For the average user, using Mozilla is like using a 4x4 to go shopping. It is needed one time in a million, and the rest of the time it is woefully underused.
Are you kidding me? Tell the average user that Mozilla is the SUV of browers and everyone will use it! Having more than you need is a cherished American tradition.
It is the free love (which is neither free nor love) movement of the 60's that has launched us to where we are today: >50% divorce rate.
Actually I think the women's lib movement has more to do with that than hippies. Women no longer feel like they must stay in (abusive, unhealthy) relationships.
Oh well. You take away the hippy scapegoat and suddenly "conservatives" have to think for themselves.
If the parent poster was trying to say anything, its that college was worth it for more than "getting a job." Not everyone looks only at opportunities that will make them more money.
Some people (like myself) go to college to learn and grow as a person.
Once you have a degree, a college education is something that can never be taken from you.
None of the things you list are lies. You just assume them to be. The only lie Moore told in the movie was that "Iraq posed no threat to the United States."
A nap! Obviously you have never actually been here in Texas. When we ain't driving to drive, we're driving to hunt. I bagged my last meal on highway 29.
This is just a ploy to wrap up investors that are captivated by the word "nanotechnology." In all probability the technology will probably just assure that future "American" cars will break down in exactly six years on the dot instead of the current relative time frame. Seeing as how for the last twenty or so years "American" (made in Mexico) carmakers have only been interested in making cars that will fail in ten or so years. "Planned Obsolesce" has become the mantra to drive the bottom line. "Nanotechnology talk" assures the investment capital need to do it.
Umm. maybe your soulmate did a little more than rip a CD. Mine used to act like that for a day or two after my mom used the computer. She swore that all she did was "by clothing off the internet."
For the trojan type, it just piggybacks on other apps. Kazaa RQUIRES you to install and leave installed several peices of spyware to use it. It even TELLS you this. None the less, people install it willingly.
Because that is the price to get the software. Nothing in life is truely free. Most of the people I know that has tons of spyware enjoy the weather bug, precision time, and hundreds of other semi-useful programs that pay for themselves with spyware. I'm not saying its the best way to conduct business, but if people are just going to install all the free stuff they can as soon as they get in internet connection on their new windows box, nothing is going to help that poor machine.
People need to learn to be skeptical on the internet. Or when they buy pieces of media crap from their "local" international media factory.
The reality is that the techie community has never offered anything beyond "You're rich and I hate you and computers should be outside the law and anyway I'm helping the artists by not paying them.".
Maybe because we are wise and we have seen the RIAA as a dead man walking for five years..
Here is some solutions for them:.
a. shrink the recording company's size to handle the new market.
b. quit the new market and find a new way to make living (many nerds did this recently, its a fact of life).
c.-my favorite- drop out of production and distribution and become glorified PR machines for artists.
See, the thing is that we nerds have no sympathy for a business dinosaur thats thrashing around after the asteroid hit. Just like the version of our kind at the turn of the last century had little sympathy for the buggy whip maker that got put out of business with the invention of the car.
The option:
d. use the legal system and a paid for congress to prevent the new technology from taking over their market share.
is not a reasonable one for geeks cause to many things get knocked out of whack with new laws controlling copyright.
If we nerds seem like we aren't offering any good suggestions, its cause we are waiting for the record companies to roll over and die.
DirecTV dropped them, I question that TiVo would be able to continue independantly.
When their contract is up, look for DirecTV to drop TiVo just to basically kill the company. Then look for News Corp to buy the rights to TiVo, gut its employees, and merge it with XTV (aka change XTV's unfriendly name to TiVo). Five years down the line, only the brand name of TiVo (which-like kleenex or Q-tip- has become the unofficial name of PVR products) will be worth anything to the company.
Despite that, they probably won't charge Netflix rates anyhow, they'll probably charge $40+/month, or perhaps significantly more.
I imagine because the MPAA will charge them 10 or 20 dollars a movie. Licencing will make this more expensive.
VOIP companies that specialize in residential service are not major players anyway. It's VIOP at businesses (where up to millions can be saved over traditional phone networks) were the real market is. Companies like comcast that would pull this junk aren't providing those large businesses with a connection anyway.
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Are you kidding me? Tell the average user that Mozilla is the SUV of browers and everyone will use it! Having more than you need is a cherished American tradition.
Actually I think the women's lib movement has more to do with that than hippies. Women no longer feel like they must stay in (abusive, unhealthy) relationships.
Oh well. You take away the hippy scapegoat and suddenly "conservatives" have to think for themselves.
How bout a broken wrist?
Call me up when he can get credit cards to work with drug dealers and prositutes.
Some people (like myself) go to college to learn and grow as a person.
Once you have a degree, a college education is something that can never be taken from you.
The parent post lies.
Over 80% of people that mostly watch Fox News beleved there was a connection. Fair and Balanced my ASS!
This man does its best to prove inaccuracies in the movie, and that is the only real one he found.
No wonder this person used AC. This is the worst mod on a first post I have ever seen.
Sources say the wedding was a 4 and a half star event, See all 146 customer reviews.
Hollywood insiders criticize the move, saying that the couple is "SOOOO 90's."
And who would want him to take Hitler's job in Hell? In fact, I bet he couldn't even get a job in Hell when your fired by AOL!
NO cartoon network? Bust out the pitchforks. Ted Turner gets to do the first lynching.
So thats why Mars is NASA's weekness.
Now I have something to do at rest stops other than get high and have sex with strangers. Yeah the second one never happened.
Don't know why you were scared. It seems the most popular thing to do on this board.
A nap! Obviously you have never actually been here in Texas. When we ain't driving to drive, we're driving to hunt. I bagged my last meal on highway 29.
Umm. maybe your soulmate did a little more than rip a CD. Mine used to act like that for a day or two after my mom used the computer. She swore that all she did was "by clothing off the internet."
Because that is the price to get the software. Nothing in life is truely free. Most of the people I know that has tons of spyware enjoy the weather bug, precision time, and hundreds of other semi-useful programs that pay for themselves with spyware. I'm not saying its the best way to conduct business, but if people are just going to install all the free stuff they can as soon as they get in internet connection on their new windows box, nothing is going to help that poor machine.
People need to learn to be skeptical on the internet. Or when they buy pieces of media crap from their "local" international media factory.
Great reply
Maybe because we are wise and we have seen the RIAA as a dead man walking for five years. .
Here is some solutions for them: .
a. shrink the recording company's size to handle the new market.
b. quit the new market and find a new way to make living (many nerds did this recently, its a fact of life) .
c.-my favorite- drop out of production and distribution and become glorified PR machines for artists.
See, the thing is that we nerds have no sympathy for a business dinosaur thats thrashing around after the asteroid hit. Just like the version of our kind at the turn of the last century had little sympathy for the buggy whip maker that got put out of business with the invention of the car.
The option:
d. use the legal system and a paid for congress to prevent the new technology from taking over their market share.
is not a reasonable one for geeks cause to many things get knocked out of whack with new laws controlling copyright.
If we nerds seem like we aren't offering any good suggestions, its cause we are waiting for the record companies to roll over and die.
DirecTV dropped them, I question that TiVo would be able to continue independantly. When their contract is up, look for DirecTV to drop TiVo just to basically kill the company. Then look for News Corp to buy the rights to TiVo, gut its employees, and merge it with XTV (aka change XTV's unfriendly name to TiVo). Five years down the line, only the brand name of TiVo (which-like kleenex or Q-tip- has become the unofficial name of PVR products) will be worth anything to the company.
Despite that, they probably won't charge Netflix rates anyhow, they'll probably charge $40+/month, or perhaps significantly more. I imagine because the MPAA will charge them 10 or 20 dollars a movie. Licencing will make this more expensive.
never have I wanted mod points more
VOIP companies that specialize in residential service are not major players anyway. It's VIOP at businesses (where up to millions can be saved over traditional phone networks) were the real market is. Companies like comcast that would pull this junk aren't providing those large businesses with a connection anyway.