See, that's not the way it works. There's no competition here; UnBox is for buying everything you want to watch on your Computer Machine. You're going to have to buy yourself the DVD to watch it on the TV machine. And to watch it on the iPod Gadget, you're going to have to buy it again. And circumventing any of these purchases is a crime.
After buying a Razr, I don't think I'd buy another Motorola phone. It's got a lot of hype, but not as durable as my old Nokia was by a long shot. It keeps overheating while I blow glass, going black after I leave it on for a few days, needing rebooting, and I can't load my own ringtones to it. All in all, I have to give it a bit of a thumbs down.
Actually, asthma is quite big, but for a more effective comparison one could use, say, PEANUTS. PEANUTS have killed more Americans since 1960 than terrorists have. We should do something about the peanuts, starting with Jif.
Generally, I think corporations have too much influence upon the world around them and interfere with creation of a more efficient citizenry through their relentless drive to sell things.
Social Security worked fine until there was pressure to raid it. When you mention it, you should also remember that it was created to attempt to alleviate the worst market failure in history.
Missed the 'civilian privacy oversight'; that makes quite a bit of sense. However, oversight is another word for 'government' here, and agencies like the EFF and ACLU are losing their power to accumulate information slowly but surely. The root of the problem is that many of the organizations that emerged from the latter half of the twentieth century are actually too large for people to effectively be in control of. Even well-meaning CEO's do things every day they have no ability to be proud of, as does someone in charge of the most powerful corporation in the world, the US Government.
This doesn't let leadership off the hook, it means it has to get more effective. And it's not. Because people don't understand in the proper proportion what is required for good government....
What fascinates me about the current state of the U.S. is that we've got a thousand times as many people as we did during the time of the founding fathers, and not even ten percent the intelligence in our leadership. I can't name a single national leader I have anywhere near as much respect for as I do for either Franklin or Jefferson. I think we have fostered an environment wherein excellent leaders are incapable of lasting long enough to accomplish anything.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that the privatization of our government is what is causing the problem in the first place; this tends to undermine arguments that privatization of data storage and management being the solution to the problem. The most major change which has caused corruption over the last ten to twenty years has been the increased amount of money available to politicians, much of which is coming from large corporations you seem to think would create solutions. The market doesn't seem to be the solution in this case... Better government is necessary, not government through private companies...
This is unacceptable. The lack of self-control exhibited by this administration and its departments over the last six years is unbelievable. If enough of this junk happens, it is actually going to cause social instability. What a clusterf* modern government has become.
Hey, at four or five rant posts per typo the, "Add random typo to inflame user interest," chapter seems to have been well read as well as put to good use.
I'm not up to 'average Linux user' skill level. I hit 'exceptional windows user,' and all the skills I have from that sort of bleed out. There's this place called FreeGeek in Portland where they teach people to build computers from scratch in about 25 hours. Really, they could do it in 5-10, but they want some labor out of volunteers. It's no longer that hard to put a machine together; industry standardization has gone a long way.
The difference between now and before is that software has hit a break point where basic value can be delivered from the desktop extremely effectively in a huge number of ways. No, I'm not an average user, but what were the requests I had from my friend? "I want the web." Do you want like, office products and stuff? Do you care about that? "No, I don't really care, just give me the internet." Ok. I can do that.
Adoption starts with power users, but they start passing their favored options down. My current two are Mac's for the rich, and Ubuntu for everyone else.
I popped in an Ubuntu CD last weekend. I'd thrown together an old Dell, a used hard drive, and a wireless card from Best Buy. It was flat out easier to both setup and use than a PC would have been; less than an hour after I had put it all together, I was done. No problems. Period.
I gave it to a friend and she said, "Wow, look at all these games."
Linux is coming to the consumer first, because I did this for a total in 100$ in used parts.
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Slashdot is a very good measure of what's to come, but it's:
1) only certain extremely tech savvy users that don't speak up much, and
2) two to three years ahead of the game.
I started hearing about Apples being 'geek okay' about three years ago, and then last year suddenly they were cool. This means, of course, that Ubuntu may actually hit mainstream in another year or so..... At least, that's what I'm hoping for. The only thing I haven't seen come out of Linux yet is TV ads, and that happening will be what brings them more into the mainstream...
Something's mentioned in passing in Good Will Hunting and suddenly it's a household word? Okay. As a note, the money comes from the Millenium prize and not the Fields medal....
Additionally, my karma's beyond uber so I don't consider it the game you apparently do. The reason for this is a string of generally careful choices of words.... There are exceptions, but good karma is achievable for anyone. In that vein, you might consider what the purpose of your comment was beyond expressing an elitism about how money driven the userbase of Slashdot - a hotbed of Linux and Apple friendly users- are. I've gotta say, you might be a bit of a hypocrite there....
By the way, what do you think my parents do for a living?
There's no way most iPod users only have a few GB of music. Try asking a few; I know five or six MP3 player owners who work within a stone's throw of me, and all of them have over 5-10 GB. The least technical people have so much it won't all fit.
"Only in America" you mean. Slashdot is one of the few places where it might be considered sane.
"only on Slashdot would refusal of the money that comes with a Fields or Millenium award be considered insane," would be a more accurate statement, since Slashdotters are probably some of the few who even know what either is.
"Intel was just hired by NASA to build the first orbital heat sink, after having such success with cooling their recent Pentium VI, the double-sexium, during runtime with a nine pound copper infused radiator and coolant system."
They're in the tech industry claiming revolutionary results and their, "About" page contains no less than five pictures of the CEO, three of the marketing manager, two each of their finance and operations managers, and NONE of their tech people.
In modern society, the best and easiest way to acquire large sums of money is to inherit it. Donald Trump could have invested in munis and done just as well.
Wii isn't competing in the same market. Lower price point, less interest in dominance, more interest in fun.... Their goal is to be ON and not to be in control. It's supposed to be a 'complementary' system, which means it may just crush the competition. Everyone around here hopes so, but I doubt it.
Nothing is stopping terrorists from blowing up checkpoints at will. They're not. Go figure.
Nothing is stopping terrorists from blowing up airport loading docks at will. They're not. Go figure.
Looking at all the possibilities for terrorism in the U.S, I can only conclude that any terrorists around here are not only incompetent, they have no imagination. I could probably think of half a dozen ways twenty guys with the drive to blow themselves up could halt half the U.S. economy in a week. Does that mean I'll do it? No.
The way to fight terrorism is not to blow up people's families in the middle east. It's to feed them and get them some semblance of self-worth. We're doing a horrible job of this, and this is what is going to cause the problems of the next century. Ever read 1984? Remember how everyone was in a constant state of war? Yeah, should ring some bells.
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See, that's not the way it works. There's no competition here; UnBox is for buying everything you want to watch on your Computer Machine. You're going to have to buy yourself the DVD to watch it on the TV machine. And to watch it on the iPod Gadget, you're going to have to buy it again. And circumventing any of these purchases is a crime.
After buying a Razr, I don't think I'd buy another Motorola phone. It's got a lot of hype, but not as durable as my old Nokia was by a long shot. It keeps overheating while I blow glass, going black after I leave it on for a few days, needing rebooting, and I can't load my own ringtones to it. All in all, I have to give it a bit of a thumbs down.
Heh. First post I've seen mentioning my new small business of PS3 reselling.
Actually, I think I have a case of the Tuesdays.
I've Set Up Both In The Last Six Months. I Liked Linux Better. You're Wrong. Get Stuffed.
Man, I'm feeling inflammatory today.
Actually, asthma is quite big, but for a more effective comparison one could use, say, PEANUTS. PEANUTS have killed more Americans since 1960 than terrorists have. We should do something about the peanuts, starting with Jif.
Generally, I think corporations have too much influence upon the world around them and interfere with creation of a more efficient citizenry through their relentless drive to sell things.
Social Security worked fine until there was pressure to raid it. When you mention it, you should also remember that it was created to attempt to alleviate the worst market failure in history.
Missed the 'civilian privacy oversight'; that makes quite a bit of sense. However, oversight is another word for 'government' here, and agencies like the EFF and ACLU are losing their power to accumulate information slowly but surely. The root of the problem is that many of the organizations that emerged from the latter half of the twentieth century are actually too large for people to effectively be in control of. Even well-meaning CEO's do things every day they have no ability to be proud of, as does someone in charge of the most powerful corporation in the world, the US Government.
This doesn't let leadership off the hook, it means it has to get more effective. And it's not. Because people don't understand in the proper proportion what is required for good government....
What fascinates me about the current state of the U.S. is that we've got a thousand times as many people as we did during the time of the founding fathers, and not even ten percent the intelligence in our leadership. I can't name a single national leader I have anywhere near as much respect for as I do for either Franklin or Jefferson. I think we have fostered an environment wherein excellent leaders are incapable of lasting long enough to accomplish anything.
Unfortunately, it seems to me that the privatization of our government is what is causing the problem in the first place; this tends to undermine arguments that privatization of data storage and management being the solution to the problem. The most major change which has caused corruption over the last ten to twenty years has been the increased amount of money available to politicians, much of which is coming from large corporations you seem to think would create solutions. The market doesn't seem to be the solution in this case... Better government is necessary, not government through private companies...
It should not be tracking us.
This is unacceptable. The lack of self-control exhibited by this administration and its departments over the last six years is unbelievable. If enough of this junk happens, it is actually going to cause social instability. What a clusterf* modern government has become.
Try EVE. It rocks. I've been playing for a month now and I still have my real life, too. It's an amazing concept.
Why is this comment not rated funny and insightful +20?
Hey, at four or five rant posts per typo the, "Add random typo to inflame user interest," chapter seems to have been well read as well as put to good use.
I'm not up to 'average Linux user' skill level. I hit 'exceptional windows user,' and all the skills I have from that sort of bleed out. There's this place called FreeGeek in Portland where they teach people to build computers from scratch in about 25 hours. Really, they could do it in 5-10, but they want some labor out of volunteers. It's no longer that hard to put a machine together; industry standardization has gone a long way.
The difference between now and before is that software has hit a break point where basic value can be delivered from the desktop extremely effectively in a huge number of ways. No, I'm not an average user, but what were the requests I had from my friend? "I want the web." Do you want like, office products and stuff? Do you care about that? "No, I don't really care, just give me the internet." Ok. I can do that.
Adoption starts with power users, but they start passing their favored options down. My current two are Mac's for the rich, and Ubuntu for everyone else.
I popped in an Ubuntu CD last weekend. I'd thrown together an old Dell, a used hard drive, and a wireless card from Best Buy. It was flat out easier to both setup and use than a PC would have been; less than an hour after I had put it all together, I was done. No problems. Period.
I gave it to a friend and she said, "Wow, look at all these games."
Linux is coming to the consumer first, because I did this for a total in 100$ in used parts.
Slashdot is a very good measure of what's to come, but it's:
1) only certain extremely tech savvy users that don't speak up much, and
2) two to three years ahead of the game.
I started hearing about Apples being 'geek okay' about three years ago, and then last year suddenly they were cool. This means, of course, that Ubuntu may actually hit mainstream in another year or so..... At least, that's what I'm hoping for. The only thing I haven't seen come out of Linux yet is TV ads, and that happening will be what brings them more into the mainstream...
I'm not going to hold my breath though.
I have mod points at the moment, but there's no, "Incoherent Ramblings of a Hallucinatory Madman" ranking. Guess I'll just have to take a pass.
Something's mentioned in passing in Good Will Hunting and suddenly it's a household word? Okay. As a note, the money comes from the Millenium prize and not the Fields medal....
Additionally, my karma's beyond uber so I don't consider it the game you apparently do. The reason for this is a string of generally careful choices of words.... There are exceptions, but good karma is achievable for anyone. In that vein, you might consider what the purpose of your comment was beyond expressing an elitism about how money driven the userbase of Slashdot - a hotbed of Linux and Apple friendly users- are. I've gotta say, you might be a bit of a hypocrite there....
By the way, what do you think my parents do for a living?
There's no way most iPod users only have a few GB of music. Try asking a few; I know five or six MP3 player owners who work within a stone's throw of me, and all of them have over 5-10 GB. The least technical people have so much it won't all fit.
"Only in America" you mean. Slashdot is one of the few places where it might be considered sane.
"only on Slashdot would refusal of the money that comes with a Fields or Millenium award be considered insane," would be a more accurate statement, since Slashdotters are probably some of the few who even know what either is.
"Intel was just hired by NASA to build the first orbital heat sink, after having such success with cooling their recent Pentium VI, the double-sexium, during runtime with a nine pound copper infused radiator and coolant system."
They're in the tech industry claiming revolutionary results and their, "About" page contains no less than five pictures of the CEO, three of the marketing manager, two each of their finance and operations managers, and NONE of their tech people.
In modern society, the best and easiest way to acquire large sums of money is to inherit it. Donald Trump could have invested in munis and done just as well.
Wii isn't competing in the same market. Lower price point, less interest in dominance, more interest in fun.... Their goal is to be ON and not to be in control. It's supposed to be a 'complementary' system, which means it may just crush the competition. Everyone around here hopes so, but I doubt it.
Nothing is stopping terrorists from blowing up checkpoints at will. They're not. Go figure.
Nothing is stopping terrorists from blowing up airport loading docks at will. They're not. Go figure.
Looking at all the possibilities for terrorism in the U.S, I can only conclude that any terrorists around here are not only incompetent, they have no imagination. I could probably think of half a dozen ways twenty guys with the drive to blow themselves up could halt half the U.S. economy in a week. Does that mean I'll do it? No.
The way to fight terrorism is not to blow up people's families in the middle east. It's to feed them and get them some semblance of self-worth. We're doing a horrible job of this, and this is what is going to cause the problems of the next century. Ever read 1984? Remember how everyone was in a constant state of war? Yeah, should ring some bells.
Oh yeah. Right on the beep, we shoot everyone who makes the beep in teh head. Pwnzor. Just like in Counterstrike. Moronic.