How can I not feel bad for him?
Hope to do good with the money? What money?
He got taken in by the concept there was money in the first place. If he had no greed he would have looked at it and said no thanks, I am fine just the way I am now. That is not showing no greed.
Forget cycnicism, even when confronted with the reality of it the victim does not believe he was taken. Ok maybe he was not greedy, but if not greedy then certainly not in the proper mental state of mind to comprehend.
Who do you believe is spreading these specs and rumors?
If you knew much about Apple and their relationship with the rumor sites you would know that Apple would not leak this stuff. It may not even be real since it's a "rumor".
Yeesh, you are bitter and need more than just brandy to take your edge off.
Whoever modded your post up needs the same.
Perhaps you best read the world news sometime?
India-China relations are much much warmer than they used to be.
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=ind ia+china&btnG=Search+News
You want to wait for the government to rub their greedy hands together for getting you secrets before you switch to mac?
Why haven't you switched already?
Ever hear of Carnivore?
You will done be late to the game and locked in because you were one of those wait and see the latest and greatest types.
This is the true turning a PC into a common household good like your TV and VCR. Walmart will certainly sell the wireless internet access kits to make more money. Look for them as well to partner and sell ISP services. Heck they may even start their own ISP if they haven't already.
How about a Walmart OS? Open source linux guts with a closed source Walmart GUI. AOL does it for the internet. Why not Walmart for linux.
Who do we fear most after this? Walmart or Microsoft?
Two monoliths in their own.
Same kind of crap RIAA is pulling. Not them directly, but their members. High priced media for something that is very cheap to produce. On top of that they only put crappy music on those discs and limit the amount of singles they sell. Of course people will seek alternatives you dipsticks. Audio P2P boomed as a result of that. Once the next level of broadband moves on there will be video P2P like crazy. Broadcast flags and all stripped off. Of course windows DRM users will have no choice but to watch the blue screen of death that comes as a result of no DRM encoding.
We can forget TV all together now. The home users will be making the content we watch shortly. Is it any wonder iMovie and firewire camcorders are a wonder? Sure amatuer porn has boomed. Just like porn helped VHS and DVD it will help the independent make their stuff all the much easier and cheaper.
RIAA sets up one.
The bomb is the anti-trust case brought against them.
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Maybe the decline is a result of other factors external to the creative types.
Like a Patent office, Copyrights, red tape for businesses, and a hugely burdensome legal system that can take the incentive out of creating something due to potential liability problems.
Hands down you are wrong.
Japan is the third largest economy in the world.
Though it is second most technologically powerful in the world.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html#Econ
All Patent Attorneys have to take a separate Patent Bar exam in order to practice Patent Law. Does the USPTO take a cut of all patent lawsuits? If they do, it would explain why they license prior art every other day.
Basically the buyer is responsible for paying the sales tax in the state he lives in if he buys something out of state. This excludes the obvious states which don't have sales tax.
Normally the state in which you live in will discount the tax you have already paid. So you paid 6% tax in state X and you live in state Y. If state Y has a 6% sales tax they don't bother. If state Y has an 8% sales tax you are responsible for the remaining 2%. In this case no sales tax is being charged so the buyer must remit the sales tax to their state treasury. This is sometimes called use tax. Basically this is shifting the burden of paying the tax from the individual buyer to the business regardless of his/her state. A very unreasonable burden at that.
How did you vote in the last election?
Did you stick with the usual two choices of republicrat or democan? Well then you brought this upon yourself.
Did you not vote at all? Further sauce to say you brought this on yourself. You voted in these nimwit tax and spend politicians who want to take your money away. Cerainly I don't argue for anarchy. But I don't think all this pork barrel tax shit is good for us either. When individuals or even businesses find themselves with less money they usually have to tighten their belts and spend less. Why do our stupid governments decide instead to tax more? Are they above us? Since when did for the people, by the people become for the stupids who don't know any better for themselves?
Want to put a shock into the system? Vote some libertarians in next time. You know libertarians who advocate legal drugs and less taxes. No one says we have to turn the entire government into libertarian. Just stick enough in that you shock the remaning losers into realizing this is what we want.
We don't want a fricking tax and spend nanny state!
Figure it out now or forget about it later.
First we saw the post regarding AOL completely filtering certain domains as spammers. Whether all the individuals of those domains spam or not. I found myself on the receiving end of that when AOL users bid on my ebay auction. My email was not getting through to a few of those bidders.
Now they completely block access to a web site.
Is this AOL going back to their closed selves? i.e. No access beyond the realm of AOL itself? That is the way they started. They may as well end themselves that way.
We already have a world wide grid of sorts with regards to the internet. You need that kind of redundancy in the power grid as well. Heck if you can run IP over powerlines and then set up wireless broadcast hubs on every tower you can have internet connections around the towers.
This would also allow countries to develop specialties in power production. Some countries may be better capably at generating solar power than others.
If you were replying to me you missed my point.
My point is very similar to yours. Intel and Cyrix took quite a while to get to chips speeds which were to be had 2 years ago. Whereas the Chinese did all that in a much shorter time.
Yes I am american. But I also agree with you.
So who is the arrogant one talking about standard american ignorance? If our points were the same does that make you ignorant too?
While Microsoft has been on an anti-piracy tirade for some time, I think they tolerated it in China. Why you ask? To allow for the entrenchment of their products. Once China became hooked and beholden to Microsoft products and as they became more integrated with the world economy, China would be pressured to enforce copyright laws because they want others to do the same. But of course we find China not wanting to become beholden to anyone. So what do they start doing? Making their own CPUs which will soon start selling worldwide (IMO). They also move towards linux as their operating system thus locking Microsoft (and the US) out of their computer loop. Any encryption needs are not crippled by the US government. China can home grow them. Software needs are the same. While India is outsourcing support, programming and more for other countries, China is also developing their highly educated middle class as well in all things computers. Will probably be a few years before they start realizing the value in making and selling software on the cheap to the rest of the world.
In the end it may be globalization that really undoes Microsoft and smacks them down to a more modest company.
What's next, buy a used Ford and pay Ford to transfer the license for the onboard computer's OS or face piracy charges if you continue to drive?"
The car companies long ago figured out by having a robust used car market you make sure you sell new cars. Heck they learned they could make money on selling parts for used cars as well!
If the government is used to paying 699 for things people put their asses on to take a dump, would they not also be willing to pay 699 for asses who think they own linux?
The government agency I work with is on an upgrade cycle of about 3-4 years. Meaning they replace old hardware and swap in new. For the work I do, I use an office program, email, a terminal based program and yes even a DOS based program (hey this is a government agency).
Other than the DOS based program (if you ignore emulators) I could do my job on an Apple OS X machine just as well as on the NT 4.0 machine I currently use. Software? That gets upgraded as well. I need word processing and occasionally spreadsheets.
Experts? They are about to get tossed as well to outsourcing.
Does Al Gore even realize this?
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How can I not feel bad for him? Hope to do good with the money? What money? He got taken in by the concept there was money in the first place. If he had no greed he would have looked at it and said no thanks, I am fine just the way I am now. That is not showing no greed. Forget cycnicism, even when confronted with the reality of it the victim does not believe he was taken. Ok maybe he was not greedy, but if not greedy then certainly not in the proper mental state of mind to comprehend.
Who do you believe is spreading these specs and rumors? If you knew much about Apple and their relationship with the rumor sites you would know that Apple would not leak this stuff. It may not even be real since it's a "rumor". Yeesh, you are bitter and need more than just brandy to take your edge off. Whoever modded your post up needs the same.
Perhaps you best read the world news sometime? India-China relations are much much warmer than they used to be. http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&q=ind ia+china&btnG=Search+News
You want to wait for the government to rub their greedy hands together for getting you secrets before you switch to mac? Why haven't you switched already? Ever hear of Carnivore? You will done be late to the game and locked in because you were one of those wait and see the latest and greatest types.
This won't matter when AI technology comes of age. Then you can talk to a computer and it should help you out. India would be outsourced to AI.
Hot potato coming your way
This is the true turning a PC into a common household good like your TV and VCR. Walmart will certainly sell the wireless internet access kits to make more money. Look for them as well to partner and sell ISP services. Heck they may even start their own ISP if they haven't already. How about a Walmart OS? Open source linux guts with a closed source Walmart GUI. AOL does it for the internet. Why not Walmart for linux. Who do we fear most after this? Walmart or Microsoft? Two monoliths in their own.
Same kind of crap RIAA is pulling. Not them directly, but their members. High priced media for something that is very cheap to produce. On top of that they only put crappy music on those discs and limit the amount of singles they sell. Of course people will seek alternatives you dipsticks. Audio P2P boomed as a result of that. Once the next level of broadband moves on there will be video P2P like crazy. Broadcast flags and all stripped off. Of course windows DRM users will have no choice but to watch the blue screen of death that comes as a result of no DRM encoding.
We can forget TV all together now. The home users will be making the content we watch shortly. Is it any wonder iMovie and firewire camcorders are a wonder?
Sure amatuer porn has boomed. Just like porn helped VHS and DVD it will help the independent make their stuff all the much easier and cheaper.
RIAA sets up one. The bomb is the anti-trust case brought against them.
Maybe the decline is a result of other factors external to the creative types. Like a Patent office, Copyrights, red tape for businesses, and a hugely burdensome legal system that can take the incentive out of creating something due to potential liability problems.
Hands down you are wrong. Japan is the third largest economy in the world. Though it is second most technologically powerful in the world. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ ja.html#Econ
All Patent Attorneys have to take a separate Patent Bar exam in order to practice Patent Law. Does the USPTO take a cut of all patent lawsuits? If they do, it would explain why they license prior art every other day.
Basically the buyer is responsible for paying the sales tax in the state he lives in if he buys something out of state. This excludes the obvious states which don't have sales tax. Normally the state in which you live in will discount the tax you have already paid. So you paid 6% tax in state X and you live in state Y. If state Y has a 6% sales tax they don't bother. If state Y has an 8% sales tax you are responsible for the remaining 2%. In this case no sales tax is being charged so the buyer must remit the sales tax to their state treasury. This is sometimes called use tax. Basically this is shifting the burden of paying the tax from the individual buyer to the business regardless of his/her state. A very unreasonable burden at that.
How did you vote in the last election? Did you stick with the usual two choices of republicrat or democan? Well then you brought this upon yourself. Did you not vote at all? Further sauce to say you brought this on yourself. You voted in these nimwit tax and spend politicians who want to take your money away. Cerainly I don't argue for anarchy. But I don't think all this pork barrel tax shit is good for us either. When individuals or even businesses find themselves with less money they usually have to tighten their belts and spend less. Why do our stupid governments decide instead to tax more? Are they above us? Since when did for the people, by the people become for the stupids who don't know any better for themselves? Want to put a shock into the system? Vote some libertarians in next time. You know libertarians who advocate legal drugs and less taxes. No one says we have to turn the entire government into libertarian. Just stick enough in that you shock the remaning losers into realizing this is what we want. We don't want a fricking tax and spend nanny state! Figure it out now or forget about it later.
In this case the prom queen happens to be windows users.
First we saw the post regarding AOL completely filtering certain domains as spammers. Whether all the individuals of those domains spam or not. I found myself on the receiving end of that when AOL users bid on my ebay auction. My email was not getting through to a few of those bidders. Now they completely block access to a web site. Is this AOL going back to their closed selves? i.e. No access beyond the realm of AOL itself? That is the way they started. They may as well end themselves that way.
We already have a world wide grid of sorts with regards to the internet. You need that kind of redundancy in the power grid as well. Heck if you can run IP over powerlines and then set up wireless broadcast hubs on every tower you can have internet connections around the towers. This would also allow countries to develop specialties in power production. Some countries may be better capably at generating solar power than others.
If you were replying to me you missed my point. My point is very similar to yours. Intel and Cyrix took quite a while to get to chips speeds which were to be had 2 years ago. Whereas the Chinese did all that in a much shorter time. Yes I am american. But I also agree with you. So who is the arrogant one talking about standard american ignorance? If our points were the same does that make you ignorant too?
Yeah CPUs on par with Cyrix from 2 years ago. How long did it take the Chinese to get to that point? How long did it take Intel and Cyrix?
While Microsoft has been on an anti-piracy tirade for some time, I think they tolerated it in China. Why you ask? To allow for the entrenchment of their products. Once China became hooked and beholden to Microsoft products and as they became more integrated with the world economy, China would be pressured to enforce copyright laws because they want others to do the same. But of course we find China not wanting to become beholden to anyone. So what do they start doing? Making their own CPUs which will soon start selling worldwide (IMO). They also move towards linux as their operating system thus locking Microsoft (and the US) out of their computer loop. Any encryption needs are not crippled by the US government. China can home grow them. Software needs are the same. While India is outsourcing support, programming and more for other countries, China is also developing their highly educated middle class as well in all things computers. Will probably be a few years before they start realizing the value in making and selling software on the cheap to the rest of the world. In the end it may be globalization that really undoes Microsoft and smacks them down to a more modest company.
The car companies long ago figured out by having a robust used car market you make sure you sell new cars. Heck they learned they could make money on selling parts for used cars as well!
If the government is used to paying 699 for things people put their asses on to take a dump, would they not also be willing to pay 699 for asses who think they own linux?
Can someone explain what FOMA is with regards to the connectivity? What sort of connection would it be to the PDA? What kind of speeds?
The government agency I work with is on an upgrade cycle of about 3-4 years. Meaning they replace old hardware and swap in new. For the work I do, I use an office program, email, a terminal based program and yes even a DOS based program (hey this is a government agency). Other than the DOS based program (if you ignore emulators) I could do my job on an Apple OS X machine just as well as on the NT 4.0 machine I currently use. Software? That gets upgraded as well. I need word processing and occasionally spreadsheets. Experts? They are about to get tossed as well to outsourcing. Does Al Gore even realize this?