Repeat after me: RAID is for high availability, not high reliability.
If you want your data to always be available, you want backups, incremental backups, distributed chronologically and geographically.
If you want your data to be constantly be instantly available, then RAID is what you want. You still need backups to assure the data will always be available.
Cable internet already has 12-24 month contracts with early termination fees in most areas. Comcrap for certain has them. I wound up buying commercial service because it was cheaper with a shorter contract!
So the Bavarian Illumaniti and the Gnomes of Zurich control everything right? I just don't subscribe to the belief that everying is controlled by one massive, all-powerful conspiracy. Nor do I. Nowhere did I say that. You are jumping to conclusions.
Money is critical to a politician, but it's not a guarantee. People usually vote the incumbant back in, but money itself does not vote. It's a 97% guarantee. Money allows the incumbent to use overwhelming propaganda to stifle his opposition.
There are plenty of laws that are not corporation friendly, and the Supreme Court has not always ruled pro-corporation. Not all corporations agree and work together on things. Things are not as absolute as you say they are. There are cases where each of your assertions are true. Where they fail is in taking the whole picture. Corporations all want one thing: More money. They are all working toward that same goal. They may fight and squabble, but their goal is the same, and they will all do everything they can to the limits of the law and beyond to achieve that goal. At the expense of the source of that revenue; you and me.
Politicians also want one thing: More Power. They are all working toward that same goal. They may fight and squabble, but their goal is the same, and they will all do everything they can to the limits of the law and beyond to achieve that goal. At the expense of the source of that power; you and me.
To think that either has any interest in your rights or welfare is sheer folly. You are a consumer to be bled, and a voter to be swindled. NOTHING MORE.
1. Because politicians like to be re-elected. Begin really messing with people's entertainment and the masses get restless for real. Politicians are not elected by "the people", they are re-elected by money. They buy the nomination and the election by smothering their opponents with advertising and attack ads. They get the money for that from corporations. Thus, to get re-elected (which happens 97% of the time in the U.S.), they must keep their corporate masters happy.
2. Becuase the judiciary would get pissed about this and overturn it or use precedent and make judicial rulings that neutered it. Absolute immunity from being sued is pretty much unheard of and would be a direct attack against a good part of our judicial foundation. You've been paying attention lately? Congress is likely to give telecoms blanket immunity for unthinkable crimes they have already committed.
As for the "judiciary", they are appointees, appointed by "elected" corporate shills. Didn't you see that the ultimate judiciary, the Supreme Court, has decided that your property can be seized and given to corporations if the local government will make more tax revenue? The judiciary works for the corporations too.
3. Because other companies would revolt against this. Hmmm, AT&T is killing my iTunes feed or my NetFlix feed or my YouTube feed or whatever. Think Apple, NetFlix, Google, et al are going to keep mum when their stuff gets throttled? Their packets won't be blocked! Read TFA! They are only targeting "illegal" traffic! No corporation with any lawyers will come out against blocking "illegal" activity.
4. Privacy concerns. It's not just Joe Schmoe having his packets parsed if AT&T does this either. It will also be banks and all major financial transactions, politicians, even intellgence agencies themselves. It'll also include competitors to AT&T for that matter. Think everyone will be on AT&T's side? Part of AT&T's plan is to get immunity from any laws that would involve privacy. They will get it too.
Those are just some reasons. In short, there will be lots of forces and pressures aligned against AT&T [...] None of which will have nearly as much money as the corporations aligned with them. With Telecoms and cable companies aligned to cut costs (bandwidth) while rent-seeking more revenue, and the MAFIAA organizations and all their money, fighting to "stop crime", no citizen's group is going be able to put a dent in their greenback armor. Good luck.
Listen, they paid enough to get the common-carrier laws written so they would be immune from prosecution. What makes anybody think they won't just buy new laws that allow them to police traffic but still enjoy immunity? They are doing it for the children, after all...
I'm running 2.0.0.9 on W2k, and have never had a problem with Southwest.com. I just booked travel last week using the site. Everything renders and functions correctly. You may have an extension or OS problem.
I don't have a choice. It's Craptastic! or nothing where I live in suburbia. No DSL, no fiber, no wireless, no kidding. Verizon has no interest in adding another DSLAM any closer to me either. Where's this competition you speak of?
I've read all that before and it sounds just like Sourceforge. So again, it sounds like they are worried about redundant versions of their redundant project management system.
Not that I have a problem with them creating another management system with better/different features, I'm just perplexed by their explanation for keeping it closed.
Enlighten me (because I really don't know): Launchpad sounds like another version of Sourceforge. If it is, then why would they start another SF and say it has the be the "central" system to manage things?
Peercast May be the solution. It allows P2P music streaming, and it's hard to find the source. More importantly, the source only has "one" listener, and it can be hard to tell how many total listeners there are.
They did put out a bunch of other Linux commercials. Some of them are quite good, like the first result (and it's 'Lee-nus' not 'Lie-nus' you insensitive clod!), but I still like the original best. Gives me chills.
Lucky for us they did get into e-voting, and it has hurt their reputation. If they didn't, we wouldn't have been as aware that if security was their ass, they wouldn't be able to find it with both hands tied behind their back! Their reputation needed to be brought down.
May I humbly suggest you try Moneydance? It will import Quicken files, isn't loaded with bloatware, adware, and spyware, and the developer listens to his customers. It only costs $30. Not only that, but he hasn't charged an upgrade fee since 2004, through three different full-version upgrades! It also runs on almost any platform, including OS/2(!).
I switched from Quicken in 2005 when I dumped Winders for good. It's really very good, even if it is written in Java...
This is the Geek fantasy. The Geek affliction. Like spelling "the" teh.
What? No. The "Geek fantasy" is that everybody pays attention to the bigger issues and would use Linux/Mac/whatever. The reality is that most users don't care what the OS is, so long as it does what they want and didn't take any brain power to get. Thus they buy a new machine that happens to come with (surprise) windows. The rest of your comment reinforces this.
And "teh" is mocking the very user we are talking about here: your average Dell consumer.
Microsoft has thirty years experience in the home market. MSDOS and Windows have been there for over twenty-five years.
Er, so what? Pabst Blue Ribbon has been around for 125 years and it's still crap. ("PBR Headwreckers"!)
He has made his peace with DRM.
He doesn't know what DRM is. You can't make peace with an unknown enemy.
But his software library has a far greater reach and depth than the Geek stereotypes of e-mail and the browser.
Now that's your fantasy. It's unlikely your typical Dell consumer, even your typical Dell business user, uses anything that doesn't exist in (and probably originated in) the F/OSS world. But that's beside the point. The point is the average user doesn't care whether it's Free software or proprietary. They just want it to work. A point which I've made and you've reinforced.
Chances are, that if he has tried an Open CD, a Live CD distro, or thumbed through the Linspire download catalog, he found nothing much new and nothing much of interest beyond "the usual suspects." He will, at least, be blessedly unaware of Sourceforge.
If he has done any of those things, he's way beyond the average Dell consumer. If he's even heard of Linspire, then I can virtually guarantee he never sends a message with "teh" in it.
His Windows OS runs on hardware that was mid-line at the time of its introduction. He sees Vista as the perfect opportunity to simultaneously upgrade hardware and OS at OEM prices.
Right. But he still doesn't care that it's Windows. He just cares that it's the price he is willing to pay and will do what he wants with as little hassle as possible. He has no loyalty to windows. If there was another choice with a compelling difference (like lower price, killer feature, or understandable security improvement) he would choose it. Microsoft knows this and has spent the last 25 years making sure he doesn't have a choice!
Since you know the difference between 2000 Pro and XP, you are in the tiny minority to whom the OS matters. As such, you are not in the majority of Dell's customers.
No, they don't want Windows, they want a computer because they want to surf teh intarwebs, use myspace, and forward stupid email jokes to all of their friends. They couldn't give a shit what the OS is, so long as the computer does what they want and doesn't cost more than they are willing to pay.
By forcing all the vendors to offer only computers with Windows preinstalled, Microshaft has guaranteed victory over the majority of computer buyers who just don't know any better. (Including corporations.)
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RAID is just a reliability mechanism
No, it is not.
Repeat after me: RAID is for high availability, not high reliability.
If you want your data to always be available, you want backups, incremental backups, distributed chronologically and geographically.
If you want your data to be constantly be instantly available, then RAID is what you want. You still need backups to assure the data will always be available.
Cable internet already has 12-24 month contracts with early termination fees in most areas. Comcrap for certain has them. I wound up buying commercial service because it was cheaper with a shorter contract!
Politicians also want one thing: More Power. They are all working toward that same goal. They may fight and squabble, but their goal is the same, and they will all do everything they can to the limits of the law and beyond to achieve that goal. At the expense of the source of that power; you and me.
To think that either has any interest in your rights or welfare is sheer folly. You are a consumer to be bled, and a voter to be swindled. NOTHING MORE.
2. Becuase the judiciary would get pissed about this and overturn it or use precedent and make judicial rulings that neutered it. Absolute immunity from being sued is pretty much unheard of and would be a direct attack against a good part of our judicial foundation. You've been paying attention lately? Congress is likely to give telecoms blanket immunity for unthinkable crimes they have already committed.
As for the "judiciary", they are appointees, appointed by "elected" corporate shills. Didn't you see that the ultimate judiciary, the Supreme Court, has decided that your property can be seized and given to corporations if the local government will make more tax revenue? The judiciary works for the corporations too.
3. Because other companies would revolt against this. Hmmm, AT&T is killing my iTunes feed or my NetFlix feed or my YouTube feed or whatever. Think Apple, NetFlix, Google, et al are going to keep mum when their stuff gets throttled? Their packets won't be blocked! Read TFA! They are only targeting "illegal" traffic! No corporation with any lawyers will come out against blocking "illegal" activity.
4. Privacy concerns. It's not just Joe Schmoe having his packets parsed if AT&T does this either. It will also be banks and all major financial transactions, politicians, even intellgence agencies themselves. It'll also include competitors to AT&T for that matter. Think everyone will be on AT&T's side? Part of AT&T's plan is to get immunity from any laws that would involve privacy. They will get it too.
Those are just some reasons. In short, there will be lots of forces and pressures aligned against AT&T [...] None of which will have nearly as much money as the corporations aligned with them. With Telecoms and cable companies aligned to cut costs (bandwidth) while rent-seeking more revenue, and the MAFIAA organizations and all their money, fighting to "stop crime", no citizen's group is going be able to put a dent in their greenback armor. Good luck.
Guess it's back to carrier pidgins?
No, I think station wagons full of tapes will do a better job...
Listen, they paid enough to get the common-carrier laws written so they would be immune from prosecution. What makes anybody think they won't just buy new laws that allow them to police traffic but still enjoy immunity? They are doing it for the children, after all...
I'm running 2.0.0.9 on W2k, and have never had a problem with Southwest.com. I just booked travel last week using the site. Everything renders and functions correctly. You may have an extension or OS problem.
I don't have a choice. It's Craptastic! or nothing where I live in suburbia. No DSL, no fiber, no wireless, no kidding. Verizon has no interest in adding another DSLAM any closer to me either. Where's this competition you speak of?
I presume you will personally pay for it all? TANSTAAFL, idiot.
Thanks for the trollish response.
I've read all that before and it sounds just like Sourceforge. So again, it sounds like they are worried about redundant versions of their redundant project management system.
Not that I have a problem with them creating another management system with better/different features, I'm just perplexed by their explanation for keeping it closed.
Enlighten me (because I really don't know): Launchpad sounds like another version of Sourceforge. If it is, then why would they start another SF and say it has the be the "central" system to manage things?
Peercast May be the solution. It allows P2P music streaming, and it's hard to find the source. More importantly, the source only has "one" listener, and it can be hard to tell how many total listeners there are.
You call yourself geeks, but a posting on wireless devices in teeth and not one mention of LARD?
Where's the pliers.
GOD DAMMIT! Where's the pliers?!?
WILMA! Where'd you put my electric drill.
This is all coming out right now. TODAY!
AAAAAAAaaaaaaggggghhhhh!!!!
Jello Biafra and Alien Jorgensen forever...
They did put out a bunch of other Linux commercials. Some of them are quite good, like the first result (and it's 'Lee-nus' not 'Lie-nus' you insensitive clod!), but I still like the original best. Gives me chills.
Good, but not as good as the IBM commercial from years ago, IMHO.
Lucky for us they did get into e-voting, and it has hurt their reputation. If they didn't, we wouldn't have been as aware that if security was their ass, they wouldn't be able to find it with both hands tied behind their back! Their reputation needed to be brought down.
May I humbly suggest you try Moneydance? It will import Quicken files, isn't loaded with bloatware, adware, and spyware, and the developer listens to his customers. It only costs $30. Not only that, but he hasn't charged an upgrade fee since 2004, through three different full-version upgrades! It also runs on almost any platform, including OS/2(!).
I switched from Quicken in 2005 when I dumped Winders for good. It's really very good, even if it is written in Java...
Yep. And this bot trap that I use does just that. Works like a champ.
Tom Toles addressed this yesterday...
I thought the Mars Pathfinder lander had been renamed Sagan Memorial Station?
Microsoft's design team is like three monkeys trying to fuck a football.
;-)
Fumble, fumble, fumble?
Where's my cookie!
You are an idiot. The network over which all that commercial software communicates (and over which you posted your troll) is run by Free software.
This is the Geek fantasy. The Geek affliction. Like spelling "the" teh.
What? No. The "Geek fantasy" is that everybody pays attention to the bigger issues and would use Linux/Mac/whatever. The reality is that most users don't care what the OS is, so long as it does what they want and didn't take any brain power to get. Thus they buy a new machine that happens to come with (surprise) windows. The rest of your comment reinforces this.
And "teh" is mocking the very user we are talking about here: your average Dell consumer.
Microsoft has thirty years experience in the home market.
MSDOS and Windows have been there for over twenty-five years.
Er, so what? Pabst Blue Ribbon has been around for 125 years and it's still crap. ("PBR Headwreckers"!)
He has made his peace with DRM.
He doesn't know what DRM is. You can't make peace with an unknown enemy.
But his software library has a far greater reach and depth than the Geek stereotypes of e-mail and the browser.
Now that's your fantasy. It's unlikely your typical Dell consumer, even your typical Dell business user, uses anything that doesn't exist in (and probably originated in) the F/OSS world. But that's beside the point. The point is the average user doesn't care whether it's Free software or proprietary. They just want it to work. A point which I've made and you've reinforced.
Chances are, that if he has tried an Open CD, a Live CD distro, or thumbed through the Linspire download catalog, he found nothing much new and nothing much of interest beyond "the usual suspects." He will, at least, be blessedly unaware of Sourceforge.
If he has done any of those things, he's way beyond the average Dell consumer. If he's even heard of Linspire, then I can virtually guarantee he never sends a message with "teh" in it.
His Windows OS runs on hardware that was mid-line at the time of its introduction. He sees Vista as the perfect opportunity to simultaneously upgrade hardware and OS at OEM prices.
Right. But he still doesn't care that it's Windows. He just cares that it's the price he is willing to pay and will do what he wants with as little hassle as possible. He has no loyalty to windows. If there was another choice with a compelling difference (like lower price, killer feature, or understandable security improvement) he would choose it. Microsoft knows this and has spent the last 25 years making sure he doesn't have a choice !
Since you know the difference between 2000 Pro and XP, you are in the tiny minority to whom the OS matters. As such, you are not in the majority of Dell's customers.
No, they don't want Windows, they want a computer because they want to surf teh intarwebs, use myspace, and forward stupid email jokes to all of their friends. They couldn't give a shit what the OS is, so long as the computer does what they want and doesn't cost more than they are willing to pay.
By forcing all the vendors to offer only computers with Windows preinstalled, Microshaft has guaranteed victory over the majority of computer buyers who just don't know any better. (Including corporations.)