I _do_ _not_ _care_ about having the machine totally up to date. It is NOT a production machine. I do NOT use it for anything. It serves but one function in my toolkit.
I have the machine only so that when someone calls me up with a windows problem I can fire it up and walk them through the problem on the phone. I then power it down and it stays powered down until the next time a MS user calls me in a panic with a problem. It's behind a Linux powered firewall. I have no fear that it will be compromised from an outside attack and I will never install programs on it without them being heavily scrutinized first.
I do not use the machine for any other reason. I'll never use it for anything. Not for browsing, not for email, not for gaming, not for word processing, not for entertainment purposes, not for anything other than to have a machine at hand when I need to help someone with a MS problem.
You must have misunderstood when I originally stated that "I only fire that box up when I have to provide support for someone"...
If I didn't have the need to support other people's MS problems I would NOT own a MS product of any sort, I would much rather have 10 Linux machines sitting next to me than the 9 and the oddball.
Maybe you should spend a little more time becoming familar with Windows XP? You know, know your enemy. You might even figure out how to turn off Automatic Updates.
I built an XP box (w/SP2) for the SOLE REASON of having one at hand so I can provide phone support to people that need it. I have no other use on earth for any microsoft product. I have no desire to become familiar with XP other than for the purpose of supporting other people's problems.
I use Linux on ALL of my other machines, and I have NINE other machines in my computer room at this moment and approx. 100 machines total in my place, right now, this moment.
But 99.9% of the people in this are use windows and I can make money helping them with their never ending problems. I have no intentions of having the same problems on the ONE windows box I now have, and that starts with the friggin machine not doing things without my permission. My Suse boxes do not ever download anything without my permission, never have, never will. I know 100% of the time what they are doing.
With the XP box, who knows. After seeing it's refusal to respect my authority I have since blocked all access to microsoft via my Linux based firewall. It's not going to dial home via any known MS IPs unless it has some secret IPs encoded into it which would not surprise me.
It's been my experience that most microsoft updates and patches bring undesirable results. I've been working on computers since 1978. When Windows first came out I was a DOS man and HATED windows. I resisted but gave in because everyone else used it. Then I used it because it was the de-facto standard. I played off and on with Linux for years, I still have my store bought Redhat 3.0 CD. But a few years ago I just got friggin sick of the BS and totally dumped MS and went 100% Linux. Best move I ever made in my life.
Many ISP's choke bandwidth on usenet. SBC and Road Runner choke it down so badly that it's just not feasible to get large files or large volumes of files through usenet.
The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. "It's like buying a car," he said. "If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model."
Bullshit......
Only an absolute retard would buy that line of crap.
My dad had nothing but total hell with a M$ box, BSOD's constantly, spyware, virus, trojans, etc..
I told him "Dad, time to end the stupidity. I'm going to install Linux for you".. End of problem. Same exact hardware, 100% rock solid, totally stable, totally trouble free.
OTOH, being that I work on all sorts of systems for people, I have an XP box, (behind a Linux based firewall), I keep it so I can help M$ people and just the other day it informed me new updates were available and asked if I wanted to download them. I told it NO, do not download them. Later, when I went to power down that box, it came up with a warning, telling me that it was downloading patches and installing them and DO NOT POWER DOWN or risk damage to the system. So I had to sit and wait 20 minutes while this thing did something that I did NOT authorize it to do.
I have no idea on earth WTF it even downloaded. That's bullshit. I only fire that box up when I have to provide support for someone and walk them through something. And it does have Firefox on it, I'll NEVER use IE on it, ever.
If you want security you don't replace the computer, you dump M$.. The idiot that made the stupid comment should be run out of town on a rail...
Trillian is still Windows only, and if you don't like the FAQ response regarding Linux and Mac support
Well, how would a Linux user be disappointed, not having anyway to know WTF the program is about or why it's so wonderful? I mean sure, it's understood that it's an IM program but so? So is Gaim, and Kopete and 4 or 5 other programs and they communicate with everything else out there. What's so wonderful about this one? I'll never know because I don't use windows. So, why the big deal??
There are good movie theatres out there, you just have to find them.
Um, no there isn't.. Not around here. The nearest theater is 35 miles away, in another city. And you'll have to mortgage your house if you want snacks and pop after paying $10 per ticket. Not to mention gas to drive the 70 mile round trip.
Oh, rent a movie you say? Hmmm, well, all the movie rental stores in town closed and moved to the same city as the theater.
I don't have satellite or cable. BUT, I don't HAVE to run out and see a movie the day it comes out, who needs the expense or hassle? It's been more than 10 years since I rented a movie and about 8 years since I bought a PPV back when I did have satellite.
The last time I went to a theater was just before the last one in this area shut down, after it had dropped to 99 cents a seat, no refreshments, just a seat and a few dipstick kids running the place. I took the wife and kids, we saw Bramm Stokers Dracula, it was hot off the press and we saw it for 99 cents. We brought our own refreshments in the wifes purse since they didn't sell any anyway. There were maybe 4 other people in the theater that could have seated 500. I remember when I was a kid (in the 60's) that place was THE place. Lights, glamour, big chauffer driven limo's pulling up to drop off the socialites to see new releases. Yeah, it was a real La-de-da place in it's time. Now, it's been torn down and replaced with medical offices. Another theater was replaced with a grocery store, another one with a church and two are abandoned in place, along with ALL the businesses on main street, roofs caving in and rotting away, waiting on the wrecking ball and bulldozers.
Every once in a while, a rare thing happens and a movie or two MAY make it onto *MY* radar, IE LOTR trilogy, and I go to Wallyworld and purchase the DVD collectors set. I don't like to waste money on the crappy singles if I know they will release a collectors edition.
But, most new movies do nothing for me, I'm sneaking up on 45 years old now and I like older movies. Most of the stuff I like is Looooooooong out of print and probably will never, ever be pressed to DVD. So, *IF* I can find an *old* movie on torrent, I'll get it, watch it and not feel bad at all about it. I used to go to the Block Buster before they shut down, as well as some other little mom & pop movies clubs (that have all vaporized now) and buy their old VHS movies that no one wanted anymore.
The number one complaint that I have is that they don't put the oldies on DVD and even if they did, Wally World isn't about to waste precious floor space on oldies that sell for $4.99 when the same space could be filled with new releases that sell for $16 and up...
I run Suse 9.1 with an Nvidia card and a 22" Iiyama CRT. I use the default fonts and font settings and the text is magnificent! I could not possibly ask for better fonts, as they don't exist.
When I was running 9.0, YOU insisted that I install the M$ fonts, it nagged me on every update until I finally did. CRAP... They screwed up the entire system. I was pissed.
Now, having learned that lesson, I will NEVER install any M$ fonts on any nix box, ever again.
My default fonts are so clear, sharp and strong that anyone sitting 10 feet away can read my CRT clearly and I run at 1400 x 1050 @ 76hz.
Sounds to me like you've been looking at Redhat 3.0 on a 60hz display. Now THAT would leave anyone with a bad taste in their mouth..
I agree. I would not want to see ANY group of religious zealots impose their will upon the rest. I would like to see less sex, senseless violence and empty head crap but by the networks taking responsibility for producing and broadcasting more quality programming.
I'm a father and a grandfather. My kids are older now and moved out and I can't control what they watch, nor can I control what my grandson watches. While I don't want a small group of religious zealots controlling the content, I don't want the current crap flowing from the idiot box into the one year old head of my grandson. If it was in my power, he would be raised in a home without a TV set.
Television is total crap. There are maybe a half dozen decent channels, like National Geographic, Discovery/Science, Learning, etc.. Crap like Cartoon Network and MTV are perverted filth that should be outlawed.
That link sucks. It only mirrored 1 page out of 4, the links in the mirrored page only point to the next pages of the original content on the original/.'ed server..
I don't care how "cheap" it will be for me to mandatorily "upgrade" (I consider it to be a downgrade), I don't care if they provide the boxes for free, I don't want them. Digital TV is NOT superior. I won't gain anything by adapting my old TV's. I may get a clear signal SOME OF THE TIME but when the signal is not strong, I'll get a "Please stand by, acquiring signal" screen.
Analog will give you some measure of a signal, if it exists, digital is either all or nothing. The signal has to be good or you get blocks, freezes, stuttering, slide shows, or PSB screens. My folks have a 35' tall analog antenna and can receive distant cities, and the picture is quite good. It's illegal to receive those channels through CATV or satellite, something to do with parasitic commercial squabbles.
I'm not going to buy an HDTV unless they get them down into the $150 range, sometime around 2095.
Digital transmissions are crap. Digital over copper or fiber is fine but digital through the air is total crap. I've had satellite service through three different providers, plus I am a former C-band customer. I could always tweak my BUD if need be, and I never lost signal in a rain storm, and watched excellent quality pictures through several hurricanes. Not once did I lose signal on my BUD due to rain or wind. But my DTH dishes were constantly going out during storms. And yes, I know how to install them. I've done it professionally for years. In clear weather the dishes were pulling 100% signal (and up to 125% signal on E*) but when a storm would pass the signal would drop to under 50% and start acting up, rendering the show unwatchable. At about 40% signal it simply drops all the way out and gives you the good old PSB screen. Not to mention, I can't stand the god damn mpeg compression, they compress the sound/picture so much it negates any possible clarity benefits. And compressed audio sounds so bad that I would rather not listen to it.
OTOH, analog over CATV is crap, at least around here. Time Warner cable, in this area, provides a pathetic excuse of a signal over analog CATV. I've never seen their digital cable, I have no desire or plans to ever subscribe to digital cable.
As it stands, I'm not happy with any of the current transmission methods. And the means for saving and storing the shows and movies that we enjoy and want to keep for the years to come will not allow us to do so. VCR's are on the way out, fast and video tape goes bad. And we all know CD/DVD rot will eat those discs, sooner or later. Digital camera's are killing film, ok fine, but how are you going to save those pictures and view them 50 years later? You're gonna have to revert to caveman tech and print them, on acid free paper. And you better hope the ink won't fade.
There's TV shows from the 60's I grew up with, I wish I could have them to watch all over again but they aren't for sale and aren't played on TV anymore. But, if all of a sudden they decide to replay them, I would like to be able to record them then watch them again 20 years later. It's my right to do so. If someone transmits a signal into my home and I can view it on my TV, I have the right to record it and keep it forever and view it as many times as I like, even if it's 10 times a day for the next 30 years.
If the studios are for it then that means it's Doubleplus good for us. Right? You can be sure that this will be a user-hostile situation. M.I. type discs, "Mr. Phelps, this disc will self destruct in 5 seconds." after watching something.
They do NOT want to allow us to keep anything. They want recordings to operate like PPV, pay each time you watch it, even if you've recorded or BOUGHT it.
No matter how loud people bitch and squeal, they'll force this on people, one way or another. I've got a number of old TV's. Several of them are in great condition, nothing wrong with them at all, but they won't receive HD programming. So if I want HD programming (which I don't) I would have to either buy all new TV's or some sort of set-top tuners. But, no worries, they'll make me do it anyway, I've got one more year of use out of my old legacy TV's and rabbit ears. All the local stations have begun dual-casting in HD and analog and are hawking the new technology in PSA's, urging everyone to hurry and buy a new TV set before they turn off the old.
I like the analog way. When there is a signal problem with digital, the picture breaks up and almost completely fails and the sound is either mangled beyond understanding or is muted completely. In the old analog world (that I still live in) the signal can be weak but the picture and sound is still viewable and understandable. I can turn my old TV on, turn the rabbit ears around and get the local news. It looks like crap but it's more than good enough to get the weather report. If it were digital and the signal was that bad it would have already muted the sound and put up a message on the screen "Please stand by, acquiring signal"..
So, just like they are forcing digital TV upon us, they will force whatever media type gives THEM the upper hand, the most control. They will NEVER gives us any technology that gives US the upper hand..
He's got plenty of money, what with all the billions Halliburton has bilked the American public out of. What is the tab now? About 200 BILLION?? So what's a billion??
I want to build a machine for my grandson and I'll be damned if he's going to have his mind polluted by M$ poison.
What's a Linux distro for toddlers that will run on legacy boxes? Something like DSL for preschoolers?? (And it would be nice if his mom could also use it for simple web tasks, ala-DSL)
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I _do_ _not_ _care_ about having the machine totally up to date. It is NOT a production machine. I do NOT use it for anything.
It serves but one function in my toolkit.
I have the machine only so that when someone calls me up with a windows problem I can fire it up and walk them through the problem on the phone. I then power it down and it stays powered down until the next time a MS user calls me in a panic with a problem. It's behind a Linux powered firewall. I have no fear that it will be compromised from an outside attack and I will never install programs on it without them being heavily scrutinized first.
I do not use the machine for any other reason.
I'll never use it for anything. Not for browsing, not for email, not for gaming, not for word processing, not for entertainment purposes, not for anything other than to have a machine at hand when I need to help someone with a MS problem.
You must have misunderstood when I originally stated that "I only fire that box up when I have to provide support for someone"...
If I didn't have the need to support other people's MS problems I would NOT own a MS product of any sort, I would much rather have 10 Linux machines sitting next to me than the 9 and the oddball.
Maybe you should spend a little more time becoming familar with Windows XP? You know, know your enemy. You might even figure out how to turn off Automatic Updates.
I built an XP box (w/SP2) for the SOLE REASON of having one at hand so I can provide phone support to people that need it. I have no other use on earth for any microsoft product. I have no desire to become familiar with XP other than for the purpose of supporting other people's problems.
I use Linux on ALL of my other machines, and I have NINE other machines in my computer room at this moment and approx. 100 machines total in my place, right now, this moment.
But 99.9% of the people in this are use windows and I can make money helping them with their never ending problems. I have no intentions of having the same problems on the ONE windows box I now have, and that starts with the friggin machine not doing things without my permission.
My Suse boxes do not ever download anything without my permission, never have, never will. I know 100% of the time what they are doing.
With the XP box, who knows. After seeing it's refusal to respect my authority I have since blocked all access to microsoft via my Linux based firewall. It's not going to dial home via any known MS IPs unless it has some secret IPs encoded into it which would not surprise me.
It's been my experience that most microsoft updates and patches bring undesirable results.
I've been working on computers since 1978. When Windows first came out I was a DOS man and HATED windows. I resisted but gave in because everyone else used it. Then I used it because it was the de-facto standard. I played off and on with Linux for years, I still have my store bought Redhat 3.0 CD. But a few years ago I just got friggin sick of the BS and totally dumped MS and went 100% Linux. Best move I ever made in my life.
Many ISP's choke bandwidth on usenet.
SBC and Road Runner choke it down so badly that it's just not feasible to get large files or large volumes of files through usenet.
So?
They are known and they are fixed. A few clicks of the mouse and you are up-to-date.
M$ is unfixable. It's a defective product that can not ever be repaired. Broken straight out of the box...
The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. "It's like buying a car," he said. "If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model."
Bullshit......
Only an absolute retard would buy that line of crap.
My dad had nothing but total hell with a M$ box, BSOD's constantly, spyware, virus, trojans, etc..
I told him "Dad, time to end the stupidity. I'm going to install Linux for you".. End of problem. Same exact hardware, 100% rock solid, totally stable, totally trouble free.
OTOH, being that I work on all sorts of systems for people, I have an XP box, (behind a Linux based firewall), I keep it so I can help M$ people and just the other day it informed me new updates were available and asked if I wanted to download them. I told it NO, do not download them. Later, when I went to power down that box, it came up with a warning, telling me that it was downloading patches and installing them and DO NOT POWER DOWN or risk damage to the system. So I had to sit and wait 20 minutes while this thing did something that I did NOT authorize it to do.
I have no idea on earth WTF it even downloaded.
That's bullshit. I only fire that box up when I have to provide support for someone and walk them through something. And it does have Firefox on it, I'll NEVER use IE on it, ever.
If you want security you don't replace the computer, you dump M$.. The idiot that made the stupid comment should be run out of town on a rail...
Trillian is still Windows only, and if you don't like the FAQ response regarding Linux and Mac support
Well, how would a Linux user be disappointed, not having anyway to know WTF the program is about or why it's so wonderful?
I mean sure, it's understood that it's an IM program but so? So is Gaim, and Kopete and 4 or 5 other programs and they communicate with everything else out there. What's so wonderful about this one? I'll never know because I don't use windows. So, why the big deal??
Not flamebait, just a question.
concentrate on fixing the system so that crap like that can't happen in the first place.
I tried to compile it on Suse 9.1 and it crapped all over itself.
Anyone gotten it to run compile/run on Suse 9.1?
What about the curry?
There are good movie theatres out there, you just have to find them.
Um, no there isn't.. Not around here.
The nearest theater is 35 miles away, in another city. And you'll have to mortgage your house if you want snacks and pop after paying $10 per ticket. Not to mention gas to drive the 70 mile round trip.
Oh, rent a movie you say? Hmmm, well, all the movie rental stores in town closed and moved to the same city as the theater.
I don't have satellite or cable. BUT, I don't HAVE to run out and see a movie the day it comes out, who needs the expense or hassle? It's been more than 10 years since I rented a movie and about 8 years since I bought a PPV back when I did have satellite.
The last time I went to a theater was just before the last one in this area shut down, after it had dropped to 99 cents a seat, no refreshments, just a seat and a few dipstick kids running the place. I took the wife and kids, we saw Bramm Stokers Dracula, it was hot off the press and we saw it for 99 cents. We brought our own refreshments in the wifes purse since they didn't sell any anyway. There were maybe 4 other people in the theater that could have seated 500. I remember when I was a kid (in the 60's) that place was THE place. Lights, glamour, big chauffer driven limo's pulling up to drop off the socialites to see new releases. Yeah, it was a real La-de-da place in it's time. Now, it's been torn down and replaced with medical offices. Another theater was replaced with a grocery store, another one with a church and two are abandoned in place, along with ALL the businesses on main street, roofs caving in and rotting away, waiting on the wrecking ball and bulldozers.
Every once in a while, a rare thing happens and a movie or two MAY make it onto *MY* radar, IE LOTR trilogy, and I go to Wallyworld and purchase the DVD collectors set. I don't like to waste money on the crappy singles if I know they will release a collectors edition.
But, most new movies do nothing for me, I'm sneaking up on 45 years old now and I like older movies. Most of the stuff I like is Looooooooong out of print and probably will never, ever be pressed to DVD. So, *IF* I can find an *old* movie on torrent, I'll get it, watch it and not feel bad at all about it. I used to go to the Block Buster before they shut down, as well as some other little mom & pop movies clubs (that have all vaporized now) and buy their old VHS movies that no one wanted anymore.
The number one complaint that I have is that they don't put the oldies on DVD and even if they did, Wally World isn't about to waste precious floor space on oldies that sell for $4.99 when the same space could be filled with new releases that sell for $16 and up...
Because Japan now offshores their stuff to China.
This is China's revenge for WWII...
crashes the crap out of Konqueror 3.3.2
Maybe that's the Kangaroo Kops trying to install an M$ bug in everyone's browser...
How much you want to bet that there's about to be a stampede to Linux down under??
Nuke China. End of MANY problems..
What total crap.
I run Suse 9.1 with an Nvidia card and a 22" Iiyama CRT.
I use the default fonts and font settings and the text is magnificent! I could not possibly ask for better fonts, as they don't exist.
When I was running 9.0, YOU insisted that I install the M$ fonts, it nagged me on every update until I finally did. CRAP... They screwed up the entire system. I was pissed.
Now, having learned that lesson, I will NEVER install any M$ fonts on any nix box, ever again.
My default fonts are so clear, sharp and strong that anyone sitting 10 feet away can read my CRT clearly and I run at 1400 x 1050 @ 76hz.
Sounds to me like you've been looking at Redhat 3.0 on a 60hz display. Now THAT would leave anyone with a bad taste in their mouth..
there goes the neighborhood!
I agree. I would not want to see ANY group of religious zealots impose their will upon the rest. I would like to see less sex, senseless violence and empty head crap but by the networks taking responsibility for producing and broadcasting more quality programming.
I'm a father and a grandfather. My kids are older now and moved out and I can't control what they watch, nor can I control what my grandson watches. While I don't want a small group of religious zealots controlling the content, I don't want the current crap flowing from the idiot box into the one year old head of my grandson. If it was in my power, he would be raised in a home without a TV set.
Television is total crap. There are maybe a half dozen decent channels, like National Geographic, Discovery/Science, Learning, etc.. Crap like Cartoon Network and MTV are perverted filth that should be outlawed.
of everything on the air, that's TV & radio, is total, degenerate CRAP.
100% of the people watching and listening to this garbage should also be complaining and not passively sitting there.
all the hot air in DC?
Can we get some action on that?
Machine sounds are the only ones in SENTRI's vocabulary. It cannot eavesdrop on conversations, the scientist emphasized.
Bullshit...
That link sucks. It only mirrored 1 page out of 4, the links in the mirrored page only point to the next pages of the original content on the original /.'ed server..
I don't care how "cheap" it will be for me to mandatorily "upgrade" (I consider it to be a downgrade), I don't care if they provide the boxes for free, I don't want them.
Digital TV is NOT superior. I won't gain anything by adapting my old TV's. I may get a clear signal SOME OF THE TIME but when the signal is not strong, I'll get a "Please stand by, acquiring signal" screen.
Analog will give you some measure of a signal, if it exists, digital is either all or nothing. The signal has to be good or you get blocks, freezes, stuttering, slide shows, or PSB screens.
My folks have a 35' tall analog antenna and can receive distant cities, and the picture is quite good. It's illegal to receive those channels through CATV or satellite, something to do with parasitic commercial squabbles.
I'm not going to buy an HDTV unless they get them down into the $150 range, sometime around 2095.
Digital transmissions are crap. Digital over copper or fiber is fine but digital through the air is total crap. I've had satellite service through three different providers, plus I am a former C-band customer. I could always tweak my BUD if need be, and I never lost signal in a rain storm, and watched excellent quality pictures through several hurricanes. Not once did I lose signal on my BUD due to rain or wind.
But my DTH dishes were constantly going out during storms. And yes, I know how to install them. I've done it professionally for years. In clear weather the dishes were pulling 100% signal (and up to 125% signal on E*) but when a storm would pass the signal would drop to under 50% and start acting up, rendering the show unwatchable. At about 40% signal it simply drops all the way out and gives you the good old PSB screen.
Not to mention, I can't stand the god damn mpeg compression, they compress the sound/picture so much it negates any possible clarity benefits. And compressed audio sounds so bad that I would rather not listen to it.
OTOH, analog over CATV is crap, at least around here. Time Warner cable, in this area, provides a pathetic excuse of a signal over analog CATV. I've never seen their digital cable, I have no desire or plans to ever subscribe to digital cable.
As it stands, I'm not happy with any of the current transmission methods. And the means for saving and storing the shows and movies that we enjoy and want to keep for the years to come will not allow us to do so. VCR's are on the way out, fast and video tape goes bad. And we all know CD/DVD rot will eat those discs, sooner or later.
Digital camera's are killing film, ok fine, but how are you going to save those pictures and view them 50 years later? You're gonna have to revert to caveman tech and print them, on acid free paper. And you better hope the ink won't fade.
There's TV shows from the 60's I grew up with, I wish I could have them to watch all over again but they aren't for sale and aren't played on TV anymore. But, if all of a sudden they decide to replay them, I would like to be able to record them then watch them again 20 years later. It's my right to do so. If someone transmits a signal into my home and I can view it on my TV, I have the right to record it and keep it forever and view it as many times as I like, even if it's 10 times a day for the next 30 years.
If the studios are for it then that means it's Doubleplus good for us. Right?
You can be sure that this will be a user-hostile situation. M.I. type discs, "Mr. Phelps, this disc will self destruct in 5 seconds." after watching something.
They do NOT want to allow us to keep anything.
They want recordings to operate like PPV, pay each time you watch it, even if you've recorded or BOUGHT it.
No matter how loud people bitch and squeal, they'll force this on people, one way or another.
I've got a number of old TV's. Several of them are in great condition, nothing wrong with them at all, but they won't receive HD programming. So if I want HD programming (which I don't) I would have to either buy all new TV's or some sort of set-top tuners. But, no worries, they'll make me do it anyway, I've got one more year of use out of my old legacy TV's and rabbit ears.
All the local stations have begun dual-casting in HD and analog and are hawking the new technology in PSA's, urging everyone to hurry and buy a new TV set before they turn off the old.
I like the analog way. When there is a signal problem with digital, the picture breaks up and almost completely fails and the sound is either mangled beyond understanding or is muted completely. In the old analog world (that I still live in) the signal can be weak but the picture and sound is still viewable and understandable. I can turn my old TV on, turn the rabbit ears around and get the local news. It looks like crap but it's more than good enough to get the weather report. If it were digital and the signal was that bad it would have already muted the sound and put up a message on the screen "Please stand by, acquiring signal"..
So, just like they are forcing digital TV upon us, they will force whatever media type gives THEM the upper hand, the most control. They will NEVER gives us any technology that gives US the upper hand..
He's got plenty of money, what with all the billions Halliburton has bilked the American public out of. What is the tab now? About 200 BILLION?? So what's a billion??
Ok, this is bullsh*t....
I want to build a machine for my grandson and I'll be damned if he's going to have his mind polluted by M$ poison.
What's a Linux distro for toddlers that will run on legacy boxes? Something like DSL for preschoolers?? (And it would be nice if his mom could also use it for simple web tasks, ala-DSL)