The first part makes sense, but the second clearly treads on free speech
This does nothing to revoke the freedom priviledges of adults. It only serves to protect minors. What negative outcome could this possibly have other than domain name disputes (which are easily solved)?
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No... Using the rate guide for my locale, I come up with a minimum charge of $0.08221 per kWh. Based on a 24-7 use of 300 watts, I come up with nearly $18 per month. That is not cheap but I'd like to know where you get your numbers from.
My Win2k boxen are stable enough to be up for months without a reboot. What I need is a box that I can leave on 24-7 and not have to worry about energy consumption. These things are expensive to leave awake all day. Seriously. Do the math.
The only way this bill will pass is if people aren't educated about the facts, and don't speak out against it.
And that is the whole problem with this country: the citizens are, for the most part, isolationists. Everyone would rather watch a baseball game than to get involved in government. In the end, the money makes the decisions, not the constituents.
The other day, I emailed my senators only to get back the *expected* form letter. They have too many people to represent. The problem is that the people realize this and simply remove themselves from the so-called democracy leaving the politicians to protect their own interests.
A great solution to this would be to implement some sort of government democracy but who are the politicians to eliminate their own jobs? Hell, they didn't like the social security system so they invented their own taxpayer funded system for themselves to live under. Had they taken a vote, every citizen of the country would have voted against this but it is in place today.
I would actually be satisfied if the states implemented their own secured slash based site. In this respect, the senators wouldn't have to read *every* correspondence - they could just let moderation takes its course and have a good grasp of what is on people's minds...
The FBI says internet auction fraud was the biggest source of complaints last year, according to the annual report by the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre
Consider the source. If polled, I think that X10/java pop-ups would be the overwhelming complaint. When will mozilla have a java enable/disable button. It is currently too "required" to turn off so it would be nice to have a quick method of turning it on/off.
This is what I've been preaching all along. If they did this, then consumers would start bitching about the fact that MS no longers allow vendors to sell licenses that aren't physically affixed to a PC. With the old Windows, the license was transferrable since the holographic license was seperate (it was stuck to the manual). MS now realizes that they are running out of "new releases" so they have all this crap with trying to make the license non-transferrable. Hell, you can't even get an installable package with a PC anymore - only restore images. And you can bet your sweet bippie that MS was behind all of this. Greedy bastards.
The bottom line is that an itemization of costs would make the consumer stop throwing away their valuable license with their old PC. The market would eventually become saturated (or supersaturated which was my case with Win95 - I'm still throwing those things away) and MS will cease to be an OS vendor. I see no reason for a consumer to venture beyond Windows 2K or XP.
With that in mind, the gov't needs to set a guideline for the support of products. If an OS is still viable, then there is no reason that MS should stop supporting it.
Won't the MPAA be banning this technology soon enough? Pretty soon, you'll be able to transmit your HDTV feeds and such to all of the neighbors and share cable/satellite bills.
Fool's gold. Especially considering this post was copied verbatim from a joke email that was going around not long ago.
Actually, I didn't have the email handy so I had to do it from memory but it should be close. I'm not seeking "gold" as I have been at the karma cap for some time now. I just thought that this was appropriate for this topic. You have to realize that not everyone gets the same email as you do.
Why don't they just dip their nuts in the PC parts bin like MS? I don't see how they can compete when they have to put so into R&D. If they used Linux, it would be *that* much better. Talk about the killer app.
Remeber, OpenGL only exists with the support that it has at this point because of a video game.
Don't see anything about Macrovision on the TV out.. did I miss that ?
Via has it covered with their new mini-ITX board. Macrovision out on the Svideo...
Check out the even smaller mini-ITX platform
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Check out the new mini-ITX platform that VIA has put together. Supposed to be fanless and under $100 with processor.
If someone doesn't sit down and develop a Linux based set of appliance firmware, then Microsoft will fill yet another market. 3D will be damn cheap soon enough and will become part of these products.
So it's taken just over 3 years to get to a beta stage. Fast in geological time keeping, but certainly not what we used to call internet time.
You also have to remember that this browser is competing with IE6 which has taken HOW LONG? If anyone knows me at all, then they know how much I bitch about how Linux couldn't hold a candle to MS products on the desktop.
I downloaded Mozilla on Monday and I was surprised. There are some things in there that even IE doesn't have. The stability is great. Tabbed browsing is great. Holy shit - I might actually switch.
Then the FCC needs to set customer service guidelines. There is no incentive for the cablecos to screw over their customers since they have a monopoly in many areas.
The other day I spent 3 hours trying to get my fucking address changed. My bill still goes to my old residence (the modem works at the new house). I finally gave up because they are so damn stupid. It isn't worth my time.
Give me a choice or implement some sort of law that required them to resolve my issue in a timely manner or pay me for my time.
The funny part is that most entry level processor / media solutions these days have enough power to do more than just a couple tasks. The problem is that vendors *want* to offer a tiered product line for the sake of maximizing revenue/income.
Take a look at VIA's new mini-ITX reference board. It is only 170mm square and they claim fanless operation with minimal power consumption. Target price is under $100 including processor. If a talented *someone* could sit down with linux and design a quality open solution for Mp3 devices, then it wouldn't be long before others add TV time-shifting, DVD, HDTV and possibly even gaming (in the future, near 3D will be plenty cheap), then consumers would have an option other than the standard-issue MS product that will eventually fill the market. You think that Sony can afford to put millions into playstation developement when all that MS has to do is reach into the PC parts bin? Playstation will be dead or X86-based real soon. The economies of scale just don't favor non-x86 anymore.
My prediction:
The various/uncollaborated open source projects will sit in alpha and beta stages while Microsoft toils away at a mediocre standard that works at the consumer's expense of an increased stranglehold. They've already started. Soon, they will expand their technologies to the automobile and soon everyone will have a car capable of communicating wirelessly with their Windows household. Your car's GPS will track every aspect of its life. Was/is little Billy speeding? What was my fuel mileage on the vacation last summer? How did it compare with this summer's vacation? Ah - the car is due for an oil change. I'll just find a local provider via the provided MS software and the map will be uploaded into the car's navigation system. Microsoft gets a small percentage of the oil change cost, of course. What about road hazzards? The ABS & GPS systems in the car could warn others of potentially slippery roads. Airbag go off? Warn others and call for an ambulance. Linux *could* do this but it won't because MS will establish themselves before it happens. Enough about the cars...
My point is that while the linux community toils away at various different projects, they haven't a single focused effort in the new areas that will allow MS to continue their world domination. Back to the MP3 player:
So what's the deal? Why can't some talented (not me or I would have done it) entity come up with a stripped down, lightweight, open version of Linux for the purpose of having an open-standard for consumers? Sure - their isn't much money in it but it *has to* happen if MS is to be toppled. It would seem like VIA would put some money into LinuxBIOS for their new mini-ITX form factor - they could sell processors for financial gain and subsidize this development. Soon, people would be piecing together their own DVD/MP3/DivX media players - and VIA would have a piece of the action. The pieces are all there but nobody ever bothers to try and put them together...
I can't actually think of a single person I know who has a legal copy of anything above windows 95.
What MS realizes is that they are running out of "new releases" of Windows. This is why most official licenses come phsyically affixed to the PC in question. Since you can't get the license off of the PC (they are designed to destroy themselves if removed), you can't transfer the license. This should be illegal! Once the license has been purchased, there is no reason that it can't be used on new PCs. This frightens MS since it would effectively eliminate the need to sell an OS, sooner or later. I currently see no need to move from Windows 2k in the next 5-10 years (unless Linux becomes viable for me).
What the DOJ needs to do is require MS to license individuals instead of PCs. If someone has already purchased an XP license, then they should be able to buy a PC without the MS tax and simply register it under their name. The DOJ should also REQUIRE PC vendors to itemize the cost of the operating system on new PC sales. This would cause consumers to become cost-conscious of the MS-tax of which MS has done a good job to hide. Once this happens, Linux becomes more viable and consumers stop throwing away Windows licenses with their old PC.
If you want to warez your books, sell them to students instead of your bookstore, everyone wins in that deal. =]
I have found that the instructors do their damned best to change the text as frequently as possible. In this respect, the book becomes useless for anyone at the school so selling to students isn't even an option.
Do what I did: round everyone's books up, pile them up in a parking lot on campus and set them on fire. I realize that this is a waste but it got lots of press and brought the students' frustration to the public.
Although it hasn't been dealt with, they are currently investigating instructor "kick backs" from the text manufacturers. This is commonplace. What we need is for the professors who write their own texts to "open source" them for other professors to use and modify freely.
The internet is a huge resource of mostly free material. There isn't any reason that text books can't go to the wayside.
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The first part makes sense, but the second clearly treads on free speech
This does nothing to revoke the freedom priviledges of adults. It only serves to protect minors. What negative outcome could this possibly have other than domain name disputes (which are easily solved)?
No... Using the rate guide for my locale, I come up with a minimum charge of $0.08221 per kWh. Based on a 24-7 use of 300 watts, I come up with nearly $18 per month. That is not cheap but I'd like to know where you get your numbers from.
My Win2k boxen are stable enough to be up for months without a reboot. What I need is a box that I can leave on 24-7 and not have to worry about energy consumption. These things are expensive to leave awake all day. Seriously. Do the math.
The only way this bill will pass is if people aren't educated about the facts, and don't speak out against it.
And that is the whole problem with this country: the citizens are, for the most part, isolationists. Everyone would rather watch a baseball game than to get involved in government. In the end, the money makes the decisions, not the constituents.
The other day, I emailed my senators only to get back the *expected* form letter. They have too many people to represent. The problem is that the people realize this and simply remove themselves from the so-called democracy leaving the politicians to protect their own interests.
A great solution to this would be to implement some sort of government democracy but who are the politicians to eliminate their own jobs? Hell, they didn't like the social security system so they invented their own taxpayer funded system for themselves to live under. Had they taken a vote, every citizen of the country would have voted against this but it is in place today.
I would actually be satisfied if the states implemented their own secured slash based site. In this respect, the senators wouldn't have to read *every* correspondence - they could just let moderation takes its course and have a good grasp of what is on people's minds...
But now it will be XP 2.0 (dare we call it 3.11?) that will have the good stuff. I am holding my breath, I am.
Somewhat unrelated but along the same thought:
Will Intel create a 4.77Ghz "Pentium XT" to celebrate the 1000 fold increase in operating speed over the 4.77Mhz 8086 XT processor?
I'm actually serious. I think it would be appropriate considering AMD's use of the XP trademark...
The FBI says internet auction fraud was the biggest source of complaints last year, according to the annual report by the Internet Fraud Complaint Centre
Consider the source. If polled, I think that X10/java pop-ups would be the overwhelming complaint. When will mozilla have a java enable/disable button. It is currently too "required" to turn off so it would be nice to have a quick method of turning it on/off.
This is what I've been preaching all along. If they did this, then consumers would start bitching about the fact that MS no longers allow vendors to sell licenses that aren't physically affixed to a PC. With the old Windows, the license was transferrable since the holographic license was seperate (it was stuck to the manual). MS now realizes that they are running out of "new releases" so they have all this crap with trying to make the license non-transferrable. Hell, you can't even get an installable package with a PC anymore - only restore images. And you can bet your sweet bippie that MS was behind all of this. Greedy bastards.
The bottom line is that an itemization of costs would make the consumer stop throwing away their valuable license with their old PC. The market would eventually become saturated (or supersaturated which was my case with Win95 - I'm still throwing those things away) and MS will cease to be an OS vendor. I see no reason for a consumer to venture beyond Windows 2K or XP.
With that in mind, the gov't needs to set a guideline for the support of products. If an OS is still viable, then there is no reason that MS should stop supporting it.
Won't the MPAA be banning this technology soon enough? Pretty soon, you'll be able to transmit your HDTV feeds and such to all of the neighbors and share cable/satellite bills.
Someone... set up us the bomb!
No...
Someone set up us a beowulf cluster of these!
Fool's gold. Especially considering this post was copied verbatim from a joke email that was going around not long ago.
Actually, I didn't have the email handy so I had to do it from memory but it should be close. I'm not seeking "gold" as I have been at the karma cap for some time now. I just thought that this was appropriate for this topic. You have to realize that not everyone gets the same email as you do.
Next time, be quicker and post it yourself.
Laugh...
The Anderson partner called his secretary on his cell phone and said:
Ship the Enron documents to the Feds
But she heard:
Rip the Enron documents to shreds
It turns out that this was all just a case of bad cellular...
Right now, I'm wondering how we can use this to grow the appropriate meat chunks based on a user's input...
Why don't they just dip their nuts in the PC parts bin like MS? I don't see how they can compete when they have to put so into R&D. If they used Linux, it would be *that* much better. Talk about the killer app.
Remeber, OpenGL only exists with the support that it has at this point because of a video game.
Don't see anything about Macrovision on the TV out.. did I miss that ?
Via has it covered with their new mini-ITX board. Macrovision out on the Svideo...
Check out the new mini-ITX platform that VIA has put together. Supposed to be fanless and under $100 with processor. If someone doesn't sit down and develop a Linux based set of appliance firmware, then Microsoft will fill yet another market. 3D will be damn cheap soon enough and will become part of these products.
Something like:
... /swap
/etc/fstab like:
/swap
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap
# mkswap
Then put an entry in
/swapfile swap swap defaults,loop 0 0
And finally:
# swapon
Ahh yes...
That should be entirely clear for all Windows users!
I see now.
In my office complex, there are no less than 3 unrestricted 802.11b access points. I actually *use* these for casual surfing.
If that doesn't work, my cable modem seems to work fine at work (same subnet).
Dobedoobie doo....
The GNU-Friends should have a show right after Superfriends.
Yes - GNUperfriends!
So it's taken just over 3 years to get to a beta stage. Fast in geological time keeping, but certainly not what we used to call internet time.
You also have to remember that this browser is competing with IE6 which has taken HOW LONG? If anyone knows me at all, then they know how much I bitch about how Linux couldn't hold a candle to MS products on the desktop.
I downloaded Mozilla on Monday and I was surprised. There are some things in there that even IE doesn't have. The stability is great. Tabbed browsing is great. Holy shit - I might actually switch.
Then the FCC needs to set customer service guidelines. There is no incentive for the cablecos to screw over their customers since they have a monopoly in many areas.
The other day I spent 3 hours trying to get my fucking address changed. My bill still goes to my old residence (the modem works at the new house). I finally gave up because they are so damn stupid. It isn't worth my time.
Give me a choice or implement some sort of law that required them to resolve my issue in a timely manner or pay me for my time.
Damnit
The funny part is that most entry level processor / media solutions these days have enough power to do more than just a couple tasks. The problem is that vendors *want* to offer a tiered product line for the sake of maximizing revenue/income.
Take a look at VIA's new mini-ITX reference board. It is only 170mm square and they claim fanless operation with minimal power consumption. Target price is under $100 including processor. If a talented *someone* could sit down with linux and design a quality open solution for Mp3 devices, then it wouldn't be long before others add TV time-shifting, DVD, HDTV and possibly even gaming (in the future, near 3D will be plenty cheap), then consumers would have an option other than the standard-issue MS product that will eventually fill the market. You think that Sony can afford to put millions into playstation developement when all that MS has to do is reach into the PC parts bin? Playstation will be dead or X86-based real soon. The economies of scale just don't favor non-x86 anymore.
My prediction:
The various/uncollaborated open source projects will sit in alpha and beta stages while Microsoft toils away at a mediocre standard that works at the consumer's expense of an increased stranglehold. They've already started. Soon, they will expand their technologies to the automobile and soon everyone will have a car capable of communicating wirelessly with their Windows household. Your car's GPS will track every aspect of its life. Was/is little Billy speeding? What was my fuel mileage on the vacation last summer? How did it compare with this summer's vacation? Ah - the car is due for an oil change. I'll just find a local provider via the provided MS software and the map will be uploaded into the car's navigation system. Microsoft gets a small percentage of the oil change cost, of course. What about road hazzards? The ABS & GPS systems in the car could warn others of potentially slippery roads. Airbag go off? Warn others and call for an ambulance. Linux *could* do this but it won't because MS will establish themselves before it happens. Enough about the cars...
My point is that while the linux community toils away at various different projects, they haven't a single focused effort in the new areas that will allow MS to continue their world domination. Back to the MP3 player:
So what's the deal? Why can't some talented (not me or I would have done it) entity come up with a stripped down, lightweight, open version of Linux for the purpose of having an open-standard for consumers? Sure - their isn't much money in it but it *has to* happen if MS is to be toppled. It would seem like VIA would put some money into LinuxBIOS for their new mini-ITX form factor - they could sell processors for financial gain and subsidize this development. Soon, people would be piecing together their own DVD/MP3/DivX media players - and VIA would have a piece of the action. The pieces are all there but nobody ever bothers to try and put them together...
Sigh...
They're not claiming journalistic objectivity here.
Or journalistic integrity, for that matter.
As a side note, they left one of their affiliate sites unsecured. If you want to email all of their Regional VPs, then click here.
Cheetos!
>What's to stop someone from signing up with one
>account and distributing the authentication
>information to all their friends?
if ( user.multiple_session() )
{
user.terminate()
}
I can't actually think of a single person I know who has a legal copy of anything above windows 95.
What MS realizes is that they are running out of "new releases" of Windows. This is why most official licenses come phsyically affixed to the PC in question. Since you can't get the license off of the PC (they are designed to destroy themselves if removed), you can't transfer the license. This should be illegal! Once the license has been purchased, there is no reason that it can't be used on new PCs. This frightens MS since it would effectively eliminate the need to sell an OS, sooner or later. I currently see no need to move from Windows 2k in the next 5-10 years (unless Linux becomes viable for me).
What the DOJ needs to do is require MS to license individuals instead of PCs. If someone has already purchased an XP license, then they should be able to buy a PC without the MS tax and simply register it under their name. The DOJ should also REQUIRE PC vendors to itemize the cost of the operating system on new PC sales. This would cause consumers to become cost-conscious of the MS-tax of which MS has done a good job to hide. Once this happens, Linux becomes more viable and consumers stop throwing away Windows licenses with their old PC.
But who is gonna listen?
If you want to warez your books, sell them to students instead of your bookstore, everyone wins in that deal. =]
I have found that the instructors do their damned best to change the text as frequently as possible. In this respect, the book becomes useless for anyone at the school so selling to students isn't even an option.
Do what I did: round everyone's books up, pile them up in a parking lot on campus and set them on fire. I realize that this is a waste but it got lots of press and brought the students' frustration to the public.
Although it hasn't been dealt with, they are currently investigating instructor "kick backs" from the text manufacturers. This is commonplace. What we need is for the professors who write their own texts to "open source" them for other professors to use and modify freely.
The internet is a huge resource of mostly free material. There isn't any reason that text books can't go to the wayside.