Unfortunately, my setup is much more sane. My router is wired and I have a separate wireless router (that JUST does wireless) to handle the wireless portion.
Since DD-WRT isn't available for my wired-only router, no happiness there.
The underlying reality, however, is that it's mostly an alphabet-soup shell game to confuse the kafir. You want a cease-fire to negotiate with the PLO? No problem. While the PLO is negotiating, the PFLP will be the ones on terrorist duty. PFLP ran out of missiles? "Temporary truce" while Hamas takes over. Hamas getting too much heat in Gaza? No problem, the "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" and "Palestinian Resistance Committees" and "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" are all waiting to take over.
There are similar front groups backed by the Iranians all over the place, who argue with the Muslim Brotherhood front groups, who argue with the Al Qaeda "allied" groups. The only thing they all seem to agree on is the idea that Islam has some right to order the kafir to convert-or-die, and they're perfectly happy to take turns doing it.
Oh look, I got modded "flamebait" for stating an uncomfortable truth.
So sorry I insulted you, neckbearded linux zealot. Please go comfortably back to your parents' basement secure in the knowledge you have wounded my karma... or something.
Howso? I'm not a Mac person nor am I a Linuxhead. But I can tell you that most non-Mac people can name at least one of the Apple release titles, probably more, whereas mentioning Ubuntu will get you that blank stare.
The Ubuntu guys suck at marketing. Most of the Linux world sucks at marketing. One of the biggest reasons it's so hard for them to get any appreciable marketshare in the desktop world is that despite giving away what is very serviceable, functional product for free, they suck at marketing.
And without marketshare, how are you going to get the rest of the ecosystem to port over to you? Answer is, you aren't. Without a certain amount of marketshare, you can't get games ported, you can't get office applications ported, you can't even convince many of the makers to hire someone to make sure they are interoperable. And "Open Standards Open Standards Whee" as chanted by 4-year-old wannabe cheerleaders doesn't do crap for you when you're trying to sell adoption to someone and they have to interact with their clients, who all just-so-happen to use OSX or Windows with some form of MS Office (now with.DOCX so that OpenOffice is no longer interoperable... not that it ever rendered anything more than basic Excel docs correctly anyways) installed.
Think carefully. The same principle applies to selling an operating system. Or we can make it a car analogy - you'll sell more of the same car by naming it the "Mustang" instead of the "Cute Cuddly Kitten."
to deal with all the sacred cows the company had accumulated over the years.
So Sony is the corporate equivalent of a Mooby's? Wait... actually, that kinda makes sense.
But no, the reason he was hired was to be a distraction, really. Sony's real business model has always been to try to take over the standard so that everyone has to license from them.
Consider the following list: Beta vs VHS -> Sony collected royalties for over two decades on Beta in the form of Betacam recording and the professional TV industry (where image quality did in fact matter more).
DAT vs standard audiotape vs CD Audio -> DAT was actually very popular in Europe and Asia for a good while. Licensing restrictions and "piracy worries" kept it mostly out of the US thanks to the MafiAA.
Minidisc vs CD Audio -> See DAT. Minidisc eventually came back for another, even more stupid round as the "UMD" they were pushing in the PSP.
ATRAC audio vs MP3 audio -> The reason nobody in their right mind would ever buy a Sony portable music player as compared to, say, a Nomad or iPod.
Sony MemoryStick vs SD Memory Sticks -> Sony keeps pushing out their own proprietary lines of gear. PSP and a host of cameras keep this line alive and it sells, despite being way overpriced compared to the SD Micro format.
Think about it. Why did the PS2 have a DVD drive? Sony was part of the DVD consortium. Why did the PS3 have a Blu-Ray drive? Same reason. Before the PS3 launched, HD-DVD was actually winning the format war despite Sony USA refusing to put out any of their movie catalog in the format.
That's the Sony business model. Try to win a "format war" in a way that everyone has to pay you royalties to license your format. Everything else is ancillary at best.
You have that already. Everyone - barring a glitch in the system - is issued two at birth. Usually they come with five "finger" add-on expansion units free of charge, too.
Now, it's up to you to supply your own ink, back up your data regularly, and take care of the daily maintenance to keep your Palms in good working order...
Winston Churchill also pointed out that the best argument AGAINST a democracy was a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.
"democracy and enlightened self-interest." So that's why the Retardicans are all about tax breaks for billionaires while they make grandma eat alpo to pay for it, right?
My hometown installed cameras a few years ago, and one very bright member of the city council managed to push a law through which required warning signs within xxx feet of the intersection AND mandated yellow light times according to the speed limit. Their ticket revenue went up and then back down, and the accident rate went down as well.
You're lucky.
Tex-ass has a statewide law on the books about yellow light timings.
The city governments just say "fuck you", shorten it as they please, and then argue you don't have "the right to sue" them to force their corrupt asses to obey the law.
It's what you get when you have Retardicans in power. They can sue the government to try to get someone's birth certificate, but you can't sue the government to force it to enforce any restriction on corrupt city governments.
The point is that a subset of humans are insufficiently altruistic to make "pure communism" - of the "from each according their abilities, to each according to their needs" sort - unable to function past a certain threshold.
The needs of humans - food, shelter, safety, and then intellectual and emotional fulfillment - do not require humans to constantly be acquiring and acquiring and taking from others. Yet a subset of humans decide that their lot in life is to take, and take, and take, and take.
It's for this reason that humans come up with alternative governance schemes. Whether they descend into the despotism of dictatorship, or the illusions of "freedom" espoused by the oligarchic tyrannies of "capitalist" societies, they're pretty much the same in the end - the "ultimate goal" of each is to kick out and/or suppress those who have an alternate view on how the government should work.
Or, to quote the late, great Douglas Adams:
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..
The problem with communism is, the group needs to be able to kick out the malcontents.
Situations where "communism" works: Religious communes. But they have a nominal "leader" for the day-to-day management, and if they find someone is not pulling their weight, the group issues a shape-up-or-ship-out ultimatum. The truly infirm or sick aren't kicked out, just the lazy. And the entire group is bound by a certain moral and ethical code of behavior to keep the rest of disagreements from turning into fistfights or worse, along with getting them to altruistically give their labors to the benefit of the whole.
Why does it fail on a larger scale? Primarily because you can't kick out the lazy and greedy any more. I mean, where are you going to send them, Detroit?
The joke is that there are no competent Chinese engineers to fix it. They'll have to hire German, Japanese, or French engineers from the firms that produced the plans they stole to build these lines in the first place and then pay them to fix the mistakes the incompetent Chinese "engineers" made "adapting" them.
- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not.
- Certain companies liked to tie PSN accounts to their forum accounts.
End result: massive security headache for every user who's ever touched PSN for any reason.
Extra fun: waiting while their entire network is down, to play basically online-only (or "so much online component that the single-player is a fucking joke") games. You know, like Call of Duty: Crap Ops.
To paraphrase Obi-Wan, It was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... and then were suddenly made to change their passwords.
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I'd love to use DD-WRT.
Unfortunately, my setup is much more sane. My router is wired and I have a separate wireless router (that JUST does wireless) to handle the wireless portion.
Since DD-WRT isn't available for my wired-only router, no happiness there.
Uhm... Muslim terrorist groups regularly split, reform, reconsolidate, split again.
In other words, SPLITTERS!.
The underlying reality, however, is that it's mostly an alphabet-soup shell game to confuse the kafir. You want a cease-fire to negotiate with the PLO? No problem. While the PLO is negotiating, the PFLP will be the ones on terrorist duty. PFLP ran out of missiles? "Temporary truce" while Hamas takes over. Hamas getting too much heat in Gaza? No problem, the "Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" and "Palestinian Resistance Committees" and "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" are all waiting to take over.
There are similar front groups backed by the Iranians all over the place, who argue with the Muslim Brotherhood front groups, who argue with the Al Qaeda "allied" groups. The only thing they all seem to agree on is the idea that Islam has some right to order the kafir to convert-or-die, and they're perfectly happy to take turns doing it.
"Aargh Aardvark."
Oh look, I got modded "flamebait" for stating an uncomfortable truth.
So sorry I insulted you, neckbearded linux zealot. Please go comfortably back to your parents' basement secure in the knowledge you have wounded my karma... or something.
Howso? I'm not a Mac person nor am I a Linuxhead. But I can tell you that most non-Mac people can name at least one of the Apple release titles, probably more, whereas mentioning Ubuntu will get you that blank stare.
The Ubuntu guys suck at marketing. Most of the Linux world sucks at marketing. One of the biggest reasons it's so hard for them to get any appreciable marketshare in the desktop world is that despite giving away what is very serviceable, functional product for free, they suck at marketing.
And without marketshare, how are you going to get the rest of the ecosystem to port over to you? Answer is, you aren't. Without a certain amount of marketshare, you can't get games ported, you can't get office applications ported, you can't even convince many of the makers to hire someone to make sure they are interoperable. And "Open Standards Open Standards Whee" as chanted by 4-year-old wannabe cheerleaders doesn't do crap for you when you're trying to sell adoption to someone and they have to interact with their clients, who all just-so-happen to use OSX or Windows with some form of MS Office (now with .DOCX so that OpenOffice is no longer interoperable... not that it ever rendered anything more than basic Excel docs correctly anyways) installed.
The problem is, even non-apple folks can generally identify the names of the Apple OSX versions.
Mention "Ubunty Jaunty" to a non-linuxhead and you'll get a blank stare.
Try to sell (e.g. convince people to switch over to) "Ubuntu Jaunty" from their current OS, and you'll get it likewise.
See my previous comment to another person above. Want to sell a brand of car? Name it "Mustang" instead of "Cute Cuddly Kitten", you'll sell more.
Linux-heads never pop their head out into the real world long enough to understand that marketing works for a reason... sigh...
Ok I know you're just flaming, but what the hell.
Which would you rather name your sports team:
The "Wolverines?"
Or the "Dippy Dogs?"
Think carefully. The same principle applies to selling an operating system. Or we can make it a car analogy - you'll sell more of the same car by naming it the "Mustang" instead of the "Cute Cuddly Kitten."
I've always wondered why they didn't shorten it. "HDVD" would have rolled off the tongue much more cleanly than "HD-DVD" ever did.
is start picking better names for their releases.
Compare - Apple side: "Kodiak", "Cheetah", "Puma", "Jaguar", "Panther", "Tiger", "Leopard", "Snow Leopard."
with - Ubuntu side: "Warty Warthog", "Hoary Hedgehog", "Breezy Badger", "Dapper Drake", "Edgy Eft", "Feisty Fawn", "Gutsy Gibbon", "Hardy Heron", "Intrepid Ibex", "Jaunty Jackalope", "Karmic Koala", "Lucid Lynx", "Maverick Meerkat", "Natty Narwhal", "Oneric Ocelot"...
The Apple side is short, and carries images of animals all well-reputed and seen as powerful and respected predators.
The Ubuntu side sounds like the cast list from a crappy saturday morning cartoon show.
Just sayin'...
Incorrect.
You forget the moment in 2008 when Sony paid Warner Brothers a metric shit-ton of cash to go Blu-Ray Exclusive.
Before that moment, HD-DVD was outselling Blu-Ray. It was really that simple.
A number of companies produce insulative protective coverings. They come in the form of "gloves" and "mittens."
There are also storage devices called "pockets" available on most clothing.
to deal with all the sacred cows the company had accumulated over the years.
So Sony is the corporate equivalent of a Mooby's? Wait... actually, that kinda makes sense.
But no, the reason he was hired was to be a distraction, really. Sony's real business model has always been to try to take over the standard so that everyone has to license from them.
Consider the following list:
Beta vs VHS -> Sony collected royalties for over two decades on Beta in the form of Betacam recording and the professional TV industry (where image quality did in fact matter more).
DAT vs standard audiotape vs CD Audio -> DAT was actually very popular in Europe and Asia for a good while. Licensing restrictions and "piracy worries" kept it mostly out of the US thanks to the MafiAA.
Minidisc vs CD Audio -> See DAT. Minidisc eventually came back for another, even more stupid round as the "UMD" they were pushing in the PSP.
ATRAC audio vs MP3 audio -> The reason nobody in their right mind would ever buy a Sony portable music player as compared to, say, a Nomad or iPod.
Sony MemoryStick vs SD Memory Sticks -> Sony keeps pushing out their own proprietary lines of gear. PSP and a host of cameras keep this line alive and it sells, despite being way overpriced compared to the SD Micro format.
Think about it. Why did the PS2 have a DVD drive? Sony was part of the DVD consortium. Why did the PS3 have a Blu-Ray drive? Same reason. Before the PS3 launched, HD-DVD was actually winning the format war despite Sony USA refusing to put out any of their movie catalog in the format.
That's the Sony business model. Try to win a "format war" in a way that everyone has to pay you royalties to license your format. Everything else is ancillary at best.
Stories that start with "My uncle/father/brother was taken from us one night for criticizing".
You obviously haven't been paying attention to the laws the Retardicans are trying to pass lately.
No, just a bunch of electronic yipping.
Actually, it was over 5 years ago that it happened.
Sony have just been jerkholes about people trying to continue to use and improve the toy they spent a buttload of money on since.
You have that already. Everyone - barring a glitch in the system - is issued two at birth. Usually they come with five "finger" add-on expansion units free of charge, too.
Now, it's up to you to supply your own ink, back up your data regularly, and take care of the daily maintenance to keep your Palms in good working order...
Winston Churchill also pointed out that the best argument AGAINST a democracy was a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.
"democracy and enlightened self-interest." So that's why the Retardicans are all about tax breaks for billionaires while they make grandma eat alpo to pay for it, right?
My hometown installed cameras a few years ago, and one very bright member of the city council managed to push a law through which required warning signs within xxx feet of the intersection AND mandated yellow light times according to the speed limit. Their ticket revenue went up and then back down, and the accident rate went down as well.
You're lucky.
Tex-ass has a statewide law on the books about yellow light timings.
The city governments just say "fuck you", shorten it as they please, and then argue you don't have "the right to sue" them to force their corrupt asses to obey the law.
It's what you get when you have Retardicans in power. They can sue the government to try to get someone's birth certificate, but you can't sue the government to force it to enforce any restriction on corrupt city governments.
Well geez. Wrong link. Now I feel foolish.
Enjoy.
Indeed.
Be well and sing showtunes.
Sigh.
The point is that a subset of humans are insufficiently altruistic to make "pure communism" - of the "from each according their abilities, to each according to their needs" sort - unable to function past a certain threshold.
The needs of humans - food, shelter, safety, and then intellectual and emotional fulfillment - do not require humans to constantly be acquiring and acquiring and taking from others. Yet a subset of humans decide that their lot in life is to take, and take, and take, and take.
It's for this reason that humans come up with alternative governance schemes. Whether they descend into the despotism of dictatorship, or the illusions of "freedom" espoused by the oligarchic tyrannies of "capitalist" societies, they're pretty much the same in the end - the "ultimate goal" of each is to kick out and/or suppress those who have an alternate view on how the government should work.
Or, to quote the late, great Douglas Adams:
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change..
The problem with communism is, the group needs to be able to kick out the malcontents.
Situations where "communism" works: Religious communes. But they have a nominal "leader" for the day-to-day management, and if they find someone is not pulling their weight, the group issues a shape-up-or-ship-out ultimatum. The truly infirm or sick aren't kicked out, just the lazy. And the entire group is bound by a certain moral and ethical code of behavior to keep the rest of disagreements from turning into fistfights or worse, along with getting them to altruistically give their labors to the benefit of the whole.
Why does it fail on a larger scale? Primarily because you can't kick out the lazy and greedy any more. I mean, where are you going to send them, Detroit?
Yeah, it'll become fucking illegal to have open wireless access points anywhere.
After all, if you have yours open, you are "obviously" intending to aid child pornographers. Or terrorists. Or democrats. Or something.
Ok really, when did Nintendo start hiring a Sony guy for their marketing?
The joke is that there are no competent Chinese engineers to fix it. They'll have to hire German, Japanese, or French engineers from the firms that produced the plans they stole to build these lines in the first place and then pay them to fix the mistakes the incompetent Chinese "engineers" made "adapting" them.
Not only that:
- If you wanted to play any of the games online, you had to have a PSN account. Which meant you had to provide a credit card whether you were ever going to buy anything or not.
- Certain companies liked to tie PSN accounts to their forum accounts.
End result: massive security headache for every user who's ever touched PSN for any reason.
Extra fun: waiting while their entire network is down, to play basically online-only (or "so much online component that the single-player is a fucking joke") games. You know, like Call of Duty: Crap Ops.
To paraphrase Obi-Wan, It was as if millions of voices suddenly cried out... and then were suddenly made to change their passwords.