The reality is any tech minded people will look at a site like that or the email greeting card sites as what they are, data and email harvesting sites of the worst order. Generally speaking the only time you want to make use of anything like that is from a site that already has your details and you are aware of the privacy laxities, no need to add another to the list.
The story here is about some idiot trying to slip in pay for performance teaching. The catch with that is performance will be based more on the quality of the students the teachers gets rather than what the teachers do. So stacked classes based upon teacher popularity with the administrator.
Although it is normal and reasonable to bias classes and have all the smartest in one class and gradate down to the slowest in another class, which produces better outcomes for the students, the slowest class now get's the poorest paid teacher (that's going to work) and the smartest class get's the highest paid teacher (not any where near the best they'll be cruising). The classes in-bewteen, well, it's in the teacher best interest to kick out the slowest students by one means or another (their pay will not be based upon how many students pass but on how many fail and the best way is to kick out the spawn of right wing hicks).
School in metropolitan areas with both parents working and single parent house holds, is about teaching social interaction, about teaching children how to learn and how to discipline themselves and set goals. Best teaching outcomes come from the lowest teacher to student ratios, ten or less is best, higher numbers are about being cheap not providing a better education.
It's about controlling what appears upon a public asset. Whilst other countries auction off bandwidth to the highest bidder, the 1%, forever squeezing out the little man, the 99% and the leave the censorship of what will and what wont appear to the 1%. So whose news is censored most the US news (in favour of the 1% and corrupt politicians) of China news (in favour of their 1% who happen to be rich autocratic politicians). The only real difference there is the US 1% outsource their corrupt politicians under the capitalist system.
I seem to remember free to air being of much better quality when it 'was' more tightly controlled. Deregulation, it's about higher profits not better quality.
Oh great wise one perhaps you for a second consider those that are less well intellectually endowed as thee, although they might be more well endowed in other areas.
We all have our own skills, abilities and knowledge which we should only use for our own benefit but share with the community at large to improve every one's life who is a part of that community. Once you learn the waters are crocodile infested you do not allow the newcomer or the ignorant to swim in them, your warn them and make effort to prevent them and even attempt to keep the crocodiles at bay.
The same goes with privacy. Once you understand how excessive private knowledge about you can be used to psychological manipulate you, to control your choices and be used against you and thus seek to restrict untrustworthy people's access to it and of especially strangers. You should seek to protect others from their ignorance, try to stop them from foolishly leaping in and work to keep the privacy invasive freaks at bay.
Inherently libertarians are narcissistic, they greater you freedom the less those around you have. It is the nature of delusional government, my freedom first, the government of the individual, the toddler. Logical no group can exist with everyone pursuing their own freedom first and attempting government, the group effort, to pursue it.
Libertarians are more likely to be conmen, with motto's like buyer beware, when selling fair price is the maximum I extort, when buying fair price is the least I can force, all property ownership starts from me and any dead ancestors who left it to me no matter how far back, there is a sucker born every minute, it isn't lying when it benefits me and you are only free to do what doesn't impinge upon my freedom including the right to own your ass.
Engineers end up being technocrats because following well founded theories will produce the results you are after. Ignoring well founded theories purely upon the basis of 'Id' the 'I' first in everything, will either succeed of fail pretty much at the same rate as "self-starters and doers" in business, what's that about 1 success for every 1o failures, which wouldn't be bad if it wasn't for the trail of bad debts those 9 libertarians thinkers leave behind that the 1 left doesn't want to pay for.
The main point here is that lectures are less beneficial that peer study groups, many colleges call these groups normally led by post graduate students for undergraduate subjects tutorials. Well, duh, that why many colleges and universities have compulsory tutorial groups in the first place.
So why lectures, when tutorial groups are more beneficial, lets call it right wing economics even though it doesn't really work that well it is cheaper to have a skilled person lecture 50 or more students that have them sit with ten or less at a time in tutorial groups.
At the end of the day all lectures might as well be video that the student is assigned to watch, maybe with some on the spot automated quizzing to check for attention. All that tuition money is far better spent on providing more tutorials, hmm, which makes colleges as places where tutorials are held and learning resources provided very useful. So close the lecture theatres and provide more funding for more teachers and more tutorials in order to make learning far more effective.
Now who would have guessed that whether in primary, secondary or even tertiary the single most important factor for quality education is student teacher ration, best outcome ten or less. As you increase number you might as well be showing educational videos and hoping for the best but getting the worst (typical right wing thinking, if it's cheaper it's better fingers in the ear, easy closed, la la thinking).
Not being able to buy the energy imports based upon increasing the US debt will cripple the US. Now with the manufacturing sector crippled by the psychopathic financial sector that crippling will be further exacerbated. The rest of the world will likely find they are better off ignoring the US in trade and just trying to dump off that debt on US puppets and the last few non-true ally suckers of the US.
I suspect most divorces come about because immature people enter a life long contract without the ability to actually commit to and work with a life long contract.
Want to reduce the number of divorces than simply make it harder to get one. Want to take a till death do us part oath, then they should be bound by it, no escape clauses. Want an escape clause then only agree to a period contract say a decade or so.
Of course greed will win out, divorce lawyers want their money, land agents want property turnover, furniture company want to fit out new dwellings and of course the marriage and honeymoon industry lives for retreads.
Everyone is paying for it except the oil companies, their profiting by it, it's called rising oil prices. Whilst the US dicks about with sanctions against Iran as a result of pressure from Israeli campaign contributors and of course multi-national oil companies, Iran strikes back by making empty noises further driving up oil prices.
Has not everyone learned their lesson by now, this has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction and everything to do with Israeli land profiteers and Texas oil companies. Another chance for Israel via it's zombie puppet nation the US to cripple a country in the region and increase it's own power and of course another chance to pump an extra few billion dollars of profit for the oil companies with an inflated oil price.
They have been lobbying for this war for the last four years, constantly keeping the bullshit flowing via some of the most unscrupulous US politicians imaginable, willing to kill thousands of people for thousands in campaign contributions. Military contractors a chomping at the bit to make billions more disappear just like in Iraq and the US military industrial complex is under threat of real cuts and desperately need another war to fend those threatened cuts off.
Reality is if the Iranian Qader cruise missle was actually good just like every other munitions producing country in the world they would be selling them to the highest bidder. China is trading arms with Iran and Russia will be back into the game. As the US becomes more cash strapped and foreign debt crippled, the more weapons spread around for it to chase just cripple it further. Whilst Russia and China will profit selling arms around the world, the US will spend billions stomping around making lots of noises, as corporate lobbyists send it staggering around the world in search of war profits.
Of course the biggest problem with fracking and earthquakes is, you are creating new fractures and obviously new avenues for the under pressure fracking liquids and the targeted fossil fuel gasses to mix with the ground water as well as leaking to atmosphere.
Keep in mind those escaping fracking fluids will also pick up any other contaminant material as they migrate to the aquifers people are targeting for fresh water sources. It is easy to see now why Darth Cheney gave the fracking industry a blanket poison everyone you wish escape clause, the sick bastard.
Ultimately that is the catch no point blackmailing a politician to vote your way if as a result they lose the next election and the law is thrown out and other laws end up being reviewed. So the challenge here is to make them feel the teeth of angry voters where it counts in the primaries. Every SOPA supporting politicians should have a strong challenger appearing now, a challenger who has popular support ready to go into the next primary. So who really can win mass media and the 1% or the 99% and the internet. Need more than just talk, you need a bona fide challenger in each and every senate and congress seat up for grabs and anti-SOPA challenger, a representative of the 99%, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent or even all three simultaneously.
Of course according to that legislation the US has no allies as all other countries citizens are treated equally as less than animals would be treated in the US, making the US, enemies of all other countries citizens. So how can you attack an ally of the US when it has none under US law. Still a crazy bit of legislation making the whole rest of the world an enemy. Other countries would have to be insane to allow US military bases within their territory under those conditions.
Far simpler to punish those ISPs that fail to detect and notify customers of bot machines. It's not like the behaviour has very unique and easily detectable characteristics which can be detected at either end.
So at the receivers, simply make a report, validate to confirm via the number of reports and notify and fix the sender or disconnect. I know it will cost ISPs quite a bit but it costs everyone else even more to let it continue.
More likely Richard Stallman is a little tired of the speeches and has no real desire to appear in public and thus expresses his discontent with a rather offset sense of humour. Start asking him silly question and his behaviour deteriorates until question time ends. Whilst he supports FOSS he is no a slave to it nor to the ignorance of the majority of users and rather than attacking people he simple takes on a slightly tilted and offensive demeanour to drive people away.
The only people to push Stallman attacks have been M$ in rather pointless retaliation for attacks against Ballmer and Gates. Their reasoning being the use of Ballmer and Gates in M$ marketing being presented as geniuses, which of course made the immediate targets for ridicule and mocking. Thus they reasoned attacks against Stallman and Torvalds would damaged FOSS. Some of the Stallman stuff stuck because it seems he exploited to fend of excessive public appearances. Most of the Torvalds stuff failed no matter how much the M$ marketdroids attempted to twist and exaggerate every public comment he made.
As for trusting closed source proprietary software and interference by a government controlled by the 1%, obviously the two mixed together is a terrible idea. The psychopathic greed of the 1% will twist government to protect themselves and to continue the rape of the planet and the 99%. The question in the digital era is whether we will use technology to bring them down or whether they will use it to enslave us.
Now if that was the most copied car, your statement might have some relevance. Let's be honest here, supply all the materials, push the button and have an instant porsche, ferrari or a rolls royce what kind of greedy wankers would complain.
Copying is not stealing, never was and never will be.
I gave up a long time ago on buying the latest release PC game, full of games, generally buggered up DRM targeted honest customers and way overpriced. There is just so many PC games out there, I generally wait a year before contemplating buying one. That way I can completely ignore the DRM fucked, unpatched, over marketed and under engineered games.
Question isn't it fraud when people lie about the quality of the products they are selling, so how come the majority of corporate marketdroids aren't behind bars. So you lie to the customers and cheat them on bad games, so why aren't they entitled to pirate games to get their money back.
Not according to the law. For example environmental terrorists are not corporation polluting our environment and killing people as for as the law is concerned it is people putting down caltrops to puncture the tires of the polluters, fact.
In can remember a case were a senior police officer stood up publicly an accused someone of storing weapons for a terrorist strike including molotov cocktails, caltrops and urine. As it turned out in reality it was empty soft drink bottles and petrol for a lawn mower, left over concrete reinforcement chairs and kitchen sink waster water to be recycled in the garden. Didn't stop the 'er' pre-emptive arrest and attempt to prosecute.
Not to forget the right wing loves to accuse all unions of economic terrorism. When corporations and the banks crush the future of the middle class that's 'ok' but when unions try to defend the rights and wages of the middle class that warfare and thuggery.
I hate the term 'terrorism' because it is so readily abused by those that in reality cause the greatest harm and kill the most, all perfectly corruptly legally.
M$ are control freaks, they are talking about price competitiveness, hmm, easy guess. M$ are working on a bumb-phone a remote mobile terminal that only goes into their cloud. A phone that can just barely make a call and then be totally reliant on data the download which it present on the screen, no data connection and the phone might as well be a brick.
So will a mobile dumb terminal work, cheap entry price customers screwed on later on connection and data download costs. So smart phone users how much do you use your phones without making a connection. Of course if your looking to make your dumb-phone as a remote to control your appliances well your out of luck, can't get a connection and you've got a brick in your pocket and this thing is going to be a real data hog.
The United States continually makes threatening statements against other countries, have you no listened to US politicians. No country has funded more terrorists than the United States. And it was the Bush that altered US nuclear policy to first strike.
So Iran makes a bunch of empty noises and the US chomping at the bit to murder more innocent civilians because it hasn't done enough of that in that last decade promptly shuffles around it attack forces.
The last Iraq war apparently that was all about shuffling billions to Halliburton at the behest of Darth Cheney a US vice president blatantly on the payroll of US corporation. Afghanistan is turning into an empty exercise to keep the military industrial complex coffers flowing.
US politicians especially right wing ones have told every lie possible in trying to get a war going with Iran. North Korea has demonstrated the only way to be safe from US invasion is to have nuclear weapons. How many wars has the US been in over the last century and how many wars has Iran been in over the last century and oh yes the US meddled in and kept going Iran's one and only war and then turned around and attacked the instigator of that war.
Let's be realistic here, in the last fifty years the United States has been responsible for more civilian murders than any other country. They have kept more despots in power than any other country. They have spread more violence and terror than the rest of the world combined.
Seriously, "Go Daddy Backstaber" is not worth any additional effort, just enough to be ignored until they go away but certainly not be let off the hook, with we changed our mind because you forced us to.
Well, there you go, that;s the beauty of open source, they don't have to do a thunderbird server from scratch.
Why should they do one, obvious, to create another interpretation, to tweak the GUI, to put their own unique stamp on it.
With IPv6 slowly gaining ground the idea of an easy to use, easy to administer mail and calender server for residential fixed IP addresses becomes for more important. I personally would like to see what the Firefox crew can come up with.
Boycot hasn't worked as intended, "Go Daddy Backstaber" still exists. For a boycott to work, to have real 'Bite' there has to be a penalty, a punishment and the asshat that runs "Go Daddy Backstaber" still hasn't felt it. At least everyone knows exactly what kind of company "Go Daddy Backstaber" truly is and can adjust accordingly.
This is stage 1 of debt recovery, stage 2 is go after the directors. Whilst another court battle is required, as the directors are lawyers, they are screwed when they try to argue they carried out due diligence in their court room failure. They very well might have the personal assets to cover the debts plus the additional court costs of pursue those assets and demonstrating their lack of due diligence in pursuing those court cases.
I tell you one thing though 'iOS' meh who cares, watch out it may wipe out your phone. 'Ice cream Sandwich' why not my phone, I want it now. Not that I have either phone but that's the general vibe coming off the net, you know what that means, Apple is screwed and every Android manufacturers is going to bend over backwards to get 'Icrecream Sandwich' squeezed onto the devices lest that not keep up with the other manufacturers and customer desires.
Of course they were big the balance of trying to get away with 'Icecream Sandwich' only on high priced items and only upgrading higher priced old product, to jelp drive selection of high priced models. Of course budget targeted manufacturers will use this opportunity to drive their phones with the latest OS.
Now you can really see the advantage to consumer of an open OS, choice and competition.
"Better at branding" see that is the problem right from the get go. The are better at branding because they spend more money on that and less money on the code, so well marketed crap application.
The problem is we live live in a world of corporate bull shit where it is considered acceptable to lie about everything all of the time. People are now hesitant to buy because they are now accustomed to being lied to, marketing, advertising, labels and, branding has all become meaningless PR=B$(lies for profit).
People are hesitant to buy unless they know someone else who has bought it and were satisfied ie someone you know invites you out to a place for coffee and till you the coffee is great. That is basically the preference ignore or the corporate marketing bull shit and go with the recommendations of people you know and who have tried it.
That really matters, not one bit at all. Mozzila can auction off the search box in any way it chooses and good on it. What counts now is how it is going to spend the money.
Lets see that Thunderbird open source mail and calender server. It is time to take M$ Lookout, head on, time to smash the till of exchange server.
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The reality is any tech minded people will look at a site like that or the email greeting card sites as what they are, data and email harvesting sites of the worst order. Generally speaking the only time you want to make use of anything like that is from a site that already has your details and you are aware of the privacy laxities, no need to add another to the list.
The story here is about some idiot trying to slip in pay for performance teaching. The catch with that is performance will be based more on the quality of the students the teachers gets rather than what the teachers do. So stacked classes based upon teacher popularity with the administrator.
Although it is normal and reasonable to bias classes and have all the smartest in one class and gradate down to the slowest in another class, which produces better outcomes for the students, the slowest class now get's the poorest paid teacher (that's going to work) and the smartest class get's the highest paid teacher (not any where near the best they'll be cruising). The classes in-bewteen, well, it's in the teacher best interest to kick out the slowest students by one means or another (their pay will not be based upon how many students pass but on how many fail and the best way is to kick out the spawn of right wing hicks).
School in metropolitan areas with both parents working and single parent house holds, is about teaching social interaction, about teaching children how to learn and how to discipline themselves and set goals. Best teaching outcomes come from the lowest teacher to student ratios, ten or less is best, higher numbers are about being cheap not providing a better education.
It's about controlling what appears upon a public asset. Whilst other countries auction off bandwidth to the highest bidder, the 1%, forever squeezing out the little man, the 99% and the leave the censorship of what will and what wont appear to the 1%. So whose news is censored most the US news (in favour of the 1% and corrupt politicians) of China news (in favour of their 1% who happen to be rich autocratic politicians). The only real difference there is the US 1% outsource their corrupt politicians under the capitalist system.
I seem to remember free to air being of much better quality when it 'was' more tightly controlled. Deregulation, it's about higher profits not better quality.
Oh great wise one perhaps you for a second consider those that are less well intellectually endowed as thee, although they might be more well endowed in other areas.
We all have our own skills, abilities and knowledge which we should only use for our own benefit but share with the community at large to improve every one's life who is a part of that community. Once you learn the waters are crocodile infested you do not allow the newcomer or the ignorant to swim in them, your warn them and make effort to prevent them and even attempt to keep the crocodiles at bay.
The same goes with privacy. Once you understand how excessive private knowledge about you can be used to psychological manipulate you, to control your choices and be used against you and thus seek to restrict untrustworthy people's access to it and of especially strangers. You should seek to protect others from their ignorance, try to stop them from foolishly leaping in and work to keep the privacy invasive freaks at bay.
Inherently libertarians are narcissistic, they greater you freedom the less those around you have. It is the nature of delusional government, my freedom first, the government of the individual, the toddler. Logical no group can exist with everyone pursuing their own freedom first and attempting government, the group effort, to pursue it.
Libertarians are more likely to be conmen, with motto's like buyer beware, when selling fair price is the maximum I extort, when buying fair price is the least I can force, all property ownership starts from me and any dead ancestors who left it to me no matter how far back, there is a sucker born every minute, it isn't lying when it benefits me and you are only free to do what doesn't impinge upon my freedom including the right to own your ass.
Engineers end up being technocrats because following well founded theories will produce the results you are after. Ignoring well founded theories purely upon the basis of 'Id' the 'I' first in everything, will either succeed of fail pretty much at the same rate as "self-starters and doers" in business, what's that about 1 success for every 1o failures, which wouldn't be bad if it wasn't for the trail of bad debts those 9 libertarians thinkers leave behind that the 1 left doesn't want to pay for.
The main point here is that lectures are less beneficial that peer study groups, many colleges call these groups normally led by post graduate students for undergraduate subjects tutorials. Well, duh, that why many colleges and universities have compulsory tutorial groups in the first place.
So why lectures, when tutorial groups are more beneficial, lets call it right wing economics even though it doesn't really work that well it is cheaper to have a skilled person lecture 50 or more students that have them sit with ten or less at a time in tutorial groups.
At the end of the day all lectures might as well be video that the student is assigned to watch, maybe with some on the spot automated quizzing to check for attention. All that tuition money is far better spent on providing more tutorials, hmm, which makes colleges as places where tutorials are held and learning resources provided very useful. So close the lecture theatres and provide more funding for more teachers and more tutorials in order to make learning far more effective.
Now who would have guessed that whether in primary, secondary or even tertiary the single most important factor for quality education is student teacher ration, best outcome ten or less. As you increase number you might as well be showing educational videos and hoping for the best but getting the worst (typical right wing thinking, if it's cheaper it's better fingers in the ear, easy closed, la la thinking).
Not being able to buy the energy imports based upon increasing the US debt will cripple the US. Now with the manufacturing sector crippled by the psychopathic financial sector that crippling will be further exacerbated. The rest of the world will likely find they are better off ignoring the US in trade and just trying to dump off that debt on US puppets and the last few non-true ally suckers of the US.
I suspect most divorces come about because immature people enter a life long contract without the ability to actually commit to and work with a life long contract.
Want to reduce the number of divorces than simply make it harder to get one. Want to take a till death do us part oath, then they should be bound by it, no escape clauses. Want an escape clause then only agree to a period contract say a decade or so.
Of course greed will win out, divorce lawyers want their money, land agents want property turnover, furniture company want to fit out new dwellings and of course the marriage and honeymoon industry lives for retreads.
Everyone is paying for it except the oil companies, their profiting by it, it's called rising oil prices. Whilst the US dicks about with sanctions against Iran as a result of pressure from Israeli campaign contributors and of course multi-national oil companies, Iran strikes back by making empty noises further driving up oil prices.
Has not everyone learned their lesson by now, this has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction and everything to do with Israeli land profiteers and Texas oil companies. Another chance for Israel via it's zombie puppet nation the US to cripple a country in the region and increase it's own power and of course another chance to pump an extra few billion dollars of profit for the oil companies with an inflated oil price.
They have been lobbying for this war for the last four years, constantly keeping the bullshit flowing via some of the most unscrupulous US politicians imaginable, willing to kill thousands of people for thousands in campaign contributions. Military contractors a chomping at the bit to make billions more disappear just like in Iraq and the US military industrial complex is under threat of real cuts and desperately need another war to fend those threatened cuts off.
Reality is if the Iranian Qader cruise missle was actually good just like every other munitions producing country in the world they would be selling them to the highest bidder. China is trading arms with Iran and Russia will be back into the game. As the US becomes more cash strapped and foreign debt crippled, the more weapons spread around for it to chase just cripple it further. Whilst Russia and China will profit selling arms around the world, the US will spend billions stomping around making lots of noises, as corporate lobbyists send it staggering around the world in search of war profits.
Actually it is up to 750 different chemicals rather than list them all read the report http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Hydraulic%20Fracturing%20Report%204.18.11.pdf.
Of course the biggest problem with fracking and earthquakes is, you are creating new fractures and obviously new avenues for the under pressure fracking liquids and the targeted fossil fuel gasses to mix with the ground water as well as leaking to atmosphere.
Keep in mind those escaping fracking fluids will also pick up any other contaminant material as they migrate to the aquifers people are targeting for fresh water sources. It is easy to see now why Darth Cheney gave the fracking industry a blanket poison everyone you wish escape clause, the sick bastard.
Ultimately that is the catch no point blackmailing a politician to vote your way if as a result they lose the next election and the law is thrown out and other laws end up being reviewed. So the challenge here is to make them feel the teeth of angry voters where it counts in the primaries. Every SOPA supporting politicians should have a strong challenger appearing now, a challenger who has popular support ready to go into the next primary. So who really can win mass media and the 1% or the 99% and the internet. Need more than just talk, you need a bona fide challenger in each and every senate and congress seat up for grabs and anti-SOPA challenger, a representative of the 99%, whether Democrat, Republican or Independent or even all three simultaneously.
Of course according to that legislation the US has no allies as all other countries citizens are treated equally as less than animals would be treated in the US, making the US, enemies of all other countries citizens. So how can you attack an ally of the US when it has none under US law. Still a crazy bit of legislation making the whole rest of the world an enemy. Other countries would have to be insane to allow US military bases within their territory under those conditions.
Far simpler to punish those ISPs that fail to detect and notify customers of bot machines. It's not like the behaviour has very unique and easily detectable characteristics which can be detected at either end.
So at the receivers, simply make a report, validate to confirm via the number of reports and notify and fix the sender or disconnect. I know it will cost ISPs quite a bit but it costs everyone else even more to let it continue.
More likely Richard Stallman is a little tired of the speeches and has no real desire to appear in public and thus expresses his discontent with a rather offset sense of humour. Start asking him silly question and his behaviour deteriorates until question time ends. Whilst he supports FOSS he is no a slave to it nor to the ignorance of the majority of users and rather than attacking people he simple takes on a slightly tilted and offensive demeanour to drive people away.
The only people to push Stallman attacks have been M$ in rather pointless retaliation for attacks against Ballmer and Gates. Their reasoning being the use of Ballmer and Gates in M$ marketing being presented as geniuses, which of course made the immediate targets for ridicule and mocking. Thus they reasoned attacks against Stallman and Torvalds would damaged FOSS. Some of the Stallman stuff stuck because it seems he exploited to fend of excessive public appearances. Most of the Torvalds stuff failed no matter how much the M$ marketdroids attempted to twist and exaggerate every public comment he made.
As for trusting closed source proprietary software and interference by a government controlled by the 1%, obviously the two mixed together is a terrible idea. The psychopathic greed of the 1% will twist government to protect themselves and to continue the rape of the planet and the 99%. The question in the digital era is whether we will use technology to bring them down or whether they will use it to enslave us.
Now if that was the most copied car, your statement might have some relevance. Let's be honest here, supply all the materials, push the button and have an instant porsche, ferrari or a rolls royce what kind of greedy wankers would complain.
Copying is not stealing, never was and never will be.
I gave up a long time ago on buying the latest release PC game, full of games, generally buggered up DRM targeted honest customers and way overpriced. There is just so many PC games out there, I generally wait a year before contemplating buying one. That way I can completely ignore the DRM fucked, unpatched, over marketed and under engineered games.
Question isn't it fraud when people lie about the quality of the products they are selling, so how come the majority of corporate marketdroids aren't behind bars. So you lie to the customers and cheat them on bad games, so why aren't they entitled to pirate games to get their money back.
Not according to the law. For example environmental terrorists are not corporation polluting our environment and killing people as for as the law is concerned it is people putting down caltrops to puncture the tires of the polluters, fact.
In can remember a case were a senior police officer stood up publicly an accused someone of storing weapons for a terrorist strike including molotov cocktails, caltrops and urine. As it turned out in reality it was empty soft drink bottles and petrol for a lawn mower, left over concrete reinforcement chairs and kitchen sink waster water to be recycled in the garden. Didn't stop the 'er' pre-emptive arrest and attempt to prosecute.
Not to forget the right wing loves to accuse all unions of economic terrorism. When corporations and the banks crush the future of the middle class that's 'ok' but when unions try to defend the rights and wages of the middle class that warfare and thuggery.
I hate the term 'terrorism' because it is so readily abused by those that in reality cause the greatest harm and kill the most, all perfectly corruptly legally.
M$ are control freaks, they are talking about price competitiveness, hmm, easy guess. M$ are working on a bumb-phone a remote mobile terminal that only goes into their cloud. A phone that can just barely make a call and then be totally reliant on data the download which it present on the screen, no data connection and the phone might as well be a brick.
So will a mobile dumb terminal work, cheap entry price customers screwed on later on connection and data download costs. So smart phone users how much do you use your phones without making a connection. Of course if your looking to make your dumb-phone as a remote to control your appliances well your out of luck, can't get a connection and you've got a brick in your pocket and this thing is going to be a real data hog.
The United States continually makes threatening statements against other countries, have you no listened to US politicians. No country has funded more terrorists than the United States. And it was the Bush that altered US nuclear policy to first strike.
So Iran makes a bunch of empty noises and the US chomping at the bit to murder more innocent civilians because it hasn't done enough of that in that last decade promptly shuffles around it attack forces.
The last Iraq war apparently that was all about shuffling billions to Halliburton at the behest of Darth Cheney a US vice president blatantly on the payroll of US corporation. Afghanistan is turning into an empty exercise to keep the military industrial complex coffers flowing.
US politicians especially right wing ones have told every lie possible in trying to get a war going with Iran. North Korea has demonstrated the only way to be safe from US invasion is to have nuclear weapons. How many wars has the US been in over the last century and how many wars has Iran been in over the last century and oh yes the US meddled in and kept going Iran's one and only war and then turned around and attacked the instigator of that war.
Let's be realistic here, in the last fifty years the United States has been responsible for more civilian murders than any other country. They have kept more despots in power than any other country. They have spread more violence and terror than the rest of the world combined.
Seriously, "Go Daddy Backstaber" is not worth any additional effort, just enough to be ignored until they go away but certainly not be let off the hook, with we changed our mind because you forced us to.
Well, there you go, that;s the beauty of open source, they don't have to do a thunderbird server from scratch.
Why should they do one, obvious, to create another interpretation, to tweak the GUI, to put their own unique stamp on it.
With IPv6 slowly gaining ground the idea of an easy to use, easy to administer mail and calender server for residential fixed IP addresses becomes for more important. I personally would like to see what the Firefox crew can come up with.
Boycot hasn't worked as intended, "Go Daddy Backstaber" still exists. For a boycott to work, to have real 'Bite' there has to be a penalty, a punishment and the asshat that runs "Go Daddy Backstaber" still hasn't felt it. At least everyone knows exactly what kind of company "Go Daddy Backstaber" truly is and can adjust accordingly.
This is stage 1 of debt recovery, stage 2 is go after the directors. Whilst another court battle is required, as the directors are lawyers, they are screwed when they try to argue they carried out due diligence in their court room failure. They very well might have the personal assets to cover the debts plus the additional court costs of pursue those assets and demonstrating their lack of due diligence in pursuing those court cases.
Well, you know what, that is the benefit of Android, you don't have to buy Motorola, you can 'CHOOSE' from a whole range of manufacturers a whole range of products. Want 'Ice cream Sandwich' then choose wisely http://www.engadget.com/updates/which-devices-will-get-ice-cream-sandwich/.
I tell you one thing though 'iOS' meh who cares, watch out it may wipe out your phone. 'Ice cream Sandwich' why not my phone, I want it now. Not that I have either phone but that's the general vibe coming off the net, you know what that means, Apple is screwed and every Android manufacturers is going to bend over backwards to get 'Icrecream Sandwich' squeezed onto the devices lest that not keep up with the other manufacturers and customer desires.
Of course they were big the balance of trying to get away with 'Icecream Sandwich' only on high priced items and only upgrading higher priced old product, to jelp drive selection of high priced models. Of course budget targeted manufacturers will use this opportunity to drive their phones with the latest OS.
Now you can really see the advantage to consumer of an open OS, choice and competition.
"Better at branding" see that is the problem right from the get go. The are better at branding because they spend more money on that and less money on the code, so well marketed crap application.
The problem is we live live in a world of corporate bull shit where it is considered acceptable to lie about everything all of the time. People are now hesitant to buy because they are now accustomed to being lied to, marketing, advertising, labels and, branding has all become meaningless PR=B$(lies for profit).
People are hesitant to buy unless they know someone else who has bought it and were satisfied ie someone you know invites you out to a place for coffee and till you the coffee is great. That is basically the preference ignore or the corporate marketing bull shit and go with the recommendations of people you know and who have tried it.
That really matters, not one bit at all. Mozzila can auction off the search box in any way it chooses and good on it. What counts now is how it is going to spend the money.
Lets see that Thunderbird open source mail and calender server. It is time to take M$ Lookout, head on, time to smash the till of exchange server.