All well and good. And one should strive to behave in such a manner. However time after time, you will notice companies will extract every dollar out of you that they can. Banks and their ridiculous fees come to mind. They are out to run a bussiness, and please the shareholder. Thats their business mantra; fine. Gouge a few customers along the way - that seems acceptable too these days.
When the companies make a turn around and behave in an enlightened manner, I shall revert to behaving in an "enlightened" manner as well.
Respect consumers rights and intelligence, and they may return the favor. Its a two way street.
Many folks seem to be standing up for one side or the other (cable co, or ISP). Many have pointed out that expensive infrastructure has been laid out by the cable co's. Tough.
What I am concerned about is my best interest - not the companies.I personally think that today, cable lines are better suited to delivering content than the traditioanl copper technology (DSL or not). So I want to use those lines to gain access to the outside. Would I like to have my cable company as the sole high bandwidth provider, or would I like to have a choice? I would rather that multiple high bandwidth access providers fight for my $'s to deliver content to my home over cable line; the cable companies may not like this - but i am not here to fill their wallets (heck they already take my money with their exagerrated cable bills).
I have no sympathy for either side of this argument. I want whats best for me regardless of who gets screwed (as long as its not me - but the odds are against it - i dont have the $'s to sway congress).
Its not like other books where words form sentences, which more often than not make sense right away. In GEB you have to put forward a little more effort to understand whats being read (ie, think). And because I can feel how much it is enriching me, I stick with - progress is slow; but steady.
I started reading this book about 2 yrs ago. I still have'nt finished. I know a lot more people who have not finished reading the book than have. BTW, it is probably the best book I have read.
Most open source projects dont need large market share to survive. As long as there is a critical mass of users that are willing to maintain and contribute to the project, it will survive. Most open source projects can survive without market share (thats how they all started, isnt it?). And I dont see BSD interest falling below that critical mass.
Its a shame that Mozilla 5.0 final wont support (client side) WebDAV. IE5 does it today. With DAV we could view/modify our files without having to ftp them back and forth. Version control is also a plus. More info at www.webdav.org
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Eh... its been here for 250 million years.
That should qualify as earthling.
I cant seem to find it on the TLC schedules...
Interesting.... Has this resulted in any "bad"
reporters writing fake stories based on
non-existent "sources".
Are there laws prosecuting reporters who write
such stories?
Check out Zero pollution
Apparently the Mexican govt has ordered 1000's of these to replace taxis.
I use names of man made objects that
are sent into space.
Magellan, Discovery, Endeavour, etc...
FreeBSD has jdk1.2? When, where?
All well and good. And one should strive to
behave in such a manner. However time after time,
you will notice companies will extract every
dollar out of you that they can. Banks and
their ridiculous fees come to mind. They are out
to run a bussiness, and please the shareholder.
Thats their business mantra; fine. Gouge a few
customers along the way - that seems acceptable
too these days.
When the companies make a turn around and behave
in an enlightened manner, I shall revert to
behaving in an "enlightened" manner as well.
Respect consumers rights and intelligence, and
they may return the favor. Its a two way street.
Many folks seem to be standing up for one side
or the other (cable co, or ISP). Many have
pointed out that expensive infrastructure has
been laid out by the cable co's. Tough.
What I am concerned about is my best interest -
not the companies.I personally think that today,
cable lines are better suited to delivering
content than the traditioanl copper technology
(DSL or not). So I want to use those lines to
gain access to the outside. Would I like to have
my cable company as the sole high bandwidth
provider, or would I like to have a choice?
I would rather that multiple high bandwidth
access providers fight for my $'s to deliver
content to my home over cable line; the cable
companies may not like this - but i am not
here to fill their wallets (heck they already
take my money with their exagerrated cable bills).
I have no sympathy for either side of this
argument. I want whats best for me regardless of
who gets screwed (as long as its not me - but the
odds are against it - i dont have the $'s to sway
congress).
Its not like other books where words form
sentences, which more often than not make
sense right away. In GEB you have to put forward
a little more effort to understand whats being
read (ie, think). And because I can feel how much
it is enriching me, I stick with - progress is
slow; but steady.
I started reading this book about 2 yrs ago.
I still have'nt finished. I know a lot more
people who have not finished reading the book
than have. BTW, it is probably the best book
I have read.
Most open source projects dont need large
market share to survive. As long as there is
a critical mass of users that are willing to
maintain and contribute to the project,
it will survive. Most open source projects
can survive without market share (thats how they
all started, isnt it?). And I dont see BSD
interest falling below that critical mass.
Its a shame that Mozilla 5.0 final wont support
(client side) WebDAV. IE5 does it today.
With DAV we could view/modify our files without
having to ftp them back and forth. Version control
is also a plus.
More info at www.webdav.org
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Hmmm, Larry A left a startup called yahoo to
start va research. I wonder how he feels about
it...