say what you want about AOL but, if it weren't for them, I still probably wouldn't be able to send email to my mom.
How do you figure?
I live in a country where AOL has never been and most likely never will be. Yet I email my mum regularly (who also lives in a country where AOL has never been and most likely never will be). All this is done using software developed far from AOL and protocols that were developed long before AOL was dreamed up.
In my opinion it wasn't the click of death the killed Iomega. It was the ludicrous price of the media. Sure the cost per megabyte was relatively low but now that you've got 100MB on a single disc, if that disc craps out you've just blown $20. And crap out they did.
It's funny to see they just don't learn from their mistakes though. They're still in business and trying to sell USB Card readers for 3x the price of everybody else because they have floppy drives built in.
Really? Just... stop buying their products and they'll go away? Right let's start.
What decent quality movies can I watch that aren't controlled by the MPAA? Where can I buy chewing gum not made by Wrigley's? Where can I buy baked beans not made by Heinz? Where can I find a keyboard not made in China? Hell where can I find frickin' orange juice not made by Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
Where is the free market there? And I don't even live in the states!
Capitalism, in its current form, just doesn't work. Big companies just get bigger by swallowing up the little ones, government can be bought and the companies end up being able to do close to whatever they want.
Software, my friend, is just the beginning of a much larger problem and these people are attacking artificial restriction on turf they are familiar with.
The constant comparison to ghandi serves only to cheapen the sacrifice and the very dire struggle he had to go through in order to liberate his country. Whining about not being able to do something with something you don't even have to live with in the first place isn't even in the same league; it's not even close.
Yes, it's not like dodgy Intellectual Property measures are being used in medical or food industries now is it?
Software, my friend, is just the beginning of a much larger problem and these people are attacking artificial restriction on turn they are familiar with.
There's a pre-fight interview with Ted here. His straight-up opinions may have offended some of the political correctness proponents that seem to have infected Debian lately.
I wonder if the group that tried to attack him was made up of PC thugs?
Of course it may have nothing to do with that at all. For all I know the guys that attacked him may have been Muslims upset with his support of Judaism.
Do you really believe that? Honestly? That teenagers won't listen to people telling them there's a better way to live life? Forget about stereotypes for a second and consider teenagers who actually do have some self control and aren't dictated to by hormones.
You don't really think that teenagers aren't impressionable do you? That they just might be influenced by a bombardment of movies music and television effectively saying "have sex now or you're a loser, look everyone else is doing it!".
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Finally, someone got it!
(or at least everyone else was too embarrased to say anything)
I am not a number, I am a free man.
Oh, if I had mod points...
That's the funniest thing I've seen all day. And possibly true in a way.
How, pray tell, can this possibly be 0 flamebait?
It's a 100% accurate statement of fact.
And who would actually pull that off? You?
When did that happen?
:)
Perhaps it did and I just didn't notice, but they're not an option for me for 4 reasons in order of importance:
1. No Ogg Vorbis
2. DRM
3. No FM Radio
4. I'm heterosexual
Okay so option 4 may be a little unfair, but there are much better options for playing music than what Jobs is peddling.
Amnesty International has recently adopted a policy where abortion is considered a human right.
What do people here think about this? Is it over-stepping their mark?
say what you want about AOL but, if it weren't for them, I still probably wouldn't be able to send email to my mom.
How do you figure?
I live in a country where AOL has never been and most likely never will be. Yet I email my mum regularly (who also lives in a country where AOL has never been and most likely never will be). All this is done using software developed far from AOL and protocols that were developed long before AOL was dreamed up.
Almost as bad as the 'unfortunate' design of the Microsoft mouse range by s+ark or whatever his name is.
In my opinion it wasn't the click of death the killed Iomega. It was the ludicrous price of the media. Sure the cost per megabyte was relatively low but now that you've got 100MB on a single disc, if that disc craps out you've just blown $20. And crap out they did.
It's funny to see they just don't learn from their mistakes though. They're still in business and trying to sell USB Card readers for 3x the price of everybody else because they have floppy drives built in.
Just distribute all content in DRM-free Ogg Vorbis and be done with it.
And that, readers, is a textbook definition of a Nintendo Fanboy.
Stand back kids. Don't get too close.
Ah, kids these days. They have no idea how easy they have it.
Back in my day we had to modchip our Xboxes to make them usable, and we were GRATEFUL.
Why is Zonk allowed to post here again?
Does every new site need a FUD officer these days?
1. Buy XBox
2. Modchip
3. Linux
4. OSS Media Center!
Really? Just... stop buying their products and they'll go away? Right let's start.
What decent quality movies can I watch that aren't controlled by the MPAA?
Where can I buy chewing gum not made by Wrigley's?
Where can I buy baked beans not made by Heinz?
Where can I find a keyboard not made in China?
Hell where can I find frickin' orange juice not made by Coca-Cola or Pepsi?
Where is the free market there? And I don't even live in the states!
Capitalism, in its current form, just doesn't work. Big companies just get bigger by swallowing up the little ones, government can be bought and the companies end up being able to do close to whatever they want.
A correction to a typo in my parent post:
Software, my friend, is just the beginning of a much larger problem and these people are attacking artificial restriction on turf they are familiar with.
That now reads "turf" not "turn".
Very good.
And what do you do when your government is no longer serving that purpose?
The constant comparison to ghandi serves only to cheapen the sacrifice and the very dire struggle he had to go through in order to liberate his country. Whining about not being able to do something with something you don't even have to live with in the first place isn't even in the same league; it's not even close.
Yes, it's not like dodgy Intellectual Property measures are being used in medical or food industries now is it?
Software, my friend, is just the beginning of a much larger problem and these people are attacking artificial restriction on turn they are familiar with.
Good on them says I.
There's a pre-fight interview with Ted here. His straight-up opinions may have offended some of the political correctness proponents that seem to have infected Debian lately.
I wonder if the group that tried to attack him was made up of PC thugs?
Of course it may have nothing to do with that at all. For all I know the guys that attacked him may have been Muslims upset with his support of Judaism.
What's really quite sad is that at LCA2006 nearly half the laptops delegates brought were Apple.
>i>The Wikipedia article is crap.
;-)
So fix it!
Teach your kids to be sexual[sic] healthy and not sexually repressed.
Care to define these two conditions?
Who lives in a country where gay people can mary and teens rarely get pregnant.
I'm sure there's a correlation there somewhere...
Do you really believe that? Honestly? That teenagers won't listen to people telling them there's a better way to live life? Forget about stereotypes for a second and consider teenagers who actually do have some self control and aren't dictated to by hormones.
You don't really think that teenagers aren't impressionable do you? That they just might be influenced by a bombardment of movies music and television effectively saying "have sex now or you're a loser, look everyone else is doing it!".