the computarded of this world, have big dreams, and big mouths, but when it boils down to it, they could all be on PII 333 mhz machines and not know the difference. they just want to type emails or documents and surf the net.
learning anything more would upset their days (learning bad, stupid good mentality) and perhaps make it possible for them to do more work at work. they say, I WANT THE STARS AND THE MOON, but would settle for a trip to the end of the hallway for some coffee in a heartbeat.
ok, there is a point in the rant. X desktop + mozilla + OpenOffice is more than enough these days.
anyhow, m$ is trying to convince the world of the one thing everyone knows is not true. that they could possibly compete on price, quality or up time.
no matter how secure a system is, a human operator is still the weak link.
Is it at all possible to create a secure and computerized system?
anytime a person has ultimate authority to a system, there is a chance that the person may be compromised (social engineering).
do you see a way that can deny access to that individual while still allowing the freedom to make the system useful?
i see alot of division of permission in current corporate structures, but there always seems to be one person around that can manipulate the system in the end.
last question, the obligatory: If you had it all to do over again, would you?
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at least they only sacrificed the bottom 10 to 15 percent of the basic car functionality.
after all these years of the if microsoft built a car jokes, we can finally clean up the humor code that runs it . . . . .
i use all the apple browsers, and prefer mozilla overall, but am using safari extensively as my secondary browser.
apple's goal was to have the fastest browsing experience and they chose the rendering engine with that in mind. as noted, mozilla has a far larger code base, and i have heard plenty of grousing from the Chimera team about mozilla to mac issues. lastly, i have never gotten chimera to work in a stable fashion on my desktop, even though it is quite fast.
ok, really lastly, Mozilla already has one large corporate sponsor, apple didn't want to tangle with them either. aol and apple have an enemy of my enemy is my friend status right now.
who benefits?? definately Linux and mac users. mac users get a really nice fast browser (and no more of those apple slow on the web/. sour grapes posts from win users). linux users get added adoption and support, plus development improvements for KDE.
if there's also one thing that sets mac apart, its resale value. mine is three years old, runs everything well (os x, photoshop, flash, etc.) and i get offers of 500 bucks all the time on it. after 3 years of constant use, that's great for a computer.
i know people who paid 3 grand for pentium 500s when they were new three years ago, and you can barely give them away.
To say that the PC is faster from those results is like saying that a Ferrari is faster than a Porsche. Not only that, but the newer apple laptops have more power than the November stuff they tested. Even still Apple gave stiff competition to one of the finest manufacturers out there. Real world though? That alienware box must have a ten minute battery to house that hungry pentium chip.
all sorts of good excuses tonight, caffiene, nicotine and late night will do this to people. watch out, you could be next. . . . .
i would be amenable to starting a SF project to make a PHP/MySQL constituency response web application. there would be lots of easy to find items that could be integrated into something useful for polling, bulk emailing to opt in listings, etc. Maybe the kind of thing that runs campaigns and listens to voter concerns, etc. email me if you're interested, i can't confess to having a mass of free time at the moment, but would be interested in directing, some coding and testing, etc. to be involved in such a project.
as for deployment, could be provided from any of a number of locations, php mysql is robust enough for yahoo, and that's enuff for me.
we spend so much time bitching about stupid pols writing bad laws, but has anyone spent the time to setup the kewl things they are trying to legislate into vaporware????
maybe, we need to start a campaign to give great geekware to legislators and government officials for the sake of winning their hearts (or wherever powell's god lives) to our causes. if we can make enough lawmakers into violators of the DMCA and other heinous laws on the books, or proposed and show them why we feel strongly about this. or even have the EFF donate linux boxen to lawmakers. we will gain an advantage.
at any rate. i propose we start by giving a copy of the Linux Bar Monkey to Ted Kennedy and go from there.. . .
asking for regulation would be like going to Dr. Kevorkian. Do we really need barriers of entry in this field? after all, if you can't fix a machine, you don't say you can, right?
the current piss-poor economy has acted like regulation. i have seen many a wanna-be, dishonest middle man or liar driven out of business, because they cannot get cash when the goods are fake. lets face it, there are scammers out there that say they'll hand out the stars and the moon on a PC, but that was the nature of the boom times too. people are more wary today, ever so slightly more educated (no browser?? ok, just click the big blue E) and not in the same frantic state of mind that the boom created.
in short. the industry is self-regulated and should stay that way. keeping barriers of entry (in the fiscal world) low serves to draw more people into the field. the barriers of entry right now are only time and brains. lets keep it that way.
the only person served by your regulation would be established businesses, and that is what creates stagnation and problems.
i'm not a winblows junkie, but i can tell you that items like Kazaa and morpheus use explorer components (they gotta!), cuz they always give the same explorer script errors. i have also seen commercial real estate programs (Genesis2000, MLS interfaces) that use IE wrappers.
oh my! i want one! why'd they have to wait until after X-mass to let this thing outta the bag???
on a more serious note
i would be surprised if this thing doesn't find its way into a few allies hands over the next few years. i don't think that Colombians will really care about checking guerilla emails, but a big truck with a standard, easy to repair engine that could roll thru mountainous jungle terrain faster than a tank. they're making a x-mass list too i'm sure.
have a friend who's a game tester for ea (yes, paid to play) and his ultimate goal is to develop games. starting in testing and workin hard is a great place to start, learn about games and bugs and get the foot in the door.
course testing only pays $8/hr. to start, but right now, they're giving him 80+ hours a week, so i think he's happy with em.
80 hours of games a week, that would be a light week for an evercrack head, right?
i agree with you. however, some of us just can't wait for NetBSD to follow the largest and most popular BSD based *nix OS . . . . i can already do what they're just gettin runnin for NetBSD.
now i'm really lookin forward to installing NetBSD on my Quadra 660av. kudos to NetBSD!
i agree with you, but seemless needs something else to be worthwhile . . . . reasonable terms that respect fair use, while lowering prices and restrictions in return for higher revenues and profits.
that's the contribution of america to the world, cheap mass produced goods. the evolution of electricity use in the USA vs. Europe starting in the 1930's and continuing through today. led by Samuel Insull, power companies lowered prices to encourage continous usage. european power companies saw themselves as selling mainly to large interests a scarce resource, and kept prices high to discrouage use and maximize profit on fewer units sold.
hollywood is obviously learning from the mistakes of the RIAA. of course they have had the limited protection of large file sizes that make true mass adoption dependent on expansion of net technology to the masses beyond where it stands today.
if both the riaa and mpaa moved to greatly increase sales while lowering prices, they would both be better off.
heck, they might even sell a few items in china too. we've been buying real stuff for cheap from them for ages, why not sell it cheap to everyone and return the favor??????
does this mean that nobody surfing gives two craps about banner ads and never did anyway?
umm, yes sir, think it does. this isn't even news, i think a few of us use google, who seem to make money without banners. hell, i think anyone who knows enough to read this site, knew that banners weren't all that even when the rest of the world was fooled.
what a sarcastic day for me . . . no reason to stop now!
You poor folks in the UK have never had any privacy rights anyway, why worry now? You can be ticketed by camera, is being busted by cellphone camera any worse, except that it means your wife or mom can bust you with technology just like your welfare state can? Better, since security is SO important in the European capital of radical Islam, this just makes us all feel safer, no privacy for anyone, no problem. Face it folks, you're just stumbling around looking for Big Brother's face in your cellphone so you can calm down about this privacy myth once and for all.
well, kind of like an apple, it all starts with the seed money from unwitting investors who realize not that their hard earned money is about to be thrown in a hole in the ground. then companies hire construction folks like Mas Tec (Miami, Fl) to quickly and quietly plant the seed money along with some fiber optic cables, or repeater boxes with really expensive chips, or whatever the potential bandwidth provider needs to throw into the hole to make some/.'ing possible. then, once the investor and the company throw all their money into said hole, a wonderful economy based on advertising emerges and the bandwith is carried to market by all the mom and pop bandwith growers and sold everywhere from local farmers markets to big grocery stores. UH OH, advertising didn't work! now we have to pay the saps, er investors, who gave us their money to pour into our special hole, something called a return on investment in a hole. ok, we'll either declare bankruptcy, or now, we'll charge alot of money for bandwidth for a while since our humble little hole grew into a mountain of debt.
and everyone lived happily ever after (except for northpoint, directv dsl, worldcom and anyone else who didn't own a regional telephone monopoly to cover idiotic spending levels and tremendous waste). the end
"That assumes that the antitrust division takes a pill and goes to sleep," said Powell, who once worked in that Justice Department division
HELOOOOO! it is asleep already! two letters M$
in the 30's the fcc shifted from a public interest view of it's job to a pro-business view. as a result, enourmous barriers to entry were constructed in TV and Radio.
fact is, the system in place favors the regional phone companies too much already. its nearly impossible to switch DSL providers without a massive downtime and loss of productivity. cable is only as good as the local monopoly that provides it (if its like here with AT&T, not even worth the hassle of dealing with those incompetents), and many cable co.s are providing downstream only links to prevent sharing, with a dial in modem for up, awful. i thought broadband's big advantage was that you don't need a second telephone line.
fact is, the only way to break the hegemony of the regionals is for someone to step in and require that the infrastructure is separated entirely from the sales and marketing, and make baby bells that once again become public utilities instead of sanctioned monopolies.
1)Bill Clinton's (he's the man!) revelation of the strikes that would've followed failure of the Agreed Framework accords is one of the reasons they are being so agressive right now.
2)N. Korea would sell a nuke to feed itsself for the winter, and is irrational enough to use one on their peninsula.
3)they are extremely paranoid and prone to a realpolitik analysis of the security dilemma.
4)Good or Evil be damned, there is still not a permanent peace treaty from the Korean War, that's why there's the DMZ.
5)S. Korea stands to lose the most from another war, Seoul is Very close to the DMZ.
Add it all up, there is alot of potential for a realist approach to N. Korea. Unfortunately, they hold some really nasty cards, and the political will to cause damage to their neighbor, and by extension the global economy and us. They take the only advantage they can, one that this country feared for 40 years of cold war. N. Korea is a starving country, their population is dying of hunger and cold, admittedly by their own hand. They have little left to lose, and even less fear of losing it.
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the computarded of this world, have big dreams, and big mouths, but when it boils down to it, they could all be on PII 333 mhz machines and not know the difference. they just want to type emails or documents and surf the net.
learning anything more would upset their days (learning bad, stupid good mentality) and perhaps make it possible for them to do more work at work. they say, I WANT THE STARS AND THE MOON, but would settle for a trip to the end of the hallway for some coffee in a heartbeat.
ok, there is a point in the rant. X desktop + mozilla + OpenOffice is more than enough these days.
anyhow, m$ is trying to convince the world of the one thing everyone knows is not true. that they could possibly compete on price, quality or up time.
horribly, horribly wrong. why in hells name is a judge spending taxpayer's money on deciding this!!! truth is stranger than fiction.
Is it at all possible to create a secure and computerized system?
anytime a person has ultimate authority to a system, there is a chance that the person may be compromised (social engineering).
do you see a way that can deny access to that individual while still allowing the freedom to make the system useful?
i see alot of division of permission in current corporate structures, but there always seems to be one person around that can manipulate the system in the end.
last question, the obligatory: If you had it all to do over again, would you?
after all these years of the if microsoft built a car jokes, we can finally clean up the humor code that runs it . . . . .
apple's goal was to have the fastest browsing experience and they chose the rendering engine with that in mind. as noted, mozilla has a far larger code base, and i have heard plenty of grousing from the Chimera team about mozilla to mac issues. lastly, i have never gotten chimera to work in a stable fashion on my desktop, even though it is quite fast.
ok, really lastly, Mozilla already has one large corporate sponsor, apple didn't want to tangle with them either. aol and apple have an enemy of my enemy is my friend status right now.
who benefits?? definately Linux and mac users. mac users get a really nice fast browser (and no more of those apple slow on the web /. sour grapes posts from win users). linux users get added adoption and support, plus development improvements for KDE.
good for everyone.
i know people who paid 3 grand for pentium 500s when they were new three years ago, and you can barely give them away.
all sorts of good excuses tonight, caffiene, nicotine and late night will do this to people. watch out, you could be next. . . . .
email me if you're interested in the below:
i would be amenable to starting a SF project to make a PHP/MySQL constituency response web application. there would be lots of easy to find items that could be integrated into something useful for polling, bulk emailing to opt in listings, etc. Maybe the kind of thing that runs campaigns and listens to voter concerns, etc. email me if you're interested, i can't confess to having a mass of free time at the moment, but would be interested in directing, some coding and testing, etc. to be involved in such a project.
as for deployment, could be provided from any of a number of locations, php mysql is robust enough for yahoo, and that's enuff for me.
are his monkeys related to the phonics monkey from south park? :-)
we spend so much time bitching about stupid pols writing bad laws, but has anyone spent the time to setup the kewl things they are trying to legislate into vaporware????
maybe, we need to start a campaign to give great geekware to legislators and government officials for the sake of winning their hearts (or wherever powell's god lives) to our causes. if we can make enough lawmakers into violators of the DMCA and other heinous laws on the books, or proposed and show them why we feel strongly about this. or even have the EFF donate linux boxen to lawmakers. we will gain an advantage.
at any rate. i propose we start by giving a copy of the Linux Bar Monkey to Ted Kennedy and go from there .. . .
the current piss-poor economy has acted like regulation. i have seen many a wanna-be, dishonest middle man or liar driven out of business, because they cannot get cash when the goods are fake. lets face it, there are scammers out there that say they'll hand out the stars and the moon on a PC, but that was the nature of the boom times too. people are more wary today, ever so slightly more educated (no browser?? ok, just click the big blue E) and not in the same frantic state of mind that the boom created.
in short. the industry is self-regulated and should stay that way. keeping barriers of entry (in the fiscal world) low serves to draw more people into the field. the barriers of entry right now are only time and brains. lets keep it that way.
the only person served by your regulation would be established businesses, and that is what creates stagnation and problems.
i'm not a winblows junkie, but i can tell you that items like Kazaa and morpheus use explorer components (they gotta!), cuz they always give the same explorer script errors. i have also seen commercial real estate programs (Genesis2000, MLS interfaces) that use IE wrappers.
on a more serious note
i would be surprised if this thing doesn't find its way into a few allies hands over the next few years. i don't think that Colombians will really care about checking guerilla emails, but a big truck with a standard, easy to repair engine that could roll thru mountainous jungle terrain faster than a tank. they're making a x-mass list too i'm sure.
good job army, good propaganda, good toy idea.
did i mention that i want one???
course testing only pays $8/hr. to start, but right now, they're giving him 80+ hours a week, so i think he's happy with em.
80 hours of games a week, that would be a light week for an evercrack head, right?
mastercard is doing a new prepaid debit card, through check cashing stores, just like what paypal does. try it i guess.
nice to use debian apt-get on windowmaker along side the proprietary shite . . . yes, i'm l33t, you're a Luser.
now i'm really lookin forward to installing NetBSD on my Quadra 660av. kudos to NetBSD!
i agree with you, but seemless needs something else to be worthwhile . . . . reasonable terms that respect fair use, while lowering prices and restrictions in return for higher revenues and profits.
that's the contribution of america to the world, cheap mass produced goods. the evolution of electricity use in the USA vs. Europe starting in the 1930's and continuing through today. led by Samuel Insull, power companies lowered prices to encourage continous usage. european power companies saw themselves as selling mainly to large interests a scarce resource, and kept prices high to discrouage use and maximize profit on fewer units sold.
hollywood is obviously learning from the mistakes of the RIAA. of course they have had the limited protection of large file sizes that make true mass adoption dependent on expansion of net technology to the masses beyond where it stands today.
if both the riaa and mpaa moved to greatly increase sales while lowering prices, they would both be better off.
heck, they might even sell a few items in china too. we've been buying real stuff for cheap from them for ages, why not sell it cheap to everyone and return the favor??????
does this mean that nobody surfing gives two craps about banner ads and never did anyway?
umm, yes sir, think it does. this isn't even news, i think a few of us use google, who seem to make money without banners. hell, i think anyone who knows enough to read this site, knew that banners weren't all that even when the rest of the world was fooled.
what a sarcastic day for me . . . no reason to stop now!
You poor folks in the UK have never had any privacy rights anyway, why worry now? You can be ticketed by camera, is being busted by cellphone camera any worse, except that it means your wife or mom can bust you with technology just like your welfare state can? Better, since security is SO important in the European capital of radical Islam, this just makes us all feel safer, no privacy for anyone, no problem. Face it folks, you're just stumbling around looking for Big Brother's face in your cellphone so you can calm down about this privacy myth once and for all.
and everyone lived happily ever after (except for northpoint, directv dsl, worldcom and anyone else who didn't own a regional telephone monopoly to cover idiotic spending levels and tremendous waste). the end
two buttons going strong for a long time brother. one button is just standard equipment.
thank u kensington for makin a $15 alternative that rulz!
HELOOOOO! it is asleep already! two letters M$
in the 30's the fcc shifted from a public interest view of it's job to a pro-business view. as a result, enourmous barriers to entry were constructed in TV and Radio.
fact is, the system in place favors the regional phone companies too much already. its nearly impossible to switch DSL providers without a massive downtime and loss of productivity. cable is only as good as the local monopoly that provides it (if its like here with AT&T, not even worth the hassle of dealing with those incompetents), and many cable co.s are providing downstream only links to prevent sharing, with a dial in modem for up, awful. i thought broadband's big advantage was that you don't need a second telephone line.
fact is, the only way to break the hegemony of the regionals is for someone to step in and require that the infrastructure is separated entirely from the sales and marketing, and make baby bells that once again become public utilities instead of sanctioned monopolies.
1)Bill Clinton's (he's the man!) revelation of the strikes that would've followed failure of the Agreed Framework accords is one of the reasons they are being so agressive right now.
2)N. Korea would sell a nuke to feed itsself for the winter, and is irrational enough to use one on their peninsula.
3)they are extremely paranoid and prone to a realpolitik analysis of the security dilemma.
4)Good or Evil be damned, there is still not a permanent peace treaty from the Korean War, that's why there's the DMZ.
5)S. Korea stands to lose the most from another war, Seoul is Very close to the DMZ.
Add it all up, there is alot of potential for a realist approach to N. Korea. Unfortunately, they hold some really nasty cards, and the political will to cause damage to their neighbor, and by extension the global economy and us. They take the only advantage they can, one that this country feared for 40 years of cold war. N. Korea is a starving country, their population is dying of hunger and cold, admittedly by their own hand. They have little left to lose, and even less fear of losing it.
personally, i don't care one way or another, i have free basic cable, and that's enuff 4 me.