Exactly; speak up and do something about it. Boucher is up for election come 5 November. How about you readers in VA join in a movement to have this bung-hole removed from office. You've elected him 10 times so of course he believes he's untouchable. How about taking the time to reasure him that he still represents somebody other than Disney.
signed,
f-ing Penguindung
I believe there are a number of reasons why the whole surfing thing is beginning to fade. First, the true jems of the Web are no longer free or easy to access. I used to be able to point people to quite a number of free encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. While they still exist, many of these resources now pop banners and make it quite difficult to find anything enjoyable about using the service. Also, so much of the content is now out of date. Those businesses who jumped into the fray a few years ago seemingly did not reap any benefits from their actions so they allowed their sites to collect dust bunnies. Maintaining a large Web site, while not technically difficult, is somewhat time consuming and offers little in terms of physical gratification. If the money's not pouring in from such a venture, I highly suspect most small to medium businesses are going to give it much of a thought. Finally, every time we turn around we hear of another really neat application of this thing we call the Net being beaten down into the ground because it infringes on some thing's right to exist, or make money, or, you get the point. Why in the world would I want to develop something new and fresh with the knowledge that my efforts will land me in jail. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have better things to do with my time than join the prison boxing team because I allowed somebody halfway around the world to download a file from my machine. I'm a Webmaster and developer and to be honest with you the whole thing makes me sick at times. If it's not crappy, useless, out-of-date content, then it's time to bone up the money. Let's see, 20 bucks for Web access (piss-poor performance at 37K or so), 40 bucks for a cell phone, 15 bucks for a pager, 60 bucks for a satellite, blah, blah, tivo, blah, satellite radio, blah, a couple of pay-for-access sites, blah, blah. Where will it end. I personally cannot afford to continue to allow content providers to suck every last lincoln out of my pocket, even if the content was enough to make me do so. If somebody wants any more of the pie, they better damn well be offering something that a) I cannot get anywhere else, b) is better than any of its competitors, c) etc.
Time to step down,
ooooo -- PenguinDung
You know while all of this type of cybernetic stuff is kind've cool, I have to believe that $715,000 on a few gadgets is a bit extreme. Look at it this way, I have two daughters who's computing power, mobility, task ability, etc ad infinitum is vastly superior to anything we will see for some time. I think I have a few hundred dollars in each of them (what insurance didn't pick up and including vaccines, etc), and I had a hell of a lot of fun creating them. Yeah, working with servos and transistors is some fun, but I like to make my future chore doers the old fashioned way.
ooooo -- penguin dung
This guy is full of it. I did a whois on this one and it comes back with, "There were no records matching your WHOIS query." Hmmm, this guy might be trying to up his/. karma image instead of including valuable information/feedback to this valuable forum. Thanks for the dung.
I say penguin dung on Mickey Mouse and anybody else who tries to force this type of compliance.
They can have my 386 laptop when they pry it from my cold, dead hands...
oooooo == Penguin Dung
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Exactly; speak up and do something about it. Boucher is up for election come 5 November. How about you readers in VA join in a movement to have this bung-hole removed from office. You've elected him 10 times so of course he believes he's untouchable. How about taking the time to reasure him that he still represents somebody other than Disney. signed, f-ing Penguindung
I believe there are a number of reasons why the whole surfing thing is beginning to fade. First, the true jems of the Web are no longer free or easy to access. I used to be able to point people to quite a number of free encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc. While they still exist, many of these resources now pop banners and make it quite difficult to find anything enjoyable about using the service. Also, so much of the content is now out of date. Those businesses who jumped into the fray a few years ago seemingly did not reap any benefits from their actions so they allowed their sites to collect dust bunnies. Maintaining a large Web site, while not technically difficult, is somewhat time consuming and offers little in terms of physical gratification. If the money's not pouring in from such a venture, I highly suspect most small to medium businesses are going to give it much of a thought. Finally, every time we turn around we hear of another really neat application of this thing we call the Net being beaten down into the ground because it infringes on some thing's right to exist, or make money, or, you get the point. Why in the world would I want to develop something new and fresh with the knowledge that my efforts will land me in jail. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have better things to do with my time than join the prison boxing team because I allowed somebody halfway around the world to download a file from my machine. I'm a Webmaster and developer and to be honest with you the whole thing makes me sick at times. If it's not crappy, useless, out-of-date content, then it's time to bone up the money. Let's see, 20 bucks for Web access (piss-poor performance at 37K or so), 40 bucks for a cell phone, 15 bucks for a pager, 60 bucks for a satellite, blah, blah, tivo, blah, satellite radio, blah, a couple of pay-for-access sites, blah, blah. Where will it end. I personally cannot afford to continue to allow content providers to suck every last lincoln out of my pocket, even if the content was enough to make me do so. If somebody wants any more of the pie, they better damn well be offering something that a) I cannot get anywhere else, b) is better than any of its competitors, c) etc. Time to step down, ooooo -- PenguinDung
"Hmm... this sounds like nervous system hacking to me." Are you suggesting that we are talking about a DMCA issue here?
You know while all of this type of cybernetic stuff is kind've cool, I have to believe that $715,000 on a few gadgets is a bit extreme. Look at it this way, I have two daughters who's computing power, mobility, task ability, etc ad infinitum is vastly superior to anything we will see for some time. I think I have a few hundred dollars in each of them (what insurance didn't pick up and including vaccines, etc), and I had a hell of a lot of fun creating them. Yeah, working with servos and transistors is some fun, but I like to make my future chore doers the old fashioned way. ooooo -- penguin dung
This guy is full of it. I did a whois on this one and it comes back with, "There were no records matching your WHOIS query." Hmmm, this guy might be trying to up his /. karma image instead of including valuable information/feedback to this valuable forum. Thanks for the dung.
ooooo -- penguin dung
That remembers that natives (from Asia) were the first ones here thousands of years ago? Columbus is remembered because of the holiday...
ooooo -- Penguin Dung
I say penguin dung on Mickey Mouse and anybody else who tries to force this type of compliance. They can have my 386 laptop when they pry it from my cold, dead hands... oooooo == Penguin Dung