in the US, Voters are morons and/or kool-aid drinkers and vote what they are told to vote
You elitist asshole. Go fuck yourself. FYI, Europe is starting to think that the Bush policy for spreading democrocy is the CORRECT method. No other president in the past 20 years has accomplished so much...err will as long as things continue to stay on track in the middle east.
I'm rather optimistic. The CCP is like a house of cards just waiting to come down. A revolution will take place if China invades Taiwan. Though the Chinese and Taiwanese are bitter rivals, they citizens themselves don't want an all out war. But the CCP who is not made up of polititions democratically will end up ousted by a revolt if such a war happens. At least...the rest of the world can only hope.
The industry is not a monopoly. If you don't want cable, then go Dish. Also, all of that cable and fiber in the ground needed for you digital cable was installed by the cable company. So when you pay your bill, most of it goes to maintaining the network (a giant friggen WAN) in rain or snow.
I don't have the time to wait around for evolution to work its course.
Ahh...but nature had the time to bring you into being. It took a few billion years but here you are now.
Ponder this! Your very attitude of impatience is a product of evolution in of itself. So naturally, your just a tool of evolution through your own means of inovation and progress deamed worthwhile at YOUR own pace.
Of course it takes a long time. It's really about testing all the various possibilities against each other. But the end result in its current formation is nothing short of perfection.
Just look at the human body, It's currently THE perfect machine on this planet. Even still, there is more room for improvement. How and what that improvement would be can only be known through the trials of life and death. But those that survive will carry on this answer...perhaps unknowingly themselves.
I'm also an employee for TWC that does RR, Cable, and digital phone support. As an employee, you should know that all devisions of TWC are a franchise. Thus, policies in Cali do not transfer over to Austin, TX and vise versa.
We also have a dedicated abuse department that will disable the modem remotely if there is a large amount of port scanning and viri comming from the modem. So when a customer calls in wondering why their connection is disabled, I have to tell them the bad news and what is needed to be done in order for us to reenabled the modem.
Note: Unprotected WiFi routers in an appartment complex make up the bulk of repeat offenders. The customers PC may not be at fault, but a neighbor with an infected PC leeching of their connection is. None the less, it's up to the customer secure their own network and all traffic going OUT of the modem.
In theory, your correct. But unless "MassiveVirtualGamingCompany(tm)(R)"? plans on offering a tiered service for the amount of allocated MIPS you can have per session or month, I'm not sure how this can be done. It would have to be metered somehow if the service becomes saturated. Worst case scenario, everyone starts running SETI@Home in their own threaded desktop.
Also, games rely on dedicated GPUs in the video cards. Just to do these function on a general CPU will take a LOT of processing cycles. Maybe ATI or nVidia could sell hardware to Google as it would really help out.
Games can never have enough resources, at least for 3D games. It all comes down to the best visualization and how smooth of a frame rate you can obtain that will in turn provide the best experience.
If and when google will provide the brute force CPU and GPU cycles needed to run Doom3 smoothly via dumb terminal, let me know. Until then, there is a reason the latest and greatest video cards are so damn expensive. And I REALLY doubt google want's to foot the bill for gamers and their never-ending quest for a newer and better visual experience.
The 2021 Year edition. Title: How to hack your neighbors cortex. Also in review, how to reprogram the cortex of your girlfriend to put out more and enjoy it.
Double refund if you can manage to upload pictures of the governors wife naked. Be sure to post a BT link though. Compounding intrest is where you really rake the cash in.;)
Rumor has it, Dell will be getting rid of free software tech support all togeather. If you want support, you have to pay for it.
The idea behind this is to lower the cost of the computers to a level that is more of a disposable rather then an investment. Being that hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, if something goes wrong with the software you just buy a whole new PC for 200 bucks.
Welcome to the new and improved disposable society.
Too bad the ATI Catalyst drivers that use.Net are 29MB and the standard drivers of the same revision are 23MB. Maybe it's because of the extra eye candy. But other then that, it's still not a small footprint.
The point being, governent is always bloated and ineffencient. And because they get their tax revenue anyways, it has no internal reason to reform based on competition in a free ecconomy. I take my chances with the free market then government any day of the week.
I never trust anyone, not even the government (and with good reason too). But in a free ecconomy, I have a million choices to trust or not trust. With government, I only get once choice so naturally I will distrust it. I mean hey, have you ever heard of a "poor" politician in office? Though a whole other rant all togeather, but I feel the government stop representing it's true base a loooong time ago. Just my POV of course.
Sorry to respond, but here is an example. Everything in between brackets is a countries total GDP. It's devided perportionally between government revenue through tax dollars and money flowing through the free ecconomy (what's left in your own wallet).
[..gov...|......private.......................]
Notice the graph below? This is socialism through exessive taxation. It also causes a country to be less productive in the free market in a global ecconomy. Overall, the GDP declines.
What are you talking about? Governments are great at running at a loss, simply because they can do it. They don't have to report profits to stockholders. Some things in life cannot be provided by private industry (or simply are not provided) simply because they are immensely unprofitable- like basic scientific research, space exploration (not involving suborbital millionaire tourists), law enforcement, development of open protocols like TCP/IP, military defense, and providing health insurance that doesn't leave you filing for bankruptcy if you get sick.
Of course they are/do. I mean, "big gov" has an unlimited supply proportional to it's own GDP in the form of tax revenue. But just remember this. the more government pulls revenue and capitol AWAY from it's citizen, the more dependent they become for said services. IE, you get a corrupt form of socialism at it's most in inefficient form.
And it's just a view, a very impractical one at that. Capitolism is isn't the best/moral from an ideology standpoint, but it IS the most effective. Capitolism takes the collective human nature of greed and exploits it in a positive light for the rest of society. Socialism however, turns corrupt from within by those willing to fill in a vacuum of power (see: USSR, China).
That would be "burning the source". You should really check out his book titled The Art of Deception before you make such a skewed and oversimplified statement.
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Yes. And to note, this source is well...very liberal to put it bluntly.
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in the US, Voters are morons and/or kool-aid drinkers and vote what they are told to vote
You elitist asshole. Go fuck yourself. FYI, Europe is starting to think that the Bush policy for spreading democrocy is the CORRECT method. No other president in the past 20 years has accomplished so much...err will as long as things continue to stay on track in the middle east.
I'm rather optimistic. The CCP is like a house of cards just waiting to come down. A revolution will take place if China invades Taiwan. Though the Chinese and Taiwanese are bitter rivals, they citizens themselves don't want an all out war. But the CCP who is not made up of polititions democratically will end up ousted by a revolt if such a war happens. At least...the rest of the world can only hope.
They were "dismissed". For all I know, that's Chinese political correctness for "Execution via bullet to the head".
The industry is not a monopoly. If you don't want cable, then go Dish. Also, all of that cable and fiber in the ground needed for you digital cable was installed by the cable company. So when you pay your bill, most of it goes to maintaining the network (a giant friggen WAN) in rain or snow.
The Cablecard 2.0 specs will allow for two-way communication. I'm not sure however if and when these new cards will be available.
I don't have the time to wait around for evolution to work its course.
Ahh...but nature had the time to bring you into being. It took a few billion years but here you are now.
Ponder this! Your very attitude of impatience is a product of evolution in of itself. So naturally, your just a tool of evolution through your own means of inovation and progress deamed worthwhile at YOUR own pace.
Of course it takes a long time. It's really about testing all the various possibilities against each other. But the end result in its current formation is nothing short of perfection.
Just look at the human body, It's currently THE perfect machine on this planet. Even still, there is more room for improvement. How and what that improvement would be can only be known through the trials of life and death. But those that survive will carry on this answer...perhaps unknowingly themselves.
I'm also an employee for TWC that does RR, Cable, and digital phone support. As an employee, you should know that all devisions of TWC are a franchise. Thus, policies in Cali do not transfer over to Austin, TX and vise versa.
We also have a dedicated abuse department that will disable the modem remotely if there is a large amount of port scanning and viri comming from the modem. So when a customer calls in wondering why their connection is disabled, I have to tell them the bad news and what is needed to be done in order for us to reenabled the modem.
Note: Unprotected WiFi routers in an appartment complex make up the bulk of repeat offenders. The customers PC may not be at fault, but a neighbor with an infected PC leeching of their connection is. None the less, it's up to the customer secure their own network and all traffic going OUT of the modem.
"I will protect you from the terrible secrets of space. ...do you have stairs in your house?!"
*Pusher and Shover robot*
In theory, your correct. But unless "MassiveVirtualGamingCompany(tm)(R)"? plans on offering a tiered service for the amount of allocated MIPS you can have per session or month, I'm not sure how this can be done. It would have to be metered somehow if the service becomes saturated. Worst case scenario, everyone starts running SETI@Home in their own threaded desktop.
Also, games rely on dedicated GPUs in the video cards. Just to do these function on a general CPU will take a LOT of processing cycles. Maybe ATI or nVidia could sell hardware to Google as it would really help out.
Thank you...for making me sputter coffee all over my cubical desk.
Games can never have enough resources, at least for 3D games. It all comes down to the best visualization and how smooth of a frame rate you can obtain that will in turn provide the best experience. If and when google will provide the brute force CPU and GPU cycles needed to run Doom3 smoothly via dumb terminal, let me know. Until then, there is a reason the latest and greatest video cards are so damn expensive. And I REALLY doubt google want's to foot the bill for gamers and their never-ending quest for a newer and better visual experience.
The 2021 Year edition. Title: How to hack your neighbors cortex. Also in review, how to reprogram the cortex of your girlfriend to put out more and enjoy it.
"I'm sorry Mario, but your paycheck is in another castle!" Toad
Double refund if you can manage to upload pictures of the governors wife naked. Be sure to post a BT link though. Compounding intrest is where you really rake the cash in. ;)
Rumor has it, Dell will be getting rid of free software tech support all togeather. If you want support, you have to pay for it.
The idea behind this is to lower the cost of the computers to a level that is more of a disposable rather then an investment. Being that hardware is getting cheaper and cheaper, if something goes wrong with the software you just buy a whole new PC for 200 bucks.
Welcome to the new and improved disposable society.
Everyone is trying to reinvent the (mouse) wheel these days.
Thank thank you. I'll be here all week.
Too bad the ATI Catalyst drivers that use .Net are 29MB and the standard drivers of the same revision are 23MB. Maybe it's because of the extra eye candy. But other then that, it's still not a small footprint.
Yes, it was. In fact, that's what he used to prevent getting cought so long. It was technology in the end that ratted him out.
The point being, governent is always bloated and ineffencient. And because they get their tax revenue anyways, it has no internal reason to reform based on competition in a free ecconomy. I take my chances with the free market then government any day of the week.
I never trust anyone, not even the government (and with good reason too). But in a free ecconomy, I have a million choices to trust or not trust. With government, I only get once choice so naturally I will distrust it. I mean hey, have you ever heard of a "poor" politician in office? Though a whole other rant all togeather, but I feel the government stop representing it's true base a loooong time ago. Just my POV of course.
Sorry to respond, but here is an example. Everything in between brackets is a countries total GDP. It's devided perportionally between government revenue through tax dollars and money flowing through the free ecconomy (what's left in your own wallet).
[..gov...|......private.......................]
Notice the graph below? This is socialism through exessive taxation. It also causes a country to be less productive in the free market in a global ecconomy. Overall, the GDP declines.
[....gov............|.priv.]
What are you talking about? Governments are great at running at a loss, simply because they can do it. They don't have to report profits to stockholders. Some things in life cannot be provided by private industry (or simply are not provided) simply because they are immensely unprofitable- like basic scientific research, space exploration (not involving suborbital millionaire tourists), law enforcement, development of open protocols like TCP/IP, military defense, and providing health insurance that doesn't leave you filing for bankruptcy if you get sick.
Of course they are/do. I mean, "big gov" has an unlimited supply proportional to it's own GDP in the form of tax revenue. But just remember this. the more government pulls revenue and capitol AWAY from it's citizen, the more dependent they become for said services. IE, you get a corrupt form of socialism at it's most in inefficient form.
And it's just a view, a very impractical one at that. Capitolism is isn't the best/moral from an ideology standpoint, but it IS the most effective. Capitolism takes the collective human nature of greed and exploits it in a positive light for the rest of society. Socialism however, turns corrupt from within by those willing to fill in a vacuum of power (see: USSR, China).
That would be "burning the source". You should really check out his book titled The Art of Deception before you make such a skewed and oversimplified statement.