But even I don't the 3rd world will bother with this either. It looks a bit too cheap, and there are much better alternatives for slightly more money. Who are they marketing this to anyway? Developing countries are probably more interested in desktops, for the price and performance factor. Besides, if $100 is expensive to people in the 3rd world (and you can bet on that) they're not going to want to carry a laptop around where it can get stolen or damaged. What do you all think?
Uh, X86 does not equal software. Notice, I didn't ask if anyone would want to stick with Intel. That's a big difference.
Separate Microsoft from Intel........ even though together they form a powerful monopoly they are still separate companies making different products. Apple OTOH is a hardware and software company. My argument was geared towards the SOFTWARE comparison of Apple and Microsoft, not the hardware differences.
Microsoft took Target's slogan and reversed it, I can't imagine how that is going to make any Mac user want switch to Windows. The campaign should be "Please Don't Lease Microsoft Campaign" instead. Look at the software facts:
$199 buys you the UPGRADE ONLY version of Windows XP Professional sans web server, ftp server, network utilities, rendezvous etc, etc.
whereas
$199 buys you 5 FULL VERSIONS of OS X with apache webserver, ftp client/Server, network utilities, ssh, better stability and so on. And as an added bonus it plays well with other OSes including Windows!!!
This info is from Microsoft's and Apple's web sites.......Do you still want to stick with Microsoft???
I didn't know Microsoft bought Intel??? That's news to me. Apple is and has been a Hardware and Software company for many years. So tell me, how you can monpolize hardware that you own??? What about plain jane software price, Microsoft is cheaper right???
$199 for 1 LICENSE * UPGRADE ONLY* Windows XP professional
$199 for 5 LICENSES of OS X FULL VERSION
Five FULL licenses of OS X at the same price Microsoft charges for 1 license of UPGRADE ONLY Windows XP Professional........Now who is cheaper???
Blame your customers for not applying patches soon enough....but forget to mention you haven't applied them yourself.
Blame your customers for not being trained enough on your software products.....but don't let them catch on that they've been beta testing final realeses for bugs you supposedly fixed awhile back.
Bush uses linux for the Whitehouse.gov site (Bush uses Macs also) and the Department of Homeland Security swithched from Win2k/MS SQL to Linux/Oracle. It looks like the government TRUSTS Linux/Unix for security, but to return the favor for campaign contributions selected someone from Microsoft.....to contain the Microsoft security problem.
MS products are too buggy for the internet. Even when MS comes out with patches sysadmins are extremely reluctant to apply them (even at Microsoft) in fear that the patch will cause more problems (ie BSOD) than it fixes. Remember Microsoft got hit by Slammer hard because it didn't install its own patches. Was Microsoft waiting for customers to beta test thier software before they even tried it themselves??? Plus the MS SQL server is not the only MS product that Slammer can infect......when are people going to hold Microsoft accountable for its lack of security and general poor coding??
Why?? Because Macs play nice with other operating systems like Linux, Solaris, BSD ect.....unlike some unfriendly Redmond WA based OSes that think the world should revolve around them. As if that wasn't enoough you get better software (and more of it), more stability, and a highly compatible hardware/software marriage, and better security...like their ads say "it just works". The question is why do people waste thier money supporting Microsoft's monopoly and get less compatability, security, and stability for thier money??
If don't get paid for your (tech) work you would be better off flipping burgers or working in retail and so on. I almost got sucked into this lie of just wait a little longer and the money will come in.... I got only slightly burned. The only exception to this rule is when you start your own company...at least then you will be the one who determines your fate.
I remembered that book but I forgot the name. I'm surprised more slashdotters have not mentioned this book earlier. "In his Image: The Cloning of a Man" is a older book, but I would not be surprised if this is true story either even though it is widely dismissed as a hoax. But even if this story is not true, there is the possibility that human cloning may have been done without public disclosure. Nevertheless, the corporations who push for this type of unethical testing outside moral and ethical boundaries is disgusting. The fact that scientists insist that thier work in this area should be unrestricted is even more disturbing:
http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/pvl/Clonetest.ht m
Exactly my thoughts.....why not let users decide what OS is unstalled on the machine? Obviously, Microsoft must feel so threatened by Windows alternatives that they force OEMs to bundle and support ONLY Windows. If Windows is so good/superior to alternative operating systems it should have no problem with the competition. Why not let OEMs decide what OS and applications get pre-installed on their machines? What really disturbs me is that very few people seem to care. I don't want MS destroyed, but they do need to be brought to justice. And since the current US gov. seems to be pro-monopoly and anti-justice, the only one who can bring Microsoft to justice are ordinary computer users who care about choice.
"So I think you get the full gamut of depression, concern, and outright outrage at the change. And then there are other places along the trail where you have hope," Philp told SPACE.com.
I wonder what he means by this? Depressing how, exactly? Are there a bunch of K-Marts on the trail?
I don't claim to be an expert or anthing, but my guess about what parts of the trail are probably less than exciting are probably in the eastern half of the trail. I say this because the east is more developed and industrialized and has been this way longer than cities on th western half. In any case, you can follow the trail yourself to make that determination:
I just put together a computer this weekend. It's for my business so it's capabilities won't turn any heads, but it turns out a lot of it was made in China:
Exactly my thoughts...and let expand the subject a little: Back in the early 80's we (US) sold some of our wafer steppers to Japan.....we laughed at them then thinking they would never be able to build one of these machines. Well guess what, they had the last laugh with more than 90% of the wafer stepper market. How did this happen?: They took our design and improved it and then resold it with japonese camera names. The Japonese kiretsu ( a family of companies) also ensured that the technology would never slip through their hands in a business failure. But business failure is exactly how the US lost this technology and nobody prevented. Today the bulk of those japonese steppers are bought by a company with a liitle "i" stamped on their chips. Late in the 80's we shipped some more late model US made steppers to S. Korea and China and today we are again repeating history by ignoring potential technology growth of those countries. Why do we continue to underestimate the asian capability of knowing a good idea and making it succeed? Southeast asia is designing and improving an economy similiar to the one that Japan made sucessful. . . using some business and technology practices that we first developed in the US (and which we discarded as unworkable). Remember when people thought that China would never be able to design rockets or the atomic bomb? I have seen firsthand how Korean and Chinese can be extremely resouceful and I myself will never underestimate their will to exceed.
Overall, I would say the US made all of those things you mentioned possible.....and at least one of the items you mentioned are related to each other: The transistor and the modern electronic computer. The US almost single handedly made cheap computers possible because of cheap transistors. The US also made the internet possible, and without it we wouldn't be able to slashdot.
The US lost its edge in technology in so far as the manufacturing of those transistors though. Most of todays semiconductors are manufactured using Japonese equipment. Why? Because they are better and cheaper and because chip manufacturers didn't have vested interest in keeping those US manufacturers in business. Too make matters worse, the US government led by Ron Reagan apparently didn't see that letting foreigners take over the semiconductor equipment ndustry would be a HUGE national security problem.
Not that the Japonese aren't dependent on American made software....they are. But the Japonese are not as dependent on american software as the US is on their semiconductor equipment. To just let an industry die in the US which is vital to national security is unforgiveable.....what were these buffoons thinking?? Couldn't the government have stepped in sooner in helping now forgotten companies like GCA corporation? What other technologies will the US just piss away just because no cared about the implications? The US is still a leader in many technological areas, but if those technologies are carelessly neglected they too will be lost.
bio science is already on a slipppery slope......
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particularly where the bio genetics corporations are concerned. For instance, foods already 70 percent of processed foods in the US contain genetically altered material.....most of which is patented. What's to stop some company from patenting human gene structures and so forth? I really think somewhere humans have already been cloned....will natural people, animals, and food be bioengineered to the detriment of thier natural counterparts or out of existence altogether? I believe that bio science will be the most talked about science now and well into the future. Talking about whether people are going to want to share this technology with each other is just the tip of the iceberg..... playing God with bio science may be something we shouldn't be tampering with in the first place. I don't claim to be too knowledgeable in this area, but instinct tells me that this kind of science is too dangerous to igniore. I found a transcript from a radio show that discusses the possible implications...take a look:
Oskar Schindler was a hero. An accidental hero, yeah, but through his misguided actions and deeply flawed motives, he still managed to save the lives of 1,200 people, and by extension over 6,000 of their descendants. Are you aware that there are more Schindler Jews-- including survivors and their families-- alive in the world today than there are Jews in all of Poland? Schindler made a difference. His story, the story of his accomplishment, is inspirational. That, in my opinion, makes for a pretty fucking happy ending, you asshole.
So, what you're saying is if Nazis lined your family up to be shot to death and you were the only one that survived that you would be happy?!?
God, you must be one heartless SOB. The fact that you survived might be cause for rejoice, but it certainly would not be that great I think. Many holocaust survivers had to live with constant nightmares and some become suicidal....can you imagine trying to return to a normal life? Did Spielberg give us a glimpse of that, hell no. The war ended and everything returned to normal afterwards??! Fuck no....many jews had no family left, felt unwanted in their own country and europe and had no possesions to speak of. Just because you survived the concentration camps didn't mean you could have any type of "normal" life. The fact Schindler saved jews is great, but don't you think it's appalling that the millions of Germans didn't really give a fuck that their jewish neighbors were being hauled off from their homes like cattle while their possesions were being confiscated! But no, according to you we should be happy with that..right? Spielberg could have given us a glimpse of the hell of jews after the war, instead he made it seem as though everyone just went back to what they were doing before the war. He could of showed us more of how Germans feared the Nazis or loathed jews....why?
So, next time you open your pie hole Herr Hollywood please get a fucking clue what happiness is.
"Actually, I'm pretty sure his "claim to fame" is making Schindler's List, which is widely and rightfully regarded as one of the best motion pictures of the 20th century."
Even then Spielberg felt the need for a "happy ending"; what the fuck was so happy about 6 million jews being put to death? Don't get me wrong Schindler's List is a great movie, but like nearly every single movie about the period many of the characters are stiff cartoonish cliche's of Nazis and Jews. Oh well, I guess we can't expect too much from Hollywood these days.
That's what I was thinking too. I don't think the drama is based on facts; if Taken was fact based Spielberg has this irritating tendency to put a happy ending on everything and/or to interpret every detail for the viewers. I don't need any more sugar coated dramas, but a fact based story with some mystery might prove interesting.
The satellites probably have remote image sensing equipment for seeing those exposed credit card #s from outer space. 'Cause that's just the type of *Pal* PayPal is.
Wrong! The reason PCs are cheap today is because of IBM cloning and has nothing to do with Microsoft. In fact, computers would be cheaper if MS sold windows for reasonable profit instead of the highway robbery they do now. Software is MORE expensive today than it was in the past (of course it does more too), and high software expense is ultimately the reason PC industry will stagnate. IBM created some standards for the PC, which is the reason PCs today are more similiar than different; mass production is the real reason why computers became inexpensive.
"The decision is a virtual rubber-stamp of the proposed settlement," said Hillard Sterling, an antitrust attorney with Much Shelist in Chicago. "This judge didn't think that more was necessary to preserve competition. She clearly didn't buy the litigating states' premise, that Microsoft was an evil empire that needed to be punished severely."
I applaud Mass and WV for taking a stand when everyone seems to be cowering in the presence of Microsoft and its GOP backed monopoly, but I don't think the appeal will have much of an effect. People have got to take a personal stand against the monopolists and their rabid supporters. It's simple, people need to take a stand and boycott Microsoft and its supporters. Either people like being manipulated and bullied by MS tactics or they don't.....pick your side.
I predict if the OS for MIThril is Microsoft based and becomes popular there will be plenty of odd looking people walking around cursing and it won't be because they have Turret's Syndrome! Imagine if you can, that they were able to tie the brain in into this MS based computer and it had to reboot constantly (I suppose that might be better than crashing constantly).....It would be the beginning of a true MS Borg. You too can be assimilated...by your own choosing.
we're fucked. We'll continue to be force fed MS Shitware, by our beloved PC Gestapo, the government supported global monopoly of Microsoft Corp. At this moment they are planning a world were every PC in the world will have MS Windows on it, you don't have any say in their plans. Why? Because Bill G wants it that way. Be thankful on this Thanksgivivng eve that you have the choice to run an alternative OS on your PC, because that choice will soon be taken away if MS has their way.
broadband?? That's doesn't make any sense. If they really didn't care about broadband they would have purchased it in the first place, and if they didn't like it for whatever reason they wouldn't continue to purchase broadband....that is unless you happen to be independently wealthy. Right?
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But even I don't the 3rd world will bother with this either. It looks a bit too cheap, and there are much better alternatives for slightly more money. Who are they marketing this to anyway? Developing countries are probably more interested in desktops, for the price and performance factor. Besides, if $100 is expensive to people in the 3rd world (and you can bet on that) they're not going to want to carry a laptop around where it can get stolen or damaged. What do you all think?
99% percent?? How did I come up with that you ask?
86% profit markup here in the US
+
13% profit markup over North American prices (according to Taipei Times)
=99%
That's without mentioning the software bundling issue which forces unwanted software on customers.
Uh, X86 does not equal software. Notice, I didn't ask if anyone would want to stick with Intel. That's a big difference.
Separate Microsoft from Intel........ even though together they form a powerful monopoly they are still separate companies making different products. Apple OTOH is a hardware and software company. My argument was geared towards the SOFTWARE comparison of Apple and Microsoft, not the hardware differences.
Expect Less, Pay More
Microsoft took Target's slogan and reversed it, I can't imagine how that is going to make any Mac user want switch to Windows. The campaign should be "Please Don't Lease Microsoft Campaign" instead. Look at the software facts:
$199 buys you the UPGRADE ONLY version of Windows XP Professional sans web server, ftp server, network utilities, rendezvous etc, etc.
whereas
$199 buys you 5 FULL VERSIONS of OS X with apache webserver, ftp client/Server, network utilities, ssh, better stability and so on. And as an added bonus it plays well with other OSes including Windows!!!
This info is from Microsoft's and Apple's web sites.......Do you still want to stick with Microsoft???
I didn't know Microsoft bought Intel??? That's news to me. Apple is and has been a Hardware and Software company for many years. So tell me, how you can monpolize hardware that you own??? What about plain jane software price, Microsoft is cheaper right???
$199 for 1 LICENSE * UPGRADE ONLY* Windows XP professional
$199 for 5 LICENSES of OS X FULL VERSION
Five FULL licenses of OS X at the same price Microsoft charges for 1 license of UPGRADE ONLY Windows XP Professional........Now who is cheaper???
Microsoft on security:
Blame your customers for not applying patches soon enough....but forget to mention you haven't applied them yourself.
Blame your customers for not being trained enough on your software products.....but don't let them catch on that they've been beta testing final realeses for bugs you supposedly fixed awhile back.
Bush uses linux for the Whitehouse.gov site (Bush uses Macs also) and the Department of Homeland Security swithched from Win2k/MS SQL to Linux/Oracle. It looks like the government TRUSTS Linux/Unix for security, but to return the favor for campaign contributions selected someone from Microsoft.....to contain the Microsoft security problem.
MS products are too buggy for the internet. Even when MS comes out with patches sysadmins are extremely reluctant to apply them (even at Microsoft) in fear that the patch will cause more problems (ie BSOD) than it fixes. Remember Microsoft got hit by Slammer hard because it didn't install its own patches. Was Microsoft waiting for customers to beta test thier software before they even tried it themselves??? Plus the MS SQL server is not the only MS product that Slammer can infect......when are people going to hold Microsoft accountable for its lack of security and general poor coding??
Why?? Because Macs play nice with other operating systems like Linux, Solaris, BSD ect.....unlike some unfriendly Redmond WA based OSes that think the world should revolve around them. As if that wasn't enoough you get better software (and more of it), more stability, and a highly compatible hardware/software marriage, and better security...like their ads say "it just works". The question is why do people waste thier money supporting Microsoft's monopoly and get less compatability, security, and stability for thier money??
If don't get paid for your (tech) work you would be better off flipping burgers or working in retail and so on. I almost got sucked into this lie of just wait a little longer and the money will come in.... I got only slightly burned. The only exception to this rule is when you start your own company...at least then you will be the one who determines your fate.
I remembered that book but I forgot the name. I'm surprised more slashdotters have not mentioned this book earlier. "In his Image: The Cloning of a Man" is a older book, but I would not be surprised if this is true story either even though it is widely dismissed as a hoax. But even if this story is not true, there is the possibility that human cloning may have been done without public disclosure. Nevertheless, the corporations who push for this type of unethical testing outside moral and ethical boundaries is disgusting. The fact that scientists insist that thier work in this area should be unrestricted is even more disturbing:
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http://www.bumc.bu.edu/www/sph/lw/pvl/Clonetest.h
Exactly my thoughts.....why not let users decide what OS is unstalled on the machine? Obviously, Microsoft must feel so threatened by Windows alternatives that they force OEMs to bundle and support ONLY Windows. If Windows is so good/superior to alternative operating systems it should have no problem with the competition. Why not let OEMs decide what OS and applications get pre-installed on their machines? What really disturbs me is that very few people seem to care. I don't want MS destroyed, but they do need to be brought to justice. And since the current US gov. seems to be pro-monopoly and anti-justice, the only one who can bring Microsoft to justice are ordinary computer users who care about choice.
"So I think you get the full gamut of depression, concern, and outright outrage at the change. And then there are other places along the trail where you have hope," Philp told SPACE.com. I wonder what he means by this? Depressing how, exactly? Are there a bunch of K-Marts on the trail?
I don't claim to be an expert or anthing, but my guess about what parts of the trail are probably less than exciting are probably in the eastern half of the trail. I say this because the east is more developed and industrialized and has been this way longer than cities on th western half. In any case, you can follow the trail yourself to make that determination:
http://www.lewisandclark.com/plan/planning.html
I just put together a computer this weekend. It's for my business so it's capabilities won't turn any heads, but it turns out a lot of it was made in China:
Exactly my thoughts...and let expand the subject a little: Back in the early 80's we (US) sold some of our wafer steppers to Japan.....we laughed at them then thinking they would never be able to build one of these machines. Well guess what, they had the last laugh with more than 90% of the wafer stepper market. How did this happen?: They took our design and improved it and then resold it with japonese camera names. The Japonese kiretsu ( a family of companies) also ensured that the technology would never slip through their hands in a business failure. But business failure is exactly how the US lost this technology and nobody prevented. Today the bulk of those japonese steppers are bought by a company with a liitle "i" stamped on their chips. Late in the 80's we shipped some more late model US made steppers to S. Korea and China and today we are again repeating history by ignoring potential technology growth of those countries. Why do we continue to underestimate the asian capability of knowing a good idea and making it succeed? Southeast asia is designing and improving an economy similiar to the one that Japan made sucessful. . . using some business and technology practices that we first developed in the US (and which we discarded as unworkable). Remember when people thought that China would never be able to design rockets or the atomic bomb? I have seen firsthand how Korean and Chinese can be extremely resouceful and I myself will never underestimate their will to exceed.
Overall, I would say the US made all of those things you mentioned possible.....and at least one of the items you mentioned are related to each other: The transistor and the modern electronic computer. The US almost single handedly made cheap computers possible because of cheap transistors. The US also made the internet possible, and without it we wouldn't be able to slashdot.
The US lost its edge in technology in so far as the manufacturing of those transistors though. Most of todays semiconductors are manufactured using Japonese equipment. Why? Because they are better and cheaper and because chip manufacturers didn't have vested interest in keeping those US manufacturers in business. Too make matters worse, the US government led by Ron Reagan apparently didn't see that letting foreigners take over the semiconductor equipment ndustry would be a HUGE national security problem. Not that the Japonese aren't dependent on American made software....they are. But the Japonese are not as dependent on american software as the US is on their semiconductor equipment. To just let an industry die in the US which is vital to national security is unforgiveable.....what were these buffoons thinking?? Couldn't the government have stepped in sooner in helping now forgotten companies like GCA corporation? What other technologies will the US just piss away just because no cared about the implications? The US is still a leader in many technological areas, but if those technologies are carelessly neglected they too will be lost.
particularly where the bio genetics corporations are concerned. For instance, foods already 70 percent of processed foods in the US contain genetically altered material.....most of which is patented. What's to stop some company from patenting human gene structures and so forth? I really think somewhere humans have already been cloned ....will natural people, animals, and food be bioengineered to the detriment of thier natural counterparts or out of existence altogether? I believe that bio science will be the most talked about science now and well into the future. Talking about whether people are going to want to share this technology with each other is just the tip of the iceberg..... playing God with bio science may be something we shouldn't be tampering with in the first place. I don't claim to be too knowledgeable in this area, but instinct tells me that this kind of science is too dangerous to igniore. I found a transcript from a radio show that discusses the possible implications...take a look:
http://www.radioproject.org/transcripts/9846.html
Oskar Schindler was a hero. An accidental hero, yeah, but through his misguided actions and deeply flawed motives, he still managed to save the lives of 1,200 people, and by extension over 6,000 of their descendants. Are you aware that there are more Schindler Jews-- including survivors and their families-- alive in the world today than there are Jews in all of Poland? Schindler made a difference. His story, the story of his accomplishment, is inspirational. That, in my opinion, makes for a pretty fucking happy ending, you asshole.
So, what you're saying is if Nazis lined your family up to be shot to death and you were the only one that survived that you would be happy?!? God, you must be one heartless SOB. The fact that you survived might be cause for rejoice, but it certainly would not be that great I think. Many holocaust survivers had to live with constant nightmares and some become suicidal....can you imagine trying to return to a normal life? Did Spielberg give us a glimpse of that, hell no. The war ended and everything returned to normal afterwards??! Fuck no....many jews had no family left, felt unwanted in their own country and europe and had no possesions to speak of. Just because you survived the concentration camps didn't mean you could have any type of "normal" life. The fact Schindler saved jews is great, but don't you think it's appalling that the millions of Germans didn't really give a fuck that their jewish neighbors were being hauled off from their homes like cattle while their possesions were being confiscated! But no, according to you we should be happy with that..right? Spielberg could have given us a glimpse of the hell of jews after the war, instead he made it seem as though everyone just went back to what they were doing before the war. He could of showed us more of how Germans feared the Nazis or loathed jews....why? So, next time you open your pie hole Herr Hollywood please get a fucking clue what happiness is.
"Actually, I'm pretty sure his "claim to fame" is making Schindler's List, which is widely and rightfully regarded as one of the best motion pictures of the 20th century."
Even then Spielberg felt the need for a "happy ending"; what the fuck was so happy about 6 million jews being put to death? Don't get me wrong Schindler's List is a great movie, but like nearly every single movie about the period many of the characters are stiff cartoonish cliche's of Nazis and Jews. Oh well, I guess we can't expect too much from Hollywood these days.
That's what I was thinking too. I don't think the drama is based on facts; if Taken was fact based Spielberg has this irritating tendency to put a happy ending on everything and/or to interpret every detail for the viewers. I don't need any more sugar coated dramas, but a fact based story with some mystery might prove interesting.
The satellites probably have remote image sensing equipment for seeing those exposed credit card #s from outer space. 'Cause that's just the type of *Pal* PayPal is.
"Only the wealthy can afford to be activists." Wrong...Try this on: He who hesitates is lost... You don't have any morals or ethical values do you?
Wrong! The reason PCs are cheap today is because of IBM cloning and has nothing to do with Microsoft. In fact, computers would be cheaper if MS sold windows for reasonable profit instead of the highway robbery they do now. Software is MORE expensive today than it was in the past (of course it does more too), and high software expense is ultimately the reason PC industry will stagnate. IBM created some standards for the PC, which is the reason PCs today are more similiar than different; mass production is the real reason why computers became inexpensive.
"The decision is a virtual rubber-stamp of the proposed settlement," said Hillard Sterling, an antitrust attorney with Much Shelist in Chicago. "This judge didn't think that more was necessary to preserve competition. She clearly didn't buy the litigating states' premise, that Microsoft was an evil empire that needed to be punished severely."
.....pick your side.
I applaud Mass and WV for taking a stand when everyone seems to be cowering in the presence of Microsoft and its GOP backed monopoly, but I don't think the appeal will have much of an effect. People have got to take a personal stand against the monopolists and their rabid supporters. It's simple, people need to take a stand and boycott Microsoft and its supporters. Either people like being manipulated and bullied by MS tactics or they don't
I predict if the OS for MIThril is Microsoft based and becomes popular there will be plenty of odd looking people walking around cursing and it won't be because they have Turret's Syndrome! Imagine if you can, that they were able to tie the brain in into this MS based computer and it had to reboot constantly (I suppose that might be better than crashing constantly).....It would be the beginning of a true MS Borg. You too can be assimilated...by your own choosing.
we're fucked. We'll continue to be force fed MS Shitware, by our beloved PC Gestapo, the government supported global monopoly of Microsoft Corp. At this moment they are planning a world were every PC in the world will have MS Windows on it, you don't have any say in their plans. Why? Because Bill G wants it that way. Be thankful on this Thanksgivivng eve that you have the choice to run an alternative OS on your PC, because that choice will soon be taken away if MS has their way.
broadband?? That's doesn't make any sense. If they really didn't care about broadband they would have purchased it in the first place, and if they didn't like it for whatever reason they wouldn't continue to purchase broadband....that is unless you happen to be independently wealthy. Right?