With the candidates getting exposure on Yahoo there can be more of a dialog between the candidates and the public. Now politicians will have a tougher time side-stepping issues or just focusing on issues (or dirt) raised by the opponent. They'll now have to consider the real issues.
The other portals should also give space to the candidates. Maybe slashdot could too.
Because of the fact that more people have lower speed connections (mostly dial up), they are likely to stay online only as long as it takes to download a large file. Anyway who'd be interested in downloading from a source that can channel only a few kilobytes a minute.
Nice to know that these elections are being taken seriously. Given the number of internet users, the number of people who registered with ICANN was dismal.
They should update democracy anyway. The way things are more than half the people are unaware of or do not understand more than half the issues.
They should add more criteria to the right to vote than just coming of age. For example, you have to be a tax payer before you can influence any of the tax legislation.
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I mean the corporate interest in talking about it and showing support. Somewhat like the stock market infatuation with the Linux companies. This isn't to say that the user momentum or the development pace is going to decline anytime soon.
I have had @home for 2 years and have been happy with it overall. The speed is still great. I suspect though that slowly they'll keep removing some of the attractive aspects of its service. One that's affected me is the clamp on the upload speed. I have three computers hooked up to the @home network (by the way that is the max number of IPs you can get) for the 3 people in my family. With the change in upload speed now file sharing between the machines is not so great anymore.
I was using Yahoo messenger for a while and although I liked their interface, every once in a while I'd realize that it hadn't trasmitted the message and given no warning. Presently I am using MSN Messenger which at least lets me know when the other person is typing a message and also lets me know if the message didn't go through.
ICQ has bloated so much that I am avoiding it. Any recommendations on a good IM?
Given that VA Linux owns slashdot, it's commendable of Cliff to put this up.
Once I was planning to buy a dual processor machine from a high profile bay area dealer who was selling it preconfigured with Red Hat Linux. Since the version (5.2 I think) didn't support the dual processor by default, I asked about it and found out that they were doing a simple install. Basically the OS was just using one of the processor.
Although internet is about sharing but isn't ad that made internet grow the way it did. Most of the initial dot-com had ad revenue as the sole stream of revenue. Like spam we aren't going to see the end of ad soon either.
Spam's not going anywhere. Get a fast internet connection and set up rules to delete and live with the few seconds a day it takes to delete the spam that gets left out by the filter.
It is hard to imagine that it will become successful without a search feature. The 100K limit is sure to put a damper on binary trades. Actually if people went back to the old days of splitting the file into uuencoded parts they could get around it - but who'd want to.
I like the present situation. I use an RPM (or try to find one) for software that I won't tinker with much. For other's that I might want to customize, I prefer a tarball. Too many choices of course would become a headache.
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The other portals should also give space to the candidates. Maybe slashdot could too.
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They should add more criteria to the right to vote than just coming of age. For example, you have to be a tax payer before you can influence any of the tax legislation.
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