well, my post was a little tongue in cheek to show the absurdities of cameras everywhere, that's why I added a little heh heh heh to the end of it. I do think the point is valid though, the ones calling for all the cameras are also not very keen on having them on themselves. And I was insulting them by calling them names and insisting on guilty until proven innocent, because that's what our governmental and corporate drivensociety is doing to joe and jane average now, government assumes you are wrong and guilty in advance basically, like at roadblock checkpoints, applying for a bewildering variety of licenses and permits,big searches at the airport,starting to assume everyone on the net is a "pirate", etc etc. So I think it's just fun to poke it right back at them.
As to the 9-11 calls, I think you can actually listen on the web to a few of them, like listening to a police radio scanner at home.
...mr nasty mouth anonymous troll. Maybe it has something to do with my time spent reading and researching in geopolitics, instead of interesting pursuits like playing video games or downloading porn and movies? I don't know, perhaps this guy's speech might provide you with some answers you seek, although I doubt it, the big words will probably confuse you, and it's not in anime form so you might not "get it".
If you want more, as usual, google is a click or two away. Ask your mommy for some decent search terms.
It was for me I guess. A lot more money for a lot less sweat and effort. Sometimes it was tedious or marginally difficult, but I wouldn't classify it as *hard* compared to most other things I have done. I guess we all have different defintions of hard, I'll give you that one. Some people love it, and it's all they ever wanted to do, it just isn't for me, that's all. It's like computers, if I had to do this for a living somehow I probably wouldn't like them after awhile. Most likely it's from my energy level, it's always been pretty high, I need physical action more than most folks I think. I was a manager in a company once and jojed a gym then, every morning over their when they opened at 6 am to workout-and it still wasn't the same. Tried it for--hmm, around 4-5 months IIRC. didn't work, although I was technically OK with the job and made good pay and no complaints from my bosses and some good attaboys from the clients-I just didn't like it. I wanted back doing my previous job which was a blue collar labor position in the same company. so that's what I did.
Besides that, I have no idea why I prefer what I do-now- over other forms of work, just humans are different is the best I can come up with.
it's not all that weird wanting broadaband, and this article proves it. The conventional landline guys don't want to fool with it,for a number of reasons,many valid and I understand what they are, but the wireless guys can see a pretty big market going begging, and they have the tech to do it. That's what the article was about. I'm just waiting for it to get a little cheaper and better, then I'll probably get it.
No, it's not hell, just hard sometimes. Other times it's quite nice. I've had pure urban jobs and a few white collar jobs before, I just don't like them. Tried it, don't like it. Sitting in an office all day long, then riding some train or stuck in a car for a couple of hours on a backed up freeway just doesn't interest me. for many, they like it or tolerate it. Like I said, I lived heavy urban for 15 years, I just decided I didn't want to anymore, for a variety of reasons. The tradeoffs are worth it to me, I just wish farmers were smarter and better organized, I would love a no-notice food embargo of the major urban areas-say for a month. Just enough to get washingtons attention and the NYC/DC news axis of disinformation attention to a few important matters.
Besides that, your AC commentary is rather....trite yourself, typical snobbish elitism.
I really don't know why the satellite internet gear is that expensive. Seems like it shouldn't be you would think. Maybe someone here actually knows why they charge so much, beyond "economy of scale". Maybe it's really cheap and they are selling it at a loss, I really don't know.
My girlfriend said the same thing, from a moms point of view. She said the face was way too scary and alien looking for most very young children. She advises the guys making it-if they are reading this - to either make it cute and cuddly looking, or pure mechanical/square/machinery/normal robot looking, but nothing half way in between.
I thought it was weird,too, like why try to make it even remotely human looking if you leave out things like ears and hair, etc. And the eyes are way too big and nasty looking.
They should make the robot *work*, and hire the guys who make those realistic looking love dolls to do the human looking features. Subcontract that part out.
Or, vicey versa depending on the customer and what part is more important I suppose....
geek trivia, 50 ersatz forum quatloos for the first person to name the robot on lost in space....
You make some good points and I'll add an addenum. Not having powerlines installed is a good thing! That means the land is usually much cheaper, which means if you take the same amount of money you would have spent on more expensive land,or handing over to the electric guys for a buncha poles, you can take that saved cash and outright purchase a good solar/wind rig, and own your own power. And sometimes it's only a one mile difference geographically to save a thousand or better an acre in the same area you are interested in, plus a few hundred per pole to have it installed. Starts to add up quickly then..
Building your own home is an excellent way to save some loot, plus you have the opportunity to add them geeky touches, like wiring it better with data lines and stuff like that. Get creative with it, make the walls thicker, add a lot more insulation than what most stick frame houses have..
I helped my sis and bro in law build theirs, their entire two story house and 3 acres was paid off in only 5 years doing it this way, with zero interest payments. They bought the land, then sat on it, saved money until they could put the well and septic in for cash. Then they started the house, and within a few months it was finished enough to move into. they had to eat a little rent at first, but the over all savings over just buying a complete house and getting a 20 year note on it was well into 6 figures pure savings, for not a lot of sweat equity, all things considered. During construction, they would add what they could from savings every month, it was always paid off as they went with this plan. work was in the evenings and on the weekends, when I came over to help. To discipline themselves, they lived on one check, the other check went all to building supplies. They moved in when it was roughed out and plumbed and wired, then finished it off over the next two years, even the second story waited, they lived downstairs the first year, even though the over all structure was there, you'd look up through the rafters direct to the roof. A little roughing it never hurt anyone.
You can still get the home and skip the banks. It's called owner financed, I bought a house like that before. I paid aboput 4 months what would have been rent for the same place down,and then we arranged a contract with terms that satisfied both of us, went and notarised it together, and that was that, and I even dropped off the payments in person in cash once a month. The owner loved it, they were getting the interest the bank normally would have been getting. They make a lot more loot for the same property without involving real estate skimmer middlemen and the banks "loaning" money they don't even have and charging interest on top of it.
You can still find deals like that, a lot of homes are just sitting on the market now, un saleable in this economic climate, try it out, make some offers, you might be surprised.
As to the cameras with the cops, notice cops and government-who are the same humans everyone else is and have the exact same percentage of criminals inside their ranks, absolutely no different, and in a lot of cases are even WORSE criminals than the general population, with ALL crimes, are in no particular hurry to have cameras monitoring THEM anyplace, and keep trying to make it even harder to get records, etc. All they do now to cover up their crimes is mutter "security" and that makes it some sort of fact that they don't need oversight or any surveillence on "them".
I think we need cameras and microphones-inside police stations, running 24/7/365 and accessible through a web interface anyone can look at, and inside every patrol car. We need cameras in every office of every elected politician, same deal. We need cameras for every non elected bureaucrat in government, and complete records transparency. We need cameras in every governmental and non governmental but still "the same guys" meetings, like the bilderberg conferences and the economic gang of 8 and WTO closed door meetings, we should be able to see and hear EXACTLY what these plutocratic despotic parasites are up to, all the time, 24/7/375. When we have that, sure, stick cameras on all the street corners then. Until that time, nope, trash the cameras in public. Screw them turkeys, buncha lying thieving murdering gouging bribe takin scumbag criminals guilty until proven innocent as far as I am concerned. Same with any non human corporation of maximum cheating profits-if they want the benefits of having a non human take all the so called "risk", to hide behind their shysters and the legalese they bribed into "law", to conduct their secret business deals consisting of bribes and kickbacks and collusion, then the humans connected with management in those corporations need to be under 24/7/365 surveillence,because we have too many examples now of high level corruption and thieving going on with all these big corporations, the default should be, they are all crooked until proven innocent.
See how all these big brother types in government and industry would like that!
...rude. Folks want to live rural but want broadband and that's somewhow wrong? let's turn it around, why don't YOU just manufacture your water in your suburban home,and can't you just replicate your food over your fast dsl connection? I mean, you have everything you need right? You cannot conceive of any necessity or desire for people to live rural?
No, for me, after 15 years living in a big metro area, I give up, it's not worth it, too much crime, noise, filth, too expensive, too artificial, packed in like termites. Yeech. Ya, having a deli close by was nice, being able to have a pick of movies to go to was OK, having a lot of cleat TV channels was ok, being able to go to tthe store closeby was ok, but ya know what? I willingly trade all that for what I have now. Not for this boy, just don't like it back to the city, and ya'all can just stay there, too, thankee kindly.
My "commute" is outside the door, we only go to town once a week and I could just as easily make that once a month, we burn little gas in that regard. Step outside, and I'm at work. A traffic jam to me is someones beefer gets out and is standing in the road. And I have no desire to live in the half and half zone of suburbia either, where you have *neither* advantage that urban or rural living really has to offer. I tried that too, you still had to go drive everyplace to do anything, you had little privacy, prices were almost as bad as the city, and I don't think endless streams of quickstores and the same sqwuare houses in constitutes "culture" of any note.
I have *many* reasons to prefer living rural, just as many as folks who enjoy more urban amenities like theirs. I'll put up with dialup and be greatful for it, like I said, I really am greatful for it.. It doesn't stop me from wanting a good net connection. If it takes waiting for satellite or better quality wifi, so be it. If I couldn't get dialup I would definetly get satellite some way or another, but right now I can struggle by with dialup, I'm just gonna complain about it and give encouragement to any companies out there who might want my money and have me as a customer, to tell them that they have a good potential niche market of millions of people for broadband once they can pull it off, so I'm encouraging those efforts. I think that is *reasonable*. I've given up on any wired solutions though, that has a dismal to "no" chance of occurring any time soon, but wireless somehow just might work. Eventually. Soon maybe, I just don't know.
And as to work, yep, my income is based on poultry production once you follow it two steps from what I do *exactly*. I do the outside maintenance on a really large complex that includes big farms, businesses and residential areas but it's the farms that make the money,although the government seems to be doing everythibng it can to destroy that as well. You tell me why that might be happening, but it's as big a problem as IT outsourcing is, just on slashdot we just aren't going to be talking about it any time soon, beyond the occassional sentence someone like me may make, because of the demographics here. We rural folks *know* we are in a tiny minority here.
I think you might have a distorted view of life in rural USA, we are still "humans" out here, we noticed it is the 21st century. And yes, we actually "use" technology and enjoy it and profit from it. I was a geek growing up, my dad was a mainframe guy, and I inherited the interst in geeky things. I just like living in the sticks, that's all. You use rural geekiness too, just maybe you don't see it or don't really know where your food and water and energy comes from. Big hint, it starts in the rural areas and it takes humans to get that stuff -> to you in the burbs and in the urban areas, and all we want is a little notice and to be treated with a modicum of dignity and respect, same as you want I think. It's not a majority here on slashdot, but there's a decent minority of rural dwellers here, and we are ALL geeks and like a lot of the same stuff. So of c
I never said they weren't crazy when under the influence of fundamentalism, I just noted it's the same all over, or do you disagree? African animists with tribal warfare? that crap ain't going on now? Nutjobs. Hindus massacring muslims and muslims massacring them right back, burning down each others schools and places of worship and so on? that's not happening now? Nutjobs. So called christians or "humanists" in the western nations down through history invading each other, engaging in genocide, and still acting as invaders and dismissing mass carnage as "collateral damage" now and cheering it on with flags a waving? Nutjobs. Japanese "peaceful" buddhists on the rampage all through china and south east asia before? Nutjobs. Fundamentalist cult like atheists in the so called "communist" nations being just as dismal or worse than dismal. Nutjobs. All of the above, violent, using their culture and religion or cult like beliefs as an excuse to be predators. Just look at the past century in total, what do you see? Governments all over engaging in warfare, genocide, various gods all on each other's sides, each side always saying it's the other guys who are the aggressors, that whatever they do is right and just and the other doofuses are all wrong and subhumans worthy of extermination, and even doing it to their own populations to boot. 100 to 200 millions worldwide murdered by their own governments and neighbors in the last century. I condemn the lot of them. I applaud any efforts made in any nations to get away from that sort of thinking, on an individual one person by one person basis or as an organized government and culture and society.
If adoption of open source and more universal citizen to citizen communication via the net and computers can help by pass the mass brainwashing that has gone on in all these cultures, then MAYBE we can start to break these vicious cycles. People have a right to their own identities, and all cultures can step back a little and see where that right should be extended to the other guy, so in that sense I will agree with you, but I will not ignore the other realities of planetary civilization, ie, western crap has just as bad an odor to it as most other nations and cultures crap has. The good stuff is that, good, and it can stand on it's own merits and needs no help from me, no matter where it comes from, and the bad should be condemned and avoided. It's a philosphy I have, and I see no reason to change it. I'm not naieve, and I'm a pretty strong proponent of legitmate self defense, the second amendment, and so on,on a personal or national level, and have been there and done that, but I refuse to be dumbed down into this "let's roll" mentality that has taken over part of the nation since 9-11,because,well, there's just too much evidence out there to show a lot of involvement with white guys in suits. that's it in a nutjob shell. there' some pretty shady shenanigans going on with all this offical policy, lot of lying going on, lot of data that you can see that is un-explainable if you just openly swallow all that is claimed by offical government. In other words, it's not just ay-rabs in robes and turbans over to whoknow'swhereistan involved with this.
And I have NOT seen michael moores movie,nor am I a "liberal" if that's what you are implying, I am neither democrat nor republican, liberal nor conservative, I am a mild small n nationalist with a strict capital C Constitutional bent. Economically I am a supporter of mercantilism but not capitalism or socialism. I believe in voluntary efforts of help and in legitimate tithing, but not forced wealth rearranging. I am for all peoples everywhere to have the same basic born with rights I like to think I have. I believe in letting folks be unless they muck with you, and if they do, squash them, but you should be SURE of your real target before said squashing. I am not lead around by the low IQ nose by the transnational billionaire globalist owned mass media and our so called political "leaders". Their schemes and plots and half
Civil War 2, by Thomas Chittum. I have a copy, one of the best treatments on the subject you mentioned I have seen. I think his over all analysis in it is very well thought out and presented. What he talks about is coming true, you can see it daily. Read the reviews to see what other folks think about it.
rural USA still has diddly squat nothing in the terms of any broadband either. That's millions and millions of people, who every day are having to deal with more bloated and more busy so-called websites that require broadband almost to even view them. It's like "so what?", you can get a better computer, but if the web page you are looking at still takes a minute to finish downloading-not a second, a minute, than what's the point? any old machine can still render that fast. And you can't even get 1/2 the web masters out there to even provide alt text tag links, as simple as that is. How lazy can you get? I tried surfing with images off for a long time to try and speed things up, even then it's getting worse. Turn images off completely and go surfing around, sheesh it's dismal, page after page of vague blank colored boxes with nothing to indicate what is there.
So, it's gonna be something like this satellite (prices are cheaper than dish networks I see,, 750 versus the new lower price of 500$ install, and 70+$ a month instead of this claimed 60$), or the FCC gets real with wifi and allows more power and more spectrum, or something. I'm paying right at 80$/month for a landline phone and dialup connection,and if it wasn't for the big install cost-which I ain't got- I'd jump on satellite, even with it's faults. I use cell phone for voice, I only use the landline for inet connction, that's it. My dialup connection goes out whenever some squirrel jumps on the line or a rain cloud passes over, so that's no big deal anyway with occassional outtages, it's expected.
With this quarter profits corporate strategies, no one will ever put in any sort of hard wired solutions beyond intermittent and flaky alleged "broadband" telco monopoly dsl in some areas that really are just suburban, not rural.
So I say GO SATELLITE. Or something else. First guy to offer me an affordable *real* broadband deal close to what I am paying for a 28.8 connection, including install price, will get my loot. Until then, dialup, that's it, and I'm greatful to the local mom and pop ISP for even having that.
They got a deal on that stuff. GE popped 380 million for an installed up and running massive wind energy business that actually had a good product and was selling great. I don't know about enrons other scams, but this wasn't one of them, just a good product that worked and hit the market at the right time. There's farmers now all over the midwest got these things installed and they are getting a decent check every month that pays them better than farming, harvesting wind. Can't beat it with a stick, demand for electricity ain't never gonna go down.
Enron was weird,megalomania wouldn't let them see their own insanity. In todays world, being in the legitimate energy business is a license to print money almost, even a half assed company with any medium ethics can make boatloads of money. You have to go out of your way to NOT make money. Can you imagine being so steenking greedy that you had to have *more* than that? It's mind boggling how far into love of money depravity some people can get.
... themselves-and others, under orders, and under the influence of societal and religious and governmental brainwashing. Hmm, Seems like I have seen that before... hmm, did they speak arabic?? Lemme see if I can remember... oh ya, I do!
Nope. They spoke 'merkin near as I recall.
What you are implying is over simplistic and not exactly what I was saying. I will attempt clarification. They are adopting open source for all the same reasons anyone else is, PLUS, by adopting it, it helps them to get independent.
In-dependent, they are tired of being de-pendent.
What you said, is true of them to a certain degree in the past, but now they know there is no future in remaining dependent and as economic colony states of the west. Of course they will do their best to trade to their advantage now, who wouldn't?, because they have been taken advantage of for a long time. Most of the nations in the muslim world have had weird rulers foisted on them going back to the turn of the last century, they are just annoyed with the western influences on their culture and on their lands and in their economies. They see no need any longer to just sell their raw resources for piddling low profit, when they can trade it for a lot more, and develop domestic industries. And all their populations need real employment as well, you expect them to ignore that? They can also look at geopolitical reality, they just saw the US take over the second largest oil fields in the world, and the largest concentration of fresh water in the middle east(do NOT forget that part in the iraq war, even though hardly anyone ever mentions it), both critical for nation building and for advancing their own nations. And they can add the sums same as everyone (except for most lusers who depend on the 6 o clock news and their brokers for data),and they know the oil will run out soon for all practical purposes,within the next generation, they can see as oil drops below peak and as demand quadruples in the next 15 years they need to do something about that reality, so they are entering a crash program of modernization, all over. any nation that doesn't will either suffer greatly or be forced into becomeing a looter nation, same as the US has become. For most purposes, that's what the US is now, a looter nation, we are dropping any pretense of manufacturing anything except for war and police/paramilitary *things*. These other nations can clearly see what's coming for them.
Now they have the internet in all those nations now, and travel is common. Whether that will mitigate some of the more radical islamic tenets remains to be seen. You would hope so, but I think the US invading iraq set that back-completely borked it- for another generation, if it ever comes back at all. The young people in those nations were gradually becoming more secular and westernised, now they are returning to islamic fundamentalism, because they see no practical future for them with the anglo/us/israeli axis of maximum profits and command and control as their future-and who would? There's nothing in it for them other than what they have had for a long time, a 1-2% ultra rich transnational based series of puppet governments, or rule by nutjob fundies. The best they can do is to try something different, and that would revolve around developing their own economies, starting with more practical use and savvier trading of their oil and national labor pool, and developing their own currencies based on what they value-gold and silver instead of western bankers created out of thin air pieces of debt paper, and to use their oil better, which they are starting to do. For instance, saudi arabi is still the big dog with oil, but also is putting the most into solar energy and in advanced water desalinization. Malaysia is heavy into developing industry and manufacturing. Pakistan is developing a huge engineering base, and so on.
Don't expect them to live in the past any more than you do in other words, they may be different from you, but collectively they aren'
Isn't the same exact thing, the shifting tech trends, happening in the various US super technology "corridors" like silicon valley, route 128 in massachusetts, and elsewhere? Why would Malaysia be any different?
The biggest problem is that economic "trends" are not just "reported" in the media and by the big global skimmers and stock shills, but they *induce* it, so they can keep on with their massive skimming. As soon as they have milked one sector almost dry, they go on to another one, and what they do is always at least one step ahead of what they want and encourage the investors to do in public, that's the only way they can keep people faked out into turning over their cash to them by the boatload for generations.
quote "That's not really "hiring programmers" because the people who wrote Word and Windows XP have already been paid."
That's it in a nutshell. Closed source efforts like from MS are exactly like the music industry wanting to charge full price for extremely cheap to almost free (to them) copies, forever and ever, and to mandate it by law and coercion. It is unsustainable foolishness. People in the rest of the world and in the rest of the jobs out there get paid by producing new work, not by re selling the old work over and over and over again. The handwriting is *indeed* on the wall when it comes to this. That's one of the main reasons open source even exists now, because it was such a ripoff to try and even get and use closed source in the first place. Look at what a brain like Linus had to do just to even be allowed to program in the direction he wanted to go! that's the lame closed source industry's fault right there, they were so greedy they couldn't even see it. Open source allows people to be creative, and to share their creativity with others, to use as they see fit, for pleasure or in their other "real" business. Closed source pricing (leasing, no sales allowed mostly) guidelines have been the industrys attempts to fleece the market place for decades now, and not only that, they managed to wiggle in universal acceptance of no warranties on top of ridiculous prices that occur over and over again as new "forced upgrades" have occurred. That entire nutso attitude and business model is changing,and those who cling to the past will be hurt the most.
... in the Islamic countries to try and create their own economies not based on pure interaction with the west. The World Islamic Trading Organisation is partly behind these trends in a way. They are seeking to develop sustainable economies not so directly tied to non Islamic nations and concepts, such as fiat(phoney) currency and usury based banking. Free software would naturally fit into this goal, as it can be "theirs" without a single legal hassle and it's just as good and freer to use, along with eventually replacing the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency,and especially in the Islamic nations as "the" currency. They created and are starting to use the Islamic gold Dinar and the silver Dirham for this purpose. They need software, and wanting to just divest themselves from the necessity of shipping cash to redmond and other closed source places in the west, plus to encourage local production and identity, it just makes sense for them to discourage (eventually) even the use of pirated software and just go open source. It follows their goals exactly in other words. There is a transition period that will occur,of course, but eventually it will happen almost completely. MS= USA in their minds, so they know it's not in their best interests to fund them. they will take what they will take, but they have no overwhelming desitre to keep paying the west for all the "things" they need, now that they can see the non western nations are really where all the "stuff" comes from, and that they the Islamics own the bulk of the worlds recoverable energy in the form of oil reserves. You are watching what in essence is a huge divorce in progress, that is occurring in many nations. It's just now really starting to take off, I expect it to increase exponentially in the coming years.
... and comparisons, it is important to identify both the browser and the underlying OS it's stuck to. IMO, and I've said it many times lately, having a windows port of mozilla is pure-D *nutz*. They should cease and desist and let windows and explorer users finish the crash and burn completely. There is no sense, logic or profit into supporting and propping up a company with 60 billion in the bank and a corporate mindset that starts with F-U and goes nastier from there to the consumer. There are going to be more and more problems with this well meaning but misguided enabler crutch effort that the windows port represents until some huge show stopper bug/glitch/worm/back door whatever occurs, and mozilla, and therefore open source in general, gets tainted very badly. Then people might understand this in a long term strategic manner. they are confusing a short term tactic with long term strategic thinking, in fact, just plain ignoring long term strategic thinking.
When the homeland security guys recommended switching browsers lately, they would have been *forced*, repeat forced, to not only recommend switching browsers, but torecommend switching the entire operating systemif the moz and firebird ports hadn't of existed for windows. It would have been clear there was no rational alternative *but* to switch. Instead, nope, friendly mozilla pulls microsofts chestnuts out of the fire,and microsoft laughs at them all the way to the bank. And MS will keep doing this as long as it takes,as long as they get this hard work given to them, because they are getting a billion dollars worth of free quality programming. It's like Yugo getting free Ferrari engines when their's barely run, oOF COURSE yugo would take them--but it will never make a yugo a real ferrari, something else will keep breaking on it,over and over again, won't it? So what's the point again?
To a lot of people, advocating that folks on windows just "switch browsers" and that will cure almost all their windows ills, is a mantra, it's "believed in" almost like a cult belief. They see it as a long term move to somehow magically "wean" people away from propietary and towards open source. I disagree, completely. I think this is an incorrect assessment, on several levels. At best, it is a sop and a mild convenience, a temporary and leaky bandaid, at worst, it will be a disaster. It will make microsoft insecurities and inadequacies "stick" to open source (it's already started to happen last week) as more and more the underlying wrongness of windows is forced into acceptance even by the open source people, and mozilla team and developers are being used-played for suckers to be frank- by microsoft to attempt to fix microsofts unfixable problems. It's like hitting yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop..then advocating other people do it, too...
I know this won't be popular, but I'm going to keep saying once in awhile, because it needs to be said. Open source should be for open source. Quality should stick to quality. freedom should stick to freedom. You don't send foreign aid to a nation that despises you, and advocates dictaroship. To get even older and more to the point,you can-not make a silk purse out of a sows ear, no matter how leet of a tailor you think you are.
Above is just rhetorical, but I think it's important to say it out loud here on/.
... that has good transceiver functions as well as telephone service, at the flick of a switch. At least 2 meter or 440, or bare minimum extended range freebie FRS. Something to make it more practical as a general purpose audio communications device, and make it big enough to have a decent sized keypad, screen and to hold a big battery, not a toy battery. I don't want to use up my cell minutes on chit chat around the complex here when a free radio would work just as well. Heck, it should receive normal radio broadcasts as well, am/fm/some shortwave bands. They could fit it in there if they made phones for people with normal sized hands and didn't get an attack of the vapors if they had to carry a little weight. Ain't a one of these teeny new near one ounce mickey mouse phones I am interested in, don't need games, calendars, ringtones, none of that stuff, just be able to talk who I want to talk to, in different ways, can't even see the screens on them things, let alone use the keypads. Those are good for some people, but for others, like outdoor workers, not so good. A lot of companies use transceivers now, plenty good enough to use around a small community range wise, but then you need to carry a cell phone as well, sucks. I know Southern Linc used to have that combo service in the same phone but it was ridiculous expensive because you were on their repeaters and they charged through the nose for it.
Do something different, shake up things, come up with a new model? They want to provide free semi big iron boxes with a software subscription plan? Swell, where's the desktop version of this? THAT would shake up the ole computar whirrled! Give me a new desktop every year, plus the OS where everything works and it doesn't suck, and I can just keep paying the fee, maybe I would consider that. Buck a day maybe to always have a new computer and OS every year? Just turn in the old one and they send you a new one? Warranty, updates, firewall and antivir that works? Full legal media playback without having to jump through hoops? Star Office and all the other stuff included? Their Java/SuSe desktop? Personal or SOHO or enterprise desktop/workstation? Let's see it, THAT would be innovative!
The 54 million should go to the people who downloaded and installed the bogus-ware, the spam victims. MS certainly doesn't need it, and they don't deserve it from being lamers and not registering an obvious domain for them in the first place..
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well, my post was a little tongue in cheek to show the absurdities of cameras everywhere, that's why I added a little heh heh heh to the end of it. I do think the point is valid though, the ones calling for all the cameras are also not very keen on having them on themselves. And I was insulting them by calling them names and insisting on guilty until proven innocent, because that's what our governmental and corporate drivensociety is doing to joe and jane average now, government assumes you are wrong and guilty in advance basically, like at roadblock checkpoints, applying for a bewildering variety of licenses and permits,big searches at the airport,starting to assume everyone on the net is a "pirate", etc etc. So I think it's just fun to poke it right back at them.
As to the 9-11 calls, I think you can actually listen on the web to a few of them, like listening to a police radio scanner at home.
...mr nasty mouth anonymous troll. Maybe it has something to do with my time spent reading and researching in geopolitics, instead of interesting pursuits like playing video games or downloading porn and movies? I don't know, perhaps this guy's speech might provide you with some answers you seek, although I doubt it, the big words will probably confuse you, and it's not in anime form so you might not "get it".
If you want more, as usual, google is a click or two away. Ask your mommy for some decent search terms.
It was for me I guess. A lot more money for a lot less sweat and effort. Sometimes it was tedious or marginally difficult, but I wouldn't classify it as *hard* compared to most other things I have done. I guess we all have different defintions of hard, I'll give you that one. Some people love it, and it's all they ever wanted to do, it just isn't for me, that's all. It's like computers, if I had to do this for a living somehow I probably wouldn't like them after awhile. Most likely it's from my energy level, it's always been pretty high, I need physical action more than most folks I think. I was a manager in a company once and jojed a gym then, every morning over their when they opened at 6 am to workout-and it still wasn't the same. Tried it for--hmm, around 4-5 months IIRC. didn't work, although I was technically OK with the job and made good pay and no complaints from my bosses and some good attaboys from the clients-I just didn't like it. I wanted back doing my previous job which was a blue collar labor position in the same company. so that's what I did.
Besides that, I have no idea why I prefer what I do-now- over other forms of work, just humans are different is the best I can come up with.
... set all those 20 tabs as your home page group, then they will open back up exactly the same on restarting mozilla.
it's not all that weird wanting broadaband, and this article proves it. The conventional landline guys don't want to fool with it,for a number of reasons,many valid and I understand what they are, but the wireless guys can see a pretty big market going begging, and they have the tech to do it. That's what the article was about. I'm just waiting for it to get a little cheaper and better, then I'll probably get it.
No, it's not hell, just hard sometimes. Other times it's quite nice. I've had pure urban jobs and a few white collar jobs before, I just don't like them. Tried it, don't like it. Sitting in an office all day long, then riding some train or stuck in a car for a couple of hours on a backed up freeway just doesn't interest me. for many, they like it or tolerate it. Like I said, I lived heavy urban for 15 years, I just decided I didn't want to anymore, for a variety of reasons. The tradeoffs are worth it to me, I just wish farmers were smarter and better organized, I would love a no-notice food embargo of the major urban areas-say for a month. Just enough to get washingtons attention and the NYC/DC news axis of disinformation attention to a few important matters.
Besides that, your AC commentary is rather....trite yourself, typical snobbish elitism.
" Just tell me, will you allow someone to use your computing power for a really _unknown_ purpose?"
Just think, for once redmond got it right! Windows has had that feature for years!
I really don't know why the satellite internet gear is that expensive. Seems like it shouldn't be you would think. Maybe someone here actually knows why they charge so much, beyond "economy of scale". Maybe it's really cheap and they are selling it at a loss, I really don't know.
answer to #2-too much coffee probably....
I need to tone it down. Or get a talk radio show, one or the other....
Good luck with your new place!
My girlfriend said the same thing, from a moms point of view. She said the face was way too scary and alien looking for most very young children. She advises the guys making it-if they are reading this - to either make it cute and cuddly looking, or pure mechanical/square/machinery/normal robot looking, but nothing half way in between.
I thought it was weird,too, like why try to make it even remotely human looking if you leave out things like ears and hair, etc. And the eyes are way too big and nasty looking.
They should make the robot *work*, and hire the guys who make those realistic looking love dolls to do the human looking features. Subcontract that part out.
Or, vicey versa depending on the customer and what part is more important I suppose....
geek trivia, 50 ersatz forum quatloos for the first person to name the robot on lost in space....
You make some good points and I'll add an addenum. Not having powerlines installed is a good thing! That means the land is usually much cheaper, which means if you take the same amount of money you would have spent on more expensive land,or handing over to the electric guys for a buncha poles, you can take that saved cash and outright purchase a good solar/wind rig, and own your own power. And sometimes it's only a one mile difference geographically to save a thousand or better an acre in the same area you are interested in, plus a few hundred per pole to have it installed. Starts to add up quickly then..
Building your own home is an excellent way to save some loot, plus you have the opportunity to add them geeky touches, like wiring it better with data lines and stuff like that. Get creative with it, make the walls thicker, add a lot more insulation than what most stick frame houses have..
I helped my sis and bro in law build theirs, their entire two story house and 3 acres was paid off in only 5 years doing it this way, with zero interest payments. They bought the land, then sat on it, saved money until they could put the well and septic in for cash. Then they started the house, and within a few months it was finished enough to move into. they had to eat a little rent at first, but the over all savings over just buying a complete house and getting a 20 year note on it was well into 6 figures pure savings, for not a lot of sweat equity, all things considered. During construction, they would add what they could from savings every month, it was always paid off as they went with this plan. work was in the evenings and on the weekends, when I came over to help. To discipline themselves, they lived on one check, the other check went all to building supplies. They moved in when it was roughed out and plumbed and wired, then finished it off over the next two years, even the second story waited, they lived downstairs the first year, even though the over all structure was there, you'd look up through the rafters direct to the roof. A little roughing it never hurt anyone.
You can still get the home and skip the banks. It's called owner financed, I bought a house like that before. I paid aboput 4 months what would have been rent for the same place down,and then we arranged a contract with terms that satisfied both of us, went and notarised it together, and that was that, and I even dropped off the payments in person in cash once a month. The owner loved it, they were getting the interest the bank normally would have been getting. They make a lot more loot for the same property without involving real estate skimmer middlemen and the banks "loaning" money they don't even have and charging interest on top of it.
You can still find deals like that, a lot of homes are just sitting on the market now, un saleable in this economic climate, try it out, make some offers, you might be surprised.
As to the cameras with the cops, notice cops and government-who are the same humans everyone else is and have the exact same percentage of criminals inside their ranks, absolutely no different, and in a lot of cases are even WORSE criminals than the general population, with ALL crimes, are in no particular hurry to have cameras monitoring THEM anyplace, and keep trying to make it even harder to get records, etc. All they do now to cover up their crimes is mutter "security" and that makes it some sort of fact that they don't need oversight or any surveillence on "them".
I think we need cameras and microphones-inside police stations, running 24/7/365 and accessible through a web interface anyone can look at, and inside every patrol car. We need cameras in every office of every elected politician, same deal. We need cameras for every non elected bureaucrat in government, and complete records transparency. We need cameras in every governmental and non governmental but still "the same guys" meetings, like the bilderberg conferences and the economic gang of 8 and WTO closed door meetings, we should be able to see and hear EXACTLY what these plutocratic despotic parasites are up to, all the time, 24/7/375. When we have that, sure, stick cameras on all the street corners then. Until that time, nope, trash the cameras in public. Screw them turkeys, buncha lying thieving murdering gouging bribe takin scumbag criminals guilty until proven innocent as far as I am concerned. Same with any non human corporation of maximum cheating profits-if they want the benefits of having a non human take all the so called "risk", to hide behind their shysters and the legalese they bribed into "law", to conduct their secret business deals consisting of bribes and kickbacks and collusion, then the humans connected with management in those corporations need to be under 24/7/365 surveillence,because we have too many examples now of high level corruption and thieving going on with all these big corporations, the default should be, they are all crooked until proven innocent.
See how all these big brother types in government and industry would like that!
heh heh heh
...rude. Folks want to live rural but want broadband and that's somewhow wrong? let's turn it around, why don't YOU just manufacture your water in your suburban home,and can't you just replicate your food over your fast dsl connection? I mean, you have everything you need right? You cannot conceive of any necessity or desire for people to live rural?
No, for me, after 15 years living in a big metro area, I give up, it's not worth it, too much crime, noise, filth, too expensive, too artificial, packed in like termites. Yeech. Ya, having a deli close by was nice, being able to have a pick of movies to go to was OK, having a lot of cleat TV channels was ok, being able to go to tthe store closeby was ok, but ya know what? I willingly trade all that for what I have now. Not for this boy, just don't like it back to the city, and ya'all can just stay there, too, thankee kindly.
My "commute" is outside the door, we only go to town once a week and I could just as easily make that once a month, we burn little gas in that regard. Step outside, and I'm at work. A traffic jam to me is someones beefer gets out and is standing in the road. And I have no desire to live in the half and half zone of suburbia either, where you have *neither* advantage that urban or rural living really has to offer. I tried that too, you still had to go drive everyplace to do anything, you had little privacy, prices were almost as bad as the city, and I don't think endless streams of quickstores and the same sqwuare houses in constitutes "culture" of any note.
I have *many* reasons to prefer living rural, just as many as folks who enjoy more urban amenities like theirs. I'll put up with dialup and be greatful for it, like I said, I really am greatful for it.. It doesn't stop me from wanting a good net connection. If it takes waiting for satellite or better quality wifi, so be it. If I couldn't get dialup I would definetly get satellite some way or another, but right now I can struggle by with dialup, I'm just gonna complain about it and give encouragement to any companies out there who might want my money and have me as a customer, to tell them that they have a good potential niche market of millions of people for broadband once they can pull it off, so I'm encouraging those efforts. I think that is *reasonable*. I've given up on any wired solutions though, that has a dismal to "no" chance of occurring any time soon, but wireless somehow just might work. Eventually. Soon maybe, I just don't know.
And as to work, yep, my income is based on poultry production once you follow it two steps from what I do *exactly*. I do the outside maintenance on a really large complex that includes big farms, businesses and residential areas but it's the farms that make the money,although the government seems to be doing everythibng it can to destroy that as well. You tell me why that might be happening, but it's as big a problem as IT outsourcing is, just on slashdot we just aren't going to be talking about it any time soon, beyond the occassional sentence someone like me may make, because of the demographics here. We rural folks *know* we are in a tiny minority here.
I think you might have a distorted view of life in rural USA, we are still "humans" out here, we noticed it is the 21st century. And yes, we actually "use" technology and enjoy it and profit from it. I was a geek growing up, my dad was a mainframe guy, and I inherited the interst in geeky things. I just like living in the sticks, that's all. You use rural geekiness too, just maybe you don't see it or don't really know where your food and water and energy comes from. Big hint, it starts in the rural areas and it takes humans to get that stuff -> to you in the burbs and in the urban areas, and all we want is a little notice and to be treated with a modicum of dignity and respect, same as you want I think. It's not a majority here on slashdot, but there's a decent minority of rural dwellers here, and we are ALL geeks and like a lot of the same stuff. So of c
I never said they weren't crazy when under the influence of fundamentalism, I just noted it's the same all over, or do you disagree? African animists with tribal warfare? that crap ain't going on now? Nutjobs. Hindus massacring muslims and muslims massacring them right back, burning down each others schools and places of worship and so on? that's not happening now? Nutjobs. So called christians or "humanists" in the western nations down through history invading each other, engaging in genocide, and still acting as invaders and dismissing mass carnage as "collateral damage" now and cheering it on with flags a waving? Nutjobs. Japanese "peaceful" buddhists on the rampage all through china and south east asia before? Nutjobs. Fundamentalist cult like atheists in the so called "communist" nations being just as dismal or worse than dismal. Nutjobs. All of the above, violent, using their culture and religion or cult like beliefs as an excuse to be predators. Just look at the past century in total, what do you see? Governments all over engaging in warfare, genocide, various gods all on each other's sides, each side always saying it's the other guys who are the aggressors, that whatever they do is right and just and the other doofuses are all wrong and subhumans worthy of extermination, and even doing it to their own populations to boot. 100 to 200 millions worldwide murdered by their own governments and neighbors in the last century. I condemn the lot of them. I applaud any efforts made in any nations to get away from that sort of thinking, on an individual one person by one person basis or as an organized government and culture and society.
If adoption of open source and more universal citizen to citizen communication via the net and computers can help by pass the mass brainwashing that has gone on in all these cultures, then MAYBE we can start to break these vicious cycles. People have a right to their own identities, and all cultures can step back a little and see where that right should be extended to the other guy, so in that sense I will agree with you, but I will not ignore the other realities of planetary civilization, ie, western crap has just as bad an odor to it as most other nations and cultures crap has. The good stuff is that, good, and it can stand on it's own merits and needs no help from me, no matter where it comes from, and the bad should be condemned and avoided. It's a philosphy I have, and I see no reason to change it. I'm not naieve, and I'm a pretty strong proponent of legitmate self defense, the second amendment, and so on,on a personal or national level, and have been there and done that, but I refuse to be dumbed down into this "let's roll" mentality that has taken over part of the nation since 9-11,because,well, there's just too much evidence out there to show a lot of involvement with white guys in suits. that's it in a nutjob shell. there' some pretty shady shenanigans going on with all this offical policy, lot of lying going on, lot of data that you can see that is un-explainable if you just openly swallow all that is claimed by offical government. In other words, it's not just ay-rabs in robes and turbans over to whoknow'swhereistan involved with this.
And I have NOT seen michael moores movie,nor am I a "liberal" if that's what you are implying, I am neither democrat nor republican, liberal nor conservative, I am a mild small n nationalist with a strict capital C Constitutional bent. Economically I am a supporter of mercantilism but not capitalism or socialism. I believe in voluntary efforts of help and in legitimate tithing, but not forced wealth rearranging. I am for all peoples everywhere to have the same basic born with rights I like to think I have. I believe in letting folks be unless they muck with you, and if they do, squash them, but you should be SURE of your real target before said squashing. I am not lead around by the low IQ nose by the transnational billionaire globalist owned mass media and our so called political "leaders". Their schemes and plots and half
Civil War 2, by Thomas Chittum. I have a copy, one of the best treatments on the subject you mentioned I have seen. I think his over all analysis in it is very well thought out and presented. What he talks about is coming true, you can see it daily. Read the reviews to see what other folks think about it.
rural USA still has diddly squat nothing in the terms of any broadband either. That's millions and millions of people, who every day are having to deal with more bloated and more busy so-called websites that require broadband almost to even view them. It's like "so what?", you can get a better computer, but if the web page you are looking at still takes a minute to finish downloading-not a second, a minute, than what's the point? any old machine can still render that fast. And you can't even get 1/2 the web masters out there to even provide alt text tag links, as simple as that is. How lazy can you get? I tried surfing with images off for a long time to try and speed things up, even then it's getting worse. Turn images off completely and go surfing around, sheesh it's dismal, page after page of vague blank colored boxes with nothing to indicate what is there.
So, it's gonna be something like this satellite (prices are cheaper than dish networks I see,, 750 versus the new lower price of 500$ install, and 70+$ a month instead of this claimed 60$), or the FCC gets real with wifi and allows more power and more spectrum, or something. I'm paying right at 80$/month for a landline phone and dialup connection,and if it wasn't for the big install cost-which I ain't got- I'd jump on satellite, even with it's faults. I use cell phone for voice, I only use the landline for inet connction, that's it. My dialup connection goes out whenever some squirrel jumps on the line or a rain cloud passes over, so that's no big deal anyway with occassional outtages, it's expected.
With this quarter profits corporate strategies, no one will ever put in any sort of hard wired solutions beyond intermittent and flaky alleged "broadband" telco monopoly dsl in some areas that really are just suburban, not rural.
So I say GO SATELLITE. Or something else. First guy to offer me an affordable *real* broadband deal close to what I am paying for a 28.8 connection, including install price, will get my loot. Until then, dialup, that's it, and I'm greatful to the local mom and pop ISP for even having that.
... and GE bought them out, their industrial wind power division.
They got a deal on that stuff. GE popped 380 million for an installed up and running massive wind energy business that actually had a good product and was selling great. I don't know about enrons other scams, but this wasn't one of them, just a good product that worked and hit the market at the right time. There's farmers now all over the midwest got these things installed and they are getting a decent check every month that pays them better than farming, harvesting wind. Can't beat it with a stick, demand for electricity ain't never gonna go down.
Enron was weird,megalomania wouldn't let them see their own insanity. In todays world, being in the legitimate energy business is a license to print money almost, even a half assed company with any medium ethics can make boatloads of money. You have to go out of your way to NOT make money. Can you imagine being so steenking greedy that you had to have *more* than that? It's mind boggling how far into love of money depravity some people can get.
... themselves-and others, under orders, and under the influence of societal and religious and governmental brainwashing. Hmm, Seems like I have seen that before... hmm, did they speak arabic?? Lemme see if I can remember... oh ya, I do!
Nope. They spoke 'merkin near as I recall.
What you are implying is over simplistic and not exactly what I was saying. I will attempt clarification. They are adopting open source for all the same reasons anyone else is, PLUS, by adopting it, it helps them to get independent.
In-dependent, they are tired of being de-pendent.
What you said, is true of them to a certain degree in the past, but now they know there is no future in remaining dependent and as economic colony states of the west. Of course they will do their best to trade to their advantage now, who wouldn't?, because they have been taken advantage of for a long time. Most of the nations in the muslim world have had weird rulers foisted on them going back to the turn of the last century, they are just annoyed with the western influences on their culture and on their lands and in their economies. They see no need any longer to just sell their raw resources for piddling low profit, when they can trade it for a lot more, and develop domestic industries. And all their populations need real employment as well, you expect them to ignore that? They can also look at geopolitical reality, they just saw the US take over the second largest oil fields in the world, and the largest concentration of fresh water in the middle east(do NOT forget that part in the iraq war, even though hardly anyone ever mentions it), both critical for nation building and for advancing their own nations. And they can add the sums same as everyone (except for most lusers who depend on the 6 o clock news and their brokers for data),and they know the oil will run out soon for all practical purposes,within the next generation, they can see as oil drops below peak and as demand quadruples in the next 15 years they need to do something about that reality, so they are entering a crash program of modernization, all over. any nation that doesn't will either suffer greatly or be forced into becomeing a looter nation, same as the US has become. For most purposes, that's what the US is now, a looter nation, we are dropping any pretense of manufacturing anything except for war and police/paramilitary *things*. These other nations can clearly see what's coming for them.
Now they have the internet in all those nations now, and travel is common. Whether that will mitigate some of the more radical islamic tenets remains to be seen. You would hope so, but I think the US invading iraq set that back-completely borked it- for another generation, if it ever comes back at all. The young people in those nations were gradually becoming more secular and westernised, now they are returning to islamic fundamentalism, because they see no practical future for them with the anglo/us/israeli axis of maximum profits and command and control as their future-and who would? There's nothing in it for them other than what they have had for a long time, a 1-2% ultra rich transnational based series of puppet governments, or rule by nutjob fundies. The best they can do is to try something different, and that would revolve around developing their own economies, starting with more practical use and savvier trading of their oil and national labor pool, and developing their own currencies based on what they value-gold and silver instead of western bankers created out of thin air pieces of debt paper, and to use their oil better, which they are starting to do. For instance, saudi arabi is still the big dog with oil, but also is putting the most into solar energy and in advanced water desalinization. Malaysia is heavy into developing industry and manufacturing. Pakistan is developing a huge engineering base, and so on.
Don't expect them to live in the past any more than you do in other words, they may be different from you, but collectively they aren'
Isn't the same exact thing, the shifting tech trends, happening in the various US super technology "corridors" like silicon valley, route 128 in massachusetts, and elsewhere? Why would Malaysia be any different?
The biggest problem is that economic "trends" are not just "reported" in the media and by the big global skimmers and stock shills, but they *induce* it, so they can keep on with their massive skimming. As soon as they have milked one sector almost dry, they go on to another one, and what they do is always at least one step ahead of what they want and encourage the investors to do in public, that's the only way they can keep people faked out into turning over their cash to them by the boatload for generations.
quote "That's not really "hiring programmers" because the people who wrote Word and Windows XP have already been paid."
That's it in a nutshell. Closed source efforts like from MS are exactly like the music industry wanting to charge full price for extremely cheap to almost free (to them) copies, forever and ever, and to mandate it by law and coercion. It is unsustainable foolishness. People in the rest of the world and in the rest of the jobs out there get paid by producing new work, not by re selling the old work over and over and over again. The handwriting is *indeed* on the wall when it comes to this. That's one of the main reasons open source even exists now, because it was such a ripoff to try and even get and use closed source in the first place. Look at what a brain like Linus had to do just to even be allowed to program in the direction he wanted to go! that's the lame closed source industry's fault right there, they were so greedy they couldn't even see it. Open source allows people to be creative, and to share their creativity with others, to use as they see fit, for pleasure or in their other "real" business. Closed source pricing (leasing, no sales allowed mostly) guidelines have been the industrys attempts to fleece the market place for decades now, and not only that, they managed to wiggle in universal acceptance of no warranties on top of ridiculous prices that occur over and over again as new "forced upgrades" have occurred. That entire nutso attitude and business model is changing,and those who cling to the past will be hurt the most.
... in the Islamic countries to try and create their own economies not based on pure interaction with the west. The World Islamic Trading Organisation is partly behind these trends in a way. They are seeking to develop sustainable economies not so directly tied to non Islamic nations and concepts, such as fiat(phoney) currency and usury based banking. Free software would naturally fit into this goal, as it can be "theirs" without a single legal hassle and it's just as good and freer to use, along with eventually replacing the US dollar as the worlds reserve currency,and especially in the Islamic nations as "the" currency. They created and are starting to use the Islamic gold Dinar and the silver Dirham for this purpose. They need software, and wanting to just divest themselves from the necessity of shipping cash to redmond and other closed source places in the west, plus to encourage local production and identity, it just makes sense for them to discourage (eventually) even the use of pirated software and just go open source. It follows their goals exactly in other words. There is a transition period that will occur,of course, but eventually it will happen almost completely. MS= USA in their minds, so they know it's not in their best interests to fund them. they will take what they will take, but they have no overwhelming desitre to keep paying the west for all the "things" they need, now that they can see the non western nations are really where all the "stuff" comes from, and that they the Islamics own the bulk of the worlds recoverable energy in the form of oil reserves. You are watching what in essence is a huge divorce in progress, that is occurring in many nations. It's just now really starting to take off, I expect it to increase exponentially in the coming years.
... and comparisons, it is important to identify both the browser and the underlying OS it's stuck to. IMO, and I've said it many times lately, having a windows port of mozilla is pure-D *nutz*. They should cease and desist and let windows and explorer users finish the crash and burn completely. There is no sense, logic or profit into supporting and propping up a company with 60 billion in the bank and a corporate mindset that starts with F-U and goes nastier from there to the consumer. There are going to be more and more problems with this well meaning but misguided enabler crutch effort that the windows port represents until some huge show stopper bug/glitch/worm/back door whatever occurs, and mozilla, and therefore open source in general, gets tainted very badly. Then people might understand this in a long term strategic manner. they are confusing a short term tactic with long term strategic thinking, in fact, just plain ignoring long term strategic thinking.
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When the homeland security guys recommended switching browsers lately, they would have been *forced*, repeat forced, to not only recommend switching browsers, but torecommend switching the entire operating system if the moz and firebird ports hadn't of existed for windows. It would have been clear there was no rational alternative *but* to switch. Instead, nope, friendly mozilla pulls microsofts chestnuts out of the fire,and microsoft laughs at them all the way to the bank. And MS will keep doing this as long as it takes,as long as they get this hard work given to them, because they are getting a billion dollars worth of free quality programming. It's like Yugo getting free Ferrari engines when their's barely run, oOF COURSE yugo would take them--but it will never make a yugo a real ferrari, something else will keep breaking on it,over and over again, won't it? So what's the point again?
To a lot of people, advocating that folks on windows just "switch browsers" and that will cure almost all their windows ills, is a mantra, it's "believed in" almost like a cult belief. They see it as a long term move to somehow magically "wean" people away from propietary and towards open source. I disagree, completely. I think this is an incorrect assessment, on several levels. At best, it is a sop and a mild convenience, a temporary and leaky bandaid, at worst, it will be a disaster. It will make microsoft insecurities and inadequacies "stick" to open source (it's already started to happen last week) as more and more the underlying wrongness of windows is forced into acceptance even by the open source people, and mozilla team and developers are being used-played for suckers to be frank- by microsoft to attempt to fix microsofts unfixable problems. It's like hitting yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop..then advocating other people do it, too...
I know this won't be popular, but I'm going to keep saying once in awhile, because it needs to be said. Open source should be for open source. Quality should stick to quality. freedom should stick to freedom. You don't send foreign aid to a nation that despises you, and advocates dictaroship. To get even older and more to the point,you can-not make a silk purse out of a sows ear, no matter how leet of a tailor you think you are.
Above is just rhetorical, but I think it's important to say it out loud here on
... that has good transceiver functions as well as telephone service, at the flick of a switch. At least 2 meter or 440, or bare minimum extended range freebie FRS. Something to make it more practical as a general purpose audio communications device, and make it big enough to have a decent sized keypad, screen and to hold a big battery, not a toy battery. I don't want to use up my cell minutes on chit chat around the complex here when a free radio would work just as well. Heck, it should receive normal radio broadcasts as well, am/fm/some shortwave bands. They could fit it in there if they made phones for people with normal sized hands and didn't get an attack of the vapors if they had to carry a little weight. Ain't a one of these teeny new near one ounce mickey mouse phones I am interested in, don't need games, calendars, ringtones, none of that stuff, just be able to talk who I want to talk to, in different ways, can't even see the screens on them things, let alone use the keypads. Those are good for some people, but for others, like outdoor workers, not so good. A lot of companies use transceivers now, plenty good enough to use around a small community range wise, but then you need to carry a cell phone as well, sucks. I know Southern Linc used to have that combo service in the same phone but it was ridiculous expensive because you were on their repeaters and they charged through the nose for it.
Do something different, shake up things, come up with a new model? They want to provide free semi big iron boxes with a software subscription plan? Swell, where's the desktop version of this? THAT would shake up the ole computar whirrled! Give me a new desktop every year, plus the OS where everything works and it doesn't suck, and I can just keep paying the fee, maybe I would consider that. Buck a day maybe to always have a new computer and OS every year? Just turn in the old one and they send you a new one? Warranty, updates, firewall and antivir that works? Full legal media playback without having to jump through hoops? Star Office and all the other stuff included? Their Java/SuSe desktop? Personal or SOHO or enterprise desktop/workstation? Let's see it, THAT would be innovative!
I figured you didn't have a site, nor anything even remotely cool to share, just an anonymous large nasty ego.
seeya, you can have the last word.
The 54 million should go to the people who downloaded and installed the bogus-ware, the spam victims. MS certainly doesn't need it, and they don't deserve it from being lamers and not registering an obvious domain for them in the first place..
So let's flame the court system and the judge.