Sure its a really dumb idea for anyone but the telcos.
It is going to get VERY interesting when the big players really feel threatened and start taking citizens and municipalities to court.
I can just imagine how its going to ring with taxpayers vs customers... why should a municipal government be allowed to provide a free service to taxpayers using taxpayers money when we could easily charge them for it. Your honor this is very unAmerican!
Listen I visit website to get information for work, play or whatever... but when I have to plow through a BLIZZARD of popups and flying and scrolling flash banners and what not it signifcantly lowers the value of the information.
Ever try reading an online article with a few flash banners whizzing their content to and fro!
Please... banner ads do not have to be annouying and they certainly should NOT interrupt the users experience.
1. Shot vid of topless neighbour. 2. Upload to GoogleVideo 3. Profit! 4. Neighbour find video 5. Sues the living shit out of Google 6. Profit! 7. Google shuts down video service 8. Profit!
Someone noted: "One reason that today's model, flawed though it may be, is successful is that it provides entertainment that people want to see..."
Meaning the networks are better at deciding what content the masses want rather then the masses is rediculous! It may be true in the sense that the networks are the only ones who can control the distribution of said content, good or otherwise.
What is happening now is more and more passive viewers are not plopping their arses down for several hours a night to watch advertising saturated "primetime" content. More and more are using technology to record and view what the want when they want.
Primetime and the telelvision advertising model is rapidly disappearing. That is the PRIMARY reason the industry is fighting so hard for the broadcast flag. They must control the hardware or the user will decide when and where the content is consumered not the network and their advertising model goes out the window.
What the Broadcast Flag is really protecting is the networks advertising model not content. Once users can no longer freely record and watch content the way they want, they will simply find alternatives or find another source of entertainment.
Don't laugh. This GARBAGE the networks call content is also drastically shrinking the "masses" that tune in at primetime. There is an ever growing list of more stimulating alternatives that do not require the user to sit through hours and hours of advertising. And that is what everyone is trying to protect... the MONEY!
Locking down shitty content will only cause viewers to find alternative content. Locking down good or better content will only PISS OFF and alienate an ever-shrinking audience!
The same can be said about similar infrastructure in Canada. This includes Natural Gas pipelines, phone lines, fibre lines and even our railway.
Citizens have forgotten that we and many generations before us are shareholders in these infrastructures and we most DEMAND our politicians represent our position on these matters as such!
Of course we all now the these politicians don't have a fuckin' clue when it comes to these technologies and its more about campaign contributions then real representation...
Honestly, what the hell did US citizens expect when they re-elected BUSH INC! Talk about selling out a generation!
Come on... for example - SONY owns the technology and manufactures the consumer gear (DVD players, etc). Owns the movie studio that produces the movie and the distribution company that distributes it... what fuckin' marketplace are these "industry" smucks talking about.
VOIP is a VERY disruptive technology that can FREE consumers from the profit pirates of the big and baby Bells. TOUGH SHIT for the big players who have not responded quickly enough! THAT'S what a FREE marketplace is about.
Here in Canada Bell Canada is moving quickly into the Quebec market with VOIP because they know if they don't they WILL LOSE marketshare. There is a HUGE question to be answered here in Canada about how VOIP should be regulated or if it should be regulated but that is NOT going to stop any other disruptive technologies from finding their way to consumers PCs or homes from that matter.
Eventually we are going to see the literal buffet of online services that the consumer can choose from be they FREE of for FEE.
It's amazing how quickly the big monopolies cry foul when disruptive technologies like VOIP smash their strangle hold on the consumer.
Again TOUGHT SHIT! That's what should happen in a FREE marketplace. The day of legislative monopolies is OVER!
Ok, so how many COUNTRIES is it going to take before the North American consumer wakes up and realizes that the rest of the planet is far better off and a lot more in control of their own economies then we'll ever be.
The next few years are going to be very difficult for the true innovators and free thinkers as the robber barrons of the 80's and 90's work to ensure the survival of their monopolies with harsh legislation and billion dollar lobbying efforts.
In Canada (where file sharing is soon to be outlawed!) the PSP retails for $399.99 CDN - That's $328.73 US with taxes etc, the price is above $500 CDN over $400 US which is just too damn much for yet another handheld that is going to not only trot out all the coolest PS2 games I've ALREADY PLAYED (for a hefty price), and allow me to watch moives I've ALREADY SEEN (for a hefty price) and listen to music I will no longer be to download for FREE... talk about three great reasons not to waste your money on this gadget!
Sorry but the whole idea of convergence was to create devices that would be more then glorified gaming gadgets with a few extra uses.
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Or a rats ass for that matter! Seriously. Halo 3 will serve an ever-shrinking and cluesless niche! And if the XBox Next comes out before PS3 and Revolution it may even go the way of the Dreamcast! I hope!!!!
Halo 1 was good NOT GREAT, Halo 2 was Halo 2 with Half-Life 2 some DOOM stuff crammed in... what on god's green earth could Halo 3 possible include that would cause only the stupidest of the herd to bite on it!
PLEEEASSSEEEEEE! Give me a game thats fun, pushes the mind beyond button mashing or how to pistol whip my bud out of the driver's seat and can involve as many people as I want without another monthly subscription. Then MAYBE I MIGHT consider the next-gen console... until then... I'll get a life!:-)
Ok so these things called the PC were created and over time consumers really started to dig the FREE, or mostly FREE things they could do with them...
Eventually this PC thing found a way to communicate with other PC things and then something wonderful happened... they all got connected and the internet was (re)born...
Some new things were a little too close to breaking the law but were mostly tolerated because the big players... Microsoft especially were making and continue to make insanely gross amounts of money...
This internet thing really started to catch on and consumers found LOTS of really cool uses for it. Email, games and sharing. Sharing jokes and greeting cards eventually became photos and music... in the meantime lots of folks realized that they didn't need big guys like Microsoft and they unleashed alternatives and Open Source software was (re)born... its mascot quickly became Linux.
Back to the big guys... Most big guys missed the many opportunities the internet could offer their business models and instead turned to the "wise" politicians to see if this "sharing" thing could be stopped... The politicians thought long and hard and after a significant amount of cash-for-thought was spread around the DMCA was born.
Ah the DMCA... pure genius... this gem makes tinkering, copying, sharing and most fair uses illegal... its pretty broad in scope and isn't well defined in intent but the big boys loved it because now they now had the perfect club to start smacking down any innovation that even appears to be threatening their empires.
Well... all the money in Washington was just a bump in the road for free use, sharing and innovation so now the big boys have decided that everything must be locked down from start to finish... back to Washington for more spreading of the cash-for-thought and voila... the broadcast flag is born!
This things is even more genius then most of the other road blocks to innovation any of the big boys could have thought of. The flag (required by ALL recording devices) will be controlled by whomever has the rights at the time... movie guys, software guys, distributors... hell even the cable guys can turn off recording access. Of course the cash spreaders assure this is NOT going to be the case but history proves otherwise. The flag will eventually bring us to the era of pay-per-recording at home... now how fuckin' sick is this concept. Oops... hope the charma cops were blinking!
In the end what the legislators and big boys don't seem to realize is that without free and FAIR use and yes sharing, the internet would not have grow to its ginormous size and influence, without free and FAIR use and sharing the big boys like INTEL, Microsoft, game companies and even the movie boys would not have grow to such seemingly unstoppable empires... so if they take away the free and FAIR use of these technologies consumers will either find or create free and FAIR alterntives despite what laws these robber barons of the 21st century buy from those hopelessly corrupt legislators in Washington.
There just doesn't seem logical that business is going to continue to grow by locking consumers out their right to fair use and by restricting access.
In my country, copying and sharing for personal use is very much LEGAL and we still have BILLIONS made from the consumers herds. Yes, unfortunately there is still and large majority of the herd that doesn't realize the feed is free. Oh well... MOO!
That's almost fuckin' laughable coming from someone who thinks M$ is doing a good job on security.
Listen you fuckin turd... when M$ embedded IE into the OS then the WHOLE OS, browser included, must now be judged on its trustworthness and security.
M$, Windows, IE and just about every other product M$ produces is be DEFAULT insecure! PERIOD!
Sucks to be M$... and eventually a Fortune 500 company is going to get seriously bombed by one of M$'s famous innovations and the settlement hemmoraging will begin! That is about the only way the world is going to slow down M$... sue them out of existence!
Oh and Happy Holidays...
BUSH the man of the year... please! Whats next FREE elections in IRAQ... oh wait... errr ah screw it...
Well it looks like the more idiots buy these horrible excuses for games being pumped out by EA the bigger and nastier they get.
Look, there is NO NEED for big distribution/development companies like EA any more. With the internet and the relatively inexpensive technologies available any programmer/level designer with marginal abilities should be able to turn out games at least as playable as most of the cookie-cutter garbage hitting the streets.
Gaming and game development need an open source alternative and strategy or else we'll just be fighting another M$ only this one pimps games.
Listen gamers MIGHT pay to play for a while but mom and dad are NOT going to pay:
$50 a month for the internet $20 bucks a month for Xbox Live $20 bucks a month for little Johnny to play WOW
MMORPGs became POPULAR becasue they were FREE to play online. Sure you buy the game but the online gaming was free. Start to charge a monthly fee and gamers and parents will begin to EXPECT A LOT MORE for their gaming dollar.
Soon some asshole is going to suggest that we have a pay as you go internet... 5 for this page and 5 for that page... please!!!!
Remember corps always want to carve their products into ever smaller sizes BECAUSE THE MAKE MORE MONEY... STUPID!
Can anyone find me ONE entertainer who is now living in a cardboard box on Sunset Blvd. as a result of music downloading!
Taxing the user for a potential misuse or alternative use is SIMPLE WRONG!
Limited the use of a purchased product is EQUALLY WRONG!
More artists careers have thrived or been born again because of the internet. The only ones who find the internet so distasteful are the robber barons who "controled" the distribution channels.
I've tried many of the recent distros and Xandros is by far the best Linux distro for home users.
This product has worked virtually flawlessly since I installed it a few months ago.
Yes, upgrading things like KDE and other core elements can be a problem but I doubt many regular home users will really care about really bleeding edge updates like that.
I do agree that the applications available to the user through the Xandros Networks downloading app are limited but most of the apps required by the home user are available.
I still think that ALL Linux distros MUST resolve the issues surrounding application installs and the libraries, etc, etc, before home users will truly see Linux as an alternative.
I for one would like to see a system that ensures whatever I install won't muck up my OS and that if need be can be easily and permanently removed without disasterous consequences... Windows can already do that for me so it won't be much of an improvement. (:-
What I mean is that gaming thou now a HUGE BILLION $ industry is not innovating and experimenting like the garage gamers of the past.
I remember when shareware games were coming out at an incredible rate and selling their warez on BBSes and through mail order. There was a lot of really cool games and more importantly ideas! And this is were I think game development will eventually return.
Using internet and grid computing a game development team can be assembled from all over the planet and work as a single team. You don't necessarily need a multi-million dollar budget... just a good idea and enough folks interesting in making something different.
Hell if it hadn't been for MODs HalfLife would have been just another footnote in FPS gaming. Now its nothing but an average game living on a catalog of old products originally produced by college students!
Yeah we need big game companies and schools to churn out more programming and modeling slaves for them. NOT!
Ok, now just how f@#$'n STUPID are Amercians going to get before the implode on themselves or the rest of the planet kicks their greedy lying asses?
The US government is spreading cruelity and misery in the Middle East and calling it freedom. US corps are patenting anything and everything. FCC declares they own PCs and anything attached to them that "communicates"... the list of stupidity goes on and on!
Think about folks... the last attack on the US government before 911 was Oklahoma and executed by Amercians.
Now theres some big insight from the folks at Gartner!
Thanks for pointing that out Capt. Obvious!
What a stupid fuckin' post! Really! And I predict M$ has more profits and iTunes sells more songs and Bush will piss off the rest of the planet in 2005.
There now get back to work you bunch of over-paid, white collar slackers or you ass will be outsourced to India...
Got a real firewall. Don't use IE or Outlook Express. I don't see the need to update especially if you know you will likely have to buy new versions of software that work just fine now!
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Like Apple gives a rat's ass what MS is doing on the Winduhz desktop?!
Google clearly has the edge on the PC desktops and I would think Apple would be more concerned about Google than Microsoft.
Sounds like a pressing to space bar to circumvent the "high-level" encryption to me! (:
Maybe these guys should talk to the CherryOS people.
Sure its a really dumb idea for anyone but the telcos.
It is going to get VERY interesting when the big players really feel threatened and start taking citizens and municipalities to court.
I can just imagine how its going to ring with taxpayers vs customers... why should a municipal government be allowed to provide a free service to taxpayers using taxpayers money when we could easily charge them for it. Your honor this is very unAmerican!
Social contract... you can't be serious!
Listen I visit website to get information for work, play or whatever... but when I have to plow through a BLIZZARD of popups and flying and scrolling flash banners and what not it signifcantly lowers the value of the information.
Ever try reading an online article with a few flash banners whizzing their content to and fro!
Please... banner ads do not have to be annouying and they certainly should NOT interrupt the users experience.
Social contract... WTF are you smoking!
1. Shot vid of topless neighbour.
2. Upload to GoogleVideo
3. Profit!
4. Neighbour find video
5. Sues the living shit out of Google
6. Profit!
7. Google shuts down video service
8. Profit!
Someone noted: "One reason that today's model, flawed though it may be, is successful is that it provides entertainment that people want to see..."
Meaning the networks are better at deciding what content the masses want rather then the masses is rediculous! It may be true in the sense that the networks are the only ones who can control the distribution of said content, good or otherwise.
What is happening now is more and more passive viewers are not plopping their arses down for several hours a night to watch advertising saturated "primetime" content. More and more are using technology to record and view what the want when they want.
Primetime and the telelvision advertising model is rapidly disappearing. That is the PRIMARY reason the industry is fighting so hard for the broadcast flag. They must control the hardware or the user will decide when and where the content is consumered not the network and their advertising model goes out the window.
What the Broadcast Flag is really protecting is the networks advertising model not content. Once users can no longer freely record and watch content the way they want, they will simply find alternatives or find another source of entertainment.
Don't laugh. This GARBAGE the networks call content is also drastically shrinking the "masses" that tune in at primetime. There is an ever growing list of more stimulating alternatives that do not require the user to sit through hours and hours of advertising. And that is what everyone is trying to protect... the MONEY!
Locking down shitty content will only cause viewers to find alternative content. Locking down good or better content will only PISS OFF and alienate an ever-shrinking audience!
You make an excellent point.
The same can be said about similar infrastructure in Canada. This includes Natural Gas pipelines, phone lines, fibre lines and even our railway.
Citizens have forgotten that we and many generations before us are shareholders in these infrastructures and we most DEMAND our politicians represent our position on these matters as such!
Of course we all now the these politicians don't have a fuckin' clue when it comes to these technologies and its more about campaign contributions then real representation...
Honestly, what the hell did US citizens expect when they re-elected BUSH INC! Talk about selling out a generation!
Come on... for example - SONY owns the technology and manufactures the consumer gear (DVD players, etc). Owns the movie studio that produces the movie and the distribution company that distributes it... what fuckin' marketplace are these "industry" smucks talking about.
VOIP is a VERY disruptive technology that can FREE consumers from the profit pirates of the big and baby Bells. TOUGH SHIT for the big players who have not responded quickly enough! THAT'S what a FREE marketplace is about.
Here in Canada Bell Canada is moving quickly into the Quebec market with VOIP because they know if they don't they WILL LOSE marketshare. There is a HUGE question to be answered here in Canada about how VOIP should be regulated or if it should be regulated but that is NOT going to stop any other disruptive technologies from finding their way to consumers PCs or homes from that matter.
Eventually we are going to see the literal buffet of online services that the consumer can choose from be they FREE of for FEE.
It's amazing how quickly the big monopolies cry foul when disruptive technologies like VOIP smash their strangle hold on the consumer.
Again TOUGHT SHIT! That's what should happen in a FREE marketplace. The day of legislative monopolies is OVER!
The penguin shall set you FREE! (.v.)
Ok, so how many COUNTRIES is it going to take before the North American consumer wakes up and realizes that the rest of the planet is far better off and a lot more in control of their own economies then we'll ever be.
The next few years are going to be very difficult for the true innovators and free thinkers as the robber barrons of the 80's and 90's work to ensure the survival of their monopolies with harsh legislation and billion dollar lobbying efforts.
Long leave CAPITALISM! (:
In Canada (where file sharing is soon to be outlawed!) the PSP retails for $399.99 CDN - That's $328.73 US with taxes etc, the price is above $500 CDN over $400 US which is just too damn much for yet another handheld that is going to not only trot out all the coolest PS2 games I've ALREADY PLAYED (for a hefty price), and allow me to watch moives I've ALREADY SEEN (for a hefty price) and listen to music I will no longer be to download for FREE... talk about three great reasons not to waste your money on this gadget!
Sorry but the whole idea of convergence was to create devices that would be more then glorified gaming gadgets with a few extra uses.
Or a rats ass for that matter! Seriously. Halo 3 will serve an ever-shrinking and cluesless niche! And if the XBox Next comes out before PS3 and Revolution it may even go the way of the Dreamcast! I hope!!!!
:-)
Halo 1 was good NOT GREAT, Halo 2 was Halo 2 with Half-Life 2 some DOOM stuff crammed in... what on god's green earth could Halo 3 possible include that would cause only the stupidest of the herd to bite on it!
PLEEEASSSEEEEEE! Give me a game thats fun, pushes the mind beyond button mashing or how to pistol whip my bud out of the driver's seat and can involve as many people as I want without another monthly subscription. Then MAYBE I MIGHT consider the next-gen console... until then... I'll get a life!
So there!
PBS has had shows for FREE DRMless (Quicktime) viewing for some time.
They are intended for online viewing but I'm sure you could RIP them to a DVD or VCD for TV viewing.
I support PBS (Family Membership) and have always thought they were years ahead of any other media outlet.
Ok so these things called the PC were created and over time consumers really started to dig the FREE, or mostly FREE things they could do with them...
Eventually this PC thing found a way to communicate with other PC things and then something wonderful happened... they all got connected and the internet was (re)born...
Some new things were a little too close to breaking the law but were mostly tolerated because the big players... Microsoft especially were making and continue to make insanely gross amounts of money...
This internet thing really started to catch on and consumers found LOTS of really cool uses for it. Email, games and sharing. Sharing jokes and greeting cards eventually became photos and music... in the meantime lots of folks realized that they didn't need big guys like Microsoft and they unleashed alternatives and Open Source software was (re)born... its mascot quickly became Linux.
Back to the big guys... Most big guys missed the many opportunities the internet could offer their business models and instead turned to the "wise" politicians to see if this "sharing" thing could be stopped... The politicians thought long and hard and after a significant amount of cash-for-thought was spread around the DMCA was born.
Ah the DMCA... pure genius... this gem makes tinkering, copying, sharing and most fair uses illegal... its pretty broad in scope and isn't well defined in intent but the big boys loved it because now they now had the perfect club to start smacking down any innovation that even appears to be threatening their empires.
Well... all the money in Washington was just a bump in the road for free use, sharing and innovation so now the big boys have decided that everything must be locked down from start to finish... back to Washington for more spreading of the cash-for-thought and voila... the broadcast flag is born!
This things is even more genius then most of the other road blocks to innovation any of the big boys could have thought of. The flag (required by ALL recording devices) will be controlled by whomever has the rights at the time... movie guys, software guys, distributors... hell even the cable guys can turn off recording access. Of course the cash spreaders assure this is NOT going to be the case but history proves otherwise. The flag will eventually bring us to the era of pay-per-recording at home... now how fuckin' sick is this concept. Oops... hope the charma cops were blinking!
In the end what the legislators and big boys don't seem to realize is that without free and FAIR use and yes sharing, the internet would not have grow to its ginormous size and influence, without free and FAIR use and sharing the big boys like INTEL, Microsoft, game companies and even the movie boys would not have grow to such seemingly unstoppable empires... so if they take away the free and FAIR use of these technologies consumers will either find or create free and FAIR alterntives despite what laws these robber barons of the 21st century buy from those hopelessly corrupt legislators in Washington.
There just doesn't seem logical that business is going to continue to grow by locking consumers out their right to fair use and by restricting access.
In my country, copying and sharing for personal use is very much LEGAL and we still have BILLIONS made from the consumers herds. Yes, unfortunately there is still and large majority of the herd that doesn't realize the feed is free. Oh well... MOO!
Look it even says so on the DVDs you buy.
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http://player.interactual.com/enhanced/images/pcf
So there... NO MORE COMPLAINING... just read the damn box and don't buy the defective goods!
Funny thing is... InterActual claims to be PC friendly!
Come on... file signing.
That's almost fuckin' laughable coming from someone who thinks M$ is doing a good job on security.
Listen you fuckin turd... when M$ embedded IE into the OS then the WHOLE OS, browser included, must now be judged on its trustworthness and security.
M$, Windows, IE and just about every other product M$ produces is be DEFAULT insecure! PERIOD!
Sucks to be M$... and eventually a Fortune 500 company is going to get seriously bombed by one of M$'s famous innovations and the settlement hemmoraging will begin! That is about the only way the world is going to slow down M$... sue them out of existence!
Oh and Happy Holidays...
BUSH the man of the year... please! Whats next FREE elections in IRAQ... oh wait... errr ah screw it...
Well it looks like the more idiots buy these horrible excuses for games being pumped out by EA the bigger and nastier they get.
Look, there is NO NEED for big distribution/development companies like EA any more. With the internet and the relatively inexpensive technologies available any programmer/level designer with marginal abilities should be able to turn out games at least as playable as most of the cookie-cutter garbage hitting the streets.
Gaming and game development need an open source alternative and strategy or else we'll just be fighting another M$ only this one pimps games.
Listen gamers MIGHT pay to play for a while but mom and dad are NOT going to pay:
$50 a month for the internet
$20 bucks a month for Xbox Live
$20 bucks a month for little Johnny to play WOW
MMORPGs became POPULAR becasue they were FREE to play online. Sure you buy the game but the online gaming was free. Start to charge a monthly fee and gamers and parents will begin to EXPECT A LOT MORE for their gaming dollar.
Soon some asshole is going to suggest that we have a pay as you go internet... 5 for this page and 5 for that page... please!!!!
Remember corps always want to carve their products into ever smaller sizes BECAUSE THE MAKE MORE MONEY... STUPID!
Can anyone find me ONE entertainer who is now living in a cardboard box on Sunset Blvd. as a result of music downloading!
Taxing the user for a potential misuse or alternative use is SIMPLE WRONG!
Limited the use of a purchased product is EQUALLY WRONG!
More artists careers have thrived or been born again because of the internet. The only ones who find the internet so distasteful are the robber barons who "controled" the distribution channels.
My2!
The review and the award show.
Pimping shitting products and slam jammin' all those phat gangster games and stuff.
What a fuckin waste of air time!
I'll post my full review of this review late! (;-
Ah... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
I've tried many of the recent distros and Xandros is by far the best Linux distro for home users.
This product has worked virtually flawlessly since I installed it a few months ago.
Yes, upgrading things like KDE and other core elements can be a problem but I doubt many regular home users will really care about really bleeding edge updates like that.
I do agree that the applications available to the user through the Xandros Networks downloading app are limited but most of the apps required by the home user are available.
I still think that ALL Linux distros MUST resolve the issues surrounding application installs and the libraries, etc, etc, before home users will truly see Linux as an alternative.
I for one would like to see a system that ensures whatever I install won't muck up my OS and that if need be can be easily and permanently removed without disasterous consequences... Windows can already do that for me so it won't be much of an improvement. (:-
WbZmb
Maybe its time for the OSS community to demand M$ prove their much faulted... errr...vaulted OS does NOT contain any IP violations.
Fair is fair sine Linux has shown it's insides why should M$ if they're so damn confident in the claims against Linux.
Please... much M$ FUD and the IT media just sucks it up like a bunch of tapped out winos! Sad.
What I mean is that gaming thou now a HUGE BILLION $ industry is not innovating and experimenting like the garage gamers of the past.
I remember when shareware games were coming out at an incredible rate and selling their warez on BBSes and through mail order. There was a lot of really cool games and more importantly ideas! And this is were I think game development will eventually return.
Using internet and grid computing a game development team can be assembled from all over the planet and work as a single team. You don't necessarily need a multi-million dollar budget... just a good idea and enough folks interesting in making something different.
Hell if it hadn't been for MODs HalfLife would have been just another footnote in FPS gaming. Now its nothing but an average game living on a catalog of old products originally produced by college students!
Yeah we need big game companies and schools to churn out more programming and modeling slaves for them. NOT!
Ok, now just how f@#$'n STUPID are Amercians going to get before the implode on themselves or the rest of the planet kicks their greedy lying asses?
The US government is spreading cruelity and misery in the Middle East and calling it freedom. US corps are patenting anything and everything. FCC declares they own PCs and anything attached to them that "communicates"... the list of stupidity goes on and on!
Think about folks... the last attack on the US government before 911 was Oklahoma and executed by Amercians.
Now theres some big insight from the folks at Gartner!
Thanks for pointing that out Capt. Obvious!
What a stupid fuckin' post! Really! And I predict M$ has more profits and iTunes sells more songs and Bush will piss off the rest of the planet in 2005.
There now get back to work you bunch of over-paid, white collar slackers or you ass will be outsourced to India...
Hey I here M$ is hiring in India!
Pretty simple actually.
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Got a real firewall. Don't use IE or Outlook Express
I don't see the need to update especially if you know you will likely have to buy new versions of software that work just fine now!