January 1st 2006 MS Ships Longhorn with IE and Media Player as part of the OS.
January 2nd 2006 Slashdot posts links to 100 different articles talking about how the "Feds are looking at MS" and may file another Anti-Trust lawsuit.
January 3rd 2006 Feds file lawsuit.
January 4th 2006 MS Laughs and says "Oh no! lets go to court...AGAIN".
January 1st 2011 5 years later the government wins the case, but by this time Longhorn2K and LonghornXP have already been released - MS now has 328397834972392345 Billion in the bank and continues to ignore the antitrust settlement... again.
January 2nd 2011 Slashdot posts about how the Fed are keeping an eye on MS Windows 20011 or rather OSXI, readers post about how Apple should file a lawsuit...
With companies like the EFF making it retarded easy to email the fuck out of your local senate/representative it's a shame not enough/.er's participate. I participate and i'm sure a few on here do as well. But the fact remains that there are more people who complain and voice very loudly on message boards about their frustrations, yet never bother to even sign petitions, join up with local organizations, or take part in pickets.
"Great business model guys. Way to engender yourselves to your biggest customer base."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it is actually a GREAT business model when NO ONE in the country other than a few liberal-do-nothing-singers and power-posting-high-karma-slashdotters are the only ones who seem to give a rats ass.
That may be a bit of a troll statement there, but honestly, I aksed my cousin (18) who just bought a Britney Spears Album what she thought - and she shrugged and said she didn't care. I asked my coworker who just bought an OutKast album (33) and she replied that she buys CD's all the time and thinks downloading music should be citationable. I asked my friend (24) who just downloaded Modest Mouse's album and he said "yeah that's fucked up shit man - want a hit?"
As a society we are allowing a select few old ass neophytes decide on the laws of our country and VERY FEW are actually doing ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
So unless YOU are gonna get OFF YOUR ASS, and do something other than POST on slashdot about how you hate the RIAA then STFU and STOP COMPLAINING.
Maybe the answer should be solved using that amendment we almost have taken away...you know...the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS!
Companies do NOT care if you have talk to a guy speaking Spanglish, Engrish, or Hinduish - They only care about saving money and doing things for LESS.
COmpanies used to use child labor util we made laws about it. Companies used to work people round the clock until we made laws about it. From their past track record companies WILL DO whatever they can GET AWAY WITH - until we unite and make a law about it.
I think they have a HUGE amount of flaws in their system, but I think the sellers chosen for the pilot have to ensure copyright protection for the content and meet service-level agreements.is more of them saying "Sellers chosen can sell other peoples (like Snoop Dogs) shit"
I'm not against subscriptions in general, I just think that news should be "free" and save the subscription section for the editorials, exclusive interviews, and humor type pieces.
If I remember correctly the cost of an ad in the NYT for say any "consumer product" starts at around $930 per INCH of space - For full size pages it's discounted but still VERY costly.
Also the cost of printing news papers is dirt cheap, yet they sell them for the price of $5.75/wk if you get a full 7 day a week subscription - but oh guess what that goes up to $11.50/wk after the first 2-3 months. Or $1.65ish a paper. If the paper never made money this traditional way they wouldn't still be around.
Now the website is an "extra" for their paper. They should see it as a way of getting more people to subscribe to their services or advertise on their website (which I dont know their web advert pricing) BUT instead they try to milk people and therefore have a low amount of subscribers and viewers on their site (comparatively).
yes the website costs money to run, but imo I think they could make more by openign up their archives and news articles - save the subscription stuff for things like Editorials, exclusive interviews, and Humor pieces, not news articles.
I don't understand the logic behind charging to read news articles online and frankly I don't care about the NYT. I'm of the opinion that every newspaper and website news seems to copy and paste the same articles with the exception of a few choice words put in that I just choose to ignore - for example:
Reuters "Man commits suicide"
BBC "Man commits suicide after learning his wife was having an affair"
CNN "An average Joe Worker committed suicide today after having his broken when he found out about his wife having an affair with another man"
FOX "It was a tragic day for the family of Joe Worker who committed suicide shortly after learning that his wife was having an affiar with another man."
NYT "It was a day like any other, except this time Joe Worker came home early from work to surprise his wife. Unfortunately he surprised not only her, but his wife's lover as well. After becoming enraged (wouldn't we all?) he proceeded to the basement where Joe Worker took his fathers P-Shooter and blew his head off. His wife later called authorities."
Now why do I need to PAY to be able to read a NEWS story that reads like an editorial on some guys pathetic life when all I really care about is "Just the facts" and getting to the Dilbert Comics?
I second that - I used to like webdesign - now I despise it. Everytime I create a site using W3C standards with such simple things as say a "fixed background" or aligning multiple Floats it displays beautifully in Safari, Mozilla, Netscape....BUT OH NO IE HAS TO COMPLETELY IGNORE THE COMMANDS AARARARARAGGGH!
Let me enlighten you to a little secret...over the past 4 years the US has been in a recession and IT has been hit very hard especially. A lot of shitty companies went out of business for spending tons of money on shit they didn't need. Now most companies will NOT pay for any of the listed items you mentioned. The fact that your company has been doing that means
1) Your company makes a shitload of money still
2) Your company is retarded and spending way to much probably in debt and probably going to start layoffs soon
I don't know any fellow tech industry workers who have their cell phone, pager, pda, home dsl paid for anymore. That shit just doesn't happen round here at least. Here = Bay Area.
Ok so I started reading the article and well I don't have any idea about the things he's talking about. Such as when he talks about how boxes in windows are called up by talking to the kernal where-as linux just calls xwindows or whatever - that shit goes over my head (obviously from my horrendous paraphrasing)
At first I thought he was going to talk abotu how a lot of the more mainstream distributions (by default) will boot into KDE/Gnome directly after install - both of which look a lot like windows - as in they have a start - oh I mean "begin" button that opens up a series of program shortcuts/links. Yeah i'm sure someone somewhere has made one that mimics OS X's toolbar, btu im talking about defaults here, whcih is what someone who is a windows user going to linux for the first time would probably be using.
In addition to that i've noticed linux getting way bloated (it might have even been mentione don slashdot before) Widnows with all it's included MS ware's fits on 1 cd, with Office Pro Fitting on one as well - so 2 cd's at minimum to install windows/office and be running. With the latest Redhat, Mandrake, or god forbid SUSE, I have about 987,645 CD's I have to switch out. I remember when I coudl go and find a copy of Redhat with Star Office that both fit together on 1 cd....now I need at least 4.
I definately agree that this is a big slap in the face to them, however I think you are kind of disallutioned as to how this happened.
If someone has physical access to a machine you can get anything from it, given enough time. And in my experience i've NEVER worked at a place where I couldn't serious fuck up some shit if I was an unethical person.
For instance at my current job, I could sync my works global email address book with my PDA, sell them all. I also have full access to our file server so I could do a nice little FORMAT for shits and giggles. Sure i'd get nailed for all these things, but I have a good amount of common sense and respect for my job. Obviously this AOL guy did not.
Never underestimate the power of one determined individual. To use a harsh anaology - think of all the presidential assinations(or attempted), sure a good amount were caught and executed, but they still were able to do what they set out to do.
Your Gmail account may be spam free for a while but IF at some point someone gets determined enough they can take your info and sell it off, sure they may have to suffer the consequences, but to them it may be worth the risk.
Honestly i've had really bad luck lately and if someone offered me $50,000 cash (more than my yearly salary) for the emails at my work I would have a very hard time saying no. Of course my fear of things like losing my job and getting sued would override the tempatation, but I blame that on my rational thinking process.
it means we don't have to see the faces of that pregnant chick or little boy in their back yard, as wel fry the fuck out of them....my tax dollars at work...yay:/
DS9's setting was on a rundown shitty star base in the far edges of space complete with a grundgy dive space bar and casino. The bajoreans were recently liberated slaves of the cardassians and hence a "poor" race....So to me if you have poor people living in a dirty ass broken down star base it's a Space Ghetto...
Well I thought it was on UPN, it doesn't really matter which popular station it was on, it doesn't change the fact that DS9 was Star Trek in the Ghetto...By ghetto I mean just that
A former Cardassian turned Bajorean base that's run down, crappy, has malfunctions and supply problems. The Bajoreans from the series seamed like a pretty sorry ass race of people who obviously don't have the wealth that many others in that setting do. So in my opinion
Poor people living in a run down place = Ghetto...doesn't amtter if it's in space or not, it's still a ghetto...
"Have any Slashdot readers ever actually used the backwards compatibility on their PlayStation 2?"
Um yeah who the hell doesn't?! I play all my PS1 games on my PS2 and look forward to playing my PS2-PS1 games on my PS3 when it comes out. As much as i'd hate to see the Xbox go the Nintendo route and fuck over their consumer base I think MS should....
The reason is the Xbox is great, but it's so freeking easy to pirate the games on it, and I understand if they want to make it more secure/proprietary. As it is now, you put your mod chip in and a larger drive, flash the bios and install the new dashboard and from then on any game you rent you simply hit "copy to hard drive" and its yours. You NEVER buy games...EVER...
With the PS2 yeah you can mod it to play burned copies, but then you got to fuck with your burner software and be picky about your cd media. Also the mod chip for the PS2 is a solder only and not a "stick and screw" chip like some of the the xbox ones.
And I think a great (paraphrased) line from it was
"...Nostalgia belongs in a museum...and you have to decide if you're running a museum, or you're running a Casino..."
Star Trek with Captain Kirk was new original and fun. Star Trek with Captain Picard was a great remake of the original. Star Trek Deep Space Nine seemed like the UPN-Space-Ghetto show and not so much of a Star Trek...Star Trek Voyager had an interesting premise, but the characters seemed to fall apart with me giving barely a rats ass if anything bad would have happened to them. Star Trek Enterprise is again a remake, but done in an original way much like Generations, but prequils don't hold my interest nearly enough as (good) sequels.
I think we've done enough with Star Trek and i'd rather see the creativeness go somewhere else. I liked a lot of the ideas behind shows like Babylon5, Farscape and (very very little) of Lexx. But the calibur of acting and dialogue wasn't always there. Stargate seems to be the only sci-fi show of this era that really impresses and I think has the ability to continue for a while, but we'll see, they have a new spin off coming along and it could totally suck without Macgyver.
First off the Xbox is a computer and the mods that can be done with it (ie: Linux and Xecuter) are awesome. However the games (good games) are few and far between and many are still on their way. Now as a disclaimer when I say good games I mean games that get "editor choice awards" and "above 8.5's on 1-10 scales". If you take a look at say Gamespot.com and compare the top rated games on the PS2 compared to the top rated games on the Xbox you can see quite a good comparison. Granted this is mostly due to the PS2 being around longer, but the point is many games have yet to come out for the xbox...
Second MS by bringing out a new version of there console next year with stilla huge amoutn of games being developed for their first console should prove to everyone just how much MS DOES NOT GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT making a great console. And instead want to simply saturate the market with their product and get everyone using it. Then they can make the Xbox 3 which everyone will have to have and no one will complain about it.
Third MS has shown their recrds indicating they have more money than god or rather something to the affect of 84 Billion in the bank with more money rolling in. They lost shitloads (millions) of dollars on the xbox 1 they may lose a few more million on the xbox 2 but you know what? 84 Billion minus 100 Million is still more money than god...
San Jose Residence - Makes $40,000/yr... 1 Bedroom apartment + utitlities costs 15,600/yr so around 39% of your yearly pre-tax salary is spent on a place to live...God help you if you have car payments, pay taxes, feel like eating something other than ramen....
Pittsburgh Residence - Makes $40,000/yr...Owns a 4 bedroom house that costs 15,600/yr....
"And also I'm not sure what they mean by allowing people to "choose any DSL company they wish". My neighbor has DSL through SpeakEasy and my workplace has it through EarthLink."
You can have SBC phone service and any DSL provider you want. However, if you want SBC DSL service you have to have a SBC phone service as well. You can not have Verizon phone service and SBC DSL, even though you could have SBC phone service and Earthlink DSL service.
You must have the fortune of living in the same place for quite awhile, I move often (like every 6 months) and for quite some time SBC will not give you DSL service without having their phone service (which sucks because I do not need a house phone my cell is what I use) I usually end up just using other DSL providers but this last place I am in I got stuck with only SBC which sucks.
This guy just sounds incredibly retarded...Some choice quotes...Copy + Paste
"People and empires, they fall under their own weight, because they're the only ones heavy enough to take them down."
"It's not going to be that somebody else actually knows better, because Microsoft actually does have a pretty good idea of what one generalized virtual person wants."
"Microsoft will be the fall of Microsoft, and that's when the little pieces that cooperate with each other will thrive. Will Mozilla beat Microsoft? No. Can Mozilla thrive? Yes. What will make Mozilla thrive? Microsoft's fall under their own weight."
- These are just from the first blurb, continueing to read the rest of the article leads me to belive that he is not talking about Mozilla development at all, or at least he has Mozilla confused with Star Wars and Microsoft with Darth Vadar and maybe Netscape is Wicket the Ewok or some shit, and coding is some new spiritual religion I just learned that creates souls in software....
Slashdot Mirror
January 1st 2006
MS Ships Longhorn with IE and Media Player as part of the OS.
January 2nd 2006
Slashdot posts links to 100 different articles talking about how the "Feds are looking at MS" and may file another Anti-Trust lawsuit.
January 3rd 2006
Feds file lawsuit.
January 4th 2006
MS Laughs and says "Oh no! lets go to court...AGAIN".
January 1st 2011
5 years later the government wins the case, but by this time Longhorn2K and LonghornXP have already been released - MS now has 328397834972392345 Billion in the bank and continues to ignore the antitrust settlement... again.
January 2nd 2011
Slashdot posts about how the Fed are keeping an eye on MS Windows 20011 or rather OSXI, readers post about how Apple should file a lawsuit...
With companies like the EFF making it retarded easy to email the fuck out of your local senate/representative it's a shame not enough /.er's participate. I participate and i'm sure a few on here do as well. But the fact remains that there are more people who complain and voice very loudly on message boards about their frustrations, yet never bother to even sign petitions, join up with local organizations, or take part in pickets.
"Great business model guys. Way to engender yourselves to your biggest customer base."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA it is actually a GREAT business model when NO ONE in the country other than a few liberal-do-nothing-singers and power-posting-high-karma-slashdotters are the only ones who seem to give a rats ass.
That may be a bit of a troll statement there, but honestly, I aksed my cousin (18) who just bought a Britney Spears Album what she thought - and she shrugged and said she didn't care. I asked my coworker who just bought an OutKast album (33) and she replied that she buys CD's all the time and thinks downloading music should be citationable. I asked my friend (24) who just downloaded Modest Mouse's album and he said "yeah that's fucked up shit man - want a hit?"
As a society we are allowing a select few old ass neophytes decide on the laws of our country and VERY FEW are actually doing ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
So unless YOU are gonna get OFF YOUR ASS, and do something other than POST on slashdot about how you hate the RIAA then STFU and STOP COMPLAINING.
Maybe the answer should be solved using that amendment we almost have taken away...you know...the RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS!
Companies do NOT care if you have talk to a guy speaking Spanglish, Engrish, or Hinduish - They only care about saving money and doing things for LESS.
COmpanies used to use child labor util we made laws about it. Companies used to work people round the clock until we made laws about it. From their past track record companies WILL DO whatever they can GET AWAY WITH - until we unite and make a law about it.
SO GET OUT THERE and crack some skulls!
I think they have a HUGE amount of flaws in their system, but I think the sellers chosen for the pilot have to ensure copyright protection for the content and meet service-level agreements.is more of them saying "Sellers chosen can sell other peoples (like Snoop Dogs) shit"
I'm not against subscriptions in general, I just think that news should be "free" and save the subscription section for the editorials, exclusive interviews, and humor type pieces.
If I remember correctly the cost of an ad in the NYT for say any "consumer product" starts at around $930 per INCH of space - For full size pages it's discounted but still VERY costly.
Also the cost of printing news papers is dirt cheap, yet they sell them for the price of $5.75/wk if you get a full 7 day a week subscription - but oh guess what that goes up to $11.50/wk after the first 2-3 months. Or $1.65ish a paper. If the paper never made money this traditional way they wouldn't still be around.
Now the website is an "extra" for their paper. They should see it as a way of getting more people to subscribe to their services or advertise on their website (which I dont know their web advert pricing) BUT instead they try to milk people and therefore have a low amount of subscribers and viewers on their site (comparatively).
yes the website costs money to run, but imo I think they could make more by openign up their archives and news articles - save the subscription stuff for things like Editorials, exclusive interviews, and Humor pieces, not news articles.
having his *HEART* broken
Note to self: Must remember to hit the PREVIEW button before hitting the SUBMIT button....UGH
I don't understand the logic behind charging to read news articles online and frankly I don't care about the NYT. I'm of the opinion that every newspaper and website news seems to copy and paste the same articles with the exception of a few choice words put in that I just choose to ignore - for example:
Reuters
"Man commits suicide"
BBC
"Man commits suicide after learning his wife was having an affair"
CNN
"An average Joe Worker committed suicide today after having his broken when he found out about his wife having an affair with another man"
FOX
"It was a tragic day for the family of Joe Worker who committed suicide shortly after learning that his wife was having an affiar with another man."
NYT
"It was a day like any other, except this time Joe Worker came home early from work to surprise his wife. Unfortunately he surprised not only her, but his wife's lover as well. After becoming enraged (wouldn't we all?) he proceeded to the basement where Joe Worker took his fathers P-Shooter and blew his head off. His wife later called authorities."
Now why do I need to PAY to be able to read a NEWS story that reads like an editorial on some guys pathetic life when all I really care about is "Just the facts" and getting to the Dilbert Comics?
Why is that a 0 score - I chuckled....
I second that - I used to like webdesign - now I despise it. Everytime I create a site using W3C standards with such simple things as say a "fixed background" or aligning multiple Floats it displays beautifully in Safari, Mozilla, Netscape....BUT OH NO IE HAS TO COMPLETELY IGNORE THE COMMANDS AARARARARAGGGH!
"BTD's" as well as STD's
Let me enlighten you to a little secret...over the past 4 years the US has been in a recession and IT has been hit very hard especially. A lot of shitty companies went out of business for spending tons of money on shit they didn't need. Now most companies will NOT pay for any of the listed items you mentioned. The fact that your company has been doing that means
1) Your company makes a shitload of money still
2) Your company is retarded and spending way to much probably in debt and probably going to start layoffs soon
I don't know any fellow tech industry workers who have their cell phone, pager, pda, home dsl paid for anymore. That shit just doesn't happen round here at least. Here = Bay Area.
Ok so I started reading the article and well I don't have any idea about the things he's talking about. Such as when he talks about how boxes in windows are called up by talking to the kernal where-as linux just calls xwindows or whatever - that shit goes over my head (obviously from my horrendous paraphrasing)
At first I thought he was going to talk abotu how a lot of the more mainstream distributions (by default) will boot into KDE/Gnome directly after install - both of which look a lot like windows - as in they have a start - oh I mean "begin" button that opens up a series of program shortcuts/links. Yeah i'm sure someone somewhere has made one that mimics OS X's toolbar, btu im talking about defaults here, whcih is what someone who is a windows user going to linux for the first time would probably be using.
In addition to that i've noticed linux getting way bloated (it might have even been mentione don slashdot before) Widnows with all it's included MS ware's fits on 1 cd, with Office Pro Fitting on one as well - so 2 cd's at minimum to install windows/office and be running. With the latest Redhat, Mandrake, or god forbid SUSE, I have about 987,645 CD's I have to switch out. I remember when I coudl go and find a copy of Redhat with Star Office that both fit together on 1 cd....now I need at least 4.
oh well just my observations I guess.
I definately agree that this is a big slap in the face to them, however I think you are kind of disallutioned as to how this happened.
If someone has physical access to a machine you can get anything from it, given enough time. And in my experience i've NEVER worked at a place where I couldn't serious fuck up some shit if I was an unethical person.
For instance at my current job, I could sync my works global email address book with my PDA, sell them all. I also have full access to our file server so I could do a nice little FORMAT for shits and giggles. Sure i'd get nailed for all these things, but I have a good amount of common sense and respect for my job. Obviously this AOL guy did not.
Never underestimate the power of one determined individual. To use a harsh anaology - think of all the presidential assinations(or attempted), sure a good amount were caught and executed, but they still were able to do what they set out to do.
Your Gmail account may be spam free for a while but IF at some point someone gets determined enough they can take your info and sell it off, sure they may have to suffer the consequences, but to them it may be worth the risk.
Honestly i've had really bad luck lately and if someone offered me $50,000 cash (more than my yearly salary) for the emails at my work I would have a very hard time saying no. Of course my fear of things like losing my job and getting sued would override the tempatation, but I blame that on my rational thinking process.
it means we don't have to see the faces of that pregnant chick or little boy in their back yard, as wel fry the fuck out of them....my tax dollars at work...yay :/
How am I a bigot?
DS9's setting was on a rundown shitty star base in the far edges of space complete with a grundgy dive space bar and casino. The bajoreans were recently liberated slaves of the cardassians and hence a "poor" race....So to me if you have poor people living in a dirty ass broken down star base it's a Space Ghetto...
Well I thought it was on UPN, it doesn't really matter which popular station it was on, it doesn't change the fact that DS9 was Star Trek in the Ghetto...By ghetto I mean just that
A former Cardassian turned Bajorean base that's run down, crappy, has malfunctions and supply problems. The Bajoreans from the series seamed like a pretty sorry ass race of people who obviously don't have the wealth that many others in that setting do. So in my opinion
Poor people living in a run down place = Ghetto...doesn't amtter if it's in space or not, it's still a ghetto...
"Have any Slashdot readers ever actually used the backwards compatibility on their PlayStation 2?"
Um yeah who the hell doesn't?! I play all my PS1 games on my PS2 and look forward to playing my PS2-PS1 games on my PS3 when it comes out. As much as i'd hate to see the Xbox go the Nintendo route and fuck over their consumer base I think MS should....
The reason is the Xbox is great, but it's so freeking easy to pirate the games on it, and I understand if they want to make it more secure/proprietary. As it is now, you put your mod chip in and a larger drive, flash the bios and install the new dashboard and from then on any game you rent you simply hit "copy to hard drive" and its yours. You NEVER buy games...EVER...
With the PS2 yeah you can mod it to play burned copies, but then you got to fuck with your burner software and be picky about your cd media. Also the mod chip for the PS2 is a solder only and not a "stick and screw" chip like some of the the xbox ones.
And I think a great (paraphrased) line from it was
"...Nostalgia belongs in a museum...and you have to decide if you're running a museum, or you're running a Casino..."
Star Trek with Captain Kirk was new original and fun. Star Trek with Captain Picard was a great remake of the original. Star Trek Deep Space Nine seemed like the UPN-Space-Ghetto show and not so much of a Star Trek...Star Trek Voyager had an interesting premise, but the characters seemed to fall apart with me giving barely a rats ass if anything bad would have happened to them. Star Trek Enterprise is again a remake, but done in an original way much like Generations, but prequils don't hold my interest nearly enough as (good) sequels.
I think we've done enough with Star Trek and i'd rather see the creativeness go somewhere else. I liked a lot of the ideas behind shows like Babylon5, Farscape and (very very little) of Lexx. But the calibur of acting and dialogue wasn't always there. Stargate seems to be the only sci-fi show of this era that really impresses and I think has the ability to continue for a while, but we'll see, they have a new spin off coming along and it could totally suck without Macgyver.
First off the Xbox is a computer and the mods that can be done with it (ie: Linux and Xecuter) are awesome. However the games (good games) are few and far between and many are still on their way. Now as a disclaimer when I say good games I mean games that get "editor choice awards" and "above 8.5's on 1-10 scales". If you take a look at say Gamespot.com and compare the top rated games on the PS2 compared to the top rated games on the Xbox you can see quite a good comparison. Granted this is mostly due to the PS2 being around longer, but the point is many games have yet to come out for the xbox...
Second MS by bringing out a new version of there console next year with stilla huge amoutn of games being developed for their first console should prove to everyone just how much MS DOES NOT GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT making a great console. And instead want to simply saturate the market with their product and get everyone using it. Then they can make the Xbox 3 which everyone will have to have and no one will complain about it.
Third MS has shown their recrds indicating they have more money than god or rather something to the affect of 84 Billion in the bank with more money rolling in. They lost shitloads (millions) of dollars on the xbox 1 they may lose a few more million on the xbox 2 but you know what? 84 Billion minus 100 Million is still more money than god...
Cost of Living....
San Jose Residence - Makes $40,000/yr... 1 Bedroom apartment + utitlities costs 15,600/yr so around 39% of your yearly pre-tax salary is spent on a place to live...God help you if you have car payments, pay taxes, feel like eating something other than ramen....
Pittsburgh Residence - Makes $40,000/yr...Owns a 4 bedroom house that costs 15,600/yr....
"And also I'm not sure what they mean by allowing people to "choose any DSL company they wish". My neighbor has DSL through SpeakEasy and my workplace has it through EarthLink."
You can have SBC phone service and any DSL provider you want. However, if you want SBC DSL service you have to have a SBC phone service as well. You can not have Verizon phone service and SBC DSL, even though you could have SBC phone service and Earthlink DSL service.
You must have the fortune of living in the same place for quite awhile, I move often (like every 6 months) and for quite some time SBC will not give you DSL service without having their phone service (which sucks because I do not need a house phone my cell is what I use) I usually end up just using other DSL providers but this last place I am in I got stuck with only SBC which sucks.
This guy just sounds incredibly retarded...Some choice quotes...Copy + Paste
"People and empires, they fall under their own weight, because they're the only ones heavy enough to take them down."
"It's not going to be that somebody else actually knows better, because Microsoft actually does have a pretty good idea of what one generalized virtual person wants."
"Microsoft will be the fall of Microsoft, and that's when the little pieces that cooperate with each other will thrive. Will Mozilla beat Microsoft? No. Can Mozilla thrive? Yes. What will make Mozilla thrive? Microsoft's fall under their own weight."
- These are just from the first blurb, continueing to read the rest of the article leads me to belive that he is not talking about Mozilla development at all, or at least he has Mozilla confused with Star Wars and Microsoft with Darth Vadar and maybe Netscape is Wicket the Ewok or some shit, and coding is some new spiritual religion I just learned that creates souls in software....
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