closest bus that stops near me is a 4 hour walk away!).
I'd like to use the bus, but as a former KW resident, you know that doing that here is impossible until it is fixed.
I'm not a transport expert, so I can't do much. But hopefully one day someone with a clue will get in as mayor. Preferrably before that 1/3 billion is spent (that could do SO MUCH to fix transit than build a streetcar track!).
>My information is from the book: "Trading Places" by Clyde Prestowitz, Jr. It talks about the FIRST Japanese-car victory dance in the 1980's. Check it out.
And I always thought that had to do with the fact that Japanese cars lasted a lot longer at the time... Like twice as long, especially in climates that salt the roads.
>Can you get decent driving power from a hybrid, yes. Mainly for the city, though. For the 'burbs you need good excelleration I feel.
As someone living in the country who has to drive through the suburbs, and a Toyota Corolla owner, I can tell you that you can get a lot of acceleration from very little engine if you're careful in how you drive the vehicle. Even in an automatic I can beat most people at a light (should I choose to...:-)
The truth is I've found a lot of higher power engines tend to more more torque, less "go"... Besides, how many of you need to take a car past 160 km/h (even 120 km/h for most)? I can assure you all Toyota's I've tried can do that and more.
But I don't own the compact to save the environment. It's just a cheap car that lasts and doesn't eat a lot of gas. Everything you want in your "everyday" vehicle.
The current mass transportation system in this city is pretty much out of the 1920's. The city I'm talking about is Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (the place with the university Microsoft would pretty much like to buy out).
From what I've been told by people who have to use the thing, it takes a bus two hours to do what a car can do in 15 minutes. There is no subway, and buses rarely go between anything but the twin cities. Trains are a total no-go unless your destination is hours away. The buses are so bad it actually takes a good 20 minute walk to get to the new, much touted, and horridly expensive RIM park from the closest drop off point.
The last suggestion to "fix" the mass transportation system was to block off a lane of traffic down the main street (which is already at a standstill) and put a streetcar down it, between multiple cities, which would run every 10 minutes at a cost of 1/3 billion (yes, billion) dollars. Now, this train will reach about 5% of the city, and about 1% of the population, thereby making it completely useless as a transportation system. Blocking off the main route even further exasparates the already horrible traffic problems.
So, with a city council so stupid with transportation that the Mayor was almost caught DWI, there will never be a proper mass transit system.
What's your solution? I think a bypass route makes a lot more sense.
>They do this mainly by moving yet farther out from the cities where they work
Well, that's a _good_ thing. A higher population spread will spread the pollution. In a country like Canada where about 5% of the land makes something like 95% of the pollution, this is exactly what's needed. We could be cleaner than Japan if everyone spread out.
So, what's your solution in this case, where mass transit is a no go?
>Example: frogs cannot get from the water to the land to multiply and be fruitful.
That reminds me of the reason they blocked building a bypass route near my area. An environmental group said a bunch of frogs would be killed because of it.
Well, that's just great. Instead we have 20 minute idle times and the city's smog is so bad it kills many asthmatics per year.
Won't someone think of the poor people.
Frogs. What will people worry about next?
Oh, I just thought of something. All that hi-tech equipent they're using was built in conditions that probably killed far more endangered life than stopping some frogs breeding.
These people should do to these photographers as was done to greenpeace in BC.
Hippies, _especially_ stupid hippies piss me off so much. I hope they get what's coming to them. If they like frogs and wildlife so freakin' much, go live in the forest! Go away and live there forever! We'll make forest reserves _just for you_ if you'll go away forever.
You know, I think I'm going to go out and buy a mink coat for someone for christmas just to piss these guys off. It'll go beside all my leather jackets!
That dummy opens up his monitor and doesn't even mention to the general public that they need to discharge the 20 000 Volts inside before doing anything.
What a dumbass. Not to mention his shiny new monitor will blow up in no time now -- old IBM monitors were famous for blowing their output transistors (or so I'm told) due to heat buildup. Since he has about 1/10th of the original ventilation... BOOM!
Not to even get into the RF coming out of the gaping hole in that case. I wouldn't want to be this guys neighbour...
I thought you said 9... I only counted 3 OSes with current flash support, and 2 of those are really nothing more than upgrades to each other, so I'd really just say there's 2 OSes supported.
I've seen Winmodems with more support than this...
The difference is some companies didn't sue people like Camerica for making a product that was nothing more than an enchancement that didn't threaten sales whatsoever, and the other big difference is that apart from certain industries, only in the game industry do they purposely add complexity in order to prevent 3rd parties from developing for their system.
If every corporation was like Nintendo, we'd have 100 different bolt threads by now.
The fact is, _very_ few corporations try to protect themselves from competition in the way Nintendo does. One of the only others that comes to mind are car manufacturers, and I don't see too many of them suing for others making 3rd part parts.
>That has always been the case.
Not at all in my opinion. IMHO, it once was the case, in the bad old days.
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>An other problem I've found is explaining that the mouse being jerky while the email client is downloading a 14MB load of Emails through a WIFI network connected a WinME machine running a DirectPC link isn't a computer problem.
:-)
Since the other two guys didn't notice the problem, let me help you fix it
Move the mouse onto a separate USB root that isn't connected to the USB port the WiFi is (assumedly) on. If the computer doesn't have one, I guess you'd have to buy one.
Or just use the PS/2 port...
>>He formed Microsoft with the intent to break the law
>I dislike MS for their business tactics and bullying just like everyone else, but, jezz, come on, this is just moronic...
You are dispelling the previous past of Microsoft. Let's look at what has happened between Internet Explorer and DOS.
- Alleged intent to monopolize the desktop network market by destroying Novell
- Alleged intent to monopolize the word processor market by destroying Wordperfect
- Criminal intent to monopolize the DOS market by destroying DR-DOS (not alleged -- proven)
- Alleged intent to monopolize the spreadsheet market by destroying Lotus
Yes, in many of these cases these companies made their own poor decisions, but it can be shown that Microsoft has stepped all over many of these companies just like all monopolies do. In fact, IIRC, Microsoft has lost in lawsuits to the effect of them having driven people out of business by using Antitrust powers.
>but that wont make most of the peopl working there *evil* per see
Yes. That's why I blame it squarely on the man founding the company, and directing the company through most of these actions: Bill Gates. The people working under him were nothing but pawns (well, except for Steve Ballmer, who seems to be following the footsteps of Bill Gates perfectly).
>From their point of view they're just defending their position in the market.
So's any other company, but you don't see Sony TVs popping up error messages because they're hooked into RCA VCRs, do you? Things like that are Antritrust, and illegal for a very good reason. And most companies aren't silly/big enough to feel comfortable stepping over that line, unlike Microsoft, who do it on a consistent basis, with a straight face.
>Yeah, right, all those guys actually running profitable software companies are so much stupider than you.
Yeah. That's why they went out of business, you know. Most software companies in the last few years have gone out of business. I'm sorry if that makes your job outlook bleak, but it's the truth, and I can back it up with statistics if you like.
>They just don't understand they can make money with the GPL. Neither do the people running those loss-making GPL-software firms.
Spot on.
>They must be incredibly stupid to have spent so much time and VC money on GPL software, only to still be losing money.
Yes. What do you need Venture Capital for a software company for? Two, you can't use the GPL to be a software company. That's not it's intent.
The intent of the GPL is to redefine software companies into service companies. Your service is to install your software on the company's boxes, to sell precompiled binaries, and to sell customized upgrades and improvements to software. This was how software companies functioned previous to Bill Gates' open letter, and these software companies worked on far more than the wing and a prayer of today's software companies. And, this is how every single other business on earth that deals with commodities functions. Unfortunately, software companies have failed to realise that their software is nothing more than a commodity nut protected by a proprietary thread. The fact is in the software business you can and will be replaced at a whim. Your only protection against this is to stop believing you have the special thread that wins them all. The moment software companies get a clue and stop selling their thread rather than their product and service will be the moment the software industry stabilizes. And the GPL is there to make this happen.
The business ideal of GPL software is _not_ for you to create a piece of software and give it away and just expect money to happen. That's inane and incorrect business strategy.
Ask RMS sometime. Look at the GNU website. Ask me for business strategy examples. You'll find just how correct I am.
>Enough money for what?
Compensation for the time and money spent gaining the intelligence to be more than a burger flipper.
>Ooh, ownership of illicit vehicles! You haven't got a clue what evil is if you think that qualifies.
Wow, you read the last line of what I said? Good for you!
There's a lot more there if you discover your reading abilities.
>corporations and governments across the world are enslaving, torturing and killing people left and right, and you Slashwanks get worked up about things like "illicit vehicles" and not being nice to those poor little Netscape millionaires.
There are many shades of grey to the word evil. You will learn that when you grow up.
>Slashdotters would be pathetic if they weren't so funny. Thankfully those of us who can actually think don't take Slashdot rants seriously.
Thankfully, those of us who think for ourselves understand the way the world works. You will discover this the first time you're screwed over on thousands or millions of dollars. You will discover that what Bill Gates does is no different than a spouse that marries only for the alimony, but gives half of it away to a charity to defray taxes and pressure from the neighbours. Evil and rotten to the core, even if it is a grey shade of evil.
>And WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE?
>Judge not, lest ye be judged.
What are the people of a country supposed to do with someone who lies outright to their court system? If a judge has his hands tied because he gets nothing but lies from someone, the people of the country are left to judge the man alone.
The entire problem here is that the company selling you service is the same as the company owning the satellites. This is no different from when long distance service was sold to you by the same people who sold you your (overpriced) monopoly landline phone service.
What North America needs is separation of these two areas. (Standard) DVB could do this and still provide the same service level North American currently enjoys. A satellite would be blasted into orbit by an actual telecomms company, a satellite TV station would rent time from them to put their station on the air, and, if necessary, they would encrypt the channel and sell the service to North America in general if they felt Advertising revenue wouldn't cover their rental costs (note: In most cases it would -- A large percentage of what you see on DSS has already been broadcast in the clear on one or two satellites before it makes it to you, largely commercial free). You could buy individual channels that you want (assuming those aren't free), you wouldn't worry about DishNet having UPN and DirectTV not, and there's no middle-man. Not to mention you'd be able to use the huge amount of GREAT DVB gear out there, including computer capture cards. And the freedom of any company being able to broadcast TV as long as they can pony up the cash necessary to do it would be excellent.
Right now we have two companies with a pile of hardly used birds up in the sky. There's complete overlap on four of them, making two useless. Another one broadcasts the (largely unreceived) HDTV content, and so on.
When will this happen?
Beats me. My bets are on 20 or 30 years into the future, or maybe when the current birds run out of fuel. I do know it has to happen sometime. It's inevtitable.
>Rob Mishka, a long time connoisseur of free (read: stolen) satellite TV
Isn't it impossible to steal something if a company willingly broadcasts it to you?
>He's no more evil than any other big business out there.
How many other businesses in the US have been convicted of illegally running a monopoly at similar levels as Microsoft?
Let's see... Well, recently, according to this 6. If that's common, then I'd love to see what isn't.
>You are the typical linux biggot who believes anything profitable is bad.
You are the typical anonymous coward that has to insult anyone who is more intelligent than yourself.
Bill Gates lies to judges, and you think he is not an evil man? He had more than enough opportunity to plead the fifth, but instead chose to repeatedly commit perjury even after being warned. He deserves to rot in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penetentary for a week for that alone.
You know who else tends to lie constantly and through their teeth in court? A Mobster.
I won't even get into the fact that Bill Gates has been accused by the police (it's an obscure reference that is hard to find... but quite possible) of being an insane driver which led to that ever-so-popular jailhouse picture. Not to mention his alleged ownership of illicit vehicles.
>Why can't you grow up and realize that just because somebody is related to an organization you don't happen to like, it doesn't make them evil?
Why can't you realize that being the mastermind of a convicted criminal organization is probably an evil thing to do?
He formed Microsoft with the intent to break the law. And he wasn't doing it out of some form of civil disovedience, just for the illegally wrought cash. He lies to judges, and he lies to his consumers. How much more evidence do you need to show he is an evil man?
You don't have to physically abuse someone before you can be tagged evil, you know.
>An evil person wouldn't make the donations that Bill Gates does of his own accord.
Your turn to grow up!. What's the name of that preacher who raised millions for his church in the name of god again?
You can't buy your way out of being an evil man. At least, you can't in my book.
Once Bill Gate's pays the time for his company's crimes, I'll consider his debt repaid. So far his company just sqirms and squeals like a stuck pig.
>See what more do you need?
:-(
Recent support?
I don't know what version is for BeOS, but I doubt it's 6.0 -- in this case because the OS is dead (so I can forgive Macromedia for that)
>First off, "communist thieves" is an oxymoron
Nope. Communist thieves steal from businesses, and steal from the intelligent by ensuring they don't make enough money.
>and communists would likely strongly support open source.
Nope -- at least if you're talking about the GPL as in open source. The GPL was specifically made business friendly -- it's just that a lot of stupid businesses can't wrap their minds around just how easy it is to make money using the GPL.
Even open source in general isn't a communist idea. Few open source licenses reuiqre you to redistribute your patches (including the GPL). This would be a basic requirement for a communist development model.
I think the word you want to use is "socialism". The difference is quite a lot...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
It's about time he gave back the fortune he illegally stole from the American public by illegally running and supporting a monopoly.
He isn't donating, he simply making reparations. He's taken the money from people illegally and at least now he's putting it somewhere useful. Took him a hell of a long time to grow a conscience!
You are quite right about a decent transport system being so important. After being in England, coming back here is always a drag when I see that there's no way to get to certain places without having to drive.
If the system here is ever fixed, I might actually be able to use it (the closest bus that stops near me is a 4 hour walk away!).
I'd like to use the bus, but as a former KW resident, you know that doing that here is impossible until it is fixed.
I'm not a transport expert, so I can't do much. But hopefully one day someone with a clue will get in as mayor. Preferrably before that 1/3 billion is spent (that could do SO MUCH to fix transit than build a streetcar track!).
>My information is from the book: "Trading Places" by Clyde Prestowitz, Jr. It talks about the FIRST Japanese-car victory dance in the 1980's. Check it out.
And I always thought that had to do with the fact that Japanese cars lasted a lot longer at the time... Like twice as long, especially in climates that salt the roads.
But maybe I'm wrong.
>Can you get decent driving power from a hybrid, yes. Mainly for the city, though. For the 'burbs you need good excelleration I feel.
:-)
As someone living in the country who has to drive through the suburbs, and a Toyota Corolla owner, I can tell you that you can get a lot of acceleration from very little engine if you're careful in how you drive the vehicle. Even in an automatic I can beat most people at a light (should I choose to...
The truth is I've found a lot of higher power engines tend to more more torque, less "go"... Besides, how many of you need to take a car past 160 km/h (even 120 km/h for most)? I can assure you all Toyota's I've tried can do that and more.
But I don't own the compact to save the environment. It's just a cheap car that lasts and doesn't eat a lot of gas. Everything you want in your "everyday" vehicle.
>I can name three Os's that run Flash right off the top of my head, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
Yes, but only 2 of them run flash made this millenium.
I guess the saying is that if you need last year's software TODAY, Macromedia is your kinda company!
>Not a slight intended, but 4 days ago it was "Do you have over 1600 comments? Why Not?"
:-)
;-)
>Now really!!??
With all that commenting, I got behind. You can verify that amount of comments by checking my user info if you'd like, though.
>'Cause we have a life/job/anything better to do?
I think you're the first person to say that and then say they aren't trying to slight me...
At least you're not psychotic... [for some reason they've given up posting today... bummer... what will I amuse myself with now?]
Okay, let me lay it all out for you.
The current mass transportation system in this city is pretty much out of the 1920's. The city I'm talking about is Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (the place with the university Microsoft would pretty much like to buy out).
From what I've been told by people who have to use the thing, it takes a bus two hours to do what a car can do in 15 minutes. There is no subway, and buses rarely go between anything but the twin cities. Trains are a total no-go unless your destination is hours away. The buses are so bad it actually takes a good 20 minute walk to get to the new, much touted, and horridly expensive RIM park from the closest drop off point.
The last suggestion to "fix" the mass transportation system was to block off a lane of traffic down the main street (which is already at a standstill) and put a streetcar down it, between multiple cities, which would run every 10 minutes at a cost of 1/3 billion (yes, billion) dollars. Now, this train will reach about 5% of the city, and about 1% of the population, thereby making it completely useless as a transportation system. Blocking off the main route even further exasparates the already horrible traffic problems.
So, with a city council so stupid with transportation that the Mayor was almost caught DWI, there will never be a proper mass transit system.
What's your solution? I think a bypass route makes a lot more sense.
>They do this mainly by moving yet farther out from the cities where they work
Well, that's a _good_ thing. A higher population spread will spread the pollution. In a country like Canada where about 5% of the land makes something like 95% of the pollution, this is exactly what's needed. We could be cleaner than Japan if everyone spread out.
So, what's your solution in this case, where mass transit is a no go?
>Or are you just being hypocritical in your criticism?
Actually, I'm being sarcastic. Or, I was being sarcastic. Right now I'm being serious.
Sorry for misleading you.
>Example: frogs cannot get from the water to the land to multiply and be fruitful.
That reminds me of the reason they blocked building a bypass route near my area. An environmental group said a bunch of frogs would be killed because of it.
Well, that's just great. Instead we have 20 minute idle times and the city's smog is so bad it kills many asthmatics per year.
Won't someone think of the poor people.
Frogs. What will people worry about next?
Oh, I just thought of something. All that hi-tech equipent they're using was built in conditions that probably killed far more endangered life than stopping some frogs breeding.
These people should do to these photographers as was done to greenpeace in BC.
Hippies, _especially_ stupid hippies piss me off so much. I hope they get what's coming to them. If they like frogs and wildlife so freakin' much, go live in the forest! Go away and live there forever! We'll make forest reserves _just for you_ if you'll go away forever.
You know, I think I'm going to go out and buy a mink coat for someone for christmas just to piss these guys off. It'll go beside all my leather jackets!
I hate to be a drag, but not being able to be on the bleeding edge is simply the cost of using closed source software on an open source system.
This is why I didn't bother buying anything much for Linux that requires me to use binary drivers.
You think that's dangerous?
That dummy opens up his monitor and doesn't even mention to the general public that they need to discharge the 20 000 Volts inside before doing anything.
What a dumbass. Not to mention his shiny new monitor will blow up in no time now -- old IBM monitors were famous for blowing their output transistors (or so I'm told) due to heat buildup. Since he has about 1/10th of the original ventilation... BOOM!
Not to even get into the RF coming out of the gaping hole in that case. I wouldn't want to be this guys neighbour...
>I know, I know... it only runs on 9 os's.
I thought you said 9... I only counted 3 OSes with current flash support, and 2 of those are really nothing more than upgrades to each other, so I'd really just say there's 2 OSes supported.
I've seen Winmodems with more support than this...
>And his makes them different from who?
The difference is some companies didn't sue people like Camerica for making a product that was nothing more than an enchancement that didn't threaten sales whatsoever, and the other big difference is that apart from certain industries, only in the game industry do they purposely add complexity in order to prevent 3rd parties from developing for their system.
If every corporation was like Nintendo, we'd have 100 different bolt threads by now.
The fact is, _very_ few corporations try to protect themselves from competition in the way Nintendo does. One of the only others that comes to mind are car manufacturers, and I don't see too many of them suing for others making 3rd part parts.
>That has always been the case.
Not at all in my opinion. IMHO, it once was the case, in the bad old days.