Thats not exactly correct. Iran just has a hypocritical government which is perfectly willing to tell its citizens one thing and then sell out to some corporation for money. Thats not at all like the system we have in the US!
"What I would have liked to see is a carefully chosen selection of opensource projects."
Don't statistics kinda lose their meaning if you hand pick the subjects?
Lets see, I'm going to carefully select a test group of people with cars and see what make they drive. Oh gee, 95% of people drive Fords *accept nice check from Ford*. Fords must be really cool!
I can see where a large OSS project could get unwieldy really quickly with 100's of hobby developers scattered across the globe. As the number of "free" developers involved goes up, I'm sure the number of problems skyrockets. If you hand a large project to 4 dedicated people it will probably get done faster than if you farm it to 100. It seems fairly obvious to me that as the number of people working on a project grows, the number of people flaking out/not delivering on the project increases as well.
Fortunately for you and the rest of us, if you don't want to be an american you can get the fuck out. I'll buy some chiclets off your ass the next time I'm visiting some backwater part of Mexico.
Yeah, and the webpage for this groundbreaking scientist is listed on a GeoCities knockoff, banner ads and all. I'm sure that just because he's funneling all the billions he's making on his antigravity devices into an offshore account so he can dissapear when someone with a brain realizes it's a scam.;)
Upgrade the system so they can sell more lines at the current price/performance. This has nothing to do with a lack of capacity. After a huge buildup in infrastructure followed by the dot-com collapse, there is a huge glut of available bandwidth. Prices are going up because the industry has consolidated into a few major players (read monopolies) who can now gouge you because there is no other choice.
So if you want to help solve the problem yourself, call your congressman and push for regulation of the broadband industry similar to that of the telco industry.
No, you may get it for "free" but whats really going on is your school pays M$ 4.5 assloads of cash for a site liscense. My school does that, everything was all good for the first couple years. Then the beast started contesting the liscenses of products on staff/faculty personal computers even when used solely for University related work. It went downhill from there.
Where the hell have you been living? I think even my mother knows that AMD markets the XP line using a "performance rating" and not actual MHZ numbers. If you're going to bitch about what you buy, maybe you should try a little research ahead of time...
I like to think AK is similar to the cloud city, we're small enough that the empire doesn't notice us. Because of this we have no "baby bells" or the like. Just good cheap cable modems/dsl service from local telcos. Another plus is most of the population up here is computer illiterate so we don't have problems with cable modem congestion;)
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Thats not exactly correct. Iran just has a hypocritical government which is perfectly willing to tell its citizens one thing and then sell out to some corporation for money. Thats not at all like the system we have in the US!
"What I would have liked to see is a carefully chosen selection of opensource projects." Don't statistics kinda lose their meaning if you hand pick the subjects? Lets see, I'm going to carefully select a test group of people with cars and see what make they drive. Oh gee, 95% of people drive Fords *accept nice check from Ford*. Fords must be really cool!
I can see where a large OSS project could get unwieldy really quickly with 100's of hobby developers scattered across the globe. As the number of "free" developers involved goes up, I'm sure the number of problems skyrockets. If you hand a large project to 4 dedicated people it will probably get done faster than if you farm it to 100. It seems fairly obvious to me that as the number of people working on a project grows, the number of people flaking out/not delivering on the project increases as well.
Fortunately for you and the rest of us, if you don't want to be an american you can get the fuck out. I'll buy some chiclets off your ass the next time I'm visiting some backwater part of Mexico.
Yeah, and the webpage for this groundbreaking scientist is listed on a GeoCities knockoff, banner ads and all. I'm sure that just because he's funneling all the billions he's making on his antigravity devices into an offshore account so he can dissapear when someone with a brain realizes it's a scam. ;)
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Upgrade the system so they can sell more lines at the current price/performance. This has nothing to do with a lack of capacity. After a huge buildup in infrastructure followed by the dot-com collapse, there is a huge glut of available bandwidth. Prices are going up because the industry has consolidated into a few major players (read monopolies) who can now gouge you because there is no other choice. So if you want to help solve the problem yourself, call your congressman and push for regulation of the broadband industry similar to that of the telco industry.
No, you may get it for "free" but whats really going on is your school pays M$ 4.5 assloads of cash for a site liscense. My school does that, everything was all good for the first couple years. Then the beast started contesting the liscenses of products on staff/faculty personal computers even when used solely for University related work. It went downhill from there.
Where the hell have you been living? I think even my mother knows that AMD markets the XP line using a "performance rating" and not actual MHZ numbers. If you're going to bitch about what you buy, maybe you should try a little research ahead of time...
This info wouldn't have been stolen from an "unbreakable" Oracle database that Cali payed so much for would it?
I like to think AK is similar to the cloud city, we're small enough that the empire doesn't notice us. Because of this we have no "baby bells" or the like. Just good cheap cable modems/dsl service from local telcos. Another plus is most of the population up here is computer illiterate so we don't have problems with cable modem congestion ;)