The article assumes "lost", yet there's zero proof of that statement. It could just as easily be an insider job and the tapes stolen and sold to some crime syndicate.
This crap won't end before peoples data is assumed as a default that it is their data and not these over stuffed pompous merchants they do business with. With all this corporate noise of "IP", and how much they assert they "own" this or that, I hear very little from them who actually owns what. Seems like they just hijacked all their customers information and automagically assume ownership of it to do with what they want, like this example of shipping all that data like it was a cheap trinket common courier for a few dollars. that's probably all it was, too, a few bucks. How cheap and greedy and stupid can you get?? Nutz it is. IMO, they can *use* that information for the purposes of the contracted service, the initial exchange, but after that point, it should revert back to the customers *total* possession. Once identity is established, they could have issued an account number and only kept track of that in-house, there is no technical need to store the customers personal data in that fashion, it's a law and stupidity and greed question, it's not much of a technical problem.
try any of the minis, like Puppy, Damn Small, Austrumi, etc. but really, just get a stick of decent ram, it's not that much to make that machine work much better.
Your processor is quite fast enough, just most linux with GUI nowadays take at least 128, but 256 is better and you can run most any distro out there then. Up until a few months ago all I used was a PP200, it worked fine with fedora core once I put enough RAM in it.
If you want a real small one, that'll run on even more ancient and anemic machines, try blue flops linux, just two floppies total. I've browsed with it before and even posted to slashdot with it. There's was a write up here a couple weeks back about it I believe.
Don't know if they include DRM in their chips, but there's another CPU option, Via. Just needs a source based compiled distro with appropriate tweaking to run well on them from what I have read.
I just got a mini itx board so I guess I'll be doing this and see how it goes.
And for that matter nowadays are the newest intels or amds really necessary, what with good quality video cards doing a lot of the work? Seems like you could get by with what's out there now (for some years into the future) that doesn't have hard wired drm and just upgrade all the other stuff, drives, vid, ram etc for speed increases.
I don't game or do video editing whatever so I really don't have a use for any high end machines, and I've been playing with mini distros like Austrumi that load completely into RAM, this is some *fast* stuff now when you do that.
Change the priorities around if you want a different business model and still make some loot. Have a "WiFi hangout shop" that also has coffee and munchies on the side, plus maybe sell hardware??? Possibly get customers and be competitive by offering a faster connection than the "coffee shops with free wifi" guys. Charge by the hour or something like that, maybe make it a club you can join and get a month/yearly severe discount rate. Offer a choice, too, ethernet or wireless at the table. So much an hour (reasonable), and free coffee!
The article submitter and Steve Jobs are wrong on this. Podcasting has changed society a lot more than say segways have. Steve Jobs is right on some things,completely wrong on others. For instance, the mac mini is not selling just because it's small, it's selling more from the fact that finally you can get an entry level mac at a more reasonable price. People would be buying just as many mini towers with a normal form factor at 500$ from Apple if they would just release one.
Personally, I think once someone has been a millionaire for 20 years or better they lose track of how much money a dollar is. Steve Jobs has that "no clue" syndrome, same as the hollywood movie guys and the record guys. "No clue" of what things cost because to those multi millionaires living in rich society surroundings on the left coast all the time most everything in the normal consumer appliance/do dad area is so cheap as to be indistinguishable from near free in their POV.
And the reason why podcasting is taking off is because people can actually create and share content, they aren't restricted to the blather the commercial entities spew forth-and it *really is* mostly blather.. Steve got no clue on sharing, hollywood got no clue on sharing, mainstream broadcasting is starting to get a clue but they will want to podcast 50% commercials like always.
note: this is just an opinion I have, watching markets for a few decades now.
Reality today is the line between business and labor has blurred considerable, as most people past middle/middle class try to develop a quite extensive portfolio. On the one hand, they like that the business they invested in might save a ton by outsourcing labor, but then they might lose their own personal job, more or less completely negating any potential benefits from their stock ownership potential improvement.
Massive short term outsourcing (one generation time frame), in critically important industries is basically not a good idea. It has short term benefits in some cheaper products, longer term detriments in that the people supposed to be buying those now-cheaper products wind up losing real purchasing power, going into massive debt (double mortgages and maxed CC, etc), or even bankruptcy. There's a reason the US passed the new bankruptcy law recently, because this "magic beans something for nothing" economic system they have pushed combined with newsaganda brainwashing will *cause* a lot of bankruptcies. Currently now, private and governmental debt is the highest it's ever been. Personal bankruptices were running close. Savings have dropped to about nil. Home ownership is now a perpetual debt note never paid off. Those are generalities but mostly true.
I also think that initially there were some quite unreasonable expectations of what "white collar" jobs would be worth. Way over priced to begin with if you compared it to the productivity gains that business was supposed to be getting from the high tech revolution in the 90s. It was closer in retrospect to being akin to a skilled tradesman in actual worth, but got hyped out of proportion, now it's settling back down as companies and individuals are forced to reconsider what their "products" are actually worth.
That and economic reality based on what overall production costs are with respect to energy prices. All the previous decent gains in various economies histoprically were closely tied to *incredibly cheap* energy. That is no longer the case and the world is seeing the results of that. No matter how many meetings or PP shows a business runs, energy still rules the worlds economies. There is no way to maintain robust economies based on industrilization if the overlying energy costs go astronomical on you in relatively short time frames.
...guess it depends on what you want. If the persons heirs still want to farm but can't because of lack of cash to pay off the estate tax, I call that a bad thing. Sure, some willingly sell out and profit from it, but quite a few really don't want that. Farming is something you really want to do, it's not all that profitable in most cases. And to me, I agree with a post further up, it's a national security issue. all nations should be self supporting in food, and it should be regulated enough at the border so that no other subsidy is needed. It's also a good idea (IMO) to not have global food monopolies run by a handful of transnationals.
Estate taxes sure do. Locally to me it just broke up a family farm that has been here since the 1800s. I know that because we bought some stuff from the sale, a lot of corn from that dudes last crop and a loader to be precise. The single son (who still wants to farm) couldn't pay the estate taxes so they had to sell it off. It's going to be a *golf course*. Happens all the time really. Between rising property taxes, lowering prices, increased costs of production,the monopolization of the packers and suppliers, etc, well....it's slip sliding away. Sure, a family farm might be worth millions,on paper, add in land costs, machinery, etc, it adds up quick, it still mostly supports a family and maybe a few hired hands. But for news and political talking points purposes those are "millionaires". Phooie. No they aren't. Your average white collar yupster in suburbia makes more loot take-home going to some busywork electron shuffling job where they "leverage" all day long in the "enterprise".
fffftt the estate tax kills family farms and small mom and pop businesses. And by family farm I mean a bona fide actual productive full time farm, not a real small part time hobby farm, and not a corporate farm part of some big chain. Those ends, no, there's ways around it, fall under the cap, or your normal enron like action, but in the middle, the "heartland" type area, it nails 'em hard.
And it's another discussion, but frankly, in a funny buck fiat IOU "money" system like we have now, taxes in general are for political control more than anything else, they really aren't needed for too many things. But..another time on that...
And my reference is from an article (if you follow it around) that was citing official figures late last year, it was a random google selection I made from the first page of hits, there were a lot of references on the switch last year, and the trends going back several years are obvious, the gap narrows steadily, even at your ref which only goes back to 2001. It looks like a dead heat almost exactly now, whereas one or two decades ago, yes, we exported a hell of a lot more than we imported. It's following all our other traditional exports, gone, poofed. How many USA made TVs are exported, just for a random non-ag example, compared to a couple decades ago? Oh ya, so few we don't make them here any longer. Ag is the same, diesel is the same cost, machinery is roughly the same, land and labor are cheaper about any place else on the planet. This is a 2+2 deal now, it's inevitable *unless* it's protected in some fashion or the buck devalues severely. And I mean *severely*.
With the exception of the large transnational agcos, farming in the US is going down the tubes. If the high petroleum prices stay up, along with increased pressure on the natgas supplies for power generation (which impacts fertiliser costs), more feel good legislation, more save the spotted flying three eyed newt, higher property taxes to fund even more bloated local governments, and etc. I expect yet another wave of farm bankruptcies. That and FTAA will about do it. YMMV of course, but that's it near as I can see it.
The US is not "flooding the world" with food anymore. As of this year, we are now a net food *importer*. What we are flooding the world with is "IP" laws and patents of dubious nature, from software and movies to GM seeds, because we just don't produce as much tangibles as we used to. Brazil in particular is poised to overtake us in raw ag production. The ag subsidies in the US are a scam, primarily go to the same big corporate farmers who are more or less sharecroppers for the banks and the big agcos. Joe family farmer gets about squat, the average age is over 60 for them, and there really isn't much money in it anymore, and the death tax-"estate" taxes- keeps breaking up the farms.
Small nation/third world ag is in trouble because they are trying to use ag products as a hard currency revenue generator, at the expense of national sustainability. And the big agco transnational (based in the US but not loyal) boys keep bribing off those various governments to get them hooked on expensive patented seeds. Some nations are resisting, most are falling for it though.
I'm in ag myself, keep up on this stuff more or less.
Here's some real data, all googleable. We invaded once he announced that he would be pricing his oil in euros and not dollars. It had nothing to do with 9-11, WMD, him being a badguy, or any of that noise. Up to that point it was just the daily small bomb runs, but his action to destroy the petrodollar they couldn't stand for. Our entire shaky economic house of cards rests solely on the world using the petrodollar as a reserve currency, and that reserve currency is only backed by hot air, massive IOU debt and a very large military and what all these various foreign investors have into the US infrastructure currently. And that's it.
The iraq war had nothing to do with anything other than who controlled the oil and the petrodollar scam. The planet is rife with tinpot torturing dictators. Look at what is going on right now in Uzbekistan for instance, yet they are one of our "allies on the war on terror".
And it's still the same fatcats trading the oil now as before, none of that has changed much. And I didn't vote for Kerry either....I *never* vote D or R, haven't for years and years now, third party or independent only. No way would I support some criminal gang.
Really, how is it that much better? Firefox is designed to run on a closed source operating system, so what's the point in dissin Opera?? Firefox "supports" closed source 100%, even if the app itself is "open" under a non GPL license.. Firefox does not run all by it's lonesome, it needs an underlying operating system to function. The FF devs go way out of their way to do multi billion dollar for-profit corporation called Microsoft's work for them, yes? But we are supposed to dis Opera, who actually come up with some neat stuff *first* all the time?
Moz/FF are working hard to make closed source for-maximum profit MS Windows "better", yet closed source MS contributes *nothing* back. This is just raw indisputable data, correct? If FF was developed *solely and exclusively* to run on open source operating systems (which I would certainly prefer) I could see the major distinction from the adherents, but as it stands now, nope, it's a minor point of contention at best, a pot meet kettle situation.
You can't have it both ways, if "anyone you" allegedly "supports" open source, you would *stick* to open source then in your development and evangelizing. To do otherwise is maximum hypocritical.
MS is laughing all the way to the bank while it's major work gets done for it for free,(from both Moz and Opera) then later on they can snag the innovations, tweak it and re-release it as their "own" and still profit from it. It's saved them umpteen billions from having their shaky no-security cookies yanked out of the web security fire again and again and again for a few years now, I bet they are *well* pleased for the freebie breather they got. Just watch this "mindshare" deal as the next IE with tabbed browsing and whatnot gets released.
Obvious vote rigging fraud by both the Ds and Rs there. Just like in so many other instances. So the courts should order the only ethically valid option, throw out both the d and r candidates and hand the election to whomever came in *third*.
it takes a lot of time and skill and hardware to become a good HAM. If the only outlet someone has is during bona fide emergencies when the grid power is down, well..that just ain't gonna cut it. That's like telling someone who's level of expewrtise is they brought home a computer from the store and plugged it in, then they can become an instant systems administrator the first time they get a virus, *poof* they magically know everything and all the HOWTOs and whatnot. Uh huh, sure....
It's not possible or probable.
BPL is technically possible, just a bad idea in general. I live rural and would love broadband, but I don't want BPL. The best solution is to just run fiber everyplace, like back in our history we ran electrical wires, then telco wires to almost everyone. sure initially it might seem expensive, but we have the historical proof how it benefited all the "we the people" and improved the economy. It *paid off* doing that generally speaking. So, the quicker we do it, the quicker it will be done. It's just tech evolution. Fiber works, and economies of scale would drop the price, and certainly we could stand to create a few tens of thousands new tech jobs in this nation, jobs that *can't* be outsourced.
....Maybe MS would just go on and offer both OSes? Not saying stranger things have happened, but it's at least in the.1% realm of possibility if they bought them out. I get the impression that MS doesn't care as long as someone shoots them money for whatever they have.
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It's 5 bucks to read the paper? This paper isn't here, is it free to read anyplace else? All I see is an advertisement at the link. I wanted to see how they "analysed" blackbox voting without seeing source code or any *credible* audit trail.
I tried opera last night and it is *significantly* faster than moz suite browser or firefox on my machine. Absolutely no comparison. The only bummer is I can't make out or see their tool bar icons very well on my (admittedly old and small) screen. They are like too small and "faded" appearing. I played with the settings but couldn't get it to render legibly enough to use all the time. speedwise though it's tops, and it has a ton of features. I'll try it again whenever they get that voice browsing working for linux, that's what I really want.
I gotta plan......I'll just buy several more do-one-thing *cheap* gadgets as they come out, nothing expensive. I give them to my girlfriend, she loves those things and crams them all in her purse. Got camera, cellphone, cd player, radio, flashlight. When we go out, fully equipped! What's not to like?!? It's kinda like going on safari and having a gun bearer, or a caddy at the golf course...
...so they or some under the table partner can sell the security "enterprise solution".
1/2 (whatever) of microsoft is busywork to keep a lot of people employed and keep their stock up and keep revenues flowing. You can't resell something over and over and over and over again if it "just works" in the first place and people can go about their business for years without it breaking or having any absolute need to "upgrade".
I've seen the slashcode mess up before, too. I know hre's almost done with the rewrite of the software he is going to switch to, maybe that is what's going on. I'll give it one more day, see what happens. And thanks for the offer.
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The article assumes "lost", yet there's zero proof of that statement. It could just as easily be an insider job and the tapes stolen and sold to some crime syndicate.
This crap won't end before peoples data is assumed as a default that it is their data and not these over stuffed pompous merchants they do business with. With all this corporate noise of "IP", and how much they assert they "own" this or that, I hear very little from them who actually owns what. Seems like they just hijacked all their customers information and automagically assume ownership of it to do with what they want, like this example of shipping all that data like it was a cheap trinket common courier for a few dollars. that's probably all it was, too, a few bucks. How cheap and greedy and stupid can you get?? Nutz it is. IMO, they can *use* that information for the purposes of the contracted service, the initial exchange, but after that point, it should revert back to the customers *total* possession. Once identity is established, they could have issued an account number and only kept track of that in-house, there is no technical need to store the customers personal data in that fashion, it's a law and stupidity and greed question, it's not much of a technical problem.
....for the new Apple SDK. Major win for Linux today!
try any of the minis, like Puppy, Damn Small, Austrumi, etc. but really, just get a stick of decent ram, it's not that much to make that machine work much better.
Your processor is quite fast enough, just most linux with GUI nowadays take at least 128, but 256 is better and you can run most any distro out there then. Up until a few months ago all I used was a PP200, it worked fine with fedora core once I put enough RAM in it.
If you want a real small one, that'll run on even more ancient and anemic machines, try blue flops linux, just two floppies total. I've browsed with it before and even posted to slashdot with it. There's was a write up here a couple weeks back about it I believe.
I think another good example of destructive technology is the introduction of hybrid drive vehicles with good gas mileage.
Don't know if they include DRM in their chips, but there's another CPU option, Via. Just needs a source based compiled distro with appropriate tweaking to run well on them from what I have read.
I just got a mini itx board so I guess I'll be doing this and see how it goes.
And for that matter nowadays are the newest intels or amds really necessary, what with good quality video cards doing a lot of the work? Seems like you could get by with what's out there now (for some years into the future) that doesn't have hard wired drm and just upgrade all the other stuff, drives, vid, ram etc for speed increases.
I don't game or do video editing whatever so I really don't have a use for any high end machines, and I've been playing with mini distros like Austrumi that load completely into RAM, this is some *fast* stuff now when you do that.
Change the priorities around if you want a different business model and still make some loot. Have a "WiFi hangout shop" that also has coffee and munchies on the side, plus maybe sell hardware??? Possibly get customers and be competitive by offering a faster connection than the "coffee shops with free wifi" guys. Charge by the hour or something like that, maybe make it a club you can join and get a month/yearly severe discount rate. Offer a choice, too, ethernet or wireless at the table. So much an hour (reasonable), and free coffee!
that it cost him half a million dollars a year for providing bitkeeper....what is this about? Potential lost sales or actual direct costs he ate?
The article submitter and Steve Jobs are wrong on this. Podcasting has changed society a lot more than say segways have. Steve Jobs is right on some things,completely wrong on others. For instance, the mac mini is not selling just because it's small, it's selling more from the fact that finally you can get an entry level mac at a more reasonable price. People would be buying just as many mini towers with a normal form factor at 500$ from Apple if they would just release one.
Personally, I think once someone has been a millionaire for 20 years or better they lose track of how much money a dollar is. Steve Jobs has that "no clue" syndrome, same as the hollywood movie guys and the record guys. "No clue" of what things cost because to those multi millionaires living in rich society surroundings on the left coast all the time most everything in the normal consumer appliance/do dad area is so cheap as to be indistinguishable from near free in their POV.
And the reason why podcasting is taking off is because people can actually create and share content, they aren't restricted to the blather the commercial entities spew forth-and it *really is* mostly blather.. Steve got no clue on sharing, hollywood got no clue on sharing, mainstream broadcasting is starting to get a clue but they will want to podcast 50% commercials like always.
note: this is just an opinion I have, watching markets for a few decades now.
Reality today is the line between business and labor has blurred considerable, as most people past middle/middle class try to develop a quite extensive portfolio. On the one hand, they like that the business they invested in might save a ton by outsourcing labor, but then they might lose their own personal job, more or less completely negating any potential benefits from their stock ownership potential improvement.
Massive short term outsourcing (one generation time frame), in critically important industries is basically not a good idea. It has short term benefits in some cheaper products, longer term detriments in that the people supposed to be buying those now-cheaper products wind up losing real purchasing power, going into massive debt (double mortgages and maxed CC, etc), or even bankruptcy. There's a reason the US passed the new bankruptcy law recently, because this "magic beans something for nothing" economic system they have pushed combined with newsaganda brainwashing will *cause* a lot of bankruptcies. Currently now, private and governmental debt is the highest it's ever been. Personal bankruptices were running close. Savings have dropped to about nil. Home ownership is now a perpetual debt note never paid off. Those are generalities but mostly true.
I also think that initially there were some quite unreasonable expectations of what "white collar" jobs would be worth. Way over priced to begin with if you compared it to the productivity gains that business was supposed to be getting from the high tech revolution in the 90s. It was closer in retrospect to being akin to a skilled tradesman in actual worth, but got hyped out of proportion, now it's settling back down as companies and individuals are forced to reconsider what their "products" are actually worth.
That and economic reality based on what overall production costs are with respect to energy prices. All the previous decent gains in various economies histoprically were closely tied to *incredibly cheap* energy. That is no longer the case and the world is seeing the results of that. No matter how many meetings or PP shows a business runs, energy still rules the worlds economies. There is no way to maintain robust economies based on industrilization if the overlying energy costs go astronomical on you in relatively short time frames.
...guess it depends on what you want. If the persons heirs still want to farm but can't because of lack of cash to pay off the estate tax, I call that a bad thing. Sure, some willingly sell out and profit from it, but quite a few really don't want that. Farming is something you really want to do, it's not all that profitable in most cases. And to me, I agree with a post further up, it's a national security issue. all nations should be self supporting in food, and it should be regulated enough at the border so that no other subsidy is needed. It's also a good idea (IMO) to not have global food monopolies run by a handful of transnationals.
Estate taxes sure do. Locally to me it just broke up a family farm that has been here since the 1800s. I know that because we bought some stuff from the sale, a lot of corn from that dudes last crop and a loader to be precise. The single son (who still wants to farm) couldn't pay the estate taxes so they had to sell it off. It's going to be a *golf course*. Happens all the time really. Between rising property taxes, lowering prices, increased costs of production,the monopolization of the packers and suppliers, etc, well....it's slip sliding away. Sure, a family farm might be worth millions,on paper, add in land costs, machinery, etc, it adds up quick, it still mostly supports a family and maybe a few hired hands. But for news and political talking points purposes those are "millionaires". Phooie. No they aren't. Your average white collar yupster in suburbia makes more loot take-home going to some busywork electron shuffling job where they "leverage" all day long in the "enterprise".
fffftt the estate tax kills family farms and small mom and pop businesses. And by family farm I mean a bona fide actual productive full time farm, not a real small part time hobby farm, and not a corporate farm part of some big chain. Those ends, no, there's ways around it, fall under the cap, or your normal enron like action, but in the middle, the "heartland" type area, it nails 'em hard.
And it's another discussion, but frankly, in a funny buck fiat IOU "money" system like we have now, taxes in general are for political control more than anything else, they really aren't needed for too many things. But..another time on that...
And my reference is from an article (if you follow it around) that was citing official figures late last year, it was a random google selection I made from the first page of hits, there were a lot of references on the switch last year, and the trends going back several years are obvious, the gap narrows steadily, even at your ref which only goes back to 2001. It looks like a dead heat almost exactly now, whereas one or two decades ago, yes, we exported a hell of a lot more than we imported. It's following all our other traditional exports, gone, poofed. How many USA made TVs are exported, just for a random non-ag example, compared to a couple decades ago? Oh ya, so few we don't make them here any longer. Ag is the same, diesel is the same cost, machinery is roughly the same, land and labor are cheaper about any place else on the planet. This is a 2+2 deal now, it's inevitable *unless* it's protected in some fashion or the buck devalues severely. And I mean *severely*.
With the exception of the large transnational agcos, farming in the US is going down the tubes. If the high petroleum prices stay up, along with increased pressure on the natgas supplies for power generation (which impacts fertiliser costs), more feel good legislation, more save the spotted flying three eyed newt, higher property taxes to fund even more bloated local governments, and etc. I expect yet another wave of farm bankruptcies. That and FTAA will about do it. YMMV of course, but that's it near as I can see it.
The US is not "flooding the world" with food anymore. As of this year, we are now a net food *importer*. What we are flooding the world with is "IP" laws and patents of dubious nature, from software and movies to GM seeds, because we just don't produce as much tangibles as we used to. Brazil in particular is poised to overtake us in raw ag production. The ag subsidies in the US are a scam, primarily go to the same big corporate farmers who are more or less sharecroppers for the banks and the big agcos. Joe family farmer gets about squat, the average age is over 60 for them, and there really isn't much money in it anymore, and the death tax-"estate" taxes- keeps breaking up the farms.
Small nation/third world ag is in trouble because they are trying to use ag products as a hard currency revenue generator, at the expense of national sustainability. And the big agco transnational (based in the US but not loyal) boys keep bribing off those various governments to get them hooked on expensive patented seeds. Some nations are resisting, most are falling for it though.
I'm in ag myself, keep up on this stuff more or less.
The iraq war had nothing to do with anything other than who controlled the oil and the petrodollar scam. The planet is rife with tinpot torturing dictators. Look at what is going on right now in Uzbekistan for instance, yet they are one of our "allies on the war on terror".
And it's still the same fatcats trading the oil now as before, none of that has changed much. And I didn't vote for Kerry either....I *never* vote D or R, haven't for years and years now, third party or independent only. No way would I support some criminal gang.
Really, how is it that much better? Firefox is designed to run on a closed source operating system, so what's the point in dissin Opera?? Firefox "supports" closed source 100%, even if the app itself is "open" under a non GPL license.. Firefox does not run all by it's lonesome, it needs an underlying operating system to function. The FF devs go way out of their way to do multi billion dollar for-profit corporation called Microsoft's work for them, yes? But we are supposed to dis Opera, who actually come up with some neat stuff *first* all the time?
Moz/FF are working hard to make closed source for-maximum profit MS Windows "better", yet closed source MS contributes *nothing* back. This is just raw indisputable data, correct? If FF was developed *solely and exclusively* to run on open source operating systems (which I would certainly prefer) I could see the major distinction from the adherents, but as it stands now, nope, it's a minor point of contention at best, a pot meet kettle situation.
You can't have it both ways, if "anyone you" allegedly "supports" open source, you would *stick* to open source then in your development and evangelizing. To do otherwise is maximum hypocritical.
MS is laughing all the way to the bank while it's major work gets done for it for free,(from both Moz and Opera) then later on they can snag the innovations, tweak it and re-release it as their "own" and still profit from it. It's saved them umpteen billions from having their shaky no-security cookies yanked out of the web security fire again and again and again for a few years now, I bet they are *well* pleased for the freebie breather they got. Just watch this "mindshare" deal as the next IE with tabbed browsing and whatnot gets released.
Obvious vote rigging fraud by both the Ds and Rs there. Just like in so many other instances. So the courts should order the only ethically valid option, throw out both the d and r candidates and hand the election to whomever came in *third*.
it takes a lot of time and skill and hardware to become a good HAM. If the only outlet someone has is during bona fide emergencies when the grid power is down, well..that just ain't gonna cut it. That's like telling someone who's level of expewrtise is they brought home a computer from the store and plugged it in, then they can become an instant systems administrator the first time they get a virus, *poof* they magically know everything and all the HOWTOs and whatnot. Uh huh, sure....
It's not possible or probable.
BPL is technically possible, just a bad idea in general. I live rural and would love broadband, but I don't want BPL. The best solution is to just run fiber everyplace, like back in our history we ran electrical wires, then telco wires to almost everyone. sure initially it might seem expensive, but we have the historical proof how it benefited all the "we the people" and improved the economy. It *paid off* doing that generally speaking. So, the quicker we do it, the quicker it will be done. It's just tech evolution. Fiber works, and economies of scale would drop the price, and certainly we could stand to create a few tens of thousands new tech jobs in this nation, jobs that *can't* be outsourced.
....Maybe MS would just go on and offer both OSes? Not saying stranger things have happened, but it's at least in the .1% realm of possibility if they bought them out. I get the impression that MS doesn't care as long as someone shoots them money for whatever they have.
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Feel free to pass this on. I did a journal entry about this but obviously it didn't get around much.
It's 5 bucks to read the paper?
This paper isn't here, is it free to read anyplace else? All I see is an advertisement at the link. I wanted to see how they "analysed" blackbox voting without seeing source code or any *credible* audit trail.
I tried opera last night and it is *significantly* faster than moz suite browser or firefox on my machine. Absolutely no comparison. The only bummer is I can't make out or see their tool bar icons very well on my (admittedly old and small) screen. They are like too small and "faded" appearing. I played with the settings but couldn't get it to render legibly enough to use all the time. speedwise though it's tops, and it has a ton of features. I'll try it again whenever they get that voice browsing working for linux, that's what I really want.
I gotta plan......I'll just buy several more do-one-thing *cheap* gadgets as they come out, nothing expensive. I give them to my girlfriend, she loves those things and crams them all in her purse. Got camera, cellphone, cd player, radio, flashlight. When we go out, fully equipped! What's not to like?!? It's kinda like going on safari and having a gun bearer, or a caddy at the golf course...
...so they or some under the table partner can sell the security "enterprise solution".
1/2 (whatever) of microsoft is busywork to keep a lot of people employed and keep their stock up and keep revenues flowing. You can't resell something over and over and over and over again if it "just works" in the first place and people can go about their business for years without it breaking or having any absolute need to "upgrade".
...eliminate those "zinc whiskers" we heard about here before.
I've seen the slashcode mess up before, too. I know hre's almost done with the rewrite of the software he is going to switch to, maybe that is what's going on. I'll give it one more day, see what happens. And thanks for the offer.